Week 3 Summary 25th - 31st JAN (Faraz Maqbool)

A lot happened in the third week of the project work. we actually did get through a lot of work, we were able to do research on genre. This was carried out to get an understanding and increase our knowledge of thrillers and the types of them as we were looking to make our 2 minute film around thrillers. we eventually decided upon a horror/thriller type of movie.

We also delegated the group roles and responsibilities to make sure that everyone in our group knew exactly what they were doing and what was expected of them. This also allows to see who is falling behind and not meeting deadlines and it also allows us to see the contribution that everyone is going to be making.

We were having trouble with the possible name of the movie and so we decided to enter that into our questionnaire and allow the audience to decide between two names which were either "Deranged" and "The Legend of Edward Wolfe". We were able to create the 90 Minute synopsis which is the outline of the whole movie saying what happens. It gives us a better idea of the movie as a whole and its characters personalities as well as what the complete story is about.

Our group was also able to do the treatment which basically is a kind of in depth look at the Movie we are creating. it concentrates on the Product (which is the movie), the target audience we are aiming at, the context of the film, the media languages used, the possible institutions involved, the representations that could be used and finally the genre of the movie we are creating.

We also had our first attempt at the Preliminary task this week as well, however it did not go as smoothly as we had hoped due to complications such as the breaking of the 180 Degree rule. This mistake was made quite a few times in the first attempt at a preliminary task, however we were unable to finish the second preliminary attempt as we discovered that we ran into the same problem once again and also we also made the mistakes of not positioning the camera correctly. This was the first week we actually started to use the camera and so some of us were quite awkward with it however we are getting better at operating it and should get the hang of it soon. we are hoping to complete the preliminary task in the following week.