It's Not What You Know; It's Who You Know! Part 2

My friend Ruben Salasee, Music Producer, has offered his extraordinary skills to the group when we have finished making the opening sequence because we feel that we should get the filming finished and then develop the soundtrack

The Right Costume

This is the type of costume that our suspect will wear because it is modern, sophisticated, serious, as well as unnoticeable. This will be great for his character and really set the pace.

Macbeth's Influence On Me

While watching the opening scene of Shakespeare's Macbeth, I thought about how brilliant it would be to be able to do an opening sequence that is similar to that. It has tension, awkwardness, a range of shots, angles, and compositions, the editing of the pace of shots is superb, the mise-en-scene of an empty beach with no one but the three witches is so gripping. I know that it would be hard to do but, the grade our group would get if we pulled it of would be 60/60.

Unreliable Team

My group is very unreliable and seem to have a major disregard for my ideas. They feel that my ideas may be good but they will make the opening sequence long and drawn out. They work together and when it's time to feel, something happens and i cannot go.  I wish that i could do this on my own with my own team because I know exactly what the examiner want and how they want it. This group thinks that i am a sill person with big, stupid ideas but, if i could have one chance, they will see how wrong they are.

A Bigger Cast

I feel that we shall need more actor for this opening sequence because we have an Agent, 3 teenage actors, a Suspect and for this sequence, we need more. Plus, if i can get a good camera, we should put some dialogue in because it seems bland with all action and know talk. It may confuse the audience.

Skills development

In today's lesson, I have found out that while i am good at practical work like editing, filming, etc, I need more practise on writ side of things. I need more practise in this because i find it hard to make a link with how gender is represented through the four core areas: camera movement, shot, shot, etc, editing, sound, and mise-en-scene. This will be a major problem in the exam so i need to get it sorted out a.s.a.p.

Exam Style Writting

In our lesson we have been leaning how towrite up an exam style essay. The exam that we will be taking is based around how gender is represented thought the uses of the four main techniques used in Drama TV. They are: Camera-Movement, Angles, Shot, and Composition. Editing, Mi-en-scene (everything that can be seen by the audience) and Sound.

We have been watching opening sequences of British Drama shows like Casualty, Doctor Who, and Top Boy. We watch them four or five times each and have two minutes to write down notes after each viewing. After this, we have 30 minutes to write an exam styled essay.