In this assignment we had to work as a team to create a BBC ident. The equipment we used to create this were;
- Flip camera
-Still life table
-Studio Lights
-Tripod
-Backdrop stand
-Various coloured fabrics
-The twos
After doing research on Youtube looking at existing idents we came up with our own ideas. We started off by deciding who would take each role within the making of the idents, which went well as we all get along well and were happy with our roles given, we also helped each other out for each job so it sped up the process.We came up with numerous ideas about what the idents could be based on, but our final idea was the seasons. I think this worked well as we all liked the idea and we all got involved in making and designing the set and the twos, as well as working together in a team to get things done correctly. We then started to make the twos, it took quite some time to cut out each two out of the foam board, but I was happy with the overall outcome as they were strong and easy to decorate. the only negative about making the twos was that it took up about three out of the six weeks just making and designing them. Pictures were taken during the making of each ident as it helped to keep track of how the production was going and show that everyone was getting involved.
I think at first the process of creating the twos was slow and not much work was done by many of the members in the group so that only left us with 2 weeks to set up and film the idents, so we weren't extremely organised, which may have effected the quality of the idents. However I like the final idents as they are very quirky and simple, as well as it being a reasonable length, the only problem that we had was with the background as we had to have two people holding it up as there was no way of standing it up, which meant there were less people to help sort out the set.
If i did this again I would make sure that work was done right from the beginning and when we had an idea we stuck to it and really start working hard at it, as it took us a lot of time to think of an idea a lot of time was wasted. I think we should have communicated a lot better near the end of the making of the idents as it meant we were unsure of who was editing the final idents. I also think we should have been more organised with the props we needed as well as writing it down so we remembered to bring them in as the props we used were mainly found in the studio, if they weren't made by us, which took up more time that could have been used to re shoot if we weren't happy with the final outcome.
