Fiction Adaptation: NARROWING DOWN IDEAS

To research more into my Fiction Adaptation piece, I decided to add some more notes to the poem so I could paint a clearer picture of what I want to film. As my film is quite abstract I felt it was hard to write down on paper my intentions, therefore I have shown some videos below of what things I want featured in my film. 

First of all, I want there to be metaphors featured heavily throughout the poem, and I want to film things such as ink,bubbles, and glasses smashing on the floor in slow motion. 

Below I have posted a video of in in a glass being poured into water in slow motion. When I film this I want to edit it in after effects to flip the colours so the ink is white and the background is black, this is so when it flashes on the screen when talking about the soldiers dying it will look weird and unpleasing to the audience. The ink is meant to represent the soldiers falling down in the war and ruining the whole 'beautiful day' scenario and atmosphere I am going to create. 

Throughout the rest of my film I want to use abstract techniques like the ink being poured - but use other objects such as showing glass smashing in slow motion and bubbles popping. This is to represent all the wonderful people being killed and broken, showing the two different sides of the 20's - one is happy and untouchable, the other is shattering by the minute and being killed.

My main character Nancy is going to be celebrating summer and the general life carrying on, whilst her husband is going to be showing the other side of the 20's - however his character is mainly going to be metaphorical and only shown in person towards the end, I am going to use flashes of the ink/smoke/glass smashing as a representation of him.

Below, I have written some more details about my poem.

When reading the poem, I thought of a summer back garden party, however thought it would be difficult to dress that many people so decided 3 friends drinking tea and laughing together in their garden would be a suitable compromise and more realistic.

As the 20's costumes are quite simple compared to 50's styles I found it quite easy to find dresses and hair pieces from the 20's which I could buy for my 4 female characters. I have also been practicing ''The Marcel Wave'' and some 20's makeup on myself so when I film I have the hair and makeup practiced to do on my actresses.

Here are the links to the products I will buy once I find out my actresses sizes.

1)

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-1920s-Look-Flapper-5-tiers-Swing-Fringe-Cocktail-Party-Evening-Dress-/261549359520?pt=UK_Women_s_Dresses&var=&hash=item3ce58e81a0

2)

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Black-1920s-Cloche-Hat-/121340243763?pt=UK_Clothing_Masks_JD&hash=item1c40712f33

3)

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-1920s-Gatsby-Flapper-Feather-Headband-Dress-Hat-Headpiece-DOWNTON-/141282973990?pt=UK_Clothing_Masks_JD&hash=item20e51f1926

Below is a link to the Prezi.

Digital News Production: SHOOTING SCHEDULE

I decided to create a filming schedule for all our filming dates so it would be easier for the group and I to know what we're doing and when and also what to take and so we can check it off. I tried to include as much information as possible.

In conclusion, if I did this again I realised I should of wrote a contact number on the schedule, so we all had a copy of everyones number and contributors numbers so that if we needed anyone we could contact them straight away.

Here is the filming schedule I made.

Digital News Production: Presenter Script Draft 2

Presenter Script Draft 3

Digital News Production: THE COBTREE YOUNG FARMERS CLUB

I decided to do some further research into the Cobtree Young Farmers Club so that I knew what exactly they did and what we would need to know when we film there.

The Cobtree Young Farmers Club is a mixed aged group between 10 and 23. The group meets at Kent Life every saturday and learn about animal needs and how to look after the animals. The youngsters get right into the business and get a hands on look at how to look after the animals. The farm not only teaches the youngsters all they need to know about farming, it also holds an event called the Kent County Show, where the members get to look after their own animals and try win some prizes. 

After looking at this information about the Cobtree Young farmers club I think we will be able to go to Kent Life and talk to the group, asking them if they do want to get into farming in the future and if it's something they really enjoy doing. We can also include actuality in our news piece with our reporter getting involved in the activities they do and also feed the animals. 

Digital News Production: HUGE UPDATE!

Unfortunately after a long wait, our group decided we needy to change our package story completely. Our contributors had got back to us way to late and we was running out of time. Hugh Lowe Farm told us that there farm was no longer growing their strawberries as the season had ran out and we would have to wait till next summer, which of course, we couldn't do.

Our group decided we would leave the Hugh Lowe Farm story and move on to back up ideas. Charlie found vegbox.com and we was going to create a story on why organic food that gets delivered in box's to your house, is healthier and cheaper than food from the markets. However, they got back to us and told us that we couldn't as their season had also ended.

We became stuck and wondered what we could actually do that's nature based that would still be running.

We began thinking, does it have to be literal food? Or can we look at the other side of farming - the animals. This let me on to finding kentlife.com . A farmyard that had a large variety of animals and a huge farm to film. I began searching through their website and luckily came across and group called the Cobtree Young Farmers Club. The club are a bunch of kids and teenagers of all ages that meet at the farm every Saturday. They get taught husbandry, agriculture and animal needs and they help out with the farming there. I discussed this with my group and we decided we could do a story about why we need more young farmers in the world, and how the Cobtree club is helping this happen, encouraging young people to get into the farming industry.

I immediately began contacting a media coverage woman called Leah Taylor, we sent emails back and forth each other and she was really interested in being part of the project!

Our group began planning our story and changing our script round to fit Kent Life.

Digital News Production: OUR PRESENTER

After Auditioning Samantha for our presenter and reporter, we all decided we would love to have her as our presenter. She had the correct tone of voice, read and remembered the script, and had a really friendly manner when saying the lines. Originally we wanted her for our Kent Life piece. However, we decided she fit the role more for our presenter and portrayed the look we wanted for our Nature channel.

Samantha was really happy to be part of our production and agreed to our filming dates for the green screen. We sent her all the necessary information and the scripts and just needed to wait for the day to come! We asked Samantha to have her hair down, wear a smart casual blazer, a black skirt and a plain white blouse underneath. We wanted the face of our news show to look casual but still be smart enough to be on the news.

Samantha Scott.

Digital News Production: COUNSELLOR CHRIS IVINE

As our group became more wary we don't have any experts to interview at Lodge Hill any more, I decided to try look more into the background of RSPB and the communications officers. Helen sent our group a link http://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/green-light-for-lodge-hill-22970 So I decided to look into it. I came across a Counsellor called Chris Ivine. Chris worked for the medway council, however he decided to leave to go to UKIP because Medway council said they wasn't going to build on Lodge Hill, however changed their minds. The reason he left is because he is extremely passionate about the nightingale site and didn't want it to be torn down. I went on his twitter website and finally got a contact email I could use through his website.

Twitter page: @CGI247

Website: chrisirvine.wordpress.com

His website held many posts about Medway Council, the nightingale site, his dedication to trying too make sure the site didn't get torn down, and many more.

I also read the article below and watched his speech to the planning committee about Lodge hill which was quite interesting.

http://chrisirvine.wordpress.com/2014/09/04/my-speech-on-lodge-hill-to-the-planning-committee/

I decided he was the perfect candidate to interview about the site becoming built on. I decided to contact him and ask him to be part of our production. Here is the message below.

I thought even though we may have someone to interview, we could still also interview the petitioners, to make the atmosphere in our live piece more interesting and maybe get the audiences attention. I've decided I'm going to do some more research to find some petitioners.

Until then, hopefully Chris will get back to us.