location shots

We only have an simple and a few images of our chosen locations but in the half time I plan to go to some of these locations to take shots for example, I can easily get pictures of the boat house in Birkenhead where as it's slightly harder for me to go to Newbrighton to take shots of some of the locations as it's quite hard to get over there and out of my way so that is where the group work comes into it. Lucy, Rhyce and Kayleigh can take shots of NewBrighton where they live and I can do Birkenhead shots. 

second meeting

We held a group meeting to discuss more planning and decided our song choice to create our video so at least we have this sorted. We also have now nearly completed our story board and can continue to adjust and change this in the future for any adjustments we make to the actual video which we haven't added to our story board.

We then decided and arranged our places to shoot and take pictures of our chosen locations. we will be filming at different times in the day so need to be aware of how each location looks at different times of the day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93ASUImTedo

This is the song we have chosen to do and it is a love song. A song about someone really loving someone. Never wanting to let that person go. Knowing you have the ability to help that someone knock down their walls. knowing you have the ability to help them and make them happy if only they would let you. Knowing you could love them unconditionally if you could just "latch on to their love".

We have chosen to do this song simply because we all like this song and feel we can produce a good story behind the song.

first meeting

In our meeting today, as a group we decided and created our group logo style and our company name. In the next session we plan to decide what song/music video we are going to concentrate on. Hopefully, once we have done this, then we can start drawing and writing out our storyboard in order to get closer to the start draft of filming.  

We decided to call our company 'KKRL'. We thought this suited our group best as we was running out of time to think of a company name and it represents each member in our groups first name.
Kirstie
Kayleigh
Rhyce
Lucy.
This shows that everyone in the group have full involvement and contribution when it came to a company logo and name. 

5-group meetings

We have chosen to hold our meetings on a Monday morning in the common room when it is empty. We have chosen to do it on a Monday because it is a fresh week and reminds us how much time we have left till the deadline. These meetings will help us recap on our progress, help push each on if we are behind time and plan ahead for what we are next going to do in the future weeks.

4. roles within the group

Deciding our roles was fairly easy due to each others strengths within the group. My role is to be a director as i'm very bossy but also like to give advice when it comes to filming. I will also be in charge of the props. Each one of the four of us in my group will have a part in the music video when we get round to planning that.

Lucy is going to be in charge of the costumes used, the location set. Rhyce is going to be the camera man and kayleigh is going to be the post production. Kayleigh will also be the main actor along with me, Lucy and Rhyce all filling in the other roles needed. We have chosen Kayleigh as our main actor due to her confidence in front of the camera and is not shy to over perform. 

2. Coursework brief

As a group, we sat down and had the discussion that we wanted to do either brief one or two as both of which looked fun. Either the music video or the film trailer. We came to the conclusion to do the music video as we had that we wouldn't be the best actors for the film trailer and not many of us had much experience in drama. We chose to do the music video as the process to create it will be fun as we go along. We are also big fans of pop music and have seen many videos which will help when re creating ours.

1. deciding on our groups

As a class, we decided who were going to work with who. In my group there is me, Lucy Skeggs, Rhyce Galer and Kayleigh Allen. I believe working with these people brings out the best in me and feel that we all have different strengths and skills to bring to the group.

Brief 3)

Brief 3 is all about creating an advertisement for a new product, so for this, I had to research many different adverts, compare them to one another and decide which one would be easiest ro re-create.

First of all, I looked at the haribo advert which is shown alot on my television. This one looks very simple to do, only requiring 6 people wearing smart buisness clothes with the props being a bag of haribo and the location being set in a buisness/meeting room. To recreate this, I would just use 6 people from my sixthform who have to wear smart wear anyway and then use a meeting room in the sixthform building to match the location of the ad.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9scm3NCIH_E

Loreal paris true match foundation: This advert is again, rather simple as only one person is involved with a face of makeup standing there looking pretty. The camera angle always uses a closeup shot to show the detail to reach the target audience for this advert and for this advert, the audience is those interested in their skin and tose who wear makeup themselves. Not many effects are involved in this so creating this advert again to this level of standard shouldn't be too complicated due to the time period it would take to do it in as it would not take long.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNkHHUBUYnw

The last advert I looked at was the Nike advert. This advert goes on for 4 minutes so would take a lot of time to re create this. The first part of the advert starts on a grass pitch, similiar to our school football pitch with an 11 vs 11 setup of players who all transform into main footballers such as Ronaldo, Neymar and Rooney. The next part of the advert then moves on to a football stadium with thousands of fans in the chairs which then put me kff the idea of re creating this sdvert due to how hard it would be and where would I get that many people from. This is when I realised that this type of advet could not be peformed by me due to its complesity.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3XviR7esUvo

Brief 2)

Brief 2 is looking slightly appealing to me due to its not overly complicated task. Basically, you have to create a film trailer for any type of film genre and there are many to choose from but must take into consideration whats behind them all, the length of time they would take to be re created and the effects used throught the trailer.

Starting off with horror, my favourite of all movie genres, some can be simple but some can be really complex.
HORROR

SAW 1: This film is a complete no no due to its props and effects used. This is one of the more gorey programmes with lots of blood and death involved. Some of the props used are things like metal head traps, similar to a bear trap but for the head, lots of chains, hooks under the skin, gas, a video recorder, a hacksaw and many many more items used to bring lots of pain to the victim. Each film used different locations throughout and for every person involved, say there was like main characters, then they would make these characters complete a task in a new room every time so the location would be very hard to match the movie. Lastly the effects used, were incredible and I also couldn't match this because they wanted to give us full detail of each victims killings, blood everywhere, flashing lights and many other different type of affects.
https://m.youtube.com/results?q=saw%201%20movie%20trailer&sm=1

The second film trailer I researched was Annabelle, this was pretty simple and I think I would have a good go at re doing this simply because Not many effects were involved, maybe a few flashing lights which could be done using the drama studio at school. Then there was the location, which was just set in one house and lastly the main prop used was a big doll. This would be easy to get a hold of and I think that I would lean towards this film to recreate.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh_5zY42zJw

The last film I researched was 'The Exorcist'. This is to complicated when looking at the effects side of things. Again, much blood is involved and the many throwing of people is involved. Also, the main girl involved 'emily' floats off the bed, runs down the stairs backwards in an all fours position and at the beginning off the film, her and the bed shakes, so we would need to some good resources and programmes if we were to recreate this films effects. Next is the location, it varies from the film being set in a house, to a doctors room, to a churce to a meeting room. The only simple thing really in this film would be the props, so a small cross used by the pirest to try and get the devil out of Emily, a bed, and a needle used by the doctor.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YDGw1MTEe9k

COMEDY:

Project X: After watching this film, it is my favourite comedy out there but to re create this is more a less impossible. The film is one big house party which gets out of hand, things included in this film are the partiers locking a dwarf in an oven, robbing ecstasy from a neighbour, tazaring neighbours, driving the parents car into the swimming pool ect. The house which this film is set in is similar to a mansion along with all the neighbours on a large street. Too many people are involved in this also because they go to school/college and the super market to tell people about there party and to go along to it. The effects used are amazing and would be very hard to create this movie with the effects, from the lighting used.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c2fsYheE1yY

TED: This is a movie I would look into doing. It looks fun to recreate and is quite basic, Ted (the teddy bear) is the main prop used by the son whose teddy bear this belongs to. Ted is also a character involved too. At near enough every scene, not many people are involved which is why I think this would be easier to do than a movie which involved too many people because thats when things start to get complicated. The effects used are very basic and it remains in natural lighting apart from mid way through the movie when a flash of lightening is created. The location is mianly in the house so if we were to create this in our group, we would all need to set a time and date to meet at ones house to use for the location.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8YBlnHxkCJc