Preliminary Task Filming

Filming



Today we filmed our preliminary task. We had all four members of our group in today and we started filming, because one of our members was missing last lesson we first had to get the up to speed with what we were doing, this was a problem as it took time away from the filming process. Then we had to go and find our cast as this was overlooked in the planning process, another problem as it took more time away from the filming process. After we had our cast and had got everyone up to speed, we had to get the camera and go filming.

When we were filming we figured out certain things we had put in our story board wouldn't work so we had to change this quickly, this was a problem as we then had to discuss how to change it, without changing the storyline.

Preliminary Task Storyboarding & Scripting

Storyboarding & Scripting



In this lesson we started to storyboard in our groups, and because there was 4 of us and we only needed one storyboard we found ourselves disagreeing and some of us didn't have anything to do. Due to this we decided to create a script also. This allowed 1 person to work on a different task happening at that moment, although to do the script you had to be able to see the storyboard, this was another problem we had. Also one of our group members didn't turn up to this lesson, so we struggled to get everything done. The three of us that were there worked well and got everything done. We sorted out our storyboard out, each of us had great ideas such as, to do a romcom instead of just romance, to show a more comedic side, to make the main male a heroic figure trying to help the female and what should be said in the dialogue. We worked well together after this lesson I think that 4 in a group is too many people to work with.

Preliminary Task Planning

Planning

In the first lesson today we were given our groups and start to plan and mind map ideas. The first thing we had to decide was who we went with and how many people would be in my group. I chose to work with two people I have never worked with before in media and one other, as I felt that 4 was a good group size and the two I have previously worked with I worked well with. In my group of Ellie, Daisy, Rosie and myself. We have already decided on the genre of romance, after a long discussion. We played around with other ideas and one person didn't want to do this genre, which was a problem we came across, but we decided to go with a majority vote. We have done this because we feel that we will be able to represent it well. At this point I feel we have all contributed equal amounts and as we have been brainstorming all lesson, we have all contributed equally. In this lesson we have also gone over how to use the cameras and what we should be doing in the preliminary task.