Group meetings

  • Meeting 1

    Adam wasn't there and in the process of Adam's absence we created our blogs and email addresses using google mail and blogger. We also created 2 posts.
  • Meeting 2

    Mark and Adam weren't there due to vital exams. During this meeting Richard & Josh researched conventions and created a mindmap.
  • Meeting 3

    Meeting 3
    No one was absent. The group created the group email account and created the TimeToast account. We then began to research the history and Institutions of the film Noir genre.
  • Meeting 4

    Josh, Richard and Adam were not in due to exams. The rest of the group continued with the History of Film Noir. Mark then began his written analysis of an opening sequence.
  • Meeting 5

    The full group was in today. The conventions of the genre and the History of the the Genre were shared between the group allowing us to progress up the list of tasks that needed to be completed. The group then began the Institiution research and Audience research in groups of 2.
  • Meeting 6

    Meeting 6
    The full group was in today. Mark and Josh continued with the Institutional research while Adam and Richard continued with the audience research. The group then began one of their independant tasks.
  • Meeting 7

    Adam was absent due to transport difficulties. Meanwhile the rest of the group continued with their individual tasks and the Institutionl research.
  • Meeting 8

    The whole group was in today. Mark and Josh focused on the institutinal research which was then uploaded to the blogs while Richard and Adam progressed with the individual task of the written analysis of an opening sequence.
  • Meeting 9

    The full group was in today. Mark, Josh, Adam and Richard continued with their individual tasks. Once the written analysis, 9 frame analysis and deconstruction of titles is finished we will have completed the planning section of the course.
  • Meeting 10

    Mark was absent due to important exam. The rest of the groups contined with individua tasks.
  • Meeting 11

    Mark was absent to to important exam. The rest of the grop continued individual and josh completed induividual tasks.
  • Meeting 12

    Group continued with individual tasks and Josh researched some initial ideas.
  • Meeting 13

    Richard continued with his Deconstruction of Titles individual task while the rest of the group began to do the initial ideas.
  • Meeting 14

    Meeting 14
    The group continued on with the initial ideas while richard completed his deconstruction of titles.
  • Meeting 15

    The ful group was in. While Richard and Adam continued the 'Deconstruction of Titles' while Mark and Josh finished the initial ideas and moved onto the props list/treatment sheet
  • Meeting 16

    Meeting 16
    Adam and Richard were absent. Meanwhile Josh and Mark continued with the tratment sheet, storyboard and questionnaire which was sent out both to some of our peers and onto twitter for other media students to complete.
  • Meeting 17

    Everyone was in. The group continued with the storyboard, treatment sheet, call sheet and location scouting.
  • Meeting 18

    Adam was absent today. Richard uploaded his deconstruction of titlesand then went onto do the cal sheet. Mark continued to do the treatment sheet which he then completed. Meanwhile Josh continued with the story board.
  • Meeting 19

    Meeting 19
    People who attended:
    Adam Dixon
    Richard Parker
    Mark O'Neill
    Josh Newton Getting on with planning the film, by updating the storyboard and creating a call sheet so that the group is organised with the planning of the shooting for our film noir video.
  • Meeting 20

    The full group was in today. While Mark completed and uploaded the treatment sheet and Questionnaire Results Adam continued with the script, Richard continued with the Call Sheet and Josh continued with the Titles.
  • Meeting 21

    The full group was in today. While Josh coninued with the story board Mark began the shooting schedule, Richard began the risk assessment and Adam continued with the script.
  • Meeting 22

    The full group was in today. Richard continued the Call sheet and risk assessment, Mark uploaded the recce shots and began a website for the sequence and Josh began the animatics. Then Richard and Adam began to design the group logo
  • Meeting 23

    The full group was in today. Mark continued with the website and then began to look online for appropriate audio to use in our sequence, meanwhile Josh continued with the animatics using the storyboard and Richard & Adam continued with the group logo/name.
  • Meeting 24

    Meeting 24
    The group met up at Seaton Carew at roughly 6:30pm in order to film the first scene on the sequence. Mark came wearing a suit and trilby.
  • Meeting 25

    Adam wasn't in today. The rest of the group continued with the log, animatics and began downloading the filming from the previous day to the computer.
  • Meeting 27

    Mark was absent because of a driving test. Meanwhile the rest of the group continued with the editing of the first sequence. The group also attempted to alter the colour scheme of the blogs to make it more film noir.
  • Meeting 28

    The group changed the layout/colour scheme of the blogs.
  • Meeting 29

    Meeting 29
    The group met up at the headland in order to film the necessary sequences.
  • Meeting 30

    The group imported the film sequences from the day before and organised the blogs into the correct order. We then began to edit the rough cut.
  • Meeting 31

    The group uploaded the Recce shots and example of titles. We then completed the rough cut of our film sequence without any titles.
  • Meeting 32

    Mark was absent due to an illness. The rest of the group finishing off Rough Cut.
  • Meeting 33

    Mark was absent due to an illness. The rest of the group begn looking at sound files.
  • Meeting 34

    Mark was absent due to an illness. The rest of the group altered the blog layout in order to make it more appropriate.
  • Meeting 35

    Mark was absent due to an illness. The rest of the group continued to look for appropriate sound files.
  • Meeting 36

    Adam was in due to an injury. Meanwhile Mark caught up with the rest of the group with the tasks that they had done and the others in the group continued to alter the blog layout.
  • Meeting 37

    Josh was absent today due to an extra curricular class. Meanwhile the rest of the group continued to look for sound files and we continued to edit the final cut.
  • Meeting 38

    Richard was absent today. Meanwhile the rest of the group continued to edit the video files, research sound files and begin the titles.
  • Meeting 39

    The group looked for some additional sounds and edited the final cut whle adam was abcsent.
  • Meeting 40

    The full group was in today. We began by editing the final cut and we also recieved the questions for the evaluation section. We then made the titles to go alongside the opening sequence.
  • Meeting 41

    Adam continued to edit the final cut by adding sounds. Meanwhile Richard attempted to edit the titles. Mark and Josh progressed on with the evaluation questions.
  • Meeting 42

    On the first day back after the holidays the completed final cut was uploaded, the group then focused on the evaluation questions.
  • Meeting 43

    Richard was absent due to other, obviously more important, commitments. Meanwhile the rest of the group continued with shortening the final cut in order to make it below the 2 minute maximum and we also completed writing up our evaluation questions.
  • Meeting 44

    The full group was in today. We all continued to write and prepare our evaluation questions.
  • Meeting 45

    The full group was in today. Josh began to import his evaluation answers into Prezi, meanwhile the rest of us continued to write our answers.
  • Meeting 46

    The full group was in today. We continued to create our evaluation answers by both writing them and aquiring the resources needed to present it.
  • Meeting 47

    The full group was in today. We booked our time with the green screen in order to present our evaluation questions and then further added to the answers.
  • Meeting 48

    The full group was in today. Josh was editing the Wix page in order to create some form of order. Richard was importing an interview that he had done along with one of his peers for one of his evaluation questions. Adam was aquiring clips for his evaluation question. Mark was writing questions to ask in the interview,he then imported more visual aids for his evaluation questions.
  • Meeting 49

    Josh, Richard & Adam were absent today...apparently. Mark was unable to use the green screen room to record the question 1 as in order to use the camera he would need Josh. Instead he searched the college for any peers that had free lessons that would be able to provide an interview to answer questions on the sequence and then ordered the blogger account in a way to show the work that had been done more.
  • Meeting 50

    Today Mark imported the interview of Danial Kennedy for question 1 into the prezi file for the evaluation question 1. Josh ordered his blog posts into a more suitable layout. Adam compiled files that would be presented in his evaluation question and Richard got on with one of his evaluations.
  • Meeting 51

    The full group was in today. The group used the green screen room to film question 4 with Richard and Adam in the video and Mark and Josh working behind the scenes.
  • Meeting 52

    The full group was in today. While Josh made the video of his evaluation using his voice over Mark uploaded his question 1 as a flash element onto the wix account and then made a gag reel of the green screen sequences. Adam and Richard edited their green screen sequence which was then put on the wix account.
  • Meeting 53

    Today is the final deadline. Th full group was in today. Richard and Adam uploaded finalised their evaluation questions then uploaded them. Meanwhile Mark and Josh put the final touches to the wix account and offered support to the other group members.