Editing the Mac Twins a New Showreel

After using the Mac Twins in mine and Maddie's twin documentary series I have kept in close contact with the girls and their manager and I have been asked to edit them a new showreel as their current one is becoming a little bit dated.

I have used a similar format to their current showreel as we all liked it. I have used clips from some of the girls more recent projects as well as some of their older ones so that potential employers can get a taste for everything the girls can do. I have also added in some of the clips of the stuff we filmed with the girls. I made sure that when I edited the showreel that it made sense and showed off the girls best qualities and played on their USP of being twins.

I sent a copy to the girls and they loved it. The copy I sent them still need a few little tweeks but I thought I would get their opinion on it before I sent them a final copy in case there was anything they wanted me to change or add in.

Production Concept: Map Animations

I want a map animation in my show so that you can see where the presenters are travelling to. I found these 2 tutorials on how to create this kind of thing on iMovie. I am going to have a go at making one myself but then I will pass it on to someone who is more advanced with animation so that I can get something which is a bit different and fits in with my program a bit more.

Production Concept: Getting in Contact

Today I have emailed both Interrail and STAtravel asking if they would like to sponsor my fake tv show and also if they can help me with my research. I have also made a list of Youtubers that I need to contact and found all of their email addresses. I know that I want a pair of presenters and there is quite a strong Youtube community and so I'm hoping that I will be able to get a good pair who know each other and really bounce off each other.

Feedback From The Group

Today I presented my idea to the group and got some very good feedback which gave me more things to think about.

I presented 2 ideas one was the student guide to Europe and the other was a student guide to a gap year travelling the whole world. As I was talking the group and I were both more swayed towards the Europe idea rather than around the world. The group also thought that on hour long show was too long and so this is something I need to think about. I need to research which countries I want to be featured in the series and what I want the presenters to do there and see how long I think the audience need to see each thing for. Simon also asked me about whether or not I had thought about having different segments in my show and I had to admit that it wasn't something I had thought of but it was an idea I liked.

We have got a tutorial with Simon on Monday so I will develop my idea a bit more so that I can discuss my idea with him more.

Student Guide To ......

I'm having a hard time deciding where I want to set this program. I know that I want it to be a 6 part series for BBC 3 or ITV2 but I don't know whether to have the series show the audience what you can do on each of the 6 continents or have the series based on 6 different European cities. I'll ask the group on Thursday what they think.

I am certain on other aspects of my idea. I know that I want to use a pair of Youtube artists who are also students as they will already have an audience, will also relate to the target audience and there will also a bit opportunities for interactivity as the Youtubers can also have extra videos on their YouTube pages.

I know that I want the show to be sponsored by Interrail or STAtravel if I decide the show is for ITV2.


I have also began to think about a title sequence and how I want to present the package.

I have got a lot of things I still need to think about and people I need to start emailing but I'm really glad that I now have a starting point now and so that I have something to focus on.

Dissertation: Tutorial with Chris

Today I had my first tutorial about my dissertation with Chris I went in there with 2 ideas and he really helped me decide what I want to talk about.
My 2 ideas were:

1. How violence in films effect children
2. Comparing film remakes to original

We decided to go down the film remakes route and as I said I was interested in looking at things being adapted for different formats and being introducing to a new audience. I said that one example I had thought of was comparing Charlie's Angels the television show to the 2000 film. Chris liked this and said to me what about looking at how women are represented in the original version compared to the adaptation. I liked this idea and Chris helped me to think about the structure of the dissertation and what I had to include in each section.

Intro
Paragraph 1 - History of remakes and adaptations in which women are prominent.
Paragraph 2 - Representation of women
                       Look at  - Ideology in remakes
                                      Feminism
                                      Gender in film
                                      Stereotypes
                                      Laura Mulvey
Paragraph 3 - Case Studies 2 to 4 examples applying the theory to the examples
Conclusion

I took everything Chris said on board and got out lots of books from the library which I thought would help me with my research. I will start off by having a look through them and make notes on important points.

Choosing an Idea for Production Concept

Originally I wanted to pursue my idea of having a structured reality show based at university halls but after having our first lecture of the year with Simon today I have come to think that hypothetically casting a show like this would be near on impossible with out actually going round to different university's casting.

I have decided to combine my 2 student travel ideas by doing a student guide to Europe but with one or 2 presenters instead of a group of people this way it will be more focused on the places and experiences rather than the relationships.

I will continue developing this idea so that I can present it to the group on Thursday and see what they all think.