Group meeting

Throughout our project we have made many group meeting of ways in which we can improve our opening sequences, i have listed these below;

24th of November 2009
As a group we decided on what genre we would like our movie to be about, this took a long while as we had some disagreements over which we through would be best and would create the best storyline for the whole film as well as the opening sequence.

15th January 2010
Within our group we decided which tasks we would each complete. We split the tasks into equal amounts of work for each person and then looked over its all and came up possible suggestion on ways in what we could improve our pre-production documents. When we looked over our treatment and shot list it was clear that we had made many mistakes as the shots number didn’t match up. As a group we decided to redo out shot list and start again, even though this was very time consuming it was worth it as it would be used when filming.

19th January 2010
when we created our Location Reece it was clear that our pictures we had taken weren’t good enough to be used, as they didn’t line-up correctly. This meant that we had to go back and re-take all the pictures we had originally done to be used. Our second attempts of the photos were of much better quality and looked more professional.

22nd January 2010
As we was soon to filming we needed to create a prop list and start to get an idea of what we would like our location to look like. We decided as a group we would use some school resources as well as our own from home, we spilt the list between use and meant that we defiantly new they could be used in filming. At this time we also decided on who would be acting, filming and directing our film. We concluded that Emma and Hannah would be acting which me and Joanna split the role of filming and directing.

27th of January 2010
As a group we created a questionnaire that we would give out to friends and family from this we would be able to see what genre of films they enjoyed and how often they attended the movies, we each took some questionnaires and would but our results together.

10th February 2010
In our originally plans when filming we had chosen to use a small kitchen as part of the location however, when we went to film we found that the room wasn’t big enough to film and didn’t produce enough light to get a good quality picture. This meant that we had to quickly decide of an alternative location, we chose to film the whole opening sequence in the room and it worked really well.

23rd February 2010
When we looked over our filming we noticed that we didn’t have a wide range of shot sizes this meant that we had to go back and re-film a few shots. This problem was caused by use not following our shot list correctly and not moving our camera to different positions while filming. We also noticed that the lighting in the room at the time of filming wasn’t of a very good quality that meant we had to add in additional lighting during editing.

9th March 2010
When we went to re-film we had some trouble in finding the same props in which we had used for our previous filming, this meant that there was a change of continuity occurring. We tried to make it look the same by looking at pictures we had taken during filming to help place everything in to correct place, we also asked the actors to be dressed in the same clothes.

19th March 2010
During editing we all agreed on where we would like the shot to go and how long they should be shown for. While editing we had to decide on where we would like our titles to appear in the opening sequence, to do this we looked at other films opening sequences from the same genre and took notes. We then created our own title line of where we would like the title to go.

24th March 2010
During class we showed a rough cut of our film, at the time our film wasn’t completely finished. However the feedback that we had from the class was really useful and gave us ideas on ways in which we could improve on our opening sequence as well as what they though was good.

29th March 2010
As a group we all found looking for music very difficult as we soon realised that we wasn’t 100% sure on what we was looking for. We originally found some music from a copyright source however the website wasn’t very reliable and we never received the music. This lead to us having to try and find a new piece of music from a different website which worked really well. As a group we chose to have music that was upbeat rather than slow and depressing, the lively up beat music would be that it would make the opening sequence fast moving.