Friday 13th Feb

Today was our deadline dat, an im glad to say i finished well before the half 2 deadline, i managed to print of all our pictures and shooting schedules etc. I also last night completed my evaluation which was 4 sides of A4 explaining out results and how our project went, how well we worked in a group and what we could have improved on. After sticking all of this is my portfolio i am relieved as it has took alot of work, time and effort, but have enjoyed the project :)

Woodlands Soap Opera

Monday 9th February

Today we finally finished our soap opera!!! 

After ages if hard work it finally was all put together with the title sequence, and actually looks really good :) Hollie and Katie went to film the pregnancy scene, which was the last chapter in our filming process, it didnt take too long and why they were away filming, i cracked on with an evaluation questionnaire, why sofia and keeley made a few adjustments to the soap. When Hollie returned we imported the clips from the pregnancy situation and finally finished putting together our soap :) We now will burn it onto a disk and crack on with our evaluation!

Monday 2nd February

Today..... its snowed, but as good students we cracked on with our media work :) we had a few problems with clips, a lack of them in fact. Our soap was only 1 minute long, so me and Sof using our initiative and great ideas made another clip for the soap, of A.J and Cameron discussing  the situation between him and Amy. It went ok but we did not get enough shots like different over the shoulder shots etc so we plan to try and film that bit again. We then near enough finished our title sequence which is down to the very ends of editing and we also put of soap together :) and it is starting to look ok and just needs a few adjustments.

Friday 30th January

Today in our lesson, the group heard my own title sequence song, which we all liked and thought it was a good creation. We then decided that maybe if we have a new song, we should start our title sequence over again and include differant clips so it suits the new track. We proceeded to creat a new one and got about half way through before our time ran out in lesson. At the end of the lesson we came up with a plan for next week, as it has to be in for next friday. Nearly everything has been filmed we have a little bit to do and then all the rest will be editing the clips and making it into our 2 minute soap.

Wednesday 28th January

   HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOLLIE :) :) :) 

17 TODAY :) 

We Love You Hollie

Beat That Sof! :D

Today, me and sofia went to do a little bit more filming, before we cracked on with editing our title sequence, which is near enough finished, we just need to add a few more clips to the sequence, and finally finish it off with the actually woodlands park. After that we stared to edit the start of our soap, we put a few clips together and came up with a song to use for our alarm clock which fits into the first few clips of the opening act of the soap. We then had a problem as we went to get the rest of our music for the lips, and found out all our work randomly had gone............ We cracked on then with getting the last bits filmed, involving katie and then suj sorting out some things, which would then leave us with a week and a bit to edit our film completely and have it ready for next Friday's deadline.

Monday 26th January

Today me and sofia went to film gemma getting ready, which went well, but ended up in me not being allowed in her house! sof did the filming her self. credit to Sof. I came back and continued to edit the title sequence which now is starting to look very good, the music fits in really well with the clips. Wednesday we plan to finish our filming completely and have the rest of the time to edit. 

Monday 19th January

Today was just a case of looking at what we filmed on the sunday, and weather it was good enough, or if we would have to film parts again. We cam to a little conclusion that maybe one part would have to be filmed agai nas the lighting is not very good as it got dark very quickly on the sunday. Overall we were happy with what we had filmed and decided to go and finish our locaton scouting for our title sequence. After doing that Sof keeley and me came up wit ha suitable theme tune for our title sequence, and i decided that i would do the job of explaining why we choose it and what the song represents to our programme. The reason we chose the song, was it was attractive to a teen audience, and also the lyrics involved in it, i.e. we move along, represents that when you have a problem and things arnt going your way, we move along to something better and stop worrying about the things that keep us down.

Sunday 18th January

Today, we got cracking on the filming of our actual 2 minute start to a programme. We all met outside the girls school at half 1, and proceded in going to my house to film. To start with we filmed all the bits inside my house, which consited of me and katie waking up together, and us two leaving the house. This took around 45 minutes to get it right from all differant angles. We then filmed outside, and did all what we needed to do thier, which consisted off the scene were A.J see's amy, and were sean see's madeline, and also the confronatation between sam, a.j and sean. All our filming got done on the sunday, well most of it, as towards the end the light started to fade and we may have to film some parts again as it is a bit dark. Big thankyou must go to matt, katie, gemma, travis and rory who gave up thier sunday to help us with our filming.

After filming we had to edit all the footage to make the final clip, this is our finished piece :) 

                                                      THE BILL

Keeping Up to Date

Hi Adam

It is essential that you keep up tp date with your posts as this is evidence of your ability to keep good records of the processes invovlved in whatever project you are working on. Make sure you upload The Bill video you have completed and your photos from the location scouts you did today.

Wednesday 7th January

On the first day back from christmas, we had bishop chanaler come to visit us for a day of fun filled media work. We had vistors come in from professional filming companies, as well as a professional actors, who had partaken in episodes of The Bill and is currently in Guy Richies new filmand they did differant work shops with us, to develop our media skills. It was hard for me as when he was asking what we wanted to do when we grow up, all i could think was to play basketball, but the day actually made me realise that actualy getting a job within the media wouldnt be such a bad career. We learned lost of different skills, including acting techniques and different ways in which to capture the action shots. The day consisited of getting acquainted with each other, and mixing the groups, we did an experiment in which we tried to tell who had a higher playing card by the tone of our voice, the experiment worked out pretty well although their was some cheating along the way. Then we did some filming and acting on a script from the bill. I played an actor and thought i did a pretty good performance. Thier was also a nominated director, a camera man, an assitant to the director and then 4 actors in which i was one, we did a great job and our film looked very succesfull. That went on for a couple of hours, getting differant shots of the action, and finally getting the mastershot of it all. Last of all we had a Q + A session which was good as it gave people the chance to ask questions in how to get into the media, which i kinda regret not asking how to get into the sport side of the media. Overall it was a enjoyalble day and will be good editing out film in the lesson.

Monday 15th December

Today, we first had another group meeting, which included our teacher, so we could discuss our title sequence, what was good about it? how it attracts to the audience? and how we feel it gives the audience that description of what our soap is like. We talked about that and then finished that off, with an evaluation. After that we discussed a few ieas for our script and quickly jotted down a few notes. We then started to write our final script which sounded really good and could turn out to be a very succesfull soap. Our reasearch is almost completley finished, we have a presentation to finish for wednesday which is nearly completed as we have decided to choose channel 4 to present our soap, which we explain why in our presentation

December 10th 2008

In Todays lessons we first had a meeting with our teacher to show we had discussed what we could have changed on our presentation? what went well? and what we feel we could have improved on? After that we discussed what we was aiming to finish by the end of the lessons and what would be a realstic target to get finished. We cracked on finishing off our final characters and then started out storyboarding for our title sequence. It was pretty funny as none of us can draw in the group but we gave it out best shot and got it finished by the end of the lesson. We had some good ideas for the title sequence and i feel when it is all put together it will look very good.

Our Soap Presentation :)

Our soap presentation was a great success, alot of credit must go to Hollie, who put the presentation together, with the help of all our gatherd information and key points, themes and issues etc. We decided to concentrate mostly on our characters and themes and issues so we could get across what sort of characters are going to be in our soap, and what sort of storylines they could possibly be involved with, also we wanted to sort of leave it on a cliffhanger so the auidence would be wanting to know more about our soap. If we could do anything differantly i think we could have included a few more older charcters so it was not so much of a young cast, we have now thought included an early 30's music teacher which has a role to play in the soap which should help give the effect of not just a hollyoaks type soap, but some aspects of other soaps.

3rd December 2008

Today, in our first lesson we carried on our research with channels, and i completed it all by finishing of channel 4 and 5.  Now we have a solid base to figure out which channel is the best to place our soap on. After that we had another group meeting to decide what our plan was for the lesson and what we aim to get finished by the end of the day. We carried on with character profiles added more information and even gather some characters for each role. They then got typed up and finished. The story-lines were the next task to be tackled, we all came up with more ideas and also expanded on the ideas we already had. After this we developed a good, detailed story-line, typed it up and printed it off. Also we came up for a name for our soap which is called Woodlands and our company is called Creativ INC. We still need to get some more people to play roles of the characters and also finish off the presentation, but we did alot in the day and are way ahead of schedule.

1st December 2008

Today, we had another group meeting this morning and found out we was ahead of schedule in our project, we then came up with ideas for our storyline, and also character profiles which were just basic to start with as we plan to go into more detail once we have an understanding of who we are going to use in our soap. We created a few storylines and one which sounded good that we may use in our actually soap, with a bit more thought and effort we could make a really good piece. Then in the last lesson we carried on with our research on differant channels and i compelted the information on Channel 4, leaving on Channel 5 to be completed before we choose which channel is the best to put our soap on.

Thursday 27th November

In todays lesson i completed my research for ITV so i can move on to channel 4 when we come back after the weekend. We also thought up a few story-lines for our soap so we could have different ideas and different types for our soap opera. All of our research is near enough completed, as after we have finished the audience stuff, we can move onto character profiles and develop more detail into our story-lines.

Wednesday 26th November

In todays lessons, we managed to get alot of our main research done for our project. We had another group meeting this morning to discuss what we was going to do in the 4 lessons we had. We were each set differant tasks at the start of the lessons to do with the codes and conventions of soap, i concentrated my research on the themes and issues delt with in soaps, and had it finished by the end of 3rd lesson, Hollie did the setting, which she also finsihed by around the same time. Keeley did the narrative and Sofia worked on the characeters.
I also finished my research for BBC Two and ITV 1 which means i have two more channels left to research before i make a decsion on the best channel to put our soap on.

Project Diary

24th November

In todays lesson which consisted of 3 hours, we were first given verbal guidance on which is the best way to set out our plan, so we could crack on with it. 

We got into our groups and Me Hollie, Keeley and Sofia came up with our project plans and developed dates which were suitable for when the tasks should be finished by. We found it difficult at first to get our heads round what we had to include, how much time we should spend on each task and also what our plan should consist of. We had a rough plan by the end that we will copy up and hand in by Wednesday 26th November. We carried on with our research of different channels with Miss Barnett, and i near enough have finished BBC One and Two, just need to add pictures to my work on BBC Two and it is finished. I feel my work so far is going well, and i am concentrating more on what i need to do before i can even touch a camera.

Welcome

Hi Adam

Welcome to the wonderful world of blogging. This is now going to be an essential part of the diploma and where some of your assessment will be done. It is really important that you use this blog to keep a record of work and of evaluation during the course. I will be using it to keep an eye on you.
Miss L