Production Log NINE

This week was the final week in terms of production. With the deadline of the opening sequence approaching, it was quite a strenuous week in terms of packing in any last minute changes.

The first day consisted of my partner and I planning our week ahead. Once the planning was complete, we had resulted in making changes to our clips (lengths and different clips) and adding in a new voice over as we felt that the previous one did not express the anger of the character's current state well enough.

After the lesson was over, my partner and I had gone to Goodmayes Library after school and had re-shot the entire library scene from a range of different angles. When we had gone to the place, the area that we wanted was taken, so we decided to go to the brighter area next to the window. Due to it being so bright, I had to edit the brightness settings on the camera so that we could see the character more. This choice helped us get over the sight issue and allowed us to record the character in a better manner. I placed the camera in various places around the actor so that the audience could see different views of him and also because I wanted to include a range of shots. From side views to point of views, we aimed to get as many as possible. This enabled editing to flow with greater ease as we had a lot of choices to make if the designated shots did not work, which, was not an issue.


The name of the main character, Ben, was also changed this week. As the name did not suit the look of the character, we decided to name him Zakir as this is a name that is typically associated with the same ethnicity of the actor playing him.


We also decided to edit the order of the two scenes. We switched them both around as we felt that by having the library scene first it would be easier to denote the story to the audience. This also enabled the second scene to have a greater impact on the audience as it was much more clear as to what was happening due to it being explained previously. We also got to keep in the enigma as it is still unclear as to what the main character is actually doing, but the audience are aware that there is something suspicious.

The next few days consisted of my partner and I editing the credits and the production logos. A big problem we faced was the production company logo. As we did not save the PSD file, but only the JPG one, we could not edit the "S" out of "Concrete Corporations", so we had to find a similar font and work around that. This worked in our favour but it did not look as good as the other one did, as said by ourselves and other people. This taught us to always save work no matter how necessary the file is, as we may always need it in the coming future.

Another issue was that we realised that the typing format of the credits was not as impactful as it would of had been if it had quickly faded in and then faded out afterwards. With this in mind, we did not use the LiveType words, we decided to use the iMovie texts as it fitted in with the current scene much more.

After Thursday, our deadline, was over, we were then faced with watching other people's productions. During the hour and ten minutes, we only had time to watch a few pieces of work, but we realised that a lot of people had done quite a good job. We took notice of the special aspects that many of them used, such as dramatic moments, makeup and more and were quite impressed with the quality of our year group. We took in account what we could of had done and what would not have been suited with us and realised that we were quite pleased that we had minimal regrets. There were a few editing aspects and shots that we felt could of had been quite good such as the graphic match technique, but other than those we were quite happy with everyone's end result.