Fiction Adaptation: Pre-Production, Production & Script

Shoot plan (Location, Schedule) Calling sheet and shooting schedule Change in characters No longer using male character (due to no availability) and change in female lead (Better suited to the project) Kit Nikon D3200, Tripod, No sound equipment (not recording sound) Script Locations  Savill Gardens, Virginia Water, Surrey (Landscape scenery to enhance loneliness. 56 Trotsworth Court, Christchurch Rd, Virginia Water (Bedroom Scene) Eden Park, Catford, Lond...

Character Development and Casting.

I always tend to lean more towards serious subject matters when writing up my pieces, and this script is no exception. I'm looking for someone that can really explore and revel in the depth's of my main character's personality and story. Having looked at several profiles on casting call pro, I decided Sophie Airdien was a decent choice for my casting. She was talented, had the look I was after (more exotic and different) and more importantly, had the experience in the type of role I was casting for. Below is a character analysis outlining important...

Fiction Adaptation - Poem adaptation style and visual inspiration and reference to themes

Lana Del Rey is an american model, songwriter and singer who is known for her cinematic music style and impeccable vocal range. Her music is also praised for its religious, social and psychological references which introduce a refreshing sound and depth that has been absent in the current music industry. I was particularly inspired by her 2013 short film Tropico which makes reference to the story of creation, sin and redemption. It also loosely engages with references to pop culture and modern day society. I will be analyzing the video which will...

Digital News Production ( News Package Plan Outline and Reflections)

Below I will be entailing the final conclusion to my brand, story, direction and over all plan for this news-package including it's shoot location, presenters and people that are part of the story. Brand: Trendz Tv   Trendz Tv is a lifestyle news channel that will target an audience of 18+ providing them with news in Technology, Entertainment, Music, Fashion, Beauty, and interesting world affair topics. Given that lifestyle news is a vast and endless collection of categories and topics, I've had to narrow down what I'm focusing on for...

Digital News Production (Break Down of inspiration, Ideas, and Research Materials)

Lifestyle news comprises of many things in different aspects of life that interest people. Ranging from health to entertainment, travel and interior design and much, much more. Below I have created a diagram that highlights the types and what you're likely to see/read/hear alongside them. Doing this made it easy for me to be clear and concise about my story for the news package. As I know what direction I 'm going in, who my audience is and also the style and branding too. (Click on photo to enlarge) After reading through our brief we decided...

Digitial News Production: Green Screen Workshop, Adobe Illustrator & After effects tutorial

Green Screen Workshop The Green screen allows you to get creative with your visual pieces. It's a medium that allows you erase visual you don't need in your visual and key in new ones. For example, you might shoot an interview in a studio but you don't like the atmosphere/surrounding and want something more relevant to your topic of discussion for the interview. You can use a green screen to get rid of that backdrop and add a new one, be it an image or graphic design studio setup. Below is a video that fully helped me understand the process...

Fiction Adaptation (Poem Background and Visual Ideas)

For You Dear  Friend // Anthony Anaxagorou Background For you dear friend tells the story of a broken character going through a wave of dark emotions like Loneliness, Self Loathing and Depression, but is told by someone (Anthony) that seems to have a connection with this person in the story.  Throughout the poem these themes are touched on in manners that evoke questions in the mind of the reader. e.g. : Why does this person feel these emotions?  Why are they so detached from the “light” and so drawn to the...

Fiction Adaptation (Rules of adaptation)

Adapting Novels and Poems to screen & Visual and Narrative Ideas  For an adaptation to be successful, it needs to include all the elements necessary to make it connect in a manner that tells the story in your own way yet still retaining parts of its original form. e.g. storytelling. According to Michael Hauge the foundation of story telling is simply character, desire and conflict. That the underlying system of all stories is this: emotionally involving characters must overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles in order to achieve...

(Digital News) Pre-Production: News Package and Live OB ideas

We want our news topics to be broad and concise, fun but still informative and something relevant to everyone. Hence why we've chosen some exciting topics to look out for our news program. Below is a list of content for our news program highlighting what exactly we're talking about and what we hope to include in the program in regards to sources and experts. Studio - Introduction, and coming ups, packages and Live news. The Intro would be a short but nice graphic video illustrating what our brand name. Then we'd do an oral list of things...

(Digital News)Pre-Production:Ideas Lab

 Finding our Niche Having decided my group we began immediately finding ideas about the kind of brand we wanted to be. Eventually we decided to form a lifestyle news program - after looking around the room for inspiration - as most of our interests fell under this category. I looked at other brands online Like TMZ, PerezHilton, and E!news All of which had some aspects we wanted to integrate into our brand such as fashion, music, film , love nd relationships, fitness and health,trending topics online and all other things lifestyle. We figured...

(Digital News) Pre Production: TrendTv Presentation (Now Newstrends)

A presentation of our ideas from the idea lab. Includes new updates on Ideas like the target audience and our brand statement. "Making it our duty to pull you out from under the roc...

Digital News Production: Unit Introduction and Understanding of the project tasks.

Introduction  The Digital News unit will focus on the key origins of news programming, and the methods used to create an outreach to all people of the world. Throughout this unit we will learn the importance of News within its genre and also how things have evolved since its inception. Project Brief  One of our main challenges in this unit will be to use the knowledge and experience gained to produce the following in a group: * To design our own digital online news brand/channel via a website or video channel service e.g. Youtube.   -...