Wednesday, 25 November 2015

Production Diary
Day One - 09/11/2015
Today we found out who was in our group for our AS Media film opening. Our group consists of Alicia, Chloe, Tez and Evan. We assigned the roles within our group and they are as follows:

Alicia - Team Leader/Actor
Chloe - Director
Tez - Actor
Evan - Camera Man

Today, we also created individual film pitches that we would pitch to the rest of our team the next day.

Day Two - 10/11/2015
(Tez and Chloe were absent on this day)

Today we pitched our individual ideas to the rest of our team. Evan and Alicia looked at Tez and Chloe's pitches and created an idea that incorporated elements from each of the individual pitches.

The idea is:
There are two opposing lives (a 20-something business woman and a homeless, 20-something man) that come together on a train and develop a romantic relationship over a period of time.

Day Three - 12/11/2015
Evan and Alicia pitched their collaborative idea to Tez and Chloe. The response was positive and more ideas were included. We spent the rest of the lesson creating an Emaze presentation to show to the class and receive feedback from.

Day Four - 13/11/2015
Today we pitched our film opening idea to the rest of our peers and teachers. We received feedback on the title of our film, the story line, location and things to improve on.

Day Five - 16/11/2015
Today we received the feedback sheets from our peers and teachers and took all of the comments into consideration and developed our film opening idea. We improved our characters and story line by changing the characters to the following:

The woman = a 20-something business woman and mother
The man = a homeless, teenage boy

By changing the ages of the characters, we have created a more enticing and unique film opening idea. We have decided to take influences from the films The 7:39 and _________.

We also allocated roles within the group and decided who would do what in the production of our film opening.

Day Six - 17/11/2015
Today, we began our individual roles within the group.

Evan started to look at Representation.
Tez looked at the camera shots that we should include in our film opening and the effects that they will create.
Chloe and Alicia updated the production diary and took Recce images to create a mood-board of our film opening in the near future.

Day Seven - 18/11/2015
(Alicia was absent on this day)

The rest of the group started adapting the idea to make it easier to film or more exciting. The group decided to adapt the character of the homeless boy and make him a teenage "thug" with a twist - he's actually a nice guy, not the stereotypical gangster. By making this alteration, we have allowed ourselves more room to be creative with our music choices and shots.

Day Eight - 19/11/2015
(Alicia was absent on this day)

The rest of the group videoed a draft version of the new film opening in order to be able to see the product and analyse the physical video. By doing this, it made the ideas come to life and allowed the group to get a visual product to base the real opening on.

Day Nine - 20/11/2015
(Chloe and Tez were absent on this day)

Alicia created a storyboard for the film opening. This included an image of the shot and a brief description about it. They also researched upon film production companies that could be used for our film. In addition, Alicia and Evan decided upon the production company of Film 4 and chose a production opening and merged the visuals together with a soundtrack that fits the setting of the teenage "thug". The music track is: Skepta - ?????

Day Ten - 23/11/2015
Evan and Tez wrote up the risk assessment onto the risk assessment sheet whilst Alicia completed the production diary. The production diary states that the group's filming starts on Wednesday 25th November and continues over to Thursday 26th November.

Day Eleven - 24/11/2015
Alicia uploaded images of the risk assessment and shooting schedule onto her blog. She also finished her research into film fonts and titles and uploaded that to her blog. Chloe, Evan and Tez filmed the storyboard, put it onto Adobe Premier Pro and started to recording the voiceover of it.

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