Group Meeting - Miss Georgiou

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Groups meetings were essential to allow our group to be as efficient as possible when planning a certain part of our opening sequence on a certain day. I think group planning helped our group to become more effective as it allowed us to keep up with what we have planned, what we need to complete and what we have not yet planned. In these meetings, we all discussed our own ideas and then put them all into one to create an effective plan to make sure our sequence is as productive as possible.

Our first meeting was on the 15/9/14 to help us firstly decide on our group narrative. In this meeting, we all pitched in ideas in order to highlight three different personalities and interests into one. We all had very different ideas, which made it quite difficult to put into one narrative that could actually make sense to the audience. All group members took part in this meeting and we had come up with an effective narrative on the day, then ready to plan more to make it conventional towards the thriller genre. Our planning narrative meeting was a group effort, as Harry put more attention and co-ordination in than usual. This was more helpful for me and Cara as we did not have to strain to input more ideas as the last group member decided he would help.

Planning sounds was being organised during our filming time, to help us to be more organised when the time comes to edit our opening sequence. We would all participate in choosing a range of thriller sounds we thought could be effective for our sequence. We would all do this together as a team. Obviously, we would save and download more than what was needed incase we changed our minds on what suited which scene more, helping us as a group decide which one would be better. During the search for these sounds, we was looking for a background sound in which would last throughout the whole clip, ensuring the audience of a scary moment and would then layer more clips on top of it to either help build tension or suspense. As we was organised with this particular micro-element, it helped us to be effective with our timing as we were planning ahead for future reference. There was no specific date for this planning as we would contribute a fair share around the same time we would edit clips in which were not needed.

Planning editing styles was discussed during editing clips, as we could see what we we're working with for our opening sequence, we could then see what type of editing or lighting would be effective for our production. For our editing styles, we used a Final Cut Pro and would play around with the effects before making a final decision, this helped us to know which would we believed suited the particular scenario of the film. Editing styles was not on a particular date but was starting to become more important during he end of our filming and was made sure to be finished before we had finished editing our clips to help save efficiency of time.

Planning opening credits was firstly made by each team member creating their own and essentially choosing the most effective and more conventional towards the genre of a thriller. Eventually, we chose Harry's piece as he showed an effective production of information of our opening sequence. He used good effects in which made the credits seem more thriller like, making it on edge and more thrilling.

As a group, in my opinion, could have worked on team effort as it was seen that myself and another group member Cara found ourself doing most of the work and having to come up with the best ideas whilst the last group member Harry did not input as many ideas as me and Cara ended up forced to. Some of the time was very co-operational and would get some conventional ideas of Harry, but mainly was a two man effort. I think if team working skills had increased, could of helped us a group to become more effective and would have genorously allowed us to become orangised and efficient within planning and filming our work.