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.

Dissertation: Dissertation Ideas

Well since my last blog I have been thinking more and more about my dissertation and after looking through my Media A-Level notes and looking at all of the books in the library I have come up with a lot more ideas and I have kind of confused myself.

Ideas:

1) Representation of women in Alfred Hitchcock films focusing on the lighting, sound, camera angles and mise en scene.

2) How does violence in films effect the audience

3) How classification has changed over the years and what guidelines film makers have to stick to to gain the certificate they want. Focusing on films containing sex and violence.

4) Comparing film remakes to the originals

I will keep thinking about these ideas and do a bit of research on them all and then on my Tuesday tutorial with Chris I can discuss my ideas with him and see what he thinks.

Production Concept Ideas

Here area the ideas I've had for this unit:

1) A student guide to Europe - a group of 20 year olds visit different places in Europe and show students what they can experience at each place. As well as the show being about the places we visit it would also be able the groups relationships.
The format of this would be like Geordie Shore where you see footage of what the group get up to but there will also be cut aways to green screen where individuals from the group can say what they are thinking about were they are and what they really think of the group.

2) Student guide to the ultimate gap year - This is a similar idea but instead of a group it would be an individual presenter or pair who are on the ultimate gap year travelling around the world. The programme would show the viewers what places you should travel to and things you should experience on a gap year.

3) Life in halls - A structured reality show showing the life of a group of students living in the same university halls.
There would also be a warden character who would have to keep the group in line and if they broke any of the wardens rules they would have to face the consequences.
The format of this show would be again like Geordie Shore where you see what the group get up to when they are at halls and on nights out and there will also be cut aways to green screen segments where the group can say what they really think of the events happening and the people they live with.

4) Suspicious Girlfriends - this would be like the show Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents but instead of parents watching their children on their first holiday alone it would be girlfriends watching their boyfriends when they go on stag do's.


I like all of these ideas but I just need to figure out which one I want to pursue.

Dissertation: The Dissertation Starts Today

Today I have decided that as the festive period is about time I start thinking about my dissertation. I know that I want to do it on classification films focusing on sex and violence in films as this is a subject I studied at A level and I found it very interesting and I also have quite alot of notes on the subject.

I am still unclear on what I want my question to be but I think I would either like to focus on how violence in films effects the audience or how films with sex and violence in them get their certificates with focus on video nasties and banned films.

I know that with this subject the BBFC will be a huge help to me as they have their own student section on their website. I have decided on a question I will be able to start emailing the right people and hopefully arrange a meeting or go to one of their seminars to help me with my research.