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Sunday 29 January 2012
Brainstorm On Thrillers
-This Brainstorm shows the many different ideas my group was concidering to mimic or base our thriller opening on. In the end we all came to the conclusion of merging two ideas into 1. We chose 'Set It Off' and 'Final Destination'
Evaluation
1. What was your original idea and how did you execute this idea? Was your group split up successfully? Who shared roles and who took individual roles? What would you change if you worked together again?
The original idea my group put forward was the same idea that we stuck with, it consisted of two Essex girls arguing over whether the girl with issue should do something with a bracelet she had on. We assumed that the bracelet was given to her by a boyfriend or someone related to that relationship. When it was our turn to film we found it challenging but we decided to be creative and add in another person with no speaking part but it made it seem more realistic as the setting was in a café so we made it look like there were others there.
The roles handed out to the members of the group were pretty straight forward, we had two girls who we all knew would be perfect to play those roles and the extra (me) was just because it never took two people to direct and use the camera. The person who directed the whole thing and was in control of the camera was the person who wasn’t up to the task of being in front of the camera. All roles assigned were to suite the individual person so no one was doing something they didn’t want to do.
I honestly wouldn’t change anything if I worked with the girls again as I personally think for our first proper task we did extremely well and on top of that we were the first ones in the class to complete it. I am happy I worked with them as I don’t see myself being this organized with anyone else.
2. Production Paperwork - how was it useful?
What production paperwork did you find most useful in terms of organization? What pieces of production work need further depth for your film opening?
The production paper work was useful to me as it helped me carefully plan out exactly what I needed to do and what exactly the group needed to do so when it came to our chance to record we knew exactly what we was doing.
The production work I found most useful is the storyboard and treatment. The storyboard because it helped map out what everyone would be doing and where they would be and how they should be doing it, without the storyboard we would have been lost. The treatment as just like the storyboard it mapped out exactly what we needed to do but in writing so we could easily tell each other what we need to do and because we wrote it as a group we understood it fully.
We least of all needed the call sheet because it was just repeating what the treatment had just in a shorter way, so that really wasn’t useful but then again it was good to have everything documented.
3. Your Idea - did it evolve in anyway?
Who was responsible for executing the final idea or changing the final idea? Did this work and if not, what would you change in the future?
The idea was mutual everyone thought the same thing and we each added in different things until we got our final decision, I don’t believe there was a leader in the group discussion because we came to the decision together and no one told us what they wanted to do.
The idea worked perfectly fine because the concept of it was different to what anyone would have done, it was especially different to what everyone else in the class did. In the future I would change the quantity of the shots we took. We should have taken more shots so that we could have had a better chance of getting it completely right.
4. How did you find your technical skills on the production? Was the camera placed correctly and were the editing cuts smooth? What would you change (in terms of technical ability)?
Our technical skills were really good considering this was our first time actually shooting a mini clip. The camera could have been a lot steadier at times, but we never used a tripod so it would never be too steady. The camera was placed correctly on all little clips and we followed all the editing rules, 180 degree rule, match on action and shot reverse shot. The editing of all the clips could have been better. We didn’t really understand how to do it in the beginning but we there eventually. In terms of technical ability we should of used a tri pod and experimented with different movements and also took a lot more clips so that we could have had a wider range to choose from.
The original idea my group put forward was the same idea that we stuck with, it consisted of two Essex girls arguing over whether the girl with issue should do something with a bracelet she had on. We assumed that the bracelet was given to her by a boyfriend or someone related to that relationship. When it was our turn to film we found it challenging but we decided to be creative and add in another person with no speaking part but it made it seem more realistic as the setting was in a café so we made it look like there were others there.
The roles handed out to the members of the group were pretty straight forward, we had two girls who we all knew would be perfect to play those roles and the extra (me) was just because it never took two people to direct and use the camera. The person who directed the whole thing and was in control of the camera was the person who wasn’t up to the task of being in front of the camera. All roles assigned were to suite the individual person so no one was doing something they didn’t want to do.
I honestly wouldn’t change anything if I worked with the girls again as I personally think for our first proper task we did extremely well and on top of that we were the first ones in the class to complete it. I am happy I worked with them as I don’t see myself being this organized with anyone else.
2. Production Paperwork - how was it useful?
What production paperwork did you find most useful in terms of organization? What pieces of production work need further depth for your film opening?
The production paper work was useful to me as it helped me carefully plan out exactly what I needed to do and what exactly the group needed to do so when it came to our chance to record we knew exactly what we was doing.
The production work I found most useful is the storyboard and treatment. The storyboard because it helped map out what everyone would be doing and where they would be and how they should be doing it, without the storyboard we would have been lost. The treatment as just like the storyboard it mapped out exactly what we needed to do but in writing so we could easily tell each other what we need to do and because we wrote it as a group we understood it fully.
We least of all needed the call sheet because it was just repeating what the treatment had just in a shorter way, so that really wasn’t useful but then again it was good to have everything documented.
3. Your Idea - did it evolve in anyway?
Who was responsible for executing the final idea or changing the final idea? Did this work and if not, what would you change in the future?
The idea was mutual everyone thought the same thing and we each added in different things until we got our final decision, I don’t believe there was a leader in the group discussion because we came to the decision together and no one told us what they wanted to do.
The idea worked perfectly fine because the concept of it was different to what anyone would have done, it was especially different to what everyone else in the class did. In the future I would change the quantity of the shots we took. We should have taken more shots so that we could have had a better chance of getting it completely right.
4. How did you find your technical skills on the production? Was the camera placed correctly and were the editing cuts smooth? What would you change (in terms of technical ability)?
Our technical skills were really good considering this was our first time actually shooting a mini clip. The camera could have been a lot steadier at times, but we never used a tripod so it would never be too steady. The camera was placed correctly on all little clips and we followed all the editing rules, 180 degree rule, match on action and shot reverse shot. The editing of all the clips could have been better. We didn’t really understand how to do it in the beginning but we there eventually. In terms of technical ability we should of used a tri pod and experimented with different movements and also took a lot more clips so that we could have had a wider range to choose from.
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