Group meetings by Aoife

March 17

We had several meetings in our group to discuss the pre-production for the film, our first meeting was to discuss the actual idea for the film this was a brief meeting as I had already come up with the film idea a long time ago when miss.shutzer was my teacher, I discussed my film idea to Melissa and Micah and they both agreed it was a good idea, I worked on the idea and added little bits to improve it.

March 19

Our next meeting was with Mr Simmonds after we showed him the PowerPoint of our film he gave us feedback and discussed the film with me he gave positive feedback and gave us a few points to think about that I took away and worked on such as location and ideas.

April 13th

The next meeting was as a group with Mr. Barton on hes first lesson with us,this is where we told him the idea for the film and what we was planning on doing, he gave us feedback and helped us to expand and make our film better with a more realistic believable story line, I took hes ideas and feedback from the class and changed the storyline from her hallucinating to there being another self.

April16

We then had to begin all the pre-production before we could film, sir designated certain roles to people in the group to complete. My role was to create the shot list,script,production roles and recee I completed these tasks to fit the film and the group although these were my roles I refered back to my group to make sure they agreed with what I was saying which they all did. For the script I thought about the set up and location and the order of the shots to ensure it all made sence and would be do able when it came to filming, the shot list also had to have thought as this is also an important document that needs to be used when filming to give it order. For the recee I had to visit my filming locations which was the toilets and counselling room I had to make sure they were suitable locations for filming, If I hadn’t visited these locations beforehand I could of come unstuck when filming as the locations could have been to noisy or even not possible to film in, I needed to get permission from Mr. Kelly to film in the counselling room and this room could have been used at a time when I had planned to filmed.

April 6th

Melissa began her pre-production roles which included the call sheet, shooting schedule and storyboard, she referred back to me while doing these as we decided I would be the director and in charge of the filming so it was key she knew what she was writing. Melissa wrote out everything from our original filming location although this was changed nearer to the time of filming. The storyboard consisted of 17 pictures of possible locations for filming including pictures of our actual locations the toilets and the councelling rooms from doing this it gave me a good idea of what angles could be used during the filming for example a birdseye shot over the toilet door.

 

April 9th

Micahs pre-production work consisted of the risk assessment, although she wrote about lots of risks some of them were irrelevant to our film for example cars we didn’t have to deal with the hazard of cars as we filmed no were near the road, she wrote about how filming in a bathroom could come with risks such as electric damage and how she could prevent this happening by being cautious and keeping the camera away from running water. She also wrote about how if we filmed in a classroom we wouldn’t want it to look like a classroom as this is irrelevant to our film, she said we could move the chairs out of the way as this could be a hazard of tripping over and also would look more professional out of the frame. Micah’s other production role was to write about out backup actor if she was unable to film she wrote how Chillapi would be a good actor in our film and why.

May5th

Before I went on to film I had to make sure everyone knew what day we was filming on and what time we had problems at this point because the team members couldn’t fully ensure they would be able to film at that specific time, at this point I knew there wouldn’t be enough time to film In the original location being the bedroom I had to make the decision to go back on my pre production work and change the location on the script to the college as I knew this would be easier for me and my team members to film in time,  im glad I made this decision as I feel if I hadn’t the film would of failed instead of how it turned out to be.

May8th

On the day of filming the Friday I suggested before my team showed up I made sure a camera would be available to film with and I printed out my script to give to the team so they knew the shot order and how the day was going to run although I thought the backup actor was going to have to be used Micah pulled through and allowed us to create what I believe a successful short film in which she very professionally  acted in while I filmed and Melissa gave some direction as well as acting as the councellor.

 

May12th

After four hours of filming different shots we had gathered our rushes ready to be edited individually we looked through the rushes as a group to make sure we had the right shots and didn’t have to re film or add any other scenes into the film which we didn’t, we all agreed we was ready to edit the film individually.

 

 

We had many short meetings as a group some good some bad throughout the pre production work the production work and the post production work, the film ran smoothly without technical issues .we all pulled through to reach deadlines and create the short film in time and to what I believe to be a good standard.