Welcome to my blog. I'm going to be using this as a way to document my progress during my Media Production Foundation Degree at Newcastle College. Hopefully this will prove to be a good outlet for reflection during my time on the course, and maintaining regular updates will keep me focused and always on the look out for the ways to improve. I am confident that documenting my thoughts in this way will be very helpful for me. I hope as well that you will find it interesting and entertaining.
Anyway, today's update will act simply as a bringing you up to date with what is happening currently on the course. As I write this we are starting the second term of the year, and we are beginning production on our first film. The film will take the form of a 5 minute fiction piece, for which we have all had to come up with our own story ideas. Only a handful of ideas have gotten green lighted, and we have gotten broke off into small groups to work on the films. The prospect of actually working on a film in this way is both incredibly exciting and incredibly terrifying. There is so much potential for things to go wrong at this early stage, but then every mistake made will be a lesson learned in the end. The best way to learn how to make films is to just go out there and make a film. This will be an incredibly important and helpful learning experience for me.
The film which I have chosen to work on has the title of 'Tinnitus', and it concerns a man who contracts Tinnitus and his resulting descent into madness. I think that this is fantastic idea for a short film but we have a lot of work to do. We have been set a task for next Tuesday to produce a draft version of the film, that is very rough version of the film but which can be sloppy but has the general idea of the shots, actors and locations in place.
My team and I have agreed that the best course of action to take right now is for us all to go away and produce a storyboard of how we each see the action playing out. Then we are going to meet up on Friday (I am going to the Ashetica Short Film Festival in York on Friday so I am going to send my storyboards over) and review. We will take the best bits from each story board and use those to produce our film.
I am extremely nervous but also keen to get started. I am going to get working on my storyboards and hopefully we will have a good draft of our film to show by next Tuesday.
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