Questionnaire

yesterday we discussed the questions in our questionnaire we would use to find our right target audience for our short film
We came up with the following questions

What was the last film you watched?

how do you watch films?

have you viewed a short film before?

have you viewed a documentrary fore?be

favorite genre of film?

what do you like about documentaries?

how often do you watch documentaries?

and what is your favorite documentarie?

The questionnaire will prove very useful to us as we need to find if their is an potentional audience out there for our short film and to help us find exactly what the audience want from the film.

This is an picture of our poster to advertise the vacancy for the male actor role within our short film, we involved the name of the production , the requirements we want from the actor, and what the actor can benefit from taking part. i made an email address for our group in which we can all use to get in contact with colleges and drama clubs to send our poster and advertise and try and find an actor that would fit the requirements. again it is important for us to find the right actor to fit the role!!.

Poster

On Monday and Tuesday i did a bit of research where i watched a couple of documentary films e.g The cove, dolphin boy, etc. in which i wrote down some notes to help the group understand the way documentary films are filmed.

We held an emergency meeting on Tuesday where we decided on the Monday we was going to go to matthew bolton college to find the lead for our short film and to present our short film documentry idea to drama students , however we felt we wasn't prepared and decided to design and produce a leaflet that would promote and interest to a particular drama student. we started to write down ideas in what we would want in the lead

• 5ft 6
• age 16-20
• slim build
• must be willing to wear stage makeup

we then used this and produce a leaflet/poster in which we would distribute in colleges and drama schools/clubs.

MEETING/ZOMBIES!

On Friday we got into our groups to arrange a council meeting in which we discuss the preparations for our short film, the first task we had to do was vote for our council leader in which we all agreed Sannah should be and then we wrote up a list of what to discuss in the meeting. Our meeting started at1.33 in which we talked about research where we would each watch a documentary over the weekend and write down some notes on the content and the style of a documentary. the next topic was the Actor which is very important for our short film in which we all agree would make or break the film instead of using a friend we decided we would go to Matthew Bolton or BCU and talk to the drama apartments in which giving a presentation about our short film and really try and sell it to the young actors, of successful we would possibly think about holding an audition, our next meeting we would discuss what exactly we are looking for in the actor. the next topic we discussed are the different locations we would use in which we came up with

• BCU univeristy possibly the library-class room
• Jessica's brothers room for the lead 
• possibility of a shot within an pub?
• Oasis market ( possibly)
• Woods/street scenes near Jessica's house      
• 
  

the next topic we talked about was resources in what we need..

• makeup ( zombie)
• Costumes 
• bedroom props ( posters, cds, etc)
• Meat?

we all decided to produce a timeline so we can sort out what we need to do in good time and not leave stuff important to the last minute we decided by 23rd September everyone will have done research into short films/documentrys, idea of what we want in the lead/actor, introduction to the script ,  and money collecting for props ( £7 each).

Over the weekend one of my tasks was to look into Zombies in which collecting any information that would be useful for the short films

• Diseased yet moving
• essentially dead, no need for organs to support its life functions, destruction of the heart or other vital organs will have no effect
• brain must be destroyed in order to die
• dont feel pain
• walking corpse syndrome this is linked to bipolar disorder and schizophrenia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotard_delusion
• popular subjects in horror films
• sometimes they are victims of pandemic illness causing the dead to reanimate or the living to behave this way but often no course is given to the family 

Production Management Project

Yesterday we received our first brief which is the Production Management project.As freelance media professionals we were all asked to research and come up with ideas for a production we would take part in a group. On this project i got into a group with Sannah, Jessica, Mala, and Philip. we all came to a decision to make a short film.

At first we got into our groups and started drafting ideas and what is the short film going to be about or style  educational? comedy? documentary?. I came up with the idea of it being a short film/documentary similar to the E4/40D documentrys you would find for example undercover boss, 24 hours in A&E, etc. However with the genres we didn't want our short film to be drama based of course we wanted to bring a bit of comedy possibility of romance?. We want our short film to be unique and different , following documentary style however use of handy cam, single cameras and we also wanted the short film to be based on one person.

We researched other documentrys/short films and their styles of how they are filmed and the content, the first film i looked into was a film called Catfish which is not a short film however is a documentary based on one man and a relationship he has created with a woman on Facebook from this film we came up with the idea of our documentary based film to contain one person prefably a boy , in which we follow and document possible ideas we had was the person affected by an event/disaster or documenting a person facing a challenge for example super size me .

Catfish

                                                                         Supersize me

however we wanted to bring a bit of comedy into our short film so we all started sharing ideas in which we came up a person who thinks hes a superhero? alien aduption?... in the end Phil came up with a great idea of    a Male teenager thinking he is a zombie .. it sounds crazy however putting myself in the audience shoes if i was watching TV and i saw this come up i would laugh and think "yeah right" however it would shock me to actually see a young teenager thinking he is and would be interesting whats going on in this persons head and how others would react to him. .Straight away i could picture some scenes in my head and thought it would is a mad but brilliant idea! Again we did want a drama/comedy based documentary but not too much comedy , we would be making this short film serious based however we would want our film to be NATURALLY funny without even trying too hard.

However we feel the drama is important and making the document big lead, its a serious issue and in the past i have watched alot of documentry's where its quite humourous on screen however the message is quite sad actually ,these people are serious and generally feel normal without being too somber. we also discussed our target audience and looked into how young children 11+ would find this hunourous however we all expected young adults would watch it around about 16-20 possibly up to 25 years olds.

the last thing we talked about was job roles in which i really wanted to push myself this year so we decided on these roles...

Amy- Director, Script writer

Jessica- Producer, Editor

Sannah-Camera, script writier

Philip- Camera/Editor/sound

Mala- Location Manager, assistant

We all cant wait to put our ideas on screen so really looking forward to this project.