Production Log 4

During this week Matthew and I met up together to start editing. I apologised to Matthew for not reading the last email he had sent me just before we broke up for the holiday. He responded that he understand what happened as we had not exchange each other mobile numbers in the first place.

My partner was unaware that I had filmed on my own during the holiday until we met up again. During the holiday I had revised on ways to simplify our advert. My partner thought the decision of my idea was terrible for the advert.

Matthew continued to ask of my ideas and I responded that our original idea isn't possible to fit in 30 second.We gradually started to focus on the clips we have during the moment. The thought I came up with is that we based it on a person who studies lot, until one day, when he does takes a break from studying, he get a Time Out bar from his friends.

Whilst we were editing we started importing the clips and all of a sudden the mouse was not working. This created confusion between us, so we asked the assessor if they had a spare mouse. The assessor had investigated the mouse and it randomly started to work. This had confused us.

Next week i will continue editing with my partner and we will need to sort out our idea for our advert as we need to discuss it together.

Production Log 3

During this week we continue planning for the advert. I had created the storyboard for the advert however I did not colour he storyboard. Therefore I asked my partner to do the colouring for mesince I had no colours at home. I told Matthew to scan photo of the storyboard so we could put it in the blog. We managed to finish the work eventually. He completed this task and scan the storyboard for me whilst I started the other work for the planning for our advert.

I had asked Matthew to do the location and guidance as I felt my partner could handle the task.Whilst Matthew did those works I worked on who would be in our cast and crew and we decided to work on collaboratively on who would be the best actor for the advert. I put the days we can film, confirming with Matthew if he would be free throughout the Easter holiday he said that he would be available every day. I said that we could do it all of it in one day therefore we would have more leisure time to ourselves. I suggested completing this during the first week of the holiday or even the first day if possible. I did the rest of the planning for the advert as I felt that I could complete the rest of the planning work very quick.

Monday came and Matthew and I could not find each other in Valentines Park I did not tell Matthew which entrance to go to and we both assume that nobody was at the park in general. I thought Matthew did not turn up and Matthew assumed that I was not there either. Therefore I thought that I would film alone and film at a park with somebody I thought that would be helpful. I told Matthew via email that I had filmed the advert and that he does not need to worry about anything.

Next week I will be starting the post production process with my partner.

Production Log 2

For the next couple weeks we continue planning our chocolate advert until we had to present our pitch. We made sure that we had all the relevant information and that our powerpoint was polished.  This process was difficult and time consuming as we differed on our opinions for the correct pitch/ presentations.

Whilst preparing for our pitch on the chosen chocolate advert, we encountered some issues with regard to content and format and whether they should stay in place or not. We focused on promoting the product by ensuring a  good storyline for the advert so it makes the audience to indulge.

We were told to present our pitch in a couple of weeks and we thought that it went rather awkwardly as it was obvious to the viewers that we had not researched enough information on Cadbury Timeout and the concept of our idea for our chocolate advertisement.
  

Our PowerPoint was over loaded with unnecessary detail which presented itself to be challenging when relaying it to the audience, resulting to confusion. We should have rehearsed our pitch and this would have prepared us more. I feel this would have given us me better grade as we would have been more knowledgeable during the presentation

My target next week is to finish the documentary which will enable me to focus only on my last unit of the course, the advert.

Production Log 1

During this week we started to do the planning for our chocolate advert. We were instructed by our teacher to choose our partner and decide on which chocolate we wanted to promoted We received the brief for the chocolate advert which is to be made for the chocolate company Cadbury's. We were given a variety of chocolates to choose from and the chocolate we chose collaboratively was the Timeout bar.

Next we brainstormed some ideas of content for our advert. We eventually came up with an idea, it would have different people carrying out daily task that would then resulting in them awarding themselves with a Timeout. 

We then gave feedback to the assessor on our ideas. Although we felt we had a a good idea however the teacher was unsure of how it would work and whether we could cram everything in within a 30 seconds advert. We have to revise and simplify our idea. Originally we thought of using fast paced montage editing technique to keep the audience engaged but then we decided on a split screen (four) as an alternative technique. 

We started our planning and we were instructed to complete this over half term. We did not manage to complete the planning because we were instructed to work on our story board and voice over script and time was limited. I decided to do the storyboard and I told my partner to do the voice over script.

Next week we will tell you how we got on.

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