3rd production meeting

 Today the group got together for the third time, to discuss our project. For the first few minutes of the lesson, we talked about the different things we could include in the story board then we split up to work on different tasks.

Jake worked on the shot list, making sure it went along with the story board that Ryan was drawing. By the time we have another production meeting, we will hopefully all have the shot list on our blogs and the story board will be ready for us to start creating the animatic.

While the guys were discussing those aspects of the film opening, me and Afsana worked on the blog posts. I completed the 3rd production meeting blog post. Afsana done the Location worksheet and made sure all the other blogs required are up to date.

Titles Sequences

Title sequences have a certain order in which they present the information about the movie. Even though there is a certain structure that is commonly used it can sometimes vary.

The structure looks like this:

• Production Company Presents
• Film by ... director
• Main Stars
• Title
• Other major cast members
• Sound, editing, make up, costume, lighting, cinematography
• Producer
• Director

I looked at a few different example of movies:


Se7en

Production meeting 2

Today we have gathered together for our groups, second production meeting. We have all worked on the story board and developing the plot for the opening of the thriller. The main task we have set ourselves, was to have a complete list of the shots to match the story line and the conventions of the thriller.

Introducing the group

The group members:
Afsana Begum
Jake Cook
Beata Rumian
Ryan Sellstrom
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Today in our media lesson, we were told to get into groups with people we want to work with, on the thriller opening video. Me and Jake were going to work together since the first exercise we have done in the AS Media class. Then we decided to get Ryan and Afsana to join our group because I feel like we work well together.

What we are good at:

My strength is the editing which will be my role in the group as well as possibly acting. Afsana is good at acting and she may also be in charge of recording our ideas down. Ryan is good at filming as well as coming up with interesting shots which will be useful to create a succesfull thriller opening. Jake is good at filming and is also good at time managememt, recording information (on a blog etc) and the mise en scene in general.

Initial Plan

We got together as a group of four today, to brainstorm our ideas on the opening of the thriller. We also discussed what kind of roles each of the members will take on, which we chose based on our strengths presented in previous assessments. The group talked about the characters, who would fit what type of character and how would that fit in woth our ideas. 

We had to talk about the different problems we may face with our ideas, like for example where would we get a car from and what place would be the best to film at. Afsana also took down a note of the dofferent shots we have talked about using in our thriller opening. 

When it comes to the dialogue, we are not proffesional actors and so it would be difficult to learn long lines and make it all seem natural. Therefore we focused more on the ideas and the mise en scene, agreeing that we will have as little dialogue as possible.

1st production meeting

First production meeting

Today we had our first production meeting with the group to discuss our ideas for the final task: a thriller opening. We worked together to gather ideas and choose the best one. 

Everyone contributed equally sharing ideas with each other. We had an A3 piece of paper on which Afsana wrote down everything that we have discussed, which can help us pick the best idea later on in the preparation for the filming. 

We looked at different aspects of the opening and I checked back with a list of the conventions of a thriller, to make sure the ideas would work and fit in with the desired effect.