our log
THIS PAGE WILL INCLUDE ALL OUR GROUP MEETINGS WHERE WE Will Discuss WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE AND WHO'S DOING IT; MAKING SURE THAT EACH OF US MEET OUR INDIVIDUAL DEADLINES. we will keep a record of what was said or done each time during the group meetings.
thursday 11th september 2014
Today, we were placed into our groups but Tony was absent because he hadn't been transferred to our class yet. we also:
- exchanged numbers and email addresses to keep in touch and exchange ideas outside of the classroom
- we made a 'scratch studios' whatsapp group to make communication easier.
- we all put forward some ideas on what the group can be called and we came up with 'scratch studios' as we thought the alliteration was quite clever and would be memorable.
- we also thought about what the logo should look like; it obviously had to link with our production team name so we decided to have a hand/claw scratching against the background and then have our team name underneath it. we also agreed that the colour scheme for the logo would be black/grey and red.
- we brainstormed all the skills that all of us have to offer to the group such as Photoshop skills and creativity so that we have them ready to put up on the weebly site.
- we compared our timetables so that we could choose a time and day where we our all free to meet up for the group discussions outside the classroom; we decided that it was Wednesday afternoons for us.
- a 'group bonding' session was arranged for us to go and see the action thriller film 'Lucy' so that we could get some inspiration from it and see how we could make our story line more interesting.
monday 15TH september 2014
today, we started off our session with sharing our four original concepts with each other as we had to decide on which two concepts we wanted to pitch to the rest of the class. we decided to choose Philip and Sophie's concepts.
- all team members were present
- we took our group photos outside by the reception that will be uploaded to our weebly website. individual photos were also taken to go up on the 'crew log' section of the website.
- majority of the textual analysis and summer work was uploaded onto the website by brandi and tony worked on the group logo while Philip and Sophie uploaded the photos onto the website and work on the two main concepts.
- role allocation was mentioned and we agreed to allocate roles officially in the following lesson as we were running out of time even though some of the roles had already been decided and confirmed.
- towards the end of the lesson, we gave ourselves some homework to do such as finish the logo and update the crew log. powerpoint presentations also needed to be made for the two main concepts so that it's ready to be presented to the class the next day.
Tuesday 16th September 2014
today was the day we were going to pitch our two chosen concepts to the rest of the class.
- we decided which two concepts we were going to pitch to the class and as group, we decided to go with 'the bite down' and 'I hear you' as we thought that they were the two best concepts in the group.
- after presenting the two pitches, the rest of the class voted for the pitch they preferred. 'i hear you' won with 9 votes out of 14.
- after receiving both positive and negative feedback from the other groups, we decided to develop 'i hear you' even further as we thought it needed quite a bit of work in order for the film to be even more intriguing and allow the audience to be able to relate.
- We consulted each other about the finalization of the Production company logo - colour scheme, 'scratchy' font
- all team members were present
thursday 18th september 2014
today, we started our poster for the final treatment for our film 'i hear you'
- as a group we brainstormed new ideas that we could use to improve our synopsis and appeal to our target audience (15 certificate)
- we also took both our positive and negative feedback into consideration and we used them to further improve our synopsis
- all team members were present
Friday 19th September 2014
we had an emergency meeting at lunch time to finalize the information we would put on our treatment as we decided to adjust our concept to make it more interesting.
- The final concept/synopsis
- main characters in the narrative
- tag Line
- Movie title: "I hear you"
- Sub-genre: Splatter
- Target Audience: 16-25 year olds
- we also made sure that everything on our website was up to date and uploaded all our summer research and textual analysis; making sure they were complete.
- our logo was finally complete and edited onto our crew profile pictures.
- all team members were present
monday 22nd september 2014
as a group, we made some minor changes to the treatment...
- we added more engaging pictures for the character profiles to make them more engaging and look relatable
- we noticed that the character descriptions were slightly different on the synopsis so that needed to be changed
- we printed off our logo and some of the weapons that we will be using in the trailer on the poster
- we included three of our film inspirations which are 'i spit on your grave', 'hostel' and 'sorority row'.
- all team members were present
tuesday 23rd september 2014
today, as a class, we were introduced to the pre-production section which includes the audience research, mood boards, storyboard + animatic and the drafting. after this, roles were allocated within our group as we decided who was going to do what:
- Audience Research - Brandi
- Storyboard & Animatic - Sophie
- Moodboards - Tony
- Drafting - Philip
- for brandi to carry out the audience research, she had to prepare 10 questions for the synopsis, poster, trailer & magazine (a total of 40 questions); hoping to ask as many people as possible
- Sophie decided to do the storyboard & animatic and she chose to use the trailer for 'i spit on your grave' for the sound.
- Tony decided to do the mood boards for the character profiles and we thought this was best because he was the best with Photoshop in the group.
- Philip decided to do the drafting because he is good at drawing and using Photoshop so we also thought that was a good decision.
- we took a note of when we can book a mac to work on our trailer and our allocated mac 'leather-face'
- all team members were present
tuesday 30th september 2014
today, as a group, we got feedback from our teacher on the 'development stage' section:
- we were told both the positive and negative elements of our coursework so far. we decided that we needed to work a bit harder in order to meet deadlines and work to the best of our ability
- we were given tips on how to improve sections such as the textual analyses by including screen grabs to supports the breakdown of the mise-en-scene shown in the trailers and creating convention diagrams for the magazines and posters.
- unfortunately, our treatment had not been completed to the best of our ability so we set ourselves a target to get that done as soon as possible as it was the one thing holding us back.
- as part of our feedback, it was suggested to us to keep our logo clean and sleek in design so we needed to remove the scratch effect from the text on our logo; a minor adjustment
- we decided that after meeting the current deadline tony will create conventions diagram for the rest of the groups magazines and also screen grabs of different parts of the trailer we were analysing.
- all team members were present
THURSDAY 2ND OCTOBER 2014
- we decided to create a youtube channel where we will be uploading our final horror trailer along with all the rest of our videos for sections like audience research, camera log and costume and make up for tutorials.
- our youtube channel is www.youtube.com/ctkscratchstudios
- we shared the username and password on our whatsapp group so that all members would have access to the channel and upload videos at any time.
- we set up the channel to make it look presentable and then put the link on our weebly website for others to see.
- afterwards, we began editing the videos that we did for our audience research which included video interviews and video evaluations/reflections which we used to discuss properly how we though the audience research went over all.
- ALL TEAM MEMBERS WERE PRESENT
MONDAY 6TH OCTOBER 2014
today, we received feedback from our teacher on the pre-production stage:
- the pre-production stage included audience research, mood boards, storyboard/animatic and drafting
- we got feedback in terms of how to improve all the different sections especially as some were incomplete so we discussed what we needed to do with each other and set ourselves a deadline for it
- also, we failed to meet the deadline of the pre-production stage so talked about different ways we could manage our time wisely so that they we get everything done next time
- APART FROM TONY ALL TEAM MEMBERS WERE PRESENT
tuesday 14th october 2014
today, WE STARTED THE PRODUCTION STAGE AND A GROUP, WE ALLOCATED ALL THE ROLES TO EACH OTHER
- shooting SCRIPT & location rECCE - Sophie
- sound - Tony
- costume & make up - Brandi
- Camera - Philip
- afterwards, we came up with the 5 locations where we were going to shoot our trailer in a few weeks time. the locations were the main hall & cafe, sports hall, gates & entrance, textiles area and the woods.
- we then counted up all our shots on our story board and did a tally of how many shots were going to be in each location
- Philip went off with our teacher to learn some camera techniques and practice filming at certain shots and angles
- the deadline for the production stage is the 8th of Novemeber 2014
- all team members were present
tuesday 21st october 2014
today, as a group, we went around the college to establish our different locations for our trailer:
- as a group, we did our location recce where we visited all our different locations in the college and took pictures of them in different shots and angles and discussed the practicality of each location
- for some of the locations such as the design & technology room and the gym, we had to ask for permission in advance to use these locations in order to prevent any complications on the day of filming our trailer
- as we did our location Reece, Philip did a camera log at each location we visited; practicing how to film at different shots and angles using the steady cam.
- afterwards, we had a meeting and we were told that we were paired up with psycho pictures on the day that we film our trailer. we then allocated possible roles to each of the other team members who will be in our trailer.
- we also discussed what costume and make-up each character would have in the trailer then we wrote up a list of all the make-up, costume and props that we will need for the trailer such a fake blood and modelling wax and purchased them.
- all team members were present
wednesday 29th october 2014
this was the day we filmed our trailer in college:
- we all arrived at college at around 8:30am with the other group and filmed till around 1:30pm
- all MEMBERS WERE PRESENT FROM BOTH SCRATCH STUDIOS AND PSYCHO PICTURES.
- However, WE incurred an issue as OUR MAIN ACTRESS WE chose TO BE OUR SCARLETT contacted us, saying that she was unable to make the shoot approximately and hour and a half before filming.
- this affected our GROUP AS SHE WAS THE MAIN CHARACTER AND MAJORITY OF THE SHOTS REVOLVED AROUND her character. because of this we were unable to film majority of the shots which were in THE SPORTS HALL so WE HAD TO RESULT TO USING AN INDIVIDUAL FROM PSYCHO PICTURES INSTEAD TO BE OUR SCARLETT.
- the little footage that we obtained turned out to be quiet descent as we took several shots of each scene even though it was extremely time consuming.
- one of the woods scenes where scarlett's dead body is being was harder than we thought due to terrible weather conditions making the locations quite unsafe as it was slippery.
- as we now know how hard it is to film and how much time and planning needs to be taken into consideration, we will now have to plan further how we will film properly and quickly whilst obtaining good, effective footage.
- all team members were present.
thursday 6th november 2014
- we reflected on the shooting day in our Media class - what went well and what needs to be done or any improvements needed to be made. We discussed how we need to retake more shots that did not come out well.
- We were frustrated about the weather on the shooting day because the rain was affecting our footage and also can spoilt the camera if not protected.
- We took longer time on some shots due to corporation of actors and also the difficulty of the shots.
- we were not able to do all 47 shots due to time so we are planning to shoot again another time
- ON the other hand what went well was we got some good footage for example of the Design and technology equipment on the table and scenes of torture within that facility.
- we had someone from the psycho pictures taking pictures and videos of behind the scenes of the recording of the trailer.
- We were able to utilise the make up and do fake scars with blood.
- all members were present.
monday 10th November 2014
we used today to update our log and think about how and when we are going to start filming again:
- whilst our log was up to date, we made sure that they were also supported with visuals to make them look intriguing
- we discussed each of the characters what we had a decided to make two replacements. we replaced our scarlett with Kiera (a media student) and Leo with Lewis (a non-media student)
- we took a mugshot of lewis and contacted him and kiera to see whenever they are available so that we know when we can use them if we were to start filming again
- we also worked on the presentation of website in general to make it have more of a horror theme to it and look good. we added gifs from famous horror film such as nightmare on elm street and orphan to make our visuals more exciting.
- tony stayed in the mac room to work on the sound for our trailer which seemed to be going very well.
- all team members were present
This is what's been made so far...
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tuesday 11th november 2014
today, we received feedback from our teacher for the production stage:
- everyone in the group got an A grade for their section with hardly any improvements to make
- after we make the minor changes, we looked back on our work for the development and pre-production stage to find any improvements that needed to be made.
- we found that sections such as the drafting in the pre-production stage needed a bit of work so discussed how we were going to do bring it up to a higher standard
- we got a new deadline for the planning research which is friday the 21st November so have just over a week to make both minor and major improvements if there are any
- we identified what needed to be done and allocated roles for each task as we got 4 new tasks to do aswell:
- Post-filming vlog - all of us
- poster & magazine stages - tony & philip
- poster and magazine photo shoot - tony & philip
- behind the scenes - brandi & sophie
- we also looked at our characters for our trailer who aren't in our class or the group that we were paired with (psycho pictures). we got Lewis's timetable and looked at his availability to see when we are able to use him for our trailer. fortunately, we found that he is available during all our media lessons throughout the week.
- all team members were present
friday 14th november 2014
Monday 24th november 2014
today, we mainly discussed ways that we could improve the general look of our website in terms of presentation and content:
- our main tabs such as the development stage, pre-production stage etc needed buttons which would link to each sub-tab so we quickly included those
- sophie decided to include a better version of our final concept which was initially two concepts merged together
- there were videos missing from the audience research and costume make-up sections for evaluation so we uploaded them onto youtube and onto our website in their respective sections
- we improved the layouts in our storyboard & animatic and drafting section to make it look more appealing and well organised
- we talked about how many of our final complex drafts had been completed and we ended up having to do two more so one person was allocated to that
- during the lesson, we checked to see if our characters for our horror film trailer were available and they were so we ended up filming a few scenes in one of our locations (the gates/entrance) which we found to be very successful
- in addition to our first behind the scenes video, we decided to create a 'part 2' as we felt it would show more of our hard work and effort and how much we enjoyed the filming process
- each member of our team was allocated a specific role in order to meet all the targets set above
- all team members were present
monday 8th December 2014
Monday 9th December 2014
- we established that we needed more shots for our trailer that we were missing such as the torture scene and some scenes of our main characters displaying delinquent behaviour but we tried to get as many relevant shots as we can for our trailer
- we also found that we needed to adjust the sound to our trailer constantly as we changed the length of captions and shots.
- The colour correction was very last minute however will suffice and works well with with our footage.
- Most of the captions we had to change from the actual captions to the length of the captions. "five years later" to "Vengeance is sweet".
- The final two captions we made at the end took a lot of time using Adobe After Effects as a result weren't centred properly
Monday 15th december 2014
poster trailer log. we discussed and expressed what we thought about our final trailer; the good and the bad.
Ratings:
- Didn't have time to make an animation intro for our logo.
- missing a few shots then originally planned from the animatic.
- we're happy with our final trailer.
- good filter effects used for the flashback scene.
Ratings:
- BRANDI: 7/10
- SOPHIE 7/10
- TONY 6/10
- 7/10 PHILIP