Sets And Characters

Throughout our advert we originally was going to have a black set with a mask as the head. But this didnt  turn our as we wanted as the mask was to flimsy and would of held the mass of clay and due to various other material factors. So Brendan the technician then showed us a mannequin that would work and have a much more realistic affect to it. So after I'd already made our black box set we discovered it was useless because the mannequin was to big to fit into the box so we had to have a different plan. We decided on having just a black background from a sheet. The only worry with was the lighting, if we had it to high or in the wrong angle you could see all the creases and imperfections so we were limited there but it turned out really well and worked. Whilst me and group member Rebecca were working on creating our model Keiran was sorting out all the images for our 2D animation. It took us about 2 days to complete our model and extra mouths and hair for when she transforms and ages. We were very pleased with ourselves and the finished model. We called her Margaret!

Above is me creating our master piece. I really enjoyed it, seeing the start and then getting it to the standard she is now, watching the process was brilliant and it felt good accomplishing her.

We had trouble with the soundtrack, we originally wanted an older more mature voice but was unable to arrange a suitable date for someone to come into to record. So then we had second thoughts and wouldn't mind a younger audio as it's supposed to be a younger women aging fast, so we recorded Rebecca's voice after a few attempts. We had to go into a really quite room and shut the door because the dictaphone picked up on all the smallest noices.  

Pre Production

To be fair our Pre Production hasn't actually taken that long and not dragged on like it normally seems to. We have just divided the tasks up and got on with it happily professionally by using our minutes of meeting which we have found really helpful to help divide the work load and what has been completed and what not. The only problem I personally had was when I wrote up the story outline and didn't save it probably so had to repeat the process then I couldn't remember where I saved it but that was down to my own carelessness and will be more cautious in the future. There were no fall outs, we all worked together really well as a team actually.

Monday 9th January

On this date this is where we began our chapter design collating all the information we had gathered and noted from Lorraine and each others research into this 8 paged booklet. But me being me couldnt just leave it be as a leaflet. I came up with the idea of actually making it visually like a chapter of a hardback book which is taking alot of my time rather than just printing it off. Hopefully when its finished it will look affective and worth my time and enthusiasm.

Target Audience

We had in our minds that we wanted to only affect a certain selection of audience to dedicate our advert to manipulate and make the most effect on. For this we chose to focus our video for women who smoke. We know being female ourselves that we like to take care of our appearance and are very conscious of our looks. Knowing this helped and gave us the idea of working with this insecurity to stimulate emotion from the audience and decided to use this in our video. We formed a questionnaire, went out and asked our target audience to complete the questions honestly giving us feedback and opinions (Quantitive, Qualitative )to work with.

30th January 2012

Today we each had to write 300-400 words in our groups as a proposal to possible investors using persuasive writing to introduce our production team to them, to try and sell ourselves basically. Normally I tend not to like essays or written work but I didn't mind this assignment and really quite enjoyed it actually. I just followed the points Lorraine my tutor gave me and expanded on it. Now I am working on my blog blog and trying to improve it, but so far today hasn't been too bad. :)

Blog Site

Today is the first day of me having my own blogspot account which was asked by my media tutor so we can develop our reflective writing, enabling us an immediate higher grade. At first I thought this would be pretty pointless but now I've got into it and quite enjoying it, giving me the chance to experiment and I can see how I may use it in the future, passing it onto hopeful future jobs or universities to get to know me personally. :)

Where it began!

When I finished secondary school I didn't really know what I wanted to get into as a career like most of my peers. I knew I wouldn't enjoy anymore time at school qualifying for A Levels. I had a keen interest in media so decided to take a course studying at Harlow College earning me a National Diploma which I am still attending 3 days a week hopefully giving me time to then further decide what career I would like take. Which it has, at the back of my mind I have always had the idea of being a wedding/events planner. So recently made the decision to take action on that idea and have successfully got some voluntary work experience at a Wedding Fayre. So hopefully it will help me make up my mind. :)