Production Diary

17th NovemberToday we spent time deciding what roles we were going to undertake. We made sure that we each had different tasks to do so that the procedure of planning would be a lot faster and a lot smoother.

18th November
Today we started to perform our tasks. I started to post the blog meetings and write about what we were doing in pictures that were taken of us discussing the tasks ahead. Will started to do the synopsis planning and writing about the actors that we were going to use. Ben started to create a visual mood board that used inspirations from other clips that we liked and thought could be inspirational towards our clip.

24th November
In this lesson me and Ben finalised the storyboard. We made sure that we had included all of the details that needed to be within the shot. We also made sure that all of the types of shots were given below the picture of the shot that was going to be taken. The next step was to video the storyboard and give background audio on it.

28th November Today I started to edit all of the footage that we had collected. The first thing that I had to do was find and select all of the shots that I actually wanted to keep. Once I had decided on the shots that I was going to use within our opening scene. I then had to put all of the shots in the correct chronological order that the story line was going to flow in.

2nd December I have applied all of my editing skills towards my opening scene which has caused me to compile all of the footage together. All of the clips have now been put in chronological order I am just in the process of finishing the listing of all the titles that will appear throughout the opening scene. After this I will have to find an appropriate song that will match in with the theme and genre of my film opening.

8th December
Uploaded my first draft of my film opening. It got played to my class and they gave me feedback to work on. I already had quite a lot of adaptation to do with my film opening anyway to make the genre more obvious. The feedback that I received also told me that I needed to make the titles and credits better.

9th December I straight away started to carry on with editing on my film opening to help improve the recognition of the genre. I changed and imporoved the titles by putting them in the correct order and also adding effects so that they synced in well with the transitions from shot to shot.

Credit Inspiration

Blog Reflection

TechnologyAs I have become more comfortable with using the technology I think that I have improved in all of my techniques.

What out of 20 is your blog? 
I think that my blog would be about a 14/15 out of 20 so far. I think that by the time that I have uploaded everything for my Film Opening that I will be able to increase the marks for my blog.

Where could you be less complacent?If I was to make my blog more in depth and detailed I would try and make sure that every post that I did would be done in more detail.

Is it fun to look through?

First Draft of Film Opening- Feedback

Most of the feedback that I got was rather good. Overall I believe that people enjoyed to watch my film opening but on the other hand there was some constructive criticism that I can use to help improve my film opening for me to be able to adapt it for the final draft.
The main things that people suggested to improve and adapt would be the titles. I would have to change them to all the same colour and also maybe change the font to make it look overall more professional.

Marketing for Film Opening

 

Challenges Faced whilst Filming

When we were filming our film opening we faced many challenges. The main challenges we faced was getting permission to film in public places like the underground and Canary Wharf. The way we over came the this was by phoning up the company of the building and asking them for permission for us to film in one of their offices. After asking them they kindly accepted our request and allowed us to film.
  The way we overcame the challenge to film on the underground was by getting a permission slip written from our media teacher Mrs Brookes. This way if anyone was a bit off with us filming then we could show them the slip.
   Another problem we faced wen filming from inside the building was when we wanted to get a high shot of the people walking on the ground. The problem about this shot was the reflection of the window as it showed us filming in it. As we couldn't shoot out of an open window we decided to get a different high shot of Stratford station.
   The final problem we had whilst filming was filming on the trains as the tripod we used took up quite a lot of room which made it an obstacle for people on the train. The way we overcame this was by filming whilst the train was moving. This way it wasn't in the way of anyone as no one was walking up and down the train.

Storyboard Video