Task 2

- Identify your audience
- Determine what you are trying to tell
- Story needs to be interesting and creative
- Needs to have a clear objective
- Come up with a proposal/treatment
- Come up with a storyboard including a beginning, middle and end (Equilibream)
- Mood/Genre examples comedy, horror
- How will the acting convey the feeling
- Mood board
- Mise-en-scene/props/settings/style
- Narrative structure, linear/non-linear
- Shot list what camera shots are going to be used
- Camera angles
- Location list (find places other than school to shoot it)
- Shooting schedule
- Equipments/sound/lighting required
- May need to do a risk assessment (the risks of shooting where you did)
- Budget what are the costs
- Time line (start date and end date)
- NEED TO WRITE DOWN WHAT WE DID EACH LESSON

Diary entries

15/11/12
This week we made a prezi which we then presented in class. This prezi included information about our audience, our proposal and what the story is truing to tell. It also included our mood board which included images associated with our story. We also showed our logo which we may have to re-design as it needs to be more eye catching so it is more noticeable.

22/11/12

This week I made the layout for the story and I wrote it above. Our group then gave each other tasks to complete and my task was to do the storyboard. I started the storyboard and completed some of the pictures. The other people in my group completed the genre and mood of the film and the risk assessment. We also done the shooting schedule and agreed on a date to start filming our short 1 min film.

29/11/12
This week I finished off the storyboard and put it on my blog. I then shared it with the rest of my group and they gave me their work which included the mise-en-scene, risk assessment and the shooting schedule. We then discussed the location for our one minute film and when we are ready to start shooting.

6/12/12
We looked at example blogs to see how to structure our blogs. This gave me the idea of adding images to some of my work and also gave me the idea of separating my work in to paragraphs to make it look less than an essay and more easier to read

13/12/12
This week I added some of the work that was previously not on my blog such as the prezi to do with the camera shots and angles.

20/12/12
I added the last things that were needed on my blogger and finished off anything that was left to work on. I also checked off everything that was on my checklist to make sure everyhthing is completed.

10/01/13
This week we made sure everyhting was completed on pre production work for our single camera production. We also finally solved the running disputes that were going through our group to do with the logo as we finally completed it. This problem was solved as we all agreed with the new style.

17/01/13
For the first two lessons of this week I had an exam which meant that I was not there when my group started to film the introduction scenes to the single camera production. However I was able to join in to the editing of the footage after my exam.

24/01/13
In this week my group started the filming for the single camera production. We were also able to finish the production in this week also. My group had to walk from the school to our shooting areas where we filmed the footage that we needed to make the production. When we came back we were able to add the footage to the previous ones that we had filmed.

31/01/13
This week we edited all the filming that we done for our single camera production. We added all the clips that were needed and croped them to the releavent bits. We also needed to record some audio bits which we did not have time to add that week.

07/02/13
We finished off the last bits of editing this week. This included adding the audio bits that we made last week and finished off any outstanding work on the blogger.

The plot of our story is:

Beginning - After a party, the host is relaxing after a crazy night and is watching TV. He gets a phone call and when  which scares him as it is late at night. He walks around his house scared looking around like he is worried.

Middle - The doorbell rings and he is scared. He gets a weapon and slowly walks to his door and opens it thinking it is the person who threatened him on his phone. When he opens it he finds a little child who is trick treating.

End - He recognises the kid and is confused. He then goes to give the kid some sweets when he is pranked by the kid and then his friends come running out revealing it all to be a prank.

The story follows todorovs theory which is equilibrium. It starts of with a normal state when the main character is relaxing, and then it goes bad when he receives the phone call and finally it turns good again when the whole thing is shown to be a prank.

Storyboard 

Shooting Schedule

Date	Location	Cast/ Crew	Props	Equipment
10/01/13 Start filming	Saiful’s house	Kashif is staring in the video	Cricket bat	Tripod
		Saiful is the camera man and editor	Rubber chicken	Camera
		Zuned is staring in the video	Casual clothes	I Mac
			Balloons	Editing software (Adobe Premiere)

Single camera production is a mode of production where only one camera is used at a time and the camera shots are done in the most efficient order. Also when the shot has started the camera is not to be moved so the actor must stay in the shot.
The camera can be put on a tripod to balance it so it can not be moved.
An advantage of of single camera production is that it is less time consuming as the camera man does not have to redo as many shots as there is less chance of getting a mistake. This is also because filming in single camera is easy as there is less movement.

Sci-fi - red dwarf

Red dwarf is a sci-fi comedy show which is shown on UK television. It is a very popular show with the fans and has been on everyones television sets for over 20 years.
It is about a man who works in a spacecraft but is frozen for over 3 million years in which all of his friends have died and is the only human left alive.
Since the show is of the sci-fi genre, most of the lighting is unnatural since they are aboard a spaceship and it is set in the future. This is done to make people believe that it is set in the future and in space.

The use of single camera techniques are shown as there is only one camera used and also the actors do not move from the camera shot while it is filming so they are available on the scene at a lot of the time. There are a variety of camera shots used including close ups, medium shots and long shots. This is to get the actors reactions to things happening in the scene.

Comedy - Not going out

A comedy show that uses single camera techniques is not going out. This show is about an unemployed man who lives with his land lady in a flat and gets into a lot of humourus situations which include his best friend.
The lighting that is generally used is natural but light as it is a comedy so the purpose of it is to keep people happy and entertained.

Single camera techniques are shown as when there is a conversation by two of the people, Then there is only one camera used and that camera does not move at any time as it only changes position after recording is stopped. This shows that it is single camera technique as the camera does not move during filming.
The sound used is mostly natural and they are also sounds that are funny such as dishes breaking. They also have some music while the scene is being changed. This music is light hearted and the instrument used is a saxophone. This is done as the show is a comedy so there is no need for any tense or serious music.

Crime - NCIS
A crime show that uses single camera techniques is NCIS. This show is about different detectives solving crimes to do with the navy and marine corps. This is shown to be a crime drama as there is a lot of twists and turns during the course of an episode which keeps viewers on the edge of their seats.
There is also some black and white footage which is a supposed stereotype of dramas which include detectives. There is a lot of different camera shots in this show and a lot of them use single camera techniques. Also in this show it sometimes shows the actor walking off the camera shot but the camera does not usually follow them.
There is some music that is played when there is no dialogue which is done to create suspense during the story.

Teen - The O.C
The O.C is a tv show that is directed at teenagers and also demonstrates the use of single camera techniques. This show is about a young man who becomes embroiled into the lives of a close knit neighbourhood.
This is very interesting to teenagers as a lot of the characters in the show are supposed to be teenagers so the target audience think that they can relate to their problems. The lighting used varies as it depends on how the mood is supposed to be for that scene.
Since a lot of filming is done on a beach, The weather can sometimes be used as a source of natural light. There is music that is played while the scenes are changing and it is usually music that shows the mood to be sad. Also there is sometimes music at the end of the episode while showing different characters. There are also some natural sounds on the show. The techniques used are to potray the tension of the characters as they show the emotions on the characters faces.

Period drama

Thriller

Single strand narrative
A single strand narrative is a story that is focused only on one character. This is usually done by companies who have a low budget. However there are some movies that have done this such as spiderman or bruce almighty. In these films the story is focused on the central character and there are no sub plots.

Multi strand narrative
A multi strand narrative is a story that is focused on many of the characters. This is done in a lot of tv sitcoms. Example of this can include Friends and X men. This is because their are many different storylines inside the program which is not focused on one or two characters and involves others. This is what most soap operas use.

Linear and non-linear
A linear narrative is a story that is in chronological order meaning that it is shown exactly how it happened. This is used for most forms of media and is the most orthadox way of showing a movie or televison shows.
Non-linear narrative is a story that is shown in non chronological order. This means that it is muddled up which may mean that it shows the ending first and then the begining. This is an unorthadox way of showing a story as it may be confusing to viewers. An example of a tv show that does thiss is how i met your mother. This is shown as the father tells his kids the story in the beginning of every episode and the rest of the show is meant to be a flashback.

Todorovs theory
Tzevetan Todorov is a philisopher from Bulgaria. He said that the conventianal narrative structure has 5 different stages. These are:

Stage 1 - A state of equilibrium is defined.
Stage 2 - Disruption to the equilibrium by some action or crisis

Stage 3 - The Character(s) recognition that there has been a disruption, setting goals to resolve problem.

Stage 4 - The characters attempt to repair the disruption, obstacles need to be overcome to restore order
Stage 5 - Reinstatement to the equilibriam. The situation is resolved, a conclusion is announced.