Date: 16/02/2016

On Tuesday we gathered as a team outside the main entrance of the school before heading to our filming location for that day (a small side alley that had private garages just off Berrick road), on our way we met up with Julia and Emily who volounteered to help us with our filming.

On this day we would be filming the more specific scenes that emphasise the plot of our title sequence (a dystopian and oppresive government controlled world) therefore our scenes included that of 1) a homeless man begging, 2) a molotov cocktail (fire-bomb) being thrown and 3) a further scene of us preparing weapons that represents the protagonist readying himself to rescue his kidnapped daughter.

I believe that our filming went especially well that day because both Julia and Emily are film/media studants and have done similar tasks to us both in their lessons last year and this year, therefore the experience was invaluable to our work as they could direct us as to the optimum shooting angles and advize us on the best shots to use on key scenes.

Overall I feel that Tuesday was our best day for filming because although the weather was constantly changing we acheived the shots that we wanted; experimented with different angles and as a result we produced a lot of material for us to edit together and eventually turn into an effective title sequence for our plot line.

Date: 12/06/2016

On this day as a group we analysed our filming sessions from the previous day and finished up on the filming schedule that we put together, after analysing our session with our teacher we decided to act upon her advice and retake the 'exectuion' scene because it didn't fit into the dystopian effect that we were looking for, we took 2 takes on that day but unfortunately it still didn't look the way we wanted it to and so we decided that we would film the whole scene in a different location and on a different day.

As a result our day finished with 2 experimental recordings and all preperartions for our shooting during half-term completed.

Date: 11/02/2016

Today my whole group were in and we were able to film much of the key scenes that will appear within our title sequence, such scenes include overhead shots of the criminal records that contain the key words and names that will appear in the sequence and the character stills that will show who is within the film, further we included a scene that depicts a public execution, this is important because our film is about an oppresive-dictatorship Government and thus a public execution would be seen as common in this dystopian landscape.

Also as me and Tyler has a free period we filmed the scene that will help to incorporate the criminal records, the scene includes the hands of the villain looking through the records.

Overall the scenes we managed to film today went very well, we kept the camera focused correctly, incorporated excellent cinematography and kept the scenes looking the way we wanted them to for the sequence overall.

Date: 09/02/2016


Summary:
Today We found out that we hadn't researched our production schedule enough and that we didn't have any of the props that we needed ready.
Therefore today Tyler set about making the police-style profiles that we would use to present the title and other hey words/names that would appear in our title sequence.


Meanwhile Rob was busy creating the Government message that our protagonist (Damien) would be sent telling him that his daughter has been kidnapped and that he should stop protesting or watch her die.


Overall we both managed to get the key props ready and prepared for our next lesson (11/02/2016)

Date: 26/03/2016

This day was mainly spent catching up on our blogs on blogger so that we could work towards achieving a good number of marks overall. Tyler also spent his time making final adjustments to the sequence.

Date: 29/02/2016-18/03/2016

After having our feedback session with Miss McGrath my team made a list of the key sections of the sequence that we needed to adjust-overall even though Miss was very happy with our work so far-and then we proceeded to make those adjustments.

Tyler took the main control of the sequence because the job of editing was his role, while he worked myself and Rob updated our blogs and began to think about how we would do our evaluation of our work in order to achieve top marks.

Our teacher Mrs Otti recommended to all groups that we should do our evaluation in a similar format to our title sequences (a video) so while Tyler finished of the edits that needed to be done myself and Rob decided which of the 7 evaluation questions (6 individuals and 1 group questions) we would each do.

Date: 25/02/2016
On this day Tyler continued editing with input from myself and Rob while we worked on our blog.

During this session we reviewed some of the key scenes we shot with class mates and our teachers in order to assess early whether or not those scenes would work, the most significant scene we reviewed was the execution scene because last time we filmed it Mrs McGrath was unsure about whether the background was suitable fro the genre and indeed the Mise-en-Scene of the sequence.

After much debate we confirmed that the scene would be suitable and Tyler continued working on the sequence one clip at a a time.