In the group meeting we decided on an idea that Chris came up with as it was something we all have an interest in and felt passionate about working on. This gave us quite a wide area to research and many different paths to explore, choosing the right path for our documentary to follow would be a long process. The inspiration from America and Hollywood films like Kick Ass and different real-life superheroes across the world is one of the main focal points. Also the political/charity route with street pastors, Fathers 4 Justice, Pass It On Africa and their charity event Heroes Run.

My role for this is editor and co-cameraman. The reasons for choosing these roles is because they are skills based departments that I would like to further my skills in. Whilst sharing the role of cameraman, I believe that I can watch the other cameraman, Paul, to see how others can think of shooting a subject so as to broaden my imagination of what could look good. As the editor I believe that this project will help me become more knowledgeable when working with a package so I can manage to achieve what I see in my mind. Due to both my roles being in the production stage and not the pre-production stage, I therefore have not had as much of an integral role as others in my group. I have inputted my ideas with regards to our final idea of what we are going to document. I have researched a lot into real-life superheroes across the world and also gained better knowledge of superheroes since beginning this project as I felt my knowledge was a bit lacking in comparison to some of the others in the group. I have mainly been focusing on real-life superheroes in America for background research as this is the country where the phenomenon first took place.

With the photo essay work I felt happy with the outcome of my work as I have never used a Canon 450D or any DSLR camera before. Whilst I think my work was good, I feel I could've pushed harder for a better end product. Even though my lack of experience with photography I could have been more experimental with the images that I produced and even picked a topic that's more public orientated and involving being more interactive with the general public. The main reason I didn't was partly because of the fear of confronting people and asking but I realise it is something I need to do for any future projects.

As a group I think we have functioned well so far, I feel we all pull our weight with the work that has needed to be done so far. Lucy has been very good at organising everyone and letting them know their deadlines that she has set for them personally. Despite Alex coming into our group late he has contributed a lot to what we have worked towards so far. I do feel however that sometimes when working with the group we work more as friends than as a company, this leads to sometimes not getting as much work done as possible in the time slot or spending more time than is necessary on work. Despite this small negative I feel that is justified by what we have accomplished so far which I hope will continue onto next semester. We haven't had any issues so far and if their were disagreements about differing opinions then we looked to resolve them as a group to find the best solution.

As I said earlier, my roles within the documentary are during the production stage of the making of this documentary, I feel that this semester I have done a fair amount of work but need to prepare myself to being working more as the preparation work will still need to be done as well as going to film the documentary and then editing it together as well. As deadlines have been closing in at the end of this semester I have upped the amount of work I have been doing to get the work that needs to be done, finished. I think next semester I will feel the pressure to get the work done as from then the group will rely on me massively as I have a major role to fulfil.

In the presentation that take place on Wednesday 14th December, I shall be explaining the technical elements of our pitch. Outlining any visual signatures, which we have discussed as a group and are currently looking into how they main visual signature can be achieved. I will also be discussing what equipment we will use when we come to shoot the project and justifying the reasons for using one camera over another.