I've fallen quite behind here, these should be done by now so I'm stepping up the game. I'm going to get 20 people filmed and then I can always double them up but 20 should be enough to fill a screen nicely.
I've done a couple more tests. Firstly, Mia's individual face, I have purposely 'glitched' up so that it is similar to a webcam conversation over something like Skype, so that when she goes from staring to talking, there is a pause or a jump that looks, unintentional, but I have actually cut together.

I've been having trouble with actors, time and locations recently. Actors have fallen ill before days when i needed them and the dissertation work got very in the way.
However I managed to get a few more test films done this month thanks to Clive and Mia. The first was looking at pop-up adverts on the internet entitled 'Sandwich Sale'.
We had a bit of a location problem, but as a test I've worked out where it needs to change to be better.

The film really needs to be more real, with better shots and editing. What I mean by real if with a sense of fear, confusion and anger from Clive character and Mia needs to be darker, with a sense of malice about her, so that the piece is actually quite dark.
Instead of just screaming, the character would have to exclaim more "shit! fucking... jesus..." be quite profound in their language.
The advert would have to stand there, staring displaying aggressive body language to get across the deliberate intrusion. 

I think these may count as a feasibility study. I have done a video test about Poking and about Friending, just very quickly constructed starring yours truly.

Poke Test
I think this, as with all of them need more people in different locations so I really need to get filming. The purpose of this test was to establish how difficult it will be to make this piece and how I go about making it. I like how it's like they poke each other and pass it down the line, and I also like the way I've organised the videos, different sizes and positions.

Friendship Test
I messed around in After Effects with movement with the videos which I want to continue to explore, I also looked at the requesting/accepting friends. What I noticed was that it seems more like an order than a question "I want to request your friendship" maybe it's the way I've said it but it sounds quite sinister and menacing rather than a friendly question.

Like test
I asked some friends to film themselves reading my script into teir webcams to get the feel of using the computer, and got them to send me the videos. I cut it up and made this quick test. It looks exactly how i imagined and i think will look really good with a lot of different faces. I plan to seperate the longer scenes with these short cut scenes.

What you'll notice is how confusing using so many layers is, especially with the starring. I made so many mistakes with the friendship test video because I put the wrong parts of the video in the wrong place. I need to find a way of editing the video more before hand so there is less editing in AE. I also need to focus a lot more on pre production so it looks less messy.