Group planning - Miss Georgiou

My group includes myself, Ryan Samuels and Charlie Stewart, we have regular group meetings to organise and plan our opening sequence. We have these meeting so we can talk though or ideas and elaborate not them so that we can get closer to the final plan of our film. The meetings help us when trying to construct our micro elements and their meanings, they allow us to discuss how we want the content to look and what we want connote.

In our first meeting we were discussing our individual narrative ideas and inspirations. We were analysing them and choosing which plot we wanted to have or change. Our decision was to use my narrative but change it slightly. We reviewed the idea and made the adjustments so that our opening sequence was more effective and created more emotions for the audience.

We wrote down or ideas for our film, we discussed the target audience, codes and conventions, representations of characters, mise-en-scene, cinematography, sound and editing. Our group wrote what we are going to have for each of these categories, we made some rough ideas and decided on some important elements that are going to be used for example to characters names and the setting of our opening sequence. There are two A3 sheets which we put our ideas on, the points are not extremely detailed as we are going to elaborate on each micro elements in other group meetings so that we can focus on the different assets in depth.

In the next meeting we are going to plan our miss-en-scene, we are going to discuss the five different sections of it to create their meanings and the emotions we want to from them. We will make a brief plan of the points we are want to include and then elaborate on them to make their effects stronger. This will help us to organise our opening sequence and allow us to relate it to the audience as much as possible.

In the next meeting we planned cinematography. We discussed how we wanted each movements, angle and position so portray the character, for example we wanted high angle looking down on our victim so that she look weak and vulnerable. We talked about how we could use them to allow the audience to relate to the characters and their situations.

Afterwards we will be looking at our editing styles. For this we need to consider each technique and how they will work with the actions and situations in the opening sequence. Some will need react when the shots changes and some will need to change pace. For example we want slow editing in the beginning half of our sequence so we are going to need to discuss how long each shot should last for in order for it so reach it's full effect.

Next we will talk about the sounds we want to use. There are lots of different types of sound within the film world and out of it, so we will discuss how each sound should add to the scene, what is happening and how they should relate or emphasise the audiences emotions. The sound is a very important asset to a film because it is what makes it interesting and exciting meaning the audience will want to watch on. Sound is used a lot to create suspense, shock, surprise and enigma in thriller film so we are going to plan out how to use them in order to build these feelings.

In our next group meeting we will discuss our characters. We have already decided on two main characters, a victim and an antagonist. But in this session we will plan their names, their background and their personality. Our antagonist will need to fill all the conventions of his stereotypical thriller character and the victim will also need to be conventional and relatable for the audience.

Last we will plan our opening credits for the sequence. In this we will need to consider who/what we are going to included and in what order the should run in. Another element we need to discuss is the font and colours of our writing they will need to be conventional of a thriller film, and foreshadow information about the film.




Group Meetings

In the planning of a thriller productions it is important to carry out meetings and  discussions so that the best results are achieved. Discussing the plan of the our opening sequence meant we could come to the best decisions on what works best and what looks best. The group meetings are important because they allow the group to talk about everyone's ideas and add in their own opinions. This led to the best outcome as the advantages and disadvantages are considered in each asset of the production meaning the group can work around them to make it as good as possible. These meeting and discussions are important to carry out because they help the group plan out their opening sequence in depth thinking about every angle of the production.
I think my group worked well together, we discussed all of our elements and took in each others opinions. Discussing our ideas meant we could adjust our work to improve it and remove any faults or disadvantages. It also allowed up to add to our stronger assets to make them even more effective. Although we had a few disagreements we still managed to come to best conclusions that benefitted our opening sequence.

Date	Action	To be done by	By whom	Discussions
13.10.14	To agree and decide on a group narrative	17.10.14	Whole group	Discuss ideas and concepts that group members have, reflect on the ideas and then decide on a final group narrative
21.10.14	Planning mise-en-scene	24.10.14	Whole Group	Discuss the mise-en-scene we will use and the effect it creates. Plan what iconography we will use.
2.11.14	Planning Cinematography	4.11.14	Ryan Samuels, Charlie Stewart	Discuss the cinematography techniques and start to plan the shots we will include.
5.11.14	Planning Sounds	7.11.14	Whole Group	Discuss the different types of sounds and plan what sound effects and music we will feature.
9.11.14	Planning Editing Styles	12.11.14	Jess Day, Charlie Stewart	Discuss the editing techniques we will use and plan how we will transition from each frame.
15.11.14	Planning Opening Credits	17.11.14	Whole Group	Plan how the credits will look and how we will order them.
18.11.14	Planning Characters	20.11.1	Jess Day, Charlie Stewart	Plan all the characters and how they would be conventional to thriller films.
22.11.14	Group Storyboards	24.11.14	Whole Group	Use our individual storyboards to create a final group version.
25.11.14	Filming Schedule	28.11.14	Jess Day	Create a filming schedule detailing dates and locations
29.11.14	Risk Assessment	30.11.14	Whole Group	Assess the potential risks and how we can make sure our filming goes as planned
1.12.14	Filming the thriller	8.12.14	Whole Group	Film all the scenes in our film