meeting minutes..

MEETING: 18/01/10-
during this meeting we discussed alot of things and it gained our confidence again.. i feel that having meetings does help glue things back together and grow new ideas. we haven't had a meeting for such a long time, so it really helped the production...

in the meeting we discussed new ideas for the opening sequence. we notified the good and bad about the opening sequence development so far.. for example, that we might need to re shoot more shots for the dad scene because this is one of the main priorities of filming; which is to contain many different shots.

we also discussed the background music, whether it may be a calm and relaxing tune to catch the audiences minds and force there emotions to be spooked out, ready for the film, or to have extreme jump and over exaggerated music in the background, a theme that will really liven up the audiences emotions ready for the rest of the film. but in conclusion we as a group decided that the idea of the lively, rock music wouldn't suit the shots and clips in the opening sequence its just like having a romantic film disturbed by extreme rock in the background, it would not feel right for the target audience. so we discussed the ideas and themes that the calm and relaxing music would give compared to the rock and extreme music, and even though it came up positive that the calm and relaxing music would spook the audience, we felt as if the music had to hold a huge effect and really scare the audience so that they are keen and ready to watch the rest of the film, so sticking to the theme of creepy, yet not gory, and keeping to the fact that the film is about trust, death, and haunting. also baring in mind that the film will also consist of a child dying, we felt that a young girl singing a nursery rhyme would be most appropriate for the opening sequence, the reason we felt this was, was because the music will still be calm bit with a pinch of curiosity, and also this is a clue of what may happen in the film. the song we felt had most background was "ring around the Rosie" because the song imply more than what is sung..

we also discussed the bedroom scene that were going to do the next night. we discussed the props and whether we would redo some of the shots of the scene we first did as we felt it was not as successful as we hoped. so after contributing thoughts we then decided that maybe we could make this scene much better than the other scene we created, so it competes with that other part of the opening sequence, and that scene would be more focused on the story line, where as this one would ideally be more on the techniques we put into it, for example we would mirror what we feel didn't work and make it better this time we film the next scene. for example we found that the camera work was very basic and didn't focus as much, we also found that even though the opening sequence is set in the night time, the lighting should be consistent,so this is what will concentrate more on the next time we shoot.

Props, tous as a group we feel that the props and the scene that we film the opening sequence in are strictly placed, for example with in the first part we filmed of the grandads house, we made sure that all the clues of a grandad living there were presented,and anything doesnt look realistic was erased from the scene. from putting slippers out to making sure there was no knickers on the line, so for the other part of the opeing sequence we made sure that the room/scene setting examplifiies of a little girls bedroom, the filming will be taken palce within my house and in my bedroom. we discussed that there should be different clues and props to present and prove that the room belonged to a young girl and not a teenager, so we decided that the props would be:
*young girls clothes
*teddy bears
*barbies
*babies blanket laying on the bed
we would also a clock in the bedroom that says the sametime of the clock in the grandads house -quarter to six.