Evaluation AS

My thriller was based on the inspirations of many different thrillers put together with my own unique twist on it, it was based on a male and female victims being stalked by a criminal who is on trial at court with the husband being the defendant for the previous victim. The stalker wants revenge and will stop at nothing to get this, including the murder of the two victims.  I felt that we worked particularly well within my group in order to have a strong final product with our two minute opening sequence. My group consists of Vasil Nikolov, George Moore and myself. Throughout the process of creating my opening sequence we were able to take into consideration each other’s ideas and adapt them into the unique group opening sequence.

Each of us shared the responsibilities of different production roles, and we shared these roles by picking out each other’s strengths and allocating the roles accordingly. When allocating each other with these roles we looked at the qualities that one would need in order to do them:

Producer -Prepare and then supervise the making of a film before presenting the product to a financing entity or a film distributor. They might be employed by a film studio or be independent, yet either way they helm the creative people as well as the accounting personnel.
Directors- the Director is the driving creative force in a film's production, and acts as the crucial link between the production, technical and creative teams. Directors are responsible for creatively translating the film's written script into actual images and sounds on the screen

Actors- Persons who perform in a film, programme or on stage.

Director of photography - The person who is responsible for all operations concerning camera work and lighting during the production of a film.

Sound Technicians-alter and balance the levels of different sounds that are recorded

Screenplay Writer-A screenwriter or scriptwriter or scenarist is a writer who practises the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media such as films, television programs, comics or video games are based.

Editors-the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film

By doing so, we were able to see that I would be best suited to the role of Mise-en-scene coordinator. I put myself forward for this role because I'm a creative person and therefore I believed that I would achieve the best for the group in this section of production. My group trusted me to look after things and keep the group organized with bringing different props and taking control of hair and makeup. Hair and makeup is crucial in our thriller as without the ideal appearance, the genre of our opening sequence may be unclear. This way I was able to dress our characters according to the atmosphere that my group and I have created and being able to look at make up for the characters meant that it would allow our targeted audience to warm towards our victims which is important because it helps our opening sequence to be successful because the audience would have created a relationship with the characters. I wasn't allocated the role of director, editor or producer because my leadership skills are strong, but not as strong as the boys so we felt that therefore the boys would produce the better role.

I believe as a group, we worked together and bounced off each other’s idea's to create a successful opening sequence. As a group we were able to apply different skills that we have all learned and were able to make improvements to each other’s work with constructive criticism and therefore ended up with a successful end result. However, despite how our group functioned and worked well together, there were a few hiccups and if done again I would suggest more people in the production roles as it was stressful to share the roles equally without certain members being under more stress than the others. Also, I believe we would re arrange the role for Vasil as we know it was difficult for him to supply the group with his usual standard work and therefore his role with George fell more onto George as he then had double the work to do, so this was unfair. I'd also liked to have been allocated more roles in our production as despite my role of MES coordinator being a big role, I’d like to have contributed more. But I am happy with our group and it was pleasant to work with them, and I am happy with our end result.