This week began with our regular Monday morning class with Kim. In the past few weeks of classes we've all been developing the ideas for characters and storylines that we came up with. A few weeks ago, we each had to come up with one new character for a soap and come into class and pitch it. We were then put into small groups and had to go away and come up with a story that these characters could be involved in. For this week, we were tasked to write the outline for a full week's worth of Coronation Street episodes for our particular stories. In my group were Sam and Amelie. So on Friday we sat down in the library and briefly planned what would happen in our stories in each episode and then assigned each other different episodes to write. I was also assigned to role of script editor.
So this Monday we had to read out the outlines for our week's worth of episodes. After that, we then wrote a line on a piece of coloured A4 paper that summed up each episode and posted them on the wall. As a class, we then had to figure out for each day's episode which of the four stories would be the A story, B story and so on. This was quite an interesting process especially because Kim told us this is the way storylining is done in many professional programmes such as Coronation Street.
In Andy's class in the afternoon, we were discussing our favourite ever year for films. There were many different answers but most of ours were around the 90s and early 2000s. My year was 1994 because some of my favourite films including Forrest Gump and The Shawshank Redemption were released in this year. Other favourites released in this year include The Lion King and Dumb and Dumber.
On Tuesday, we all met in the DTU for our first editing class in a good while. This class involved learning how to export footage from Final Cut and compress it into a smaller file. We also learned how to make DVDs for clients by using the program DVD Studio Pro for the first time. After this at about 12 o'clock, Adam, Andy and Ray came into the DTU just to try and put Gav off as he was showing us how to do one final thing. The purpose of this gathering was to tell us about some of the new upcoming projects that we will be involved in. The first topic is a collaboration with CPP students where we will be filming their performances at the Arches. And despite some of the crzy stories we've heard about previous years' Into the new performances, it sounds like quite an exciting and challenging project. We were then handed out a sheet of paper detailing the next project that we will all be involved in. This divided us into two groups and told us that each group would be making a two-minute short film on the theme of Home. So, at 2'oclock we assembled in our respective groups and had a meeting to discuss everyone's initial thoughts and ideas on the project.
On Wednesday, we had our television class with Andy in the afternoon. This particular lesson focused on advertising from its origins in Britain with a commercial for toothpaste right up to the present day with the likes of GO COMPARE! It was quite funny and interesting to hear eveyones else's views on the adverts that we all remember whether it's because they are funny or have a catchy tune or whether they are just plain annoying.
Our sound class on Thursday morning with Cammy was cancelled so instead we met in our respective groups for the Home project to collate our ideas and then send them on to Gav via e mail. After this, we had our new Web and Mobile Technology class with Adam in the DTU. In this we continued the discussion about how this new wave of mobile techonology is going to affect the film industry. We also briefly discussed The Virtual Revolution, a show we had been asked to watch for this week's class. This class is always quite exciting and frustrating at the same time when we always reach the same conclusion: no one knows yet of the correct business model for the combination of film/television and the internet.
Our Friday screening this week was the original version of King Kong. I actually found this very entertaining and it was a really good watch. I've not seen the recent remake of the movie so I can't compare them but the story was very fast moving and gripping. It was also funny to see the movie which, at the time, was regarded as too shocking and had to be censored when it was re-released several years later.
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