Time Management Update

We have held a focus group for our target audience, we asked them questions about our concept and visual presentation of our music video. We filmed the focus group and have updated the video to our blogs. Also we have arranged our actors for our music video and we are organising when the best time to film will be.

We have updated our outlook calendarr to show when and who we will be filming with. The calender helps us remain organised and plan our time efficiantly, the next step for our group will be to start filming.

Filming Notes

Actors needed: Rosie and Luke

Props/Costumes needed:

• Rosie and Luke's costumes,
• props for the clown and facepaint

Shots of Luke and Rosie (clown and girlfriend):

• Backstage shot of talking and hugging
• Putting on the makeup in the mirror
• Point of view shot from the clown and from the audience
• Action shots of clown (Spinning plates, diablo, bunting)
• Clown dropping everything
• Scrabbling around to pick everything up
• Sad audience with some people leaving
• Happy face when the clown throws the bunting up
• As bunting comes down the clowns face is sad
• Crying shots gradually getting worse
• Backstage shot of the mirror and ring shot
• Separate shot of Rosie and Luke walking by the river

Actors and Casting

Our group has now decided the actors we are going to use in our video, after a discussion we decided on the people who we thought would look right for the different parts and would be confident in front of a camera. We have asked our chosen actors if they would be available and willing to participate in our music video and luckily they all agreed.

We have decided that Luke Evans will be playing the part of the clown. He is a drama student therefore is confident when performing in front of people, he has also experienced main roles in both of the college productions. We chose Luke because he will appreciate what we are looking for in our music video and will not be afraid to look a little silly in front of the camera.

Joe Lacey has confirmed that he will be able to perform the role of the rich man. We chose Joe because he has had experience in school and college productions therefore will not be shy in front of the camera. Also he is able to take part on the days that we are able to film.

Rosie Turner has confirmed that she will play the part of the woman, we decided that she would be suitable for the role because she has participated in college productions, is available to film during our media lessons and will fully understand what we are looking for in our music video.

The table is a 'Time Plan' of the actors free periods. The times marked in red is when the actor are not able to film due to lessons or prior commitments. The periods marked in green are when the actor has a free period. we have created this so that each member of the group knows when we are able to film and can refer back to it. We also realise that we need some extras but we will consider this nearer to the time because organisation of groups can be difficult and unreliable. We will ask extras if they can participate a week prior to filming.

We have also created a grid contaning all of the contact information for each actor, this way we can contact them in an emergancy.

Moodboard

Focus Group Video

Focus Group

We decided to host a focus group with our target audience, this allows us to gain feedback from the group we hope to aim our video at. The overall outcome was positive, they all liked our concept and agreed that it would be something they would enjoy watching. They did offer some suggestions and positive criticisms that we will take into account when making our music video.



Video to follow

After we had talked about our initial ideas we decided that we would create a Facebook group so that we could communicate with each other quickly outside college. The group will be useful when planning and organising the filming aspects of our media project, but also to inform each other when we had completed a task and how we are getting along. This group will help us by allowing us to upload photos, comment on ideas and share other things that we have found. When we have finished casting we will be able to add them to the group and communicate and organise time with them as well. If some members are not able to come into college on a specific day this will allow us to communicate with them when they are at home. This will allow us to make use of our time and make sure that each member of the group understands what they are doing.

Audience Feedback

Audience feedback

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Audience Profile

Audience profile

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Pitch

Pitch on Prezi

Costume/Props/Makeup Organisation

This table shows what costume, props and makeup we need, who is in charge of acquiring it and how much it will cost.

Costume/Props	Source	Potential cost	Person in charge
Suit (patch work)	Charity shops/dads
Wig	Rachel	Free	Rachel
Rings	Rosie-diamond Plastic ring?	Free Free	Rosie Emma?
Props-spinning plates/Diablo	Rachel	Free	Rachel
Bowler hat with flower	Rachel	Free	Rachel
Tight skirt	Rosie	Free	Rosie
Blouse with buttons	Rosie/Rachel	Free	Rosie/Rachel
Posh suit	Joe?	Free	Joe?
Clown Makeup	Emma	Max: £3	Emma

Time Management

We have created a calender and have chosen tasks for each member of the group to focus on for example photos, costumes, props, actors and locations. We created this calender to ensure that everyone knows what they are doing and when they should do it by for the music video. 

There are a number of tasks we need to complete, these are:

Time Management - our ongoing blog posts will be completed by the whole group, these will be used to ensure that all of the group have done their assigned tasks

Research into Target Audience - this will be in the form of a focus group and Emma will be in charge of this. The focus group will take place on the 26th of January at 12:30 which will be filmed and posted on our blogs.

Performers and Casting - This will include photos of the actors and a grid to show who is playing each role.

Organisation of Locations/Permission - This will include photos of the locations, a formal letter to the Assembly Rooms and a risk assessment. Jack will be in charge of this.

Costumes and Props - This will include sourcing costumes and props, photographs of the costumes and props. Rosie and Rachel will be in charge of this.

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Creativity

Creativity - to be creative is to surpass original ideas or patterns to create new meaningful, thought provoking ideas. Some may find that creativity comes naturally others need inspiration.

How can you be more creative? - Creativity comes differently to different people, some find it easy to come up with a creative concept, others find it more difficult. In my opinion you first have to find something that inspires you, try to look at things from different angles and think outside the box.

Where does creativity come from? - I  think that creativity comes from emotions or how you perceive a certain subject for example if someone were to paint a scene from a war zone, one artist may be angered by the scene another may be upset and this will effect how they paint. Also how interested someone is by a certain topic will also affect their creativity.

What role does it play in creating a media production? - Creativity is very important in the media, if there were no creativity then all media products would be the same. For example, the most creative music videos are usually the ones that are watched multiple times because they are so interesting and different.

Sir Ken Robinson - he believes that every child is born creative, that children are not afraid to be wrong and are very willing to participate in most things even if they think they are wrong. Robinson believes that education is teaching children that it is bad to be wrong therefore depriving them of being creative because for children to be creative they must be allowed to make mistakes.

I think that the suggestions that the "How to Guide" make probably do work to some extent, for some people. For example, their advice to learn about new things in order to widen your knowledge, this allows you to talk about other areas and ideas with people. Also the idea of sleep and rest, everyone experiences a lack of concentration and creativity when they are tired. However I believe that creativity is not just something you just come up with out of the blue, it needs to be worked on and improved.