Today
on a slow note, instead of meeting up in the usual room based in the Beacon
centre, we had to meet in the lecture theatre based in the Victoria building.
On a good day everyone arrives at 9.15 but because we had to move about we had
to wait even longer so that everyone would be present for what Jamie had to
say.
Jamie
commenced by giving targets which we have to work on completing in the next few
weeks.
Re-written from notepad
Targets
- · Drawing Qualification
- · Personal Statements
- · UCAS choices
- · Blogs
- · Personal direction leading to part 2
- · Visiting lecture series
- · Work experience
He then went
on to mentioning that there is a UCAS fair on the 27th , which I
really want to go to. I went last year and found it a big help on influencing
me on which university to choose from but I want to go again just to remind
myself what’s on offer. Jamie went on to say that when thinking of
universities, always ask yourself two things:
·
What do I want, areas of expertise
·
Where CAN I live
He said we really should think
about the location because that’s what will influence us in staying or leaving
a university. Jamie then handed out a couple of sheets which told us what’s on
offer over the next couple of weeks.
We finished off watching a video
that Aaron had recently finished making, it was a short documentary of Cape
Town and it was amazing in my opinion. It was really helpful to me as well
seeing as I am going to Tanzania in February and watching someone’s work similar to what I will
produce was helpful.
Now I was really focused on
moving forward with the three minute assignment as I am working around the area
that I think benefits me most. I thoroughly enjoy writing and creating drama’s,
so over the weekend I had wrote up some ideas which to pitch to my partner,
Lewis. I was aware Lewis was doing another assignment, recording a freak show
and didn’t have time to work on thinking of many feasible ideas for our
assignment. Unfortunately Lewis had to go and review other footage he had
gathered from the freak show so I only had a little amount of time to pitch
everything to him.
My ideas
Idea 1
A man
has lost his girlfriend/wife and is left alone to look after their child. He is
no help to the child as his depression is getting the better of him. He has a
watch that has been with him throughout his life; it has been broken due to an incident
with his wife. Whilst his child is crying his watch suddenly stars rewinding
and travels him back in time to before he lost her. Once he realises what is
happening he uses his new power to travel back and save his girlfriend from
dying but every time he goes back something bad happens.
Travel & incidents.
- · The week before she died, when they were last happy- notices he has this gift.
- · On their first date and breaks up with her- causes them to not have their child
- · Him dying instead of the wife- causes the women to go into deep depression
- · When she is in labour leaves them both- causes her to hate husband but she is happy with kid.
What I like about this idea the
most is that it can gain a lot of depth with a range of different types of
drama. Like death, lost hope,
desperation etc. And I love the idea of the butterfly effect- how one thing no
matter how small can change everything.
Idea 2
Do a
music video. I have worked on creating a music video before and I was really
impressed with the standard of the final product. Here is what I made last
time.
Idea 3
I know
this sounds daft but this idea is based on around a pen, I want to make the pen
be a symbol on the occupier of the pen. I got the idea from this clip.
Process
- · Pen enjoying itself, being used a lot, very happy. Occupier fairly young.
- · Pen starting to get less ink, get shaken about. Occupier slightly older
- · Pen stops working, get ignored for some time. Occupier much older
- · Pen is old and dusty. Out of ink, considered useless. Another person, different sex to notice, tries using the pen and throws it away.
- · Pen on the floor broken.
Idea 4
About a
father that is a drinker. And he basically just gets drunk. He bullies his
child, just picks on him for the sake of it but he thinks he does it for a good
reason, as if it is making him a stronger man. This is mainly going to be
thoughts aloud from the father character and it is the dialogue and camera work
that will make an impact on the audience. The main purpose for this project is
for me to improve my camera skills, technique and all.
Idea 5
The
narrative to this one is about a young teenager (preferably female) has a tough
life; her mother is bedridden and suffers from some illness and is also bullied
at school. We start off seeing this teenager sitting with her mum; she goes
into the bathroom where another person enters. The audience is meant to believe
this is another person like a friend or family member but it is really the
teens alter ego, she is so depressed and alone that she needs this person to
keep them going but the problem is this alter ego only likes to cause trouble
makes situations worse and teases her. On the way to school the teen gets
attacked and this is when we realised that the alter ego is an alter ego because after being attacked the alter ego hits the
bully but then it reveals that it was the teen all along. I got this idea from
a project I did at secondary school which was honestly very poor, in story and
acting so I want to have another go at it.
Idea 6
In my
spare time I have attempted to write up my own scripts for both film and
television dramas. My idea is to create an intro for one of my ideas, like
there is already a story been developed. The drama is based on three young
friends trying to make money but the best way is by crime seeing as they live
in a rough area. Each character is unique in their own way but it is more based
on one of the characters.
Idea 7
This idea
is another one of mine that I have written; the only problem is that the
original script was meant to be roughly 10 minutes long, so trying to condense
this would be very difficult.
The
story was about a teenage boy who loves with his sister, mum and bullying
step-father. The boy gets in trouble and has a fight with his stepfather but
because the mother is so scared of the stepdad that she throws out the teenage
boy. Whilst he is leaving he takes his sister because he is worried that the
stepdad is going to start hurting her, they sleep rough that night and in the
morning the boy drops his sister off at his friend’s house and then goes to get
high. The friend is aware of the situation and knows how bad the stepdad is but
doesn’t want to get involved so they ring the police; the boy arrives back at
the house just as the police pick up the sister. He is so broken up that he
curls up into a ball and weeps.
This is
only a rough explanation of that idea. I have already written up a script for
this but as I have noted previously I will have to condense it so it fits with
requirements of the brief.
Idea 8
The
story includes a three way crossover. Three people on the same day are having
the worst time of their lives and they end up crossing over, the story is all
about redemption, how there is always light in darkness.
- · Girl- has lost someone and is now all alone and isolated, want to die.
- · Driver- having serious trouble with wife leads him to drink drive.
- · Bully- breaks into a house and accidently hurts someone possibly kill them, can’t live with himself.
It is mainly going to be dialogue
from the girl. Her opinions and thoughts of how she is feeling and how the
other two feel similar. She goes on to say how peoples bad choices can be
rectified no matter what, it’s in that one moment that changes everything.
Lewis didn’t go into much detail
but he thinks the final idea could be best to do, it may be the most difficult
to achieve but could be really good. We will have to work in a lot of depth of
the narrative in more detail. Seeing as Lewis had to spend the rest of the day
looking over the footage I went off to think of how to improve the idea. During
this time Aaron Dunleavy offered me a role in his three minute assignment. We
have worked together before and know how to communicate well so I have no problem
working with him. He chooses me to be his writer and co-producer as I enjoy
those roles most. He also had two people I hadn’t worked with before which is
good, it allows me to get my own opinion of their work ethic, gives me an idea
if I want to work with them in the future. Aaron had a rough starting point for
his project but he wants me to go a try give it a better narrative.
Aaron initial idea
- Old woman - wealthy but lonely.
- She wants to do something meaningful before she passes.
- She writes her telephone number on a £5 note.
- Spends the note in hope of someone contacting her.
- We see the £5 passing through people's hands.
I will try to work on this tonight but i dont have much hope considering it is short notice.
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