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.