Production Diary

Production Diary


9th November: First Group Meeting
Today we was placed into our final film task opening groups; I was put with my fellow peers Millie, Jono and Jordan. Our first task was to produce individually, a film pitch of our idea of the perfect film opening. We was to not talk about our ideas to each other, so we could all have different ideas to pitch to each other. This means we would have more of a constructive meeting next time; deciding on what was the best idea and contributing other ideas to theirs.


10th November: Second Group Meeting
In today's meeting we pitched to each other our individual ideas of a film opening. By declaring our ideas to each other we could constructively put together our final idea with the whole groups input. We believed Jono's 'comedy spy' genre was our ideal film opening in which we wanted to all pursue further. After deciding on our final film opening idea; we began to produce our group pitch to the class.


12th November: Third Group Meeting
In today's meeting we consolidated our ideas further and finished our film pitch that we would compose to the class in the next lesson for feedback.


14th November: Fourth Group Meeting
In today's lesson we composed our final film opening idea to the class so we could receive constructive feedback. By receiving feedback, we can make our idea better and to the standard our target audience desires.


16th November: Fifth Group Meeting
In today's lesson we wrote up our feedback and improved our film opening idea further to the standard our feedback desired. Millie completed the mood board. We also assigned everyone in our group to the jobs they needed to do to ensure fair work loads. Below are the jobs we assigned each person to do:
Everyone: Photographs and video evidence of planning
Millie: Mood board
Millie, Jono and Jordan: Storyboard
Kelsey: Production diary
Jordan and Jono: Evidence of how planned opening fits with research into codes/conventions of genre and audience
Kelsey and Millie: Title research 
Kelsey: Audience
Kelsey: Location-Recce shots
Everyone: Fonts for titles and film name research
Millie: Script
Jordan: Voiceover for storyboard
Jono: Storyboard editing
Millie and Kelsey: Props research and list
Jono: Music research ideas
Kelsey: Shooting schedule
Kelsey: Risk assessments
Kelsey: Marketing campaign


17th November: 
In today's lesson Kelsey consolidated the production diary whilst we all contributed ideas for the storyboard whilst Millie and Jono wrote it up. Kelsey later on in her own time also wrote up the risk assessments with regards to the filming.


18th November:
In today's meeting Jono and Jordan finished the storyboard and filmed the voiceover for it. The storyboard was also edited by Jono in his own time. Whilst Millie worked on the prop list and costumes and Kelsey wrote the marketing campaign.


19th November:
In today's lesson, Jordan uploaded the storyboard up onto youtube whilst Kelsey finished the prop list and costumes. Jono worked on the music research for our film opening. Jordan and Jono also finished their film opening analysis'. Kelsey in her own time also did the titles research emaze with the film 'The Spy Who Loved Me'.


20th November:
In today's lesson, Kelsey finished the target audience and institution research whilst Millie began the script. Kelsey also finished the representation work.


23rd November:
In today's lesson, Kelsey and Millie re-done the storyboard and voice over which was finished and uploaded onto YouTube as the first one wasn't efficient enough and to the best standard possible. Jono started the timeline of the opening whilst Jordan finished the film analysis'. Kelsey in her own time did the risk assessments and started the location work.


24th November:
In todays lesson Kelsey finished the location work as we secured our location of Chelmsford Museum. Our plan A idea of using Pontlands Park was ruined when they told us we werent allowed to film there; so we had to think up the plan B idea of Chelmsford Museum. Jono finished the timeline of the opening whilst Jono continued on the shot list he had started in the previous lesson.


26th November:
In todays lesson Kelsey did the shooting schedule whilst Jordan continued with the shot list. Jono started on the script as we were filming later that day.