Explanation of Planning

Explanation of Planning

Planning:

As a group, we each contributed with ideas and thoughts, being able to build of each other’s concepts. As an art/graphics student, Bella was delegated the role of drawing up the ideas of the character’s appearances. In turn, this helped us to all create a post on our different character choices and the reasons behind this. Sam was given the role of drawing everything shot by shot, to ensure when it came to filming we knew exactly what we were doing in each scene, what props were needed, the equipment we were to use and of course which actors were to be used. This helped organise our work effectively so on the day of the shoot, we could refer to the sheets and decided on what we needed to film. As a musician, I looked specifically at how long each shot was and how many beats we would have to work with so we would be able to cut more precisely to the beat when editing and thus conforming to the genre (Indie). Both Natasha and I conducted much research and note taking to collectively put ideas together for the story board, costumes etc. Everyone was given their own bit to help divvy up tasks equally and therefore making it fair on the group.

Moreover, lots of tasks were individual work, so I done much of my own research to help better my understand of our genre and the conventions etc. However, the hardest part was trying to get actors and a location. Because of the amount of people we wanted to give an authentic party feel, it almost became unrealistic. We needed lots of people to fill out space and to play lots of different stereo types and trying to organise people outside of the group who were not part of the project was hard. However, we did overcome this by filming on several occasions using different people for different scenes. Location wise, we originally filmed at a house and intended to finish filming in a day, but this did not happen. Again because of a lack of people it became impossible to do. However, we became unable to refilm at this house and had the issue of continuity to deal with; did we use the footage from another house or did we refilm the entire project? In the end, we felt it appropriate to refilm because continuity was important, when you are at a house party you are at that house, so it became crucial to think about things like that, henceforth our decision to refilm. In the end, we managed to find another location to film at, and we filmed multiple times so we could use different actors.