We had our first group meeting to discuss what we need to do now to move forward with our project and plan what we're going to do in the next couple of weeks of pre-production.
The first thing we need to do is have a meeting with our project leader Chris so our producer is going to arrange a meeting with him for next week.
I have decided as a group we all need to go through some documentaries and look at examples of things we want to take inspiration from for our film so everyone knows what we're aiming for. We are going to watch examples on our own also and then come together to discuss them, so the editors will look at examples of editing techniques and styles and the cinematographer the camera shots etc and so on.
Each group member also needs to get on with their individual pre-production so me and the producer are going to meet up next Monday to discuss how the film is going to work in terms of story, themes and structure and who we're going to interview etc. I will then put together a shot list with the help of the producer.
Once I have decided a story and structure for the film me and the cinematographer will meet up to draw up the storyboards.
In the mean time I have asked the cinematographer to book out the cameras we used last time - XF100 and XF305 and to do some test shots so she can look at quality and how easy or difficult each one is so she can decide which one would be best for the documentary and also get more comfortable with using the cameras so we don't have as many problems as last time.
They can also have a play about with filming from different angles and distances like extreme close ups and wide shots as we were told that we did not have enough variation in the shot types especially with the animal shots as we needed to get more from on their level.
After speaking with Chris he said it would be better to have a main editor and an assistant editor as last time the set up of both editors editing a separate part and then joining them together was not efficient enough and we had problems with files being offline due to using two different hard drives and one editor knowing the footage better than the other was also a hindrance. So we discussed how it would be best if one editor concentrated on the technical side of things like the logging, converting and setting up of the programme while the other actually cuts it.
One of the editors also brought up the fact that a lot of the technical issues we had may not have caused us as much of a problem if they had cut on Avid Media Composer rather than Final Cut Pro, so would it be better to cut on that this time. I told them I didn't mind which programme they cut on as long as both felt comfortable with it as they have not had much experience Avid compared to Final Cut. They have both agreed to try and have a go with Avid in the coming weeks and look at tutorials to see if they want to use it when it comes to the edit.
We have decided to have a voice over for this documentary as it is a more efficient way of getting over all the facts and figures without taking up too much of the time within the film. The producer has said he already has potential people who would do this for us and I need to start collating together some information about the refuge that can be used in the narration script.
We had a lot of trouble with the camera sound as once we had converted it, it would not play properly and even after we converted it using another software it still had problems and would cut half the sound off from the clip so me and the camera operator have decided to go and speak to stores about the cameras we decided to use and see if there is something we were doing wrong.
I also need to start looking at use of music in documentaries and animal programmes and think about what I'd like to use as we left it too late to add music last time so it needs to be considered during the pre-production rather than in post.
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