Upon developing the idea for Classified, the story me and Luke are developing and telling through transmedia, we discovered a lot about our own abilities and techniques that we have developed over the two film courses we have done together. We have been able to single out the importance of certain characteristics of our story and emphasise the way we tell it visually and through text. The added idea of transmedia story telling made a smooth process in figuring out the way our story played out. The first step was to map out our story in pros and get a strong understanding of the events, characters and actions that make up the story. This process was a tad lengthy in itself but it was vital that we ensured we put the most specific and important detail into each statement or story progression. This did help us immensley when we went to figure out our pitch and making the trailer and poster.

We ended up going for a political thriller story about the British monarchy, the Scottish independence vote and a detective figuring out a murder. The best thing we could have done was to narrow it down and focus on the murder of the high leader. By doing this we were able to contain the story from becoming too long winded and more specific and achievable logistically. When it was time to organise the way we were going to divide up roles we decide as there was only two of us that we work on everything together and just change roles on each task to who was actually creating the piece of work. I personally had big involvement in the creating the presentation that will be used during our pitch, half of the work on the poster and the filming of the teaser trailer. I think me and Luke did a great job of dividing up the roles and working fairly. Something that probably has been built up by our couple of years working on projects together. The thing I found most helpful was doing the trailer last because we had the added benefit of organising the pitch first. By doing this it allowed us to get a deeper understanding of the story and what we are trying to say and allowed us to figure out the transmedia platforms we could use to tell it. So when it came to the trailer we organised the shots so they reflected the different importance’s of the story.

Overall, I believe that the story is strong and it has big potential to be a really interesting and smart story to be told over digital and non digital platforms. We can use the different entry points we have created to maximise audience involvement and the mystery of the final outcome. The other aspect that I believe makes the story strong is the twist that we have added at the end that will shock the audience and round the story out with a powerful ending.

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