Production Diary

What we've done today: We have written a synopsis for our horror film, which will now allow us to plan for our horror trailer. We split up our plot up into Todorov's Narrative Theory and also discussed what character types, from Propp's Theory, which we will include in the film. We have researched potential locations for the shoot and discussed props, costume, and special effects for specific shots. What was agreed: We MUST acquire permission for any of our shooting locations. What we will do next lesson: Write and document character profiles, the 5 key plot points of our narrative, and email the owners of our desired shooting locations. What we've done today: We have made a power point on the setting and characters in our narrative, which will allow as to chose a cast. We have also researched names to fit the 1980's era which our film is set in. What was a agreed: We have agreed on the names of Ray, Chris, Megan, Glen and Patrick found on on '80's name generator' website. What will we do next lesson: Next lesson we will finish out synopsis and key scene blog post and hopefully get onto the shot list. What we've done today: Finished the 'research impact on production' post and the character profiles on the 'original idea' post. We also scanned in our first draft of our shot list along with the side notes. What was agreed: We have final character names and information on their role in the narrative of our film. What we will do next lesson: We will get everything uploaded on our blogs, and we'll begin to make progress on our audience research questionnaire. What we’ve done today: Today, we have learnt how to correctly create a story board and practiced the new techniques learnt such as how to show pans, tilts and zooms in the story board. We have also carried on with creating an audience research questionnaire and carried on with our trailer analysis. What was agreed: We have agreed on all the audience research questions for the questionnaire and posted them on survey monkey. What we will do next lesson: By next lesson we have our questionnaire responses which will be analysed and turned into pie/bar charts. 02/12/2016 What we've done today: Today we reviewed and analysed our Questionnaire results for our horror film idea. We made graphs and talked through the results of each question. We have also continued to work on our trailer analyses and finally got round to posting our shot list. What we agreed: We agreed that we should allow more time to gain more responses for our questionnaire next time around. We also agreed that every member of the group should be working on something throughout the entirety of the lesson. What we will do next lesson: Next lesson we will continue to work on our designated tasks and ensure that all our shared work is on each group members blog. 06/12/2016 What we've done today: We learnt about and began filling in release forms. We put in a call to the Thorpe St Andrew borough council to get in touch with the owner of the land. We continued with the trailer analysis and looked at trailers for inspiration for our opening shots. We also discussed potential music for the trailer What we agreed: Opening shots for the trailer, sound effects. What we will do next lesson: Continue the work on the storyboard, discussing more ideas for shots.
What we've done today: We have fully established synopsis ready to write up and blog. We have also made a start on the risk assessments and continued the communicate with the owners of a filming location. We also uploaded the initial ideas which were hand written and scanned into the computer.
What was agreed: We agreed a final synopsis of the film and found the exact location for shooting.
What will we do next lesson: We will finalize the shooting location with the owners and continue to complete risk assessments.

What we've done today: today we have completed our full synopsis allowing us to now move swiftly on our storyboard. We have also been working on uncompleted trailer analyses

What did we agree: we agreed to focus our combined efforts on both the story board and shot list

what will we do next lesson: we hope to get a considerable amount of the storyboard and shot list complete ready for production after the Christmas holidays.