Production diary

Week 1-2
We learnt that themes, characters, location, titles, production logos and establishing the genre were all the conventions of a opening scene. This helped me to come up with ideas for our own opening of a film.
Week 2-3
We learnt all the types of camera shots, what they can show and suggeest (extreme close up, close up, mid shot, mid long shot, long shot. extreme long shot). We also learnt how to analysis a still image using mise en scene and clamps.
Week 3-4
We learnt about genre signifiers and what things are used to show what the films genre is. You can normally tell what the genree is within the first 2-5 mins of the films. This helped me to know what must be included in my opening scene to make sure the audience know what the genre is.
Week 4-5
We was told what we had to do for the first part of the preliminary task. We had to pick a genre from a list and complie a 30secs-1 min opening with the use of the 180 degree rule and use a shot/reverse shot. The opening also had to include a character crossing the room and then he/she had to sit down opposite to another character.
Week 5-6
We had to finish and edit our opening scene from last week and then upload it to our blog so we could analysis it. We had to write what want well with it and what changes i  would make to it. We also had to have the script and the storboard uploaded with it.
Week 6-7
We were given the next task of recreating the opening scene of juno. First we had to write down every shot that was shown so we could then keep refering back to it. We were given a week to finish and edit the opening.
Week 7-8
We had to finish off anything like the juno task or any unfinished work and make sure its uploaded to our blog.
Week 8-9
over the holidays we were told to think and come up with some ideas for our actual film opeining. for example we had to think of what genre we wanted to do and what cosists or compiles in the genre we chose. This helped me get a head start on our task so i had a rough idea of what i am doing when i come back.
We also had to go back to our prelimary tasks and other task and improve on our editing.
Week 9-10
We have been told to think of idea for our Film Opening so we know what genre we are going to do.
We were told to create mood board so we could use it and get even more ideas for our opening. This helped us find idea for the lighting, props, setting, costumes and everything in mise en scene.
We were also given the task to analysis a few titles and write what effects they give and how they fit with the genre. This helped us to think of ideas for our own title and what is expected in a genre like ours.
Week 11-12
We needed some market research so we created a questionnaire to find out what the audience likes to see in films. we compiled the data in graphs so we can see the results clearly. we will apply the data to our own opening, for example we found that the audience wanted to see a male protagonist so we have decided that what we will use.
Week 13-14
We started to compile all of our ideas so we could start our storyboard. We have a basic idea of what we want in our opening. We are going to have a man taking a normal daily trip to the shops. The twist is that the when he views the world though his own eyes the world is different and strange, for example when he walks past someone and looks at them all he see is a coat and shoes.
Week 15-16
We finished our storyboard and decided that we wanted the mood and feeling of the opening stay the same throughout the video. We will have no dialogue in our opening because then when people watch it they we be learning about the character and his surroundings better and therefore be more amerced into the story.
We also had to come up with the titles that will appear in our opening so we found placed to put them and wrote them on the storyboard. Because we want people to be amerced we decided we would try and fix them to the video so they don't float around and distract the audience.
Week 17-18
We filmed most of the footage but we couldn't do it all because we wanted the lighting to be the same so the shots that are in the real world don't lose there realism. Where we had took to long to film clips the lighting had changed so we thought it would be best to film again the next week. We made a compilation of fonts and uploaded it to our blogs.
Week 19-20
We finished filming the rest of our opening and uploaded it to the computer so it is ready to film. We created animated logos for our producer and disruptor called "smokehouse" and "shard". After we found all the music and sound effects that we wanted. The music took a very long time as we needed to create a mood that inspired mystery, tension and suspense.
Week 21-22
We found out how to do all the special effects that we wanted to create in our opening from "videocopilot.net". we learnt things like how to stick images to a certain spot while the camera is moving and how to add a sort of  an overlay to the pov shots. This is also where were learnt how to animate logos.
After we found how to do it we started to apply what we just did and edit some of our clips.
Week 23-24
We kept editing our video. we are concerned about the length as we would like it to be around 2.5 mins and it already about 2.4 and its only about half done so after we are going to have to cuts loads out.
Week 25-26
We finished editing the opening with all the titles and special effects working properly but it is around 4.5 mins long so we uploaded the rough version to our blogs as a reference and then started to go through the video and take out footage.
Week 27-28
We finally got the video to around 2.5 mins and uploaded it to our blogs. The Next task now to write our evaluation which consisted of 7 questions.
Week 29-30
We got most of the evaluation questions done but was told we should have shown in different ways so we made question 1 into a power point.