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...
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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