Episode 1 feed back, Pre-Launch.

As soon as Matt had finnished editing and puting the music i found for it (Killing time by Centre Folds) on, we took the final version over to Nick (1/2 Cram Creatives) to watch and give us his critical opinion.

Nicks main points were:

• The background noise is un-profesional.
• The actors are clearly not confident in their lines and need practice.
• More camera angles, faster cuts and cut aways to make it more visually interesting.
• The show needs to be more interesting, comedic, dramatic, fast paced.
• It also needs to be more visually comical.
• Be more organised.
• Make sure everyone knows whats going on.
• Shoot everything twice to make sure we have usable footage.

With this in mind, after we have gained more feed back etc after the episode has been launched we will all evaluate our work in order to maximise the improvement in episode 2 and 3

Thursday 21st January

In lesson today after the big class meeting we re-grouped and got to work, Matt edited the first episode whilst i watched over his shoulder to see the rough first edit whilst i looked for music to fit in the episode. Tara, Tim and Alie made a poster in photoshop to advertise the launch of the first episode. Mike contacted the cast and organised to shoot episode two on monday. Dave animated the Cram creatives ident and Kirk kept everything organised and in check.

Tomorow the most important things to do are get the story board for episode 2 done and for Matt to finnish the first episode edit. i need to sort through the rest of the new bands and decide which song(s) are right to go in the first episode.

I feel since the big discussion this morning we are all finally back in order and working with each other and not against again.

Rift in the team and discussion to resolve it.

We have just had a 45 minute long class discussion about how we have all become worked up with each other and began taking it out on each other with inappropriate behavior and have not been working professionally, Nick did say that i was one of the more mature acting in the situation however i still think i let some people get too me at points and over reacted at points. The discussion made this clear to us and made us realise that if we didn't act on it soon we could jeopardise the project.

I think we have resolved the problems and will now work more efficiently, only time will tell.

wednesday 20th january

Today we started with a class meeting with Nick, we discussed what went well and what didn't when filming and he told us we should consider re-assigning roles. after that meeting, we split into our two teams and went to different rooms to discuss between us how we thought each person for filled each role. Mike made it clear that he wasn't happy with Tims camera work. There was also too many people on set and whilst Kirk is good at planning, he isn't clear and confident enough to be director. We decided Matt L will be camera man and Dave will direct for episode 2.

After this Matt L uploaded and edited the title sequence, I set out looking for more music to use in the episodes, Alie set up a Flickr account Tim and Tara uploaded videos and wrote up request forms for tomorrow.

the main artists i looked at were Jharda, Penny for the DJ, An Honest Contradiction and Centre Folds.

Tuesday 19th january

The lesson today started with a meeting with Nick (1/2 of cram creatives). Nick decided it was appropriate to deduct £20 off of each of our budgets due to Mike taking the casts contact details away and not coming in for a day meaning we were unable to contact the cast and Hayden in the other group (Detention Deficit) took the hard drive with all their footage on home and didn't turn up for the first 2 hours of the lesson. Although this was really annoying, i think it was a fair and realistic thing for Nick to do, as if we were doing this in the media industry we would have lost money for being careless and becoming behind.

The rest of the lesson was spent doing general organisation for the filming of the first episode at the end of the day. Over all i felt the shoot was successfull in the sense we got the first episode finnished, how ever i do think that we could have been far more efficient, to make the shoot go smoother i think it would have helped if Tim(camera man) Kirk(director) and Mike(script writer) had planned together how they were going to film so they didn't have to discuss as much on set. Also, although Kirk is very good at organising, he is far too nice and doesn't vocalise his instructions well and therefore people don't pay much attention

I was in charge of recording sound, i also helped Matt record the title sequence.

Lines logo

This is the logo Matt designed for the show, i think it depicts the show very well in a single image. It's the title written on a chalk board in chalk, this is a common sight in a typical detention room.

Monday 18th January

In todays lesson we had a meeting with Pete (1/2 of cram creatives) and discussed the deadline for the release of the first episode, due to both us and Detention Deficit not being able to meet the original deadline of wednesday, it was decided to move it forward to Friday at 7pm. The second episode will be put out on Tuesday at 7pm. These are far more achievable deadlines.

The main task needing to be done was the story boarding Matt, Tim and Tara got to work on that while Alie and i took photos, blogged and helped others in the class and Dave updated the social networking pages.