Visit to CLC

Yesterday, 24/11, my entire media class took a trip to central enfield's city learning centre were our intention was to learn about how to create a website for our soap. Before this trip, we had to research in depth what other tv soap opera's consider on their website; the kind of things posted by the soaps that attracts the audience to revisit the website and also what makes it successful. My group and I decided to research into different websites; this decision was made because we strongly thought that if we get information from different sources, it would help boost our knowledge about soap websites and we could use some of the ideas from their websites ( not coping them but mixing the kind of elements published on the websites and giving it a twist with our own ideas) This process was quite successful as we all know what conventional elements are published on the websites of soap operas. But on the other hand, we could have improved this task well by discussing the results that we got after we analysed the websites.

The visit to the CLC thought me alot personally , it gave me the opportunity to attain the ability to use "Iweb" (application for creating a website). I also learnt about the features of "Iweb" and when and how to use it. Hopefully, this technique that I have learnt will benefit me and my group by making use more creative.
In addition, we was also thought how to create a flash game using images of characters in our soap; and many other games. This could perhaps be an option that we could use on our website. Me and my group also the chance to create a "draft" of our website; which was done in the process of learning how to use the software. This process was successful as we experimented with various functions of the software and finally concluded with a great outcome.

In conclusion, I strongly believe that the trip to the CLC help me and my group alot; it helped us boost our confidence on how to use the software, how to create the things that we wanted to use such as hyperlinks, import images form the internet to iphotos then iweb. Initially I found this procedure very difficult as I had never used Imac.
But the trip helped me acquire the basic skills that I need to help make my project successful.

Location Recce

Below I have listed all the locations that we have chosen as group to film our scenes. We choose to film at these locations because we feel these places are going to be suitable for our trailers.

School Hall: We feel that this is going to be a really good location to film our wedding scene because this place is spacious and it will definitely look like a wedding scene when we work on the mise en scene and have all the extras characters on set.

The school hall is a good location because it will be one of the places in the film where the wedding scene is going to be filmed as this scene is really important in our trailer it’s going to produce the dramatic actions, also we could use the piano for diagetic music.

We are also going to use on the classes in school and the science corridor stairs. The scene we are going to film in the class will lead to the revenge scene at the stairs were a student is going to be pushed down the stairs. We feel this location is suitable because filming in a school would interest our young audiences and the actions will be realistic and believable because the narratives we are working with are real and these things happen at least to some children in school.

There are a few more other locations which we had planned to film but due to short time we were unable to visit them to see the risks and how we could prevent those risks.



Written By Prince Gonzo

Risk Assessment

Location: School Assembly Hall

HAZARDS
Students and teachers walking by talking.
Visitors coming to observe the sight.

PROCEDURES
They could easily disturb our work as we only have limited time to film in that location.
They could delay and disrupt our schedule.

WAYS TO AVOID HAZARDS
Stop filming when students are changing lessons or if many people are walking in the corridor.

HAZARDS
Dangerous Steps We could easily fall down because there is a long distance between the steps to get to the actual stage which we will be filming on.

PRODUCERS
Be careful and watch our steps when walking to avoid tripping and possibly injure ourselves.

HAZARDS
Dropping The Camera

PRODUCERS
We can easily drop our equipment

WAYS TO AVOID HAZARDS
Make sure the camera and all filming equipment is held with care and is protected in its case.

HAZARDS
Extras not knowing what to do.

PRODUCERS
Ensure each person on the scene has a look at the storyboards or the scripts in order for each person to know exactly what we are aiming to show

WAYS TO AVOID
Include only characters that are going to be valid on the scene and no suspectors

Analysis of filming scenes

In the pic above, Barbara is Prince's mother, Displeased at the marriage
Prince in the middle is happy to be beside his bride, avoiding his mothers angry face
and hoping it can change.
I am more happy but yet serious at the same time because i am serious about getting through this wedding, but at the same time, i feel outcasted by Barbara.

By putting Prince in the middle, this enables him to be the main focus. Alongside with his mother and bride on both his sides, it almost gives the effect of a "make your decision now", tie where he cannot escape.



Above> Form we had to fill out to use the hall space.

We explored the backgrounds and when we eventually found a perfect setting we were pleased to use it and had to fill out a specific form in school to make sure that this date was only available for us. Below is another pic of the background alongside with Prince and Anna {best woman}, as you can see she is wearing black and red signifying the danger coming up. :)

COMMENTS NEEDED

Hey Prince & Barbara,

Im sorry I couldn't come today, I wasn't feeling well,
I think our wedding scene was successful but ive seen it twice now and we really do need to make A LOT of changes, many of the scenes the background was pretty bad and in some, the characters were laughing. We did have a lot of Outtakes :P
But apart from that. We need to initiate a date when we can start filming The Asian family at dinner and also set a date when we can start our editing process for the wedding scene because we need extra time to actually cut out and edit most of it. We need to understand the Mac's editing process and make sure that we make some scenes in slow motion, change the colours? or perhaps just add more emphasise and make sure that it comes out look extremely good.

Thanks for yesterday, was a good filming experience.
Speak soon

Script.

Priest:

Dearly Beloved, we are gathered together here in the sign of God – and in the face of this company – to join together this man and this woman in holy matrimony, which is commended to be honorable among all men;

Therefore – is not by any – to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly – but reverently, discreetly, advisedly and solemnly. Into this holy estate these two persons present now come to be joined. If any person can show just cause why they may not be joined together – let them speak now or forever hold their peace.

{When the last sentence is said, this is when Barbara makes an appearance}

However, alterations had to be made, Hassan made it shorter because as we were filming we realised that our scenes would be extremely short and his speech would be cut off

Barbara {Prince's Mother}


"I can't believe you chose that white trash. Your Father would be so ashamed of you"

Choosing Characters> Changed.

After our last list, some people could not make it therefore we had to improvise and find new characters. Those were here as follows:

* Me {Yana Kudrjashova}, Bride of Prince.

* Prince {Groom}

* Andreas & Rosie [Yana's Father & Mother}

* Barbara {Prince's Mother}

* Anna Philona-Runaway, who finds out she has a tumour/best friend of bride {yana}

*Dervish- Helped out with taking pictures and was partly a camerman.]

*Cameron, Mitesh, Bukky, Anna, Esther were all part of the audience

* Ali- is our driver for the end of our trailer/cameraman

* Pedro could not make it, so Hassan shown above, was our priest.

* Usman Priya {below}Usman and Priya starred in our wedding scene, they were in the background as the audience also are in this to be portrayed as the asian couple in this soap.

Also shown is Daniel standing near Prince {both in black suits}, He is Prince's BEST MAN.