Our response to the tutorial comments:

We generally thought that the comments that we received from the rest of the group in the tutorial was positive, although it quickly came apparent that we hadn't been clear enough in our explanation of what we were planning on doing and how we would actually be doing it. A lot of the comments that we had received asked how we would hoax a building being blown up and how this would fulfill the brief, how is it an example of convergent media etc?

As a result we decided that we needed to be much clearer in our plans, not just to satisfy the questions that we could face in tutorials etc, but to strengthen the idea, and to provide a firm base for us to build on.

How would we hoax a building being blown up? We had previously thought that we would use a small model of the chosen building and using slow filming we would be able to control the explosion, then put the model footage on to the 'real' recording replacing the building with the model. This is obviously very adventurous and would be technically very difficult, especially as we don't know anything about explosives. We consequently agreed that it would be easier to manipulate the footage frame by frame using photoshop and flash. This will be a huge task, as we will need to do 24 frames per second, so if we have a ten second long piece of footage, we will need to manipulate 240 frames to how we won't them. This is obviously a lot of work but we are confident that if we manage our time properly we can produce a high standard.

How does our idea fulfill the brief and how is this an example of convergent media? The project is going to be an example for convergent media throughout the production and in the final presentation of the piece. The production process will include the use of video, new media software, photography and print. Although we're not 100% sure of how we will present the piece in a crit situation we are sure that it will involve at least two mediums.