Mayank Kumar Blog v2

Produce Profiles to Gain Employment in the Media Industry I created a showreel for my Learning Aim C, which is a little portfolio that can be used by an employer to acknowledge better what kind of person, worker, and employee I am. Link to my showreel

  SCRIPTWRITING EVALUATION My project For my course I’ve been asked to produce a screenplay and a proposal for a short fictional movie, I had the liberty to choose my own genre. I had to follow some codes, conventions and a structure when composing both my script and my proposal. The genre I chose to work with was the Crime Thriller aimed at an over 15 audience. The Proposal Even before I started to write the script, my first aim was to get the film proposal done. So I had to research how to write proposals and how important they are when it comes to pre-production.  The main features of a proposal are a synopsis, a log-line, a screenplay structure, a target audience, characters and a treatment. These are all the key points that make a proposal efficient to do its job. Masterclass.com cites “ A proposal is the most complete way to pitch a film, containing a working title, a logline, key characters, and a thorough description of all aspects of your proposed film, including the ...

  Script let me go save me (2) from MayankExpress After some reviews, I decided to make some format adjusments to my screenplay. By fixing some format features, and by adding details and descriptions in the scenes I also tried to keep it as low budget as possible just like the first draft of the scipt.

The media industries I’m interested to work in are film, television, radio and animation. In all of these I want to be related to the creative sector, where I could be a director, an editor, or a producer. My research will be focused on the movie and television industry. In the UK the biggest companies that operate in this sector are BBC and ITV. The BBC is a public service broadcaster headquartered in London and it has the largest number of employees between all the world broadcasters, with over 22,000 staff members. They never produced big budget blockbusters, but they always gave a chance to unknown writers and directors to produce an indie movie, but with a big distribution. ITV is a free-to-air television network and it is the biggest competitor of BBC and they always hosted beloved tv shows like The Voice UK, The Chase, or Love Island. In the united states, Hollywood controls big studios like Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, or The Walt Disney Company. All these three are pl...

  SECTION 1: OBTAINING WORK AS A SCREENWRITER – COMMISIONING To commission is the act of giving authorisation to put something in place. In the case of media production could be the approval of a particular plot/storyline or the permission for a production in general with a particular budget. In case of screenwriting, most of the time it is the consent to write after a success in the acceptance of a pitched idea. In the area of commissioning, there are many job roles involved as many people need to agree on giving the approval on the project, and these might be: Producers: A media producer is a person who oversees the media production, who can be employed buy a company or could work independently, they plan and coordinate the aspects of the production like selecting the script and coordinating its writing, keeping an eye on the directing, editing, and arranging financing. Producers can be often involved in the marketing and distribution process. Another role of producers is to ...

 To clearly identify the personnel required, I made a list of who's is going to help me working on my movie. The movie needs only seven actors, and only me and the people I mentioned are dedicated to act certain kind of characters, but I still have some people who are willing to substitute those in any case. Me being the director and an actor, I need some help to shoot the scenes when I am in the shot, this is why I hired two camera assistants who are going to follow my storyboard as I will say. The last member of the crew is the microphone assistant who's going to make sure to catch the audio in the best quality. For privacy respect, I chose to not to add the contact details of the cast and crew online, but personally I have them.