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We have a complete script!!!!!! It took me and Joel many many hours in the library throwing ideas back and forth about structure, camera shots, characters, dialogue. Although it is admittedly still in draft stage, I don’t think I’ll ever be perfectly happy with it, but that’s just my perfectionist tweaking nature. So currently I’m working on the re-draft already, fine-tuning and I feel like we’ve all got our hands full with stuff to do. Which is good.

We had a full read-through with the cast members today, (minus Moon who couldn’t attend, and Shug who needs to be cast still [these are punk band characters, not real names heh]) and I started to see the overall picture. We also had a play about with water balloons and a camera (keeping the two very much apart for obvious reasons) to experiment with how we are going to capture our slow-mo water balloon shot. AND we got out the basics of Linda’s bedroom set to see how we were going to move the walls apart for the Union Jack psycho scene where Linda hallucinates that her parents friends and headmaster are all talking about her, all of which will be chroma-keyed onto a green screen that comes in when the walls part. Which, went quite well. There are still adjustments to be made on the set layouts but they’re coming together slowly.

 

SO, feeling positive and kinetic,

 

ROCK ON

As the new year begins it’s swing, we have been revising our attitudes to the project. Last year it seemed we let things get on top of us and lost sight of the creative aspects of the production. Some of us were somewhat underwhelmed with our progress and with the ‘draft’ we handed in to be marked and knew we could do so much better in terms of creative shots, making tension in the sequences and making it all-round good telly! One thing that we really missed the boat on ironically was that our programme about identity crisis’ for youth in the 70’s had no strong identity!! And this is something which we now have the chance to change. After a christmas vacation full of reflection we have come back together and made some goals which we hope will keep us on track as the pressure mounts in our final term here at the University of Lincoln.

The Goals

– To have more camera movement and imaginative shots.

– Have better paperwork organisation, sooner rather than later.

– To be more positive and ambitious.

– Improve our technical skills.

– Build better working relationships amongst ourselves.

– To give and receive constructive criticism gracefully.

– Be more prepared.

– And to make something that we are proud to include in our personal showreels.

As part of our final year media project, we are mid-way through creating a television programme to demonstrate our capabilities in the television industry. Our programme entitled Ever Fallen In Love is a period featurette made for TV set in 1977 about one girl’s identity crisis amid the punk era. We will be updating you on the in’s and out’s of the working machine that is Nerve Productions (us) and our progress during the conception, filming and post-production of Ever Fallen In Love.

 

Synopsis

Linda’s parents are in the political game and lose touch with their daughter as she strays from the normality of their world and wanders into Punk territory, embodying the fashion and music to impress the punk rocker Spike… Will this newfound way of expressing herself fulfil her needs to belong or will she end up losing what is most important to her?