Group Meetings - Miss Gergiou

Group Meetings
In these meetings we discussed how vital and how important it is to have a meeting schedule as it allowed us to arrange times where everyone in our group was free. It allowed us to discuss the different micro elements and how they were important to our thriller. The discussions we had helped us communicate with each other in a way that made me and Nojus both understand what we were gaining from this process.
As there was only two of the in the group the communication was easy and there was not many people giving their opinions. However as there was only two of us it did make the filming on a whole hard especially when both of us needed to be in the scene.

From attending our group meetings we discovered that communication and planning are essential to making our finished product better, it worked as we didn't know how long all the filming was going to take so by meeting up al together and discussing what we needed to bring the next time we filmed saved confusion and time. By the time me and Nojus had met up around 3 different times we both knew what came next on the filming she dual.

Date	Action	To be done by	By whom	Discussions
19.10.15	Deciding the group narrative	15.12.15	All members of the group	Different ideas were discussed with all member of our group. Eventually we combined all our ideas to find a suitable narrative
12.10.15	Planning the opening sequence	15.12.15	All members	In this meet up we discussed how the opening sequence would be set out. Including where the credits will be placed
23.10.15	Planning mise en scene	15.12.15	All members	We though about what areas of mise en scene we will fatuous on for example characters and iconography
24.10.15	Elements, example, and sounds created	15.12.15	All group members	We decided that we will remove all of the sound from out clips and edit in our own sounds that will exaggerate what is happening in the scene.
02.11.15	Planning sound	15.12.15	Nojus	We looked at the footage we had filmed and came to the conclusion that all our sound we filmed did not sound as good as they could.
23.10.15	Planning editing	15.12.15	All group members	We discussed that we would use an ‘ash’ layering over our work to make it look more conventional to the thriller genre.
05.11.15	Planning Credits	15.12.15	All group members	We both though of different names that we would use for our credits to make it less repetitive and make it look better
13.11.15	Planning characters	15.12.15	All group members	We spoke about what characters we will need in each individual  frame and who would be filming while all the characters are in one frame.
20.11.15	Group story board	15.12.15	All group members	In this meeting we decided to add all of our story boards to come together and produce one final story board that will reflect a bit of all of our work
26.11.15	Filming schedual and risk assessment	15.12.15	All group members	We developed out filming schedule and risk assessment to ensure that we could stick to a time frame and that there would be no confusion with meeting times and what props needed to be brought.
27.11.15	Filming the thriller	20.12.15	All group members	This is when we started to film our thriller we decided we needed to redo some shots which keep us behind our filming schedule sometimes.

Production Roles - Miss Miller

Within the film industry and creating a film, the best way to manage a production team is by allocating specific roles to each person as it will make the whole process more organised. By doing this way if everyone is doing their own job it will make everything less stressful this means that each person can specialise in the area they are focused on.

These roles include:
- Producers
- Directors
- Actors
-Director of photography
- Music producers
- Screen play writers
- Mise en scene coordinators
- Editors

Our group was different from the rest of the others, as there was only two of us we did our best to allocate the different rolls between us. The director was the main role that we allocated, the director is given the job of planning out and arranging times for filming. This was easily done as there was only two of us. We both made sure we had planned in advance where we were meeting and at what given time so this role was shared between the both of us. The directors job is also change any ideas if they do not look as good as they were planned to be in order to achieve the best possible role.

The producers role is to make sure the characters are playing their roles properly and making sure that the filming is going to scheduled. This role was once again shared between the both of us as we both made impute to the filming process by changing scenes and frames of the original idea. In our opening credits we are going to use made up names to make the credits more interesting rather than repeating the same two names.

The roles of characters had to adapted as there is now only two of us in the group. The characters are now played my only Nojus and I. The killer will be played by Nojus and I will still play the victim. The role of the actors is to follow what the story board plans. Making sure they are ready for the next frame they are in. These are the people that the audience should be able to relate to. The actors role is to follow what the director says and to preform as if they were really in that position in order to make their performance believable.

I was given the job of finding the music and sound effects that need to be added in. As the editing was all done on Nojus computer I found the sounds for him and he added them in. I am responsible for making sure the sound is in every scene that it needs to be in. I was able to find music that created suspense but also allowed Nojus to give his own opinion and ideas on the sounds I had used.

As there is now only two of us in our group we had to change the narrative of our piece on short notice. This accounted for me and Nojus becoming screen play writers. We both shared the responsibility of writing the new story for our thriller. We had to change each of the frames of our story boards and then filmed around that. This job involves making sure that the story is followed throughout filming and is made easier as this is also the directors job.

The next role I took on was the mise - en - scene co-ordinator, this means I had to plan what props needed to be brought in for the filming that day. For mine and Nojus' sequence we needed a knife that had to be brought into school. This also includes the costume and make-up we needed. My role was to also make sure Nojus and I were in the right positioned when we were being filmed to make sure the shot looks exactly how it did in the storyboard.

Nojus individual role was editing. He chose this as it is the element he is most comfortable with doing however when Nojus is not in school I use the lessons to input my own editing skills. The role of he editor is to input all of the raw footage onto final cut pro in order to fasten up and add effects to any given frames. The editors role is one of the most important as they are in charge of the final touches before showing it to the audience. As editing is one of the most important roles this was the only individual role given to Nojus. I feel by doing this the roles were allocated fairly to make sure he was not doing to many difficult tasks at once.

Despite having to change groups which meant changing our entire narrative, me and Nojus were able to take on all the roles involved when making our final sequence. By taking on these responsibilities me and Nojus have worked more as a team which will reflect in our final product.