Production Diary

A2 Media Studies
Advanced Portfolio
Production Diary
PROGRESS UPDATE PLAN FOR NEXT MONTH / WEEK (Including Possible
Contingency Plans If Problems Anticipated)
Mon W/B 09/09/13
(Detailed Weekly Summary)
Decide what advanced portfolio I want to produce. Narrow down ideas and get some idea of what type of
music video to produce.
Mon W/B 16/09/13
Begin researching the genre of music video to produce Research digipak’s and get idea of which ones to analyse
Mon W/B 23/09/13
Began researching album digipak’s and trying to decide what
template would be best to produce for ancillary 1 task.
Find 3 digipak’s to analyse and being analysis
Mon W/B 30/09/13
Completed analysis of 1 Digipak.
Researched more into what song we want to do for out final
product and the type of music video to produce
Finish analysis of digipak’s and upload to blogs and
narrow down selection of songs for final piece.
Mon W/B 07/10/13
Completed another ancillary 1 research task and watched music
video to get further idea of the type of video we want to produce.
Begin looking for ancillary 2 research analysis and finish
ancillary 1 task.
Mon W/B 14/10/13
Made final choice for song for our final piece.
Began ancillary 1 draft
Finish ancillary 1 draft and have it uploaded to my
BlogSpot.
Mon W/B 21/10/13
Finished ancillary 1 research tasks Finish any ancillary tasks and begin making template for
ancillary 1
Mon W/B 28/10/13
Uploaded ancillary 1 research tasks to blog and finished making
template for ancillary 1, which has also been uploaded to the blog
(as both individual pages and an entire template)
Scanned music posters from magazines into computer to begin
ancillary 2 research
Finish off ancillary 2 research – had some issues with
scanning documents in so may have to redo that.
Mon W/B 04/11/13
Focused more on the completed of ancillary 2 template rather
than research
Finish ancillary 2 templates and research and upload to
blog.

A2 Media Studies
Advanced Portfolio
Production Diary
Mon W/B 11/11/13
Ancillary 2 Research and first draft uploaded to blog.
Began research for music video analysis.
Start analysing music videos for final analysis research
and possibly begin uploading to blog.
Mon W/B 18/11/13
Continued finding suitable music videos which I could analyse and
could apple relevant narrative theory to.
Decide on final three music videos to analyse and
complete at least one by end of the week and have it
uploaded to my blog.
Mon W/B 25/11/13
I have reorganised media folder and renamed documents to make
coursework easier to find.
Made notes on first music video and began analysis of it.
Upload first music video analysis via slide share and
complete notes for final two.
Mon W/B 02/12/13
First music video analysis uploaded to my blog via slide share and
began making notes for the final two. Wrote half of the analysis for
the video ‘Attracting Flies’ by Aluna George.
Complete second analysis and finish majority of the
third in order for them to be ready to be uploaded to
my blog the following week, so that we have adequate
time to story scripting and storyboarding own music
video.
Mon W/B 09/12/13
Completed second music video analysis and uploaded to blog.
Began analysis for third music video, with majority of it completed.
Complete third music video analysis over Christmas,
ready to be uploaded to blog for when we return.
Begin thinking about market research.
Mon W/B 16/12/13
Completed final music video analysis and uploaded to blog.
Learnt about Survey Monkey and began creating and planning
questionnaire which would be e-mailed to several people for them
to complete.
Complete market research questionnaire in the new
year in order to collate results and produce report.
Mon W/B 23/12/13
N/A N/A
Mon W/B 30/12/13
N/A N/A
Mon W/B 06/01/14
Finished creating questionnaire and e-mailed to 10 participants.
Checked over blog to ensure everything had uploaded correctly
and was labelled right.
Collect results from questionnaire, however if all
participants have not replied I will have to wait until the
following week in order to produce accurate report.
Mon W/B 13/01/14
Reviewed all results from the questionnaire and began planning
the report, as well as writing it.
Complete report and upload a copy to my blog as well
as a blank copy of the questionnaire.

A2 Media Studies
Advanced Portfolio
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Began scripting our music video.
Mon W/B 20/01/14
Completed report based on market research results and uploaded
to blog via Slide Share.
Continued to complete script and began initial storyboarding.
Aim to have majority of the script complete and
continue developing the storyboard.
Begin thinking about when the best time to start filming
music video will be and make arrangements to do so.
Mon W/B 27/01/14
Script was completed by the end of this week with all necessary
changes that needed to make to it. Storyboarding continued.
Complete storyboard so that it is ready to be scanned in
and uploaded to blog.
Mon W/B 03/02/14
Both script and storyboard completed. Storyboard has been
scanned and ready to be uploaded to blog.
Begin filming music video.
Mon W/B 10/02/14
Script and storyboard uploaded to blog via slide share. Camera
booked out ready to film over the half term break.
Film over the half term break.
Mon W/B 17/02/14
N/A N/A
Mon W/B 24/02/14
Majority of filming was complete once we came back to college,
however due to people being busy we were unable to fully
complete our filming.
By the end of this week some footage was uploaded to computer
and we began renaming the footage to make the editing process
easier.
Finish uploading and renaming footage to begin the edit
of our final product.
Mon W/B 03/03/14
We spent this week learning the basics of using Abode Premiere so
that when it came to editing our own footage it would be much
easier. We also began editing the start of our video.
Continue editing the final product and try and finish the
filming.
Mon W/B 10/03/14
We went through all the footage we had and cross referenced this
with our music video storyboards and scripts to ensure that we
had the relevant material. We decided what changes that we
needed to make to our overall narrative.
Imported first portion of footage to Adobe Premiere to begin
editing.
Continue editing process and ensure footage is
organised into separate files to make editing our video
more efficient/organised.

A2 Media Studies
Advanced Portfolio
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This week we were able to film the rest of the footage we needed.
Mon W/B 17/03/14
Completed editing the first half of the video. Carry on editing with the aim of being complete within
the new couple of weeks in order to get a rough draft
uploaded to YouTube to create a focus group for the
evaluation stage. Also being adding special effects etc…
Mon W/B 24/03/14
By this week we were able to complete a large proportion of
editing and we added the necessary transitions (dissolve and
additive dissolve) and special effects. We decided to add the ‘luma
effect’ onto the all of the present day shots in order to fit with the
indie genre.
Complete rough draft and begin thinking about the
evaluation questions.
Mon W/B 31/03/14
Rough drafts of our final project were finished and exported so
that we could create a focus group on Facebook.
Over the Easter break I need to complete the first draft
of the evaluation questions so that they can be
presented onto prezi etc.. When I get back to college.
Mon W/B 07/04/14
N/A N/A
Mon W/B 14/04/14
N/A N/A
Mon W/B 21/04/14
Final draft was exported from Adobe Premiere and uploaded to
YouTube and to blogger.
Evaluation questions were completed and presented using prezi,
PowerPoint, word and video and all were uploaded to my blog by
the end of the week.
In this week, I also completed the final drafts of my ancillary
projects.
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