Roles to be Allocated

Here are the different roles that need to be allocated between the group members for our final film, this is to make sure that we all have something to do to participate fairly in making our film. To allocate them we will all chose together so that everyone has a chance to chose their roles so that someone doesn't end up with more work than the others. The roles are:

• Director
• Producer
• Editor
• Sounds Editor
• Special Effects Editor
• Lighting Engineer
• Treatment writer
• Script writer
• Story Boarder
• Locations scout
• Talent scout
• Costume/ makeup
• Props manager
• Continuity manager
• Camera operator
• Photographer

Progress

During our lesson on the 27th September we changed our original idea from to:

• Showing that one brother is the favourite through it being his birthday, the mother looks and sees the other brother standing lone in the corner.
• She sits down to watch the TV a new report comes on when the other brother tries to get her attention but she ignores him
• goes to an old news report that shows that she was raped by uncle and because shes religious she cant get rid so she removes religious item (cross)
• original ending she tells the son why he has been treated differently and put the religious item (cross) back on.
• new ending when she tells the son the truth he puts the cross on her, when mom looks in the mirror hes not there and she didn't get rid of him all those years ago.

Genre

In our last group meeting we decided on the genre for our film, like last year for our A's project where all of the groups decided that choosing a thriller would be the best option to go with. This is because w do not have the budget or the equipment to make a sci-fi or action film. For the same reason is why we have decided to chose thriller as our genre again this year.

Although this year we will also be adding different elements to it that we didn't include in our films last year. From reading and looking at each others individual treatment ideas we have the decided to add a religious element to our film, this is because we could use it to build up tension in our film as there is something which is uncertain about religion

Treatment Ideas

 On the second half on Tuesday 20th Septembers lesson we sat down as a group to discuss the film ideas that we had for our final film, we started by all of us going over our individual film treatments that we did to remind ourselves of each others film ideas. We then talked about what ideas from each film that we liked and could include in our final film. The things that we talked about including in our final film was:

• a news report
• stalking
• religious
• being followed
• rape

We then came up with a basic idea that we could then work on next lesson which is:

•  having two brother ( an idea from Rob's treatment) where one is treated better than the other, we talked about showing this by having the mother praising the one brother whilst the other is sat eating his dinner alone.
• This would be becuase the one brother is a result of rape and she couldn't get rid of him because shes religious
• We would show this by her wearing a cross round her neck which she had taken off as she had lost her faith and show the rape by a new report
• She tells the son about it
• then puts on the cross again

Sam C A2 Treatment Pitch from Gavin Hood on Vimeo.

Rob A2 Treatment Pitch from Gavin Hood on Vimeo.

Holly A2 Treatment Pitch from Gavin Hood on Vimeo.

Adele A2 Treatment Pitch from Gavin Hood on Vimeo.

What is a short?

A short film is any film that isn't long enough to be considered to be a feature film. It still includes a start, middle and an ending like a feature film though and isn't the first five minutes of a film. Here are some examples of some shorts that I found.
The Black Hole 

Strangers

My group members

Sam Clark
Holly Sanford
Rob Able

Welcome

Welcome to my A2 media blog, I will be using this blog to present my A-level media studies course work through out the course. We have decided to create a 5 minute short film this is because we have the software and hardware available to create a short film within school.  As well as a short film we will also be creating a film poster and a film review as again we have access to suitable software to create this.
I have decided to use blogger for this as I will be able to embed videos straight from the Internet and on to my blog which I would not be able to do in a scrap book for examples.