Group Roles- Luke Payne

During the research and planning stage of our film trailer I took on multiple roles. I helped co-produce our film. This includes writing up progress updates. I did this to help with the time management of our film and it helped keep us on task because we could then refer back to action plans to make sure that we had acted upon them. I wrote these progress updates monthly because i thought that this then gave us plenty of time to act upon action plans and access where our production had moved forward. I was also the cinematographer because I worked closely with the director during the animatic to make sure that we were able to take the correct photos so that when it came to making the film t was easier as we already knew what shot type we wanted. I also had to do a shot list so that when it came to making the final production of our film we knew exactly what shots we wanted for each specific scene.

Other tasks I had to do during the research and planning stage were locations shots, find copyright free music and fill out a risk assessment, During the animatic I featured as an actor even though I wasn't going to be acting in the film. I did this so that our production could be finished in time.

During the final production of our film trailer my main role was being the cinematographer. This involved being behind the camera and trying to execute all of the shot that the director wanted. At times this also meant helping the director to try and motivate our characters so that we could get that shot done. However it also meant that I had to tell the director when a shot was not looking as effective as he planned it and so I therefore had to suggest a different shot to him.

In the post- production stage of our film trailer I co-edited the film with the other member of our 'Watch it and See' blog, Steve Norman. I felt this benefited our production because of our varying roles with me being the cinematographer and him being the director we would convey our idea's on how certain parts of the film would be edited. Also we each decided where our found bits of music should go in and how it would contribute to the plot of our trailer.

In the ancillary task I was assigned to creating the Film Poster. We did this because after discussing with each other we found that I was slightly more skilled in the use of Photoshop and so this would benefit the film poster more. Another reason for this was because I already had a very clear idea of what I wanted the film poster to look like after looking at my influential film poster for 'Walk The Line'. However, having said this, the other member of our blog did have some input on my poster on how he thought it would look best and so that he could then create synergy by including some of the elements from my poster on his magazine front cover.