Today we finished our video and our presentation. It went very smoothly, but we are a bit worried about the duration of our video because we don't know if it too short. On the other hand we haven't got a required time.

We decided to make the video 1.30 minutes. We think that this is perfect for our video. We said everything we wanted to say and we would ruin it when we make it a bit longer.

We want to deliver the video now but we still don't know how to do that. We are waiting for a response of the teacher.

We forgot to make a blogpost yesterday, so today we give you an update of the last two days. 

Today and yesterday we edit our video. At first we were a bit worried of how the video was going to look like. It is very hard to make it look realistic. We decides to watch all the clips and pick the clips we could use for our video. After this we found the good spirit again. We could actually make something from it by using a humoristic undertone. 

The editing went really smoothly. After we put the first images together we found out that we had to use some music to make the message of the video clearer. We also needed some graphics and a voice over. By using this the whole meaning of the video got much more clearer. 

It´s 14.00 now and we put everything in the video what we wanted. Tomorrow we are going to finish it. The only things that need to be done tomorrow are the colourgrading, sound and some graphics and then the video will be finsished.

Monday- first filming day

Today we have met for our first day of filming. We plan to complete all of our filming today.
We had planned to meet five actors for our film today, but unfortunately too of our actors cancelled this morning, so we are now deciding to between adapting our concept to a smaller number of people  or trying to find more actors for our concept.

We find this process quite difficult because we don't know a large amount of danish people, and it is hard to gather five people together at the same time- particularly when there is a tight time limit we are aloud to film  at the location we have found. Because of these issues, we need to re evaluate our expectations for the film.

29th of October

After we finished up the presentations, we have been working on finding contestants and a place to film. We got a go from the chiefs in the kitchen down in the cantine, and will have an hour to shoot there Monday afternoon.

So far, we have also found three people to take part in the production. Because the idea we presented today seemed a little hard to go through with, we chose to make it a bit easier for ourselves. We discussed the whole family part of it, and concluded that we'll use couples instead. Since the target group will be young Danes from 20-30 years old, it will be easier to identify with the contestants/the jury if they are in a relationship rather than a family with kids, especially since most of them probably don't have a baby yet.

At the same time, we decided that the TV-host doesn't necessarily need to be a chief, but we'll use chiefs to guide the contestants along the way, which gives room for more chiefs in the show, as well as a host who will probably be more interested and eager to learn herself, considering that she doesn't know as much about cooking as a chief would have done.

The rest of the time we have been looking at other pilots and extracts from food programs, finding out what kind of shots we will need and so on. Our thought is to make it kind of a «classic» food program pilot, but at the same time we'll have to present the twist and the «rules» in an easy way for the viewer. Therefore we started writing on a manuscript for the TV-host, as well as collecting the most relevant facts to present in the pilot - which we'll use to make an overview of the food waste situation in Denmark.


- Harry, Ilse and Mina

Day 7 :)

28.10.2015

Today we had a meeting with our teacher. We discussed our plans with him and he had some really good tips. We wanted to make a cooking program where famous/well-known people would compete against each other. Our teacher told us that we could go for another way because this way might be difficult and a bit boring because it looks a lot like Masterchef. He told us that it would be fun to have a mon or a dad as contestant who cooks for his/her family. We really liked that idea and we decided that we would go for that one. 

After the meeting we changed some things in the presentation we already made because it had to fit with our new idea.

At this point we finished the presentation and we are done with our work for today. We are a bit worried about how we are going to find a family for our video. We decided to leave it for today and that we are going to search for a family, a chef and a location tomorrow

Tuesday 27th of October

Today we began discussing different angles of a TV-concept concerning food waste in Denmark. After quite a short time we agreed that a food competition would be the best way to keep the viewers interested, but at the same time educate them about food waste and what it's possible to get out of the food that most people usually throw away.

During the day we have discussed a lot of aspects such as: Which contestants would make the viewers interested in watching? How much information and what information should be presented in the episodes? In what way could we make the competition interesting and exiting, at the same time as teaching the viewer something new?

We landed upon a concept and an idea based on the discussion of these questions. The concept is based on elements that we think work in other food programs, but at the same time it presents something new: raising awareness of food waste in Denmark by inspiring the viewer to make dishes out of cheap food or food he or she usually would throw away - just as the contestants are doing in the show.

By showing tricks and tips, presented by the chef (the host) in each episode, the TV-show will hopefully make it easier to cook for less and at the same time help decrease food waste in Denmark.

Day 4 :)

Day 4 :)

Today was a productive day. We went to the library to meet Jonas Emil. He is head of communication at Overskudsmad, a non-profit organization founded by the same people as Stof spild af mad. They are collecting left over food for shelters and poor people. The interview went very fluently and after it we went back to school. After we arrived at school we edited the interview and added the outcomes in the PowerPoint presentation. 

Jonas wasn't the only one we talked to. We also talked to Jackie Hong. Jackie Hong is a freelance journalist that wrote an article for Vice. She experienced eating out of dumpsters for two weeks. Jackie is actually from Canada, so we did the interview over Skype. It was really interesting because she could give us all the information that we deeded. 

We got some new findings by doing the interview. We discussed our plans with the teacher and he told us that we were on a good way. That gave us some extra energy! The only thing that is left now is finishing the PowerPoint presentation. After that we are ready for tomorrow.