Direction Unit- Research

I have been doing some more research into which scene i think would be good for my 3 minute drama piece. I have found this scene of three of the main characters getting drunk on the proch of one of their houses and thought it fitted well with what i wanted to show. This is because it shows just how nice the area in which the housewives live is. plus it had comical value and emotion all in one. I think i would be able to change it in certain ways.
I will have to cut this scene down slightly though in order to make it the 3 minutes that i have been given.

Direction Unit- Character description

In todays lecture we learnt about improv and how it is used by actors. One of the tasks set for us was to bring in a description of one of the characters in the drama series we have chosen and we were then given a scenario and had to act it out in the way we think i chosen character would. Here is my character description:Television programme: Desperate Housewives
Character: Gabriella Solis (played by Eva Longoria)
Description: Confident, strong minded, 40 something woman who knows what she wants and how she is going to get it. She knows how to handle herself. Physically small but mentally feels she can take on anyone. Only lets certain people in to see her emotions and more often then not regrets doing so.

Past experiences with women have made her grow strong but also stays weary of the same sex and only lets certain women close to her once they have proved they can be trusted. Gabriella would handle confrontation by going in full force, and not giving other people in that situation a chance to give their own opinion, unless that person knows her weak point, which not many do. She is only interested in her own opinion, and no one elses. A man eater on the surface but deep down all she wants is to settle down and find the right guy to do this with.
Has a good sense of humour but can get a bit too personal for some peoples tastes, even though she doesn't mean too. She sometimes hides behind her sense of humour and cracks jokes in situations which she finds uncomfortable, difficult and awkward.
Very spoilt as a child by her parents and has grown up thinking that she should always get what she wants when she wants it, no matter what it is, this also means that she is a very materialistic person, who is more interested in what a person has to offer her with their money rather then the person themselves. Decides who to be friends with by figuring out who can do what for her.

Direction Unit- Research

I have been putting in some research as to which scene i would like to use for my direction unit of the 3 minute drama of my choice. i have found this quite hard as i want to be able to get across which drama i have chosen to the audience but also change some things such as the locations so that i put my own twist on things. here are a few links of what i have looked at so far and thought would be possible with this:

From 8.05 on this clip- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvGNtZ4KGzQ

From 3.39- 5.30 on this clip- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSUwkjyorZU&feature=related

I have chosen these 2 clips because they both have the 4 main characters from Desperate Housewives in them. 

I will be doing some more research into scenes. 

Commission Unit- Research Commission Unit- Research

'Millennium Mum'
This is another idea i had. The basis is that i have someone i know who had a baby in the year 2000 and i want to show how her life has changed since she had her baby. This would include things such as:

• Archive footage: footage of the baby growing up and certain important events from his life so far. For example, first day at nursery, first christmas, first day at secondary school etc. This would be done using pictures and films. 
• Interviews: with people who have seen the child growing up and how both his and the mums life has changed.
• Future: what they think the future holds and how they feel about how they feel about events that have happened due to the baby being born. 

I will need to do a lot of research into the history of this story and make sure that i can get enough archive footage and people to interview so that it is interesting. 

Commision Unit- Reasearch

I have had another idea for my documentary. It is based around the invention of Big

Brother in 2000 and how it has become such a world wide phenomenon. I would also include things such as the amount of CCTV that is now in our day and age and how this has had a almost controlling effect on how society is today.

It would include things such as how we cannot go anywhere without being filmed, whether this is with us knowing or without us knowing, and how it has almost become a daily routine that we find ourselves being filmed for security purposes.

This would be linked to Big Brother by showing how people are now willing to be filmed in order to make a name for themselves and how other television programmes have followed in this direction.

I could then bring in YouTube to this arugment explaining how people have now started posting videos of themselves or friends in the hope they it will become a viral hit and make them famous.

I stilll have alot of research to do for this idea but once i have started i think i will be able to make something out of it which gives information but also shows the lengths people will go to, to become famous.  

Commission Unit- Research

For the commissioning unit of my uni course we have been asked to make a 10 minute documentary about a subject that happened in the years from 2000- 2009. I have had a few ideas for this and will explain them briefly below:

• The invention and introduction of Youtube-  in February 2005, YouTube launched. This meant that for the first time ever people could use one site to upload, share and watch other users videos. This made a instant viral impact on the internet and soon became a huge sensation all over the world with people becoming famous from videos they put up. When first launched it was disliked by entertainment corporations as they thought it would bring all sorts of copy right infringement with it. But since being brought by google it now has over a billion hits per day. 

• Opinions-  This idea would be to have several people talking about the main event in the noughties that meant the most to them, whether it would be a personal matter or something that hit headlines worldwide. 

• Becoming a teen mum in the 00's- I have some friends and relatives who became mum's in the noughties. But for this subject i would like to focus on the teens who became mums and how it changed there lives. 

Direction Unit: Research

I have been thinking about my chosen drama for this unit and how i am going to adapt it to fit my way of directing. I have decided that it may be a bit too much of a change to go from having a original scene in Desperate Houswives that involves a very glossy life style and very glamourous characters, to having a scene which is set in a dingy council estate with characters who are the complete opposite.
Because of this i have decided that i will need to re think what my scene will now involve and do some more re-search into this.