Working Together

This picture is showing my group working together. The reasons as to why our team works well together is because we all work hard and believe that working as a TEAM is vital for. We all take on individual jobs that we know will benefit us in the future. This will also save time and allow the most work to be don't as possible. We first brain stormed ideas together and then we wrote down and pitched everybody's individual ideas. This gave everyone the chance to voice and present their film pitch ideas. However, naturally, ideas changed. We went off each idea, developed it and then came up with a final product that we were happy with as a group. We all went round and decided on our best skills and qualities, for example, Max is very good at editing, so max will take on the main role of editing, however, we will all he as a group. We then realised that Spencer is better at filming, so spencer will be the main cameraman. Then Megan and I were both strong actors, directors and camera work. We will also contribute to the editing. By doing this, we were able to use everyone's strongest abilities. We then decided which of us were going to do things like story boards, diary entries, risk assessments etc. This will allow us to get work done quickly and efficiently. Overall, I feel that our group is extremely hard working and will work very well together. We all bounce off each others skills, personalities and work ability.

Risk Assessment

This is our risk assessments that we did as a group in order to identify the hazards that could take place within filming. We wanted to identify how these hazards could be overcome and solved. For example, in the first one we discussed how the camera equipment can be ruined and how we can prevent this from happening. We will then rate how dangerous the hazard is on a scale of 1-10.

Production Diary

Day number 1. 9/11/15 On day number one we had to think about the group we were going to be in. We also had to start by writing our individual pitch ideas onto our emaze that has been uploaded onto my blog.

Day number 2. 10/11/15
The second day of our meeting we each presented our presentations to the group in order to voice our initial ideas making it easier for us to expand our ideas.

Day number 3. 12/11/15
Today we have drawn a group mind map of all our ideas. We made our ideas anonymous to avoid having problems deciding which idea to go for.

Day number 4. 13/11/15
On day number three of planning we showed our presentation to our class and got feedback. we discussed straight away the feedback and responses that we got in order to better our ideas and tweak them slightly.

Day number 5. 18/11/15
On day number 5 we filmed the storyboard and put it together. We each got on with our jobs and I scouted a year 8 to play our 12 year old Sam Brewer.

Day number 6. 19/11/15
On day number 6 we each got on with our allocated jobs. Megan wasn't in so we had to try to work around that, to do that we aimed to complete more jobs than usual to make up for the missed time.

Day number 7. 20/11/15
Today we have continued to do our individual contributions to the opening. Max was finding titles from similar films to copy and Megan was doing a shot list. Spencer was not able to make it to the lesson today therefore we had to compromise and just ensure we were all on task doing helpful things.

StoryBoard

This is our story board, to show what we plan to have and film within our movie opening. The reason why we chose colours and images to portray each shot, was that so we can be reminded visually of our goals. We want to make each shot the best it can be, and we do not want to settle for anything less. We put a rough time amount/ limit so that when we are filming, we gain a rough idea of how long we should do each shot for. This also gave us an overall idea of how long our film opening will be and whether or not we need to make certain shots longer or shorter. The only thing we could have done better is put on each box the types of shots that we aim to do for each one, a defined word, rather than just movements. However, we added just enough information to gain a good understanding of the overall aims for our film opening. The box underneath the images allow us to tick off each section as we do it. Meaning that we can keep it organised and planned, not falling behind. A big thing for our group is staying on track and doing everything we are physically possible to stay organised and get an excellent end product.

Characters

Characters

 

The first character will be played by Max who plays James - James is a henchmen for Jade who is in control of the group of criminals. He is independent as shown throughout the movie opening as he goes off by himself a lot. Whereas all the characters wear black, James wears a blue jumper to show his independence.

 

Next is Megan who plays Ellie and Jade - Ellie is a normal girl who is just at home. She is a typical teenage girl who is the innocent party in what is going on. She wears normal clothes. Jade is Ellie's twin sister who is involved in some sort of criminal activity. She wears all black but directs the others to show her authority.

 

Then we have Melissa who plays Rose - Rose is a loyal follower to Jade and specialises in working with tools and breaking into areas that they need to go to. This is shown when she breaks into the house in our opening. She is very tough and can definitely handle her own but likes being in a group. She wears all black with the rest of her crew to show she is a criminal.

 

Lastly we have Spencer who plays Tom - Tom is the guy who has anything that you need. If another member needs some kind of tool or weapon, Tom is the guy to get that for you. This is shown when he hands Rose the tool case so they can enter the house they looking inside. He will wear all black as well to fit in with the group.

Ttitles for our movie opening

Titles

The titles in our movie opening are one of the most important factors in getting the highest mark possible. If the titles are wrong this can be costly as we could lose a lot of marks. Below are the following titles that we will use throughout our movie opening.

 

 SM studio's presents

A Never Forgotten Production

Melissa Hariz

Spencer Stevenson

Max Duffy

Megan Thomas

Casting by Amanda Lee

Costume design by Lisa Moore

Music By Nathan Hall

Edited by Niall Waters

Production design by Willow Childs

Director of Photogrophy by Lucy Sapwood

Co- Producer  Rachel Headly

Produced by Frankie Croft

Written and Directed by Archie Smith

Mood Board

Mood Board

 

The mood board shows everything that will affect our opening as we will take inspiration from a lot of things that i will show below. We use the mood board to get a better idea of what our movie will look like and what we want it to look like. Our opening is based around some kind of criminal activity. The idea of it a heist/kidnapping idea so we want the start to be quite dark but also pretty fast paced. There are six characters, 5 criminals and one girl. The criminals will be wearing masks and will start off in a van.

Props