The Filming.

We started doing the filming at our friend Rikki's flat. We chose his place because we didn't know anyone who still lived in halls and his flat looks like halls so the new students will have an idea of what it could look like. His kitchen was the place we are using to recreate a stories we got from talking to friends and what they got up to in halls. In his kitchen we are recreating what happened to Alice and how her stereo speaker broke, the message we are trying to show is that you cant always trust the people you live with. We have a few ideas on how we want it to look and a bit of a story board.

The Shot list.

1st shot - Pan around the kitchen.
2nd shot- Shot of two people talking around a table with the stereo in shot.
3rd shot - cut to one of the people who was in the last shot making a cup of tea and walk out of shot.
4th shot - His reaction of shock.
5th shot - cut to the table with stereo and speaker wire hanging out.
6th shot - Him trying to fix it.
7th shot - The stereo near the bin.

If this goes to plan we want to start editing it and then see if we need to re shoot any thing.

Ideas and Research.

We all met up to day to talk about ideas of what we want in the video and where we have been looking for ideas. we all decided that we should have a vox pop in the video but didn't want it to be all information and advice but we needed something else with it so we said that we would look at TV programs and adverts to see if we could use anything. Also we came up with 5 questions and we all chose one of them and we are going to ask the question to 5 people and film what they say and see what we have got next week.

The 5 questions.

• One word to describe your 1st year of uni?
• What advice would you give to new students living in halls?
• What was your best memory from the first year?
• What the one thing you thought you would never do?
• What is the hardest thing you have done at uni?

We all looked in different places for research the one of the best places we found was YouTube.com. There we found an old channel 4 advert what is edited in an vox pop style which we all liked and said we should use it in our video and put it at the end of the video which will give the viewer the advice from current students.

The idea

OK i have never done a blog before so lets see how this goes. My idea is to make a video for new students who are looking to come to De Montfort uni and are not sure about moving out in to hall. In my first year i never moved out in to halls i just stayed at home because i live local any way so for me i could really give much information until now where in my second year i did move out so i guess i can say what it is like to live with people you like. (well all but one!)

What we want to look at.

We want to look at if the students really felt like had all of the information they wanted from the uni about moving out. we are going to do a vox pop on student life and ask how students coped in their first year with uni work and moving away from home.

The feed back.

When filming around the uni we got a mixed views on people moving away from home from people loving it and were happy to move away from home to other people who hated it and didn't like living in halls and didn't get on with the people they lived with for that year.

i think now our video is going to be more about what advice current student would give to new students about living in halls so it will be a bit like a survival guide.