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.