1. Production Log
Date Who was What did we do? What are we going to
there? do next time?
01/10/10 Eilish Each of us pitched our ideas today and Next lesson we are going
Sarah we found that all four story ideas were to start to write the
Gemma well put together. So we set about screen play based on the
Lauren trying to eliminate some of them. We story.
eliminated Sarah’s and Eilish’s
because of the practicalities of filming
and locations. We then spoke about
Gemma’s and Lauren’s and came to
the conclusion that the simple short
films work the best. This left us with
Gemma’s short film. We then started to
plan how we would spread the short
film over the five minutes of short
film.
04/10/10 Eilish Today we came up with the name of Next lesson we are
Sarah our short film. Jetѐ which means to planning to finish
Gemma throw in French and is also a dance drafting the script.
Lauren move. We decided on this name as she
is throwing herself and all her efforts
into dancing. We also started the
screen play by drafting the first minute
of the five minutes. We also spoke
about researching posters and reviews
to help us with our poster and review.
For homework we are all going to
research one review and one poster
each.
06/10/10 Eilish Next lesson we are
Sarah planning to create the
Gemma Today we simply cracked down and shot list in chronological
Lauren finished drafting the screen play. It’s order. If we can we are
around 4 pages long as there is only going to merge the
really dialogue at the beginning of our screen play with the shot
short film so the rest is all description list to create the shoot
of the action. script.

2. 11/10/10 Eilish We started the shot list today but it Next lesson we are
Sarah took longer than expected so we didn’t planning to finish the
Gemma manage to finish it. We completed the shot list and hopefully
Lauren first 3 minutes of our short film so we start the shooting script.
have a clear plan of how we are going
to film them. We also decided that
Lauren and Gemma would be in
charge of the Review but we would all
do our own research. We also decided
Sarah and Eilish would be in charge of
the Poster. Again we are all going to do
our own research.
13/10/10 Eilish This lesson we achieved a lot more Next lesson we are
Sarah than expected. We completed the shot planning to start the story
Gemma list and the shooting script. We now board and plan our
Lauren have a clear vision of exactly what our filming dates.
short film is going to look like at the
then end of production. We also
discussed mise en scene today and
particularly costumes.
15/10/10 Eilish Today we sat down and planned all the Next lesson we are
Sarah dates we are going to film. Monday planning to film if it’s
Gemma lunch time, Wednesday after college possible but if not we are
Lauren and Thursday 28th during half term. If going to crack on with
we don’t manage to film all the rushes the story board.
in this time we are going to film the
remaining shots during college. We
also started the storyboard.
18/10/10 Eilish Due to issue’s the camera today we Next lesson we are
Sarah were unable to film, So we spent the planning to film scene 5
Gemma lesson typing up the results to our of our short film in the
Lauren questionnaire and proceeding with the sick room at college.
storyboard. This was quite a
productive lesson as we all sorted out
our folders and discussed exactly what
needs doing.

3. 20/10/10 Eilish As Gemma wasn’t here today we were Next time we meet it will
Sarah unable to film scene 5. Today we be in half term where we
Lauren finished the story board and research are planning to do at
some similar products for our short least half of the filming.
film, such as Billy Elliot and Step Up. Scenes 1,2, 6 and 7.
We also discussed who was bringing
what to our next filming date.
28/10/10 Eilish Today we all met up at Gemma’s Next time we are
Sarah house and managed to film scene’s 1, planning to get started on
Gemma 2, 6 and 7. We did have an issue with filming the rest of the
Lauren not having enough actresses but we scenes.
managed ok. We have now got to the
half mark with are filming. We also
took pictures of our characters and
locations for our character profiles and
location recce.
01/11/10 Eilish Today we reviewed our footage we Next time we are
Sarah filmed last lesson to see whether planning to film scene 5
Gemma everything had been done properly and in the morning during
Lauren nothing needed re-doing. We also our lesson and then
discussed the music for our short film scenes 3 and 4 in the
and how we would go about get afternoon.
permission to use music. We also
planned the next day of filming.
03/11/10 Eilish Today we all met at the first location Our next filming date is
Sarah (the sick room) and filmed scene five. Monday lunchtime where
Gemma Although it was only a short scene we we are going to finish
Lauren were rushed as the receptionists told us filming scene 5 and
we had to be quick in case someone hopefully continue on to
was ill. We still feel it went well do scene 6 later in the
though. Later we started to film in the day.
dance studio but then a dance class
came along so we had to stop. We also
couldn’t use the school hall for scene
six as the hall was busy too. So we
didn’t get as much done as we had
planned.
08/11/10 Eilish We didn’t get round to filming today as On our next planned
Sarah fundamental things were forgotten session we are going to
Gemma such as the tripod and the costume for be filming scene 4.
Lauren Faye. During our lesson today we
planned when we were actually going
to film and then started to capture the
footage we had already filmed. We

4. incurred many problems with this and
so we spoke to the technician who is
going to help us next lesson as he said
that many people have been have the
same problem.
12/11/10 Eilish Today we finally managed to finish the Next lesson we are
Sarah filming. We had a short time space to planning to begin editing.
Gemma finish the filming as we only had the
Lauren drama studio and the dance studio for
an hour. We managed to get all the
shots we wanted but if when editing
we decided we want or need more
shots we haven’t got then we will film
them on a separate occasion.
15/11/10 Eilish Today we uploaded all of our rushes Next lesson we are going
Sarah onto the editing software. This took the to continue to cut of
Gemma majority of the lesson as we have a lot rushes into individual
Lauren of footage to upload. When this was shots and then start to
done we had a play with the software pick the shots which
as it was new to us. At first we found it want to include in our
complicated and difficult to use but we short film.
got used to it. Then we started to edit
our short film. We cut our rushes into
individual shots but only got about half
way through the footage before the end
of the lesson.
17/11/10 Eilish This lesson we continued to edit our Next lesson we are
Sarah short film. We finished separating the planning to do a rough
Gemma rushes using the razor tool and then edit by putting the rest of
Lauren began to put the shots in order. We also the clips in order and
assessed what we had left to do. We then deleting the shot we
found we had a few things left to do so don’t want to use.
we separated the jobs between the
group and we are all going to finish
them for next lesson. We also had a
look at the photographs we took for the
poster and chose which ones we could
potentially use.
22/11/10 Eilish Today we finished putting the rest of Next lesson we are
Sarah the shots in order and then we started planning to roughly edit
Gemma to delete the unwanted shots. After that scenes two and three.
Lauren we managed to roughly edit scene one
by cutting the clips down and creating
match on action in many of the shots.
24/11/10 Eilish Today we managed to roughly edit Next lesson we are
Sarah scenes two, three and part of four. This planning to complete the
Gemma is much more than we thought we rough edit. This will be a
Lauren would get done but we stayed after the lot of work but after that
lesson to get more done. We also we will just have to add
started to discuss transition and which in the transitions and
transitions would be suitable where.

5. After editing today we found that our music.
first four scenes come up to nearly five
minutes and we still have three more
scenes to add on at the end. Although
these are only short scenes we may
have to loose or cut down some of the
shots to shorten the film but on if this
is completely necessary.
26/11/10 Eilish Today we managed to complete our Next lesson we are
Sarah rough edit and it ended up being six planning to add or the
Gemma minutes long. So we then went back transitions to make the
Lauren and made a few corrections and short film flow and then
add in some music if we
shortened a few clips which brought it
have the time.
down to five and a half minutes. We
also started to discuss the evaluation
today. We suggested that we each
spoke about our main roles. So Eilish
will talk mainly about editing, Sarah
will talk mainly about filming and pre-
production, Gemma will talk mainly
about the actually story and finally
Lauren will mainly talk about the
production process.
01/12/10 Eilish This lesson started with just Sarah so Next time we are
Sarah she started to make a poster and when planning to show the
Eilish arrived they finished it. We have others the two versions
tried to challenge conventions with the of the poster and see
what they think. We are
poster to show that it is not your
also planning to add all
average film. We have done this but the transitions for the rest
putting Faye to the right of the shot of the short film. If
and not centre frame, have the poster possible we are going to
landscape rather than portrait, put the try to add the voice
PG rating in the top right hand corner over’s to our short film.
instead of being at the bottom and by
keeping the poster very simple using
few colours. We also then went on to
carry on editing our short film. We
added transitions for the first scene but
then we ran out of time.
03/12/10 Eilish This lesson we showed Lauren the Next lesson we are
Sarah posters which they liked and we chose planning to do the voice
Lauren our favourite. We also managed to add over’s.
all of the rest of the transitions but we
couldn’t do the rest of the voice over’s
because Gemma had the tape and
camera.
06/12/10 Eilish This lesson we managed to film the Now we are all working
Sarah rest of the voice over’s for our short on our own individual
Gemma film, upload them onto the system and written evaluations and
Lauren add them in. We also managed to add the PowerPoint
the music and so we completed our evaluation that we will

6. final edit. The poster and review are do together.
also finished.