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ZENITH<\/p>\n

The Zenith Project gave us the opportunity to design and create our own project. Since I am a second semester senior, I knew I would want to do a project that I was passionate about and would have fun with. Because of this, I decided I wanted to write and direct the first five or so minutes of a pilot episode of a sitcom, starring my 4 best friends.<\/p>\n

INSPIRATION<\/p>\n

A lot of my inspiration also came from The Office, a classic sitcom. I really liked The Office because I loved how it was a sitcom with documentary style incorporated in it, in addition to the simple setting, funny characters, and the comedic use of improv.<\/p>\n

RESEARCH<\/p>\n

For the English portion of our project, we had to write a research paper about something relating to our project, with 2 different perspectives involved. An easy research question for my project was what makes a pilot episode of a sitcom successful? After researching and getting a lot of information from the book Writing Television Sitcoms<\/em>, by Evan B. Smith, I found two answers to this question. The first perspective was that a pilot episode of a sitcom’s success comes from the characters and their relationships. The other perspective was that a pilot episode of a sitcom’s success comes from the plot, or the situation, that the characters are put through.<\/p>\n

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PRE-PRODUCTION<\/p>\n

During pre-production, I developed my 4 main characters, which were heavily influenced by my friends’ personalities, wrote a 5 page screenplay with revisions, in addition to creating a shot list and then lining my screenplay based on that shot list I created.<\/p>\n

MalloryC-\u00a0Shot List <\/a><\/p>\n

MalloryC-\u00a0Screenplay Revised<\/a><\/p>\n

MalloryC- Lined Screenplay<\/p>\n

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FILMING<\/p>\n

A huge thanks goes out to Sydney Mozer for helping me film every scene, filming once a week,\u00a0which took us about 4 days total. Since we are all friends, on set was a little chaotic and not everything I wanted to get done was done, but we had a lot of fun and filming them in their natural environment really helped incorporate comedic improv, like The Office does.
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EDITING<\/p>\n

For editing, I used adobe premiere, the application we have used the past 2 years in our film production class.<\/p>\n

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