Friday 7 May 2010

My role

In my group i was given the role of Editor. This meant i had the responsability of editing my film once all filming had taken place. I chose this particular role because it is something that generally intrests me, also i have used an editing software previously.

I was also givin the task of writing the script for our piece. I completed this, but as a group we decided to go in a different direction with one of the characters so me and fellow group member Caroline Chicken tweaked to our vision.

Music

Every piece of properly released music, in current times is copyrighted; this means that you have to ask the artists permission to use it or pay the person that owns the piece to use it. To get around this problem we used a piece of un-copyrighted music.

We chose that particular piece because of the mystery and weirdness it instills in you when you listen to it.

Group meeting: changes

During production we made quite a few changes to our piece; we ended up deciding that our location we previously chose was not suitable for the whole group to film at due the distance in which are group live from each other. I believe that the location we have decided to use for our project is an improvement on the one we chose previously.

We also made a few tweaks to the script deciding to make the Levi character a lot less vocal than we originally intended. We done this so we could give a much more mysterious air to the character.

Vengeance script

Miller: (monologue) when you’ve been in this business as long as I have you find that nothing surprises you. The first thing you learn in undercover work is to learn fast, and trust no on, a few years ago yeas ago I never would have believed that a detective would conspire with criminals, but I was young and I trusted her.

Location: outskirts of Alexandra Park, Ipswich

Miller: where’ve you been? I’ve been trying to ring you

Grimwood: Look, I’ve been thinking, maybe I should go alone

Miller: no way, I’m the one who set this up, c’mon

Grimwood: Where is he?

Miller: I knew this would happen. There he is. Just let me do the talking. Your late

Levis: shut up

Grimwood: so, you got it yeah?

Levis: ‘course I have, why else would I be here? Where’s my money

Miller: you’ll get it just wait. It’s all there, now clear off

Levis: who you talking to

Miller : I’m talking to you blood, don’t worry I’ll be seeing you again real soon

Levis: yeah?

Miller: yeah.

(Grimwood hits Miller over the head with a brick)

Grimwood: I just wasn’t going down for this one.

Miller (monologue) I suppose it’s never too late to learn a few new lessons I the end, but this isn’t the end, and it’s never too late for vengeance.

Done by me with credit to Caroline Chicken

Group meetings

To keep eachother updated and on course to completing the project our group held team meetings. This was a time; usually before a lesson where we could all come together and help eachother, show people work and share ideas etc. We all took specific roles during the production; but tried do do as much of the work as a group as possible.

Pre-production

Before we undertook this project there was paper work that had to be filled out; this included:
  • A call sheet
  • A risk assessment sheet
  • Recky of the location
  • And a conteact sheet.

Questionnaire and results


Questionnaire done by Yasmin Ryan