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.