Katie Lovell TV Production Blog

Title -  Run Genre - Thriller  The Pitch  A morning runner strikes up an unlikely friendship with the old man she sees on her journey everyday, but she is unaware of his motive. The Story Run is about Emily, a young aspiring runner who trains each morning around a field near her house. As winter draws in the mornings get darker and darker; however, that does not stop Emily from running each day. After seeing the same older man on her journey each day, she assumes he is lonely and strikes up a conversation, after the old man introduces himself as John their chats become a daily occurrence.  After a change in the air, John seems to become overbearing and intrusive which pushes Emily to change her route; however, a few days later she goes missing. After waking up with John standing over her, all she wants to do is Run. FEEDBACK  Today (21/10/2019) I got feedback from Steve and Simon, i will list below the development points I was given so I ...

Today we had our first Premiere Pro workshop with Ferg, I have been using Premiere Pro for around 5 years and would like to think i was at a high level; however, Ferg taught us the shortcuts in order for you to only use predominately the keyboard which is expected professionally. I knew some of the shortcuts but it was really interesting to learn the shortcuts needed to be able to edit literally of the keyboard. This really will speed up the process moving forward once I competent using them. Once we had gone through setting up Premiere Pro and importing our footage, we were able to edit the clips and sound provided. This was my edit below.

YEAR ONE - CAMERA WORKSHOPS  11th October 2019 Today was our first Camera Workshop with Ferg in which we got to use our year one cameras and learn about sound and white balancing. I really enjoyed the class today as it showed how the cameras can be used to create great visuals. -SWEFF is the things to do and work on before you start filming.  S OUND W HITE BALANCE  E XPOSURE F OCUS F RAMING FOCUS - You can use both Peaking and Expanded Focus to ensure that the shot is fully focused. Peaking uses red to show that you're fully focused on the image. Expanded focus zooms fully in to the image to allow you to gain the focus on a zoomed in spot to ensure it is fully in focus also.  WHITE BALANCE - White balance is used to ensure that the camera is picking up the correct colour of the surrounding area and skin tone. To white balance, you need to zoom in to a colour and ensure it is in focus. The difference in colour you use determines w...

I have started to think of a concept for my short film, both Simon and Steve advised to write about what you know, what you have experienced or what you have heard or seen. In my previous job on the way to work, i continued to see the same Old Man on a bench each morning when i would drive through Wouldham around 6:45; However, after a few months I saw the man less and eventually not at all. This sparked my idea for my initial story in which I can then develop from this.  Title -  The Run  Character 1 - Emily/Early 20's (Runner/Young Looking) Character 2 - John/Late 50's (Flat Cap/Tweed Jacket) Location - Bench in a field - Priestfields. The Story A young girl who is an inspiring runner, spots the same old man on her morning run each day. After assuming the old man is sweet and lonely, she leaves a scarf waiting on the bench as a nice gesture. The day after the old man is wearing the scarf and asks her to come over for a chat. After a one of chat th...

Today we  met Steve Coombes who is an established writer. Within our lectures he introduced himself and gave us an insight into what makes a good script. Steve set us up with 5 Rules to help us within our script writing module: Script To Screen. Within this module, we have to create a 10 page script for a short story, this can be a Drama, Thriller or Comedy. Rule 1: Show don't Tell. You shouldn't need to tell the viewers what your story is about with dialogue. Your script and visuals should be written well enough to show the viewers what is happening and the meaning. Rule 2: Intelligence Principal   You are the CIA and the audience is your US President. Only give the audience what they need to know and keep them engaged. Is the plot something that will keep the audience present? Rule 3: Structure everything like a joke The  Set up, the misdirection and the punch line. Every joke is a tiny revolution that changes your perception. Rule 4: Know your endi...

Script to Screen - Short project. 'THE JOURNEY' Who are our characters? Susie Wells    Susie is in her mid 20's who has just made it as a 'Weather lady' and is kicking of her career in television. Susie travels daily from Southend via Train accompanied by her boyfriend, a studio producer. Jennifer Baker  Jennifer is in her early 20's and is a Secretary who commutes to London from Upminster. Jennifer seeks reassurance through others in her friendships and her many partners. Setting  (Train Station Stop) (Train Station)  Winters morning, 4:30am, Quiet.  The Main Story  Two young women, Jennifer and Susie, share the same train journey daily. During the quiet commute in the early hours of the morning, all that links them is a soft smile to each other, until a poster starts conversation as Jennifer recognises the new weather girl: Susie. Moments later, they discover something else links them wh...

02 October 2019 As we have now received our brief for our very first module, we used today to get our creative juices and ideas flowing ready to prepare us for our own ideas and script writing. Simon set us the task in pairs, of creating 3, 25 worded pitches based on a newspaper articles we were supplied with.  The first challenge set was to create a 25 worded pitch based around 'A Big Budget Film Featuring a Hollywood Star'. As me and Kerry scanned through our Newspaper article we came across a story which featured a young Lady opening up about her finances Dad thinking her families bloodline was 'Mad', this caused him to stop the wedding between the lady and her finance, breaking her heart.  Based on the newspaper article we decided to make this into a drama. Our title for the pitch was 'MAD BLOOD' and our pitch was as follows:  MAD BLOOD  == 'A young Lady called Anne Cook, played by Joey King loses her finances love through his fathers...

To introduce us to our course and each other, we were set a task of completing a 1-2 minute video 'all about me' over the summer. I really enjoyed this project as it was a brilliant way of being able to introduce myself in a style of my choice. I decided to create my video with a voice over, this for me was the best way to be able to show visuals of what I was explaining without this being a video of just me in front of a camera talking. If I was to do the project again, I would like to record the voice over on a Zoom mic, I feel this would of captured my voice directly and a lot clearer. I recorded the voice over on my phone as I did not have access to a Zoom; unfortunately this is the reason to why my voice over is not clear. Here is my video below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnh5OgiN8dU&feature=youtu.be