Production Log SIX

This week I had begun my actual production. It has been quite an interesting week as I have been working quite well with my partner. The two of us have come up with great ideas as a pair and are excited to carry on with the rest of the project.

The main issues that we have experienced during this part of our work are things like putting our ideas to work. As we have had to deal with going out on similar days as opposed to recording on days with different weather, we can safely say that weather has been a particularly key issue for us this week. When we begun our production, the first day consisted of 2/3 locations being completely shot. We assumed that the shots were really good and exactly what we had wanted, but once we went on to post production, we realised how truly shaky and non-continuous our shots really were on screen. This lead to us changing our schedules around so we had to record after school instead of working on graphics. Nonetheless, this was eventually done particularly well and we did not face too many issues after we had redone our shots again and again. Although this was quite time consuming, the end production was exactly what we had planned for it to be like.

Something my partner and I have learnt this past week is how to use the editing software programme 'LiveType'. I personally was not aware of this programme but am now extremely glad that I know of it. This programme allows users to create text for their work and add special effects to them whilst positioning them in specific positions. For what we have planned, this will come in use as the typical iMovie and Movie Maker attributes do not enable us to do so. We begun by playing around with the effects so that we were aware how to work the programme. This was a great idea as we were then able to become more familiar with what the software has to offer, and realised that we can do much more than we thought. As we had wanted to have a 'typing' effect for our text, we had found out that this software enables us to do this, which meant that we could create exactly what we had wanted.

Overall this week was quite successful as both my partner and I found a new professional relationship where we both take each other's ideas into greater account and can work creatively as a team in a great manner. We have learnt new skills on the LiveType programme as well as becoming more analytical in terms of choosing dates to film. These newly developed skills can enable us to do many more things in the near future to do with Media Studies as well as many other subjects.