Organisation skills

The planning and organisation of my film was mainly created through production discussion. me and my partner planned out many tasks together and split other tasks equally.
We firstly discussed what we needed to do for our planning, we came up with a list of important tasks:

- character/actor interviews

- location

- title

- props

- costume

- shooting schedule

- release forms

- shots planning

- storyboards

- overview.

we then equally, and fairly split these tasks to the appropriate person.

I carried out the character/actor interviews asking numerous questions. The characters in my film are all adults so i had to do my best in representing them as this. I chose the larger stronger looking boys to play the main character men roles and the slighter smaller as the smaller roles. The main girl role had to be a traditional wife figure also looking older. This was very useful in best suiting the actors to the roles in the movie. This was a success to our planing and i feel i really suited the correct characters to the correct roles.

The location was decided by my partner. She took location photos of my house and hers and we had a discussion on the best suited. We chose to use her house as our location due to many different useful parts which her house would connect with, i.e her front door leads on to a hallway which we will be able to build up suspense using numerous shots of a character walking down to engage the audience to who this character is.

The Title will be part of our production discussion in both creating ideas and suiting the best to our movie. We came up with a list of ideas such as:

- Taken

- 3.33

- The minds of others

- Took

- Captured

- Unexplained

- Mysteria.

All the titles relate to the film in different ways. we finally came to the decision of 'Mysteria'. we thoguht this would be a excellent title for our film connecting and linking to mystery. Mysteries are hooking and engaging and this is how we want our film to be represented. it also releases a uncomfortable feeling using 'Mysteria' instead of 'Mystery' it gives it more of a deep meaning.

There were many props needed in our film and we both created a list. My partner then collected the props, and the best suited props. We used a posh, wealthy theme in our film so our props had to be at this standard. We used more expensive utilities and ornaments, such as china plates, posh wine glasses, expensive wine etc.

The costume for our characters/actors was planned by me. I wrote the list of characters and then wrote the kind of personalities i wanted to represent them as. I then was able to link this to the kind of clothes that personality would best suit. The main girl role i wanted to represent as a wife figure linking to theorys such as Laura Mulvey, saying woman were either represented as innocent and nieve or flirtacious and dangerous. i followed the innocent and nieve side and then was able to link this to the gender theory of woman being represented again as gentle, loving, caring, linking to innocent and nieve, this is how i really wanted to represent my character so her costume was created in soft, girly colours such as pink and white, i also used costume like fluffy slippers to really link this to peacfulness and softness. The main man role i also wanted to link with his personality, i once again linked this to theory such as gender theory representing the man as strong, powerful, confident etc. i then was able to decide on costume such as a suit to show wealth and power. The costume of the dead people was quite easy as they would be only quick flashes. i tried to represent them as normal as possible, so that when they were killed it did'nt look fake and obvious. I was able to use things for their face costume such as white, pale foundation to represent death, lip liner to represent the cuts and blood etc. i think all the costume was appropriate and worked well with the character, linking to their personality how i wanted.

The shooting schedule was created by my partner. she created a table of dates and times and what we were planing on shooting then. this worked very well and we were able to stick with the table and have everything done on time. A shooting schedule was very important so that we would not fall behind and we could keep on track feeling confident.

I was in charge of getting all the release forms completed by our characters/actors. I printed of the correct number of forms and asigned a day to go around complete them. This was succesful and each actor managed to sign their forms.

There are a numerous amount of shots used in our film, and it was both of our decisions on what shot to use where. We used shots such as close ups, long shots, over the shoulder shots etc. We tried each shot in many different angles and movements to see which was best suited for the action that was happening. We both agreed and compramised well in this and found it a easy task to complete together. It was very useful trying out different shots and then being able to choose.

Our storyboards were 12 pages long with 47 different shots. Creating the storyboards was very useful in the making of our film and they really made it alot easier to film. In our storyboards we had to decide on many things such as, sound, shots, props, costumer, setting, shot size etc. We both worked on this together agreeing on the best suited. It was quite a hard task to complete being so many things to complete and so many things to choose from. Overall it was very succesful and our stoyboards were very detailed and apporpriate to our film.

We both then were able to write a overview of our film following all of our planing. This was a a easy task and very useful to the explanation for our film. We then went on to create 12 pages of storyboards with 48 shots. These were very useful in helping us to film, we had a clear knowledge of what to shoot, wat angle, postiton etc, what sound, dialogue etc. Here are some examples.