Own initial ideas

Together as a group we came up with the story line, but we individually thought of ideas to the add to the story to make it the best we could. I decided on the location because every other location we chose had faults. As a group we decided on the clothes and props. I decided what we should roughly do our film about then we adapted our idea.

Individual response to planning meetings and editing process

Planning our story was the hardest part,We found it easy to work with each other which was good for the group. We had three different story lines that we wanted to use but all of them had faults, so we decided to take parts from all of them and put them into one story. That is how we come up with Redemption. We all put a lot of time and effort into the planning to make out opening successful. We watched clips out of Adulthood to see the attire that the characters wear, which helped us decide on the clothing for our characters. once we had filmed our opening we had to do the editing we used a program called Final cut,at the begging we just was getting used to the program, we all took turns on editing but unfortunately I found it harder to use so I let Daniel and Daniel do most of the editing.

planning meeting stuff from week 3 (jan 16-20)

On the third week we finished up our final storyboard which included a setting and actors. We planned every single shot in detail and tried to put effort into every shot.  after that we decided the props were needed, we decided on black clothes, black bandanna for Jay because it represents his gang. The other character which is a harmless young man, he wears casual clothes. The story begins with Curtis entering the park and sitting down on a bench then goes on his phone that's when he notices a boy in a bandanna is coming over to him. Curtis didn't take him serious but jay didn't like that because if the status he has so he became aggressive towards Curtis. the situation got worse Jay punched Curtis to the floor, it was clear to the audience what sort of person Jay was. after that Jay picked up a blunt pbject and hit it over Curtis face, theres a fade out the you can hear someone talk in  a different language with subtitles will come up.

personal response to the breif

At first we all thought of different ideas for a story, these where varied and we decided on which story would be better and most successful, we used different ideas from all three of us and put it all into one story, for example different camera shots and the plots, it was quite easy deciding a location for our opening sequence and we all agreed that we filmed the opening sequence in a park, our first attempt of filming didn't go too well,  we didn't have the right props and the story just wasn't that good. our story wasn't working so we decided on a new story, a few lessons later we came up with a solid idea that we thought would be interesting and successful, we now have a perfect location, and we have some added props, a black bandanna which will be a significant object later on. I've been assigned to be the camera man, I feel that I will do well in this task.

planning meeting stuff from week 2 (jan 9-13)

We brainstormed a completely different idea to our first one, it involved a troubled teenage girl who found a friend that can relate to her, behind the computer he was a nice person, she liked him and trusted him, but he was manipulating her. The problem in this relationship was her religion which forbid her from seeing him. We felt that this story wasn't exciting enough and wasn't very challenging, it was no different to any other story. so we decided to not use this story board. During the planning we come up with a good idea which we could commit to. It involves a troubled kid played by Tawhir, and a brutal thug played by Daniel Glazier.the story starts with a long shot at the bus stop that Tawhir is sitting at, he receives a text asking if hes bunking again, he didn't reply. Tawhir caught the bus to an illusive park, on the way there we tried to film him and the scenery so the audience can see the setting. when he gets to the park he jumps over the fence and pulls out something and starts smoking,  this shows what sort if character he is

planning meetings stuff from week 1 (jan 4-6)

We were  all put into groups, we got to choose the people we wanted in our groups. In my group there is me, Danny and Daniel. The first thing we did was the brainstorming ideas for our storyboard and everyone came up with some good ideas. The first idea for the storyboard was really good but we had problems, we weren't enable to do use that story board, because we didn't have the right props and location for the story. To get inspiration we watched opening sequences and examples from other students. We had a back up story board in case a problem occurred with the first story. We brainstormed ideas for the second story as well which should be completely different from the first one.