Research and planning
-What research did you carry out into similar products and
your potential target audience? I in your answer you need to refer to aspects
of your case studies that were useful as research for your own production
(similar products) and the feedback you received from the class when you
pitched your treatment (potential target audience). Be really specific about
which elements from the case studies and feedback, you included.
As a group we carried out research into similar products
that already exist and are successful for example looking in to known comedies
like ’Mr Bean’. We felt that the
physical aspect of ‘Mr Bean’ appealed to us as a group as we really liked the
way he dressed and the non diegeting sound that was incorporated into his
character. We spent time analysing the camera effects and the overall profound
effects it had on its audience. For
example the close ups of his facial expressions and the ‘stupid’ noises he
would make; a prime example of this would be in the episode of which he takes
the test and is stuck and tries everything to get the answers from the person
sitting next to him. My group and I
decided to try use the aspect of comedy because we felt that being from an
Asian background we could try exploiting the comedy aspect from it. When we
presented this idea to the rest of the class the feedback we received was very
positive as no one has done anything like Mr Bean itself and it’s been years
since the last episode was made, as we would try and replicate some of the
features of the programme like his very childish attitude for example in the
episode when he was in the park and he has a competition in making a sandwich
but uses a live fish in his sandwich.
Also from the first film the was called ‘Bean’, his attitudes and a
variety or personalities are reflect strongly here for example the childish
attitude when he learns to put his middle finger up and being very grown up in
certain situations like when he felt guilty for making the character lose his
job and he tried to replicate the painting of the ‘Mona Lisa’.
The audience whom we have gathered feedback from recommended
that we get some professional actors in order to perform this short film as it
would be very hard to try to replicate this effectively. We decided that we will need 6 to 7
characters; the main guy, the taxi driver, the security guard, the random
people on the street he bumps into and also the girl he sees on the bus.
We put up a notice in the performing arts department confident that we would
have got some replies however we got no replies as no one was interested.
Taking matters into our own hands we decided to act the short film out
ourselves, we understand how hard it is to effectively pull this off so we know
what we have to do to get it done. For some additional parts in the short film
we had to make some phone calls in order to get some of our friends involved in
acting in our short film. We
also dived the job roles according to who’s more comfortable e.g. Akiqul was
more comfortable with doing the storyboard because he felt that he was
confident in getting it done because he believed in his artistic skills. I did
the recce and risk assessment and release forms because I felt that I could get
this all done in one lesson while everyone else was continuing with the bulk of
the job, while Kalam did the script as it was a very short task seeing as most
of it consisted of non-diegetic sound. The storyboard was mainly taken on board
by akiqul we have decided this because he use to this and has filmed before so
he has made a storyboard in the past. However he did not just do all the work
before he made the story board we have discussed how and what the shot types
would be. The taxi driver will need to
be able to drive and look older to make it realistic so we decided we either get
an older relative out of us that is ready to act or we get an older friend that
would participate; the locations were made when we were deciding what the play
was going to be.
Overall, the
time management between us as a group could have been more effective. The
problems we faced when we came up with our story board and script was that
there were times when some of our pupils weren’t in due to illness so it was
hard to come up with the storyboard and script using two people because it
meant less ideas. The improvements I would make are to take more time on the
scripts and the storyboard and make sure it is at a sufficient level of
perfection. Also, to improve on our time management I would say that we could
have had more media work related contact in order to discuss our ideas further
to try and evaluate our work and get better ideas.
During our
team meetings in lesson, our lessons we were each set out separate jobs to do;
and we were also given these jobs according to how comfortable we were with it
as we divided it equally. During my free time I would do the jobs I was
entitled to do. However when I was not in the company of doing these activities
I would busy myself in helping to see if my other group members were fine and
would contribute any helpful suggestions. In general, I would say my research
and planning task in well presented as I have produced it onto Microsoft word
and will pursue to present it on to a more interactive ‘prezzi’.
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