Firstly, my preliminary task was to create a scene where someone walks into a room, sits down and has a conversation. My Partner for this was Chris Mitsinga. The main type of research in which we looked at before making our preliminary task was researching what other people had done in different schools in the country to know the expectations we should be meeting or doing better. By watching other groups do their preliminary task it gave us the idea to do a job interview based scene. This was because we didn't seem to find any job interviews type video so we though that would be a great topic to do our preliminary task on because it was something different to what we had seen other do which was
our objective. The planning procedure in which we too which helped us get a clear idea on what camera shot/angle and movement to use, the length of the scene and who was in it, we did a storyboard to help us structure our work. Doing the storyboard didn't take as much time as we expected because through our research we basically outlined what we was going to do so when we were doing our storyboard it was a really quick procedure. Now moving on to talk about my main task in which me, Fabio and Myles had done. For our main task we had to film a 2 minute opening sequence with the theme being British social realism.
Our story line is based on a smart and upper class kid who choose the wrong path ad begins to take cocaine with the drug addict that is already in the scene. Our two main protagonists in our opening sequence are called Edward and Bailee who are played by Fabio Fernandes and Omario Morris. The main type of research in which we did which helped us with coming up with your story line was from watching Trainspotting and Fish Tank. We thought that bringing in two films and mixing up their story line would help make our film that much different which would make our target audience of 16-24 year olds more engaged with what our opening sequence is about. A weakness from watching these movies as our example is that we struggled to find the movie to watch so we started to watch clips until we managed to get a hand on both of the movies. However, a strength from watching these movies is that it had made our process of planning and researching becoming a lot quicker and easier to do.
Digital Technology for both Preliminary and Main Task
The main digital technology in which we used for both my preliminary and main task is a camera where we recorded some scenes for both task.s This was a useful resource because in my preliminary task me and Chris already knew how to use the camera as we used it previously so it was easy for us to know the basics. This leads to a strength on my behalf when it came to doing my preliminary and main task in Media because i already knew how to use a camera so it allowed me to teach my group members how to use it and how to follow some rules such as the 180 degree rule. However, talking about the disadvantages, a disadvantage of using a camera was that the battery pack was really weak so it continuously kept dying and needing to charge every 10 minutes which was very frustrating for our entire group. However, a positive from using a camera was that it enabled us to try a new and variety of handheld shots which helped us to make our scene seem more realistic.
Creativity for both Preliminary and Main Task
In my opinion, I think that creativity from all of my group members was the key to our success of producing a good two minute opening sequence for our target audience of 16-24 year olds. The storyboard in which we had created which had helped us to outline what exactly we was going to do. On our storyboard i decided to get very creative with the drawings of what we wanted the scene to look like. I did this so that my storyboard could stand out and so my group members could see what my view on what that scene would look like which we had used in the end. The scene was within the firts 30 seconds when you see Omario walking down the corridor and telling Fabio (Edward) to come for drugs after getting told off by his teacher. I chose this scene in particular to be creative the most on because i felt that this scene brings the whole story line as a whole and begins to show a big difference between the two protagonists of Bailee and Edward. However, my other two group members Myles and Fabio got creative at the scenes towards the end this was because i suggested that we should make our ending the most appealing scenes at all so we could set that cliffhanger feeling to our audience which we hope will make our target audience engage and be appealed to wanting to watch our British social realism film as soon as possible. From this i had learnt more and more ways i could become creative to enhance the original standards from my work that i do.
Post-Production for both Preliminary and Main Task
In our post-production period myself and my group mainly focused on using a software Final Cut Pro to ensure our opening sequence was to the best standard that we could possibly want. We seemed to have multiple issues throughout the period of using Final Cut Pro, this was because it kept freezing on us which led to us having to re upload our clips and edit again which we found annoying. It didn't happen to us often but it was very annoying when it did. Also, we had to deal with removing other clips which were uploaded of previous groups work which had taken up a lot of our time because there were over a 50 clips to sort out of previous groups. Although i had learnt to be more patient when it comes to finalising our work because i tend to want it done ASAP and try to avoid any problems which could lose us time which at that point i had no control over but know i realise that there will always be challenges in the process of finalising random pieces of work.
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