Editing Miss Martin: Animatic storyboard/effects/delegation

Yesterday in Miss Martin's lesson we decided to create a guideline of what we needed to do most significantly within the lesson, primarily me saying that we desperately need to complete the animatic as well as the incorporation of transitions , to allow easy accessibility. Firstly we watched our animatic where we realised that we only had 30 seconds of drawings but the material we did have i felt was too lengthy in it's composition. I suggested that we should cut them down to appropriate length as well as the inclusion of more drawings, so that it is a realistic representation of our own film. However the group disagreed, stating that it does not have to be an exact scale replica of our final piece. We then ordered it into the correct positions as well as setting properties in the PC files and folders. After this we enabled the use of different transitions to see which we felt was simplistic yet effective in it's usage which included the following:

• Shear- Similar to Smear, a blurry effect which transcends subtly into the next frame
• Smear- Blurs the picture out and looks effective on certain slides but not good for excessive use 
• Roll-Looks cool but probably inappropriate  
• Shake- Could be used in certain frames to depict disruption but overuse would result in the audience concentrating more on effects than actions
• Wave- I personally disliked this effect as it seemed extremely tacky to me and it doesn't follow the conventional professionalism within effects
• Zoom- simple and direct, with the right incorporation it could work really well

Charley liked both Zoom and Wave the best but i believe that Wave would not not be the best effect to use as like i said earlier we want our film to look professionalised following the traditional discourse of a movie. However i am open to new ideas and experimentation's but at this stage of the film's augmentation we need to think realistically and be very critical as to what makes the cut and what doesn't. In the sleeping scene we used Zoom which appeared to evoke some relevance to our theme but did not work in the dream sequence, so Charley used the inclusion of Wave with Shake to show disruption of character . However as Hannah quite rightly said we don't want to many effects at once as it's better in some cases to use the theme of simplicity, with the film evoking the right message than too many effects, making the film look messy and chaotic in a negative manner.I then had a thought and decided that we should start doing after school editing sessions after school as we only have 20 DAYS to complete our work , so I compiled a timetable with the inclusion of dates,  people present and delegation of roles which included the following:

-Thursday 10th March ( Yesterday) Me and Hannah ( Zoe had to do the school fashion parade whilst Charley had to complete coursework for another subject) Roles: Me- note taking and ideas/suggestions Hannah- Editing and ideas
- Monday 14th March( All of us) Zoe - editing/ ideas, Charley- ideas, Hannah- analyser( in terms of critical feedback) and Me- note taker and ideas
Tuesday - Hannah/ Zoe/Me : Me- editing and ideas, Zoe- note taking and ideas and Hannah-Researcher
Wednesday-( All of us) Charley- editing, Zoe- feedback, Hannah- entailing comparison to other other films, Me- note taking and researcher
As well as these dates , we may do the whole of next week after school( though these dates may be subject to change ) as well as any free periods that we have as it is vital that we complete this assignment to the best of our ability. Moving on, we then showed Hannah the text which had been chosen, with me and Hannah both agreeing that a standardised font such as Times New Roman or Ariel Black font would be more suitable to show the conventions of a true movie. Charley tried out a plain text with shaded effect, compression as well as being stretched out and a reduction of size from 60 down to 51 Ariel Narrow. However this was still wrong for our movie so this time we had a reduction down to size 37 Century Gothic Regular  which already made the film seem more professional despite the minority of the change. Charley also had the idea of when the camera pans around me we should introduce the sentence- filmed by Charley Johnson.