Session 10 - Planning Filming and Casting - 1/6/12

I am ? campaign:

Introducing Una:
In today's session Una came in to work with us on planning our short film. She works as a film maker and she will be shooting our short film - Young Shocks.

Looking through the script:
We went through our script with Una and she gave us some feedback:
- It shows that you will make good film makers
- It's great that you are thinking in shots
- Really impressed

Some of our group worked on changing some of the dialogue in the script so that it looked even better.

Getting the storyboard together:
Ardi worked on putting the storyboard into a more silmpler way of being able to read it so that we had all of the pre-production paperwork finished.

Discussing actors:
We typed out an advert for a young boy to play our main character, Young Shocks to take around the school and get the teachers to read out at the end of their lesson. 

We will be using friends of other members of our group to play our gang members, who we will get to come along on the day of filming.

Filming dates:
We all agreed that we will film during half term week. We will all meet at Finsbury Park Station on Thursday 7 June  at 1pm and head off to Nicole's house for filming together.

Finding Young Shocks:
A group of us decided that we would go to the drama department and see if we could find any young people under 15 years old to play Young Shocks. We looked in the class and took a young boy, Corey to one side to do a mini audition. We agreed that he was perfect to play our main character. He will meet us with a shaperone on Thursday 7 June for filming too.

We all agreed that we were really excited to be filming on Thursday and filled in a actor/actress permission form to agree to be filmed.

Update:

FILMING DAY - Thursday 7 June - meeting at Finsbury Park Station at 1pm!

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OD on Knowledge Campaign: 


Introducing Animator
The animator had a look at their draft storyboard and worked together on developing, sharpening their current idea.


Developing Ideas
- The participants spoke of showing the actual importing of the drugs, with shots of the drugs being shipped from China etc.
- The participants also agree the animation should include graphic images of the drugs ruining the internal organs of the user, in a humorful way.
- The ideas of using internet memes came from a discussion about their target audience. The participants and the animator researched current memes and how they could implement thiem into the animation.