Week 10

This week was probably the most stressful week for our group, as we were knew how big of an undertaking this project was and we really wanted it to align with our vision. We started off the week by presenting our idea, vision and progress in making our final media project for the studio. We had made a vision board, character profiles and had a very clear direction we wanted to go in for the final product.

We also outlined the roles each member of our group would take in each step of the process towards finishing our product, which we have decided will have the title ‘Situation Tragedy,’ a play on words of situation comedy (sitcom) and to playfully dramatise the story.

My favourite part of this presentation was the table read of our second episode. It was very validating and rewarding when our peers laughed at our jokes and narrative. We purposely redacted the information surrounding the incident so they could find out through the script what happened. It was super validating hearing laughs from people in the audience as it meant that it wasn’t just funny to us but to other people who are well-versed in comedy.

Then, we needed to finalise the casting of the actors, make sure we have booked the studio (we actually struggled to get a response from them so we may need to work with our studio leader to get in touch), and making sure our filming dates are locked in with our cast and crew.

Yusuf, Zach and Nia ended up speaking to those in charge of the studios as it was difficult to digitally get in touch, and successfully booked in a time slot for us to film our sitcom scenes and behind the scenes footage. Once this was set in stone, we put together all our final pre-production documents and sheets we would need during filming (such as continuity/editing), and finalised our shot list. We knew this would be vital for us to utilise in post-production as this was already a very big project with such little time and we wanted to make the process as seamless as we possibly could.