Production Diary

Date	Production Meetings
Tuesday 5th  November	We Shared each of our individual film pitches with the group and chose the one we would like to develop. We decided that we would choose Bens because it was original, interesting and he had a lot of detail about the film on there. We changed some of the idea that the group didn't agree with and put it on a PowerPoint to pitch the film which is called ‘Fighting to Survive’
Wednesday 6th November	We continued to tweak the information in the PowerPoint and make sure it all made sense for when we was going to pitch it.
Thursday 7th November	We pitched our film idea to the class. We received feedback from pupils and the teachers, suggesting ideas to make it better and also stating the ideas they liked. We decided who was going to play each character and who was going to play each character and assigned the roles of Jack being the poor boy, Ben the rich boy and Elise would be Camera man.
Friday 8th November	MEDIA TRIP (at the BFI)
Monday 11th November	(Jack absent due to physics trip.) Elise made a start on the storyboard while Ben thought about what props we needed and uploaded our mood board to the blog.
Tuesday 12th November	We began to look at possible locations for when we was going to record and what clothing each of us would need.  Elise also continued storyboard.
Wednesday 13th November	We decided we would record in town as we knew there was a boxing club there and was also easy for all of us to get to. We finished up storyboard and props list.
Thursday 14th November	We focused on addressing the issues we found in the class pitch and editing our storyboard to suit these changes.
Friday 15th November	We decided we wasn’t going to do spilt screen of each of the characters instead we was going to use prop transitions to get from each character
Monday 18th November	We practised our prop transitions from character to character to make sure Jack was able to do it in the opening scene.
Tuesday 19th November	Jack was practising editing while Elise and Ben was adding to the props list and we had to re upload the mood board because there was a technical issue.
Wednesday 20th November	We took photos of our storyboard and put them on Jacks photos we then realised that we didn’t have any music.
Thursday 21st November	MEDIA TRIP (at the BFI)
Friday 22nd November	Elise and Ben started to look at choice of music while Jack recorded the voice over for the storyboard on audacity then saved the recordings then combined them with the pictures of the storyboard in adobe premier and exported the file so it was a video.
Monday 25th November	We decided that this weekend we would record our footage in town and the rest at Bens house tomorrow as we had to show how rich he was.
Tuesday 26th November	We went round to Bens house and recorded his scenes at his home.
Wednesday 27th November	Jack spent the day editing the clips while Ben looked at music and Elise looked at different fonts for our titles.
Thursday 28th November	Jack continued editing and made sure he had everything he needed for the weekend. Elise helped Ben with the final choice of music.
Friday 29th November-	Jack prepared the clips we recorded so we could just add them when the rest of the recording was finished.
Saturday 30th November	Recorded other shots.
Monday 2nd – 6th  December	Jack edited the opening scene with help from Ben and Elise.
Tuesday 10th December	Today we peer assessed everyone else’s work. We watched the 22 minute long video miss had put together of everyone’s rough cuts and gave feedback on sheets.
Wednesday 11th December	We uploaded the pros and cons of our rough cut and Jack fixed the editing issues while Elise and Ben took care of the others.
Thursday 12th December	Jack made the Production logo and added music to the opening scene along with custom made titles. Elise did the timeline which we forgot to do and Ben took photos of us working and they took one of him
Friday 13th December	Jack finished our Final cut of the opening scene to fighting to survive and uploaded it to YouTube then embedded it to his blog so Elise and Ben could do the same.
Monday 16th December	Ben rewrote the shooting schedule while Jack started working on posters and Elise helped.
Tuesday 17th December	Jack uploaded the videos then recorded interviews on what people thought about the fighting to survive opening scene and uploaded the montage of interviews onto YouTube and embedded into Jacks blog.
Wednesday 18th December	We uploaded things we forgot to mention for example budget, distributor and made sure that we didn’t miss anything.
Friday 20th December	Labelled all blog work and uploaded missing bit of work.