Opening Scene for “Jenny”
Written by Tristan Sullivan-Quarmby
Actors: Tristan Sullivan-Quarmby & Darren Chang
Jenny by Tristan Sullivan-Quarmby
on on The Pitch Presentation
on Having missed out on the last consultation to deal with some last minute Media 6 dramas, I caught up with those who attended and conceived an idea for the format of our final presentation. We decided to use this opportunity to portray a professional production pitch, selling our package complete with casting details, location information, details of script development, table read-throughs etc.
Not only does this provide us a frame for presentation, it allows us to take an enthusiastic or rather aggressive marketing stance on selling the Absentia series. This means that instead of running around attempting to create a feasible media product (as the other groups I believe are doing) and filming crumbs of a series, we will be producing content that would be provided to potential investors in a real pitch.
In preparation for this, the group has begun to formalise a fantasy cast through StarNow. Here are some of the main characters in my episode, Cross.
Hitch AKA Ben Hitchener
Thanassis Dimitropoulos
Bernadeth Dimitropoulos-Hitchener
Manuel Dimitropoulos
The group also plans on creating inspiration boards for the episode settings, a filmed table read and potentially, opening sequences for our chosen marketing strategy (TBA).
Absentia
on I admit it’s been quite some time from my previous blog post. The hectic lifestyle of juggling Media 4, Media 6, an internship and personal matters have taken a toll on the reflection of my work. Excuses aside, here’s an update on the progress of the Melbourne anthology series, now titled “Absentia”.
Each team member has been allocated an episode (for each character). We have written the opening and climactic scenes of each episode, catering to each character’s individual plights. As our final presentation is in the form of a pre-production pitch, we have no plans of doing formal casting and filming with actors. Instead, we will be drafting a “dream cast” of individuals we see fit the roles in our character episodes.
A point that was raised by Paul in one of our group meetings was the idea of script interpretation. He was curious to see how others would comprehend what he has written and how we would convey them on the screen. Casting each other, we’ve shot some of these to provide ourselves and the audience a visual indication of what is written on paper. Fellow Media student Julian and I have edited some of these scenes and will be uploaded on this blog soon. In the mean time, here are some Adobe Premiere keyboard shortcuts that proved helpful to me during the edits:
CMD+G – group
CMD+SHIFT+G – ungroup
These are helpful in grouping clips, allowing the user to move multiple clips to a particular direction.
SHIFT+I – go to IN
SHIFT+O – go to OUT
This pair is a shortcut for the user to go directly to marked sections of a preview clip.
CMD+D – apply video transition
CMD+SHIFT+D – apply audio transition
Having selected a transition effect for the sequence, these shortcuts allow immediate edit to selected clip/s.
~ key toggles the full screen of the window that is selected.
Ctrl + ~ keys toggle the full screen of the video playback
HOME key brings progress line to start, END key to last clip (never came across these as I don’t have these keys on my personal computer)
the M key marks key points of an imported clip, making it easier for the editor to sort through the footage. These marked areas can then be labelled separately to the actual clip title.