AS Media Studies Roles/Responsibilities

Pre-production

Task/Document	Name/s	Division of labour (%)
Treatment	Original Shikel and Sin New Shanelle, Shikel and Sin	All had Equal Roles
Storyboard	Shikel	100%
Audience research	Aaqib	100%
Production schedule
Shot list
Call sheets	Aaqib	100%
Equipment/props list	Shanelle, Aaqib, Sin, Shikel	All equal
Risk assessment	Shanelle	100%
Meeting minutes/blog updates

Production and Post-production

Location shots (filming, cameraperson)	Shanelle, Shikel, Sin, Aaqib	All had equal input
Editing	Sin-main editor	100%
Sound and Music (obtaining, downloading or creating)	Shanelle, Aaqib	Equal Roles 50/50
Title (e.g. production and distribution company, creation - could be done via Photoshop)	Shanelle, Shikel, Sin, Aaqib	Equal roles

 These are the main responsibilities that have been shared within the group, some have not been decided at this point.

Risk assessment

Possible Risks

1) The location we want may not be available or we might not have permission to film there.
2) Camera may run out of charge and delay filming.
3) We might not be able to find the costumes that we wanted.
4) The actors may play characters wrong and make it look unprofessional and divert from what is supposed to be seen.
5) Everyone might not be available at one time.
6) There is a possibility of an actor injuring themselves.
7) Editing could be delayed as main editor is not available.
8) Disagreements may happen, this might bring energy down within the group.
9) Our location may be a health hazard...
- The stairs are dangerous
- We are working on hights which will be dangerous
- There are sharp tools and other dangerous objects laying around
10) We may not be able to get access to the location the hours we would like.

Group Pitch

The general story is about a teenager named Daniel who had a troubled upbringing. He gets caught by members of a rival gang and gets beaten into a coma. Three weeks later he wakes up from the coma and tries to convince everybody that he has spoken with the Lord. His mother and friends don’t believe him, however his girlfriend makes an effort to understand. The twist is that he doesn’t tell anybody that the Lord assigned him a duty, a duty to kill. He believes that he has been told to rid the world of evil. However, revenge is a condition that is not allowed.

The opening doesn’t consist of anything that has been detailed in the previous paragraph in depth, however it will start with a flash back. He is in the middle of an assassination and once he has committed the assassination, he gets a headache and a vision starts to form inside his head.A priest who has been assigned the same duty as him, started to decide who he himself thought was pure enough to live or die.

He previously was killing prostitutes, paedophiles, murderers and rapist. He then got power-drunk and started killing single parented mothers, women who have children out of wedlock, women who commit adultery and many other women that he considered impure. This priest started going insane and started raping many of his victims.

This priest is Daniel’s next target. Daniel develops an early hatred as a single mother brought him up and he sees graphical images of the priest raping the women in his head. However, the priest may in fact be expecting Daniel and with a lot more experience, does Daniel really stand a fighting chance?

Starting of Group work

We were given our assigned groups today by our teacher. The group consists of four members which includes Shikel, Aaquib, Sinteyah and myself. The genre of our task is a thriller. We initially decided to choose Shikel's work as we thought her idea mirrored a stereotypical thriller but after some thought and plans ahead we realised that this may not be the best idea as it lacked in practicality. In the end we mixed everyones pitch to come up with a story line.

planning of opening sequence

For my opening sequence i have chosen to set the location in a local dump or alley, this is because i believe the tense tight space in a alley would make the audience feel uncomfortable and the open space of the dump would make the audience feel how the victim would feel as if there's no way of someone hearing them scream out there.
I also choose to have deep atmospheric music to make the audience feel the build up of tension as the mysterious killer goes to get rid of his last victim and him self.
The costume of the killer reflects he's beliefs which also gives the audience a very small clue into the identity of the killer and why he commits these crimes.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NYZK2VK

this is the link to my survey

Q. what was your role within the group ?
A. My role in the group was to be one of the actors which was very enjoyable because we all worked very well as a group and we all made the experience very memorable for each other. Shanelle was the director and camera person, Sinteyah was my co-star and he also helped Shanelle direct the task.

Q. what aspect of the video sequence were you pleased with ?
A. I was very pleased with the end of the video, where I walk off and leave sinntiar on his own looking very sorry for himself and you have a black out, while you hear the acoustic version of 'Katie Perry's I kissed a girl'. I believe that the end of this scene really showed how most boys would feel if they found out the girl they loved never really loved them.

Q. What problems did you encounter ?
A. For me I found it difficult to maintain a straight face while filming which I assumed made it difficult for the other actor an for the director (who was shanelle) to get the shot she wanted straight away. We also had problem with people walk in front of the camera while we were filming because they didn't know what was happening at that point in time, also people were opening and closing door near by which created a lot of back ground noise.

Q. How did you resolve these problem ?
A. To resolve this problem I had to really focus and concentrate, we had to wait until everyone was either in class or was on break to start filming again. We also kept the doors open that was making noise so that before people got through the door they would notice that there was filming happening and so that people would leave the door to slam as they go through it.

Q. What new skills did you develop ?
A. The Skills that I believe I developed was my team work because I knew that I wasn't just doing it for me but for the whole group to pass this course and be confident that we did the work to the best of our ability. I also got a lot of experience with working with my group and understanding how they work.

Q.How could you improve your project?
A. I believe that we worked to the best of our abilities but from the feed back we got from our peers we need to make the situation more awkward and realistic to how people think they would react to the situation.

Q.If you were to repeat the task, what would you do differently ?
A. If we were to repeat this task the most I think we should do is think deeply about the topic of which we addressed and how people would react to that kind of rejection emotionally.