Project Role

I’m excited for this project as I feel that we have a strong character driven narrative with people that are technically gifted. My role within the group is as the creator and writer of the script as well as co-directing when shooting begins. I wanted to be as open as possible when it came to story so I listened and took notes on suggestions from others in my group, which ensured that we would all be doing a project that we are passionate about. We as a group shared responsibility to location scouting in order to find the best possible spots to shoot. I am also responsible for writing up the risk assessment form as well as aiding on the day of the shoot, be it as a boom mic operator or any other task that need to be done. I as the rest of the group will watch the rough cut of the film and give notes on it to see we need to do any re-shoots or any other changes that need to be made. In the transmedia aspect of the project we plan to have the characters interact with the Face Book page, so we are hoping that the actors will give us consent to use their image as a profile picture. If they happen to say no we are prepared to use a stock image of something that would be if interest instead. I will also be contributing posts on the page as well as another member and if we do in fact receive permission we will have staged photos such as an “employee of the month” with the actors and other typical corporate events to keep up with our parody of the typical corporate culture. I have never done a transmedia project before so this is also a good learning experience on how to expand beyond just making a short film and actually use other mediums that are available to me. The fact that the same Face Book page that will appear in the film will also be the very same that will be available for the audience to visit is an exciting prospect. It has immense narrative potential as the characters from the film as well as others that will be introduced through the page will interact with each other right before the audience’s eyes. Filming should commence soon as all the locations have been confirmed and the script written. The lead has also been cast, which only leaves the two supporting roles. Everyone seems to be committed to the project as I feel confident that the final product will close to my original vision. It is true that there had to compromises due to logistics or creative differences but that was one of the rules that we set ourselves to abide by so I was prepared. I just hope we can keep this level of enthusiasm till the end of the film because working on such a project can be quite tiresome but in the end our hard work should bear fruit.

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