Production Log

Week 1
Lesson 1- research in to media text such as seven.
Lesson 2- research in to media text in more depth focusing on micro aspects.
Lesson 3- assess past students work and note down the good and bad aspects of their production.
Lesson 4- analysis of opening sequences of thrillers focusing on micro aspects.
Lesson 5- continuing with analysis of opening sequences of thrillers.

Week 2
Lesson 1- plan of treatment and focusing on what to include in treatment.
Lesson 2- finishing of treatment and making sure we have included important information.
Lesson 3- pitching treatment to class and receiving feedback.
Lesson 4- focusing in depth on targets audience and how important it is to include what they enjoy.
Lesson 5- designing questionnaire for audience research so that we can get basic idea of their thoughts on thrillers.

Week 3
Lesson 1- recapping on story boarding and what to include in annotation.
Lesson 2- drawing storyboards on our thriller production.
Lesson 3- focusing on location recces and how it can be used to its advantages and disadvantages.
Lesson 4- Planning typography, titles and posting on to blog.
Lesson 5- considering sound elements and focusing on its importance to the opening sequence of a thriller.

Week 4
Lesson 1-filming begins in the dark room, filming antagonist scene.
Lesson 2-filming antagonist scene in dark room.
Lesson 3-final antagonist scenes filmed in the dark room.
Lesson 4- filming begins in office detective scene.
Lesson 5- final detective scene filmed in office.

Week 5
Lesson 1- editing begins on antagonists scene.
Lesson 2-editing all scenes including the detective scenes.
Lesson 3- audience feedback on rough edit.
Lesson 4- change of location, the antagonist scene gets filmed in basement.
Lesson 5-editing basement scene fully.

Week 6
Lesson 1- change of detective scene, filmed with new actors and office.
Lesson 2- focusing on detail on previous footage.
Lesson3- editing detective scene fully.
Lesson 4- return to office refining unsteady shots.
Lesson 5- finish editing detective scene and ready to add soundtrack.

Week 7
Lesson1-making soundtrack for thriller.
Lesson 2-continuing progress on soundtrack.
Lesson 3-matching soundtrack and film together.
Lesson 4-uploading music in film file then adjusting volume on certain c=scenes.
Lesson 5- designing titles and adding them to the film.

Week 8
Lesson1- refining footage and soundtrack.

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