Wednesday 15 September 2010

Personnel involved

My group consists solely of Myself and Gareth, and as some of our ideas for filming require at least 3 people we have asked others to help us in some way, be it acting, manning the camera, directing, or editing.

Fortunately, I have had much experience with editing techniques from our AS project last year, as I was in charge of cutting each scene at appropriate moments so our film was not too long.
Although I was not acting at any point in our main task, I was on screen in the preliminary task, so I do at least have some experience and will therefore be acting alongside Gareth, who was the main character in our main task last year.
I was also the cameraman throughout the whole of our main task last year, and I therefore know how to handle the camera and how to activate all of the cameras options (zoom, blur, etc,).

The main reason I decided to work with Gareth was the fact that we cooperated well last year, and we both put a lot of effort into making a successful, polished film. However, Gareth also brings numerous other benfits to our production, such as his vast knowledge of music. He listens to music often and is currently undergoing his music A level, which means he knows how make, tweak and upload music that will suit our trailer. This is fortunate as I know very little about making the music itself and it would require a lot more of an effort to produce something by myself that Gareth could produce without trouble.
Gareth also has a lot of experince working with computers, and did a lot of work last year whilst editing. This also means he can help to produce the ancillary tasks (Magazine cover and DVD cover) as he has spent a lot of time working with Adobe Acrobat and similar programs which would make our products look professional.

As we may require more people to help in our task, we haved asked Sam Britcher and Tom Male to help us in any way that may be required, to which they have agreed. They have accepted that they may either need to act, film, or direct particular scenes, and that they will be called upon at a time that has not yet been decided. Fortunately, both of their timetables are quite flexible, which is good news for us as we have yet decided on a filming schedule.

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