Major Production: Script Changes

In my most recent tutorial with Helen, we were discussing the scripts and both agreed that 1 minute shorts were too short to get the story across meaning that certain endings are lacking and not as funny. So instead of doing 15 1-minute shorts I will be doing 5 3-minute shorts instead, which meant that I had to cut 5 of the 10 scripts which I already drafted and extend the other 5 so that they can meet the 3 minute mark. So far I have extended 1 of the 5 scripts and plan to expand the rest by the end of the week, so I can e-mail them off to Calum (the actor playing Liam).

Now that I am able to extend the story to fit into 3 minutes, I can now take examples from other youtubers who release sketches on a regular basis. At first I was only taking examples from hit youtubers Smosh but now I am taking examples from other youtubers such as Rhett and Link, Tomska, Corridor Digital and Shane Dawson who all release videos and sketches lasting around 3 minutes. Below is a video by Tomska, it's a sketch called the Fallen, I am using it as an example as it has the same humor pattern which I want to replicate in a way.

The After Effects Workshop

On Wednesday myself and a couple of other students went to an After Effects workshop held by Simon Holland at Rochester Campus. In this workshop we learnt some of the basic mechanics of the After Effects software such as moving and layering pictures and items. I found this quite helpful and adjusted to it very quickly due to it being very similar to Adobe Photoshop which I used to use quite often in Sixth Form. I do plan on using these skills in some of my future projects which is why I also feel that I need to learn more about the software and how to use it.

Major Production: Scripting

Over the past couple of weeks I have been scripting episodes of Gullible. So far I have scripted 8 episodes and episodes 9 and 10 should be scripted by the end of tomorrow. The episode titles for the 8 which have been scripted are: Holy Water, Helmets, Pigs on film, Milk feels pain, Narnia, The 5th Side, The signs, and Dracula's castle. Since I started scripting I have also come up with names of the two characters. Before hand they had no names and were known as the Compulsive Liar and the Gullible Idiot, now they are known as Liam (The Compulsive Liar) and Gulliver (The Gullible Idiot), I decided on these names because they sound so similar to the main personalities of their characters.

Professional Practice: Organising an Interview

As a group Me, Jamie and Tory decided that we will develop 3 additional videos for The Social Event to actually count to our professional practice. One video will be an interview with one of the Organisers Nick. An interview with an organiser would make for a great insight to how the event was decided upon and some inside decisions that people may not have heard about.
On the Friday I did try to organise an interview with him but he texted me to say that he will be away for a week and will be back on the 14th of October. Although I'm disappointed that I didn't get an interview I also have to plan ahead and ask for an interview the moment he is free and back in the studios.
The Main video will last about about 3-4 minutes whilst the 3 smaller ones will last about 1 minute and a half.

Major Production: Searching for actors

A week ago I sent out a casting call for the role of the Compulsive Liar for my project Gullible. So far I have received 10 or so applications for the part so I have to decide on who I want to play the part and why. I have already decided who I want to play the role of the Gullible Idiot so that shouldn't be a problem. Within the next few days I plan to whittle down my ten applicants to 1 who will be playing the part in my production.  

Professional Practice: Filming The Social

On the 28th of September myself, Jamie and Tory filmed the social event for our professional practice. We were assisted by some of the first years and another second year. During this event I filmed the amusements, atmosphere and a couple of interviews whilst the others got footage of the acts on stage at different angles. One of the main things that I filmed amusement wise was the ferris wheel. I filmed this at three different times in the day, in the morning, at sunset and at night, I felt that this would be a good way to show how the festival changes throughout the day.
However I felt that at the start of the day was pretty slow as not many people were around at the start of the day which made it hard to get the full atmosphere across on camera but fortunately by 14:30 the festival really picked up and I was able to get some amazing shots which I thought would fit well with the music in the edit.
Throughout the day I was always thinking about what shots would fit well with the edit and how I could get the atmosphere and fun across. I think the only issue that I came across was during the interviews. Most people were uneasy about being on camera but the ones who weren't were not giving great answers. In total I was able to get one or two usable interviews but alot of good shots in my opinion. I will see how well it goes in the edit though!