My role

My Role

15th February – I stared to map out the action plan for the film as well as me giving out leading roles to my other team members.

19th February – Firstly, as an added exercise I done some research on costume design on different genres that would help stimulate a costume outcome for our genre in our film. This ranged from films such as ‘ILL Manors and Rebel without a cause’; by doing this it gave me a better understanding as to what will work in our film. Thus making it seem more realistic as well as looking better, as notably more suitable for our opening scene as it would link to the stereotype of our film of our generation.

22nd February – Secondly, I extended my research and knowledge on lighting and sound techniques. I found that for our footage using harsh and darker lighting in certain scenes of the film will help stimulate a more prominent effect on the audience, contrast to the bright vibrant lighting in the club scenes of the characters drinking shows the effects alcohol has on our generation as a whole. Thus suggests that the opening scene will be much more effective with the contrasting lighting. Hence excite an exhilarating effect for our opening scene.

26th February – In equal importance, I took the time to look at the key stills for the film opening, which includes a detailed annotation around them screening what exactly these key stills will show.

28th February – I created a film proposal form and then submitted it to my group.

3rd March – Furthermore I created a script proposal for our group, which outlines what our film opening should conclude of. Hence highlighting the importance of each scene carefully.

21st  March – Moreover, I began my reach on camera work for when drugs and alcohol are taken in movies, to thus use a similar camera shot, movement and angle in our footage which will hence look and be more effective for the audience. By me doing this I found that establishing shot, high angle and low angle shots and close ups are very popular in genre films based around drugs and alcohol.

30th March – On this day, I started thinking about what transitions and effects I could use for our opening scene and also suggested where the transitions should be taken place on each clip in our footage. As a result I gathered that by layering the film it will have a much better significance on getting our message across to the general public, this is because if it was produced in a slow pace editing form we would lose are target audience making it less engaging and effective.

1st April – Alternately, I looked at other film poster that related to my genre, in order for me to get a much better feel of the style in which will work best for our movie poster. Accordingly, I designed a poster for the film that would represent the actions taken in the footage, resulting to the film poster being of the footage drugs and alcohol. As this is the general theme of the film.

5th April – I later began to take down key and vital notes on all of the participation and contribution, which the people in our group have done so far, hence keep track of everyone’s actions in the group.

7th April – On this day, I started doing the sound and editing onto our film, I made sure that all of the transitions and effects that were chosen, would be suitable for this type of genre, to be specific fast jump cuts are used to keep the nature of the film flow.  I also made a contribution in choosing what sounds and what soundtrack should be chosen for our film and what transitions and effects we should use too , to help better the outcome of our final film.

11th April – Second to last, I re-evaluated my work on trying to complete the editing with the final touches and changed anything that would be irrelevant to our film.

13th April – Lastly, on this day I finalised the entire film and submitted it to the teacher.