Production diary

2. MONDAY 9TH NOVEMBER 2015
In todays lesson we were put into our groups for our main media project. We had
some time to bond with our group members and then we all had to individually
come up with an idea for a film opening. We then had to create a presentation on
our ideas. This was in order for everyone’s opinions to be heard and also so that
there were 3, or more in some groups, ideas to choose from.

3. TUESDAY 10TH NOVEMBER 2015
In todays meeting we all presented our individual film pitches to one another. We
then asked each other questions about the film ideas and evaluated all of them.
We decided to merge Clare and Maisie’s ideas together as they were similar and
we thought we could include a lot of detail within the icons when filming. We
decided that in our next meeting we would create a presentation for our new film
opening. Overnight we contacted each other with different ideas we could
include.

4. THURSDAY 12TH NOVEMBER 2015
In todays meeting we made a presentation including genre, audience, our idea
and film influences. We all participated when making our film pitch and the group
co-operated well. We listened to potential songs that we could include in our film
and chose the best suited one. We took photographic evidence of us planning as a
team.

5. FRIDAY 13TH NOVEMBER 2015
In todays meeting we presented our film pitch to our fellow class mates
explaining our film idea. Then they each filled out a feedback form giving us
constructive criticism on what we need to improve on to make our film opening
better. We collated them in and looked through them then wrote a blog post on our
main points of improvement.

6. MONDAY 16TH NOVEMBER 2015
In todays meeting we planned out the job roles within our group. We decided that
Toby Lee would be the director, camera man and co-editor, Maisie smith would
take the role as producer and music/sound engineer,Clare Kelly would take the
role a group leader, editor and writer. We then created a mood board for our film
and wrote blog posts on our target audience, props and sound.

7. TUESDAY 17TH NOVEMBER 2015
In todays meeting we started to work on the storyboard for our film opening. We
decided on the first 12 shots of the film and included an illustration, shot type,
timings and transitions. This will allow us to make sure we know what we are
doing on our filming day.

8. WEDNESDAY 18TH NOVEMBER 2015
In todays meeting we carried on with the storyboard finalising everything, adding
in titles and timings. We also wrote drafts for the script and finalised it.

9. THURSDAY 19TH NOVEMBER 2015
In todays meeting we filmed the voiceover for the storyboard and the we edited it.
We then uploaded it to YouTube in order for it to be on out blog. We also took
photos for the location recce shots.

10. FRIDAY 20TH NOVEMBER 2015
In today’s meeting we finished the last sections of planning we needed to do and
uploaded them to our blog. We completed the timeline of shots, shooting
schedule, marketing campaign and we plan to begin filming on Monday.

11. MONDAY 23RD NOVEMBER 2015
In today’s meeting we filmed the ‘in-mind’ scene for our film opening. We travelled
to our location, Maisie’s bedroom and also took photos for our location recce. We
filmed all of the shots we needed for the in-mind scene.

12. THURSDAY 26TH NOVEMBER 2015
In todays meeting we decided to edit the ‘in-mind’ scene clips together so that we
could just put that section into the final edit of our film opening.

13. WEDNESDAY 25TH NOVEMBER 2015
In todays meeting we filmed all the other clips needed for our film opening. We
filmed in the classroom and had all of our extras and the teacher. We filmed a
variety of shots – using different angles so that we use them as cutaway shots in
our film opening.

14. FRIDAY 27TH NOVEMBER 2015
In todays meeting we started editing the whole film opening, putting different
shots together and making difficult shots like the cutaways and match on action
shots join together seamlessly. We also went to the recording studio to record the
voiceover of the main character and the extras saying nasty insults so that they
could be put over the top of the shots.

15. THURSDAY 3RD DECEMBER 2015
In todays meeting we continued editing and worked on our film for quite a long
time so that the first draft was able to be completed for the deadline. We did some
research for the fonts and colours that we wanted our titles to be and also what
production companies we wanted our film to open with.

16. FRIDAY 11TH DECEMBER 2015
In today’s meeting we were given our class and teacher feedback on our first
draft. We first wrote a blog post on this and addressed the issues that were
brought up and how we would solve them.

17. WEDNESDAY 16TH DECEMBER 2015
In todays meeting we finished the final draft for our film opening. We made all the
improvements that were necessary and filmed some more shots of text messages
on a phone and more insults. We also added an extra voiceover at the end of a
different character so that there was enigma added to our film opening.

18. THURSDAY 17TH DECEMBER 2015
In todays meeting we made the film poster for our film opening using Photoshop.
We also finished off the last blog posts we needed.