Production Log Week 12

We've began filming our new media concept and it's going generally well, we've decided our new concept is solid and were going to front this on our production of our film. We are experiencing some problems as some of our actors have never acted before and are nervous in front of the camera which leads to them laughing of forgetting the intended lines and them making up lines on the go. This may be a problem as it wastes time and we are working towards a new deadline that we're aiming t o meet so we want to work as efficiently as possible. We're having to use our camera man's personal camera because the school provided camera isn't working because of the battery. Thankfully we have a replacement camera so we wont be losing majorly in the production rate of our film. Each shot takes around 10 - 15 minutes to film each because we change our mind about the angle or the shot and it's connotations. We are still experiencing some rookie mistakes such as accidentally standing in the shot or having noise that disrupts the scene in the background. We hope the more we progress in the film that the easier it'll be and we'll become more experienced at producing our opening sequence.

Production Log Week 11

We have been very critical of ourselves regarding the concept of our film and decided that we needed to create a new concept because our last concept was way too far away from British Social Realism and was too strung out. We decided to calm down with our opening sequence as we wanted to try and fit in so many themes that it ended up being too much, and decided to have a minimal approach with our British Social Realism in order to achieve a good effect. We want to have a traditional aspect in the creation of our British Social Realism but we are in the phase of deciding if we still want to subvert our main characters and their traits to create counter-types to shock our audiences. We want to have a fresh start and not get too wild with our ideas and concepts, we're going to dim down our creativity.

Job Roles

week 10 production log

This week we have been very focused on doing editing for our BSR opening, it's difficult because you want to add a lot of content but you have a time limit for two minutes making it hard to choose what scenes are really necessary and what isn't. We have to be very critical of ourselves in editing because our time limit is too small to be making mistakes. My group and I have had to go back and re-film any scenes that we had decided wasn't good enough to be in the film or had any continuity issues. At this point we started looking back on our concept and we're currently deciding what is worth having in and what is not worth having in. We're organising when the entire cast is going to meet so that we can begin shooting our film and getting it into the works, we've had to make some last second cast changes as certain people can no longer attend the scheduled days. We're going to get past this by getting rid of their parts in the film as we deemed it unnecessary to the film. This will take some time to organise and explain to the rest of our production group and could lower morale but we're determined on pushing through to create our film.

Meet My Audience

Week 9 Production Log

This week has been heavily focused on admin work based around our media coursework, for example call sheets, scripts and treatments for our media work. We have finished filming our first draft for our media work and we know that we will have to film a few scenes again to make them to the best of their capability. My group and I had a hard time getting a girl to play in our film but eventually one said yes and we had to work around that. Our school-provided camera was also a problem because there were some problems with the battery and the tripod was specific to the camera so we couldn't use a camera or a tripod so we just used Chris' own camcorder to film our scenes as a placeholder for the school camera.

Treatment for Media

Production Schedule

Media Reckie

These photos have the element of an dirty, gritty environment that is a common convention in British Social Realisms everywhere. These locations will let the audience know about the environmental and economic struggle that the main character is going through and because of our target audience may be able to relate to the character and their situation. These photos also have an urban taste to them so it's obvious that the characters are in a city, and a modern one. We wanted to show that even in a modern and up to date city there are still areas within it that portray a lower class kind of lifestyle and that not everything is fine within the city. Audiences in the same situation might be able to relate and therefor draw inspiration from the characters and it's themes to have guidance in their own lives

Media Call Sheets