Group Management

1) How did you manage the group dynamics, equipment and resources, interim deadlines and the necessary collaborative nature of film making?

As a group there were three members. We decided to split equally the tasks in hand, meaning that none of us would be passengers that would relax and not do any work. So at the start we wanted to divide the work hence one member did the editing of the movie and then the other members started to find music and help make titles. At times we all individually shared the opportunities to write up on the blog about the work we are doing. We managed our equipment properly cameras, tripods and costumes well. Each lesson we set tasks that we were going to finish in that lesson. Like on our first filming days we divided tasks of find out the genre of our movies which was going to be a horror, finding music which was required to create the atmosphere in our film and the last thing we started our movie of was by drawing the story board which was very important in our creation. Also we divided the filming duties every time we went filming outside. One member managed the camera and the other the acting. This created work for everyone in the group. (Vidur Bharatram)



2) What health and safety and logistical problems did you solve?

While making the film we made sure that we stuck within the school rules and campus. We did not do anything that was a health and safety risk apart from climbing a tree. We felt that this was a reasonably small risk to take as we had checked the strength of the branch before we did this. Bar this there was nothing that could be an issue for health and safety. (Gregor Sharp)




3) How did you organise your human resources – the people involved in the production?

We chose two people to be in our film. We had a typical relationship with a boy and a girl who where played by Charles and Lisa Mitchell. We had one problem with Lisa’s hair she wouldn’t stop dying it meaning we had to go out and reshoot many of our shots again, other than that we managed to keep a tight grip on our actors and we didn’t have any other problems. (Charles Lambourne)








4) How did you manage actors, locations, costumes and props? Remember that deciding NOT to use a particular strategy [e.g. not to use any props] is also a creative decision.

We first had a small audition with a few actresses to play the role of Lisa. But eventually we took the real Lisa Mitchell to play Lisa in our movie. We then decided to find a perfect location for the horror scene of Charles’ death. In our school campus we have a very old church near some woods so we analyzed and speculated the area. We saw that the location of the church was perfect as it was dull and scary. Also we had to find a spot where the phone calls could be made when Lisa and Charles speak in the opening scene. So we needed a common room and we found the perfect spot in a boarding house called Round Square. The only few props we used was a phone. For costumes we just used very casual teenage clothes while Lisa used her school uniform to say that she was in high school. Looking after these costumes was a difficult task as sometimes they would get dirty as the mud and slush was everywhere on our location. We decided not to use major props to keep the opening scene simple. This made it easier to manage and to worry over small details. (Vidur Bharatram)

5) How did storyboarding and creating a shooting script work in practice? Did you make creative decisions to depart from the original plan? For what reasons and with what outcomes?

Vidur created a storyboard at the beginning that we thought we where going to stick by through the whole filming, but as we found out from filming some parts where too long or not good enough to be in the film. We decided some of the footage had to be cut through our own decisions and some where through other peoples thoughts.

Some of the cuts included Charles waking up in bed and him picking up his phone and talking to Lisa but we didn’t see her at all pick up the phone so we decided to get rid of it and start with a new beginning with me and her having a phone conversation talking about what is happening. Then we had a load of footage of me walking towards the silent walk and after a few words from Mrs Downes we also cut a lot of the footage as it was pointless a filled up to much camera time. So we turned the footage into a faster more slicker version.
(Charles Lambourne)