Final Sequence

Evaluation

Using Final Cut Express

We have been using Final Cut Express to edit our opening sequence. Although we did not know how to use this program, we worked it out. Very few minor problems have occurred and luckily they have been solved pretty easily.

Re-Shoot

After looking through our filming footage we have realised that there are some mistakes during some of our clips, so we have decided to re shoot some parts tonight. It will be very hard to get all lighting, props and costumes the same so we are going to ensure we have our previous footage with us to help us match them.

My Role in Sound

Ella and I both decided upon sound together during a group meeting. We used garage band to collect and create the sounds we would be using in our opening sequence. We have got all of the sound that we need and will put all of the sound into our opening sequence once the opening sequence is completed.

Making of a Production Details

We have started to produce a production identification for 'Fame Pictures'. It took us a while to learn how to use Adobe Flash, however once we knew what we were doing it did not take long to get started. We have started to produce a bouncing ball on a background. I think that we are doing well however I am not sure whether we will use this as our final production ident because it is not very original, but it have given us good practice into using Adobe Flash.

Group Meeting - Narrative

Today we had a group meeting to discuss narrative.
During our group meeting we discussed:

• Storyboards
• Actors
• Props
• Location
• Any changes to be made
• Any worries and concerns we each had

We confirmed location to be at my house. We also confirmed our main actress to be Shauna because she does acting and would play the part well and I brought up the idea of asking Freya Catmur-Hill to be one of the friends because she also does acting lessons and we want actors to have the highest ability that is available to us to ensure all roles are played of a high quality.
We talked about what props we would need to bring along to filming and what props would be provided by which group member.
We talked about our storyboards and ensured that we were both happy with the final outcome of them before we started filming, this carried on to a discussion about what changed we would want to make to the story. I put my opinion across and said that I was not sure that the ending of the opening would work well and gave a new idea for Ella to consider. We both decided we like the new idea and agreed to change the end to a shadow shot.
Another discussion was about any worries. We talked about what we would have to do if some of our shots didn't work and what we would have to do if this problem occurred.

Overall I think it was a very successful group meeting. We are very lucky because we have similar ideas and value each others opinion, this helps us work well in a group as if there is a disagreement we negotiate it quickly without much fuss.

There is a video clip from this group meeting on our group blog.