Production Log: Week 15

This week we have mainly been focusing on editing our production and finalising the main editing to see if it flows and we have come across a problem where we have realised that a couple of our shots don't flow well so we seem to find it harder to edit our work so we thought we would go back and re film the necessary shots-but then we realised small changes, like the sunlight, clothing and hair and beard styles would make a huge difference and we realised that we wouldn't be able to just re film them shots and were stuck between choosing weather we would keep what we had and make it do or just re film the whole thing one day after school and came to the conclusion that we would just re film the whole thing as it would be easier in the long run for the production to flow and be a success and therefore we decided a date for when we could film and are now ready for that.

Production Log: Week 13/14

During the Christmas holidays, we were to film our production and in my group, we started filming in the first week of the holiday as we needed for our time management skills to work and we had to adapt around everyone's schedule as some individuals were busy some days and others were not so we had to find days which were convenient to all of us and as we found it, we would film on these specific dates. Some problems that occurred is that after filming the shots, we felt it didn't flow, so what we did is we filmed extra shots of the same ones, but in different shot types and angles and it seemed to flow better afterwards so this made a difference. Another problem that we seemed to face as a group was that if we needed to re film a couple of shots on another day, we needed for the daylight to be the same as in the production it was all ambient light so we needed to make sure it was the same or it wouldn't flow well. We saw this problem and came up with a resolution that as we needed to re film quite a couple of shots, we should just re film the whole thing as there were other minor little problems, like clothing, hair length and beard shaping that were small but would make a difference to the production as a whole so we should just re film the whole thing in one day and make sure all the shots are good on the day and that was our resolution to our other problem. Also another problem was that the tracking shot towards the end were really unclear and unsteady as it was raining a lot and there were a lot bumps on the pavement so when we chose to film again, we could try filming on the road as it is a lot smother and will work better.

Production Log: Week 12

The decisions we had to make about our graphics this week was if our typography was relevant to the BSR genre and if it was relevant to our production. Our film was based on drugs and we needed to find a text type to use for our typography and came to the conclusion that using a simple bold text would be most effective as it is bold so represents seriousness of our production and shows a little about our production and hat it may be based on. We got this information from watching our BSR films that were based around Drugs and violence and saw that the typography in these films had one thing in common and that was the simplicity of the text. For example, In trainspotting, the text used in the opening sequence in the film is bold, white and stands out as plain and simple, but the film was based on drugs mainly so this helped us narrow down our choices for typography in our production.
Also another decision we had to make was weather we would have super imposed graphics or not and we researched this by watching other BR films that were base doing drugs and seeing how the titles would appear and they were all mainly superimposed graphics. An example of this was in Adulthood, where in the opening sequence, the typography was a superimposed graphics behind the cars in traffic and this looked really effective so we chose to put it into our production.