Unit 12: My Lovely Bones Production Role

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When we were given the choices to choose what we were doing for our production role, I immediately jumped at the opportunity to create the program for our show, since it was something I hadn't done before and I wanted to challenge myself, with Connor also wanting to help alongside me.  For this project, me and Connor have used the website Canva to put it together, organising which characters went where in the programme.  Originally, we planned on having the Salmon family all on one page for each cast, however quickly realised there was not enough space to hold them all.  Firstly for the programme, we needed headshots of each member of the cast, so we worked closely with Kane to organise a time to get them done, choosing the Thursday as there wasn't really a day we could spare, so chose then to give people days to prepare and look their best.  I created a timetable for the day to organise when and when people would go to take their headshots and so it wouldn't be too much of an interruption, I put the people in the lead roles in to get theirs done first.  Before everyone got their headshots done, due to the fact its our end of year performance, for the programmes we tend to have a message next to each person explaining their time at SRC the course.  For this I sent a message into the teams chat, asking people to send me a message summarising their time here, giving examples from peoples quotes last year.  For the front of the programme, we came up with a few ideas for what it could be, ultimately choosing a design of a cornfield with a hat in the middle.  Before completing the programme, I've had some new ideas, such as maybe the headshots being in polaroid frames, as it fits into the story since Susie before she died loved taking photos with Polaroids, however am still unsure on this idea.  Altogether, I've found putting together the programme quite fun as well as challenging as I've also had to rely on everyone else in the class to put it together completely.





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