Commission Unit: Business Project Editing

Today myself, Sam Wilder and Sam Ellis started to edit our business project. We finished our first rough edit around 4 o'clock where we altered the sound, separated the interview and cut other establishing shots to fit into the interview to separate the sequences.

Commission Unit: Idea

My idea for the Commission unit is to do a documentary on the aftermath of pop star who has just won a TV   Talent show. This will obviously be a fiction documentary but will entail the story of how and ordinary member of the public has reached stardom though a television show. I got my inspiration from watching a documentary about X-Factor winner Matt Cardle called "Matt Cardle into the light" which shows Matt's life after the X-factor and production on his first album. My Documentary will be similar to this and with planning and a good pitch this may turn out very well.

Commision Unit: Filming at Grinning Demon

On Friday myself, Sam Wilder and Sam Ellis set out to Maidstone town centre to film interviews for the business project we were set. We decided to go to Grinning Demon - a comic book store for our interview, where we met Graham who runs the shop. He was very helpful and answered all of our questions on business in Maidstone as he has actually runs an on-line chat show for the store. He has also done this sort of thing with other uca students so knew exactly what he was doing. He was so helpful and gave such an in-depth interview that we decided to do the whole documentary on him and the store. We got some good shots and some interesting questions and answers were included in the interview. Overall our group believed that we got some good footage and are very pleased on how things turned out with our interview and found this an enjoyable experience!

Narrative and Genre Unit: Magnificent 7

On Wednesday we learnt about the "Magnificent 7". The "Magnificent 7" comes from Christopher Booker who argues that all stories can be broken down into 7 main plots: Tragedy, Comedy, Overcoming the monster, Voyage and return, Quest, Rags to Riches and Rebirth. I looked through these different plots and tried to find which one is the one most linked to "Death Note" but I then realised that "Death Note" falls into two different categories. The plot of "Death Note" is both Quest and Rebirth. The Quest in "Death Note" is Light Yagami's vision of justice and how he goes about achieving it and the Rebirth is how at the start of the film he starts off as a Law student who abides by the rules to someone who kills criminals because the world is "unclean" and breaks the law becoming someone totally different to who he is in the end.

Commission Unit: Business Project

Today myself, Sam Wilder and Sam Ellis went around Maidstone town centre to ask small independent businesses if we could interview them for our business project. Our first stop was at the comic book store "Grinning Demon" which gladly agreed to let us interview them on Friday. Our next stop was the "Cornish Pasty company" who said we had to phone the manager for permission to interview. Our next two stops were at "Harlyquinn Fancy Dress Shop" and a pawn brokers who both gave similar responses which were that they would gladly give an interview if they weren't busy on said day. The Last place we visited was a shop called "Music Matters" which said that they weren't able to film on Friday but any other day would be fine as long as we phone before hand. We decided that we would narrow it down to two different store on the day of filming.

Narrative and Genre Unit: Reasearch

 

The Film which I am going to use as an example for my Narrative and Genre Unit is a Japanese cult film called "Death Note". It entails a young college student who plays god when he finds a notebook that when a persons name is written in it they will die from a heart attack within 40 seconds. Light Yagami (the main character) uses this notebook to kill off criminals worldwide, but special investigator L who has never left a case unsolved is hot on his tail. The film questions the audiences morality when the film asks what is justice?

The reason why I have chosen this film is because it shows how the main character changes from a normal college student to a villainous mass murderer and in some ways turns the audience against against him he is very much an anti-hero in the way he'll do anything reach his goal even if it means killing innocent people. The opposing character L becomes more of an opposite to Light but is fighting for his way of justice, when he uses extreme and questionable methods but is always able to find an answer.

The Genre of the film is a supernatural, detective-drama which is a genre which is not often touched upon yet  certain elements and codes and conventions leads us to believe that it does suit these genres.

Direction Unit: my finished piece

On Sunday I finally finished my episode of Park Story. It has been uploaded to the dedicated channel where all the other finished products are uploaded. Here is my finished piece I hope you enjoy it!

Direction Unit: Acting like a Bum!

Today I was acting as a tramp in Tory's episode of park story. Tory's theme was bitter and her prop was hat. On set I had to act very hostile towards a business woman who in the end gives my character £5, to which he becomes overjoyed and happy with her donation. Dave was camera op and Gabby was playing the role of the business woman. It was really fun being on set as a hobo and Tory directed and took charge of her crew very well, she was well planned and knew what she wanted from her shots.

Direction Unit: Title Sequence

Yesterday my peers and I gathered to discuss the title sequence for Park Story. Together we put forward ideas and discussed what would be appropriate and what we all wanted to see. We looked at several different title sequences from different TV shows however because all of our episodes carried different messages and genres, and the sequences we were looking at had the same genre throughout the series and carried mostly the same message it was hard to find something which would inspire us. However after looking through our ideas and putting together some existing footage we made a title sequence which looked quite professional. This is only a rough draft however we are showing progress title sequence wise!