The document summarizes the production meetings for a student film project over several sessions. It discusses the development of the narrative, location scouting, casting, filming initial scenes, reviewing footage, completing additional filming, and rough editing. The film's story is about a deaf girl who attends a sign language center to learn about how she lost her hearing.
The Henley College
AS Media Studies production unit evaluation presentation for 'Watch' by:-
Rebecca Hudson
Simon (Pete) Morton
Darryl King
Karisma Jarakana
The Henley College
AS Media Studies production unit evaluation presentation for 'Watch' by:-
Rebecca Hudson
Simon (Pete) Morton
Darryl King
Karisma Jarakana
1. Production Meetings <br />Production MeetingMembers PresentSummary of what happened/was discussed1Liv, Ali, Becca and CharlotteThere was a discussion of the possible narratives for the film; we considered combining aspects from each of our own ideas to create one final story.Ideas that were discussed included the story focusing on a deaf girl arguing with her family and leaving home, however there was a twist at the end and she turned out to have earplugs in.Altogether we decided that we wanted our film to be for informative and educational purposes.We thought the message of our film could perhaps be ‘things aren’t always as they seem’.2Liv, Becca and Ali Together we discussed the possible location ideas for the film.We organised and arranged auditions for the actors needed to make our film.3Liv, Ali, Becca and CharlotteThought of alternate story ideas that would be more practical for us to film.4Liv, Ali, Becca and CharlotteWe agreed on the final story idea, about a dead girl that comes to a centre to learn sign language and here she reveals the events which lead to her losing her hearing.We wrote the synopsis and began to write the screenplay. Began to draw out storyboard.Researched short films with the themes of disability. 5Liv, Charlotte and BeccaWe finished the screenplay and completed the shooting script.Completed the storyboard and discussed shots.Planned a day to begin shooting rushes.6Liv, Ali, Becca and CharlotteDiscussed the chosen actors and confirmed they could make the day to film.7Liv, Becca and CharlotteWe researched natural lighting and information on the use of depth of field in films to help us with our own product.FILMING-OUT OF COLLEGE-Ali’s HouseLiv, Ali, Becca and CharlotteWe filmed our first rushes, which included the beginning and ending of our film which is located in the BSLC where the deaf girl goes to learn sign language.8Liv, Ali, Becca and CharlotteWe watched over our first rushes and discussed improvements that needed to be made to the location and perhaps the lighting.9Liv, Ali, Becca and CharlotteWe arranged the re-shoot of the first rushes, ensuring we had a new location to film in.FILMING-OUT OF COLLEGE-OfficesLiv, Ali, Becca and CharlotteWe re-filmed the beginning and ending of our film, in a location we thought looked more official and professional.10Liv, Ali, Becca and CharlotteWe watched the rushes that we filmed, to check that they were suitable to use and edit.We organised the location and actors for our last rushes.FILMING-OUT OF COLLEGE- Bar in SloughLiv, Ali, Becca and CharlotteWe filmed the last rushes which are the middle part of our film which shows how the girl became deaf.11Liv, Ali, Becca and CharlotteWe watched our last rushes and began to discuss editing.We began to capture all our rushes onto the computer, to begin putting together a rough edit.12Liv, Ali, Becca and CharlotteWe began to choose which shots we would keep to use in the short film while and began our rough edit.13Becca and CharlotteTogether we went though some ideas for how our double page spread would look.14Liv, Ali and BeccaWe completed the rough edit and made sure we noted everything down for the edit decision list. 15Liv, Ali, Becca and CharlotteWe did the final pieces of work for our folders.<br />