production log-melissa

Production log

17 march 2015:All together we filmed a total of eight times, in this time we have discussed our film and what things would and wouldn't work for our pre-production, we then discussed how we wanted our film to run for example, linear and non-linear, also the order our film is going to run, discussing the shot types that we all wanted to use and how we wanted the film to be filmed, we also discussed the actors, how many we wanted and how they would fit into the film, we also discussed who we wanted to act in our film as we wanted a particular actor who would fit the role perfectly. We watched everyone’s PowerPoints and decided what one was going to be more practical therefore we chose aoife’s film, because we all liked this idea.

18 march: I started the pre-production work , I went to our locations, the toilets, hall way and counselling room and took pictures for the storyboard altogether I took a total of 17 pictures of the storyboard and added the shot types and also the angles, these included Birdseye shots, over the shoulder shots in the counselling room.

19 march:  the next meeting we had is about what people are up to in their productions, how fat along they are and if they are having any trouble in their pre-production work, I had trouble with the storyboard as I found it was difficult to put the right shots in and make the movie flow as non-linear. The rest of the group were fine with their work aoife working on the script and making sure everyone was okay with it, coming back to the group and asking if anyone thought it could be improved. Micah was also consoling with the group asking if we thought she needed to add anything to her work

25 march 2015:  I continued to work and progress on the storyboard taking re shots and taking some pictures away, Aoife then worked on the script, production roles and the recce, Micah then did the risk assessment and the list of actors and why some of the comments made on the risk assessment were not updated due to slight change in location for our film, changing the location at the beginning from Aoife’s house to the toilets. My role as well as the storyboard was doing the call sheet and shooting schedule.

14 April: After everyone had finished their pre-production work and uploaded it, we then started planning our filming, hiring out equipment and deciding when we was all available to film. We had to change the day of filming from Thursday to Friday due to the fact that all the cameras were booked out on that day.

01 may: Before we started filming we had to make sure we had everything ready, making sure the actors and the equipment was ready and set up so we could start to film as soon as. Our film was slightly delayed filming because one of the actors Micah was not available at the time we original time we set. Therefore we had to wait an hour before we could film our film. A script was available to the whole team and a the shooting schedule as we needed to know what the actor was saying and if they stayed on task for the film and in what order we were going to film our film making sure everyone knew what they were doing and that everyone was organised for our film

04 may: After we had filmed our film we looked back over if and everyone watched the clips deciding if everyone was happy with what was shot and what we thought needed to be re-shot, changed or added to. The whole group was happy with the angles and the actor the way it was filmed, and how it was shot, also we were happy with the amount of shots we had, feeling that it would make the film flow nicely without any parts either dragging out or not making the film flow.