production diary

1. Production diary

2. Week 1 of production
• This first week of production hasn’t gone to plan of what I originally thought was
going to go. The sunglasses I have ordered didn’t arrive by the time I was in
college, so it means I'm going to have to delay taking out a camera from college
to take the photos I need. Hopefully by next Monday for the second week of
production my sunglasses will have arrived and then ill be able to hire out all the
equipment I need to capture the images I need. So, this week I just focused on
tidying up some other PowerPoints and making sure they were finished and not
leaving blank slides. Next week I plan to start to getting together everything I
need to start taking the photos. I would say my initial feelings of the first week of
production isn’t going my way but hopefully it can improve next week.

3. Week 2 of production
• It has come to the end of the second week of the FMP production and my
sunglasses arrived mid week which means I am able to hire out equipment from
the college media department and begin to experiment and hopefully take the
perfect images that I will use for my website. The equipment that I will be taking
out of college is just a camera and then some extra batteries and little things like
that. This second week of production has gone much better than the first one as I
feel I am back on track and feel as if I will get this project in on time.

4. Week 3 of production
• The end of the third week of the production has gone much better I managed to
take many photos last weekend ready for the week but there are only a few of
them that I am happy with which is a shame because it thought I would have got
everything I needed for this week but unfortunately that is no the case so I have
borrowed some more kit from college again but this time with a light source
aswell as I want to see if the lighting can improve the quality of the pictures. At
the weekend I would like to have someone wearing the glasses aswell as just the
glasses by themselves because to have these on a website people have to know
what they look on a person so that’s the first kind of photos I will take, then
hopefully retake a few photos of the glasses in just a plain whiter background as I
feel too much stuff in the background can actually block out what the glasses fully
look like. The end of this third week I am feeling confident that I will be able to
complete this project on time all I need to finish Is getting the photos then adding
them to my website in which I have already set up and is just waiting for me to
add the photos and then it will be completed.

5. Final week of production
• The end of the production weeks and I have completed the website. Over the last
weekend I managed to get every photo I wanted and was extremely happy with
how they turned out. I must say the lighting source that I borrowed very much
helped, it added a lot of detail to the photos and highlighted little areas on the
glasses which just made it that much better, and I was very pleased I had
borrowed the light source otherwise the photos wouldn’t have turned out that
great. I used the adobe photoshop editing software to edit some pictures that I
felt could have done with looking just that slight better. I managed to get some
feedback from a couple of my friends, and they wrote down what they liked and
then what thought could have been improved Ill save this feedback until next
week as that is when we go onto the evaluation section. Overall, I am very
pleased with my FMP as it is something I have never done before and especially
the photography element of it, this project was my first proper experience using a
high quality camera so to capture some photos and they turn out pretty good the
first time I have to say I am very impressed with myself.