Week 1 - Spring Term

In our first week back we went through our individual trailers and discussed the process of making them, in terms of what went well/what could have gone better, etc. Our tutor suggested that perhaps we work on the sound of the piece as it wasn't quite filmic enough. We agreed and also discussed the fact that the space of the showroom was slightly small and felt a bit samey when the shots continually portrayed the same locations. We explained that we are in the process of securing a larger showroom and in this lesson Abi emailed the woman, who owns the show room, once more in order to organise a date for us to meet and discuss. In this lesson we also discussed the acting and agreed that it'd be better to get the actors to become more familiar with their characters and to react rather than act. This will be my responsibility. 

We also discussed the possibility of fund raising. Our group decided that we would offer to make short advertisement videos for the showrooms that we intend to use. So far we have allocated £150 from this. We also are looking into the idea of a club night and are in talks with a club as it stands. 

I also went round to Dan and Abi's this week, to discuss our film and the script in particular. We have begun redrafting our script, to make the dialogue more succinct and cohesive. We want to cut out a lot of the dialogue that doesn't necessarily progress the story line, in order for us to factor more imagination sequences into the script and make them more prominent and thematic. We also felt that the characters personalities weren't coming out enough in the script and so we have made their objectives and aims clearer, scene by scene.