Production Monitoring Blog - 14/03/11

Progress
On Monday of last week, I started looking at mistakes that I had made in my storyboard and correcting them accordingly as well as reflecting what I had done the previous week.On Tuesday, while I was working on finding different parts of the song I am using on my soundtrack and writing down the timings on the song, there was a power cut and I lost all of the work that I was doing. To make up for this, I did the work that I had lost at home that night. On Wednesday, I had continued editing my storyboard so that it will be a good example of how my final product will turn out. The last lesson of the week, Thursday, I finished off the treatment that I had started the week before. Also, I thought of different ways I can make my idea work. Seeing as there was a power cut, everything did not go to plan. I had no real contingency in place for this unexpected occurrence

Targets
This week, I plan to finish all of my pre production work as well as getting a camera booked so that I can start editing. I will start this week by finishing off my script on Tuesday and if I finish that in time, which I predict I will,  I will get a list of characters that are needed for my production, and then I will list people that may be able to act in it and contact them and see if they are available for any time in the week and I will book my camera after I have done all of this. Wednesday, I will continue to edit my storyboard, giving me a good outline to what I need to achieve the day that I book my camera. Also, if I get my actors sorted and have all of them on board I will try and hold a meeting with them all on this day. On Thursday, my final lesson of the week, I will ultimately decide the costume that I want each of the actors to wear on the day.

Contingencies
Problems that I might encounter this week include that people I know may not be able to get enough actors for my production and I would have to ask people that I don't know to do important roles in the production which would raise a trust issue with people I don't know. I would get around this by re-scheduling my camera booking so that I can get actors that I know and trust to fill the role.

Production Monitoring Blog - 07/03/11

Progress
Last week, I started the pre production stage of my Unit 3 moving image social advert/documentary.I started with thinking up ideas of what I could do for my advert, thinking up as many possibilities as possible and listing them on a piece of scrap paper. I took the best three of these (two social adverts and one documentary) ideas and wrote about them in a document. This is a quote from one part of the document:

"The aim of my advert is to outline how plastic bags damage the Earth’s atmosphere and show how using canvas bags would be a better way to carry home the shopping. I want them to change how they take home their shopping by taking canvas bags to the shops with them."

The next day, I started thinking of my storyboard after choosing which of the three ideas I would use for the final production. In the same lesson, I started the treatment which was to be finished the next lesson. I couldn't do this as I wasn't in for that lesson, so I finished it in my own time.The final lesson of the week was for doing the location recce. This is a document that details various places that can be used in the production of my idea. Throughout the week I suffered one problem and that was that I missed the lesson where I was able to finish off the treatment. This meant I had to do it at home which was a bit inconvenient but it wasn't a major problem. 


Targets