Narrative and Genre: What programme to choose????

I dont know what show to choose for my essay, Big Brother or The X Factor, both would be great but I'm not sure what one would be best.

Commission Unit: Log In Log Out

So here it is, peoples pitches have been commissioned and the teams have been pick, sadly my 'The XL Factor (do you want fries with that?) didn't get commissioned but I'm glad to be working with Zee and Alex on Zee's  idea 'Log In, Log Out. Its a great idea and one that interests me, and Zee has a great case study so it should be fun.

Dean

Commission Unit: The Pitch

Today we pitched our ideas for our commission unit, I felt mine went ok, I think they really liked my idea of the the rise and fall of Rik Waller with the title; 'The XL Factor (would you like fries with that?)., I was hoping by now I would of spoken to Rik Waller or at least had his number I'm guessing that the fact that I could'nt guarentee my lead role  its unlikley it will get commissioned :( , But I live in hope, and even if it doesn't some people have got some great ideas and I'll look forward to working on theire projects.

Direction Unit: The script

I handed my script into Simon and the general feedback was to try and cut down the dialog, the Fred West character dialog is very long so I think it will make easier for myself and the actor to cut it down.
I also need to put more direction in to it and then I think I'm ready to go :D

Direction unit: my script

This is my script that I've selected for my direction unit, I cant wait to get the ball rolling, I've cast most my characters but I am still looking for some to play the lead of Fred.

Appropriate Adult
"Interview Scene"
FADE IN:
INT. INTERVIEW ROOM
On one side of the table is Fred West sat next to his appropriate adult being interviewed by Three police officers, the room is dark/low lighting
POLICE OFFICER 1
The date is Friday the 25th of February 1994, the time is 16:57. Before we start off Fred I must remind you that you are still under caution and you don’t have to say anything unless you wish to do so, anything you do say maybe used as evidence, do you understand?
FRED WEST
Yeah.
POLICE OFFICER 1
Okay. You were arrested earlier today by my college here in relation of the murder of your daughter Heather. Can you tell me in your own words what you know about that.
FRED WEST
Right what happened was Heather wanted to leave home you see and she’d been knocking around with this girl with a red mini.[Fred turns to his appropriate adult] That’s a mini skirt not a car. And we were pretty sure she was a lesbian like, so me and Rose said, “hang on a sec you better think about this girl you know give it a night at least.” So next morning come up and Rose said, “let her go”, she said I’ll go to the bank and draw out six hundred pounds and she can have that and go. So Rose goes off and I’m left in the hall with Heather and her suitcase and shes got her hands on her hips, the big lady like, and I say “how about you get a flat up the road, you can have girlfriends up there” and she said “if you don’t let me fucking go, I’ll give all the kids acid [Fred turns to the appropriate adult and explains] that’s LSD like. And they’ll jump off the church roof and kill them selves. And I say “well that ain't very nice girl” you know threatening to do that to your own brothers and sisters” and shes got this smile on her face like a sort of smirk, like try me and I’ll do it, so I just lunged at her like that and then I grabbed her by the throat like that [Fred imitates holding someone by the throat] and I held her there for....[Fred Trying to work out the time in his head] I don’t know how long but it was quick, it was real quick, its surprising how long you can hold someone by the throat before they....before they....but I cant remember to that extent what happened next but the next minute shes gone blue. And I’m looking at her from head to foot and I’m thinking what the bloody heck has gone wrong? So I put her on the floor and I’m blowing in her mouth and I’m pumping her chest and shes just getting bluer and I didn’t know what to do, I mean I never meant to hurt her, and Rose is due back any minute and I’m thinking jeez I’ve gotta do something and I was scared. So I was gonna put her in the Wendy house, and then I though I’ll put her in the dust-bin, but I couldn't get her in there so I get this ice saw, you know with the two prongs at the top and the serrated edges, you use it for cutting blocks of ice and  I cut her legs off. And that was.... Unbearable....I can still hear that in my sleep. And then I cut her head off and well I closed her eyes first, well your not gonna take a saw to your own daughter when shes sat there looking at you are you. And then she sat neatly in the bin so I pushed it down to the end of the garden you know behind the Wendy house and I take her suitcase and put it on St. Michaels square on church day rubbish, and then I got Heather from behind the Wendy house and....berried Her. And I’ve been meaning to come down here and get it all sorted out before, but I never got round to it.

Direction Unit; Direction Workshop

Today we had to take it in turns directing performers to create drama in a scene taken from the film Atonement but at the same time we had to think of what camera angles we would be using to capture the drama. I decided I ask one of my performers (Maddie) to have a bad attitude, just to make it a bit different, wjat do you think?

Director Unit: A change of heart!

Right. I've changed my mind! I'm now no longer doing Shameless or Lost I've now choosen to do Appropriate Adult! And already have got loads of ideas, I was really struggling for ideas with lost!

So here is a video from Appropriate Adult its a bit long but I think I'm gonna use 3mins from 5mins 54sec - 11mins 07secs  

Documentary Unit: Ideas

After a tutorial with Helen yesterday we discussed my 3 ideas,  we narrowed it down to 2 ideas as one would of been to difficult to gather information or reliable information. So now its a case of choosing from my 2 ideas or working out if I combined my 2 ideas into 1!

Direction Unit: Research

After spending hours choosing between Lost and Shameless I have finally decided to go with Lost and I think I've found a scene that  I can work with although I've still got a few I like the look of. I think the scenes I've been looking at I can put my own stamp on, but still have a lot of thinking to do.

Today was the lighting workshop, where in groups we had to film different scenes using different lighting tehcnices and film them, we had to shoot; a portrait lighting shot; a hero lighting shot; a villian lighting shot; a experimental lighting shot and an expressive portrait shot, follow the links below to see what we came up with.

Director workshop

Today at the studios Simon gave us a Directors workshop, where we had a lecture about all the roles and responsibilities a director has, and like Simon says "You cant learn how to be a director, you just become one!" So he gave us all 1min to direct the rest of the class I whatever way we saw fit, this varied from dancing, running, jumping, the list goes on. Then he set us all a task to get in groups of 5 and you get 20mins each to come up with a scene each which had to involve the passing of a note, so we had 20mins to direct the other 4 in the group and film it, see the link below.

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