final video + feedback

technical strengths: 

camera work: *good eye shot *in focus *great angels *very good choice of angels
production design: *good typography
sound: *music was effective *good *the music was good

technical improvements:

editing/ camerawork/ production design/ sound *stronger script *the end was okay but i think there was a clip that wasnt meant to be there

overall i think people enjoyed the sound design of our video and liked the shots, the main thing people didnt enjoy was the script

editing

feedback

technical strengths: 

camera work: *good eye shot *in focus *great angels *very good choice of angels
production design: *good typography
sound: *music was effective *good *the music was good

technical improvements:

editing/ camerawork/ production design/ sound *stronger script *the end was okay but i think there was a clip that wasnt meant to be there

fonts

these are the fonts we used

premiere timeline

premiere timeline 

footage checklist

footage checklist

shot checklist

shot checklist

script

script

character development - travis/ activist

location risk assessment - travis

character planning - jerome

location risk assessment - jerome

this is the character planning for travis

Travis (non activist)

religious 16-18 year old travis, politics and religious studies student. His appearance is fairly shifty, he wears dark clothing, often with a hat, travis' sense of humor is often described as dark and dry, he dislikes when people try to force their views on him and is a firm believer in conspiracy theories. Travis' speech is often slurred and quiet, he doesn't often like to speak, as his friends and teachers say.      

Non activist character/ jerome

Jerome is a seventeen year old Art student, he studies at six form. Jerome has short hair, he wears skinny jeans, and baggy knitted jumpers most days. Jerome is low key, and doesn't like to be the centre of attention, on a normal day 
he is reasonably quiet. When he wants to, he can be amusing, but he's only funny occasionally. Jerome has a very negative opinion of the world around him, he tends to comes off as pessimistic. Jerome is a christian, he goes to church every sunday, after heavy drinking sessions on saturday. He is passionate about music, and Art, and is also an alcoholic. Jerome is delusional about trust, he thinks everybody is untrustworthy, even the closest people in his life. A confusing trait about his personality is that he is either calm and quiet or extremely hyperactive. Jerome's annunciation is clear and formal but his language is colloquial around close friends. He has no enemies, only a few close friends.

L2 UNIT 40 - MuTr:IX Brief

Channel 4 has commissioned a six-part television drama to be scheduled at the same time as Doctor Who on the BBC. This new drama series will compete for a similar target audience as the BBC’s flagship programme. 

The series finale will conclude with a Christmas Eve special.

It will be a conspiracy thriller set at a sixth form college in Cambridge. Four students individually get tipped off by email / social media messages that students of the college are to receive a government agency experimental treatment originally trialled in 2009 (“Mutation Treatment IX”) which eradicates any sense of protest or activist behaviour in the upcoming generation of the electorate towards the government aim of absolute control. The treatment is received/ingested through the eye, without students’ knowledge or consent.

The four student protagonists are:

1. An activist (hacker, studying political sciences)

2. A non-activist (interests in sport, fashion, a consumer, alpha college social character etc.)

3. A computer expert (designer, programmer, gamer etc.)

4. A budding bio scientist (with interests in human biology)

TASK
In groups, you will produce the opening titles sequence and the opening scene in which one of the four students gets tipped off about the Mu Tr :IX programme.

The titles sequence will contain short scenes of the four main characters with the ‘snatch’ title effect, short action sequences, elements from the series, medical and scientific graphics, typography effects and video footage of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology building next to Long Road.

SCHEDULE
The production work will last four weeks. One week for the planning and filming, with a further two weeks for the editing.
The project DEADLINE will be 4.10 pm Friday 13th December.

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