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Nick: design board
Jess: sketches, drawings, storyboard, concept art
Charlotte: music/soundtrack
Kristin: three-column script

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Nick: design board
Jess: beginning sketches, drawings, storyboard, concept art for Iteration 2
Charlotte: music/soundtrack
Kristin: three-column script

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Nick Southey: Drama
Jessica Valuch: Film & TV
Charlotte Lowe: Music
Kristin Hansen: Film & TV

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-attend tutorials
-attend separate group meetings
-keep in contact via messenger
-split the workload/contribute

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-camera, tripod, mic, drone
-editing software
-cars/transportation
-laptops/technology
-QUT campus resources

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-agree on which work to respond to
-agree on the approach to take (which aspect of the work to respond to)

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-drama/acting skills
-singing/music skills
-editing skills
-cinematography skills
-drawing/storyboarding skills

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Any ideas?

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Death of a Salesman

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We have written our creative collaborative contract:

attend tutorials

attend group meetings

keep in contact via messenger

split the workload/contribute

We have chosen the work we will be responding to:

Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman

We have begun to unpack Death of a Salesman to discover its relevant elements and themes (see In Progress tab).

We have identified the skills of all collaborators, as well as the resources available to us (see Shared Skills in the Project Details tab).

We have begun to allocate initial tasks and roles for the project, particularly for the creation and development of our drafts.

We have posted our Padlet link onto Blackboard.

Obstacles we have faced so far:

Only one of our group members is familiar with Death of a Salesman. We will overcome this by reading Nick's appraisal to familiarise ourselves with the play.

It is difficult to find a time to meet this week due to conflicting schedules and long commutes to uni. To overcome this, we will schedule a group video call over the weekend to discuss our creation and development of our draft.

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When preparing to film Iteration 2, we realised that there were several hazards associated with our idea. It proved very difficult to find an area where we could safely set the globe on fire. We realised burning the globe would be quite a dangerous task and could result in an uncontrollable fire and/or injury to the members of our group. This prompted us to change our idea to cook the plastic globe in an oven, surrounded by vegetables as if it was part of a roast. This task proved very achievable and we have now filmed all the footage of the burning globe needed for Iteration 2.

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Definitely listen to this.

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Roger Taylor - Gangsters Are Running This World (Official Lyric Video)

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-non-narrative short film
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To get photos of people, would have to take photos of random people around QUT, but make sure to ask for person's consent.

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Cut from black

Slow push in on Globe being spit-roasted
- News headlines about climate change overlaying each other
- Fire crackling
(20secs)

Cut to:

MONTAGE

Faces cutting between each other, starting slowly at first but getting faster and faster until they become unrecognisable.
(Cool colour tone slowly turns to warm colour tone like fire burning)
- no sound at first
- eerie soundtrack slowly building
- fire crackling building alongside soundtrack
(45secs)

Cut to black

- silence for a moment. Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten debating climate change
(15secs)

Cut from black

MONTAGE
Stock footage of coal burning and smoke from factories. Money being printed. Money being burned.
- cheerful music
(15secs)

Cut to:

Globe on fire, melted and charred. Money being added to the flames.
- slience except for fire
(10secs)

Cut to:

Timer counting down from number of years before climate catastrophe
- fire still crackling
(10secs)

Cut to black

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Milestone 1 - End of Week 8
Milestone 2 - Thursday Week 9
Milestone 3 - Thursday Week 10
Milestone 4 - Thursday Week 11
Final Submission - Friday Week 13

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MAJOR THEMES:
- Capitalism
- Individualism
- Self-worth

OUR TAKE ON IT:
How as a modern capitalist society we ignore evidence that shows we are headed towards a climate catastrophe as we are consumed by this idea of a strong economy. Demonstrated by the fact we continue to open up coal mines as the fourth largest producer of coal. As a result of this we lose a sense of who we are as our voices ignored by our government.

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For our Iteration 1 we showed Karike a Design Board and a 3-Column Script draft of our film

Feedback:

Burning globe is a really cool idea. And could be seen as ironic as we are burning plastic while we talk about the environment.

Next week need to see some footage like the burning globe and some music.

Strong first iteration

We are working well together

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Jess: Storyboard
Kristin, Charlotte, Nick: Footage of burning globe
Charlotte: Cover of Living in the Sunlight, Loving in the Moonlight
Nick: Buy globe, stick for spit roast, fire starter and a white sheet
Kristin: Stock footage of factories, coal, money etc.

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Burning globe is a really cool idea. And could be seen as ironic as we are burning plastic while we talk about the environment.

Next week need to see some footage like the burning globe and some music.

Strong first iteration

We are working well together

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Putting the globe with the vegetables was an unexpected twist as it seemed like someone was just cooking a normal roast for dinner

The image of spilling oil on the world was meaningful as it reflects the global issue of oil spills in the ocean

Lots of ideas come to the viewer’s mind about the significance of the globe — are we burning the world? Cleansing it? Is it a statement on global warming?

Ironic that we’re burning plastic in an anti-climate change film

Shots are very high-quality

Idea of the faces is very effective — having every face smiling creepily could be very unsettling and highlight our apathy towards climate change

Not sure which side the film is on regarding climate change? Are we for it or against it?

Represents how humans are destroying our Earth

Putting the globe in the oven with vegetables shows that we see Earth as a commodity

Perhaps consider the song “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire”

The atmosphere of a cooking segment could be made more clear with the addition of music or a voiceover

Cutting the vegetables violently may get our point across more effectively

Could include fleeting shots of global disasters/effects of climate change between cooking shots

Could possibly make the cooking segment longer and add narration

As chicken is normally included in a roast dinner, the globe is replacing the chicken, making a statement about how eating meat is bad for the environment

Based on the idea that climate change is irreversible after 1.5 degrees of warming, we could include a thermometer with an increasing temperature

Could pull the globe out the oven, check it to realise it isn’t cooked enough and put it back in — when it’s pulled out it’s charred and melted

Could sit at the dining table and serve the globe for dinner — the parents are indifferent but the kids are horrified — acts as a message about how different generations view climate change

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Nick: Acting & editing
Jess: Filming
Charlotte: Filming & early stages of music score
Kristin: Filming

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Charlotte: Music/soundtrack
Nick: Editing
Kristin & Jess: PowerPoint

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The whole connection to global warming is a little bit indistinct

It’s quite smart once you know the meaning but beforehand it’s a bit confusing

Potentially include in the title something about global warming (a pun etc.)

Maybe make the vegetables sequence a little shorter

Possibly include a clip of the world melting in the oven and distant little screams

Place a bit more emphasis on the world melting

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The YouTube link to our final submission is attached below: