Session 1: Outline of Brief & Preliminary Ideas.

Session 1: “Outline of Brief and Preliminary ideas”

During this production I am required to create a short movie which is going to be about 3-5 minutes. This movie is going to be created in the video medium section area. This includes ancillary task which I have to create a poster and a double magazine spread for the movie to promote the following movie created. Also during this production I have to blog weekly each step which is taken to create the short movie and after the production has been finished I will do an evaluation to evaluate the final product which has been created.

The brief given to us is based on ‘Fairytales, Fables & Myths’. We have to choose one of the following and research any story from any of the given genre’s and adapt the story we are given into are words then shoot a short movie based on what we have chosen and adapted.

My group consist of four members which are; Genesis Adewole, Amie Fofanah, Thamina Begum & myself Ruben Martin. Our production company is called ‘Bigger & Better Productions’.

To create this short movie there are four different roles which have to be taken up in the group to complete the task. The following roles are; ‘Director, Producer, Editor& Camera/Sound’. Everyone in the group has their own individual responsibility, I am the Editor my responsibility is to edit the shots which are going to be taken and put together the short movie to a high standard. Thamina Begum is going to have the responsibility of being Director so she is going to direct the short movie vision the whole movie with Camera sound person which is Genesis Adewole so she is going to film the short movie and get the sound backing which is going to be in the short production and Amie Fofanah has the responsibility of being the Producer so she is going to choose the best locations, settings for the short movie to be filmed in.

My group had ideas and all are ideas were in the myth category and we narrowed it down to one main Myth which is the story of ‘The Trojan War’. We are developing this idea and adapting the story into our own version to create a modern storyline based on the Myth. Below we are focusing on the main part of the Trojan war which is: Taken from (http://www.stanford.edu/~plomio/history.html)

'The Apple of Discord'

The Trojan War has its roots in the marriage between Peleus and Thetis, a sea-goddess. Peleus and Thetis had not invited Eris, the goddess of discord, to their marriage and the outraged goddess stormed into the wedding banquet and threw a golden apple onto the table. The apple belonged to, Eris said, whomever was the fairest.

Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite each reached for the apple. Zeus proclaimed that Paris, prince of Troy and thought to be the most beautiful man alive, would act as the judge.

Hermes went to Paris, and Paris agreed to act as the judge. Hera promised him power, Athena promised him wealth, and Aphrodite promised the most beautiful woman in the world.

Paris chose Aphrodite, and she promised him that Helen, wife of Menelaus, would be his wife. Paris then prepared to set off for Sparta to capture Helen. Twin prophets Cassandra and Helenus tried to persuade him against such action, as did his mother, Hecuba. But Paris would not listen and he set off for Sparta.

In Sparta, Menelaus, husband of Helen, treated Paris as a royal guest. However, when Menelaus left Sparta to go to a funeral, Paris abducted Helen (who perhaps went willingly) and also carried off much of Menelaus' wealth.

In Troy, Helen and Paris were married. This occured around 1200 B.C. (Wood, 16).