My contribution to the project so far...

I have decided to post a small self-evaluation of what I have done for the group production blog.
I have contributed to the group research and planning work quite well. I have done over 16 posts on Research and Planning - including research on conventions of a thriller, technical issues and the aspects of thriller genre. I have also contributed into planning of the production of the film with taking care of the moodboard, storyboard animatics and other that are clearly labelled on the group blog. I have done a lot of work and tried to present it in the most creative way I could access in a short periods of time in order to meet deadlines. I am proud of my work and I think I have contributed individually a lot into the group. To improve my work in the near future, I could find out about more creative ways in which I could present my work and also I could go into more detail in order to get more marks for indepth research with the right terminology. However, I think that the terminology I used is fairly professional and correct at the current stage of progress in Media Studies.

Group Discussion - December 12th.

This is a video footage of my group discussing the storyboard and the shots to arrange it in the way the story would run. We have discussed and agreed what shots should come in at certain times and why. We got rid of the stills that were less useful or badly taken and we put together a storyboard that we are going to use later on as our guide at the shoot.

Group's Individual Contribution to Planning.

This is the list of some of group tasks that we have been set recently to complete as part of our research and planning. I have divided the tasks equally, regarding that I have done a lot of work before doing helpful research into thriller genre and conventions of thriller, as well as other tasks too. I think that individually I have put a lot of work and effort into the group and individual blog and I am proud of my work. Since the shoot will be at one of the group member's house (Kieran's), I got him to take photos, get permissions, test lighting and get recce's and test shots. Then I got Adam, another group member to do Shoot and Edit Schedule, Asset List, Call Sheet, Risk Assessment and Weather check and other quite simple but very important bits of needed work in terms of planning. I've done personally a moodboard, animatic of the storyboard, wrote down the discussed brainstorm before and the scene walkthrough map. I have taken on the urgent tasks that we must have done otherwise we could not should over the Christmas break, which is our goal. Since I have good time-management skills and self-organisation skills, I decided I would manage the tasks quite well.

Scene Walkthrough Timeline.

 I've done Scene Walkthrough Timeline. It is a timeline showing how long will each shot take and how long will the scene in the shot take. I also described every shot to help us along with filming when it comes to it.



Moodboard.

I have created a moodboard using pictures found on internet and the website called Wordle.net. It was really hard to find appropriate pictures for the scene but I found all I could, that seemed appropriate enough. The moodboard helped me and the group see what our thriller must include, what mood it is set in and what kind of costumes/props/actors we will need as well as equipment in order to "tell the story in pictures".

Costume Design

Whilst Kieran is putting together actors for our thriller opening, I have taken over the costume design, thinking of each character and trying to represent it in its way by the costume they are wearing.

I came up with the costume ideas for our actors, which Kieran will choose as the casting crew. The criminal will have to wear black costume to symbolise the dark and mysterious character. Also, black gloves for symbolising his carefulness and clever mind. The husband will wear just a suit, with a shirt -a simple business wear - symbolising the simplicity and calm lifestyle and a suitcase - symbolising the hardwork of a businessman he does. His wife's costume is symbolising the stereotype of a housewife lifestyle with a girl by her side, suggesting she is a fulltime mum, looking after the child and waiting for his husband to come home and serve him dinner.

However, these are just pictures from the internet for the purpose of getting the ideas of the costumes. We might develop or modify those ideas.

Animatic - Storyboard- Actual Shot length.

I have created the animatic for the storyboard that we have created (to be found on our group blog) with each shot being as long as it would be in the final clip.

Thriller Opening - Group Brainstorm

I've written down all the ideas that came to our minds during each group discussion we had and we came down to few key ideas that we might use in our thriller opening.