Planning our ideas as a group

As myself and Tyra had been away on a compulsory geography field trip, and Tom away on a cruise, our group were unable to start to film any of the scenes without all of us being there. Our ideas and plans had not yet been discussed as a whole and we needed to do this in order to improve the original ideas. We therefore thought that we would all benefit from meeting up on Thursday (the day before our filming day) to go through our ideas and to make last minute changes and improvements. In advanced, we had already planned who our actors and actresses should be and we had previously planned costumes and props. We all benefited from this as we then knew precisely what needed to be done the next day, in order to have a successful filming day.

By Sophie

New idea

During our compulsory geography trip we have used our free time appropriately to come up with and plan new ideas. We thought of a few establishing shots that would be good as an introduction for our opening sequence. We thought this through carefully and decided that we should use the general conventions for thriller movies. This way, we can create a lot of tension to grab an audiences attention rigt from the very beginning. Our ideas will follow...

By Tyra

They've abandoned us!!!!!!

Sophie and Tyra have let myself (Fraser) and Tom down by going away on a compulsory geography trip and do not come back until next Wednesday which leaves us with only around 4 days to film all of our opening sequence before the deadline. It looks as if it will be a mad and stressful rush as we need to storyboard the whole thing and then actually film all of our shots. You could then say that me and Tom could then just film all of the shots that involve us, but this cant be done as Tom is going on a cruise from Saturday to Tuesday, it's time for these people to sort out their priority's. Another dilemma is that we will have to come up with a simpler idea as we wont have anywhere near enough time to film our original idea, serious and quick thinking is required....... 

Editing

Editing the preliminary task

This is our first time blogging (Tom and Fraser) since we merged groups with Sophie and Tyra.

We used i-movie HD to first view then edit the preliminary task that Tyra and Sophie had previously thought up and shot. We had to make sure that the clip used continuity editing and it contained a narrative that interested an audience.

When editing the clip we came across the following difficulties:

1. The action had not started before filming which effected the fluency of the clip. We solved this by cutting the first part of shots so all shots ran smoothly into one another.

2. Some shots over ran what was necessary which slowed down the narrative and threatened to bore a audience.

Overall both me and Fraser felt we edited the clip effectively and created a fluent narrative.

Tom and Fraser  

Our storyboard for the Preliminary task

1st page of storybaord

2nd page



3rd page

By Sophie



Preliminary Task FINAL

The ACTUAL Preliminary task

Preliminary Task

Visiting our venue

On the 2nd of February, the manager of the office let us look around the premisis so we were able to plan camera shots, lighting, and then therefore create a storyboard for our task, before filming it. Doing this really helped us as we wouldn't have been able to create a successful storyboard without doing this first, as it gave us more of a clue about what will work and also what may not work. Below are some pictures we took of our venue and where some of the scenes will take place in our preliminary task:



The Office- Where the main events take place



Stairs which leads to the main office

Where the actress enters the building

By Sophie

Merging groups

On the 4th of January, we decided it would be a good idea to join another group of 2 (Fraser and Tom). We thought that we would all benefit from this decision in order to broaden our ideas and to get different opinions from other people.

By Sophie

Planning our Preliminary task

We made a plan of all the things we need to consider before we start to storyboard and film the task. By doing this, we realised there were numerous things we needed to plan and prepare. Here is our plan:

Sophie and Tyra - Written Ideas and Plans

By Sophie

Preparing for our Preliminary task and Foundation Portfolios

To prepare for our tasks ahead, we watch a few clips of pupils work from previous years to help us understand what works well and also what doesn't. We found that the well made clips used a variety of different shots and edits that blended together to create a smooth finish. It was clear that they planned their work well as some scenes were successful at building up the story they aimed to put across. We also found that found that the ones that needed more work didn’t use a wide enough variety of shots and edits weren't smooth like the previous ones.

We also became aware that close up shots were extremely important. What we gained from this is that we need to plan our work out properly and make sure our clips blend together to get the right message across to the audience.

By Sophie