(Pre Production) Week 6

This week myself and my partner decided to focus on improving the majority of our pre-production work as areas of it were not particularly strong and felt it hindered us like our original focus group.
We improved the final focus group by re filming it in the style of a pod cast because we didn't feel we received enough information from our target audience and that it wasn't presented in a format that allowed us to decipher the essential information from our target to a mainstream audience well.

 Instead while my partner went prop hunting for a Sea Kelp bottle and prepping Internet pages for filming, I contacted as many members of my target audience and filmed a vodpox with them answering questions that we felt we needed answers to from our target audience. This new vodpox has been very beneficial as it not just gave us all the information we needed but is presented in a structure which makes it much easier for us to extract the information required.

To still make our previous focus group have some impact on our pre-production we have decided to use the focus group as research as to what a mainstream audience would like to see in a music video and what they'd expect to see in a music labelled with an indie artist.

Our final shooting script is still being redone as we've now inserted too many shots into the script and must find a way to cut it down.The new script is laid out easier to understand for whoever is directing as it color coordinates the shots to location which makes it easier to cipher through when filming.Once this is completed we will begin filming immediately.

The shooting script now though features far more movement and more cuts between the performance and narrative as I felt that in the previous shooting script the video felt as if it lacked pacing,life and energy. The new shooting script better expresses the grief and strain the character goes through while keeping Robert as a main focus point.

My partner and I also completed a Recci on the locations we intend to use so that we can analyse the advantages and disadvantages of possible locations we're considering to use. The Recci has proved very useful as it has helped us narrow down our search for filming locations and will make filming smoother as we can play a journey to each location to film and will help us avoid backtracking to and from locations when filming.

Due to prior commitments I will be unable to film Friday and through half term as I'm not in the country. I've given my partner some shots to try and get over the week so we can begin editing them while I'm away. I will plan out our digipak in more depth and try to get photos of Robert to use before I depart.