Rebecca Barrett - TV Production blog

In this lesson we learned all about how to shoot interviews, were taught multiple key things as well as terms and explanations. VOX: A type of interview commonly used when interviewing people in the streets, which is most commonly seen in news segments or surveys. Not very representative/doesn't add much to story Useful is story is engaging. I nterview tone/style: Depends on subject matter Hard exposure : Investigative Informational : Puts audience in the picture Emotional : Engaging and revealing the subjects and emotion 'Proper' interviews: Add personal experience and expertise to the film Adds colour and context Emotional engagement Evidence - personal testimony Who is needed for interviews? Experts - Scientists, doctors, lawyers - Professional opinions and relevant to subject Ordinary people - interested - relevant to subject Officials - Appointed representatives What to ask? Explore subject being tackled Get to know interviewe

For our contextual research, we had to look at 2 different TV dramas that helped to influence our work. One TV show I decided to look at was 'The Fall', which is a British-Irish crime drama that follows a police detective as she tries to hunt down a serial killer in Belfast who lives the double life of a serial killer at night, but an honest and caring family man during the day.  I decided to choose the 'The Fall' as a show to look at as the TV series focuses on psychological horror which is the premise of my chosen scene remake from 'The Strangers'. The series is particularly clever in the way it portrays Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan’s character). Instead of being a cliché serial killer programme where it follows the serial killer through his killings, it instead does a great job at contrasting his character during his family life during the day and then his killing spree at night. An example of the contrast is also something I wanted to capture in

In this workshop, Simon showed us different styles of editing within a film and told us that editing is unique only to film making as it is known as 'invisible art'. The three main types he spoke about were: Editing  = joining shots together to make a long sequence that shows a complete story Continuity editing Montage Editing enables emotions, drama, rhythm and action through story-telling. Up to the early 2000's, film was still being edited through splicing it together with sellotape. This was because: 'Economics of story-telling' A single cut could take several minutes Less cutting before 1990's - 'slower' pace / more editing = 'quicker' pace Linear editing: One shot is edited to be one after another to be in order, however, because of the way films were edited back then, the edits cannot be moved unless the editor wants to start again. Non-linear editing: Combined freedom of film edits and the speed of video editing French

So, what went well in this project?   To begin with, I am extremely proud of this project, as even through all the stress and late nights working things out, I’m really happy with the final piece overall. I feel as a director I did well in getting exactly what I wanted from my actors on the filming day. And while it was very stressful arranging the actors, especially with the very last minute changes of the male actor dropping out a few days beforehand and one of my female actresses dropping out that morning, my remaining female actress, Alexandra, was very understanding with it being my first time directing. She was very kind and gave her all in her role. After filming was done we exchanged emails back a few times where we were both please with each other and both expressed interest in hoping to work with each other again. When it came to the shots I wanted, I managed to get all of the ones I wanted, as well as some fantastic choices we decided to add in. Throughout editing

For directors, one of my two chosen directors is Greg Mclean. He is an Australian director who has directed seven films from 2001 to 2017. I picked him as I recently watched ‘The Belko Experiment’ – an action/horror/thriller film that focuses on the social experiment of how average everyday react to being told to murder each other. Greg’s directorial decisions in the film really helped to influence how I created my film. One of the decisions that are clear in this film, is how he really focuses on the character performance as the workers slowly begin to mentally collapse as they realize that they have to murder to stay alive. Also, even though the film is made of a huge cast, he still manages to develop the cast to make them relatable to the audience even though they may not have as much time in the screen as a normal horror film would take it. This is something I took into consideration when making my scene; I really wanted to develop my characters enough to make them relatab

For my casting, we were told by Simon to use either Mandy.com or Starnow to find our cast for the project. I decided to use Mandy.com as it gave us the option to find actors who were more professional. After I posted my ‘job’ on Mandy, I received an audition for the role of ‘Baby-Doll’ and I accepted her straight away as I was worried about not receiving enough auditions for the roles.  For my other roles, two other actors from Mandy applies for my remake, but unfortunately, a few days before filming began, I received an email from my male actor who was originally planning on coming back to London that morning from Italy (he lived in London, but was in Italy at the time for a job), who said that he would no longer be able to make the date due to taking a paid job that morning. Luckily for me, one of my old friends from secondary school was free for that day and was also interested in the shoot as it benefited his photography course. My other female actress (the second to apply) emaile