Group planning - Miss Georgiou

Group planning

My group consists of me, Malu and Bettie we have group meetings every week, we discuss and brainstorm ideas to include in our thriller production. Also by having meetings every single week we can keep improving and adding things that one of us might have thought of.  Our meetings our essential to ensure that when it comes to filming, we have planned how we are going to film our production.


Our first group meeting was on the 13th of october. The meeting allow Bettie, Malu and myself to discuss our own indivdual ideas. After each narrative explained, we then discussed what we thought was good and bad in the narrative and also if it was good if we would try to incoperate it with our group narrative. Once we had heard everyones narratives we started to create a group narrative; my idea for the setting to be a forest was agreed to be used in our group narrative. Then Bettie idea was to have a canniball killer, this would be herself as the antagonist as it would be unexpected, and the location being the forest makes the other characters vunerable.

Our second meeting was held on the 24th of october. We finalised what our group narrative was, it consisted of a group of friends that walk their dog, until it goes missing then the group of friends split up to look for the dog, Bettie is the antagonist and a cannibal killer and she eats me when everyone is looking for the dog. Once Fred finds Bettie once she has killed Kane he has to run for he's life. We also discussed what sort of conventions to include in our production, low key lighting we thought would benefit our film to set an eery, scary setting.

On our third meeting it was focused on mise-en-scene, this included the lighting and colour, costume, iconography, the settings and positions of characters. The lighting and colour was discussed and planned to keep low key as it is a thriller film. The costume of characters are planned to be casual to relate to our target audience who are going to be the same age as the actors 16-20. The only iconography we are using is the stick we throw for the dog because as the killer is a cannibal there are no weapons.

On the 10th of novemeber our fouth meeting took place and this time we discussed the editing techniques. There are loads of different editng techniques, therefor we looked at the sheet we glued in our book to help us decide on what we was going to include. We found the techniques that we thought would set be good for the thriller genre, these were: diegetic and on screen sound to show the fear of the characters, another technique we plan to include will be montage editing, this is to build up tension and will be used on the chase scene. Malu suggested we play about with the fillters when we edit, to ensure that we keep the thriller and scary look to the film.

The next group meeting was on sound. Here we discussed what shots were going to be used and where certain sounds would be effective, for example when Fred walks up behind Bettie once she has killed Kane we thought a eery quite high pitched sound should be used to create tension, and put the audience in fear for Fred. Another sound we plan to scare the audience with, wil be a very high pitch scretch that will happen as Bettie turns round to reveal she is the antagonist. This will shock the audience because she is a female and most antagonist are male. We think the sound will show that Bettie should be feared.

Our last group meeting was on the 12th of novemeber, this meeting was on who and how many characters we plan to include in our production. We planned to have six characters in the film, Bettie and two of her firends and myself and two of my friends. Due to not being able to get everyone to meet at the same time and place because they had other comminents or things to attends to. We actually can only have my friend Fred. But the meeting wasn't all a waste of time because we planned what we wanted the characters to look like, casual tennagers. We also thought the charcters all being the same age as us would be benefical for our target audience 16-20 to be able to relate to the characters.

Group meetings have been very helpful in order to keep updating and amending our group ideas on the film. The only way to ensure our production would look like a real proffesional production, was to keep talking and going through what we have planned. Every single meeting there was a new idea or innovation on the plans we had for the thriller film. I personally think the people in my group, Bettie and Malu are the best people i could have been with in the class because they both are targeting to get high grades, and therefor we are all working very hard to make sure that this media production will be very succesful.