Friday, 2 December 2011

Reminiscence - Group Roles


Photographers - Josh/Shane
We chose these two members of our group to be responsible for capturing images of potential filming locations that we had previously shortlisted as well as any that they came across. The reason we picked them to take the pictures was that out of our group they had similar work schedules and so had free time to go off and take the pictures together while the other members of our group had lessons to attend.

Props designer - Lewis
As I am quite a good drawer and am very creative I was chosen to design and draw up the props that we would be using in our film, as our budget was limited to our own finances any designs that were made had to be easily available to us and affordable. When designing the props for the villain to use in the title sequence I made use of my sisters toy collection for inspiration and contributed most of the material that was used in the final concept of the villain.

Musical director - Kelly
Kelly's role was to source the music tracks and sound effects that we would be using in the film opening, she was chosen as she listens to a wide variety of music genres and would therefore be as unbiased as possible when it came to personal music taste. During the editing process, I helped out with this role as we tried out various tracks to our title sequence.

Director - Shane/Josh
Shane and Josh were chosen to direct the production as they had done GCSE media for the previous two years and thus had the most knowledge of the technical camera shots. From this role they could help myself and Kelly in the filming process and suggest alternatives to shots they felt weren't working as well as they could be.

Script - Kelly/Lewis
Myself amd Kelly decided we were best suited to writing up the script for our film as we would be able to utilise our extra creativity and greater film viewing skills to assemble a suitable script that would be both compelling for the actors to perform but also manage to captivate the audience watching it.

Costume designer - Shane
As all the characters not played by an adult in our film opening were male we needed to make sure that the person in charge of designing the costumes was a male as well so they could have knowledge of what's in fashion in order to make the characters more believeable. As Shane is quite fashionable we decided he would be the best choice to fulfill this role.

Location manager - Josh
Josh was assigned the role of finding suitable locations for filming, this was done as during the group discussion about locations it was deduced that Josh had the easiest access to the most locations that could serve our narrative purposes.

Lighting Manager - Josh
As Josh was responsible for sourcing the locations it made sense that he would also be responsible for evaluating the lighting opportunites each location gave us and seeing what would best work where, it was for this reason that he was chosen as the lighting manager.

Producer - Kelly/Lewis
When it came to editing and producing the final version of the film after all the filmwork itself had been done, members of the group had different ideas about how we should eventually edit the shots we had access to, it was because of this that myself and Kelly who had similar ideas chose to edit as a pair while Shane and Josh did the same.

Casting - All
We thought it would be best if we decided upon the cast of our film as an entire group, we did this so that we could get rid of any biases towards friends and also come to a uninanomous decision early so as to avoid conflict within the group at later stages of the production.
Assistant director - Lewis
I was able to take on this role so as to make sure that the character I had envisioned in my original sketches and background planning for the villain was accurately portrayed in the title sequence without making him seem too cliche, with a degree of control over the shots we were filming I was confident that I would be able to achieve this goal.

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