TRANSITION; PROJECT CHANGES

For our transitions unit, myself, Laura, Katie and Sonia created a powerpoint presentation to demonstrate our idea to the class. We each spoke about what roles we will be undertaking as well as the approach we plan to take with the idea.

Feedback
- Liked our idea and were interested to see what we were going to do with it; particularly how we would approach the use of bold colours that they use in Riverdale
- Look at certain producers/directors/editors/DOPs as research to form a part of the unit
- Make sure we each have our own ideas as to how our version will be different from the original, how we will make it our own
- Making sure we still include some drama within the scene



What has changed
After our presentation and feedback session from both Simon and the class, I began to wonder how I can use my role of a producer to influence how we will make our recreation different from the original. Something I thought when looking back at our chosen scene, was that everything I loved about it, the stuff that created the drama such as a big police boat looking for the body and members of the town watching onwards, we had to cut for logistical reasons and I now wondered if the stuff we could film was worth going to 3 different locations for without the sense of drama you get in the original.

After bouncing some ideas around and all of us looking for some alternate scenes, I found a scene towards the end of episode one, where best friends Archie and Jughead have a conversation regarding the recent summer tragedy that was the death of Jason Blossom. I thought that with this we would be able to still incorporate the original scene we wanted to do as well. Katie suggested we could still film the opening locations (river, town shots etc) but without the actors, layering over just the voice over from Jughead where he explains what happened (Jason's death at the river), this then leads on nicely to the conversation between Jughead and Archie because the talk about what the audience would have just had explained to them in the voiceover. I think this is a much better combination of scenes for us to do; it allows us to get some great locations shots at the start, but still brings a sense of entertainment and drama with the second section. This scene will take place in the same diner we had already sourced so this also isn't a problem.