The purpose of a group meeting is to organise the outstanding work in which the group need to complete, set within a due date. This is very important and essential to the group because it helps us become more organised, thus making it easier for the group to have work done by. This helped construct our production because it allowed us to figure out what was done and what needed to be, this helped because only after we finished our posts were we ready to start filming, therefore it gave us a date to when we were able to start filming. This gave us a visual on how much time we had and it made us plan in advanced. The strengths of the group meetings table was that it kept everyone organised, which made the work a lot easier. However, if i could change something about it, it would be the due dates, they were sometimes too little and thus made our work rushed and not to the full potential.
To conclude, What I have leant from carrying our group meetings are that it is essential on order to organise the group, otherwise work will not be handed in on time, thus leaving the group in different stages. I think that the group and I worked exceptionally well together, although we had mixed thoughts while in the editing stage, we worked through it and all contributed equally towards the film. If I could do something differently next time it would be to rearrange the planning and research posts, I would have preferred to have filming in between the posts so that the research and planning will still be fresh in our minds and we could incorporate it into our opening sequence.
The reason people are allocated to specific roles in film making is because, one person can't be in charge of every role, this is because it will become too much and the film will then not be as expected/up to standard. Thus people are assigned different roles so that everyone can have something to be in charge of but also there will be more ideas as it is not only one person in charge of everything. The main roles in film making is, the producer, director, actors and editors. Although there are a lot more roles to consider, these are the main roles in which helps the film the most. How we decided on assigning everyone roles is by firstly separating roles evenly, so that no one would have a lot more roles to be in charge of than others. Secondly, we went went through the roles one by one and asked who would like to be in charge of them, although sometimes we would clash we had to sort it out so that the next roles would surely be theres. However, we ended up with roles which no one wanted to be assigned to, therefore we came up upon an idea to make everyone in charge of it, thus everyone had a little to do and it would be fair. Everyone had an assigned role at the end of this, These roles were: Producer - Samara Co-producer - Leo Actors - Rhiannon and Leo Director - Layla Director of photography - Samara MES Co-ordinator - Layla Editors - Leo Music producer - Leo Screenplay writer - Everyone
I was assigned the roles of, Co-producer, Actor, Editor and Music producer. I was assigned to these production roles because I think that the group decided I was best fit to act as the main antagonist because it would be more conventional to have a male antagonist than a female. I was also the co producer, music producer and editor, this is because I was the only one in the group to have previously studied media, thus giving me the advantage to knowing what is conventional and what could be changed. Samara was the producer and director of photography. The reason Samara was only in charge of two roles is because she plays a big role in being the producer, this is because she is excellent at overlooking everything and making sure everything is okay and up to standard. Layla was the director and MES co ordinator, this is because she has a good vision on what the scene should look like and can make smart changes with my help, making the opening sequence more conventional to the thriller genre. Having assigned roles made filming a lot easier because we trusted everyone in the group to take it seriously and thus we were only focussed on the roles which we were assigned. This meant that everyone can give it their all into the roles, which meant that the opening sequence would be from the best of our combined abilities. Also because we trusted each other it meant that we didn't have to worry if anyone wasn't doing their job right, it also made it quicker for us because no one was repeating a role, everyone had their own thing to be in charge of, which also meant everyone was important, there was no hierarchy. I think that I managed my roles well because the editing was challenging, however it looked conventional. Samara did her roles very well as the opening sequence was filmed and edited on time, which followed the schedule. Layla played her role excellent as the opening sequence was conventional but also looked professional. I think that if we could have done something differently about our opening sequence it would be to change a few settings in some scenes. An example of this is when we filmed in the drama studio, I think that if we filmed it elsewhere we wouldn't have problems such as electrical sockets being seen in some shots of our scene, which we had to edit out. Apart form that I think our opening sequence was done well and was conventional. However, I think that I could have been more of a persuasive actor as at times I looked like I was slacking, which then made the scene look unnatural and very staged. This could be prevented next time if the group and I watched over the scenes to see if the acting was up to scratch and if it wasn't then we would retake the shots. Samara could have done her role a little better because as a producer we expected her to pick up on things such as my acting to criticise and point out in order for the group to make a conventional opening sequence. Layla could have explored more camera shots and movements in order to manipulate the audiences' expectations and macro meanings from the micro elements. To conclude, I think that the production roles were chosen carefully and precise because the group and I took a long time finding out our strong suits, which helped us to pick roles. I think that if we were to change roles we would do worse or on par with what we already have because the roles we chose best suited our strongest attributes .
