Minutes

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20/05/11 Today we discussed the locations available to film a section of a thriller movie. we decided Wem high street and other local locations would be more relevant as they are easily accessed to the whole group.


23/05/11 The movie will begin with 3 men running around Wem high street trying to kill each other, the men will be hooded and the camera will not see their faces to give a mysterious effect, the men will end up in the graveyard where one will be shot. a close up of a shovel being thrust into the ground will be shown then the camera will be blacked out and the sound of digging will be herd


3/06/11 The group decided to change the story line to make it a more mysterious thriller. their will be 2 men wearing smart clothes (suits) with briefcases, one man in a cafe and one will have just entered Wem off the train. the man that just got off the train (2nd man) will ring the 1st man to tell him he is in Wem and arrange to meet up somewhere quiet, split screen shots will be used for the phone call and extreme close ups of the phone, brief case, and a clock to show the time, a point of view shot will show the journey to the bench for both men with camera cuts going from man to man, this clip will be edited to play fast to give it a fast paced effect. the men will meet up at a bench on a park as a stereo-typical drug deal, everything will be going well. the men will swap brief cases then walk away with relief, they will walk back to their destinations (train station and home) and notice that their brief cases are empty, the audience will think they have both tried to rob each other and a phone call will make the audience aware that both men have not deliberately ripped each other off. the camera will then fade out then in to a woman with both briefcases and very happy.

Production Evaluation

The start off our production was sort of slow cause we weren't entirely sure what we wanted our thriller to be about so that was alot of time wasted, but once we got our act together we started deciding that it was going to be about 2 guys that make a transaction/swap and we decide that would leave an enigma for the audience with just the opening sequence. Since we took so long to decide we had to make sure we kept to the deadline whilst making a decent opening sequence. we did the reece shots for our opening sequence, did the risk assessment then after a few lessons we realized that we could not do it in the  cafe so we had to redo the reece shots and  risk assessment. The creativity that we had was a bit too much since we all pitched so many ideas we couldnt do them all so we took a few from everyone and tried to put some aspect in to what we had to make, and came up with out opening sequence.We did alot of filming during and some out side of college to make our video what it is now so we filmed and edited all before deadline which gave us a push to make it in due time so we could keep up. As a team we worked really well as Tom and I were the actors Sam was the camera man and me and Tom edited the final footage which we did well. We had to help help from others because we needed better camera angles and better shots and footage the cameraman could of dont a lot better but we worked with what we had and what needed to be done. Tom did really well as both actor and editor for the opening sequence, Sam did ok being a cameraman since we got the necessary footage. If i were to compare it to a professionals it would not be far off but they would of had alot more to work with to make it that much better which would of also had a lot more time to complete it, but our opening sequence is still really good. I personally thing my input to the team was more that expected since i also was an actor and a editor  for our opening sequence. i had to put extra time into getting a suit and a briefcase and other props for the film which was all useful is some way. The feedback we got from our focus group was all very positive we didnt get much negative feedback other that a few editing hic ups which have all been sorted now. The part were we are walking to the destination of the drop off the feedback we got was to have 2 shots on one screen showing both of us walking to the destination  of the drop off but whilst we are walking the camera will be focused on the  briefcases.