Monday 12 October 2009

Planning

In our coursework there was certain aspects we had to plan for doing half our filming and the other half the stop frame animation.

Equipment
The equipment we are using is going to be kept at my house because I live closer to collage than my partner Zac.
Using the digital video camera
We booked the equipment out on the 22 of October. This included tri-pod, camera and spare batteries.

Green screen
We will coloured card to go at the back of our Stop Motion Animation .So we can digitally put a background on of our choice using Adobe Premiere Pro 2 when put on the computer. The SLR camera we will use will be Zacs own camera because he knows it very well and feels more comfortable with it.

Other equipment
Lego and lighting equipment which we will look need to look at so we can figure out dates when we can book the equipment out and buy Lego.

Location
In our work by using the narrative of our children’s TV Drama we had set allot of our work inside a school with the first couple of shots. We have written a letter to nunnery Wood high school asking if we could use the premises to film.



The digital aspect of the logistic arguments, did take time to agree.

I and Zac had a conversation over msn to agree the meeting and the date of when we were going to film our media coursework. We agreed to film it on the Tuesday 26 of October and agreed to meet outside Worcester Sixth Form collage at 11. We checked the weather report and the weather were meant to have cloud with the chance of showers throughout the day. However we had most of our shots inside this was still important to talk about because we had to get the equipment to and from collage.

Actors
Because of the two different methods we were using we only need to use one actor as the main character in our work. Because of preferred target market being 6-11, we agreed to have a actor aged 11 so a younger audience could look up to them and see them as a role model and see what higher education actually seemed like for further years of their lives. We agreed to ask my younger brother (Jordon) if we could include him in our piece of work. Because of the actor being fewer than 16 we had to write a letter to the parents of Jordon to ask for parental consent. We have agreed not to have any talking in the start and have a voice over of the whole piece of the work because it makes it easier for us to explain the change that’s happened to a new member of the audience watching the programme for the first time. We don’t think we need to include a voice of an 11 year old because we think we can use an older voice to make it sound more professional and clear.

Custom
Because of the Lego character we are basically going to try getting a Lego super hero for a main character. In the second half of our piece of work Jordon would be wearing the Nunnery Wood school uniform. This uniform links with change of clothing and the audience will recognise the school uniform and relate to the main character.

All these things we have looked at and are dealing with currently. To keep track of our work and progress we have created a time schedule which you will see in my next blog post.

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