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Review a range of research sources to help you develop your project. Research help here.

Use this research log to record all your research. Click here to download a copy.

In a written report (min 500 words) or audio/ video (2mins) Explain how your research has helped you with your idea. Research terms and help here.

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1a. Write a proposal for your project using the form here: Click here for form.

Here is help for the section on research on the proposal.

1b. Pitch your idea (from your proposal) (2-5mins) on Friday 24th March 2023. This can be PowerPoint or similar. Expect to be asked a lot of questions so come prepared. Tips for pitching

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Money can indeed be the root of all evils. Just imagine a daughter stealing a great deal of cash from her own parents just so she can quench her thirst for material things.

Melissa Humphreys admitted stealing her parents' £180,000 ($242,000) life savings after they sold their house and set off for a grand Euro trip. The parents entrusted their hard earned money to the 33-year-old woman, but she blew all of the cash on a shopping spree.

A daughter took the opportunity to go on a shopping spree using her parents' money while they were away for a vacation.

Melissa's parents travelled around Europe in a motorhome back in 2010. Their trip of a lifetime was however cut short when they discovered that they could not withdraw cash from their accounts. They soon launched an investigation and sadly found out that their daughter emptied their bank accounts after she maxed out their credit cards. Furthermore, Melissa took more credit out of their name.

The troubled daughter appeared at Chelmsford Crown Court on Friday and admitted 12 counts of fraud using the MBNA credit cards. She also pleaded guilty to one count of obtaining property by deception, using the same type of card back in 2006.

Judge Emma Peters who handles the case said:

"Given the breach of trust here and the extended period of dishonesty, and the terrible fact that her victims were her parents, is clearly an aggravating factor in my view."

Meanwhile, Christopher Baxton, the prosecutor of the case, explained the total money she might have used could reach £200,000 ($269,000) after Humphreys consumed the money for months undetected. Humphreys has however denied three additional charges of obtaining property by deception which Mr. Baxton later said will have no trial.

Mail Online notes defending lawyer, Steven Levy, called for an eight-week adjournment for a psychiatric report to be written for Melissa. He said:

"Clearly this matter was not one that was easy to assimilate because of the age of some of the offenses and the defendant's parents went away some time ago...That has had a big impact on her, and her mental health."

Judge Peters said during the last hearing of Melissa's theft case:

"You've pleaded guilty to most of these offenses and stolen tens of thousands of pounds from your parents, just short of £200,000.
I don't want you to be under any doubt at all that the most immediate sentence will be one of custody.
Bail is no indication of the sentence you might receive."

It is very likely that Melissa will get a imprisonment as punishment during her final sentencing.

Melissa Humphreys was demanded to stay at her home and surrender her passport to Colchester police station until her sentencing at the Chelmsford Crown Court in November.

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Daughter Stole Her Parents' Entire Life Savings Then Went On A Crazy Shopping Spree

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Money can indeed be the root of all evils. Just imagine a daughter stealing a great deal of cash from her own parents just so she can quench her thirst for material things. Melissa Humphreys admitted stealing her parents' £180,000 ($242,000) life savings after they sold their house and set off for a grand Euro trip.

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Remember, your Creative Learning Journal must be a weekly account of your progress on your FMP. You can include behind the scenes videos and pictures.

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This is your final major project! Your last project of the diploma. You will draw on the skills and experience from your previous projects. You will now create your own production; the choice is yours!  You will record everything in a Padlet.

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The Final Major Project is the summative unit for the first year of the course. Your overall grade will be assessed on the skills and creativity you demonstrate so it is important you not only use the skills from previous units but improve upon them. You will be doing work for this project in college; however, you are expected to also work in your own time at home with tutor support. This is an individually graded assessment. You come up with your own project. It could be any of the media we’ve created so far on the course or something new for example a podcast. You will work individually; however, you can use other members of the class for crew.

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Tapes reveal Marvel icon Stan Lee's bitter battle with daughter J.C.

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Stan lee, his daughter abused his money when he was alive.

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Stan Lee built Marvel into a global behemoth, but his relationship with daughter J.C. (right) was not easily saved. Bloomberg via Getty Images

The voice on the recording was unmistakably Stan Lee - the raspy baritone of the nonagenarian that's familiar from his trademark movie cameos.

"I think you're the dumbest white woman I've ever known!" Lee is screaming, apparently at his adult daughter, J.C.

"F-k you, Stan!" she fires back.

In another, Lee is told that J.C. has phoned to tell him she loves him. "F-k, she doesn't know what love is," Lee responds. "I don't need to be upset every f-king time she calls."

The recordings, made in the final years of Lee's life by his ex-manager, perhaps secretly, will likely shock his fans who only know him as the ebullient, catchphrase-spouting face of Marvel Comics. Lee died in 2018.

The tapes are revealed in the new book " True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee " (Crown) by Abraham Riesman, out Tuesday. The gloves-off biography goes behind Lee's jovial, public face to reveal a man who was distant, troubled and at times unscrupulous.

"It's not about tearing him down," Riesman told The Post. "The message is, there are no superheroes."

Perhaps no narrative will be more disturbing than that of Lee's relationship with his daughter, now in her 70s.

Joan Celia (J.C.) was born in 1950 to Stan and his wife Joan when Lee was working at Marvel's Midtown New York offices. The couple later had another daughter who died a few days after birth, and perhaps because of that tragedy, they doted on J.C.

While Stan Lee was famed for his ferocious work ethic, J.C. dropped out of drama school and was better known for throwing pot-fueled parties and spending lavish amounts of money.

Courtesy of the Stan Lee Papers; Getty Images

Lee started as an assistant at his relative's comic book company and while still a teenager, was put in charge of the whole thing. Together with artists like Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he would go on in the 1960s to create a pantheon of popular heroes, including Spider-Man, Iron Man, The Hulk and Black Panther.

J.C. appears to have not had the same focus and drifted through life. She initially wanted to act and attended drama school, before dropping out. She went to The School of Visual Arts for a couple semesters. She had an "embarrassing" stint as a Marvel receptionist. She talked of releasing a Christian record.

When the Lees moved to California in 1980, J.C. went with them. Lee ultimately bought her a house, and she took up art, producing large tapestries and "throwing pot-hazed parties," the author writes.

J.C. would soon develop a reputation for wild spending.

Late in his life, when Lee was noticeably frail, his brother asked him why he still appeared at comic conventions, despite his reported $50-$70 million fortune.

"I need the money," Stan Lee told his brother. "My wife spends a lot, and my daughter's even worse." "Stan firmly saw himself as the only thing standing between J.C. and destitution," Riesman writes.

In another of those late-in-life recordings, J.C. yells at Lee, "What have you done for your daughter?" and "You stopped my credit cards!"

Stan and JC Lee at the beach in the 1950s.

Courtesy of the Stan Lee Papers

One source in the book says J.C. would call her parents up to 50 times a day, screaming at them "for not giving her enough money or opportunities."

During a brief phone call with Riesman, J.C. defended her spending. "Let's just say I bought a pair of shoes or I bought thirty pairs of shoes. Is it anybody's business?"

Whether it was over money or something else, tensions had long simmered between parents and daughter.

In a candid home video from the 1980s, J.C. says, "There is no yelling [between my parents]. But when I come into the picture? When I come into the picture . . ." she trails off, clearly implying that after she arrived everything changed.

One associate of Lee's confirms this point in the book, saying that dealing with J.C. was the "worry of [Stan and Joan's] lives."

In his final years, an enfeebled Lee became caught in a war among various bodyguards, lawyers, managers and J.C., as ugly accusations of missing money and abuse splashed across the tabloids.

One of those parties, Lee's former manager, Keya Morgan, provided the edited audio recordings to Riesman. It's unclear what his motivation for sharing the tapes now is, but it should be noted Morgan was charged in 2019 with elder abuse related to his relationship with Lee. He pleaded not guilty.

In a video provided by Morgan, Lee can be seen talking to someone identified as a "doctor."

"She's schizophrenic; she's got paranoia," Lee says of his daughter. "I have tried, for many, many years, starting when we lived in New York, to get her help, and never could find any. And every year, every day, she just grows worse and worse and worse."

In 2014, according to a witness quoted in the book, J.C. physically attacked her parents after they gave her a leased Jaguar for her birthday, instead of buying the car outright.

"I've had it, you ungrateful bitch!" Lee supposedly yelled at her.

In another of the audio snippets, a distraught Lee confesses that his daughter "always makes me wanna kill myself."

Riesman says he understands the fans who are upset by this unflattering glimpse of the superhero idol.

"It's really hard to say what a person's true self is," he says. "We're all different things to different people."

J.C. inherited all of Lee's fortune, according to the book, and has said she was working on a superhero called Dirt Man.

As for Lee, if nothing else, he's now free of any earthly troubles - familial or otherwise.

"If I died today, that's fine with me," he says in another of the recordings. "There's nothing that excites me anymore."

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The voice on the recording was unmistakably Stan Lee - the raspy baritone of the nonagenarian that's familiar from his trademark movie cameos. "I think you're the dumbest white woman I've ever known!" Lee is screaming, apparently at his adult daughter, J.C. "F-k you, Stan!" she fires back.

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Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke (TV Mini Series 1999- ) - IMDb

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Too Rich:
The Secret Life of Doris Duke.
It's a miniseries turnt film that
discusses how a tobacco
heiress was financially abused
and killed for her money.
It doesn’t cover any form of fraud but over the film we visually witness the emotional crumble of a once strong family.

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TV Mini Series

1999- 1999-

2h 50m

Biography of billionaire tobacco heiress Doris Duke looks at her bizarre lifestyle, including her troubled childhood, her world traveling for audiences with mystics, a face lift at age 79, a... Biography of billionaire tobacco heiress Doris Duke looks at her bizarre lifestyle, including her troubled childhood, her world traveling for audiences with mystics, a face lift at age 79, and her mysterious death in 1993 at age 80. But even upon her death, oddities continued as ... Biography of billionaire tobacco heiress Doris Duke looks at her bizarre lifestyle, including her troubled childhood, her world traveling for audiences with mystics, a face lift at age 79, and her mysterious death in 1993 at age 80. But even upon her death, oddities continued as she left the affairs of her hotly contested estate to her hard-drinking butler, who had co... Read all Read all Read all

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Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke: With Lauren Bacall, Richard Chamberlain, Mare Winningham, Lindsay Frost. Biography of billionaire tobacco heiress Doris Duke looks at her bizarre lifestyle, including her troubled childhood, her world traveling for audiences with mystics, a face lift at age 79, and her mysterious death in 1993 at age 80.

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Got the intro to the project.
So i decided to do mind maps on ideas about short films and different inspirations i could use to get ideas. This really opened my mind about the variety of stuff i could do the project about.

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Decided on the idea of my film, so did a mind map on what i want to include in the film.

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Tapes reveal Marvel icon Stan Lee's bitter battle with daughter J.C.

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Did research on similar stories to what I’m basing the  film on.
The story of Stan Lee and his daughter is about  arguments they had because J.C was stealing her dads money, for example   J.C. physically attacked her parents after they gave her a leased Jaguar for her birthday, instead of buying the car outright. This inspired me because its very similar to my story but the difference is Stan was giving her the money and knew she was robbing him but with mine, the daughter stole the money and the dad had no idea in the beginning.

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Stan Lee built Marvel into a global behemoth, but his relationship with daughter J.C. (right) was not easily saved. Bloomberg via Getty Images

The voice on the recording was unmistakably Stan Lee - the raspy baritone of the nonagenarian that's familiar from his trademark movie cameos.

"I think you're the dumbest white woman I've ever known!" Lee is screaming, apparently at his adult daughter, J.C.

"F-k you, Stan!" she fires back.

In another, Lee is told that J.C. has phoned to tell him she loves him. "F-k, she doesn't know what love is," Lee responds. "I don't need to be upset every f-king time she calls."

The recordings, made in the final years of Lee's life by his ex-manager, perhaps secretly, will likely shock his fans who only know him as the ebullient, catchphrase-spouting face of Marvel Comics. Lee died in 2018.

The tapes are revealed in the new book " True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee " (Crown) by Abraham Riesman, out Tuesday. The gloves-off biography goes behind Lee's jovial, public face to reveal a man who was distant, troubled and at times unscrupulous.

"It's not about tearing him down," Riesman told The Post. "The message is, there are no superheroes."

Perhaps no narrative will be more disturbing than that of Lee's relationship with his daughter, now in her 70s.

Joan Celia (J.C.) was born in 1950 to Stan and his wife Joan when Lee was working at Marvel's Midtown New York offices. The couple later had another daughter who died a few days after birth, and perhaps because of that tragedy, they doted on J.C.

While Stan Lee was famed for his ferocious work ethic, J.C. dropped out of drama school and was better known for throwing pot-fueled parties and spending lavish amounts of money.

Courtesy of the Stan Lee Papers; Getty Images

Lee started as an assistant at his relative's comic book company and while still a teenager, was put in charge of the whole thing. Together with artists like Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, he would go on in the 1960s to create a pantheon of popular heroes, including Spider-Man, Iron Man, The Hulk and Black Panther.

J.C. appears to have not had the same focus and drifted through life. She initially wanted to act and attended drama school, before dropping out. She went to The School of Visual Arts for a couple semesters. She had an "embarrassing" stint as a Marvel receptionist. She talked of releasing a Christian record.

When the Lees moved to California in 1980, J.C. went with them. Lee ultimately bought her a house, and she took up art, producing large tapestries and "throwing pot-hazed parties," the author writes.

J.C. would soon develop a reputation for wild spending.

Late in his life, when Lee was noticeably frail, his brother asked him why he still appeared at comic conventions, despite his reported $50-$70 million fortune.

"I need the money," Stan Lee told his brother. "My wife spends a lot, and my daughter's even worse." "Stan firmly saw himself as the only thing standing between J.C. and destitution," Riesman writes.

In another of those late-in-life recordings, J.C. yells at Lee, "What have you done for your daughter?" and "You stopped my credit cards!"

Stan and JC Lee at the beach in the 1950s.

Courtesy of the Stan Lee Papers

One source in the book says J.C. would call her parents up to 50 times a day, screaming at them "for not giving her enough money or opportunities."

During a brief phone call with Riesman, J.C. defended her spending. "Let's just say I bought a pair of shoes or I bought thirty pairs of shoes. Is it anybody's business?"

Whether it was over money or something else, tensions had long simmered between parents and daughter.

In a candid home video from the 1980s, J.C. says, "There is no yelling [between my parents]. But when I come into the picture? When I come into the picture . . ." she trails off, clearly implying that after she arrived everything changed.

One associate of Lee's confirms this point in the book, saying that dealing with J.C. was the "worry of [Stan and Joan's] lives."

In his final years, an enfeebled Lee became caught in a war among various bodyguards, lawyers, managers and J.C., as ugly accusations of missing money and abuse splashed across the tabloids.

One of those parties, Lee's former manager, Keya Morgan, provided the edited audio recordings to Riesman. It's unclear what his motivation for sharing the tapes now is, but it should be noted Morgan was charged in 2019 with elder abuse related to his relationship with Lee. He pleaded not guilty.

In a video provided by Morgan, Lee can be seen talking to someone identified as a "doctor."

"She's schizophrenic; she's got paranoia," Lee says of his daughter. "I have tried, for many, many years, starting when we lived in New York, to get her help, and never could find any. And every year, every day, she just grows worse and worse and worse."

In 2014, according to a witness quoted in the book, J.C. physically attacked her parents after they gave her a leased Jaguar for her birthday, instead of buying the car outright.

"I've had it, you ungrateful bitch!" Lee supposedly yelled at her.

In another of the audio snippets, a distraught Lee confesses that his daughter "always makes me wanna kill myself."

Riesman says he understands the fans who are upset by this unflattering glimpse of the superhero idol.

"It's really hard to say what a person's true self is," he says. "We're all different things to different people."

J.C. inherited all of Lee's fortune, according to the book, and has said she was working on a superhero called Dirt Man.

As for Lee, if nothing else, he's now free of any earthly troubles - familial or otherwise.

"If I died today, that's fine with me," he says in another of the recordings. "There's nothing that excites me anymore."

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Tapes reveal Marvel icon Stan Lee's bitter battle with daughter J.C.

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The voice on the recording was unmistakably Stan Lee - the raspy baritone of the nonagenarian that's familiar from his trademark movie cameos. "I think you're the dumbest white woman I've ever known!" Lee is screaming, apparently at his adult daughter, J.C. "F-k you, Stan!" she fires back.

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Daughter Stole Her Parents' Entire Life Savings Then Went On A Crazy Shopping Spree

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This story is about a Daughter Taking the opportunity to go on a shopping spree using £180,000 of her parents money while they're on vacation. I had a lot of inspiration from this story and it's very similar to my story  because
she ended up appearing at Court on and admitted 12 counts of fraud using the parents credit cards. So the story ends the same way as mine with the daughter getting involved with police and court.

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Money can indeed be the root of all evils. Just imagine a daughter stealing a great deal of cash from her own parents just so she can quench her thirst for material things.

Melissa Humphreys admitted stealing her parents' £180,000 ($242,000) life savings after they sold their house and set off for a grand Euro trip. The parents entrusted their hard earned money to the 33-year-old woman, but she blew all of the cash on a shopping spree.

A daughter took the opportunity to go on a shopping spree using her parents' money while they were away for a vacation.

Melissa's parents travelled around Europe in a motorhome back in 2010. Their trip of a lifetime was however cut short when they discovered that they could not withdraw cash from their accounts. They soon launched an investigation and sadly found out that their daughter emptied their bank accounts after she maxed out their credit cards. Furthermore, Melissa took more credit out of their name.

The troubled daughter appeared at Chelmsford Crown Court on Friday and admitted 12 counts of fraud using the MBNA credit cards. She also pleaded guilty to one count of obtaining property by deception, using the same type of card back in 2006.

Judge Emma Peters who handles the case said:

"Given the breach of trust here and the extended period of dishonesty, and the terrible fact that her victims were her parents, is clearly an aggravating factor in my view."

Meanwhile, Christopher Baxton, the prosecutor of the case, explained the total money she might have used could reach £200,000 ($269,000) after Humphreys consumed the money for months undetected. Humphreys has however denied three additional charges of obtaining property by deception which Mr. Baxton later said will have no trial.

Mail Online notes defending lawyer, Steven Levy, called for an eight-week adjournment for a psychiatric report to be written for Melissa. He said:

"Clearly this matter was not one that was easy to assimilate because of the age of some of the offenses and the defendant's parents went away some time ago...That has had a big impact on her, and her mental health."

Judge Peters said during the last hearing of Melissa's theft case:

"You've pleaded guilty to most of these offenses and stolen tens of thousands of pounds from your parents, just short of £200,000.
I don't want you to be under any doubt at all that the most immediate sentence will be one of custody.
Bail is no indication of the sentence you might receive."

It is very likely that Melissa will get a imprisonment as punishment during her final sentencing.

Melissa Humphreys was demanded to stay at her home and surrender her passport to Colchester police station until her sentencing at the Chelmsford Crown Court in November.

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Daughter Stole Her Parents' Entire Life Savings Then Went On A Crazy Shopping Spree

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Money can indeed be the root of all evils. Just imagine a daughter stealing a great deal of cash from her own parents just so she can quench her thirst for material things. Melissa Humphreys admitted stealing her parents' £180,000 ($242,000) life savings after they sold their house and set off for a grand Euro trip.

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Did a quick idea/plan of the film.
to see if it makes sense when i right it down and doesnt just make sense in my head.

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Store photos and docs online. Access them from any PC, Mac or phone. Create and work together on Word, Excel or PowerPoint documents.

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Started making the PowerPoint for the pitch.

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Revising the pitch
I recorded myself saying the pitch, so whenever I could I would listen to the recording, I wasn't worrying about learning every word exact because I had the PowerPoint to give me help. But listening to the recording allowed me to remember what I'm talking about and what order I'm talking about things.

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Completed the pitch, went successful and was happy.
I remembered my words and didn't have to look at the PowerPoint often and I remembered mentioning every point I wanted to.
My feedback from teacher said I gave good reflection on my projects done before. I've improved in each project. I gave a  Clear synopsis. Its Interesting that I  draw from personal experience.  Its good the fact that I'm using professional actors like Jack Quick and using him  is helping me  push myself  forward. She said A lot of effort has gone into my film  so I'm very happy with that. She said I had a Brief but informative pitch.

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Started writing first draft of script. just so I could write my ideas down and get them out of my head and down on paper. Went very well in my opinion because  I knew exactly what I wanted and it all came down easy. The fact I did mind maps and thought about it lots made it easier and better coming out on paper. Because I already had a vision.

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finalized the script and finalized the locations, and actors and making they sure they’re on the same page as me. I did this by calling all the shops and explaining I'm doing a college project and can I film and they were all happy with letting me. Also I called my actors to tell them I'm in middle of writing my scripts and seeing if they got any good ideas that I could add and letting them know I am going to send the scripts out very soon.

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Sent all the scripts out so the actors have time to go over they're words so the production days go smoothly.
The actors were very happy with they're words and said the script looked very professional and mature for a college film. They got straight to learning words. Because they were professional actors they have a good strategy in going over words and rehearsing words so I trusted them that they were going to learn the words easy and comfortable.

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Started creating set but found out a wall was wrecked and damp so repainted to make sure looks good on camera for film, because you see the wall often.

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After painting👍 ready to get on with wrest of set

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After painting👍 ready to get on with wrest of set

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Filmed 6 scenes, went very well.
Did all the shots that was on shot list, and followed pre production well. All the actors learnt they're words so went very smooth.

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Went in to college to see what I've filmed and was happy. Was happy with my shots and happy that I did close up and wides of the scenes in my room because it was much easier and looked better while cutting and editing.

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Filmed the last scenes in garden bar. Got my mum and her friends to act like Lisa's friends and brother for police man and very happy with how it went because although Mum and her friends aren't actors they did a good job for me to make montage of them drinking and enjoying.

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I didn't make a storyboard because I did shot list with pictures instead, looking back I could've made a storyboard but I'm happy with how my filming went, and the shot list gave me everything I needed so creating a storyboard wasn't a must for me.

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