Monday, 4 April 2011

Production Journal

18/1/2011: This was the first day we met as a group, during our two hour lesson we made a plan for our preliminary task then filmed it. One of our group members was not present, so we filmed the task with a classmate who's group members had already filmed theirs.

21/1/2011: In this two hour lesson, we logged and captured our preliminary task and spent the rest of the lesson familiaring ourselves with the editing software so that when we did edit, both for the preliminary task and for the real task, we'd find it easier.

25/1/2011: In this lesson we started editing our preliminary task, it took quite a while as we were still not yet properly acclamatised with the software.

26/1/2011: This was our evening session, in which we finished editing, added our final touches and uploaded the finished product of the preliminary task to the blog.

1/2/2011: On this day, I studied our preliminary task and took note of all the different shots we used, aswell as describing what is shown in them.

4/2/2011: In this lesson I wrote the treatment for the opening of our two minute thriller opening.

9/2/2011: On this day, I drew up the storyboards - nobody in the group was very good at art, but the rough storyboards combined with the shot list gave us a good idea of what we wanted to film.

11/2/2011: One of our group members was not present this day, but two of us decided to assign the roles and responsibilities this day - we had talked of what we had each wanted to do before so we knew it would not be unfair doing it without one of our group members.

23/2/2011: Before we came up with our final idea, we had various other thoughts on what to do. In this lesson, we made a brainstorm on 'bubbl.us' to illustrate the other story ideas we originally had.

4/3/2011: During this lesson we filled in the 'production brief' form, whilst I filled out our 'call sheet', 'props/resources list' and our production schedule, as we knew we had to film the following week.

8/3/2011: This was the first day of filming, we spent our two hour lesson filming our daytime shots in and around college.

9/3/2011: We continued to film in our 3 hour night session, shooting the "dark side" of our opening sequence.

10/3/2011: This day, I took the camera home and filmed the finishing shots which would have been impossible to film outside of a house. The shots involved weapons etc, obviously not appropriate to have been taken to college.

11/3/2011: As we had finished filming, we were able to log and capture our footage on the computer and were ready to start editing. The problems with editing are that we always have to use the same computer we captured our footage on, and sometimes that computer is not available as someone else is using it and so on. This proves to be a huge problem as we have a lot of work to do, and not much time, ideally we need to be editing in our daytime sessions aswell as evening sessions, but the editing suites are always booked out for other classes.

15/3/2011 - 25/3/2011: All of this time, we were editing our opening sequence. By the 25th we had finished our first draft, however we were not yet able to upload it to youtube and so will do this on Monday. However, we already know the changes we need to make and our second draft will be a lot shorter than our first, and more suited to the thriller genre.

28/3/2011: Uploaded our first draft of 'The Teacher' to youtube.


29/3/2011 - 5/4/2011: On the 5th April we had finished our final product, with a sountract, credits and the editing was finally complete. We uploaded our video to youtube, and for our remaining days worked on completing our 'Evaluation' questions.

5/4/2011 - 8/4/2011: Completing and uploading evaluation questions.

8/4/2011: This was the final deadline and everything was handed in on time.

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