Nisserin Bessioua - UCA Television Production

At the beginning of this unit, I was happy with the decisions we had made in choosing to work in a group as I feel our skills we best combined to make one product. Once we had decided on our idea as a group, this was when my role could really begin as I could start planning some of the different techniques that I could incorporate and styles of lighting. I could also begin my research into sitcom filming styles and I work out what would be a possibility for us in terms of filming and setups. There have been some challenges as well as things that went well with all different aspects of the project.  What went well? Organising: Over the course of pre-production, it has been really important to stay organised as I had multiple tasks to complete.  As a group we decided that it was important we set ourselves some deadlines for the pre-production book as we knew that we would have to leave time for the book to be printed and sent to us, therefore, it was important w...

My role in making our pre-production book was the layout and design. I did this as we went along and as soon as one of the book documents had been completed, I entered it into the book, changing the font and spacing and inserting the pictures and the titles.  For printing out book, we used the company Colour Digital Print Limited. Initially, I called them and asked if they would be able to produce the books in the time frame that we needed them as we found some other companies wouldn't be able to ship them so they arrived before christmas,. This company worked out well and saud that they could do it so that we recieved the books a few days before our deadline so we could check them.  They were a really good company to work with and when I called again with questions about how to lay out the document, they we're really helpful. The margins I chose have worked and no words are lost down the crease of the book, the picture quality and the title are clear. I also think th...

My Role in the creation of our Pre-Production book is the layout and design. This included creating page titles, the front and back cover and layout out the text and images. For the book, we split up the documents each of us were going to write which were all agreed in our learning agreement. Margins When setting up the page margins, I decided that in order to avoid any words or images being lost in the centre crease of the book, I would increase the inner margins  to 20mm and move the outer margins to 10mm so that everything was closer to the edge. Due to the fact that our book is quite a large, I felt that 20mm would be a wide enough gap for all the words to be on the page.  Titles For the page titles, I kept with our Young & Famous font, using this ad heading for the different sections in the book. I also alternated the fill colour for these titles from our colour palette. These were created in photoshop and then placed into the book.  R...

To draw the characters for the title sequence, I chose to use adobe Illustrator. I used this software when drawing the characters for a previous animation for the Fiction Adaptation unit and I found that this worked well for drawing characters.  I first looked at examples of animations also drawn in Illustrator to get some inspiration or some of the things I could possibly do. I also went through the character profiles for Annie and Dean to see what they were supposed to look like because at this point, we don't have our cast yet.  The characters went through many different developments to get them to the point where I felt like the truly represented Annie and Dean. I began by drawing the character Annie, as a basis for me to work from. I made lots of different versions and then asked from the rest of the groups opinion. We agreed that the first looked to young for Annie who is supposed to be a 65 year old.  From this I then changed he...