My group members are Mikaeel Khaliq and Tyler Osman. Group meetings are essential to have as we can all contribute our ideas towards our narrative of our thriller sequence. Ensuring our planning stages are thorough is essential because without planning, our sequence will not work and will not include everything a thriller sequence needs to. The meetings allow every member of the group to confirm all of the final decisions made.
In our first group meeting, on the 13.10.14, we discussed our individual narrative ideas and created a a group narative between all three of us. We all contributed suggestions for the final narrative to ensure it made sense, and included a variety of conventions to fit with the thriller genre. We decided to use the general idea of my idividual narrative, with aspects of Mikaeel's and Tyler's, because we thought my idea would be the clearest portrayal of the conventions we needed to include in our sequence.
On the 4.11.14, we planned all the elements of mise-en-scene; settings & iconography, costume, hair & make-up, facial expressions & body language, lighting & colour and positioning of characters/ objects within the frame.
On the 5.11.14, we planned what cinematography we would include in our sequence, for example, POV, close ups, high angle shots, low angle shots, panning, canted, handheld, eye-level and extreme long shot.
On the 13.11.14 we planned the sound that we intended to include in the opening sequence.
On the 18.11.14 we planned each character that will be in our opening sequence.
Having group meetings and discussions were important when planning our thriller production, because they ensured that the decisions made were finalised and agreed on so that there would be no difficulties or arguments when creating our sequence. The meetings we had consisted of writing down all our ideas and discussing why we would use them to make the events in our sequence conventional to a thriller. These discussions also allowed each individual group member to have their say and to put forward ideas that they think could make the sequence better. The group meetings were useful as they contributed to the planning of the sequence; ensuring that all of the micro-elements were included. Tyler, Mikaeel and I worked well together when planning our opening sequence as we all contributed various ideas and we were quick with deciding what we wanted to involve within the sequence.
This post demonstrates some understanding of why group meetings and discussions are essential to carry out. You have made a start in describing the various meetings that you have had. However, the points that you have included are a little vague and need to be explored and elaborated in a lot more detail.
ReplyDeleteAlso aim to include the meetings table within this post too