The title is a reference to some advert and no one, even people my exact age remembers it. No it has nothing to do with anything here, I just can't think of a title.

It's only the next day since my last post but I feel a little bad for being mildly cynical about my group's efforts so early. It's based on frustrating past experiences from well before this course, and some of them are rather old experiences now. Once upon a time  I was very interested in film production, and when given the chance to really do something... well, as good as one could do with 2 home VHS recorders in a group project at high school, it was borked up by my peers. Never really trusted other people with my work ever since really.

My class is full of talented individuals or they would not be doing BCT, and the people in my group have produced impressive work come presentation every time in the past. I just tend to take this stuff a bit seriously, wanting to produce a genuine product, and I really don't like the idea that if there is something that I never supported, it will still rub off on me because I happened to be involved. But I had a read of my past entries on the weekend and spotted a theme forming. I've also probably put far too many hours into things in the past (although the I'm never happy with the time taken vs result achieved). So I didn't try to re-write the plot on the weekend, I thought I'll go along with it. It's a bit thin but this is a group effort and I have to have some faith.

Today we all made storyboards of the plot, each of us had a scene. This cut down on the work involved in that particular part of the pre-production and gave us all a chance to try our hand at it. Hopefully this wont make the film look somehow disjointed with 4 different styles, but regardless it was good to share the work around, keep us all occupied, work as a team and enjoy producing that particular result.

The idea has been floated that we're all going to edit and all going to try bits and pieces. This is a pretty non-standard say of doing things and I'm sure might be frowned upon. But I'm not protesting because I can see the point of view behind it. We all want a go and all want to shine, we're not all sure of each other's abilities so we all get a bit that we have control of. I'm working with some pretty smart people, I think we all will produce a decent result in a different way and we probably all have the ability to actually collaborate and make it come together despite the odd approach.

It may not be standard, but it might be kind or appropriate for a bunch of first timers, especially as we aren't competing for something like the 48-hour film fest.

I took the finished storyboards home and scanned them. Chopped them up into their frames and saved out tif files. I've imported them into Premiere and I'm piecing them together as an animated storyboard. I'd like to add some sounds and the dialogue but I didn't grab a copy of the existing script which would have helped me understand the storyboard a bit more. Anyway I thought this would be good to give us all a slightly similar vision and see anything that is missing or whatever.

Tomorrow (Tuesday) we are apparently going to the shooting locations with a digital camera to check out everything and be prepared for shooting the following day. I wish we'd done that today really, we had plenty of time, but a couple of my team members don't like sticking around longer than they absolutely have to. But as I said, I've seen their previous projects and they work despite the amount of studio time, so I have some faith.

Oh yeah, I relaxed on Sunday and watched a movie (for once), but it wasn't total complete and utter relaxation. The movie was The Good the Bad and the Ugly.