Wednesday, 19 November 2014

Production Diary

Production Diary

11/11/2014 - Today we got ready our film ideas so they were ready to present for Thursdays lesson to the rest of the group. We all created PowerPoint's as this was the most suitable format. On our presentations we collected different inspirations and ideas and talked about what we would include in our opening scene.

13/11/2014 - Today we pitched our different film ideas to each other to decide what film idea we were going to go with. Jack pitched a drama film to do with a man being convicted of a murder and the film was to ponder on if he committed the murder or not. Tom's idea was a teen drama evolved around drugs and crime which he gained his influences from Noel Clarke's Kidulthood and Adulthood. Then the final idea came from Connor which was a horror which based around a couple who are not able to have children. From this the couple went to take other children to be theirs. We agreed finally that Connor's idea was the best and we decided to go for that for our concept.

14/11/2014 - Today not in our groups we started to do our Title Tasks. This involved watching many different clips and reviewing them. This included a history of film openings and a interview with a man who is very big in the film industry. Our final task was to take screenshots from three film openings and annotate them for every title that appeared such as actors and production companies.

17/11/2014 - Today we adapted the film concept and slightly changed the main story of the film. We took the concept away from the couple who were not able to have children and changed it too a boy who went missing on a winter evening in a park. We then went on too reviewing different film openings as a group to gain inspiration from a number of different films. (In the Picture we reviewed the opening of Casino Royale)




18/11/2014 - Today Connor was creating our marketing ideas to promote our film in a PowerPoint presentation which you can see him doing below. In the presentation he included how he would advertise our film and what he would do to promote it in the best way. Meanwhile Tom looking at our target audience which he was doing by reviewing films in our category and our style of film and comparing them with what audience the films were most popular with.


19/11/2014 - Today we made sure everything was up to date on our blogs so we could get everything out of the way and start with the planning for our film, although we made no progress on the film for the next lessons we can now focus on that.

20/11/2014 - Today as a group we all came up with separate mood boards to compare with each others to gain inspiration to create the different scenes to go on to our story board which we would create in Friday and Mondays lesson. The mood boards for each of us have now been uploaded onto our blogs.

21/11/2014 - Today we began to create our story board going through scene by scene with what type of shots they will be and where the different titles would be located around the frame of the shot. In this lesson the storyboard was nearly completed and would me finished and finalized in Mondays lesson.

24/11/2014 - Today we also worked on the story board for our film. The story board a very long process and is looking to take us one more lesson as we have to cover every shot we have in or opening scene including just slight different frames and where the different titles are involved. During this process we separately evaluated our LAP charts to make sure everything is up to date and correct.

25/11/2014 - Today we made sure everything was up to date on our blogs so we could be ready to film once the story board had been uploaded so everything was  out of the way and start with the filming for our film very soon

27/11/2014 - Today we filmed our story board with the voice over and made sure everything was correct. It took us a few tries for the filming of the storyboard for it to be up to a standard to be ready to be uploaded to our blogs. 

28/11/2014 - Today we edited the storyboard on Premiere and made sure every shot for the storyboard was included with the voice over being in time with the shots also. We also designed a news article for the "Missing Boy" which will be included in our film to be a realistic shot. The article will be uploaded on to the blog also. 

4/12/2014 - Today we started filming the different shots at John Shennans park which can be seen in our film. We also took shots of the missing boy article throughout the day and the filming of John Shennans park in the early evening to get the perfect day light. 

8/12/2014 - Today we started editing the shots we had filmed and got them in order so we could be able to edit all the different shots we got together. Jack also found some news clips of a missing boy that could go into our film.

11/12/2014 - After getting the shots in order for the first draft we realised we needed more shots and shot in the evening around the site in various locations. This would give us the correct time needed for our film and also a variety of shots.

15/12/2014 - On the final day of working down to the deadline, we got all of our shots together and as a group worked right down to the wire. We were not happy with our first draft but now our final draft has been edited we are now happy with our film. 

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