Group Production meeting 19.04.10

Today we met up to check out our progress and visit our list of shot locations. After checking with my friend about his availability i found out he isn't available due to work. So we will have to use one of the back up actors as the part of Raggy which is quite annoying because they don't fit the part as well as we would have liked.

Tom tried to book equipment out but couldn't due the fact he wasn't able to on the booking system, so we will have to speak to mike about it in tomorrows lecture. I experimented with creating the 'drugs' by putting flour in to a large baggy, which looks like a good enough method to use in our film.

We've found out that Victoria works will only let us film on the wednesday so due to lack of cast we may have to find a new location to film in (another pub) that we can use later in the week.

Carlina is currently finding out about cast and finalizing who we will use and when, so hopefully we can start filming this week! We are all going to look into finding props for the different scenes to make them more authentic, for example posters, books, things that reflect the characters interests and personalities.

Group Production meeting 18.04.10

We met up for the first time back from easter break to discuss our production, and its progress.

There had been some issues with cast, as 1 of our main characters is now unavailable, even though he had said a month ago he would do it. So we are now looking to replace them, or move filming dates to comply with there free time.

Kieran had heard back from victoria works who said its okay for us to film, but only at specific times, which may or may not fit in with our schedule. So were planning to film between wednesday and saturday, when ever the majority of the cast are available.

Tom has been tasked with sorting out equipment, including a Z1, tripod, microphone's and a monopod. Were also going to use another camera (probably a panasonic) to film the making of, and behind the scenes. These will be made available on the DVD.

Carlina is going to sort out the casting and find out when people are available and at what times, so we can sort out a shooting schedule based around when the most cast are available. She is also going to ask her boyfriend if he can play the part of Adrian, which would be a big help.

I am going to find out about our actor for Raggy as he recently got a job which could compromise his availability. And look in to creating some of the props (for example the drugs, and money which could be hard to make look good) We will meet up tomorrow again to scout locations and feed back on what we've done/found out.

Production Meeting 19 February 2010

Today Keiran and myself came up with a rough, yet finished story line for our film. We decided to simplify our original plan because we were finding it hard to tie together all our ideas in a satisfying way, in such a short space of time.

1. Johnny finds lots of unpaid bills, electricity goes, milk off etc. Everything going wrong. Chats to Adrian, suggests dealing drugs to earn some more money. Adrian against the idea, too much at stake ie girlfriend.
2. Adrian meets girlfriend Cheryl, for lunch, she looks fed up. He asks if she can pay. Then asks if she can sort out his rent. She's pissed off and leaves him. Also leaves her wallet. Adrian eyes up the wallet & takes it. BINGO!
3. Adrian calls Johnny tells him to meet him at certain street.
4. Walking shot of Adrian telling Johnny he is now keen to deal and that he has money to do it but doesn't go into detail. They walk to their old dealers, Oily Pete.
5. Inside their oily pete's house, he thinks he's a bit of a G will try and make it funny(?) Both want to know where they can get hold of something stronger. Oily Pete says he is about to go down to Big Druggy Raggy who may be able to sort them out. Oily Pete calls Raggy and gets the go-ahead.
6. Johnny, Adrian & Oily Pete go to Raggy's and negotiate a deal. Adrian hands the briefcase of money to Raggy, Johnny appears shocked that he has all that cash. Raggy barely checks it but remains intimidating. Raggy eventually hands over the drugs, saying something like "I like you guys, I feel like I can trust ya".
   
7. J&A exit Raggy's. Johnny asks how Adrian got the money but Adrian says to start running.
8. Back to Raggy & co, one of his cronies checking the money. "Boss, we've got a problem..."
   
9. Raggy & co "OOOOOIIIII!!!!" Start to chase them.
10. Big chase scene Raggy & co vs J&A
11. Police notice Raggy & co with gun so chase them & arrest them
12. J&A get away, with drugs.
13. Stills of successful drug deals with captions underneath.
14. Stills of the other characters, Raggy & co behind bars. End of story!!!!

Finished Radio show

Here is our finished radio show:


To download it use this link:
http://www.divshare.com/download/9671189-012

Radio show progress

Last Tuesday Rachel and i met up and edited together our voxpops, this took quite along time due to the fact some of the recordings were not good enough to use, so we had to make do with the ones of a good enough quality. But we managed to finish them by the end of the day and were ready to compile the show the next day.

We all met up on the Wednesday to record the voice over and edit. we finished the voice over quite quickly which meant we had the rest of the day to edit. Annie went home due to the fact she hadn't done the logic demo and was okay to leave myself and Rachel to edit. By the end of the day we had a substantual amount of the show edited, and only really had the music and automation to do.

To avoid any copyright issues i spoke to my friend who is a Drum and Bass producer named Grafix, and asked if we could use some of his tracks, he was happy to let us so this was a big help.

Here is a link to his Myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/grafixmusik

Rachel and I then met today (monday) to finish the editing. We managed to finish quite quickly and were happy with it until we realised we were 30seconds over the time limit. So we were forced to cut the show down, which i personally feel hurts its potential, but none the less im still happy with the overall message and outcome, and feel we achieved what we wanted to - a fun yet insightful look at this freshers week, and a good idea of what next years freshers can expect.

1.12.2009 Radio show production meeting

Action points/ Targets for the next week:

By Wednesday 2nd:

Harry - Get Voxpops of house mates for the 4 Questions.
- Get Music and copyright permission.

Rachel - Get Voxpops of house mates for the 4 Questions.
- Record SU president.

We are then going to meet at 10:00AM and compile the Voxpops and sample the music.

Thursday the 3rd:

Come up with the final narration/voice over and record it as a group (using Annie as the presenter) it will be useful if we have all the voxpops edited so we will have a rough guide line for how long each section of the narration will need to be.

Our main target for Thursday is to have all the audio we need recorded and available to edit, this will then leave us 3/4 days to edit and find out if we have missed anything. and give us time to gather it if we need to.

Photo montage Proposal

The theme for my montage is going to be an urban area at night. The Music i will be using is:

The reason i chose to do use this song is because firstly, its at a good pace, 98-100 BPM is great for rolling cuts, but can also be good for slow or fast cuts due to the fact the song intensifies as more beats/sounds come in, and sounds slower during the breakdowns.
Secondly because i love the Urban/Robotic feel this song gives, it almost sounds futuristic.

Im going to take my photos in Bristol, as it has lots of big buildings and an overall urban feel. Im also going to take my photos at night to match the mood of the song, quite dark and techy.