Group planning - Miss Georgiou

My group consists of myself, Samantha Apperley and Mikaeel Khaliq. Group meetings are essential as we can all contribute towards ideas for the narrative and the planning stage, in which we can collate such ideas and elaborate onto when doing individual work on the project. As the weeks progress, it is essential that we inform each other onto the details in which we intend to include. Collating with the group allows for every member to be aware to what we intend to do, so once we get to the filming stage there is no confusion or complications as to the work.

In our first meeting (taking place on 13.10.14) we decided upon a group narrative between us. This consisted of discussing ideas and concepts for such; furthering reflecting on the ideas given in everyones individual narratives posts (refer to group narrative) and incorporating that into a whole group narrative. We decided however to go with the concept and idea Samantha's narrative, but we incorporate aspects from both Mikaeel and I's to produce a group inspired narrative.

On the 4/11/14, my group and I got together to work on a planning sheet for the mise-en-scene, in which we discussed what ideas of miss-en-scene we could use for our own opening sequence. During which we noted down different types of mise-en-scene which we intend to include within the opening sequence, at what time during the segment, and to what effect as to why it is used

On the 5/11/14, my group and I got together to work on planning aspects of cinematography, and what types of which we intend to incorporate into our own opening sequence. This consisted of writing down multiple different examples of iconography, in which we wrote down how we could incorporate such our opening sequence. By doing so we wrote down specific examples of such within our narrative into the individual sub subsections, also stating to what effect that particular type of cinematography would create.

On the 13/11/14, my group and I produced a planning sheet for the type of sound we intend to include in our opening sequence. During which, we noted down four different types of sounds which we intend to incorporate into tour opening sequence, after which we wrote down into the individual subsections specific examples from within the opening sequence, stating when the sounds will be used and to what effect.

On the 18/11/14, my group and I produced a planning sheet, in which we discussed the details of the characters of our opening sequence. We separated the page into three sections in which we described the characters of the narrative in depth, stating details such as there name, gender, clothing that they shall be wearing once it comes to filming, and how there character is conventional to the thriller genre. We also wrote down smaller details to accompany this, going into as much detail into the characters as possible, fully planning an in depth persona for all of such.

On the 21/11/14, my group and I got together to discuss ideas for the opening credits we intend to include in our opening sequence. We produced individual opening credit texts, then discussed what we thought was the positives and negatives of our individual ideas was, after which agreeing on what group members idea we are going to use after receiving feedback from my other group members

On the 24/11/14, my group and I created a group storyboard, in which we created by discussing the advantages and disadvantages of our individuals ones, and incorparated the good aspects of which into one sole storyboard, by working on 1 sheet each (containing 4 shots per page), communicating while doing so to avoid any errors or confusion. By working on 1 sheet each, we could complete the task faster and each group member therefore had a role to play in the creation of the group storyboard.

Meetings and discussions are important to carry out, as without doing such the group can't communicate with each other and will be unable to contribute ideas towards group ideas for whatever the task at hand is. Without meetings and discussing, it can also result in confusion between group members in terms of the film process, as without discussing and establishing such group members may be unaware as to the actions of the other group members, being uninformed about what work is going to take place.

My group worked well together at times and not so well at other times. During the times in which we worked well, we had assigned individual roles for each other as we would go to complete such efficiently, an example being one group member working on editing, whereas the other two would gather audio for the film. At times when we did not work well as a group, this was the result of either miss - communication unaware as to what to do at times, or it was the result of us just not working together to complete certain tasks in times however, for the most part we completed work and worked reasonably well together.