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Balio, T. (ed.) (1985) The American film industry. 2nd edn. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
* "Production was centralized in Hollywood now, where the studio system had developed into an efficient means of mass-producing large numbers of feature films revolving around stars." - Page 122 & 123

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Researched references
(If a quote is in red, it means it was considered, but not used in the final essay itself!)

Manchel, F. (ed.) (1991) Film study Vol. 1: An analytical bibliography. London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.
* "The negative values that many pre-WWII Americans had towards blacks were represented in African-Americans' consistently being stereotyped as servants, entertainers, or clowns in popular American films" - Page 854
* "But more often than not, the commercial success of a film is linked to reinforcing what the film companies, their executives, and publicity experts consider the prevailing values of a predominantly white, middle-class society. That is because over a period of time, a reciprocal relationship develops between movie audiences and successful filmmakers." -Page 854

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Schickel, R. (1984) D.W. Griffith: An American Life. Proscenium Publishers Inc.
* "It had no particular distinction, except that it was probably the first movie ever entirely show within the boundaries of Hollywood" -Page 139 & 140 (quote about film 'In Old California')

Good Grief Interactivity

We needed to have an interactive  element to the whole production so what we all decided to do as well as make a Facebook page for Good Grief to get the word out about our idea and the links when we go live to make twitter accounts for all of the characters and assigned one of the crew to take over an account and tweet until the show was ready and live. 

Camera settings/research

P2 settings
720p30
fstop 5.6
ntsc
30 frames a second
59.94hz frequency

Suited to YouTube

For episode one I am being directed by Dan Bolton and he as the director has taken me through the script and shown me the kind of camera angles he wants for camera 4 and that when I am to be on I have script ques for when my shot will be coming up written on a piece of paper instead of having the whole script and flipping through it page by page therefore making noise and ruining the audio.
I am going to be looking through the script and writing the lines that are said just before my Que so I can prepare and get the right shot in time for the directors call.

For episode three I am being directed by Chloe who has also taken me through each line of the third script and what shots she will be calling and when, I as the 1st camera I will be working on the wide shots that focus more on the door and the group so I will be called to if she wants to have a spontaneous wide shot.

With both episodes that I am cameraman for I will be wearing the crew headset which will allow Dan and Chloe to instruct me on any shots they wish to improvise and for when my camera itself is live

specific save settings (done)

I had to work on exporting each finished piece with the specific settings because of our streaming service, it has to comply with each other otherwise there will be visual friction and it will not look as good as it could possibly be. For example Youtube streaming runs at 30 Frames per second as well as keeping the resolution at 1260x720, changing these settings wasn't difficult but making sure each file was at the right frame rate and resolution was imperative to the stream.

Locked down scripts

Script 1

With the first script We wanted to have the feeling of you get to know the characters just enough to understand the chemistry between them and to be be invested so that our audience will stay tuned for the second episode. Overall I think that script 1 was the hardest to get right and needed to be just the perfect amount of comedic elements and character introductions with some foreshadowing for later episodes.

Script 2

With the 2nd Script we needed to have the audiences full attention and with the characters already introduced we needed a new setting for them to conquer so with some massive edits to how the episode was going to end and some compromises we came to the final conclusion of making the whole episode about Anger and making it more of a serious undertone of emotional imbalance, it's not that if you are calm the remaining feelings will be jumbled up. It was a message that said without balance then some areas of emotions will become wilder and uncontrollable. In summation I wanted to subtly allow the audience to know that it's okay to be angry sometimes but not allowing it to control you is the importance of balance.

Script 3

With the 3rd script I personally had to make several changes to the other versions of the script so that it wouldn't be hard on the director and floor manager to move the furniture up and out of the way ready for the end scene. I think that this was not the best written episode because of the issue both script writers had of balancing all the other roles and both not having a very wide experience with writing comedies.