Friday 15th January

Today i was asked to go back to the Junction and film again, this time i was filming the sound check and interviewing the bands playing the Junction Fiver event. The footage is needed to make the promotional video we have been commissioned to make for the event.

Thursday 14th January

Today i wasn't able to be in lesson because i was film the level 2 diploma students in a samba workshop. We are using the footage as part of the documentary video we are making for Skill Set

Auditioning for the cast

After we had secured a sound track, it was time to head back to long road and audition people for the cast of Lines. Mike and a few others had put up posters around the college about a week ago.

The auditions were held in B102(our classroom) and were between 12:20 and 2:40, nine people turned up to audition for 5 main roles and 3 minor.

these are some notes Tara made on the auditionees, i would have made notes but was doing last minute revision for my exam.

Josef James - Very convincing, confident and knew the lines incredibly well - would make a good Jake.

Grant Cole - Also convincing and I think would play the part of Taylor well, once in costume etc.

James Amey - Confident and had the ability to feel comfortable, would make a great Seth or perhaps even AGENT1.

Tim Sykes - Less confident but lines said with a lot of effort and enthusiasm.
Elliot Hickey - Confident, good acting skills and could relate to the character well, would make a good Seth.
Tom Jakes - Very comfortable and convincing, also felt comfortable and knew the character well, would make a great Zeke.
Angelica Thomson - Nervous but nonetheless convincing, knew the character well and was able to relate to them.
Jennifer Green - Convincing, led the part of megan well, was also confident and showed good relation to the character.
Catherine Montgomery - Convincing and very confident - read the lines well.

We decided on these actors as these characters

Jake Wood - Josef James

Taylor - Grant Cole
Seth - James Amey, Tim Sykes, Elliot Hickey
Zeke - Tom Jakes
Megan - Angelica Thomson, Jennifer Green, Catherine Montgomery

Short list of bands

last night I sat down and listened to all the bands that had replied to our advert (17 in total) and picked out the five that i thought were most fitting to our show, takinging into consideration the look, age, gender, genre and quality of recordings.

The five artists i ended up with were

1. The Joe Public


2. An Honest Contradiction


3. Kids Love Lies


4. Jharda


5. Jambo Reign

In todays lesson i showed Alie the list and we listened to them all, made notes and worked the list down to three, deciding Jharda and Jambo Reign didn't really suit the look we were after.

The notes i made were these

• The Joe Public
  

Strong sound

Enthusiastic towards being

• An Honest Contradiction
  

Right look

Songs are kind of similar to each other

I know them personally

• Kids Love Lies
  

Right look

Energetic sound

• Jharda
  

Powerful music but not the right sound

Not the right look

• Jambo Reign

Good sound

Well recorded

To old

Well recorded

Varied songs

After this we chose one song from each band and played them to Kirk and Mike and between us we decided Kids Love Lies had the best sound for what we wanted. the song we chose was 'Count in my head' as it was very up beat and energetic

The agenda for todayy

Things that I need to do today ...

Look through all of the music that we have been sent or linked and sort which acts fit the style we are after.

Choose some music that we like and are likely to use.

Message the bands that we would like to use.

Keep updating facebook and twitter with information about the show.

The hunt for a sound track

Today the hunt for an artist to provide a sound track for our series began to look a lot more hopefull, i posted an advert on Facebook and Alie posted one on Twitter and with in less than an hour we already had about 5 replys from bands, asking us to consider there music to use. By the time i got home and looked we had over 20 replys from bands and solo artists. We asked the artists to link us to their myspace pages as thats the easiest place to to listen to them.

I don't think we would have any where near this much choice in music and not nearly this quickly if it wasn't for social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and Myspace.

Tuesday 12th Jan

Today we all got straight back into the same roles as yesterday.

Nick (executive producer & 1/2 of CramCreative) told us that both teams needed to appoint a production maneger, they would be the ones incharge of organizing the paper work such as model release forms, request forms and risk assessments.

As a team we decided Tara should take this role because she is the most academic and efficient with formal written tasks. Her first task was to write up a request/risk assesment so we are able to use the class room at lunch to hold auditions.

monday 11th jans lesson

The lesson today largely consisted of general house keeping, i posted reminders of the auditions on the facebook and twitter profiles whilest Alie set up a myspace account to enable us to reach an even wider audience. Mike continued adapting the scripts to get them as good as possible, asking advice and peoples opinion through out. Kirk kept note on everything going on and planned where the project needed to go next lesson and Dave went between the group helping where needed.

after i had updated the social networking sites i got onto organising the sound track for the series, i discussed with the others what genre of music they thought would be most suiting, i made the point that the shows cast are genrally slightly rebellious hence them being in detention. there for it would be fitting if the music had a slight dark sense to it. this may come in the form of a gritty guitar riff or maybe a deep bass wobble in a dance track.

artists i looked at were unsigned indie band My Little Red Door and up and coming elctro DJ/Producer PennyForTheDJ

this is a link to My Little Red Doors myspace pagem -http://www.myspace.com/mylittlereddoor

PennyForTheDj: www.soundcloud.com/pennyforthedj