It was really refreshing to listen to what everyone else in the class was doing for their Project. There is a real diversity which was nice to see, it seemed that genre was a key concept in a few group projects but others tackled ideas like specifically pre-production elements or character development.

One idea that I picked up from another group was having an editor for the script writing, someone who would go through the script, edit in and out different things, making sure the flow was there, having a more technical perspective to that of the main writer. I really like this idea and think implementing that into our plan would be beneficial. As I have figured out in this course, the more pre-production you do the better and faster you can work through the actual production, which in a time critical project like this is a big help.

At the moment we are all writing a separate script for each character, once we have done that, if we simply pass it to the left around a circle and the all edited one, marking up certain things adding notes, checking the flow of dialogue it might help refine some of the rougher points in each episode. It would also help us to take a step back from the project and analyse it from a distance.

Another idea that was proposed was to broaden the differences in the way that one goes about creating media. There is the classic Write, Shoot, Edit sequence that we are all going to be using in our project however some suggest that it would be interesting to change up the sequence. One might begin with shooting and then come back to the writing afterwards to piece everything together. Others might write and shoot at the same time. The problem with this is it might be a more disruptive work flow and may take a lot longer to shoot, which could be a major downfall in our tight schedule, especially seeing as we are working with Actors who are generously giving up their own time to come and work with us. But an interesting concept nonetheless.

A similar idea was brought up in the group meeting we had on Monday with our teacher. From this the idea is being tossed around that the Mockumentary genre should actually be filmed parallel to the filming of the other genres. I personally like this idea because it would easily give it the right stylistic elements, have a kind of behind the scene feel with the shaky cam and darting in and out of different locations fairly quickly. Then we’d film the interview segments at a later stage like a reality TV show like Master-chief or the likes do. This would change things up because then a script would be unnecessary for this character, taking snippets of dialogue from other scripts (the only thing that would need scripting would be the interviews to camera).

A few interesting ideas that are worth bringing up in the next meeting we have.