Craig: Group Meeting (12/11/09)

Today we had an important group meeting, to evaluate how we have done so far, what we can do to improve how we are working, and the next step, which is to fully develop this idea. We firstly were blunt and pointed out where some of us were slipping up, with one person not being harsh enough towards the group in not getting them to hand in work as soon as possible, and this is what drags two people down as they post blogs later than the other two, slowing up the whole research process. With that being the only exception, the whole group is working incredibly well, and we are all determined to help one another in getting the research done as soon as possible. After further research on the time period we are on about, we came to the conclusion we are not looking at the Victorian era, but we are looking at the Regency period, which is just before then. We are going to look around costume shops in our area as well as down the local theatre to see whether we will be able to borrow costumes from there, and will look around at props and settings as well, once we have seen locations etc. we will take pictures and post them. We have also come to the conclusion we will post things quicker, and increase our general pace of everything, so we can have more time to finalise things before we film, as it will be the detailed things that have to be perfect, especially in the first layer of the film, as that will have to be fully represented as a costume drama before we confuse the audience completely. We will be looking deeply into settings, costumes, props, sound, special effects and actors over the next couple of weeks.