THIRD YEAR BRIEF

The third year brief enabled us to look forward and plan ahead to our last 3 units that we will be undertaking in the third year. I was glad to be able to know about the units before the summer holiday so that I could think about the units and what I wanted to do for them. In terms of the final major project, there is a lot that has to go into that, but the one thing I'm certain of is that I would like to produce a project as well as at least contribute to the writing of the scripts for the project. Producing is something that I have always enjoyed throughout our previous units and I believe it is what I am best at compared to the other roles.

Our first unit is to choose one of two options, designing a pre-production package for either a high budget programme that would be intended for one of the big broadcasters, or for our major project. At first I thought that the high budget programme option was appealing, it would be the first project that wouldn't be constricted to student budget and regulations. However upon further thought I have decided to go for the major project pre-production. As a producer for the major project the pre-production is a lot of the work that I will have to do anyway so I think that choosing this option for the first unit will allow me to really pay attention to every finer detail of the pre-production and produce a package that I will be able to take forward into the major project later in the year. This option also allows me to collaborate with someone else, in previous projects I have struggled with the visual elements of my work, written work and organisational pieces are what I enjoy more and have a stronger capability for. Therefore with this project it would be good to collaborate with someone like Laura, who will either be the director or the director of photography for our major final project. I think that together we will be able to create an extremely detailed and visual pre-production package that would enable us to take it through to the next project very well and for that reason I have chosen this option to move forward with when we begin again in September.