After having a week off college I have had time to think about who I want to be in my film, at the start of this week I did some more planning of what I want from my film and who I need to be in my film. In my proof of concept I only used one contributor and conducted interviews with them in an intimate interview set up, for my final film I was wanting more than one person or maybe go into schools and speak to some teachers about what they have had to deal with in schools. I think that doing this would allow me to get a wide range of perspectives on the subject of bullying and will allow me to get diversity opinions on it too.

I spent a lot of my time creating more planning and mind maps that helped me generate more ideas and think more about who I could possibly film interviews with and who could help me with contributors. I wanted to do this because although I had some ideas for my film I didn’t have a good firm idea of exactly what type of interview or what type of shots etc I actually wanted in my film and I believe that doing this has helped me generate and creative more ideas for my film, which I am really happy about. For the rest of this week the class were away at Horrorfest and so I didn’t have any time to do anymore planning or pre-production, even though this was a small problem I decided to spend my time wisely by practising with the equipment and different crew member roles.

Spending a few days at Horrorfest allowed me to develop my camera, sound and directing skills, I learnt how to be more of an assertive director and I learnt how to get clearer, crisp audio even when there were people around (public) and noise. It gave me a chance to get to see how others work and the group I worked will worked well together. I  learnt that it would’ve been a lot easier to film and we would’ve been a lot more organised if we did more planning in advance, creating documents such as a location recce of the hostel would’ve helped a lot as we didn’t really know what to expect before we got there. Overall this has made me realise that for my FMP I will need to do a lot of planning and pre-production before filming to ensure that everything runs smoothly, everything goes the way I want to and also it will make me more organised and prepared.

I have planned to conduct a focus group for next Monday to get some opinions on my ideas, get some opinions on whether or not I should film in schools and also ask what other shots and ideas could go into my film. I believe this will then allow me to plan out more of my film and start getting my contributors organised, I am feeling very confident that this will get me the answers that I need to be able to decide what I want and what direction I want to take my film in.

Overall this week has allowed me to generate more ideas and plan for the week ahead, I have learnt a lot of new skills from Horrorfest and I will be applying these skills into my work. I am looking forward to doing my focus groups and getting people’s opinions on my ideas next week.