Research Texts

What happened in the opening scene?
In the first few minutes of silent witness season 9 episode 2 (Choices) we see a club owner (Mr Modest) giving his girlfriend an engagement ring, and then exiting the car to enter his club, we then cut to a scene of an all black 4x4 left running around a corner from the club Mr Modest owns, "thats them over there" is heard in a carribean accent from the window of the 4x4 we then see a black males hand come out of the window of the car brandishing a Mac 10 or "bigmac" as it is so oftenly called, then a slow motion scene of the men in the car shooting uncontrollably into a crowd of partygoers, bouncers and Mr modest himself. We see Modest's fianceé fall to the ground after being shot in the head.

Who where the characters involved in the opening scene?
Ainsley Modest, the Gunmen, Terry Bannard and other bouncers and, Helen Roach

Who was the primary audience for these episodes?
due to certain aspects of this program, I feel that it is aged at the middle aged gap and more specifically the 35 to 55 age gap we can see this because of the way teenagers are portrayed, not only that but the crumminess of the slang that is used, but i do feel that this is the delivery of the scripts fault not the actual script itself. but this does lead me onto the style of elder people talking about younger people.

Sherlock
In the opening scene of Sherlock A Scandal In Belgravia, we see sherlock meeting watson and moriarty, moriarty tries to blow all three of them up, and then gets sherlock and watson almost shot aswell.

In the opening scene we see Sherlock, Watson and Moriarty.

I think that the primary audience for this show was aimed at almost all ages! from 16-60 the onlry reason i say this is because Sherlock Holmes originally written as a book could be read by anyone, and even in the actual production its not as risqé as it could have been, (even though there was some partial nudity) there was no strong drug reference even though in the original novels Sherlock was an opiates addict.
the secondary audience was literally everyone, infact, Sherlock appealed to almost everyone regaurdless of age, sex or gender.

I particually liked the text coming up on the screen from when sherlock is texting or even
trying to unlock the 'Womans' phone.
I disliked how much the story had fallen away from the original novels even though it hadnt strayed too much.

Edge Of Darkness

In the opening scene of compassionate love we see a meeting of 'eco warriors'and on the other end of the spectrum we see her father having a quiet

understand the requirements of working to a brief

The brief we had to work toward was for our film to be 10 seconds long, include and E4 logo and then also be appropriate for the demographic group that would watch E4, this would be a teenager in a middle class family. We then double checked that we had done so by putting our videos on various social platforms such as social networking sites, viva voce’s , focus groups and written reports on the subject at hand. We used others feedback to help us reach this, for that we used questionnaires. Not just on paper but on survey monkey too!

During the planning to our film we had to think about copyrighted material, when we could use the sports hall for our original idea, when this backfired we had a lot less to worry about, we did have to make sure that we could film in the college corridors and what time they were least busiest to make our video even better (or just less disturbance) The equipment we used needed little planning or organising as we were just using handheld cameras and a tripod, but for our first production (space invaders) we had to use a jib, this was obviously going to be more difficult to get the equipment we needed to use. Other issues we encountered was not having enough talent release forms for our original production that then went wrong and we had to change the video that we were going to finish off.

We managed our time fairly well, we only had Wednesday mornings free to use the gym when doing “space invaders” this then obviously overlapped with talents lessons and other stuff involving cast and crew, so obviously a certain amount of time keeping was needed for our video to run smoothly. The work load, however was another issue, we had only got half the video done in a little under an hour, this was because of the amount of people we had to organise for our space invaders video, but on top of that we were still on top of everything that we needed to be, e.g. being allowed to use the sports hall when we did, what copyrighted material we couldn’t use and also what OFCOM and ASA would and wouldn’t allow us to do in our Esting. The space invaders unfortunately did not pull through and we had to change our idea at the last minute, that’s when we came up with the idea of “punch” this was when Alex got punched by Zac then flew back into some lockers and somehow spawned an E4 logo from no were. This was basically the same as the last video in terms of a stop motion animation, Time keeping was both less and more of an issue, on one hand we had to be careful of how long we actually had to film but at the same time it was only two people who had to be filmed so it wouldn’t be too hard to film them both in a short amount of time. The appraisement we had received off of our teacher was both about the camera movements that I had taken, this was the 180 degree spin when Alex had gotten punched by Zac this then was followed by Alex jumping in every shot this then looked like Alex was flying from being punched so hard. On the other hand we did receive feedback about the camera being a little jumpy from time to time.

The feedback we received of the public was mostly positive, mostly about the various camera angles and the different techniques we had used, even the almost none existent storyline came up once or twice. On the other hand we had received more comments about the jumpiness of the camera, not only this but another complaint about how they couldn’t understand the story line; this was somewhat annoying as we had earlier received a compliment about the story line, so now do not know what to do about our narrative. We also got some feedback saying that our video fitted the narrative well; this was obviously good to hear, as we were working toward the narrative that had stated that.

If I did go on to work in the media industry I would probably make sure that I had a good repertoire of actors I could trust before trying anything that would require more than a few actors, not only this but I would also keep an eye on the time I had to film and edit and publish certain videos.

There are different ways briefs can be shown, one is Contractual, Contractual is when the brief is outlined in an employment contract, an example of this is when a man or woman is asked to create a production for a company. Negotiated is when you need to work collaboratively with someone to make the brief and discussing and agreeing things together. Formal is when a client explains what they want and their requirements to you in a meeting where as informal would be when the client discusses these over the phone. Commission is when a work person is requested and they do a contract. Tender is when companies are sent briefs via post or email.