Music...

As we have used moonlight sonata in our piece we appreciate the fact that this is copyright material and therefore we do not intend to publicise this anywhere other than in school. We chose our music because we think it reflects the innocence of the children and creates the right mood for the genre.

Risk Assessment

We have completed our risk assessment form and found that we had only one hazard, this was not as dangerous as it might have been. We thought the children might possibly fall over and hurt themselves so had to have that as a precaution. We had constant adult supervision throughout the filming so we reduced the risk of injury.

Class Evaluation!

We played our film to a few people in the class to gain comments and opinions on what they thought worked and what they thought could be better. We didn't get many criticisms but were advised that we could have chosen a better font and perhaps a better sound track. But we're happy with the decisions we made and other than those two small remarks we got very positive feedback. Looking at others work we noticed a general high standard of work throughout the clas.s

filming!!

We filmed on 3rd Febuary and the 10th febuary. we went on two different occasions as there was too much to do on one day because we were only allocated 15 minutes each time.

Music!

We have had past experiences with our chosen soundtrack (beethoven's moonlight sonata), because it was used in a production last year and thought it would go well with our piece.

Location!

This is an image of our location taken from a snap shot from our film. We filmed at Westwood First School playground, plus we had the benefit of a snowy day which we thought went quite well.

Cast

Top left is a picture of [name removed] He played the lead of Seth Blake and although we did not get to choose our two main boys we were extremely happy with Debbie Potts desicion as both boys were great to work with. Bottom left we have [name removed] who played
the part of Seths imaginery friend Josh Harvey. Well done to both boys!

Filming....

So eventually last Tuesday we finally got some footage! Was really good, the administrator at Westwood first was great she really helped us and made this whole thing a lot easier! The kids were great to work with with only the occasional odd look at the camera but nothing bad, will be fine with a bit of editing.....which we wanted to do today yet due to so called 'technical faults' its not possible and so our film is delayed even further grrrrr!!!

tomorrow

yay!!!!! we are finally filming tomorrow and hopefully we can get it done in the two 15 mins slots. Last tuesday we visited the first school to establish an idea of what setting we will be filming in. This benefited us because we now know what the children are liked when they are playing in the playground. We can use this experience now to help get the most out of our filming.

Yay

finally the slips are back...let the filming commence...well next week!!!!

Anyway....hopefullly tommorrow we will be off to westwood first to have a look at the grounds and decide where to set the camera up and what not to save time when we actually do the filming (hopefully starting next tuesday) and also so when we go there we can get straight to it!!

Letter Update

The letters were sent out the other day and have now arrived at childrens homes. We're looking forward to start filming soon, once the permission slips have beem signed.

Newcomer!!!

Cubbage patch productions welcomes its newest member Natalie. With the recent loss of Emily we felt like the group wasn't American enough and the perfect opportunity arose when Natalie from Washington State arrived into our Media class.

Update.

Sadly Miss Cubbage herself has gone back to America so our group are currently in mourning!!!!
But alas we must continue..So as we have not heard anything from Westwood First School for a while we have sent them a polite e-mail asking if they have heard from their parents as we really need to start filming as soon as possible! Hopefully they will give us a speedy reply as well as a possible date for us to start filming! Until then we will touch up our planning and anything else we need to do!