Week 2
As most of team
were unsure on what things needed doing, tutor Helen decided to hold a group
meeting on Tuesday 10am. I thought great, this meeting will clear all questions
rising and everyone will be able to keep moving with the pre-production. Once
again everyone except the members of the production team attended. I don’t know
what the circumstances are but I automatically felt that this production will
fall downhill if the producers aren’t attending to overlook the whole
production. As someone said to me and I agreed the production feels like ‘a
snake with no head’. Producer Helen agreed to hold the meeting over the phone
so people can understand the production clearly and are clearer about what they
have to do and what the producer wants to move forward.
The meeting - photo taken by Sei-Kai
From the meeting
I have found that:
1 – Graffiti –
The producer wanted to get a panelist who disagrees with graffiti as art and
put them on a graffiti tour and film their reactions. This means our team will
need to research graffiti tours, the prices, if we have permission to film etc…
2 – The video
game reaction will be shot using a green screen and having someone play the
game and using the green screen to place the person into the virtual world
where the audience will see what the player is seeing behind them. The
producers have found a family who are willing to come over and play the game.
For the original game they suggested the producers did not manage to attain a
demo nor permission to play. So, instead they will be using another game called
PT which has been out recently to gain a similar reaction.
This is a new way
of watching the reactions of someone playing a game rather than have the game
shown on the side ontop of the video.
3 – Self-esteem
– Nothing has changed. The producers still wants someone to be photoshopped and
the audience gets to watch the reveal happen within seconds as we play it
forward the footage. We have discussed finding a male model to photoshop as it
is rare to find footage of male models being photoshopped. This should bring up
a discussion about how much the public are living in a technological world with
a sense of an ideal perfect body type that we all try to look like.
4 – Domestic
Violence – Producers want to shoot stunt experiment where a male abuses a
female in public and vice versa. This is to show how people react when the sex
is reversed. It is meant to prove that people find women the weaker sex and
should be protected more than if it were in reverse, men. The talking point
will be that abuse is abuse no matter if you are being abused by a man or a
woman and it is not right.
The Meeting - Photo taken by Sei-Kai
From a link Helen sent us, she wanted something specific for the graffiti shoot.From this the group watched the video, collaborated and taken down some notes:
How the presenter is going to introduce the vt?
This is what happened when the panelist went on the tour…… (link
example)
Jack whitehall VT example
Notes
Funny VT
Mocking, placing someone in an awkward but funny situation
Outside of their social comfort zone
Filming their facial expression as they show distaste, un-wanting-ness
towards whatever topic it is they do not like… All the body languages of not
being interested i.e. looking at watch, ignoring, not looking interested
Try and make sure that our Vt’s incorporate the snarkiness that the Jack
whitehall videos does.
From this example we found out that she wanted a shoot where a member of the panellist who is anti-graffiti to go out and be shown all the graffiti art and to record their reactions. This VT is meant to be comical.
This week we were given a task to choose a VT and re-create a script to go and film it. This was a workshop so people can think creatively about different types of shots and think about putting a story together. The VT group split in 2’s. I was in a group with Sophie (Producer), Andrei, Tim and Babs. We also had Michael as our sound person and Mark as the participant who will be on camera. We chose the graffiti topic as this was discussed the most and had some understanding about what we could film. We started scripting a rough piece of what and how our group wanted to film the reaction of the anti-graffiti person on a graffiti tour. We had a look at a link that Helen sent us. Where the chilled presenter of the show takes his dad who is ‘stiff’ to a cuddling session with strangers. We saw some reaction shots of the dad not taking part, then some shots of him eventually taking part. There were inserts of interviews where during the session they had been asked about how they felt during the session. These interviews were single shots of them talking about their views with the sessions running in the background to show ‘real time’. Then at the end, they were interviewed again to see if their views have changed. This was also shot singly. This was because each reaction and thought put back to back makes it funny because one thinks positive and thinks this session had changed their mind and the other is negative and still in their own views.
So, from this we
figured out a story. We couldn’t write down how the person is going to react
when we take them on the tour but in the script we could ‘pretend’ and wrote
‘shot of reaction when tour is revealed to the anti-graffiti person’. For the
middle part of the script the group will follow the tour and in certain parts
have reaction shots of the anti-graffiti person. There will be another camera
shooting the tour guide talking about the graffiti infront of them. The
reaction shots will be medium close ups, the guide talking about the graffiti
to the group would be mid shots with graffiti in the background. The cut aways
would be a mixture of close ups to show detail in the graffiti and long shots
to see the bigger picture. These cut aways will help the audience visually to
see what the participants are talking about. The end of the script would be
single shots of the tour guide and participant reflecting on the tour and how
well the participant reacted or opened their mind up about graffiti.
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