(All these notes are diary entries that have been expanded into paragraphs)
04.11.12
I'm starting to fall behind slightly due to the amount of work that has to be done. I'm trying my hardest to get it all back on track. I spend my free Tuesday afternoon 11:30am until 4:00pm doing the majority of the written work and filling in my blog.
I'm going to spend the next few days completing the last few shots of my story board and scanning it into the scanner to start creating my animatic.
After this is all done I will then start my filming to hopefully get it done by the deadline, I am determined to meet it! I will be able to get this done if I spend a full night after college completing it. By the end of this week I aim to have finished my animatic.
14.11.12
04.11.12
I'm starting to fall behind slightly due to the amount of work that has to be done. I'm trying my hardest to get it all back on track. I spend my free Tuesday afternoon 11:30am until 4:00pm doing the majority of the written work and filling in my blog.
I'm going to spend the next few days completing the last few shots of my story board and scanning it into the scanner to start creating my animatic.
After this is all done I will then start my filming to hopefully get it done by the deadline, I am determined to meet it! I will be able to get this done if I spend a full night after college completing it. By the end of this week I aim to have finished my animatic.
05.11.12
In today’s free periods I
finished the writing for my story board, this was highly time consuming. I
chose to write out was happening in each shot before I drew what was taking
place, this was because I knew that I would keep changing my mind on what I would
want to happen in my film trailer.
06.11.12
Today I started to draw the image
shots onto my storyboard, I got the first 7 shots drawn out.
07.1.12
I carried on with my storyboard
in the library throughout my free periods, it is coming along very well.
08.11.12
Because I don’t have time to do much
college work over the weekend due to working Saturday and Sunday, I try to get
the majority of it done throughout the week and in lesson time. In today’s
lesson I started collecting logos and pictures for my audience profile.
09.11.12
In today's media lesson, I
researched lots of different movie sounds. I have copied and pasted some sounds
and links onto a word document for John Hamlin to produce for me.
12.11.12
In today's lesson I finished my
audience profile, by Thursday (14.11.12)
I am going to have uploaded my storyboard and done my animatic. I also took some images of my location, these pictures will be put onto my blog on the 15.11.12. Today I finished drawing my storyboard.
13.11.12
Today I was on a trip in the city centre, so
when I got home I started some college work. I completed my storyboard so I am
now ready to upload it onto my blog to begin my animatic. I also finished the
last part of my casting list and character information as well as costume,
props and makeup/hair. On Thursday I will have done my first set of filming.
14.11.12
I have uploaded my storyboard and
starting and hopefully finishing my animatic by the end of the day.
15.11.12
I was planning on starting my filming
tonight, so I went to see if I could borrow a camera recorder, unfortunately there
weren’t any available. I had a chat with ray and he said that there will be
some in on Monday, as that’s when the people who have borrowed them over the
weekend have to return them.
Due to this drawback, I have decided to carry
on with my animatic and other tasks that need completing, until I can get a
camera.
16.11.12
In today’s media lesson I uploaded some
audience feedback on the Sinister trailer. I did some written work below
the video to explain what I was doing. I also started to cut out the screen
shots to start my animatic.
19.11.12
Today’s media lesson consisted of
cutting out the shots to use for my animatic.
22.11.12
Today I’m filming my film
trailer, I will be collecting a camera from Ray second period. After college we
will go straight to Vicky’s house to start filming. Unfortunately Liv has a
work meeting at 5 so she is unable to do the first set of filming, however, she
is only in a few shots so this shouldn’t make a huge difference. Hopefully I
will be able to use a free hour or so next week to film her shots.
New diary
07.12.12 - Was our first evening of filming. It had to be rushed due to one member of the cast planning to do something else the same night as we were supposed to be filming. This did not go down well as we got not even an hour to organise and film. The shots that I did get on camera weren't good enough to use because they had been rushed.14.12.12 - Tonight was our second filming session it lasted about two hours. However one member of the cast couldn't make it because they had been called in to work to do a shift which was 5 - 7, this just happened to be the times we were filming. I tried to get as much done as I could with the other actors, some scenes had to be cut short due to the absence.
21.12.12 - Today I held a meeting at the location with all the cast members and we had a discussion about absences and reviewed the shots that had been filmed. We all agreed that the shots could've been better if all cast members had turned up or kept the nights free which we meant to be used to film.
Christmas holiday (2 weeks) - Over the last two weeks I have thought a great deal about how important my coursework is. Unfortunately after getting in touch with cast members, it seems to be that most of them are too busy to film over Christmas. I refuse to fail my course so I am scrapping the full idea and starting fresh. I am aware that this is a very risky thing to do at so late in the course but I just can't work with the current cast if they aren't going to help me with my work. The volunteered and wanted to be in my video, but if they aren't going to stick to that promise then I'll have to take action and use other people. I've had a good think over this week and asked Luke Bolton if he wanted to be in my new film trailer. He said he'd love to so we got straight to work. I thought of a whole new story and a new idea. This took a while as I has spent so long thinking of the first idea. I just know that this change will be worth it in the end.
11.01.13 - Today was mine and Luke's first get together for filming. What we did was we had a look around Cottingham to find places of where we could film. It took us a while but we ended up choosing a location which was only a five minute walk from Luke's house. We found a little track at the end of NorthMoore Lane. I took a few pictures of the location.
18.01.13 -This evening I raided through Luke's wardrobe and picked out an outfit for him to wear in the trailer. As I was looking I remembered that he had the mask from the film V for Vendetta and thought it would look great in my film trailer. After he had his outfit on, I got him to stand against a dark door as I took some images to use for my advertising poster. After we'd done this we picked out which images we thought were the best and which would look good on the front of a poster. There were several images that we couldn't chose between, so when I go to college on Monday I will put them onto Photoshop CS5 so the are enlarged and see which ones I should use.
21.01.13 - Today I uploaded the images that were taken on Friday night onto the college computer. I found that some of the images weren't going to look right on the poster because Luke was either tilting his head or not ready for the photo. I took a while to decide what photo to use but in the end I'd decided on the right one.
01.02.13 - Tonight me and Luke did our first set of filming. However we had to stop because it started raining hard and I didn't want the college camera to get damaged. Instead I did some blog work to make up for the lost filming time.
15.02.13 - Some more filming was done tonight. It kept on raining so we had to keep getting the umbrella out to cover the camera. It didn't help that it was also windy. We got some filming done in the end but not as much as we hoped.
01.03.13 -Today I started to edit the shots. As I have never used an edit suite before it was very stressful trying to figure out what each button did. What else was also annoying was that there are only 6/7 edit suites so there is about 7 students assigned to each edit suite. This means that we can only be fair to one another and share the time allocated. This means you don't get much time to edit. I rushed a little so that I could get as much basic work done as possible.
06.03.13 - Today I had to rush to the edit suite so that I could get some extra time on the edit suite. I feel like I don't have a big enough range of shots to use in my trailer. Although I'm just going to have to deal with it and carry on with editing, it might end up that I do have enough shots to use.
12.01.13 - In today's lesson I started to make my website for my film. Our media teachers told us to use a website maker called Wix.com.
15.03.13 - In today's lesson I carried on producing my website and also started my advertising poster. I'm using Photoshop CS5 to create my poster. As we used this in our first year, I can remember how to use each tool.
21.03.13 - As I have 3 free periods today, I did a bit of everything. I did some more on my website, nearly completed my poster and did some editing.
29.03.13 - In today's free period I did some blog work, as I had a few things that I needed to catch up on e.g. cast list, location list and prop list
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