Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Weekly Update: Wednesday 12th June - Wednesday 19th June

This week was our first week as a team/group. We were briefed about what our assignment was and that we had a choice between making a "5 Minute Short Film" or a "Documentary". As a group we all decided that we wanted to take the opportunity to create a 5 minute short. Once we were made our decision we started straight away and set ourselves 3 goals to complete by Friday 14th 2013, these goals were to:

  • Firstly; produce a "Brainstorm": that included ideas for our group's name, our films basis and set up (e.g locations, influence of idea), target audience and crew roles.
  • Secondly; creating a "Production Schedule", that enlisted all  task that we are to complete and who shall complete them, when by and roughly how long it should take them to do it.
  • And also thirdly, to set up our individual blogs and a group blog.
Gladly, we completed these goals by the set date allowing us to be able to start on the rest of our paperwork that we have all been allocated through the "Production Schedule". 

Moving along, during this week we have also been doing some research into our production and looking for ideas that could give us some inspiration towards our idea. Looking at film shorts on  You-Tube and scouring for more shorts through the web, really enlightened us about what we could achieve through our 5 minute short. However, after researching we had developed around 7 short ideas, which caused us to be indecisive with which idea we were actually going to go through with and produce, explaining our 4 brainstorms as we were able to cut the ideas down to 4.

We presented our top 3 to our fellow peers and teacher to gather their opinions on which idea we should go ahead and create. This was very helpful as we finally decided on an idea which is being written up in a script by Sunraj  for Friday 21st June. Today we plan to meet to discuss and go through the script as a team seeing what we may add and things we may change, this will although will still be towards the first draft as we plan to present it to our teacher in search of some constructive criticism in which would help us improve our script and idea in preparation for making our 2nd draft.

Furthermore, we had another task to complete which was set by our teacher which was the group task as shown on the blog.