New Progress so Far

After being briefed on what the group has already done I was assigned with learning more about the items of clothing involved in the documentary. Following this I Aaron and Adam started doing Vox Pops in the cold afternoon. The results of this work were very good, aswell as learning the terms for every form of Islamic clothing we were going to be documenting we had tow very good answers to our Vox Pop question in the bag, the group was going from strength to strength.

But as always karma struck again as I was lectured by the unofficial group leader Aaron for not being passionate about the work and doing nothing but moan. I was incredibly insulted by this, aswell as feeling patronised and talked down to. 

The Next group I was given

My attempt at leadership failed and my group disbanded I had to re-evaluate the current groups and choose the one that could get me the most recognition and success. This time I chose based not no the idea, but the people within the group, after several hours of calculation I came to the conclusion that the "veil" group were the most likely to bring success as they had the most willing and intellectual members of the group contained within.

A Coup d'état?

Hearing the news of our leaders' suspension was a shock, but I soon got back into the work and declared myself the new group leader. I saw this as my opportunity to successfuly lead a group for the first time (aswell as the fact that I was the only member of the group to actually bid to be in it). I got together every page of his blog to read through and piece together his thoughts. For 2 days I was arranging reverything that Anthony had planned with the help of his girlfriend.

It was a challenging process, as the terms of his suspension meant I wasn't even permitted to contact him (and vice-versa). I was infuriated at the timing of this event and the hole it left in the team. In a shocking twist of fate I was told that the group had been dispanded completely and that I would have to choose another group to work in.

The rage that coursed through me that day was almost unbearable, in a day I had gone from pssible leadership and great progress in a group all the way back to square one.  

Crisis!

All the progress my group has made so far has been nothing more than a useless gesture! Due to some unforseen scandal involving our group leader he has been suspended for several weeks, I was only informed the day after this was announced by the person closest to him on the course (his girlfriend).

Progress so far

So far the leader (Anthony) has explained what the event is all about, and what we'd be doing on the day. Aswell as giving us the low-down on what would be provided for us. The thing we struggled with most (as much as it embarrases me to admit it), was the development of a central idea to weave the project together. Otherwise we were told it was jsut a "publicity video". The team leader has made clear his objectives for this factual programme as highlighted below:

Shot List

When the crew arrive on the sunday this is some of our shots that will be taken.
Prepairing shots.
We are going film the person getting prepaired dramaticly, by filming close ups of tying shoes, putting on jacket, putting on medic bag, hat and cocking gun.

Reenacment shots
Close up of loading a magazine
Long shots
Action shots when poeple are running and shooting

treament

my treatment is

• What it is our documentary- it is about a middle aged house wife who goes out to WW2 reenactments
• Where is it - it is at bury
• How are we going to do it - we are going to start of with a boring everyday house wife who lives at home and cut to snippets of the reenactments to grab audience attention. This should confuse the audience and make them want to know more. And the reenactment will be done in a saving private ryan sort of feel.
• Why are we doing the documentary- The documentary is to show people that an average evey day person could be interesting
• When are we shooting - we will be shooting on the 29th of may

Recce

top end of railway

Middle

Bottom

Lights

There will be plenty of light as it will be outside and there will be no need for electrical assistance.

Meaning there will be no cable left around and nothing pluged in.

Sound

There is going to be trains but not as the reenactment is happening so thats good.

There will be an audience so that may disrupt the sound although it shoundn't disrupt to much as there are some load bangs.

Access

The crew know how to get there they are being picked up at 8am and will be taken home at the end of the day.

We all have each others numbers so contact isnt a problem

There is a carpark on sight.

refreshments are available.

and there are public toliets around.

ITS A TRAIN STATION!!

Crew

Everyone knows the plan meet at 7.30am at the back of vue and bring waterproofs, food/money

I will have already taken the kit there

The Group I've been given

Thouh my Idea didn't make the final 6 I still had the complex task of choosing the group I| wanted to work with, it was not a decision to be made lightley. If I chose a group I wasn't happy with I would suffer the consequences for the rest of the term. So I created a small questionnaire for each group leader. No more than 3 questions were used, I asked every candidate these questions nad each of them gave me an equally long set of answers here where the replies I got from alot of the group leaders: 

Sammie: Seemed generally uninterested in what I had to say, and seemed very unenthusiastic about the idea she'd successfully lobbied for. Nothing really struck me as interesting about her Idea it seemed as though she just wanted to make another documentary about a man in a tough occupation. Sammie also seemed distracted during the process repeatedly asking me the questions I asked. 

Charlotte: Asking the questions to Charlotte was an "interesting" process. Although her idea had an interesting hook ot it (a documentary about salsa dancing), all she seemed to grasp about the project was the idea, when I asked her about the many trivialities of it i.e.style, locations, cast, purpose she seemed confused as if she didn't really know what she had successfuly put into production. 

Emily: Emily seemed again stuck initally to just the idea, I completely understood why she lobbied for it and thoguht that it was a noble thing to do, but she had the same problem as the tow leaders mentioned above, she had no enthusiasm for what I asked her about, it seemed as though she had bitten off more than she could chew. The only passionate display i got from Emily was hte fact that it was a subject close to her heart. 

Noreen and Sal: Possibly the shortest set of questions of all the group leaders, I couldn't quite beleive how eager they where to end the questionning, it seemed as thoguh they again where not very passionate about what they where about to do, although both Sal and Noreen seemed to have a good understanding and idea of what they where going to produce, they seemed to again lack enthusiasm and passion, the only shred of which came across for the same reason as Emily, that it was a subject close to them and their hearts. 

Anthony: It goes without saying that Anthony was the most passionate of all the candidates. He was the candidate with the most developed ideas, he showed me audio files he'd thoguht of using for lyrical content, sent me pictures, even went as far as giving me contact details. 


In the end It was down to me to give my reasons and fight for a place in Anthony's group, by the sounds of things I did just that with an email that in mr Jamie Holmans' words was "the only one in the class that was two pages long". Success I had the group I wanted