Favourite Parts

Throughout this coursework I think the best part for me was filming. 

Although sometimes setting up the camera and carrying it around was 'distressing' the whole experience was fun. We had our times when we wanted to cry because both camera batteries were almost dying or we could not get the shot we wanted however, apart from that I really enjoyed the filming. Taking care of such equipment proved that we were all responsible, no one ever stopped us which is something we feared especially filming in the Central London and we generally had a very good time. 

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Teamwork

Compared to other groups who were ranting at one another and, in constant disagreement my group and I worked very well together and never had an argument. 
We did not always have the same opinion or want the same things but we somehow managed to put everyones idea in. We were also able to express our talents, Elias for example has a passion for making music and we allowed him to take on this role, Sheri wanted to experiment with the fonts so we allowed her to do the titles. Me and Demi both thought it was important two people do the editing because, we would need advise, and to apply our knowledge of what we had learnt in previous lessons because, one of us was not enough. Although those were our main roles we all had a turn in doing different things. When I was free for example I would mess around with title fonts and, when Sheri or Elias were free they would do different things. We would always feedback to each other on what we had done and appreciated others input even if it was wrong or not needed. 


In terms of blogging we all did at least one blog each where everyone could tag themselves. 
Overall I would say that I enjoyed working with my group because, we were all aware of others opinions, when we were off task we would get back on task, we all sacrificed some of our precious time which resulted in a very good finishing piece. 

OUR Group 14

Looking around during the filming process i saw that many groups were struggling or got easily frustrated with all group members surrounded around the computer screen shouting and telling each other there ideas. As a way to keep our filming pace fast we allocated jobs to each member in most circumstances.

For instance when we met up for filming we decided who would bring the props for that day or who would bring the filming equipment.

• Sheri- Focused on the Titles of our Thriller opening and the way it would be presented
• Elias- Focused on the music that went into any scenes we needed, he often used Soundtrack pro
• Mariama & Myself (Demi)- Focused on Editing ad doing all the Importing and Exporting of devices.

 We took it in turn to return equipment if needed.

As a group i actually think we worked rather well, even tough we had a few disagreements we always done majority vote or just tried to incorporate every ones idea the best we could.

Export and Import

Two words that I will never forget from this whole experience is 'import and export'. As we had to keep re-editing our opening, titles and the soundtrack we had to keep exporting and importing different files onto different programs. 
This was very crucial when we were adding effects to our backing track because, we had to ensure that it was going according to the clip.
Although it did get too a point when those two words reminded me of being instructed to walk forward and then backwards, annoying right ?

Adding and editing the soundtrack

As we had very little time left, we allocated Elias to produce our soundtrack as he has experience in creating music and he was very eager to create a backing track. 

We wanted something very suspenseful but at the same time something that was suitable and appropriate for our opening. We decided that dialogue was not to be added because, it was a dream/flashback and everything was going very fast so it would not make sense. However because it was a nightmare we recorded heavy breathing (which did not turn out great) and decided to change our mind and use one of the effects on Soundtrack Pro. 

Because the backing track was not as long as the opening clip we had to copy and paste the track again, as we played it back for what we thought would be the last time we realised there was an awkward noise in the background of a baby crying. We were VERY confused as to why this was happening because, we muted all recorded sound during video recording.. 

We realised that we had a hidden effect in our sound clip that needed to be removed and after 20minutes of stressing all we had to do was press the delete button.

Production company name CHANGED

Sadly we had to change our production company name as our Teachers said that they dont consits of just initials so it would look abit sill. our intial idea was D.E.M.S we decided to call it this because it had all our initials and we wanted to seem like our film was made by an independent company. There was no way we could have used  20th Century Fox or Paramount pictures as our thriller was going to be a low budget film. 

However, we were told that it was not very professional for a production company to be someones name and the idea of initials was slightly tacky, so we decided that it was better to use a producer called 'Mike Collins' and another title to be 'In Association with Safari Films and Broadway Entertainmnet'. These sounded more like common production and distrubton companies that you would randomly hear baout or see on trailers or film reviews. The idea of two production companies tells the audience that this film budget is not too much and it is made by an independent company rather than a large .

 

 

SAFARI FILMS/ BROADWAY ENTERTAINMENT