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 s...
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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