OK, so yesterday we filmed a couple of scenes with Chris, who is playing Simon. It went swimmingly all things considered. It's good to finally see it coming to life having worked hard on the script for the last few weeks. I'm liking what Chris is doing with the character, too. Today, we carried on and recorded most of Pamela's segment with Jessica (our actress). Again, she was brilliant, and put up with our daft meanderings for a good few hours.
Technically, we're doing quite well. Max and I are working well together on the sound, advising and consulting each other about decisions and techniques to get the best clarity and depth out of our sound design. Amy's doing really well with the camera, coming up with creative ideas about shot composition and framing. With Verity assisting her, there's really no problem in that department. Will's getting stuck in too, trying to lend a hand wherever he can, cable bashing being a priority. It's a pretty mundane job to do most of the time, but it's still important, and saves a hell of a lot of time in the long run.
Hopefully, Marcus' segment will be done by tomorrow, and filming on the final segment of the film will be concluded after the Easter break. We should be able to get in the edit suite over the holiday too, to begin cutting together what we've got so far. that will save us time, as the last filmed sequence can simply be cut in when ready.
I should have a few video blogs to embed here in the coming weeks, too. I took my camcorder on the shoots and managed to get some behind the scenes stuff on the set. These should illustrate nicely what we've been up to and how we work as a team. I'm optimistic about tomorrow and the next few weeks. I hope everyone else is. Of course they are! why shouldn't they be? Well, I'd better get ready for tomorrow, another day of staying quiet in the cold and teasing Max.
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
Max Voyse - Part 3
We have now began filming Simons part of the film and I think it went really well. We had a room for about 2 hours and I belive we had enough footage to do his part then filmed outside (Where I played concerned man)and filmed there then filmed futher away near the train station where we have a good shot of Chris (Who is simon) walking across the tracks after a tram has passed. The dilogue is well done with some improvision done by chris and he played Simon really well. Now we are filming Pamela's part today, were meetin at half 1. I'm not feeling too brilliant and I want to get this over and done with so I'll problebly apologise to the group beforehand as I lost a job application form and my hat yday with it being such a stressfull day.
I think its all going well atm, but I can't get in touch with will, (different will, not the one in our group) who is ment to be playing Marcus, if I can't get in touch with him today I'm going to see if I can find someone else. Also I think the group want to film on thursday and friday or one of the two days however the equipment needs to be back by thursday so I don't think we will be able to film we are going to have to film thursday or when we come back. so its going to be pretty tight.
I think its all going well atm, but I can't get in touch with will, (different will, not the one in our group) who is ment to be playing Marcus, if I can't get in touch with him today I'm going to see if I can find someone else. Also I think the group want to film on thursday and friday or one of the two days however the equipment needs to be back by thursday so I don't think we will be able to film we are going to have to film thursday or when we come back. so its going to be pretty tight.
Sunday, 29 March 2009
Luke Pietnik - Communication Problems
Right, well I've no idea how it happened, but there has been some kind of massive communication error here. We were supposed to be having a tutorial with Malcolm on Thursday, so said the notice stuck to the outside of one of the offices. So it miffed us somewhat when we sat there in the media base for a good while before realising he wasn't going to turn up. Cannily, I'd printed a couple of copies of the script the night before, because I'd heard Max was bringing along two of the actors. We had a read-through and came to a consensus about our approaches to the characterisation and production of the piece.
However, we were still left with the lingering question of where Malcolm was hiding. As we finished and Will and I waited for Max to return, I noticed 'Hot Thrust', a rival production group, walking by the door. Suddenly realising they must have just seen malcolm, I had to rush out to ask them where he was. He was somehow under the impression that we were on location, filming. Eh!? What on Earth happened there? Anyway, he'd dashed off before we could find him. I've no idea if the session will be rescheduled. I hope so.
We should be filming tomorrow anyway, so we'll just be relying on our own initiative. The most important things to remember are:
- Don't break the 180 degree rule.
- Regulate the exposure of the camera.
- Label all DV tapes clearly.
- Take care of all the eqipment.
- Work as a team.
If we can pull together on this, we'll do fine. More soon...
However, we were still left with the lingering question of where Malcolm was hiding. As we finished and Will and I waited for Max to return, I noticed 'Hot Thrust', a rival production group, walking by the door. Suddenly realising they must have just seen malcolm, I had to rush out to ask them where he was. He was somehow under the impression that we were on location, filming. Eh!? What on Earth happened there? Anyway, he'd dashed off before we could find him. I've no idea if the session will be rescheduled. I hope so.
We should be filming tomorrow anyway, so we'll just be relying on our own initiative. The most important things to remember are:
- Don't break the 180 degree rule.
- Regulate the exposure of the camera.
- Label all DV tapes clearly.
- Take care of all the eqipment.
- Work as a team.
If we can pull together on this, we'll do fine. More soon...
Wednesday, 25 March 2009
Luke Pietnik - Women Don't Carry Wallets
Well, after a few changes of dialogue and a minor wording error, (women don't carry wallets, usually) the script is looking fine. I'm hoping to print off a few copies tonight to give to the guys tomorrow before or after the tutorial, pending thier approval. The meeting went rather well really. Jessica (the actress playing Pamela) seemed to be OK with the script, which I was pleased about. No-one else had any qualms either really. It was a shame the other actors couldn't make it, but they work a lot, which is a potential concern, as Will pointed out. It's not an immediate worry, however. There should be ample time to get the filming done with all three of them for the first scene.
The overall planning is going well, sound recording and storyboarding now being a major consideration. Max and I have already booked out some sound equipment to begin recording environments and spot effects. A recording list is going to come in handy. Hopefully, we can use a pre-recorded sound effect for the gunshot. I'm sure Malcolm will grant us that. I think everything else we can manage ourselves.
Now all we have to do is plan on where we're going to film it, organise shooting days when our actors are available, make sure the weather is vaguely consistent between locations, shoot it, record all the off-air audio, edit the sound and visuals, burn it to a DVD, present it and write up an evaluation.
What could possibly go wrong?
The overall planning is going well, sound recording and storyboarding now being a major consideration. Max and I have already booked out some sound equipment to begin recording environments and spot effects. A recording list is going to come in handy. Hopefully, we can use a pre-recorded sound effect for the gunshot. I'm sure Malcolm will grant us that. I think everything else we can manage ourselves.
Now all we have to do is plan on where we're going to film it, organise shooting days when our actors are available, make sure the weather is vaguely consistent between locations, shoot it, record all the off-air audio, edit the sound and visuals, burn it to a DVD, present it and write up an evaluation.
What could possibly go wrong?
William Adams - Blog Archive Pt. 4
24/03/2009:
Today we had a meeting to discuss which of the male characters was going to be which one and also to proof read the script to see if there were any mistakes in it. Today However, we had one of the actors come to meeting who's name is Jessie (I think). We first met at the hubs so that we could all meet in one place first before going to the Harmer building. Two of the actors could not come becuase they had to work so we had to just settle with the one actor who could turn up. Max said that he would gove both of the other actors a ring and try to e-mail the script to both of the actors that did not turn up to the metting. so, after we all met up at the hubs, we went to the harmer building to proof read the script and to adjust it (if there were any adjustments of course). There were a few adjustements that were needed, but they would be dealt with as soon as possible. Amy has said that she wouls get the storybaord done as soon as possible. I'm a bit concerned about the other two actors however, becuase i think Max mentioned somethng about them might being able to run up for the filming, so that does concern me a bit. However, if need be, I could be one of the characters if that is the issue on the day or before hand becuase I'm not really needed until the editing part of the film.
Today we had a meeting to discuss which of the male characters was going to be which one and also to proof read the script to see if there were any mistakes in it. Today However, we had one of the actors come to meeting who's name is Jessie (I think). We first met at the hubs so that we could all meet in one place first before going to the Harmer building. Two of the actors could not come becuase they had to work so we had to just settle with the one actor who could turn up. Max said that he would gove both of the other actors a ring and try to e-mail the script to both of the actors that did not turn up to the metting. so, after we all met up at the hubs, we went to the harmer building to proof read the script and to adjust it (if there were any adjustments of course). There were a few adjustements that were needed, but they would be dealt with as soon as possible. Amy has said that she wouls get the storybaord done as soon as possible. I'm a bit concerned about the other two actors however, becuase i think Max mentioned somethng about them might being able to run up for the filming, so that does concern me a bit. However, if need be, I could be one of the characters if that is the issue on the day or before hand becuase I'm not really needed until the editing part of the film.
Saturday, 21 March 2009
Luke Pietnik - Once More Into the Breach!
Hello everybody. I'm being a bit cheecky by changing post titles so they don't have the date in them. They date automatically, and if you need to talk about something that happened a couple of days ago, just talk about it in the past tense. Anyway, I'm a bit of a busybody, and you will no doubt hate me for it. Moving on...
I managed to get everyone's segments of the script together and put together a final draft. Yipee! Now we can start storyboarding and planning locations and dates. There are one or two things that are subject to change once we start filming, namely the car that flies around a corner distracting Simon (the killer). It could just as easily be a bicycle or just a pedestrian running past. Anyway, we'll decide on that later. I know that Max also wanted to have the end scene run to the very end of the narrative that began the story. We could have a cut-down version of the scene, but a full one might be boring for the audience, and run over the alloted time we have. If we have room, we can tack it on the end in post.
regarding the meeting we had on thursday the 19th, We're thinking about using one of the university rooms as Simon's office, and shooting stuff that's set in the city first. Then I think, unless there's a change of plan, most of us will be travelling on the bus up towards Neepsend (did I spell that right?) to film a majority of the scenes near Amy's house. We might need a few days to get everything we need, but I think as long as we plan everying out properly, we shouldn't miss anythign important.
Additionally, Max and I wil be spending a good bit of next week in posession of a Marantz MP3 recorder, capturing ambiences and spot sound effects to various things in the script. We'll probably take a copy of the final draft with us, or knock up a reocrding list. It's important I think that we have a good variety of ambient sounds to create the right atmosphere for the film.
This is indeed an ambitious project. Chris and Malcolm's notes of caution at the pitching session are now coming back to haunt me. but I'm not worried, because we are a dedicated and depandable team, and I have every confidence that we have what it takes to produce a brilliant little thriller here.
Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more!
I managed to get everyone's segments of the script together and put together a final draft. Yipee! Now we can start storyboarding and planning locations and dates. There are one or two things that are subject to change once we start filming, namely the car that flies around a corner distracting Simon (the killer). It could just as easily be a bicycle or just a pedestrian running past. Anyway, we'll decide on that later. I know that Max also wanted to have the end scene run to the very end of the narrative that began the story. We could have a cut-down version of the scene, but a full one might be boring for the audience, and run over the alloted time we have. If we have room, we can tack it on the end in post.
regarding the meeting we had on thursday the 19th, We're thinking about using one of the university rooms as Simon's office, and shooting stuff that's set in the city first. Then I think, unless there's a change of plan, most of us will be travelling on the bus up towards Neepsend (did I spell that right?) to film a majority of the scenes near Amy's house. We might need a few days to get everything we need, but I think as long as we plan everying out properly, we shouldn't miss anythign important.
Additionally, Max and I wil be spending a good bit of next week in posession of a Marantz MP3 recorder, capturing ambiences and spot sound effects to various things in the script. We'll probably take a copy of the final draft with us, or knock up a reocrding list. It's important I think that we have a good variety of ambient sounds to create the right atmosphere for the film.
This is indeed an ambitious project. Chris and Malcolm's notes of caution at the pitching session are now coming back to haunt me. but I'm not worried, because we are a dedicated and depandable team, and I have every confidence that we have what it takes to produce a brilliant little thriller here.
Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more!
William Adams - Blog Archive Pt. 3
19/03/2009:
Today, we had a meeting to discuss the scripts that myself, Max and Luke have done for the three characters that are in this film. Luke and Max's scripts were fine it was just mine that needed some adjustments to it. when i first heard the idea for us to write the script seperately, I thought that Luke was going to do the begining, I was going to do the middle and Max was going to do the end, that is how I saw it. However, it was completely different, and that was when the confusion all started. Anyway, Luke and Max's scripts (after the discussion), were going to be sent to Amy and Verity so that they could start the storyboard for the film. My script however needed some editing. i think that either Max or Luke are going to do that becuase I saw Max editing it during the discussion. However, if i'm supposed to edit it then I apologise in advance.
Today, we had a meeting to discuss the scripts that myself, Max and Luke have done for the three characters that are in this film. Luke and Max's scripts were fine it was just mine that needed some adjustments to it. when i first heard the idea for us to write the script seperately, I thought that Luke was going to do the begining, I was going to do the middle and Max was going to do the end, that is how I saw it. However, it was completely different, and that was when the confusion all started. Anyway, Luke and Max's scripts (after the discussion), were going to be sent to Amy and Verity so that they could start the storyboard for the film. My script however needed some editing. i think that either Max or Luke are going to do that becuase I saw Max editing it during the discussion. However, if i'm supposed to edit it then I apologise in advance.
Friday, 20 March 2009
Max Voyse - Update
We had a meeting on Tuesday the 17Th and since I have not been able to meet recently we have not been able to get much done. I met them later on because I had a driving lesson till half 1. We didn't get much done but we had the actual story nailed down so we all knew what was needed to be done, I was doing the script for Pamela, the female Protagonist within the piece. Luke was doing the beginning and end (Because there both the same.) And he is doing Simon the killer's script. And Will is doing Marcus the male character. Verity and Amy are doing storyboards for the film, they have not been able to do it yet because they need a copy of the script so they have guidelines to write with.
Our lesson on Thursday was useful, we learnt how to record sound onto the camera, I had done this before but I had not done it the way showed, I had not used a Boom pole properly aswell, we were shown by niel and gary how to do this. And at dinner we went out and practiced, we recorded interviews with us and switched over who was doing what so at one time I was oporating the boom pole and then switched with someone. I had a problem because I can't hear properly through one of my ears when we played the interviews back some of them were really loud and some were quiet.
We had a meeting after and we sorted out the script, Will had had problems with his part because it wasnt his idea, when it actually is and on looking at the script he did a really good job just one or two things needed to be changed. So later on that night I went and changed it and sorted out the script and e-mailed it to Luke who is putting the script all together. So things are looking good so far. We are meetuing again on tuesday and I'm trying to get the actors all together so we can have a reading. Should be fun!!!
Our lesson on Thursday was useful, we learnt how to record sound onto the camera, I had done this before but I had not done it the way showed, I had not used a Boom pole properly aswell, we were shown by niel and gary how to do this. And at dinner we went out and practiced, we recorded interviews with us and switched over who was doing what so at one time I was oporating the boom pole and then switched with someone. I had a problem because I can't hear properly through one of my ears when we played the interviews back some of them were really loud and some were quiet.
We had a meeting after and we sorted out the script, Will had had problems with his part because it wasnt his idea, when it actually is and on looking at the script he did a really good job just one or two things needed to be changed. So later on that night I went and changed it and sorted out the script and e-mailed it to Luke who is putting the script all together. So things are looking good so far. We are meetuing again on tuesday and I'm trying to get the actors all together so we can have a reading. Should be fun!!!
Wednesday, 18 March 2009
William Adams - Blog Archive Pt. 2
17/03/2009:
Today we had a meeting, which involved sorting out and starting the storyboard an the script. Only three of us arrived at first because Max was going to be 30 minutes late and Amy wasn't going to arrive until 2PM, but we didn't mind. By 2PM, we all arrived to mainly discuss (again) on who was going to do what with the storyboard and scripts. we did the beginning of the script , which was good because then we had a basic idea on how to carry it on, but we didn't progress as much as that though. We didn't get the storyboards started either, which wasn't good but Amy and Verity should have something before the next meeting with have, same with the scripts, which I'm involved with. for the script, we decided that luke should do the beginning of the script, I should do the middle of the script and Max should do the end of the script. I'm hoping when Luke has done the beginning of the script that i will be able to have a clear idea on how to carry it on. For the characters, we decided that Max is going to do Pamela's character, I'm going to Marcus' character and Luke's doing the murderer's character (Simon). I'm hoping that i can do a good job with Marcus' character, not just make a macho guy who saves everybody in an instant because that will make the character too cheesy, which is what we don't want. I'm sure that Max and Luke will think the same thing.
Today we had a meeting, which involved sorting out and starting the storyboard an the script. Only three of us arrived at first because Max was going to be 30 minutes late and Amy wasn't going to arrive until 2PM, but we didn't mind. By 2PM, we all arrived to mainly discuss (again) on who was going to do what with the storyboard and scripts. we did the beginning of the script , which was good because then we had a basic idea on how to carry it on, but we didn't progress as much as that though. We didn't get the storyboards started either, which wasn't good but Amy and Verity should have something before the next meeting with have, same with the scripts, which I'm involved with. for the script, we decided that luke should do the beginning of the script, I should do the middle of the script and Max should do the end of the script. I'm hoping when Luke has done the beginning of the script that i will be able to have a clear idea on how to carry it on. For the characters, we decided that Max is going to do Pamela's character, I'm going to Marcus' character and Luke's doing the murderer's character (Simon). I'm hoping that i can do a good job with Marcus' character, not just make a macho guy who saves everybody in an instant because that will make the character too cheesy, which is what we don't want. I'm sure that Max and Luke will think the same thing.
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
Luke Pietnik - Script to Screen
Well today was very useful indeed. Now we didn't get all the script done today, but for the moment, that's irrelevant. In trying to pin down what we were going to write, we made some important decisions about the plotline. At first, we were going to have our two characters having a joint premonition, waking up and then journeying to their eventual death by stabbing. We then decided that we would still have the last event in linear time at the beginning, but not as a premonition. We will simply fade down or cut at a crucual moment. We will then follow each protagonist in turn, as we witness their journey into the climax, now the murder of both characters by shooting. As well as the two victims who ultimately 'collide', we will, if time limitations allow, also show the journey of the murderer, as he makes his way to the final confrontation.
Having worked out what we're doing, we decided to split the script into segments. I will write the main confrontation and the journey of the murderer, Max will write the journey of our female protagonist Pamela and Will is going to write the journey of our male protagonist, Marcus. This will add a sense of alternative perspectives to the multiple journeys to the same place. The storyboard will have to wait for now, but it will work better this way. It took us a while to decide what we were doing, and as a result, the storyboard was neglected. However, we are meeting on Thursday after our workshops, and I feel more confident about the project now that we know the details. This really is a creative process, isn't it?
We were discussing a shot in which our two main protagonists, Pamela and Marcus, are walking along a street investigating a scream that eminated from round a corner, only to be confronted by a gun-wielding murderer. This shot, or sequence of shots, would be more effective if shot with the camera parallel to the road. The image I had in my head reminded me of this rather nice shot from Doctor Who:
Having worked out what we're doing, we decided to split the script into segments. I will write the main confrontation and the journey of the murderer, Max will write the journey of our female protagonist Pamela and Will is going to write the journey of our male protagonist, Marcus. This will add a sense of alternative perspectives to the multiple journeys to the same place. The storyboard will have to wait for now, but it will work better this way. It took us a while to decide what we were doing, and as a result, the storyboard was neglected. However, we are meeting on Thursday after our workshops, and I feel more confident about the project now that we know the details. This really is a creative process, isn't it?
We were discussing a shot in which our two main protagonists, Pamela and Marcus, are walking along a street investigating a scream that eminated from round a corner, only to be confronted by a gun-wielding murderer. This shot, or sequence of shots, would be more effective if shot with the camera parallel to the road. The image I had in my head reminded me of this rather nice shot from Doctor Who:
Obviously, our shoot will be in the daytime, but if we could frame the shots like this, adding a mid-range pan of the murderer as he runs into the road, I'm sure it'd be a rather nicely composed sequence.
The only other thing we discussed was the Blog. Verity, Amy and Will were confused about how to publish posts properly, so we went through it. Now that we've cleared it up, we will all be able to keep up-to-date with it. Thursday's camera and sound workshop should be fun anyway, and hopefully we'll learn something about the equipment. I hope so. Until next time, farewell.
Luke Pietnik - Mad Max Rides Again!
Yes, Mr. Voyse will be joining us at the scripting session today. I'm glad, because he said that he'd like to have some input in the content of the script. And thanks Max for saying you thought my sound project was good, you lovely man. I'm hoping we can work in tandem on the sound design too, it should be fun and exciting.
I'm thinking that because we're only making a five minute film, the script will be under 10 pages. The general guide is a page per minute, but you can never be sure, due to the pace and delivery of the scenes, if you'll over or under run. It's better to do more and be able to edit it down than doing too little and under run, forcing you to pad out scenes. If we're stepping over 10 pages with minimal dialogue, however, it's probably best to keep an eye on it and make sure scenes are able to be edited out seemlessly. We'll have a blast today though, I'm sure. I haven't written a script like this in nearly three years.
The storyborard is another thing. If we're having to wait for each panel to be drawn up before we can move on to the next stage direction, then we should probably go on ahead of the drawing. When the first draft of the script is finished, we can then all help out with the drawing of the storyboard. I mean the drawing shouldn't take that long really, but it takes longer to draw the desription "She sits up" than it does to write it.
We're glad Max is back with us anyway, we're a whole entity once more.
Be seeing you!
I'm thinking that because we're only making a five minute film, the script will be under 10 pages. The general guide is a page per minute, but you can never be sure, due to the pace and delivery of the scenes, if you'll over or under run. It's better to do more and be able to edit it down than doing too little and under run, forcing you to pad out scenes. If we're stepping over 10 pages with minimal dialogue, however, it's probably best to keep an eye on it and make sure scenes are able to be edited out seemlessly. We'll have a blast today though, I'm sure. I haven't written a script like this in nearly three years.
The storyborard is another thing. If we're having to wait for each panel to be drawn up before we can move on to the next stage direction, then we should probably go on ahead of the drawing. When the first draft of the script is finished, we can then all help out with the drawing of the storyboard. I mean the drawing shouldn't take that long really, but it takes longer to draw the desription "She sits up" than it does to write it.
We're glad Max is back with us anyway, we're a whole entity once more.
Be seeing you!
Monday, 16 March 2009
Max Voyse - Blog
Hey hope this goes ok I don't really know what I'm doing lol. I'm in D6 with Luke, the darkest of Will's (in joke), Verity and Amy. Verity is the Project Manager, Amy is the Camera Operator (probably spelt it wrong), Will is the Picture Editor and Luke is the Sound Editor and I'm the Sound Recorder. We look a strong group and all seemed to be organised the roles were given with no fuss about what anyone wanted. I did want to be either the Camera Op or the Picture Editor given I hated recording sound before hand but since the last piece of coursework I enjoyed doing the sound so I was not fussed so long as i didn't get Sound Editor :p We all know what we are doing and each are willing to help out in all areas. I'm hoping Luke will help me record sound because I know he had a really good sound piece.
We then had to come up with ideas, I had a idea from the off using something that happened in my life and I thought I could I change that into a journey story, so that night I brainstormed and wrote a script for the part. Will had a really good idea about a magician who goes missing and his son takes his role. It was a good idea but it had a lot of practical problems which is a shame because it would have turned out a good idea. Luke had a brilliant idea about someone who dies then is in the afterlife with most of the film being the main character trying to find out the reason why he had his life taken all of a sudden. There was another character who we thought could be the grim reaper and I really liked this character so its one of the reasons why I wanted to do this piece. Verity's was a good idea as well, her was an event that bought a number of people together with each of the people's journey to that place shown through their own story. I really liked the idea and thought it would be a challenge to accomplice and would pull off really well if done properly. After a meeting we had a couple of days before the treatment had to be in ironed out some of the problems we had with our ideas.
On that night I started to treatment but I could not think of the narrative development so I had to change the idea, I felt the original idea would look cheesy throughout the 5 mins because I could not think of much to put between. So I changed the idea, I got inspiration from a scene in 28 Days Later where all the main characters were in a car driving away from London and there is a track from Brian Eno in the background. Its one of my fave scenes from the film so my idea was similar.
My Idea:
A man is sat talking to the camera covered in blood warning the world about the 'virus' that is spreading throughout Britain, in doing so we see the camera cut as he looks shocked and turns then it blacks out. We then cut back earlier in the day where he is sat while a news programme is on worrying about all his family and life in general. He feels he has to warn the world about what has happened in case this 'virus' gets out. He makes his way to his work. The bio-genetic labs called 'The Watchtower'. Most of the journey is in a car him wondering through the streets gone midnight and we see all the infected wondering the streets, he gets to 'The Watchtower' and proceeds inside. As he does so he is attacked and fends off the infected covering himself in the process. We then see him fighting his way through the building trying to find the Com's room and when getting there he sees that he has been followed and has no place to run. So then were back to the start where he gives his monologue to the camera then dies afterwards.
When we handed in the treatments we had to pick two of them to pitch, we picked Luke's and Verity's to pitch and me and Luke pitched them. When it came to I thought there were only going to be three people there them being Malcolm, Chris and Niel but all of the class were in there so it made me more nervous and when pitching me and Luke sounded like we were having a conversation rather than pitching. Verity's idea was picked out of the two and now were working on who is going to do the script. I want something to do with the script because I like writing and I've not done much of it so this would be a good experience. However I could make a tit of myself and it turn out badly, Will has had experience with scripts so he would be a good writer on the piece and Luke has pretty much contributed a lot to the idea so he would be a asset to helping with the script. Also I have been able to get a hold of some of my friends who are good actors/actresses, they are willing to help with the project so I believe we have the cast there.
We have had a meeting after then but I wan not able to make it because I have fallen ill, they have said it might be glandular fever which I caught last year so I tend to feel tired a lot of the time and I have also lost some of my hearing in my left ear, but I'm starting to feel well again so I should be on the mend and ready for the project soon.
We then had to come up with ideas, I had a idea from the off using something that happened in my life and I thought I could I change that into a journey story, so that night I brainstormed and wrote a script for the part. Will had a really good idea about a magician who goes missing and his son takes his role. It was a good idea but it had a lot of practical problems which is a shame because it would have turned out a good idea. Luke had a brilliant idea about someone who dies then is in the afterlife with most of the film being the main character trying to find out the reason why he had his life taken all of a sudden. There was another character who we thought could be the grim reaper and I really liked this character so its one of the reasons why I wanted to do this piece. Verity's was a good idea as well, her was an event that bought a number of people together with each of the people's journey to that place shown through their own story. I really liked the idea and thought it would be a challenge to accomplice and would pull off really well if done properly. After a meeting we had a couple of days before the treatment had to be in ironed out some of the problems we had with our ideas.
On that night I started to treatment but I could not think of the narrative development so I had to change the idea, I felt the original idea would look cheesy throughout the 5 mins because I could not think of much to put between. So I changed the idea, I got inspiration from a scene in 28 Days Later where all the main characters were in a car driving away from London and there is a track from Brian Eno in the background. Its one of my fave scenes from the film so my idea was similar.
My Idea:
A man is sat talking to the camera covered in blood warning the world about the 'virus' that is spreading throughout Britain, in doing so we see the camera cut as he looks shocked and turns then it blacks out. We then cut back earlier in the day where he is sat while a news programme is on worrying about all his family and life in general. He feels he has to warn the world about what has happened in case this 'virus' gets out. He makes his way to his work. The bio-genetic labs called 'The Watchtower'. Most of the journey is in a car him wondering through the streets gone midnight and we see all the infected wondering the streets, he gets to 'The Watchtower' and proceeds inside. As he does so he is attacked and fends off the infected covering himself in the process. We then see him fighting his way through the building trying to find the Com's room and when getting there he sees that he has been followed and has no place to run. So then were back to the start where he gives his monologue to the camera then dies afterwards.
When we handed in the treatments we had to pick two of them to pitch, we picked Luke's and Verity's to pitch and me and Luke pitched them. When it came to I thought there were only going to be three people there them being Malcolm, Chris and Niel but all of the class were in there so it made me more nervous and when pitching me and Luke sounded like we were having a conversation rather than pitching. Verity's idea was picked out of the two and now were working on who is going to do the script. I want something to do with the script because I like writing and I've not done much of it so this would be a good experience. However I could make a tit of myself and it turn out badly, Will has had experience with scripts so he would be a good writer on the piece and Luke has pretty much contributed a lot to the idea so he would be a asset to helping with the script. Also I have been able to get a hold of some of my friends who are good actors/actresses, they are willing to help with the project so I believe we have the cast there.
We have had a meeting after then but I wan not able to make it because I have fallen ill, they have said it might be glandular fever which I caught last year so I tend to feel tired a lot of the time and I have also lost some of my hearing in my left ear, but I'm starting to feel well again so I should be on the mend and ready for the project soon.
Thursday, 12 March 2009
Luke Pietnik - Quick Update
Thunderbirds are go! I’m still looking forward to seeing what we come up with at the scripting session. Having had a look at one of Will’s scripts, I’m glad that he’s formatting them correctly, so we’ll be on the same wavelength when writing. Poor old Max, he’s still feeling under the weather. It’s a good job we don’t have a session today because he wouldn’t have made it. The good news is that he’s feeling a little bit better, and he should be OK for Tuesday.
I continue to think about shots and sequences that we could include in the film. I was watching ‘The Living Daylights’ the other day and noticed how lovely those shots of the trams running through Vienna look. We don’t exactly have a lot of continental glamour round here, but Sheffield does have its own tram network. Some shots of the supertrams gliding to and fro would provide a rather nice under-layer to the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the city. I’ll see what the others say, but I’m quite keen to do that, because it just seems like an untapped reserve. It runs right through the middle of town too, where all the roads are. Unlike the bond film, this tram sequence probably won’t involve a man with a licence to kill stalking a young woman who is stuck in the middle of a secret investigation. At least, I don’t think it will…
I continue to think about shots and sequences that we could include in the film. I was watching ‘The Living Daylights’ the other day and noticed how lovely those shots of the trams running through Vienna look. We don’t exactly have a lot of continental glamour round here, but Sheffield does have its own tram network. Some shots of the supertrams gliding to and fro would provide a rather nice under-layer to the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the city. I’ll see what the others say, but I’m quite keen to do that, because it just seems like an untapped reserve. It runs right through the middle of town too, where all the roads are. Unlike the bond film, this tram sequence probably won’t involve a man with a licence to kill stalking a young woman who is stuck in the middle of a secret investigation. At least, I don’t think it will…
Luke Pietnik - Blog Archive
21st February 2009:
So yesterday was our first group project session, and we have decided that Verity shall act as project manager, Amy the camera operator, Max the sound recordist, Will the picture editor, and I myself will be sound editor. I’m fairly happy with this arrangement. Verity seems to be able to organise the group well enough, and was relatively decisive initially. Amy acknowledged that she would like to use the camera to expand her knowledge about its operation. We all agreed that the best way for her to become more confident with the technology was for her to immerse herself in the role. Max wasn’t set on taking any particular role, but we agreed that it would be better all round if he were to do the sound recording. I shall work in conjunction with him to hopefully bring professionalism to the overall sound design. Will was keen to edit the visuals, he and Max both having confidence in his skills in this particular area of production. I am confident that I am proficient enough to develop the ideas of the group and implement them when constructing the soundtrack.
I’m probably going to opt for a more surreal or abstract concept and I can imagine that Will is going to go for something rather more macabre. Those are first impressions, and I can’t think what the others might come up with. With no definition, the ‘journey’ brief is a rather general, unlimited subject area that I’m sure we can exploit to create a more interesting, lateral concept. Still, Optimism prevails.
23rd February 2009:
Verity has arranged a meeting for the 26th of February. I’m convinced that she is able to act ably as project manager. Max and Will may be late, but we realised this when it was too late to rearrange, because at least two of us had altered our schedules to make way for it. I’m sure they will be there for a majority of the meeting so that we can get a few things clear and discuss initial ideas. I have conceived of an idea involving a series of locked rooms, and a journey through them, puzzles testing the protagonist. I also thought about having someone being killed in a car crash and trying to get possession of a halo, eventually journeying to the afterlife. The other ideas are, at this point, very general, but I’ll discuss them with the group and see what their reactions are.
27th February 2009:
Having had our first meeting to discuss our ideas, I’m feeling optimistic about the project. We seem to work well as a group, and I’m confident that the shooting and post-production should come together really well. We have between us some very innovative and interesting ideas. I’m sure that we will be able to focus in on the proposals as time passes to make them all watertight. I’m thinking about developing a more fantastic, other-worldly story to disillusion and perplex the audience without alienating them. I’m thinking in terms of locked rooms and vertical journeys, downwards, perhaps suggesting an emotional descent. I’m in two minds about Will’s idea, which has some technical drawbacks and practicality problems. His proposal features the son of a magician who is put off the idea of magic at the loss of his father. He then has this spirit rekindled by a magic show that he sees on TV. He is then inspired to take up magic. Besides the fact that it wavers slightly from the initial pitch (which is fine), it features at least two characters, father and son, who both have to be able to perform a reasonable amount of conjuring tricks themselves. This is obviously a problem.
Max’s idea was interesting. The concept of voice-overs and cryptic phone messages being used to convey his loneliness was a nice one. It was a little depressing, being confined to a room for most of the time, and I thought that the heartbreak and emotional journey subject matter was rather an overused concept. That said, the idea runs with the journey brief and does something interesting with it, so we’ll see how that goes. The girls’ ideas are still only at a very general level, Verity expressing interest in doing a day-in-the-life type progressive journey. Of my ideas, the two that got the best reception within the group were those that I spent the most time conceiving. The journey through a series of identical rooms, with puzzles to test the protagonist was popular indeed. The other favourite was that of the idea involving a man who is killed in the prime of his life in a car crash, and has to find his way out of limbo, which I am becoming fonder of as time passes. So we’ve got another meeting on Monday to organise ourselves before the big pitching session on the Thursday, and I’m interested to see what treatments everyone comes up with.
2nd March 2009:
Well today’s meeting at the hubs went well. Everyone managed to come up with a rather appealing treatment. Will stuck to his original idea, as did Max. We discussed the practicalities of both of them. We suggested that Max’s idea could include a shocking ending, with him answering the phone and talking to his sweetheart, who it turns out, is a man. This would create a journey of self discovery. Max wasn’t very enthused by this idea, wanting to keep the ending ambiguous. Will’s idea is flawed because of its lack of practicality, but we agreed that we could probably just pull it off, the magic being a product of camera trickery more than anything. Verity conceived of an idea in which a number of disparate individuals, who had never met, would converge during a single catastrophic event. She dubbed it “Collide”, and I was very ken to explore the possibilities of this idea. Amy’s treatment was workable, and I was pleased that she’d taken a good bit of time to mull over the possibilities of what she could put forward. This was the first we saw of her idea, but it was relatively effective.
My proposal is as follows:
Driving home from work one evening, Stewart Cole has to take a detour from his usual route, and swerves to avoid a careless animal. His car impacts against a tree, killing him instantly. He is suddenly confronted by the image of his lifeless body strewn across his own dashboard. To Stewart’s mind, he was a selfless individual. He did a lot for charity, did everything he could to reduce his carbon footprint, and always had a strong sense of ethics. So why the hell did he get run down, why was he the bloody unlucky one!? Just this once, Stewart desperately needs answers.
To guide him through the afterlife, and deliver him beyond this mortal realm, another ghost joins him, Mike. Mike is a strange character, being rather unenthused and sarcastic about the whole endeavour. Together, Stew and Mike decide to find out if there is a reason for this unfortunate event. They begin to Talk, and visit Stew’s home. So, why did Stewart Cole draw the short straw, why was his life taken so early? Well, after a brief discussion, they come to the only logical conclusion. Who knows? Leaving these worries behind him, Stew passes on, into an unknown void of whiteness. Even in the afterlife, the universe is an utterly incomprehensible mystery.
6th March 2009:
Yesterday was the pitching session. We started out by reviewing everybody’s treatments. Max had completely revamped his intended idea, now presenting a post-apocalyptic thriller, almost akin to 28 days later. There were budgetary issues, but it was acceptable as a concept. I’d tightened up my idea, the character originally called ‘Mike’ now being nameless. Verity and Amy’s ideas were now taking shape, ‘Collide’ now including a character who can predict the future, taking inspiration from the Final Destination franchise. Will’s was looking a lot more conceivable now, too. We tried to break down our ideas in terms of shots and performances, weighing up the pros and cons of each. In the end, we settled on my supernatural comedy ‘Who Knows?’, and Verity’s ‘Collide’ idea. We wanted to do something a little more out there and perhaps disillusion the audience a little.
Having narrowed it down, we then formulated a pitch that max and I would present to the panel. We thought that with two people pitching it would be more succinct and get to the point quicker. I was worried about my voice (which is playing up at the moment), so we agreed that I would provide the initial synopses and max would fill in the details. I could then chip in with info as and when.
When the time came for the actual pitch, I was rather nervous, and tried to talk confidently through the nerves, but I got rather flustered whilst trying to explain ‘collide’ which led to confusion. Chris and Malcolm were rather disillusioned by the premice. Despite this, they saw ‘Who Knows?’ as flawed, and decided that we would produce ‘Collide’. They felt that logistically, the supernatural comedy was ambitious, not to diminish the ambitious nature of ‘Collide’, or course. However, that is apparently much more achievable, and boy, am I looking forward to seeing what we come up with!
10th March 2009:
Max sadly couldn’t make it to the meeting today. It should be said however that this was not down to bad organisational skills or a lack of time management, but his illness. He’s reportedly going deaf in one ear (bless him), so we hope he’ll get better soon, well in time for the next meeting. Anyway, the first thing we cleared up, pretty much immediately, was the script. Amy and Verity suggested that Will write it, but we had agreed (Me and Will) that we should co-write it, and that if Max was better, he could have some input. We were concerned that if we left the scripting too late because of Max’s illness, we’d have wasted too much time on that stage of the pre-production. We have therefore arranged to meet on Tuesday 17th March to write the script. We thought also that a good time-saver and initial idea generator was having the storyboard drawn up as the script is being written. We can then split the group into two co-producing factions so that we aren’t all huddled round a computer trying to develop a script all at once.
We also focused the ideas revolving around the narrative itself for later. We are now to have two protagonists, rather than three. This will help the film feel less crowded and flow better. Max has said that he has contacted some actors that he knows to play the characters in the film. If we don’t have ample cast for the production, or need a stand in on the day, I am sure that the members of our group, including myself, can act sufficiently in the roles. There was nothing much to discuss at the meeting, bar the filling in our sandwiches, but the issues of scripting and Max’s illness did need clearing up. (We love you, Max.)
So yesterday was our first group project session, and we have decided that Verity shall act as project manager, Amy the camera operator, Max the sound recordist, Will the picture editor, and I myself will be sound editor. I’m fairly happy with this arrangement. Verity seems to be able to organise the group well enough, and was relatively decisive initially. Amy acknowledged that she would like to use the camera to expand her knowledge about its operation. We all agreed that the best way for her to become more confident with the technology was for her to immerse herself in the role. Max wasn’t set on taking any particular role, but we agreed that it would be better all round if he were to do the sound recording. I shall work in conjunction with him to hopefully bring professionalism to the overall sound design. Will was keen to edit the visuals, he and Max both having confidence in his skills in this particular area of production. I am confident that I am proficient enough to develop the ideas of the group and implement them when constructing the soundtrack.
I’m probably going to opt for a more surreal or abstract concept and I can imagine that Will is going to go for something rather more macabre. Those are first impressions, and I can’t think what the others might come up with. With no definition, the ‘journey’ brief is a rather general, unlimited subject area that I’m sure we can exploit to create a more interesting, lateral concept. Still, Optimism prevails.
23rd February 2009:
Verity has arranged a meeting for the 26th of February. I’m convinced that she is able to act ably as project manager. Max and Will may be late, but we realised this when it was too late to rearrange, because at least two of us had altered our schedules to make way for it. I’m sure they will be there for a majority of the meeting so that we can get a few things clear and discuss initial ideas. I have conceived of an idea involving a series of locked rooms, and a journey through them, puzzles testing the protagonist. I also thought about having someone being killed in a car crash and trying to get possession of a halo, eventually journeying to the afterlife. The other ideas are, at this point, very general, but I’ll discuss them with the group and see what their reactions are.
27th February 2009:
Having had our first meeting to discuss our ideas, I’m feeling optimistic about the project. We seem to work well as a group, and I’m confident that the shooting and post-production should come together really well. We have between us some very innovative and interesting ideas. I’m sure that we will be able to focus in on the proposals as time passes to make them all watertight. I’m thinking about developing a more fantastic, other-worldly story to disillusion and perplex the audience without alienating them. I’m thinking in terms of locked rooms and vertical journeys, downwards, perhaps suggesting an emotional descent. I’m in two minds about Will’s idea, which has some technical drawbacks and practicality problems. His proposal features the son of a magician who is put off the idea of magic at the loss of his father. He then has this spirit rekindled by a magic show that he sees on TV. He is then inspired to take up magic. Besides the fact that it wavers slightly from the initial pitch (which is fine), it features at least two characters, father and son, who both have to be able to perform a reasonable amount of conjuring tricks themselves. This is obviously a problem.
Max’s idea was interesting. The concept of voice-overs and cryptic phone messages being used to convey his loneliness was a nice one. It was a little depressing, being confined to a room for most of the time, and I thought that the heartbreak and emotional journey subject matter was rather an overused concept. That said, the idea runs with the journey brief and does something interesting with it, so we’ll see how that goes. The girls’ ideas are still only at a very general level, Verity expressing interest in doing a day-in-the-life type progressive journey. Of my ideas, the two that got the best reception within the group were those that I spent the most time conceiving. The journey through a series of identical rooms, with puzzles to test the protagonist was popular indeed. The other favourite was that of the idea involving a man who is killed in the prime of his life in a car crash, and has to find his way out of limbo, which I am becoming fonder of as time passes. So we’ve got another meeting on Monday to organise ourselves before the big pitching session on the Thursday, and I’m interested to see what treatments everyone comes up with.
2nd March 2009:
Well today’s meeting at the hubs went well. Everyone managed to come up with a rather appealing treatment. Will stuck to his original idea, as did Max. We discussed the practicalities of both of them. We suggested that Max’s idea could include a shocking ending, with him answering the phone and talking to his sweetheart, who it turns out, is a man. This would create a journey of self discovery. Max wasn’t very enthused by this idea, wanting to keep the ending ambiguous. Will’s idea is flawed because of its lack of practicality, but we agreed that we could probably just pull it off, the magic being a product of camera trickery more than anything. Verity conceived of an idea in which a number of disparate individuals, who had never met, would converge during a single catastrophic event. She dubbed it “Collide”, and I was very ken to explore the possibilities of this idea. Amy’s treatment was workable, and I was pleased that she’d taken a good bit of time to mull over the possibilities of what she could put forward. This was the first we saw of her idea, but it was relatively effective.
My proposal is as follows:
Driving home from work one evening, Stewart Cole has to take a detour from his usual route, and swerves to avoid a careless animal. His car impacts against a tree, killing him instantly. He is suddenly confronted by the image of his lifeless body strewn across his own dashboard. To Stewart’s mind, he was a selfless individual. He did a lot for charity, did everything he could to reduce his carbon footprint, and always had a strong sense of ethics. So why the hell did he get run down, why was he the bloody unlucky one!? Just this once, Stewart desperately needs answers.
To guide him through the afterlife, and deliver him beyond this mortal realm, another ghost joins him, Mike. Mike is a strange character, being rather unenthused and sarcastic about the whole endeavour. Together, Stew and Mike decide to find out if there is a reason for this unfortunate event. They begin to Talk, and visit Stew’s home. So, why did Stewart Cole draw the short straw, why was his life taken so early? Well, after a brief discussion, they come to the only logical conclusion. Who knows? Leaving these worries behind him, Stew passes on, into an unknown void of whiteness. Even in the afterlife, the universe is an utterly incomprehensible mystery.
6th March 2009:
Yesterday was the pitching session. We started out by reviewing everybody’s treatments. Max had completely revamped his intended idea, now presenting a post-apocalyptic thriller, almost akin to 28 days later. There were budgetary issues, but it was acceptable as a concept. I’d tightened up my idea, the character originally called ‘Mike’ now being nameless. Verity and Amy’s ideas were now taking shape, ‘Collide’ now including a character who can predict the future, taking inspiration from the Final Destination franchise. Will’s was looking a lot more conceivable now, too. We tried to break down our ideas in terms of shots and performances, weighing up the pros and cons of each. In the end, we settled on my supernatural comedy ‘Who Knows?’, and Verity’s ‘Collide’ idea. We wanted to do something a little more out there and perhaps disillusion the audience a little.
Having narrowed it down, we then formulated a pitch that max and I would present to the panel. We thought that with two people pitching it would be more succinct and get to the point quicker. I was worried about my voice (which is playing up at the moment), so we agreed that I would provide the initial synopses and max would fill in the details. I could then chip in with info as and when.
When the time came for the actual pitch, I was rather nervous, and tried to talk confidently through the nerves, but I got rather flustered whilst trying to explain ‘collide’ which led to confusion. Chris and Malcolm were rather disillusioned by the premice. Despite this, they saw ‘Who Knows?’ as flawed, and decided that we would produce ‘Collide’. They felt that logistically, the supernatural comedy was ambitious, not to diminish the ambitious nature of ‘Collide’, or course. However, that is apparently much more achievable, and boy, am I looking forward to seeing what we come up with!
10th March 2009:
Max sadly couldn’t make it to the meeting today. It should be said however that this was not down to bad organisational skills or a lack of time management, but his illness. He’s reportedly going deaf in one ear (bless him), so we hope he’ll get better soon, well in time for the next meeting. Anyway, the first thing we cleared up, pretty much immediately, was the script. Amy and Verity suggested that Will write it, but we had agreed (Me and Will) that we should co-write it, and that if Max was better, he could have some input. We were concerned that if we left the scripting too late because of Max’s illness, we’d have wasted too much time on that stage of the pre-production. We have therefore arranged to meet on Tuesday 17th March to write the script. We thought also that a good time-saver and initial idea generator was having the storyboard drawn up as the script is being written. We can then split the group into two co-producing factions so that we aren’t all huddled round a computer trying to develop a script all at once.
We also focused the ideas revolving around the narrative itself for later. We are now to have two protagonists, rather than three. This will help the film feel less crowded and flow better. Max has said that he has contacted some actors that he knows to play the characters in the film. If we don’t have ample cast for the production, or need a stand in on the day, I am sure that the members of our group, including myself, can act sufficiently in the roles. There was nothing much to discuss at the meeting, bar the filling in our sandwiches, but the issues of scripting and Max’s illness did need clearing up. (We love you, Max.)
William Adams - Blog Archive
William Adams: 19th February 2009:
Today, we’ve had our first meeting sessions, which involved deciding the roles for each member of the group. We all, at first did not mind who got what. I was keen to do the visual editing because I had more experience in this field. However, I do have experience in using the camera as well. Amy has chosen to be the camera operator since was the project manager in her last project and she also wants a taste of what technology has to offer. Verity has chosen to be the project manager, she does have the ability to organize a group and also organize meetings as well. Max has chosen to be the sound recordist and Luke has chosen sound editor. Luke did seem keen on doing sound editing because he wanted to experience it more and said that he enjoyed it the first time round. I am very confident that I can edit the visuals as best as I can, having 2 and a half years experience in that field.
Sadly, I won’t be needed most of the time until the visuals need editing or they want me there to put some input into the shots that will either make sense or that would be perfect for the film. The same would go for Luke in a way because we are both editors in this group.
William Adams: 26th February 2009:
Verity arranged a meeting for today so that we could discuss our ideas and also try to put some input into some of the ideas and clear up any difficulties that some of the ideas may have. For this meeting though, me and Max were late due to the presentations being long and not finishing on the time that it was supposed to finish. My idea is about a boy who wants to be a magician because his father was a magician but he dies in a tragic car accident. However, he was put off it for a year until his mum takes him to a magic show, which inspires the boy again. To he practices until he turns 16 and he becomes well known magician in the UK.
Verity is good at arranging meetings but she is a bit slow with replying to text messages (that maybe due to having any credit or just being busy).
William Adams: 2nd March 2009:
Today we met in the hubs so that we could discuss and confirm ideas and to see if we could have any definite ideas on which two ideas we could choose so that we could be ready for this Thursdays session. However, we all had mixed views on these ideas and we also had our concerns with some of the ideas, especially mine. The main concerns that my idea had were that we would have to teach a 7 year old boy magic tricks and most of the big things would take a long time to do. However, they all did say that it was a good idea, it’s just with all of these difficulties that it could make the filming of this film a bit hard.
After the meeting, we almost have a clear idea on which idea’s to choose on the day of pitching them. I think on the day of pitching the ideas, we shall have a good idea of which ideas to choose for the film and for pitching.
William Adams: 5th March 2009:
Today, we chose our ideas and we pitched them to the two judges. Before we did this though, we had to quickly choose which ideas to pitch. We all couldn’t decide so we had to vote for which two ideas to pitch top to the judges. We all voted and the two ideas that we chose to pitch were Luke’s and Verity’s ideas. My idea got two votes while Max and Amy’s idea’s got one vote. During the pitching session, I believe that Chris (one of the judges) was a bit harsh towards (even though another student pointed this out and I agreed with him), because this was our first attempt at pitching an idea to them and the audience that we had and he was treating it like we were in Hollywood already. Anyway, we finally did our pitching of our two ideas and in the end, Verity’s idea was chosen. During in between the pitching however, I was told that my idea was a bit much and it wouldn’t fit into a 5 minute piece, it was more like a 10 minute piece.
William Adams: 10th March 2009:
In today’s meeting, there were only 4 of us because Max was ill (which was a downer). However, we still discussed on how were going to write the script and do the storyboard and who was going to do what. We also discussed on 2 main characters in this piece since adding more characters would add to the time total and make the film longer. We decided that Luke, Max and myself are going to do the script while Amy and Verity are going to do the storyboard. In order to make sense of both of these jobs, we are going to meet again on the 17th of March at the Adsettes building so that we can all have a clear idea on what is going to be written/drawn for this piece. Even though Max was not there, he can have a think on the idea that we are doing so that he can have some input on the idea to make improvements or to just add ideas.
Today, we’ve had our first meeting sessions, which involved deciding the roles for each member of the group. We all, at first did not mind who got what. I was keen to do the visual editing because I had more experience in this field. However, I do have experience in using the camera as well. Amy has chosen to be the camera operator since was the project manager in her last project and she also wants a taste of what technology has to offer. Verity has chosen to be the project manager, she does have the ability to organize a group and also organize meetings as well. Max has chosen to be the sound recordist and Luke has chosen sound editor. Luke did seem keen on doing sound editing because he wanted to experience it more and said that he enjoyed it the first time round. I am very confident that I can edit the visuals as best as I can, having 2 and a half years experience in that field.
Sadly, I won’t be needed most of the time until the visuals need editing or they want me there to put some input into the shots that will either make sense or that would be perfect for the film. The same would go for Luke in a way because we are both editors in this group.
William Adams: 26th February 2009:
Verity arranged a meeting for today so that we could discuss our ideas and also try to put some input into some of the ideas and clear up any difficulties that some of the ideas may have. For this meeting though, me and Max were late due to the presentations being long and not finishing on the time that it was supposed to finish. My idea is about a boy who wants to be a magician because his father was a magician but he dies in a tragic car accident. However, he was put off it for a year until his mum takes him to a magic show, which inspires the boy again. To he practices until he turns 16 and he becomes well known magician in the UK.
Verity is good at arranging meetings but she is a bit slow with replying to text messages (that maybe due to having any credit or just being busy).
William Adams: 2nd March 2009:
Today we met in the hubs so that we could discuss and confirm ideas and to see if we could have any definite ideas on which two ideas we could choose so that we could be ready for this Thursdays session. However, we all had mixed views on these ideas and we also had our concerns with some of the ideas, especially mine. The main concerns that my idea had were that we would have to teach a 7 year old boy magic tricks and most of the big things would take a long time to do. However, they all did say that it was a good idea, it’s just with all of these difficulties that it could make the filming of this film a bit hard.
After the meeting, we almost have a clear idea on which idea’s to choose on the day of pitching them. I think on the day of pitching the ideas, we shall have a good idea of which ideas to choose for the film and for pitching.
William Adams: 5th March 2009:
Today, we chose our ideas and we pitched them to the two judges. Before we did this though, we had to quickly choose which ideas to pitch. We all couldn’t decide so we had to vote for which two ideas to pitch top to the judges. We all voted and the two ideas that we chose to pitch were Luke’s and Verity’s ideas. My idea got two votes while Max and Amy’s idea’s got one vote. During the pitching session, I believe that Chris (one of the judges) was a bit harsh towards (even though another student pointed this out and I agreed with him), because this was our first attempt at pitching an idea to them and the audience that we had and he was treating it like we were in Hollywood already. Anyway, we finally did our pitching of our two ideas and in the end, Verity’s idea was chosen. During in between the pitching however, I was told that my idea was a bit much and it wouldn’t fit into a 5 minute piece, it was more like a 10 minute piece.
William Adams: 10th March 2009:
In today’s meeting, there were only 4 of us because Max was ill (which was a downer). However, we still discussed on how were going to write the script and do the storyboard and who was going to do what. We also discussed on 2 main characters in this piece since adding more characters would add to the time total and make the film longer. We decided that Luke, Max and myself are going to do the script while Amy and Verity are going to do the storyboard. In order to make sense of both of these jobs, we are going to meet again on the 17th of March at the Adsettes building so that we can all have a clear idea on what is going to be written/drawn for this piece. Even though Max was not there, he can have a think on the idea that we are doing so that he can have some input on the idea to make improvements or to just add ideas.
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