Production diary

17th November
Today we spent time deciding what roles we were going to undertake. We made sure that we each had different tasks to do so that the procedure of planning would be a lot faster and a lot smoother.

18th November
Today we started to perform our tasks. I started to post the blog meetings and write about what we were doing in pictures that were taken of us discussing the tasks ahead. Will started to do the synopsis planning and writing about the actors that we were going to use. Ben started to create a visual mood board that used inspirations from other clips that we liked and thought could be inspirational towards our clip.

24th November
 In this lesson Ben and I finalised the storyboard. We made sure that we had included all of the details that needed to be within the shot. We also made sure that all of the types of shots were given below the picture of the shot that was going to be taken. The next step was to video the storyboard and give background audio on it.

28th November

Today I started to edit all of the footage that we had collected. The first thing that I had to do was find and select all of the shots that I actually wanted to keep. Once I had decided on the shots that I was going to use within our opening scene. I then had to put all of the shots in the correct chronological order that the story line was going to flow in.

2nd December

I have applied all of my editing skills towards my opening scene which has caused me to compile all of the footage together. All of the clips have now been put in chronological order I am just in the process of finishing the listing of all the titles that will appear throughout the opening scene. After this I will have to find an appropriate song that will match in with the theme and genre of my film opening.

8th December

Uploaded my first draft of my film opening. It got played to my class and they gave me feedback to work on. I already had quite a lot of adaptation to do with my film opening anyway to make the genre more obvious. The feedback that I received also told me that I needed to make the titles and credits better.

9th December

I straight away started to carry on with editing on my film opening to help improve the recognition of the genre. I changed and improved the titles by putting them in the correct order and also adding effects so that they synced in well with the transitions from shot to shot.

Ben's Maketing Poster

Three posters will be designed before deciding the best poster that promotes our film. Ben's poster is good because it uses key icons to gives hints about the film and an idea of the character's life's  without starting the film. Although effective and simple the poster could be improved by changing the colour of the T in Contrast so that it is symmetric and to add the editor and the companies associated with the film to the bottom of the poster.

Poster Inspirations

For our posters we wanted to show the difference between two men and the different lives they lead. Because of this we looked at posters from other films that would be similar to ours. We got ideas from 'I love you, MAN' and 'Catch me if you can'. The reason we chose these was due to the fact that they are very basic but effective, They focus around two different men and have little writing but easily show what the film could be about.

The Contrast second draft

First Draft feedback

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Problems with the first draft

Problems

1) Getting enough shots in the pub

2) Editing issues, for example the title for director is the wrong colour and Deborah's title isn't bold and clear enough.

3) Conveying the idea that I'm happy and Paul the second character is sad.

What went well?

The shots of Paul in London went well with a significant chunk of footage taken in one session. 

Credits Inspiration

Premeire pro tips

This channel is very helpful with tips for credt ideas and particularly effects. After watching a few videos the best effects they have explained have been the shutter and the oppacity effects.

Storyboard