Preparation of domestic challenge

After much thought into how much work watching over multiple events and groups of people will be, whilst trying to juggle other Uni work, would be impossible, so we came up with only having 3 main tasks for 4 groups of 3 to complete. This way one person could take on the preproduction of one event, leaving another person to start preparing advertisement and the website.

My role was to come up with the preproduction material for our Domestics Challenge. I wrote out a Treatment and risk assessment for it.

However, as is seen the documents, they are not complete… that is due to a complete in our idea once again. (link to that post)

Charlie's Poster Attempts 1 and 2

To promote our event our group decided to make a poster that we could put up around uni and in the general Farnham area. But, it was getting an idea of how we wanted the poster to look. We needed it to stand out and grabs peoples attention but not let it be tacky. Then there was the factor of making it so it didn't reveal too much information about the event as to entice who ever read it.

Casting

On the 10th I went to Guildford to help Charlie with casting auditions. I stood/sit along side her to help make decisions and comment though-out the auditions and after. We recorded the audio of both auditions and then recorded footage of the actors acting the small part we gave them.

Ryan:
- He works well directors on set
- Prefers direction to freedom
- Okay at good at acting, for the drama in the scene he didn't play up to the part. Didn't really move around, lent forward at one point but that's it.

Ray:
- Half and half, likes the freedom and to be directed as well
- Very good at acting, really spoke out and emphasized when the part called for it. Moved around during his acting, even though he was in a chair and had limited movement.

Maps and Journeys New Development and Roles

Our idea of having 3 big events just didn't seem right or fun, and with deadlines coming up it didn't seem right to make groups do those events on specific dates when they could be busy. Instead we changed the 3 events back to an original idea of lots of little, simple events that can be done whenever they wanted.
We also planned it so that the end of the event wasn't the 12th December but the 17th February, so we can run the event over Christmas, leaving time for other people in course to join and the challenges, and the event then runs through our selected gallery time, so we can then put the event in the gallery (so to speak).

Obviously now our roles had gone and we had to think of new ones. Considering Charlie had started to put together the website or base of the event the rest of us took chunks to help with the process. Nick took the Social Network advertisement side of things like, posting the UCA page on Facebook and advertising through his other event, Games night. Kat took the video advertisement, such as making a trailer to spread across social networks, and test footage of challenges to show people that they aren't difficult to do.
And then there is my role, which is advertisement through posters or images, making them and getting them out there. I also took a quick role in making a logo for the website. Not sure where to start we tried doing a poster in a group but that didn't go so well (as seen in Charlie's first attempt)

Skype call 2

In this skype call we had a new addition the group, Nicholas, or nick, as his original idea was similar to ours. So combining yet another idea into the soup of delicious ideas we adapted the new preferred scavenger idea so we had more of a project or idea to stand behind and get nick up to speed with what was going on.

We started off with a small scavenger hunt based in or around Farnham for students and families to join and complete the tasks when they please. When challenges are completed we send them a QR code, linking them to a hint for the next task in their path. The QR code hints will historical as well as mystery hints. When a challenge is complete the people or groups taking part will Hashtag their progress on twitter so it is possible for us to track how well they are doing. Some groups can be given cameras to document their journeys if they are up for it. We tried possible themes, whilst trying to avoid cliché ones. We came up with Sherlock Holmes or Agatha Christie. Of course this would all be free to take part in as too encourage large families and students to take part, this could also help first year students get out and about, helping them get used to their new surrounds as well as possibly learn more about Farnham (without knowing).

Then after more talking our idea evolved again, this time aiming at just students and to be completed within a month (before deadlines) which would lead up to a final prize. Each challenge would be based around struggles or common experiences with being a first year student. Keeping the Hash tags to keep eye on progress and for evidence at the end of the event which will also help with tallying each group’s points to see who has won. Again groups will be given cameras or be able to use their phones to record the events that took place. And this time we'll have posters that will link to a countdown to hopefully intrigued people to into seeing what this mysterious event will be and get them too sign up.

Here are the reference links that we shared to each other for some inspiration:

The Compound (password: RECON) :

http://www.hhncompound.com/recon-missions/

http://34cnwa8tset14zelr18yqnok.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/9.20.Survival.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaC40HPXkUU&list=UUoocMG5lMACNKgpvqKay2lg

https://www.urbanquest.com/

Skype call 1 (with group)

A couple of days ago our group, consisting of Charlie, Katherine and I, has a Skype meeting to discuss our ideas for this project. Once altogether and talking we started the lengthy process of deciding what we were going to make. Putting our ideas together and developing them further we had the idea to make a small room which contained a little platform for someone to stand on, which had controls (we weren't sure on what kind) and the walls would be were the story adventure would be viewed around the subject in the centre.

The discussion continued, linking each other with different interactive internet adventures for references and to help with the possibilities of interactive technology, such as:

http://www.survivetheoutbreak.com/ - Story based

https://interlude.fm/tutorial/tutorial-three - click game

http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/11/04/131065426/360-degree-documentaries

http://highrise.nfb.ca/

http://www.ro.me/relauncher

http://video.bobdylan.com/desktop.html

http://interlude.fm/

We also added a small idea of a scavenger hunt, nothing big to go on just the brief idea of having a sort of interactive scavenger hunt to do with the history of Farnham which could lead in multiple endings, as this encapsulated all of ideas into a unique way.

Rough bullet points:

• QR codes
• Countdown - Mystery
• Posters - Advertisement
• Hints/Videos
• Possible fake QR codes
• Twitter live feed
• Possible themes?
• Held in the SU?

Set Design Mood Board

My other job was too create a mood board with all the possible props and decorations for the set we are going to design, this way we have a reference for colours and a rough idea for the props we need to get.
Along with video references:

Mood Board:

Prop List and Budget

One of my roles in the preproduction stage was too write out the prop list and find the budget for the props. Looking through the treatment and the synopsis I picked out all the props and costumes, as well as possible decoration. It's still open for changing around as it's all not set in stone yet.

Prop list and budget

Props:

Shitty mattress - Free

Books - Free (get some from Library)

VHS tapes - 3 from charity shops - £1.50 (Nick probably has some but doesn't want them to be ruined)

Boxes - Free (Leanna has some)

Desk - Free (Find a spare table)

Costume:

Straight jacket - Hagrid 'might' have one, £25 from amazon, £29 from Farnham Costume shop

White Trousers - Free or £15

White Shirt - Free (Leanna has one if they don’t)

Plain shoes - £6

Decorations:

Wallpaper - N/A

Textbook pages - Free (Leanna has one)

Paint:- £25 

Artist studies 2

Cornelia parker

The construction of scrap metal suspended in air, in an empty room with light in the centre, causing what looks like an explosion. The destruction of something captured beautifully in mid air almost like a freeze frame from a film.

Maps and journey's development 2

Before our meeting with Rosie we sat down together to come up with ideas about what to do with all our projects and how to theme them as well as have a good piece of installation art that includes each aspect of our previous idea. Below are the list of themes that we came across when looking into maps and journeys with hopes of inspiring us.