REMINDER: COMMENT EACH POSTS PLEASE

Hi, guys this jus a post to remind eahter other that everytime someone posts a newpost we all have to contribute by commenting, saying weather we agree or if there is anything we could change or improve on this will help us produce better work as a whole group effort.

Although we have done excetpionally well with completing the filming and editing i have to say that we have many posts that have no comments on them so could we please just take time to comment on each post we post up please.

Extras comment in individual blogs!

Equipment Used

Above is an image annotated explaining all the purpose for equipment we used.

Finall Trailerrrr yaaay

Yay we are finally done,
must say music is really nice :P

Feedback

Recent article has shown that Soap operas are becoming an educating part of society.

They have vital functions as they provide a helpline and an educational message to people from different races, ethnicities, sexes and ages.

I think this was clearly communicated within our trailer,
we dealt with issues of age, race clash of ethnicity.

Although its less than 2 mins, I believe we have performed well in terms of putting everything together :)

Current Process.

We have now finished editing.



Currrently we're working on our website using iWeb.



Also each group member is working on their own individual poster for our trailer.

TECHNICAL DIFFICULTY

Due to technical difficulty and not being able to open our project on a specific Mac, we have decided to start from scratch again, although this is a major disappointment as we were so close to finishing everything we have done.

However, bearing in mind that I remember most of the scenes means that hopefully rebuilding our frames will be more easier.

From this experience, I have learnt that trusting one Mac and putting all the information into it is not enough, therefore saving it on a numerous source or by using USB and all sorts of other methods to back up the work is EXTREMELY important.

Now due to the Mac not accepting my login I cannot access our nearly completely work, so have to start again.

Not only has this affected our work, it has also meant that we are even more pushed to our limit to finish this off as soon as possible

Dramatic Changes To Trailer

Dramatic Changes To Trailer have been made due to lack of time, resources and props.

However, our new pitch has a twist, which links in with our group's trailer title.

Due to the shortage of time, we have devised a different scenario for our trailer.

We decided to contrast race through 2 storylines, the first, containing the 'wedding scene' and the second dealing with a bullying issue within the school.

This was achieved by asking peer members to act for us therefore the Asian scene has been dropped.

It was not only hard to find free time with certain people but also we were confused as to how to put an Asian scene together in terms of props and making it as realistic as possible.

Being found in a school enviroment we therefore proposed the idea of a school-involved storyline, bullying being the main issue, I think this has so far been succesfful as we are happy with our shots and with the messages of exclusion that bullies create, so that we can set new morals for audiences and let victims be in more advantage of speaking out.

By using the usual conventions of soap operas, we have decided to blend in those 2 scenes together to reinforce the flow of a soap opera by running concurrent storylines at the same time thus forcing audiences to follow along smoothly.

Production Meeting

Production Meeting 13/01/10 09:56am
Absent: None
Apologies: None

Topics: Casting, Job Allocations and Reasons
Prince: Chair man and Actor
We need Prince and Yana to be the main actors in the film as we combined their ideas in the main treatment.


Barbra: Actor
I feel that Barbra would be the great character to as Prince’s mother in the wedding scene. Also we are going to consider using her ideas of her initial proposals and combine all our ideas and expand our original treatment

Prince: Director, Camera man and actor
Just like a business man I came up with optional ideas with backup plans. My treatment was written in depth with realistic ideas. When I showed my ideas to my group they were happy but they also had ideas of their own so we decided to combine all our ideas, we had too many ideas and this slowed us down because we couldn’t stick to the main ideas as most of all our ideas sounded well.

Yana: Producer Actor
Yana volunteered to become a camera woman and this was good because it gave us a chance to show and prove our different filming skills. The storyboards were done and the scripts were written when it came to filming it was easy but after we finished filming our wedding scene due to technical problems our work was lost so we had to re-film again and this was a lesson to be learnt. Save and backup your work.


We need at least two or more people who will be actors but also change to be camera men when the others are acting so that everyone gets a fair time in the film and also using the camera, I think this will be a good idea because we are making decisions as a whole group and we are all sharing ideas.



Written By Prince Gonzo

Next Steps

1) Complete our focus group questions and post the video onto blogger

2) Discuss the next plans to what we would like to communicate in our Asian Scene, set up props and find an available room to film. Book the room

3) Check our paperwork, example production schedules

4) Organise more meetings, so that we are more clear on what we would like to achieve.