Group Update- 15/03/13

Today Serena and I thought it would be best to re film the entire lab scenes. We felt that it would work better if there was no dialogue in the entire opening sequence. We have filmed twice before and we managed to work out what went wrong each time we filmed it. I felt that this enabled us to produce better footage. We were paying extra attention not to make any errors such as holding a beaker in one glass then in the next shot it is being held in the other hand.

I am extremely confident and please with our new footage and feel that it is definitely been the best we have managed to film.

Group Update- 14/03/13

Today we were given the opportunity to edit our opening sequence for the entire day. Whilst editing our open sequence we all realised that there was quite a few shots we needed to film. This was an issue as none of us were wearing the same clothes; I had changed my hair colour and we had not made a plan of what to film. This resorted to us re-filming the entire lab section again.

I personally feel that we had made the right decision to re film these scenes again as there were many errors in continuity.

Group Update 7/03/13

Plan Of Action 15/02/13

On the 15/02/13 I decided that our group should sit down and discuss everything that we need to do, as we are very disorganised. I led the group discussion and this is what we planned:

Blue- Filming schedule: We organised at least 2 days of filming that we could all attend to

Monday 18th Feb: Filming
Tuesday 19th Feb 
Wednesday 20th Feb
Thursday 21st Feb: Filming
Friday 22nd Feb

Green- Reshooting: We decided that the following need to be reshot

We need to film some of the science lab shots again as the framing was poor.
Due to the feedback we got, we had to add in some POV shots of someone spying on Theo's Character for the sequence to make sense.

Red-Blog: We are behind on updating our group blog. We have done many of our work on paper, however we need to upload it on the blog.

Yellow-Title: We have not yet agreed on a movie title for our sequence. We narrowed it down to these four:

• Bacterium
• Infliction
• Infected 
• Virus 

If i was to make the decision i would go for Bacterium. I personally think it goes best with the concept of our movie.

Orange-Sound: This is unfinished but we began to discuss the sound that would be used. Serena and I will begin to compose the music towards the end of the editing process. The other half of the group decided that it would be best to use a quiet instrumental music for the science scene. We also decided that we will experiment with synth, drums and symbol to create a mysterious effect. 

Group Update 05/02/13

Our main focus of todays lesson was discussing the voice over that needs to be done in one of Theo's scene. Due to the clip being filmed outside, the ambient sounds were too loud and we were not able to hear Theo's speech properly. We also began to discuss what type of music we should use for our opening sequence. Serena is a music student which is useful as she knows how to edit music. I am a pianist, so we decided to use a piano instrumental. We were thinking of using the piano quietly in the background whilst Theo and I are creating the cure in out sequence.
We are not entirely sure what to do for the rest of the sequence but we were thinking of using broken chords and half steps.

Filming 29/01/13

Today we managed to shoot the majority of our opening sequence. I felt that it was very productive and was the best our group has ever worked.

Location: We filmed our shots in Kingston Upon Thames. We filmed the walking shots by TKMAXX which lead to the river. We filmed the shot of Matt and Theo exchanging the briefcase by the River Thames (Kingston). 

Props/Costumes: We used a briefcase which has the cure for the virus inside it. Theo wore a camouflage outfit. 

Group Update- 24-25/01/13

On the 24th and 25th of January we filmed all our lab and office scenes. In all honesty we were very disorganised when it came to casting and we were unable to find anyone available at the times we wanted to film. Due to this Theo and I acted in our opening sequence. As we were not filming we decided that Mat and Serena should shoot the scenes that Theo and I were starring in then we film the other scenes we are not in.

I feel that over the last two days we managed to get a fair amount done and we managed to get some good shots. Some of the framing was off e.g. half of Theo's head is cut off. We may have to re-film this but we will make this decision after we have all our footage.

Group Update- 20/12/12

Today we came to our final decision about the storyline of our opening sequence. We decided to incorporate all of our ideas into one. We felt that each one of us gave good ideas and that if we put it all together it could work extremely well. One idea we felt would work is Theo's ideas about where the credits would be shown e.g. in a puddle or on a car window. One idea we all unanimously agreed on was Mats scientist character creating a cure for a virus. We felt this was a slightly more original idea and if played well could potentially work.
I had a technical idea of reversing a shot in slow motion. This is still being decided on, despite everyone liking the idea, it is difficult to do and involves a lot of time and patience. We are not really sure if it fits in with our opening sequence, but we will have to see. Serena's idea involved a variety of different shots such as POV and tracking shots which we decided to include in our sequence.

Group Update- 18/12/12

Today we put forward our individual ideas for an opening sequence. We reviewed each one giving the positives and negatives and realistically thinking if it is possible to do each one. We decided not to come to a conclusion on which one to chose as we felt we needed more time to decide which one to stick to. We agreed to make our final decision in our next lesson.

Group Update- 14/12/12

In todays lesson we started to discuss possible story lines for our opening sequence. The first step was deciding on what genre the sequence would be. We put down two ideal genres that we were happy with and they were Action, Thriller and Comedy. We then wrote down different films under each genre to develop a deeper understanding of the concept of the movie and how it fits under that specific genre. Comedy was definitely the genre we were edging towards, although it was very difficult coming up with an idea. A character we were quite keen on having was a superhero. We liked the idea of having a funny superhero doing dangerous/risk taking stunts. Having discussed this with our teacher, we were told that a comedy is difficult to get right and we could potentially struggle. Having taken what Sir said into consideration we decided it was best not to go with our superhero idea.

The next most popular genres were Thriller and Action. I was not particulary keen on the genre but to agree without argument we thought it would be best to combine the two.