Production Log 7

this week our main focus was to be creative.

creative task one: 

step one: we were asked to go on to wikipedia and asked to click the random page button. and the page we were given, was our band name

step two: then we were asked to go to a random quotes page and asked to go to the last quote on the page which was our album title.

step three: we were then asked to go on to flickr and use a random picture, the last on the second row, and that was to be our album cover.

step four: use any photo editor of our choice to make the album cover, with a time limit of only five minutes.

aim of the task: to be creative and work with what you have. 

the finished product:

creative task two: 

we were told to go on to http://now-here-this.timeout.com/tag/overheard-in-london
and find some of our favourite things overheard in london. these are good ideas which a film could stem from, or be inspired by. also these phrases could be used as dialogue for a character, and simple conversational comments. 

creative task three:

we were then asked to go to postsecret.com
and choose 2/3 postcards and create a bsr story out of them.

 









story one:
there are two friends. one is a prostitute who falls pregnant, the other, can't get pregnant no matter how hard she tries. the two friends drift apart. once the baby is a toddler, the reformed-prostitute asks the best friend to babysit,and then the friend smothers the baby and walks out. the mother then falls back into her old ways and becomes a drug addict & dependant on alcohol.

story two: 
there is an 18 year old who has moved to london, he's been here for six months. he left his home country because he was abused as a child, so he wanted to get away. he's been in london for 6 months, he's homeless, has no friends. he plans to jump in front of a london underground tube, and kill himself.

i felt this week, this lesson helped me think outside the box a lot more and opened my eyes up to a lot of different ways to get ideas from, for my british social realist film. i feel i have created a lot of good ideas, and the secrets on postsecret.com can be applied to a whole range of different films, and situations  for characters can be easily applied.