Wednesday, 20 October 2010

Production Log

Production Log
15/09/10= we discussed starting ideas for short film and combining our two ideas of kidnap and the seven deadly sins.
20/09/10= Nic Saunders gave us a talk about how he created his own films and what we should do when creating them, we also watched the unfinished product of his second film that already is winning awards.
22/09/10= we began more textual analysis of films. Also discussed our film idea and linking it with short film analysis ‘for the birds’ and ‘sorry I’m late’; only having one line of dialogue or no dialogue to make an impact.
24/09/10= we began showing the class our personal presentations on a film we have analysed for research. I showed my presentation on ‘Sorry I’m Late’.
27/09/10= in this lesson we went through the research part of our coursework. In my group we spoke about how we were going to do our research together. However there was an error with college computers so couldn’t get much work done.
29/09/10= we started our own individual work on our poster analysis and then decided that in the next lesson we would swap over our work so we could join it together to post on our blogs.
01/10/10= this lesson we did our own individual work on our research section of the coursework for the deadline at 4pm. However as Kymberly was off ill we were unable to combine our work and had to put it my work up on the blog individually without hers.
4/10/10= there was no college lesson so we had to do are only individual work on audience research and finding ways to find out information about our target audience.
06/10/10= in this lesson me and Kymberly swapped over our research work so we can add it to our blogs. We also discussed our feedback that we got from what was already on our blogs.  We also began looking at our production work checklist and who what do what. Also I began writing out the whole of the production log on the computer from my notebook.
08/10/10= today is our audience research deadline at 4pm so both together and individually we tried to finish off our audience research. We put all our work together and put it up on our blogs such as questionnaire and target audience ideas.
11/10/10= we brainstormed ideas about our target audience and shot ideas that we would use in the film
13/10/10= today we started advertisement for out film. We both went on the social networking website Facebook and posted a status asking for actors and actresses for our film and preferably people who are taking drama or performing arts at college or university.
15/10/10= in this lesson we carried on our search for actors and actresses for our film. We decided to email the head of performing arts at our college and ask him to suggest and help out with finding actors for our film. Also uploaded some odds and ends onto our blogs.
18/10/10= within this lesson we started our storyboard and began thinking about what shots to use within the film and how they would create meaning and help to tell the story of the film.
20/10/10= today we completed our shot list for our film and put it up on to our blogs.


01/11/10= today neither myself or Kym were able to come into college to do any work, as I had an hospital appointment and Kym was unwell.


03/11/10= today we discussed a plan on what we are going to do about filming, we also discussed props and costume list.


05/11/10= today we had the day off because of partner school day, we planned to do filming but there were some complications so we were unable to film.


08/11/10= in this lesson we began filming the first scenes in our film and took some backstage photos.


10/11/10= This lesson both of us were unable to come in and complete filming


12/11/10= Within the lesson we carried on filming some scenes with just the girl in it, and then we stayed after college to do night filming. However there was a problem with the camera so we were unable to finish.


15/11/10= In today's lesson together we discussed possible camera shots we could do. We also began creating magazine review drafts and finishing poster drafts for our film. Together we began coming up with ideas for a dramatic line, which shall be the only line within our film. Later on after college we began filming our canteen scenes and finished off our night scenes. All we have left to complete is the boot of the car scene.


17/11/10= today we began to edit our film be capturing what we had. Then we began looking at the shots, choosing which ones are best and putting it in to the order we would like. Then began cutting them down and adding effects.

18/11/10= today we finally finished filming. During college free time we filmed the car boot scene.

19/11/10= Today we began to finish editing, as the editing deadline was 4pm. We spent most of the day trying to capture some things that we filmed and finish editing. However there was a problem with the computers, they would not capture or let us edit. However we finally got it done.


22/11/10= In today's lesson we added the final touches to our film, such as finishing a few cuts and adding in the titles and credits. We completed it and made it into the final format to be shown.

24/11/10= In this lesson we completed the costume and prop list as well as the location recce, as well as a few other things.

26/11/10= Within the lesson we went through the photos for the poster, and chose which one would be best, and completed it outside of the lesson. We discussed our plan for the final week of media coursework.

29/11/10=. In today's lesson we split up the work. Kym finished off the magazine review and I completed the shooting and acting schedule, adding a few pictures to show what scenes we did on certain days. Also I began editing the synopsis.

1/12/10= Today's lesson we showed our film to the class and gained audience feedback, which we took on board. I then wrote up all of the feedback so it was easier to understand whilst Kym did the final edit decision list

3/12/10= We were both off today. However we managed together to complete the evaluation together by dividing the questions up between us. The final deadline was today so we made sure that everything on our blogs was up to date and everything completed.

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