Production Diary

Task	What we did	Date of completion
Initial pitch and presentation	We produced several different ideas for an opening sequence including film titles, what the films about, and what will happen in the opening sequence.	24.10.12
Mood board of initial ideas including inspirational shots from real films	We created a mood board which contained shots from movies with the same – or similar – genre. We included shots from these opening to films which of which we will create to a similar effect.	7.11.12
Evidence of how planned openings fits with research into codes/conventions, genre, audience	We produced a prezi on how our opening will fits with the codes and conventions of a spy film	26.10.12
Titles	We have established our individual credit titles	25.10.12
Group Pitch	We produced a movie pitch which outlined our genre, included two openings to existing movies, and opened the narrative and characters. We also discussed setting and target audience.	25.10.12
Class feedback and peer assessment on pitch and amendments planned	We pitched our ideas to the class and received feedback sheets. We scanned these sheets and put these on our blogs	4.11.12
Script	We have produced the script for what is happening in our opening sequence. We made our script too long for the permitted time so we slightly altered it to fit the time.	7.11.12
Timeline of opening	We have constructed a timeline of narrative and dialogue.	10.11.12
Analysis of existing student openings	Looked at a variety of different types of openings but mainly thrillers that were similar to ours so that we would know what we could do to improve our own opening.	13.11.12
Story Board and music research font research	Using the template for the storyboard we created the storyboard and took photos of each part of the storyboard and added a voiceover to explain what was happening in each shot. And we also did our music research and found a piece of music that worked well with the different scenes in our opening. We also did our font research were we were able to narrow it down to a few titles that would work best for our opening and when we did this we also did our	15.11.12
Risk assessment sheet	We created our first risk assessment sheet for our original filming	24.11.12
Risk assessment sheet 2	We had to create a new risk assessment sheet because of some changes that had to be made because of problems with the filming.	27.11.12
filming	We filmed the majority of our opening and made some changes to the original	01.12.12
Filming day 2	We filmed some more exterior shots and did most of the editing and added the music.	08.12.12
Editing week one	After our first week of editing we had a rough draft of what our final opening was going to be like. But the music we had chosen didn’t support the opening as well as we would have hoped.	10.12.12
Editing week two	In our second week of editing we had an adjusted some of the scenes to make the cuts flow and make the video smoother. We also found a new piece of music that was better suited to our theme, genre and helped to create more suspense.	17.12.12
Gathering feedback	After we had the finished product and made many changes we decided to get feedback from students and teachers.	12.01.13
evaluation weeks 1-3	We finished our evaluation talking about how our film fits into the codes and conventions of our theme and genre and we talked about the different aspects to do with audience and how we created our movie idea and our opening.

Final Hitlist

Feed Back

GOOD POINTS:

·         Creates a good atmosphere

·         Stays intense

·         Both characters were shady and are kept anonymous. Keeps audience on their seat and wants them to know

·         Black and white creates an interesting effect

IMPROVEMENTS:

·         Music too intense

·         Cuts are too jumpy in certain places

·         Sound effect when the match was thrown in the house was too dramatic for what happened

·         Conversation at the end needed to be more audible 

Third Draft Of Production

Second Draft of Production

This is a better edited version than the previous one. At 00:16 the transition between shots of the car is better because before the car was more front on on the second shot.We added the shot of the handbrake to establish the car is stopping, before the car stopped abruptly but now the shots make more sense. At 1:03 the shot has been changed because previously the cut had Matt being to face on than he was in the previous one. we did the same at 1:37 because the between cuts he moved position. Also at this point we edited the music because it builds up to much at an inappropriate time, we did not want the music to be contrapuntal. We changed the order of shots when his throat is slit instead of staying with the tracking shot we quickly cut to the under table shot to up the pace of the scene and show off more blood. We used a shot of blood dripping off the table to take us out of the scene this leaves the audience in no doubt he is dead, also I think its a good shot. I used myself as a foley artist to make the noise of the hob, I think its works well, no one in the class knew it was me. We added the shot of the matches to show the audience the hitmans professionalism, we did in slow motion to show the importance and build suspense. The final conversation was added just to set the hitman up as the protagonist because the audience wants to know what he's going to do next and who was on the phone. We changed the title because the typewriter font didn't really work throughout as it drew the audiences attention away from what is going on in the shot.

First Draft of Production

This was the first rough cut of our work