Diary Logs

Diary log

21/02/2013 - Our one minute is now out the way finished and handed into our teacher. This means the introduction to our 5 minute film. Ideas were shared and mind maps were made. We plotted out how the film was going to start, the middle and the end.

28/02/2013 - Ideas from the mind map have been finalised and we have created our plot for our story. The moral, mood board and target audience was discussed and added to our blogs. A sketched out storyboard was also drawn up to give us an idea on what the story of the film is.

07/03/2013 - Deadline were found out today for the 5 minute film. This included pre-production, production and post-production tasks to be completed.

So because of the unexpected deadline, we have decided to split up this lesson and complete the pre-production tasks to make sure that we are on deadline for filming next week. During the three hours we completed the following tasks;

• Getting contact details to get an actress from the Coventry City College Performing arts class
• completed the structure (outline, equilibrium, plot, and audience)
• research into shots and plot ideas
• Location description
• Risk assessment

14/03/2013 - Today's session did not go as planned as some unexpected changes arose and we were unable to film or carry out tasks for our production today. We lost time that we originally planned for filming, so we are going to solve that problem by working out of hours to ensure we are up to date for the next session.

The pre-production tasks that are still outstanding are;

• Mise-en-scene
• Script
• Shot list

21/03/2013 - In the three hours today, we carried out some pre-production tasks of finishing off the mise-en-scene elements, creating the script (2 different scripts for both diegetic sounds and voice overs).

Also we found out that our deadline has been extended an extra 3 weeks due to holidays and interuptions. our new deadline has been stretched to 18th April 2013. This gives us more time during the holiday to create our production in out of school hours.

28/03/2013 - In today's session, we created the script and recorded the voice over for our soundtrack. The voiceover was recorded in the sidney stringer recording studio. It took us three hours to create the voice track because it took time to set up the equipment, to get the actress when she is free and it took us repeated times to get the desired effect/feeling.


18/04/2013 -In today's lesson, we finished off the remaining blog posts needed for our pre-production elements and filmed scenes for our five minute single camera production. We also recorded some meetings videos (Vlogs) on information about our five minute single camera production.