Resume: Although the audience think that the short drama is a break-up from a guys perspective, it is not, in fact it follows his journey of dealing with the depart of his girlfriend and how he struggles with coming to terms with her death.

Cast:

Main Guy: Joe His Girlfriend: Chloe Mates: Cameron & Callum (Mate 1 & 2) People at the party: 6 people ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Opening scene:

Joe is sitting on the side of his bed; the camera zooms in very slowly representing going into his world. He his holding his phone in his hands, looking at the screen, the camera angle soon switches to over the shoulder showing what Joe is looking at on the screen of his phone. The camera switches back to mid shot of Joe sitting on the bed (Front view)

"What have I done? I miss her so much"

He then throws his phone onto the bed and picks up the frame that sits on a small bedside table next to his bed. The camera then switches to over the shoulder and shows the picture in the frame, which is of the two of them (Joe and Chloe smiling). The camera then reverts back to the original shot (front view, mid shot) He then puts the frame down softly next to him on the bed, puts his head in his hands and cries.

"I love her so much.."

(Before the next scene there will be memory of Joe and Chloe in the room, being happy)

Party Scene:

Joe is sitting down at a house party (Either his phone or a drink in his hand - UNDECIDED - ) There are 3 people standing either side of him as he sits in a chair not focussing on the party. The 6 people are laughing and smiling, enjoying the party.

Joe is in centre frame. Using a track, we will track into Joe sitting down, soon cutting out the 3 people on either side of him. The camera will then only be focussing on Joe. This connotes that Joe feels as if he is the only one in that room and he feels empty and lost.

The camera then pans around the room and shows that there is no one there, which portrays how lonely Joe is now and how he is slightly loosing it.

(No Speaking in this scene, only laughing will be recorded for background noise)

(Before the next scene there will be a memory of Joe and Chloe at a party)

Living room scene:

Joe and his mates are in his living watching the TV. His mate’s look at one another and wonder how Joe is dealing with the recent depart of his girlfriend.

Mate 1: "So Joe, how’s work going?"

Joe: " Yeah alright I guess, they’ve been really nice about it"

Mate 2: "Yeah that’s the same with my mum”

Joe *nods and looks down at his hands*

(Mate 1 & 2 look at each other worried)

Mate 1: "Joe, I can’t even imagine how hard it must be to lose someone who meant so much to you. You know we're always here if you ever need anyone to talk to, alright?"

Joe: *sniffs and looks at his at his mate with sadness* "thanks mate, It's just so hard, you know?"

(Joe then breaks down and his mates comfort him)

Street scene:

Joe is walking down a street with his mates; Joe is trying to get involved but still distant. As they pass 3 girls he thinks he has seen his departed girlfriend.

He then goes over to the girls and taps the one whom looks like his departed girlfriend and she turns around and she looks at him confused and he stops, looks upset and walks away.

Joe's mates:

"Joe?"

"What's up Joe?"

(Laughing of the guys, girls and birds (Maybe) will be recorded as background noise)

(Before the next scene there will be a memory of Joe putting his hands over Chloe’s eyes, surprising her)

Closing scene:

Wait by M83 begins to play in the background.

Joe stands in front of a memorial holding a rose or flower in his right hand. He then softly puts the flower down on the memorial and walks away wiping a tear from his eye.

Joe: "I love you and I miss you so much"

As he stands in front of the memorial flashback memories will be playing before Joe puts the flower down.

The camera then pans up to the sky and fades to white. From there the credits start rolling.

For this essay I am looking at “Super-Size me”. It is a documentary created only for controversy and for the public to know the true colors of fast food restaurants, specifically the all and loving McDonalds. “Super-Size Me” Has been seen across the world, but didn’t take effect until 2009, even though it came out in 2006.

Ratings are reasonable:

Netflix – 4 stars out of 5 (Red)

IMDb – 7.3 Stars out of 10

It was nominated for an Oscar and won 10 other awards whilst being nominated 7 times in other things.

“While examining the influence of the fast food industry, Morgan Spurlock personally explores the consequences on his health of a diet of solely McDonald's food for one month.” ~IMDb

The story is extremely controversial as McDonalds is getting shunned for their food as it is unhealthy and are making this era of man, obese.

The beginning of the documentary, a wide shot of a group of kids sitting outside, all different race. Ie: Black and White, singing the fast food song, happily. Straight after a quote shows of what the founder of McDonalds said.

“Look after the customer and the business will take care of itself”

~Ray Kroc, McDonalds Founder.

A shot of the American flag, establishing the movie properly starting and also showing the audience what country they have used for their experiment. V.O, With pictures of how America is overweight and obese, which also a small back story of the directors life.

Cover shots make sense to what the director says, for example when he said “bad for your health” a cut away of a man smoking shows up. It is not relevant to Fast food but at the same time it may gain some sort of connection to the audience as this is only the beginning and the audience doesn’t fully understand that Fast food is bad.

Animations are shown during to make the documentary appealing to watch. Timelapses are also shown as visually it needs to look appealing for the audience to all in all feel like they’re right in their argument.

VO, Changes to him walking to the camera talking at 4 minutes and 8 seconds, Obviously all in those four minutes he has explained most of the things that need to get the ball rolling. He then, without saying it directly, explains that he will be taking on the challenge of eating McDonalds 3 times a day for 1 month. He also says the words “Super-Size Me” Just so the audience can feel connected, already knowing the title to the documentary.

Introduction pictures of Fast food, which includes, burgers, fries, “salad” and soft drink.

The whole documentary will circle McDonalds and McDonalds only, with the mention of a few others like KFC.

4 different doctors in Documentary helping along, these include:

Physician

Cardiologist

Gastroenterologist

General Practitioner

A bunch of tests was held, including, blood tests, blood pressure, height, weight, (Bmi) and a bunch more. They also had him do exercise to see his full potential in press ups, treadmill and other things.

At the end of it they tell him that his body is great, all because now at the end of the experiment you will notice a much more drastic change in his physical appearance and movement.

They state that there are 83 McDonalds in Virginia ALONE and are a ton more in Mississippi.

Day 1 includes the rules of how this experiment will work and a bunch of vox poxs resulting in the way Americans feel about McDonalds and they gave biased answering and cut out all the people who said McDonalds was good. Although at the beginning of the montage of Vox Poxs they asked the community where their favorite Fast Food places are and a few people said “McDonalds”.

The had a lot of trouble creating this as they were shunning the work of McDonalds and other fast foods, although without actually saying bad things about them, personally, the visuals of what happened to the director was determined enough to take effect on the audience. Some McDonald locations declined them from filming in the locations and wanted to shut down this experiment but as he was paying for food and a lot of it, they could not decline business. They asked several people asking their opinions in the matter and the majority said they love fast food so they had a lot of editing to make sure the audience knew that Fast food was bad.

The entire project took 1 and a half to film and was then edited for another 2 months. It went off with a hit and got the attention it needed.

Cannon 600D 

white balance - how the colour is interpreted.

Shutter speed - speed of the light your filming at when you either get dark shadows or light lighting.

Exposure -how much light going light dark.

White balance-light for most locations mainly inside depending on location.

To make dark and light change the shutter speed.

white balance depending on location and lighting.

don't change the shutter speed when setting exposure as its the same button.

the lens has to be 100/200 or the most 400 but 100-200 if don't want noise.

if you have a fast moving object make the shutter speed quicker otherwise will not work.

-wide 10mm and 18mm

-28 and 35 but don't use this setting for f stop.

depth field  distance focus length of lens.

-18 mm from sensor everything foes.

-1.8 a lot of light not in focus.

-5.6 wide less.

-10/11 not alot of light in focus.

-70/50mm 150mm dont use.

-3.6 shadow depth more.

-30 for shutter speed.

higher less light hardly blurry

The brief (what was the task?)

as Anthony was ill with the flu me and charlie continued with the edit we tried to make the sound better by putting it to -6 as it can not go no lower but its still noisy so we will add a sound track and see what it sounds like if it goes we will make sure the beats go and export our video put it on youtube and tumblr as our final minnie video.

I had help from Charlie, Samir and tim and now the video is exported.

Individual tasks (What did I do?)

I helped with the sound and will help to sync the music and clips together which i hope will go well.

The Activities (How did it go?)

The activity went ok but the sound can not be fixed as it was not the same distance as when we was recording samirs footage so we will add music to it and see how it goes 

Were there any problems?

There was problems but I have learnt the sound must be over the talents head at the same amount of space as the talent before.

Was time management an issue?

Time management was not an issue as we got it done today.

Were there any health and safety issues?