Production Diary

Day number 1. 9/12/17
On day number one we had to think about the group we were going to be in. We also had to start by writing our individual pitch ideas.

Day number 2. 10/12/17
The second day of our meeting we each presented our presentations to the group in order to voice our initial ideas making it easier for us to expand our ideas.

Day number 3. 12/12/17
Today we have drawn a group mind map of all our ideas. We made our ideas anonymous to avoid having problems deciding which idea to go for.

Day number 4. 13/12/17
On day number three of planning we showed our plan to a random sample and got feedback. We discussed straight away the feedback and responses that we got in order to better our ideas and tweak them.

Day number 7. 20/12/17
Today we have continued to do our individual contributions to the film research process. I was finding titles from similar films to imitate and Aisha was doing a shot list.

Day number 8. 23/12/17
In todays lesson we had decided that we wanted to change the storyboard completely, this was when we were trying to sort out a shooting schedule and we realised that it wouldn't work. So we scrapped all our ideas and started from beginning. We re-showed each other the individual film pitches which is when we decided that a more simplistic but yet moving would be the best idea. We then did a mind map/plan of everything that we thought we would need in order to pull it off.

Day number 9. 24/12/17
Today we went over some of the authentic footage . We also planned to get Spencer's dad's van which by using hard-to-get props made the opening look professional. As a group we came together and decided to plan out a storyboard, once that was done in rough we did a real storyboard which we then filmed. We were also getting on with our individually allocated jobs as well. We also had planned costumes and props that we would need.

Day number 10. 26/11/15
In today's lesson we all worked together to complete a risk assessment. Megan and I did the shooting schedule whilst Max and Spencer began the shot list. After that, Max wrote a script and we all went over to the location in order to plan our shots.

Day number 11. 27/11/15
We started shooting today, beforehand we went door-to-door to warn the neighbours that we would be filming a heist and as the costume and props we were using looked very realistic, we did this to ensure that no one felt wrongly unsafe.

Day number 12. 30/11/15
Today, we continued to film any extracts that we had missed out, and we all agreed to overfilm in order to minimise any shortage of shots.

Day number 13. 31/11/15
Today, we looked through all of our shots and footage that we had and we agreed that we had enough, so we started the editing.

Day number 14. 1/12/15
In todays lesson we continued the editing process and also got together as a team in order to see what was outstanding that we needed to complete. Once we had allocated everyone tasks we all got on with it helping eachother.

Day number 15. 3/12/15
In today's lesson, Megan began creating our film poster with the help of Spencer and I doing research into similar genre'd film posters whilst Max was editing.

Day number 16. 4/12/15
We realised that we needed location shots, so Max went back to the location and got photos of all our locations whilst I edited the film poster that Megan had put together. We spoke to a Media student from a past year in order to help us with the titles of our opening. In our spare time we each decided to continue with the editing, film poster and any outstanding pieces of work that we had.

Day number 17. 7/12/15
Today we reviewed everyones first drafts in order to give them efficient feedback in which they could use as guidance to make their pieces better. Due to the whole lesson being psent on looking at everyones drafts, we were unable to do any more improvisation to our film opening.

Day number 18. 8/12/15
Today we continued reviewing our peers' film drafts.

Day number 19. 9/12/15
In todays meeting we received our teachers feedback and we got to improve our first draft based on that feedback. We now knew what we needed to change and improvise in order to make our opening good enough for a final piece so again, we allocated jobs to eachother and individually got on with them. We also later on in the day received our peers' feedback and got to work on improving our first draft film opening so it was successful enough for a final piece.

Day number 20. 21/12/15 After all the work had been completed and the video had been uploaded onto our blogs, we then decided as a group to have a blog day. We wanted to ensure that everything was there that was needed and to ensure that everything was in the correct order. Therefore, we all sat round as a group, and went through the correct order and dates of the work that needed to have been done, and then updated and changed certain pieces of work that wasn't the same or as finished as another member of the groups.

Day number 35. 4/1/16
Over Christmas, we carried on ensuring that our blog work was detailed and finished, we then began our evaluation questions. As a group, we decided what piece of work fitted who, due to their particular preferences. For example, I said that I wanted to do the question on representation and audience, because I previously completed work to a high standard, with these topics being the main criteria. We found this helpful because it looked at each individual persons strengths and weaknesses, we then set each other a dead line to ensure that everything was done on time, allowing us to individually tweak an other person in our groups work, to fit our own preferences.

Day number 39. 8/1/16
After spending a few days on the evaluation questions, we then decided to all come round as a group and show each other what we had so far. This allowed us to check that every body was on the right track and to give feedback to where was appropriate.

Day number 42. 11/1/16
This was the deadline that we had set each other to send each other their particular evaluation questions. We then all adapted each question to how we liked, so that we all had a particular say in the evaluation question, rather than just using someone else's work.

Day number 44/ 13/1/16
After all of the evaluation questions were now on the blogs, we then individually went through our blogs, ensuring that everything was to a high standard. We then ensured that all of the work and questions made sense and included the correct and appropriate title. We then made sure that all of the labels were correct and fitted the correct pieces of work.