Reflection-This week in media studies our group have been doing numerous tasks that are a contributing factor to our overall media planning process. As a group we have been focusing on our master catalogue, storyboard, film poster and improvements to our mise-en-scene/ lighting. During these developments to our initial planning, we have had sections that have been very successful, whilst others have slightly gone wrong, and there was room for improvement. In this blog we are going to talk about the problems we have faced during our blogger processing and how we fixed it, whilst also explaining the subjects that we found a great success.
Master Catalogue- This is a picture of Hannah (left) adding details to our groups master catalogue. Whilst making this part of our coursework, we added ideas about characters appearances, actors and different types of props. During the making of our master catalogue we found the information we was able to add a major success. Through adding portfolio's etc it gave us a larger insight into the imagery side of our two minute introduction. However, as a group we did find it difficult to come up with characters appearances because we had to think greatly into the role of each actor, and how they should be portrayed. We over came this problem by siting down together and really thinking and suggesting ideas to each other about how each character should look in appearance. 
Group poster- This is a picture of Shannon (right) working on our groups poster. During the creating of our poster we had to come up with different ideas that meant it really did portray the inner meaning of our film. We all came up with the idea of the first victim (Jane) being on the front cover, showing the effects of her brutal death. We used a lot of fake blood, make up effects and then continued to edit it via computer to give it a more scary look. Using the computer, we added pictures of Danika (The killer) into Jane's eyes to show the true extent of her death. We found this hard to do because we needed to use different editing software's such as pro desktop to minimise the photo of Danika to put into Jane's eyes. However, with many attempts we managed to do so and we are very happy with the final outcome of our poster. 
Lighting- In this picture, Xhuliana (left) is making final edits to our different types of lighting. We worked very hard on trying to created high key and low key lighting's so that they fitted the requirements. Whilst creating our high key lighting we found this very successful as we were able to find areas where no shadows would be forcasted on our faces. However, whilst creating our low key lighting images, we found it increasingly difficult to portray different lighting effects on our faces. We finally managed to do this with success by taking pictures in the dark, whilst using a torch to invent unique shadowing on our faces. By creating these pictures we were able to build on our understanding about the types of lighting we can use in our thriller. 
Mise en scene- This picture shows Elidona (right) working on our props, costumes and spacing. As a group we decided that we wanted to show some individuality by creating our own pictures, instead of using others from the Internet. We found is fairly simple to create our pictures and we really did enjoy the process. We was able to portray our own costumes etc which helped us to increasing understand the types of distances, outfits and props that we will use in our opening two minute introduction. Whilst putting these requirements on our blog we added information to each picture, where we were able to write in detail about each different parts of mise en scene. In completing out mise en scene post we were happy with the final outcome and we are looking forward to using these different effects in our thriller opening. 
Storyboard- This is a picture of the editing of our storyboard (left). As a group we worked extremely hard on creating different pictures that were relevant to our two minute introduction,whilst focusing on the lighting, shots, angles and inner meanings. We spent time as a group taking pictures that showed a range of props that we will use in our two minute introduction and other sources of events. Whilst looking at our script we tried to use different ranges of events throughout which would show the types of scenes that will take place during our two minute thriller introduction. In addition, we made a selection of our shots in black and white effect, which shows the distance of time that will be portrayed within our introduction. During the creating of these shots we found it hard to show the different types of shots, making sure that the frame was not too small to represent a different shot, but not too big to portray a lager size shot. We overcame this problem by taking our images from different angles and experimenting with the zooming tool. After doing this we uploaded these photos to our storyboard and explained the deeper significance of each one. We are happy with the outcome of our storyboard and are looking forward to re creating these scenes in our film.
Overall, our group are very happy with the work that we have produced so far. During this week we have had many successes with our work that has made up feel very positive about the forthcoming of our filming. Also during this week we have had arising problems with the creating of our blog work, however, by working as a team and really thinking about these problems in more depth, we have been able to overcome them. Now that our two minute introduction of our film is approaching, we are looking forward
to the successes and challenges that we are going to be faced with. This blog has helped us to understand the challenges that we have faced so far, whilst also making us aware of the successes we have made together.
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