Thursday 5 December 2013

Production Diary


Running Commentary

Lesson 1: In our first lesson together, we decided our film, which was Sarah’s pitch. James and Dom then added our own input into the idea, and we updated Sarah’s prezi accordingly. We assigned our roles too; we tried to make them to our own personal strengths.

Lesson 2: Watched other peoples film pitch and then pitched our own. Took feedback from the other groups and noted it down.

Lesson 3: Started work on the storyboard and finding relevant places to shoot.

Lesson 4: James and Sarah continued work on the storyboard, thinking of more shots to film. Dom started on the music selection.

Lesson 5: Continued work on storyboard.

Lesson 6: With Sarah absent, James and Dom began piecing together the storyboard, trying to put it in order.

Lesson 7: With the storyboard completed, we took pictures of the storyboard and decided how to present it.

Lesson 8: We decided that Dom would talk about the storyboard on a green screen and put it over the top of the pictures. We filmed it in the classroom and uploaded it onto Adobe Premiere.

Lesson 9: Sarah worked on Adobe Premiere putting the speech over the pictures of the storyboard. James and Dom worked on the shooting schedule.

Lesson 10: Sarah finished off editing on Adobe Premiere and ended up finishing the storyboard, whilst James and Dom finished off the shooting schedule and also completed the Risk Assessment.

Lesson 11: We all went to Galleywood to James’ house, Sarah’s house and Galleywood Common to film the opening scene of.

Lesson 12: This was the lesson where we all uploaded all our video clips to Adobe Premiere and Dom started to piece it all together whilst James and Sarah worked on the green screen, to add another piece into the opening scene.

Lesson 13: Dom and Sarah carried on editing whilst James updated the production diary and looked at title font styles

Lesson 14: Dom carried on editing and then we all went around the school looking for the best venue for taking the picture for the poser.

Lesson 15: We had a group discussion and found out that the Title ‘Troubled Diversity’ was too complicated so after debating , we came up with ‘Divided’.

Lesson 16: with Dom (the main editor) absent James updated the production diary, whilst Sarah started to work on the Title ‘Divided’. Then we both started to work on the poster.

Lesson 17: We decided as a group that the idea of mental illness wasn't clear enough so we made a voice over of a doctor diagnosing Chris with Schizophrenia.

Lesson 18: James and Sarah filmed shots of Dom and Alex to see if we could put him into the scene acting as some fillers. Dom then went away to look for some music when James filmed shots of Sarah and Alex.

Lesson 19: All the class watched all the other classes productions and marked them all.

Lesson 20: We got our evaluations and feedback back from the other classes and with Sarah absent James and Dom went through them and decided what to change and keep.

Lesson 21: James took the camera back to his house and re-filmed the part of the opening scene where he woke up. Whilst Dom and Sarah worked on Adobe Premier.

Lesson 22: As a group we chose the best clip from James' filming the previous day. Then Dom worked on fitting that clip into our opening scene. James and Sarah both went away to find the best location for the poster.

Lesson 23: Sarah went away and re filmed her dad saying the voice over to our film, so Dom added it into the final cut, whilst James and Sarah proceeded on the poster.

Lesson 24: This was the lesson where Dom finally finished the editing and then James and Sarah both watched it and gave the final feedback just to tweak the sound.

Lesson 25: All of us took different rolls in updating our blogs, making sure everything was up to date.

Lesson 26: Sarah worked on the questionnaire, whilst Dom worked the recci shots and James filmed students and teachers asking them questions on Divided

Lesson 27:James continued interviewing teachers and students on their thoughts of Divided. Whilst Sarah and Dom worked on creating an online survey with www.surveymonkey.com.

Lesson 28: James uploaded all the interviews onto the computer and Dom started to edit it all together.

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