TASK LIST
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Comments/Notes DONE
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1) Initial pitch and presentation
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All of us DONE
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2)
Photograph/video evidence of group planning
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Drea DONE
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3) Moodboard
of initial ideas including inspirational shots from real films
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Beth DONE
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4) Synopsis
planning
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Richard DONE
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5) Evidence
of how planned opening fits with research into codes/conventions, genre,
audience
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All of us DONE
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6) Storyboard
(draw or post it notes) - film and upload with voiceover
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All of us DONE
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7) Titles
research
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All of us DONE
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8) Group
pitch - prezi or ppt
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All of us DONE
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9) Class feedback and peer assessment on pitch and
amendments planned
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Beth DONE
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10) Timeline of opening
- timings of footage, titles and
sound
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Drea DONE
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11) script
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Max DONE
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12) location and recce shots
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Drea DONE
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13) shot list
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Beth DONE
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14) storyboard
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Drea DONE
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15)
fonts for titles research
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Drea (need some from same genre) DONE
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16)
props research and list
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All of us DONE
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17)
shooting schedule
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All decide (Beth and Max to type
up) (official shooting schedule form) DONE
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18)
health and safety information (risk assessment forms)
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Beth DONE
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19)
music research ideas ( copyright free – unsigned or over 50 years old)
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Max/Richard DONE
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20)
Changes made along the way, reflective summaries on progress, for example if
you had to re-shoot, change edit, sound difficulties etc
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Richard (production diary to
upload) DONE
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BFI trip, what did you learn
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DONE
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Posters/marketing
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DONE
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Production Diary:
Lesson
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Progress
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Tuesday 5th November
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Shared our individual film pitches with the
group and chose the one we would like to develop. Beth’s film pitch was
chosen and Richard suggested ideas to develop it. The idea was born. The
entire group pitched in, and together we started to make a brand new
PowerPoint with our pitch for our film ‘Hacker.’
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Wednesday 6th November
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The PowerPoint continued to be developed by
all, we also assigned tasks to
individuals, for example Max and Richard were researching similar film
openings, Beth was researching locations and Drea was researching music. The
PowerPoint was finished in this lesson. All of the slides we individually
made were put together in one PowerPoint, this including genre, locations,
narrative etc.
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Thursday 7th November
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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 then began to look into
locations in more detail, choosing precisely which location we use. Drea
began to draft the story board, with all of us putting in suggestions and we made a change to the very first shot,
instead of Drea starting on the train, we would start in the station.
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Friday 8th November
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MEDIA TRIP
(at the BFI)
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Monday 11th November
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(Richard absent due to physics trip.) Drea
drew up the draft storyboard into a final version, with each shot on a4 paper
so we could annotate around it with frames, angles, movements and other
important notes. Max researched ‘spy jargon’ to help write our script. Beth
print screened pictures of Piccadilly Circus, including bird’s eye views, to
annotate on them.
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Tuesday 12th November
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Max
finished writing the script and researched films that inspire our film.
Richard researched type-writer fonts for our titles. Drea researched London
buses, practiced with the head cam and documented us working. Beth typed up
the shooting schedule. We all listened to Drea’s brother’s music which he has
played for our sequence.
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Wednesday 13th November
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Richard continued to research type-writer
fonts for our titles. Drea drew up more story boards as we made a change to our shot. We decided
that filming on the underground might be a bit tricky, so we chose to change
it to filming getting on and off a London bus. However, we are going to keep
the train story board shots and film both in London, then decide what looks
better when we get back to editing it. Beth researched bus routes we would
need to get on. Max started devising the props list.
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Thursday 14th November
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Drea and Beth annotated the story board.
Max wrote up the class feedback from our pitch and researched the order
titles appear. Richard made a PowerPoint slide on how the opening fits the
genre and conventions and also researched the order titles appear.
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Friday 15th November
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(Drea absent due to illness.) Max continued
and finished putting our titles in order. Richard took pictures of the
storyboard so we could put voiceovers on them. Beth got every piece of work
we have done for this (from everyone’s computer) so we could put it all
together on our blogs.
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Monday 18th November
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(Drea absent due to illness.) Today, Beth,
Max and Richard recorded the voiceovers on audacity to go over the storyboard
in a private classroom. We then came back into the media room to rename all
of our clips.
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Tuesday 19th November
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(Max absent due to illness.) Today, Drea,
Richard and Beth had to re-record all
of the voiceovers as the audacity files were really fuzzy, so there was a change. We went to a private
classroom and used a tripod and a camera, pinned the storyboard up on the
whiteboard and spoke over them shot by shot. This was much more successful.
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Wednesday 20th November
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In this lesson, Beth went through all of
the shots we took of the storyboard and copied the correct ones into her
area, then put them all together in Adobe Premiere and uploaded it to
YouTube. We then all put the storyboard video on our blogs, and spent some
time updating our blogs with everything we needed to film it successfully. We
decided we would film this Sunday (Sunday the 24th of November.)
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Thursday 21st November
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MEDIA TRIP
(at the BFI)
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Friday 22nd November
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This lesson, we all practiced filming down
a corridor in school. For this, Beth filmed and Drea, Richard and Max acted.
We practiced walking, zooming and a chase. We then came back into class and
uploaded the footage, and practiced editing it in Adobe Premiere.
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Sunday 24th November
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We all filmed in London.
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Monday 25th November
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This lesson, Drea began creating the titles
to go over the footage we had got. Beth uploaded all the footage from the
camera onto the computer and we signed back in our camera and tripod. We then
all sat round the computer and watched the footage, choosing which shots were
the best and organising the good from the bad into folders.
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Tuesday 26th November
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Drea continued making titles to go over the
footage and Max, Beth and Richard edited separately different parts of the
sequence.
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Wednesday 27th November
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Drea continued making titles to go over the
footage and Max, Beth and Richard edited separately different parts of the
sequence. We began downloading the music to go into the sequence and
researched some music to go along with the first part of the sequence, so we made a slight change to the music plan.
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Thursday 28th November
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(Beth absent due to trip.) Drea continued
making titles to go over the footage and Max and Richard found sound effects
to go into the sequence and made final editing touches.
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Friday 29th November-Thursday 5th
December
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During the course of this week, we have
mainly all been editing. We have also found the music we would definitely be
using, so we made a change to the
music plan again. Also, we did a photo-shoot to make film posters to promote
our film. On Tuesday, we recorded the voice-overs to put over the sound on
our film.
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Friday 6th December
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Today, we showed our final first draft to
the teacher and some peers to get feedback. From this we learnt that we might
need to slow the second half of the music down, put our institution logo in
and perhaps edit the colouring of the sequence to make it a bit more greeny
or yellow. However, we got really positive feedback; a lot of people liked
the music and were impressed with the sequence in general.
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Monday 9th December
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(Drea absent due to illness.) Today, Beth,
Max and Richard filmed the character profiles of Max and Richard in the style
of a chat show. Beth was the host and questioned Max and Richard on their
characters. We then edited it by adding sound, and uploaded it to the blog.
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Tuesday 10th December
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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.
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Wednesday 11th December
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Today, Beth and Drea filmed the character
profile of Drea in the style of a chat show. Beth was the host and questioned
Drea on her character. We then edited it by adding sound, and uploaded it to
the blog. We also uploaded pictures to the blog of evidence of us all
working. Richard answered the audience questions in the style of a PowerPoint
and Max re-wrote the shooting schedule in the style we needed it to be.
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Thursday 12th December
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Today, Beth made a change to the titles regarding the feedback we got from
the class and teachers; we changed the font to look more computer-like and
the colour to white. Max made a change
to the institution logo and thought of a brand new one. Drea started
making the film poster on Adobe, looking at the drafts for ideas and help,
and Richard answered the audience questions.
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Friday 13th December
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Today, Beth and Max edited the music so it
built up in the right place. Drea finished the film poster and Richard
finished the audience questions. When he had finished, Richard helped Beth
and Max with the music also. We then
exported our final version of our
AS Media opening sequence and uploaded it to YouTube and put it on our own
blogs.
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Monday 16th December
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Today, we all uploaded the film poster,
re-written shooting schedule and updated production diary to our own blogs.
We then spent some time thinking of some questions we could ask
peers/teachers who watch our final version when we interview them for
feedback.
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Tuesday 17th December
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(Max and Richard absent due to helping
other groups.) Today, Beth made a bloopers video and edited some feedback
interviews. Drea made the title timing plan and uploaded it the blog.
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Wednesday 18th December
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Today we all edited the interview feedback
we got into one montage video of them all.
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Thursday 19th December
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Today we continued editing the interview
feedback we got into one montage video of them all and finished it and
uploaded to the blog.
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