Lights, Camera, Interview

However this is technically something that would be discussed on the writers part, I’ve been thinking of some ideas on how we can make our series, more defiantly a web series. For me, web series’ are supposed to feel intimate, and in a sense ‘real’, maybe better explained as something that the audiences can find themselves relating their own lives, and experiences to. That, we have achieved through the very simple conversational nature between the characters. However, I think we can do more.

One way, which us as media students have discussed from the start, would be the use of interviews, as a way to break the story up, and create a more personal depth to the show. After filming the pilot with Anthony’s script (which we all loved), in my opinion it didn’t feel personal enough. Of course it was just the pilot, and the characters will most definitely grow as the show progresses, but right now, for me at least, it’s lacking that something more. Hopefully prior to the creative writers, writing the rest of the series, we can discuss these ideas we have with them. Obviously everything is really on their part to decide, however, the style of the series is a huge role for us, and i’d love to experiment with something that is out of my comfort zone, and for the record, I think would really suit the premise of the series.

I think what we can do as the media students, is work as closely as possible with the writers, just at the beginning, in order to be on the same page. Even if the writers dont want to set anything in stone, an idea would be to possibly do some improvising whilst on set, like a real interview. We can ask the actors we cast a series of questions for them to answer in the role of their characters, and see where that leads us. If it doesn’t work, we know for next time not to take that approach, but if it does, we may have turned our serial from four stars, to five.

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