Session 2 - Restart Sessions - Starting Work On The Script And Allocating Roles - 25/4/12

We started off the session by welcoming another two new members to the group.

Recap on the last session:
- Focus on two friends in different scenarios
- Came up with loads of ideas
- Watched videos of other campaigns

Stages of creating a film:
We discussed the different stages of creating a film.
- Pre-production (storyboards, ideas, scripting, allocating roles, actors, etc)
- Production (the pysical creation of the film)
- Post-production (the edit)

Proposal paperwork:
We discussed the proposal form which is needed for the funding for the project. This helped us to straighten out specific elements of our campaign.

How does a film set work?
We did a really fun activity to demonstrate how a film set works and who's who.

Each one of us represented each of the elements of creating a film and stood in a line to see what stage we were currently at :
Ideas > script > writer > producer > camera person > sound person > director/assistant director
               ^
This is the stage that we are at

Then we acted out different roles to see how a film set would work during filming:



Roles:
Everybody wants to be in the film as actors and Djed wants to be the director.

Discussing the script:

The story is about peer pressure, bullying and decisions that a young boy faces to join a gang.

It will be two seperate stories being told at the same time:
- Shot identically
- Split screen
- Message - It stops with us

The story is about a young boy (Max) who's friend (Billy) is being bullied and contemplating joining a gang. Max speaks to his mum/dad about the situation but will it be to late to help Billy?

- The gang wants Billy to be a runner of cash (£1000)

We worked on putting a rough script together as we have a script writer coming into our next session to help us write it properly.

Feedback:
We filled in feedback forms and the session came to an end.