Day 1 - 7/11/16
On the first day of production of our Film opening task, we
researched different film openings to help give us ideas and inspire us for our
film opening we will make. We are also choosing the genre for our film opening.
This is so we have a clear idea for our film opening.
The films we researched for the film opening were: The
Shadow man and Midnight Express. We were intrigued by these films because of
the themes of mystery and crime. These themes create the genre of drama and
thus there are countless enigma codes which will captivate the attention of the
audience.
Day 2 - 8/11/16
On the second day of production we brainstormed genres and
ideas we can have for our film opening. We came up with a few ideas such as: a
drama/action film about drug smuggling, a war documentary film. From these
ideas it was clear that our intention was to create a drama however it was
still a question of should we create a documentary or a reality drama film.
Then we started to plan to produce a presentation for our
ideas for our film openings. We figured that producing a documentary would be a
challenging task with very limited resources. To create a war documentary we
would need to find outfits and a suitable filming location which is too
unrealistic.
Day 3 - 9/11/16
In this lesson, we came to a decision to produce a drama
film about a young man who embarks on a life-changing mission to smuggle drugs
across the border for a huge financial reward. We produced a Prezi presentation
outlining our ideas on the opening sequence and the narrative of this.
Collectively, we had to plan how the opening sequence relates to the rest of
the film. This is essential because the audience must gain an insight of the
story however it is important not to overload the audience with information as
it could give away the plot of the film.
Day 4 - 10/11/16
Today we assigned jobs to make sure we were ready to present
our prezi and ideas on Friday. Day 5 - 11/11/16
In this lesson we presented the press.
Day 6 - 14/11/16
Today we had lots of jobs to complete. We chose to assign jobs to make sure we completed them all. Antonio did the story boards, al posted the fed back onto the blogs and I sorted out the titles and the order they go in.
Day 7 - 15/11/16
Today we finished the work we started yesterday and ale researched the sort of titles we would want to use for our opening sequence.
Day 8 - 17/11/16
Our lap charts include the blog posts and activities we need to have complete our film opening to our best ability. Therefore today we spent the time assigning jobs for each person.
Day 9 - 21/11/16
Today we completed our tasks that were set:
Antonio - Target Audience
Ale - Titles Research
Pip - Codes and Conventions & production diary
Day 10 - 22/11/16
I completed the story board video and ale started the marketing ideas.
Day 11 - 23/11/16
The storyboard was finished and published onto the blog. Antonio completed the institutions work.
Day 12 - 24/11/16
Lots of tasks were completed today, we reviewed our story board and produced a reflection and feedback. This included what went well and what we could improve. the deadline for the first draft was coming up quickly so today we also had to produce a shooting schedule so we had everything planned out and everyone knew what they were doing.
We were also due to film the following week therefore had to fill in a risk assessment form.
Day 13 - 25/11/16
Yesterday we were unable to film the talking scene as we ran out of time, as suspected. we aso realised we hadn't written down a script so today that was our task. we also had to research some music options so did so as well.
Day 14 - 28/11/16
We shot the ally way scene and uploaded it onto the presentation software we used( premier).
throughout this week we focused on sorting out the shots we needed and putting them together on premier e.g day 15 & 16.
Day 17 - 1/12/16
Today we decided to change/ reshoot the ally scene as it didn't look as professional as our other shots. we also noticed that we were still missing so I then made an add on shooting schedule for those shots we needed to add in.
Day 18 - 2/12/16
I spent today making sure everyt0.
hing was completed and ready for out due date for the first draft on Monday. None of our opening was currently put together so I spent the whole day trying to make our first draft as best as it could possibly be.
Day 19 - 5/12/16
we reviewed everyone's first drafts and gave feedback for each one.
Day 20 - 7/12/16
Everyone focused on typing up their feedback and thinking about how we could improve our opening. I myself produced a prezi to present all of this. This took up day 21 as well.
Day 22 - 9/12/16
Today me and Antonio went into town to the train station to shoot the ending scenes of the ending. we had a slight problem as you are not aloud to film in the train station without permission. The due date for our final piece was getting closer so we had to improvise as we didn't have time to organise all of the permission side of things.
Day 23 - 12/12/16
Miss emailed us the list of final tings that needed to be posted on the blog so we spend toay doing so.
Day 24 - 13/12/16
Whilst I was editing and adding in all of our specifications, Antonio and Ale sorted out the website by using wix.
Day 25, 26, 27, 28 - This continued throughout the week as we had completed all of our other work and needed to focus on our final opening...