Monday, May 11, 2009

Unique Factors

The fact that this is shot in first person is not unusual, there is no audio or dialogue, most of the information will appear as text that will be put in, through post production. Also, our project is unique because the character that we are presenting could be anyone of any creed, gender or religion, it could be me ore you and this is effective because it allows us to juxtapose the viewer and the character creating a connection with the viewer.

The film technique that we are employing is designed specifically to put the viewer in the shoes of the character and that is our ultimate goal.

Shot Locations

The shoot locations were then decided on. They include:
1. A Nightclub
2. A sporting event (playing football on the weekend)
3. Playing Video games
4. Watching movies
5. A day at the park

These locations will be represented as a hallucinatory progression in our characters mind's eye. The project ultimately opens up to a whole wave of creative ways to show this sequence.

The Proposal

Once we’ve determined what you want in your final video production, we’ll submit a proposal that will cover the scope of the entire project. The proposal will outline all of the services that Russell Video will provide, the equipment that we will use, and even the price of the final copies.

The idea for the project in its present state is based around an unnamed and gender neutral character who's face will never be exposed, so for the purposes of the exercise we decided to call this personality “X” the reason for this is so the viewer whether male/female can identify with the activities that the said character decides to participate in as part of our promotional material for the campaign. The aim of the ten minute documentary is to present a character who is takes advantage of everything student life has to offer because that is the product we endeavour to sell.

Relevance

Our group initially thought about delivering our video online or to distribute it as a DVD. We considered these two methods, because today students obtain most of their data that relates to uni and even in there social life through online university institutions or communal websites and even youtube. So we therefore, discovered that by putting our content online we would be reaching a wider audience and will be easily accessible.

Relevance

Through research we conducted we found out that content and relevance are the more important things to consider in delivering online video content. Most users rate a rewarding and quality experience a relevant one. Therefore, it is important to ensure that the video content is relevant. It has been suggested to go as far as geographic location and timezone in order to deliver the most relevant content.

Introduction - Purpose

As part of our major project,we were asked to divide up into small groups and produce a small video project of high quality and portray original ideas and make this vision of ours happen.

Our group thought long and hard about what type of production we were going to create, but here are a few that we all mutually agreed on.

- A video on Sydney's night life
- An advertisement for a social awareness such as anorexia
- Student life (SRC)

The project was based around the day in the life of a club DJ, who is trying desperately to make his love of music work with the stress and attention needed to complete postgraduate law – without compromising either of them. The project came to a standstill as he didn’t feel comfortable giving us access to the most personal and intimate parts of his life. He didn’t feel at ease with the knowledge of people knowing about his openness and forthrightness, so this in turn affected the final project and so it was scrapped after one day of shooting. This took a toll on the so called ‘independence’ of this mission and our goal became unworkable. Althoug,h we as a group were quite determined not to let this affect the 'independent' status of the project, we soon realized that this was going to be unrealistic.

We therefore changed our topic to Student life. We as students, know what it's like to experience the stress from uni and try to juggle uni work and a social life. Sometimes uni can get a bit to much with all the assessments, exams, deadlines etc, and the purpose of a student union or SRC is to develop a sense of community among its members and to provide a range of social, political, cultural, sporting and recreational activities in which students can participate. So our video in which we are going to create is soley dedicated to showing students how fun student life can be by helping promote the student union and src.

Hi!!!

Let me start by introducing myself I am Oracle aka Red Fox, formally known as Veronika Andrijanic.

As producer, my job is to create the conditions for our movie making process. I initiate, co-ordinate, supervise and control most matters. As producer I am involved throughout all phases of the film-making process from development to completion of the project. I will be in charge of the following:

- bookings
- equipment (tapes, dvd’s etc)
- cast and crew
- catering
- shooting schedule/ call sheet
- budget
- props
- transport

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