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Project Evaluation

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The Script to Screen unit has been very different to how I expected it to be. It has challenged me in many ways and I have found new interests in topics I thought I would dislike. I will outline each area of the production process and what I have learned from it. COMING UP WITH THE IDEA As soon as we were told the brief for the unit I was always thinking about what my story could be, You will be able to see from my earlier blogs from this unit I initially wrote down all the ideas that first came to mind when thinking about 'The Meeting'. I then started to loosely try and attach them together but one of the issues I was having was that I had too much story and plot but not really any characters. Simon had told us that when creating a story come up with the characters first and work the story around them. So I decided to create my two characters and then I could fit the story outline around them and their lives, and I will do this again in future rather than getting overload...
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Director One- Ben Taylor

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Ben Taylor is predominantly a director but has also been a producer a couple of times. He is best known for directing the Bafta winning "Catastrophe" (2015) and majority of the episodes from series one of "Sex Education" (2019). The thing aspect of Taylor's work that interested me most was the originality to it. The visual style alone such as colour palettes and location make his shows stand out. For example with "Sex Education" it follows a year group of British Sixth students and how awkward teenager 'Otis' helps his classmates to overcome their sexual fears/ problems due to his mother being a sex therapist. Even though it is set in modern day in England there are many aspects that do not represent this. For example he uses extremely bright and contrasting colours throughout the episodes that almost add a 1970's/80's tone to it. There are also elements such as the size of houses and set up of the school that make it feel American. Tay...
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Camera Workshop One- Intro to Cameras

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Camera Workshop One- Intro to Cameras On Wednesday the 9th of October we had our first camera workshop with Fergus; we were taught how to use the SONY XDCAM. Fergus taught us the following acronym on how to use and set up different parts of the camera: S- sound W- white balance E- exposure F- focus  F- framing We got to have hands on experience getting use to the cameras and filming short experimental moments. Sound: I had never worked with sound before so this was definitely a learning curve for me. Firstly we set up the gun mics and attached them to the boom poles. This was something that I struggled with as it took a few attempts to fix the boom pole at the correct height for our scene- now I know that when I use a boom pole I need to allow time for it to be set up as another important thing that we had to do was work out the correct distance to hold the boom pole from the actors, whether it was above them just out of shot or below them, however I le...
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