Production diary
Pre-Production-
Our Pre-production ran from the 5th to the 12th of February. This week consisted of getting location recce's and releases. Most of the week however was spent doing the storyboards. We had to divide the ten minute short by 3 so that we each had our own segment to direct. i chose the first segment which was mainly centered around our college. It was quite challenging to do the storyboards for our segments because we had never done storyboards for a project this size before. i had to get permission to be able to use the college for filming. we also had to assign the different acting roles for each other. I had to be the main protagonist "James", Mark chose to be "Michael" while Duncan chose to be "Dan". we also had this week to get to together and order any props we might need for our production. the only prop we had to order was an inflatable hammer.
Our Pre-production ran from the 5th to the 12th of February. This week consisted of getting location recce's and releases. Most of the week however was spent doing the storyboards. We had to divide the ten minute short by 3 so that we each had our own segment to direct. i chose the first segment which was mainly centered around our college. It was quite challenging to do the storyboards for our segments because we had never done storyboards for a project this size before. i had to get permission to be able to use the college for filming. we also had to assign the different acting roles for each other. I had to be the main protagonist "James", Mark chose to be "Michael" while Duncan chose to be "Dan". we also had this week to get to together and order any props we might need for our production. the only prop we had to order was an inflatable hammer.
Production-
For our production we started filming on the 12th of February as we managed to get all of our pre production paper work done before the half term. We decided that it was probably more efficient if we did the scenes in and around college rather than the scenes outside of the college. We spent quite a long time on the first scene as we were reasonably unfamiliar with the equipment and also we were not used to the techniques of a single camera production. we did come across a few problems such as the camera batteries running out at times and weather problems. A big problem we faced was the original place we planned to film the exam scene was booked out for the whole week. We had to find another place quickly so we had to end up filming the whole exam scene in our regular classroom which made problems arise because of availability and another production team wanted to use the classroom location for one of their scenes.
For our production we started filming on the 12th of February as we managed to get all of our pre production paper work done before the half term. We decided that it was probably more efficient if we did the scenes in and around college rather than the scenes outside of the college. We spent quite a long time on the first scene as we were reasonably unfamiliar with the equipment and also we were not used to the techniques of a single camera production. we did come across a few problems such as the camera batteries running out at times and weather problems. A big problem we faced was the original place we planned to film the exam scene was booked out for the whole week. We had to find another place quickly so we had to end up filming the whole exam scene in our regular classroom which made problems arise because of availability and another production team wanted to use the classroom location for one of their scenes.
Post Production-
Our post production was, at times, tricky. We were missing a few shots because we didn't completely stick to the rules of single camera production because of time constraints. However quite a lot of it went smoothly, We saved most of the editing till the end of the production. this created problems of its own because we had little time to re-shoot certain shots. some of which were out of focus. We also saved it until quite late to come up with a proper title for it, we came up with several terrible titles like "An Unhappy ending". However with help from our peers we came up with "Badvice". we also had to find a soundtrack for our short. I opted for something rather "funky" and "seventies". My colleagues agreed so we had that soundtrack running throughout the short. In the end our short just ran over six minutes witch is appropriate for how long the script was. Our ten minute short is below, i am happy with the final result, however it was harder than I thought it would be.
Our post production was, at times, tricky. We were missing a few shots because we didn't completely stick to the rules of single camera production because of time constraints. However quite a lot of it went smoothly, We saved most of the editing till the end of the production. this created problems of its own because we had little time to re-shoot certain shots. some of which were out of focus. We also saved it until quite late to come up with a proper title for it, we came up with several terrible titles like "An Unhappy ending". However with help from our peers we came up with "Badvice". we also had to find a soundtrack for our short. I opted for something rather "funky" and "seventies". My colleagues agreed so we had that soundtrack running throughout the short. In the end our short just ran over six minutes witch is appropriate for how long the script was. Our ten minute short is below, i am happy with the final result, however it was harder than I thought it would be.
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