17/11/15, Marrisa- Starting a proposal

In today's lesson we went over a few definitions what we needed to know about for example, linear/non linear, narrative, multi strand/single strand structures. We then brain stormed ideas about what our project could be about and discussed what we should use as an idea for our short film secrets. We was told who else would be in our groups and we got together and swapped ideas. Me and Emma sort of had a similar idea of a secret personality/ identity so we decided to make our short film on that.
I have been placed in a group with Emma and Eden, and I think that I will work better with the pair of them and will have more knowledge about what to do than what I did last time we made a short film and I will feel more organised about it. I think the issue last time is I didn't really communicate with in the group and neither did the others in my group because we had only just met and becoming familiar with everyone but this group will hopefully be a lot better as I can speak to the pair of them.
We had discussed what our strength's and weaknesses are within the group so it gives us a sight of what roles we could issue each other within the group to work together happily. We decided that Emma will defiantly be doing an acting role as she likes to me in front of the camera and doesn't mind. Eden will be happy to film the footage as she doesn't like to be involved on the camera and she would be much more comfortable recording. I said that I'm fairly good at editing and that its my strong point so we decided that most of my input would be with the editing side of things but I also said I would be involved with acting if needed as I'm not too bothered about that. So our roles just fitted perfectly as me nor Emma like doing the recording, Emma likes acting and I like the editing and neither of them are that keen on the subject of that. We decided that we are going to include 2 Actors, Me and Emma and our idea was defiantly going to be on a secret/ hidden personality as we thought that would work best.
We also went over a form of editing technique and im not too sure but I think it was named cross editing or something. I cant remember what it was called but I remember what it meant and what the purpose of it was. I will have to recap on this with Marrisa when we are back into her lesson's.
It was a form of editing that combined two different scenes that were happening at the same time so that it would build up suspense and get the audience on there feet. Ready for the clash of when the scenes come together and what would happen.
We watched a clip out of a film I think it was named inception including Leonardo Dicaprio and I felt really inspired to include this form of editing in the short film, me, Emma and Eden are going to create. As I think it was a brilliant idea and the fact that there are two actors so they're is going to be two different scenes going on.
I found this lesson useful and Im glad that the cross edit was mentioned as it was a very good idea and made me think about the way of how im going to edit scenes when it comes to me editing our short film. My group agreed they want to include this editing technique aswell.