First skills audit for the G321 Foundation Production"

Looking back at the prelimanary exercise I can remember feeling slightly nervous as this was my first media production. When we were split into our groups we firstly decided what roles we were to play, we decided that I would be the Editor which I was excited about as it gave me a chance to learn a new skill. After we assigned roles we got straight into the initial ideas on what we wanted our film to be about. The class was given a specification that we had to follow which consisted of someone entering a room, sitting down and exchanging a few lines of dialogue.

In discussion we decided we wanted our target audience to be a younger audience specifically students as being students ourselfs who watch programmes like 'Skins' and 'Shameless' we are able to observe and include specific codes and convensions that they use. Based around our ideas and the brief we decided our short scenes would consist of the character answering the phone and going to meet his friend at college who has knocked out the teacher. Within this would be the required elliment of walking through a door and sitting down on a chair where he exchanges a few lines of dialogue. At the time I was cautious about the plot and how this would effect our final edit but during the planning I became more confident that we would make it work as a team.

Following the preproduction stage I had a continuous absence due to long running illness which stopped me attending all college lessons for a number of weeks which couldnt be helped. I was worried this would effect my grade as I have had no input into much of the groups decisions and activities.

Due to my absenses my group had set a date in which they neglected to tell me due to concerns in which I was well enough to film...