48 Hour Challenge....DUM DUM DUMMMMMM

Today Jools has put us in groups which I assume is the same one I will be working in for my group project on Nottingham Makes. This is a test to see how we work within a team and working with new people from outside the Fda Course. The challenge set to us was to see if we could produce a video that would explain the rules of cricket to children aged nine to ten.

For me this great because I am a fan of cricket anyway but the hard part was thinking of a way of showing kids how to play it. The game of cricket has so many rules explaining it to children without it being boring would of been near on impossible. So as a group we sat and discussed what we thought would be the best way of showing a game of cricket without being boring. So we went with kwik cricket which is a fun way for all players to get involved with the game.

The best way of showing this would be filming a small game of how to play it. We want to avoid lots of speaking because we want to keep the game engaging and encourage the kids to actually play the game. The first part of the process was getting a kit which would include a bat, ball and bails and stumps. Once we had that it was a case of getting my kit and going out and filming the whole thing. Because we only have 48 hours to do this I wanted to make sure that at least some of the filming was done tonight to make sure we can finish off and that is what we did.

Tomorrow it is about finishing the filming off to allow the time to edit the video together to hand in wednesday.

Third Year Start

As part of my first week back at Trent I had the challenge of showing my creative work life so far in thirty seconds. For my I found this a challenge because being honest I didn't really know how to tell my story without talking about it? Part of the challenge was to explain myself to someone who did not know me at all. My strengths? weaknesses? and showcasing some of my work.

Having a short amount of time to do this as well meant I had to look back at everything I had done so far. So because I had to explain without telling my story I decided to take pictures to explain myself. So I found a variety of pictures to do with strengths and and weakness and let that build up a overall picture of me. Including this I put some videos from work I have done and this would be used to explain everything about myself.

With this is as a first challenge to come back it was quite a challenge and shows to myself that I need to work a lot harder this year to accomplish what I wanted to do when I come to university in the first place. Personally with my work I always think I have had to prove to myself I can do it.

In terms of next week hopefully I will get a better understanding of the course and what is going to be expected of me for the next nine months.

My Poster

This is my poster which I have produced based on my research. For the title i went with planning a film trailer. Within the poster i have included information on what i have researched. The things i have found out and a little about my results

Health And Safety Video Problems

Issues with the Health and Safety production has led to the completion of the video being delayed. Before Easter we had shown the video to Sally Wain and her team and she had given us a list of notes which would be needed to make sure we met the brief that was given to us. As a team we had agreed to make sure that the video would include more information and pictures that would accompany the dramatisation in the video.

On our return to the placement we had problems with notes that had been taken at the meeting were misplaced which meant that we had to start all our plans for the improvements of the video again. For future productions it is vital to be more organised and make sure we have a dropbox set up to put anything we have done on to it this way any documents we have got will not be misplaced like this again.

In the next few days we will be sitting down with Phil Nodding to discuss the script and the plan will be to then do a bit more filming to help us finish off the video so we can get paid by Sean and Sally

My Small Viral Trailer

Tonight I finally filmed the small viral trailer which will accompany my current research. As I only had a limited time to get filming done I had chosen to strip back from my original ideas and make the trailer a lot more simple. I had watched the viral trailer for the movie "In Time" within the trailer it shows a man cutting a parking metre with a chainsaw. As a viewer you would not really understand that this is a viral video at first so I wanted to make a similar concept to this.

I wanted to keep the same storyline that I had planned but for viewers watching i didn't want them knowing anything about the plot while watching the trailer. At first I used the song "Who are you" but as I felt this could give away a idea i decided to go with a song which is also a bit of a mystery. In the trailer I have shown two of my house mates asleep and a point of view shot of the robber taking the biscuits from the kitchen. The influence for some of it was from Indiana Jones.

The idea of doing this would be to then go on and make a full trailer for the film. This is something that I will be looking to work on in the future.

Survey Results

I have sent out a survey to ask the questions for my research. The results i got gave me a help in what I will be filming for my trailer. One of the questions i asked was what is the last trailer people had watched. The next question was asking what appeals to the viewer when watching a trailer. A lot of people had been watching the trailer for the latest X-Men film but when asked what appeals to the them as a viewer most people said it come down to the storyline shown in the trailer. So this puzzled me a bit it. I think if i was going to do more research into this I would select a variety of trailers and film peoples reactions to see what they think about each trailer. This way I am engaging with my audience and when it comes to actually showing them my trailer I can get feedback on the trailer. When it comes to doing work for third year it will be an area that i would seriously considering doing for my artefacts and in terms of my blog work i can show this.

As people had said they like a good storyline I'm glad i asked the question can a trailer show too much. From the responses that i got a lot of people felt that a trailer can ruin a movie for people. Straight away this made me think about my original idea for my trailer where I was going to have a lot more shots and storyline in the trailer. Instead now I will be making a small viral video which will give nothing away from the plot  because one thing I want to do is engage people with the trailer. The idea would be to show the small trailer and get a buzz and feel for the film. Then going on to doing a longer trailer which show a bit more but still leaving the audience guessing as to what the movie will be about.

A lot of people had said music is important for a trailer. In my original ideas i was planning on playing "Who Are You" by the Who. But because i'm leaving this trailer as a mystery i have changed this to make it something random.

I'm Hoping to share my video on social network and get people to share as a word of mouth thing

My Survey

This is a list of the questions I have asked in my survey on Trailers:

-When watching a film trailer what do you expect to see?
-What was the last film trailer you watched?
-When it comes to film trailers what appeals to you the most?
-Do you think music is important in a trailer?
-What do you think of viral videos as trailers?
-Do you think a trailer can ruin a movie before you have seen it by showing too much?
-How important do you think trailers are for films?

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VGJR6ZH