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Week 10

Exam Pre Production – Peter Williams For my part in the pre-production I was the screenwriter, so it was my job to write out the script for the scene. This was challenging for me as I am not familiar with soap operas, therefore I decided to watch several episodes of 3 different soap operas, I noticed that it was common within all three to include romantic affairs between characters already in relationships with other people and that the setting was in a relatively normal town or city, there weren’t any major world changing events that had occurred. Just regular people going about their lives. Therefore, I decided to keep to the tradition of having an affair, except I added my own twist into it by making Faith a leading light in an unnamed crime family. The original script ended with Faith assuring her dominance over Jon by threatening to upload the video if he didn’t comply with her wishes, this script however, when acted out was three and a half minutes long and therefore, too s
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Week 8

This week we began to prepare for our final project, a 10-minute scene out of a soap opera. We had to choose 2 roles to do in the film. I chose to be the Scriptwriter and a Camera Operator which would be equivalent to eight out of ten points of responsibility and if it is required that I have ten points I will also act as a production Runner which is worth two points. Eventually we changed the point requirements so that each job was equivalent to five points, therefore I decided to drop the runner role and become the PA as that was a needed role and I didn't want to be standing around doing nothing for one half of the exam, this lead to the total role points I had increasing from thirteen to fifteen. I chose to be script writer because I have been interested in creating stories for a long time and have looked at doing it for a living. Script writers are in charge of writing the scripts for pieces of media such as television, Film Radio video games, etc. In many was the script
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Week 7

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  This week has been one of the harder weeks for our group, because we have to film three times instead of one, our project is a music video, today we recorded the studio sequence and this Saturday and next Tuesday we are recording rest of it on location. My job though this week was rather simple, I was the script supervisor so all I had to do was supervise the script, make sure everyone knew their lines and keep track of it  and make sure they didn’t forget their lines, I also had to read through the script after it was completed to check for errors. As the performance was a song however the singers knew the lines by heart fr om practicing, so I also helped out several people in the galley who were experiencing technical difficulties, The first two takes were ok, but by the third we began to go through some communication issues so we didn’t livestream the final take on Instagram as we planned to do at the beginning of the session, because we were worried it would all fall apart duri
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Week 6

This Week was reading week, so not much happened along the lines of creative studio.
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Week 5

So then, this week I volunteered to be one of two producers for this film, which was a cooking show. My job was rather simple, I had to arrange a meeting to go through and assign everyone else’s role last Monday, which we did with no trouble, after that I had to pick up the groceries for our meal, a peanut butter chocolate banana sandwich, the second producer had already acquired bananas with her weekly groceries so I all I had to get were the rest of the ingredients. Unfortunately, on our day of filming, the weather dropped to around -5 degrees Celsius with snow and because most people aren’t as hardy as us Canadians, almost a quarter of the class couldn’t make it to the session. Therefore, we had to divide their roles among us, so I became the operator of camera three. My camera’s job was to show each of the ingredients and follow our chief’s hands as he made the sandwich. Although that sounds rather easy, our chief kept moving his hands up and down as he cut the banana which led t
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Week 4

This week was pretty interesting because I chose to be director for our film this time which was a book show aimed at kids, we had a presenter reading a little miss book with a camera aimed at her along with two separate cameras each side aimed at two copies of the book which we would cut to while reading it. I have to say I chose to be director because I thought it would be really challenging for me and a different experience, and boy was I right. It felt quite good to have the final say over everything in the script, if I didn’t like a shot all I had to do was say “cut shot 24” and it was removed from the script just like that. However, the one part was really challenging was that I had to keep up with my lines for each shot transition and say cut every time a shot was done and say stand by the following camera after the next shot, now while that sounds quite easy as I type it out its actually doing it with the camera. During our first rehearsal I got lost several times because of
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Week 3

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So then, this week we were given the task of creating a short news broadcast, we had meet up last week and acquired a presenter to read the news, then after the workshop last week we decided upon our roles. I decided to be the Captions manager which is nothing like what it sounds like. When I chose it, I was expecting to be operating the teleprompter or creating subtitles, but instead I was handling inserting the pictures from our stories and the news logos transition. Don’t get me wrong It wasn’t bad at all, I actually quite enjoyed it because its not normally what I’d associate myself with doing at all in the media industry. It was just different is all. Overall, I feel we did a good job on the broadcast and that our group works well as a team. Although I did notice several things we could have improved upon though. Mostly we should have rehearsed the end instead of jumping straight into it like we did, but I don’t mind letting that one slide as we had over run the schedule anyway
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