Minute Meetings

17/11/14

What have you done?

We planned locations and angles for scenes. Decided what props we need. Decided how much time we will spend shooting at each location.

Targets:

Tom: To ask if you are allowed an hour out of the music video. Freddy: Think in more detail about the Pavilion scene. Claudia: Make a Facebook group and add us all so we can share pictures etc from the lesson.

What went well and why:

Decided where we want to film and how we will film scenes in the classroom.

What went bad and why:

Didn't discuss fully what we are going to film at the Pavilion & the angles we will use. Didn't have enough time as we thought of the idea at the end of the lesson.

18/11/14

What have you done?

Today, we focused on our thriller length and complexity, and decided it was too long for an introduction sequence. We completed our story board for tomorrows practice lesson. We created a Whatsapp group so we could communicate more easily. We fitted our sequence into around two minutes and finalized the locations and props for tomorrow.

Targets:

Tom: To find time from the music video to go and take part in the practice film session. Eliza: Finish the storyboard drawings. Freddy: Check over the original idea, make sure we haven't missed anything that could make our sequence more thrilling. Claudia: Contact each of the group to make sure Whatsapp works.

What went well:

We established a way of contacting each other easily, so we can organize things when we are at home. We also managed to decide on a story that will fit roughly into the time-span.

What didn't go well:

We wasted a little time deciding on ideas that would fit into the time-span and still be tense.

20/11/14

Today we filmed the reccy shoot filming each shot in chronological order, each in one take.

Targets:

Claudia-upload videos onto laptop so we have back up copies. Tom-catch up on what missed and go through what problems came up. Group- discuss ways to lengthen the sequence. Maybe we could write some dialogue so that there is more substance to the shots so they don't seem as long.

WWW- it was useful to see how the shot pieced together and it helped us to get a more visual idea of how our thoughts worked together, therefore making it easier to adapt and add in ideas to our sequence to improve it.

WWB- we need to discuss in more detail how to extend the sequence as it only came up to a minute. so that held us back as we were running out of ideas and we need to discuss in more detail how to adapt our idea.

21/11/14

What has worked well:

To increase the tension we positioned 'Claudia' in the background to show a hooded figure in the background which the girl cant see. this worked well we thought as it shows the thrilling side of the opening scene opening the question of "who is the person in the background?"

Another thing that worked well we felt was the camera angle we used to show the girls face expressions of fear and vulnerability. we used a closeup which worked really well to show these emotions to the audience and increase suspense of whats going to happen to her.

What didn't work so well:

We felt the general pace of the opening scene wasn't quite right and we maybe need to work on that to make it quicker and therefore more tense or slower and slower. This definitely is a weakness of the piece at the moment as it isn't flowing very well with the pace we used in the tester film.

Also to improve the piece we think that we could add more to it whether that's more sound or another twist or even cut things out and replace them with other ideas because most of the group agree at the moment the story line isn't strong enough to create that thrilling effect on its own but needs more to be successful.

24/11/14

What have you done:

Noticed our idea was still too complex and we were trying to channel too many ideas into one, Decided final idea, of being at a funeral, we see a lot of sad people and then the camera pans down to the coffin & we see the woman is alive. It then cuts to a man laughing. We also talked through a few points for the pitch

Targets: Eliza: prepare pitch for tomorrow. Freddy: create a story board for the pitch tomorrow. Claudia: inform tom on what he missed in today's lesson.

WWW: Today we discussed what was bad in our idea and what we could do to make it better, we finally decided our final idea & everyone is happy with it. Decided who was going to present the pitch & who is going to write feedback.

WWB: Left it quite late to decide our final idea, which made our overall summary & opening sequence suffer. We didn't really have a clear pitch, we just talked through a few ideas of what we want to include, as Eliza is presenting the pitch, she is going to finish it at home



 10/12/14
What have you done:
Today we discussed the props, costume and set.
Targets:Eliza:describe and make notes on the costume. Try and find some possible and affordable dresses that we could use.
Tom:Try and find a set where we can film the graveyard establishing shots.
Claudia:Catch up on new ideas about costumes and props.
Freddy:Think more about props needed.



13/01/15
What went well?

We researched wedding dresses and decided on the look we want, we also finalised our idea for the coffin, which should be made later in the week.

 What went wrong?

We didn't manage to finish a scene outline.

 Targets

C: Research wedding dresses

E: Catch up on the things you missed

F: Come up with ideas for our scene outlines

T: Ask Adam about using Peaslake graveyard 

 

15/01/15

WWW: we narrowed down the exact look and style of the dress which we are all going to look for for Friday
WWB:we didn't find the dress that we originally wanted online
 targets:
Eliza- got To Cranleigh ad look for a dress in the charity shop.
Freddy- make sure we have all the props listed and together so we know if we need anything else.
Tom-make sure all the minute meetings are covered from this week and last so we know if were missing anything and to ensure all the targets have been met my the group.
Claudia-buy a dress if Eliza cant find one.


18/01/15
WWW: we discussed further the exact sequence of events for our thriller and the scene outline
WWB: cant agree on an order
everyone- write down the order of events you want


21/01/15
WWW: we decided on the order of events for the scene outline
WWB:  we didn't manage to finish the story board
Claudia: write up the exact actions in the specific order for the scene outline
Freddy: write up the different potential camera angles and movements that would be suiting for each of the actions.
Eliza + Tom: in an enigma set aside the slot to draw up the storyboard for the shooting day.