Production - Skills Development

The process of planning with both productions from AS and A2 have been very different in my experience.

If I'm honest, I'd say that this year has been not as organized as it was last year for me. Even though we have planned a schedule for practically the month, including space for blogging as well as filming. Last year I was on top of everything and every detail was planned to the time and we stuck to it. I also feel that last year we were able to get on straight away with filming, this year feels a bit more like everything is on top of each other. And the time frame we have to film, edit and produce our music video is not that long.

In AS we planed where we were filming and what time, frequently whilst discussing when we were able to do this. We also planned times and places we would meet and what we were doing about equipment the day before. We made sure we got everything done within college time as we didn't want to waste any time and also give ourselves a break.  therefore our whole production was done a little earlier, giving us time to tweak anything we weren't sure about or happy with.

Blogging Health Check

From my last discussion with Marisa I have learnt where I am at and what I need to improve on to get a higher grade. These details are explained ore thoroughly in my "reflection on progress" post.

I feel that having regular blogging health checks helps me to keep on top of my work and balance myself out with respects to the number of blog posts is should have and what they should contain at what standard. As last year we didn't have this and this year is a lot more full on and productive.

Reflection On Progress

From my last progress review, I feel I have improve a little in respect to
taking more time dedicated to media, as I have taken time myself to do work and plan, even though it may not always be in the lesson.
 
As for the ict skills; that is still lacking, so that target will remain. I know that I have to incorporate more to gain higher marks and develop further skills, however sometimes I find it hard to do this, for certain posts.

When it comes to blogging more frequently, this is something which did I improve on, however, the blog posts caught up on me again, in particular logs that were half done because of technical difficulties. Resulting in poor time management. So this will be one of my targets also and this time aim to do one blog at least every other day.

My next 2 targets are:

- Improve time management
- Use a wider range of ict skills

Marks out of 20:

- ICT 10/20
- Detail 15/20

Production: Change of plan with the costume

Just a quick note to say that we have changed the costume for the studio as I had purchased a really trendy and nice black and white tracksuit that would really work well in the studio. So we have decided to have to the colour scheme as black and white instead of blue as well. Also we have changed the costume for the granary square as the playsuit was sold out so now I will be wearing a cream dress that says boys on it with black tights.

Production: Stuck in the mud

I'm feeling rather fatalistic at this point. We haven't been able to do much filming and we are not projected to do anymore filming for a while. I feel as if we may be very behind because if we don't do any filming we cant really blog much and I don't want that to happen. Filming on the 28th didn't go according to plan and wasn't the best which hasn't left me feeling very positive about the project as a whole. Reason for this also is if we leave it too late we will miss the rough cut deadline ad may even worse miss the final video and blog deadline, I feel as individual members of the group we really need to make a conscious effort to do more and be more focused.

Filming - Day 1

There where a few problems when getting ready to film. Our time in which we had chosen to film was changed due to our performer being admitted into hospital, which means we were given less time to record. Our initial film time was 2pm, it then got pushed back to 7pm

Also, because we were planning on shooting at two locations in the original time allocated. We where forced to only do one because of the time change and also the weather. The weather can seriously damage our equipment I it's not good.

Filming - Day 1

For our first day of filming we went to Greenwich foot tunnel to shoot the scenes for the bridge for our song. Due to lack of communication, none of us had the song on our phones and seeing as the location was underground none of us where able to obtain the song on iTunes or on YouTube. So Djemal had the idea that some one should I upstairs with the flip camera and a phone and go onto YouTube and record the song onto the flip. However we where only able to obtain the first minute and a Hal of the song, meaning we had to awitch the order of the shots. Nevertheless, I do feel we got some really good shots.

DAY 1