Role Allocation - My Role In Creating Our Opening Scene.

In creating the opening scene I had an active role in all stages. This is because we made the decision as a group at the beginning of the process that for each stage we would delegate roles so everyone had some sort of responsibility.



When forming the concept of our film, we collectively decided on the genre of Romantic-Comedy and then I began to research further into it and began putting forth possible narratives. I collected my research by forming mindmaps of ideas for our film (featured on my blog) and researched into existing products, in particular one my favourite films - Love Rosie. It was from researching into this film that we came up with the idea to begin with the end of the film. Another film I researched into was Lol featuring Miley Cyrus and Douglas Booth. From this film, we got the idea of incorporating technology and texting into our opening scene.



Once we had the narrative for our opening scene I created two storyboards, a physical version where I drew what we wanted for each shot and then repeated this by creating a digital storyboard. We began a production schedule and collectively planned when we were going to film and edit based on the time we had been given and our schedules.



When filming, my main role was to direct the other members of the group and direct the shots to match what we had story-boarded and planned. After filming each shot, I along with the other members of the group would rewatch what we had filmed to ensure it was as we wanted, and if needed I would re-direct the actors and shots to ensure they looked good.



After filming, we moved on to editing which I have very little previous experience in so I took more of a backseat role so Sian, who was the strongest editor in our group, could lead the stage. I did however still participate in the editing process and had a very active role. I was present throughout editing the opening scene, and had regular input into what we could change and what needed to be done. I was also responsible for creating the title sequence and editing it onto the opening scene and also worked on picking the soundtrack.



For our evaluation I had a dominant role as writing is one of my strengths and was involved in creating 6 out of 7 of the questions. As a group we had discussed what we wanted to involve in all of the answers and decided which questions were going to be completed by who and in what format. For Questions 2, 3 and 4, I was responsible for writing and creating the Prezi's. For questions 1 and 7 we decided to answer digitally and my role in creating these questions was I scripted the answers and recorded them as a voice-over ready to be inputted over the powerpoint created by Rebecca and our opening scene.



Overall as a group we worked well and all shared the different roles and responsibilities based on our strengths. Rebecca was heavily involved in the filming process because she had experience using the cameras and filming, Sian was heavily involved in the editing process because she is the strongest editor and has experience using the software, and I was heavily involved in the evaluations as my strength is more writing and answering questions.