Day One - 09/11/2015
Today we found out who was in our group for our AS Media film opening. Our group consists of Alicia, Chloe, Tez and Evan. We assigned the roles within our group and they are as follows:
Alicia - Team Leader/Actor
Chloe - Director/Camera Woman
Tez - Actor
Evan - Director/Camera Man
Today, we also created individual film pitches that we would pitch to the rest of our team the next day. This individual film pitch was created in order to pitch our own ideas to the rest of our group. These ideas would be the group individuals own choice/preferred choice of what they would like to do for the film opening.
Day Two - 10/11/2015
(Tez and Chloe were absent on this day)
Today we pitched our individual ideas to the rest of our team. Evan and Alicia looked at Tez and Chloe's pitches and created an idea that incorporated elements from each of the individual pitches.
The idea is:
There are two opposing lives (a 20-something business woman and a homeless, 20-something man) that come together on a train and develop a romantic relationship over a period of time.
Day Three - 12/11/2015
Evan and Alicia pitched their collaborative idea to Tez and Chloe. The response was positive and more ideas were included. We spent the rest of the lesson creating an Emaze presentation to show to the class and receive feedback from.
Day Four - 13/11/2015
Today we pitched our film opening idea to the rest of our peers and teachers. We received feedback on the title of our film, the story line, location and things to improve on.
Day Five - 16/11/2015
Today we received the feedback sheets from our peers and teachers and took all of the comments into consideration and developed our film opening idea. We improved our characters and story line by changing the characters to the following:
The woman = a 20-something business woman and mother
The man = a homeless, teenage boy
By changing the ages of the characters, we have created a more enticing and unique film opening idea. We have decided to take influences from the films The 7:39 and The Boy Next Door.
We also allocated roles within the group and decided who would do what in the production of our film opening.
Day Six - 17/11/2015
Today, we began our individual roles within the group.
Evan started to look at Representation.
Tez looked at the camera shots that we should include in our film opening and the effects that they will create.
Chloe and Alicia updated the production diary and took Recce images to create a mood-board of our film opening in the near future.
Day Seven - 18/11/2015
(Alicia was absent on this day)
The rest of the group started adapting the idea to make it easier to film or more exciting. The group decided to adapt the character of the homeless boy and make him a teenage "thug" with a twist - he's actually a nice guy, not the stereotypical gangster. By making this alteration, we have allowed ourselves more room to be creative with our music choices and shots.
Day Eight - 19/11/2015
(Alicia and Tez was absent on this day)
The rest of the group videoed a draft version of the new film opening in order to be able to see the product and analyse the physical video. By doing this, it made the ideas come to life and allowed the group to get a visual product to base the real opening on. They did this by getting Evan, Alicia, Beth, Will and Dan all from outside of media (except Evan) to be part of the draft film opening. Chloe filmed this and then herself and Evan edited it using premiere and putting the instrumental of Nasty by Skepta in the background to add effect to the draft film opening.
Day Nine - 20/11/2015
(Chloe and Tez were absent on this day)
Alicia and Evan created a storyboard for the film opening. This included an image of the shot and a brief description about it. They also researched upon film production companies that could be used for our film. In addition, Alicia and Evan decided upon the production company of Film 4 and chose a production opening and merged the visuals together with a soundtrack that fits the setting of the teenage "thug". The music track is: Skepta - Nasty (musical instrumental).
Day Ten - 23/11/2015
Evan and Tez wrote up the risk assessment onto the risk assessment sheet whilst Alicia completed the production diary. The production diary states that the group's filming starts on Wednesday 25th November and continues over to Thursday 26th November.
Day Eleven - 24/11/2015
Alicia uploaded images of the risk assessment and shooting schedule onto her blog. She also finished her research into film fonts and titles and uploaded that to her blog. Chloe, Evan and Tez filmed the storyboard, put it onto Adobe Premier Pro and started to recording the voiceover of it.
Day Twelve - 25/11/2015
Today we filmed our production. Using our storyboard to help us with the shots we were meant to film and the length of each shot, we completed the filming process. We asked some of our fellow peers to be extra's in the film to make it look more realistic. We used three of the school cameras to film, meaning that we set all three up to film simultaneously and therefore we received the same shots from multiple angles. This means that when it comes to editing, we have a range of interesting shots to use.
Day Thirteen - 26/11/2015
Today, Evan was taking photos of our group working and Chloe and Alicia were editing the film opening. Tez was looking at what song choices we had to use certain parts of the film for Alicia's spotlight scenes, as we already have the song Nasty by Skepta for Tez's opening shot.
Day Fourteen - 27/11/2015
(Chloe and Tez were absent on this day)
Alicia
and Evan finished the rough copy of our film opening and spoke about
the plan for our next filming date and how we can ensure that it will go
smoothly. They also found a different camera that we could film with.
Day Fifteen - 02/12/2015
Today
the group re-filmed the entirety of the film opening. This time, the
filming process was more fluent as we already had experience in the
shots we wanted and the angles we knew would look good. In particular,
we added a tracking shot of Tez's character walking down the train
aisle; this shot was effective because the focus was on Tez and the
lighting on the train made the shot look professional.
Day Sixteen - 03/12/2015
Today
we uploaded the new footage and started the editing process. We also
decided to cut the original Film 4 indent that we wanted to include as
it was too long and didn't particularly fit with the theme. Instead, we
opted for the simple approach of text. This says "A FILM 4 PRODUCTION".
We were all impressed with our new footage.
Day Seventeen - 04/12/2015
Today
we continued editing our film opening and added small amounts of
titles, such as the actors names. However, we quickly realised that our
footage lasted less time than the required time (2 minutes) and knew
that we had to film a couple more shots in order to fit the expected
duration. We finished the editing the footage that we had in time to
submit it as our first draft. This draft is to be watched by all of the
media classes and their teachers to be given feedback on.
Day Eighteen and Nineteen - 07/12/2015 and 08/12/2015
Today
we watched each others first drafts and gave verbal feedback on them.
The feedback regarding our film opening - Commute - was as follows:
1. If dialogue was included then the opening would seem more realistic.
2. Tez's thuggish character gives the impression that he is stalking Alicia's character.
3. There is no indication that the characters are supposed to become romantically involved.
Teacher feedback said:
The variety of shots are good. Faces are unclear and therefore do not accurately reflect characters. Editing is mostly fluent, some missing shots. Use of natural lighting is good. Alicia should keep a neutral face - looks too jolly. Music becomes boring as it is used constantly.
Day Twenty - 10/12/2015
Today we filmed
a couple more scenes to add into our footage in order to increase the
duration of it. These scenes included - Alicia's character walking down
the high street (dialogue was included in order to establish her
character) and Tez's character walking down the street with headphones
in, then taking them out (this scene will be effective in the essence
that we can fade out the music - this is a reaction to our teacher
feedback).
Day Twenty-One - 14/12/2015
The group uploaded their additional shots that were filmed on the 10th December and integrated them into the other footage. The titles were added to the film opening. Alicia completed the Commute film poster using an image of a train and train platform whilst Chloe started to make a website for the film.