Im just finishing my CV to go on to my online portfolio. However word has frozen so I decided to come on here and let people know what i've been up to! i spent not last weekbut the week before focusing on my Title Sequence. I rented out a costume and shot my friend Glen putting it on against the green screen in Waverley building. There were some wrinkles in the curtains, and it wasn't until thursday's seminar at uni that i realised how important it is to NOT have wrinkles!! However from using 'video co pilot' I learnt how to use after affects and cut out the green screen as much as you can and as time consuming as it was it was pretty simple. I was literally in uni 10-7 everyday that week just working on the edit. Currently this weekend i've been ill with a really severe cold and sickness but managed to get back into uni today to find that our edit isn't as completed as i'd hoped for. However we all decided to split up the edit and focus on a subject each, I think leaving the edit to one person is abit harsh, and this way we can all work in the same room and more opinions are better than one! I wanted to continue my title sequence essay tonight, however I left my hard drive at uni! I left quite late though and should be going in fairly early tomorrow so fingers crossed its still there!! I've already analysed three title sequences and got ideas from them for my own, however I haven't put it all together to form a formal essay which i plan to do tomorrow night.

Potential plans for final editing

I created a list of what we need for the final editing just to give my group an idea of what we need to aim for...

Intro (title sequence)

Snippets of whats to come

History of Emmanuel (how it began, background maybe some photos etc)

Shots of users interacting in main room

Interview with Natasha about Emmanuel and what it does (formal)

Interviews with users about who goes to emmanuel (informal/formal)

More shots of users interacting in main room

Interview with the chef (formal)

Shots of food and kitchen and serving food

Interview with hairdresser whilst cutting someones hair maybe (formal)

More interviews with users about life on the street (having nowhere else to go) (informal)

Shots of places in nottingham the users possilbly go to, grim shots of streets

Interview with Natasha with a plea to raise money (formal)

Shooting for house Documentary 01/02/11

As director I have had to plan to the group what we want too shoot on our first day of filming...

- Formal interviews with camera and lighting with natasha, and other workers... eg chef, the volunteer in office (hu used to be a user and now works there)

- Formal interview with phone/camera and lights (optional choice) with the users

- Informal interviews in social room with an establishing shot of the room with the users interacting and possibly some close ups of users interacting.

- shots of the food in the kitchen and shots of food being served

Documentary project

Our documentary project had to be based around the subject 'House'. Our group decided to base it around the Emmanuel homeless shelter because that is a house/home to some people in Nottingham. Emmaunel house provides practical assistance, enables people access to appropriate services, offers support to peopleof all ages (16 and over) and is used alot by the 'homeless & vulnerable'. We went to visit them and found out they are being closed down by the end of march due to government cuts. They were really keen for us to base our documentary around them in order to create awareness about there issues. We can't wait to get started to help them out as much as possible. Luckily for us we were told the users of Emmanuel are 'good talkers' and are happy to be interviewed. I think this will really put a strong message across to nottingham to see the homeless and vulnerable really speaking out to try and save this shelter.

Robin Hood Title Sequence

I have decided i'm going to base my title sequence around robin putting his gear on. Im going to use extreme close up shots ending with an long shot of robins full outfit. I plan to create a gritty dark style of Robin hood which is similar to how Robin is portrayed in the Russel Crowe film. I want to add music which builds up suspense and gets louder and louder until the finale of robin hood standing tall and proud. I want to set the scene in a forest due to the obvious main location of robin hood is in a forest.

Here is a link to the batman forever opening scene where batman is putting on his costume, It is similar to how i want to create my title sequence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPSEDXw4ilc

Here's my pitch we had to create in a seminar...

1. My Product is a documentary about Confessions of a Tanaholic. Glamorous and colourful using celebrity Katie Price who will investigate the dangers of tanning beds, the best fake tanning products, the pressure to be tanned and a months diary of life as Jordan without fake tan. With interviews with people with skin cancer, also bring awareness of the seriousness of the subject.

2. Itv2 “our younger entertainment channel, brings to screen an exciting mix of talent, celebrity gossip and young”
• Loose Women
• The Only way is Essex
• Snog Marry Avoid
• What Katie Did Next

3. What is your revenue model? Revenue from adverts ie. Fake Tan, beauty products and hair products. 5% go towards cancer research and 10% to you.

5. bbc iplayers ‘The truth about tanning’ Created awareness to the government, uses Nicola Roberts. Has created the awareness of tanning dangers to the government. Banned Under 18 going on sunbeds. Tries to get girls to feel comfortable in there own pale skin.

6. The difference is Katie still goes on sunbeds so the documentary will be more empathetic as Katie will go through the process of stopping tanning. The documentrary also understands its not that easy to stop tanning on sunbeds, so give tips on the alternative ‘fake tannning’. More positive approach than negative.

Thoughts about Work Experience...

Just working on my essay tonight. Added some things to my CV that i did over the summer. I've emailed it out to a variety of companies in birmingham and liverpool asking for work experience. I chose brimingham because thats where I am originally from. I also thoguht i'd try liverpool because my boyfriend lives there so i could stay with him and it would be fun to try working in a new city. I've created a BBC work experience log in, which said they would email me tomorrow with work experience oppurtunities in the west midlands revolving around television etc so I look forward to that. I've decided for the moment my interests do lie in commercials, mainly because i've only ever created short films in the past. Feature films are too long and look so complicated to make! I've got an idea for an advert that I might try and shoot just for fun. My sister said she'd help out and be an actor, so when she comes down to visit me from london I might use her for my advert!