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.

Group Discussion Before Filming

We had a group disscussion to ensure we both knew what our role was when filming and what we wanted to achieve during the couple of hours we want to do our filming in. We discussed what angles we were going to film each shot from because our story board only showed one angle for each frame. We also checked through prop and costume check lists to ensure we would know exactly what each actor would need to bring with them. We also wrote up a script which we would give to the main character. We were both happy with what had been agreed during our meeting and were confident that we knew exactly what each of us had to do.