Journal

Journal Questions Greg and I have worked for hours and have completed a full script for our mock Reality TV Show. We have it completely casted, and have our contacted our actors about each of their roles. We have had successful responses from most of them. We are still waiting waiting for two of the actresses to respond. We have filming days planned out. We are hoping that within two successful days of shooting we will have it completed. I have been working with Greg for this entire project, but now we have added the cast members: Ryan McWilliams, Katie Brong, Corsair Layton, and Austin Whitehead. Our Video will be shot entirely in and outside of my house, and the editing will be done at a combination of my house and Mr. Meder's room. Greg and I shot our entire movie over winter break, and when we came back immediately edited the entire thing in Mr. Meder's room after school

Reflection Questions Greg and I have made a short film that is a farce of the stereotypical people and situations that usually appear in reality television. Based on the research that we've both done on the shows we hope to illustrate an image of what reality television is like. We have both done plenty of research about what producers do in the creation of reality television and how people act and interact on these shows. We began by creating a list of shows and characters from these shows that we wanted to emulate. We then began to fuse them into one show that would demonstrate the ridiculousness of these characters and these shows. One of our biggest problems was trying to come up with ways to demonstrate so many different reality TV stereotypes into one show. We eventually overcame this by coming up with the challenges that the reality stars would have to participate in. Each one representing a different reality TV show. One thing Greg and I have always done well is teamwork. We feed and grow off of each others ideas and the videos that those ideas create are always entertaining. A particular weakness that we had, which we fixed during this project was our ability to organize other people. Directing others in a movie and even scheduling times for them to act in our video has been difficult, but it is something that we are trying to overcome. I learned even more about film and television than I did before I began this project, but perhaps the most important lesson I learned, was that nothing to me is more satisfying than creating a script and working with others to watch it come to life.

October 17: Greg and I met together in the library for about an hour and a half and began brainstorming for our show. We began thinking of the characters who would appear in our show, and what are the shows that we would like to spoof. There were definitely certain ideas that are concrete, for example we know the setting we want to be something like the Jersey Shore or Real World where strangers are forced to live under one roof. We will also be using elements from shows like Survivor, such as people getting voted off. Over all this meeting with Greg went well. Next time we hope to get a better idea of the order of events in the show and begin scripting. A minor note: This didn't happen in my meeting session with Greg, but on my own time I've begun to search for friends of mine who are actors that would be able to perform in our movie.

November 1: Greg and I have finally begun the scripting process for our show. This may sound weird that we're scripting a reality show but it's a spoof. The scripting of the show is very important as we are going to have a large cast so it helps to keep the talent on task. As we begin to script we start to cast our show. The characters of our show consist of a lot of the stereotypical people that are found in reality television shows, and as we script we begin to think about who we could get to play these parts. Most of these parts including the nice guy and the back-stabbing girl we now have cast. Hopefully, by the end of the next time we meet we will have the rest of the cast chosen and will be able to ask the potential talent for their help.

The Days Coming Back from Winter Break: Greg and I met a few days after school when we came back from Winter