Production log 8

In week 8, me and Chanel began to edit the pieces of film that we done it week 7. The draft was due this week so all the editing of the shots we done needed to be pretty much done.  Our draft didn't really make sense, but we knew this would happen because in our film there was cuts between two different locations, Adriana's house and the laundry factory. We haven't yet filmed the shots that are to be taken in the laundry factory which made our draft look very jumpy and confusing. Some key issues we had when editing this week, was which parts were we going to cut out and which we was going to keep, for example when Adriana was walking down the stairs to leave, we had a shot of her putting her shoes on to make the continuity flow. However we decided that this shot was not necessary and used up too much time in the film which we needed, so we cut it out and the continuity still looked good. 

Once the other groups watched our drafts, we got feedback from them so we could see what they liked about it and what we needed to change and improve. People said that we had some shots we eye contact in the camera. To solve this problem we had to decide which other shots we were going to replace the ones with eye contact in, as we filmed a lot of the scenes more then once. We had to pick some shots that wasn't as good in terms of framing, but there was no eye contact to the camera so it had to be replaced. With some other shots we could just cut it a bit shorter to remove the eye contact part and it still run smoothly. Other feedback we had was that the continuity didn't flow very well in some shots, like a pause before the action started. To solve this problem we only had to tighten up the editing to get rid of the pauses, but this was only a draft and the final version will run much smoother.

Also, when listening to the sound that was in the shots, you can hear each cut, as the sound slightly changes in each shot. But because this was only a draft we hadn't yet film all of the wild tracks of the sound to make it run smoothly, we had only done some. In the final piece we will make it all sound the same so you cant hear any obvious cuts, and we will also add music.

In this shot you can see the purple bar carrying on over 3 shots. That was a wild track sound so the sound between each cut blended in and made the sound run smooth.

Call sheet 3

Production Log 7

This week me and Chanel begun to film our opening sequence in lesson time. We decided to start off filming in Chadwell Heath as it was the closet location at the time. Some key decisions we had to make before we started to film was where the best location in Chadwell Heath would fit BSR films the most. We decided to film right near some train tracks that looked very rough. We took a lot of time on these shots because they were hand held, some of the shots were very shaky so had to be re done, but to do it again we had to wait for another train, which is why it took a while. We also had to think of how many shots we could get done before we needed to go back into school, and weather we would spend another day filming around Chadwell Heath. We decided we didn't want to waste any time as we needed it to film for the other locations, so we done all the shots around Chadwell Heath and managed to finish just in time. We filmed shots on the bus, but we had to do these again as they didn't flow very nicely and we wanted them to be the best as possible so we wouldn't have to re film any shots later when we was editing.

Also this week, we filmed in our house location, where the character Adriana lives. Some key issues we had were to do with things like how are we going to layout the room to make it fit into the conventions of BSR films, and also the lighting. On this day it was quite bright outside, so some rooms looked lighter than others. We had to find ways to make the room darker,  To solve this we used towels to cover some windows that had no curtains,  and in the bedroom we only had to close the curtains a bit so this was easy. When filming we done a shot looking in to a mirror, and we could see the towels covering the window, which we thought looked good for the mise-en-scene as it makes them look trampy and very secretive like they didn't want people looking into the window. This shot was quite hard to do because we had to film at a certain angle so we couldn't see me or  the camera in it, and we had to get Chanel's hands and hair in the right place so the continuity flows well. But overall we done well as this day was the first day of filming.

Call Sheet 2

Call Sheet 1

Production Log 6

One of the main issues me and Chanel had this week was coming up with a new title. We decided our old title 'washing machine' wasn't very good and needed to be changed. At first we thought it would be good as our film is based in a laundry factory, so washing machine went well with this. But then we realised there wasn't any meaning behind the title so we changed it to something more meaningful. We wrote down a few words relating to the film and put thought in to it to come up with our new title. Another issue this week is what font we was going to use for our credits and how we was going to show them in the opening sequence. The font had to look good for our film and sort of show what its about and the graphics had to be in the right places on the frame so they dont stand out too much but so the audience can see them.

The new title we came up with was 'Drained'. We feel this title relates more to the film and creates more of an enigma than washing machine, and it sounds better for our film. The character in our film works hard and doesn't live a very good lifestyle, so she would feel drained, so this is where our title relates. With the credits, we decided to get our font from the website 'dafont'. They have really good fonts that would be good for our film. We went with a bold font that stands out so the audience can clearly see it. We used the software LiveType to add some effects to the credits, but the effects are only fade in or fade out , and slight movements because more lively affects wouldn't relate to the conventions of BSR films, so we had to keep it plain and simple. As we hadn't filmed any shots yet, we couldn't really tell were the credits were going to be placed on the frame, so to save time in the future we made all the graphics and added the animations, so all we had to do once we edited all of the film was to move the position of the credits. The only credit we knew the position of was the title, because this had be planned out already to go over a graphic match of a clock and a washing machine between the two locations of Adriana's house and the laundry factory.

Production Schedule

Here is mine and Chanels Production Schedule