Diary

I have conducted a diary over the period of this course this is the result of that.


Diary

19th Jan: we were introduced to the preliminary task and put in to groups.

26th Jan: Today we were taught how to use a camera correctly by doing so we were told the camera basics, I took notes and uploaded them to my blog.

2nd Feb: Today I decided to analyse the opening of two thrillers. I analysed James Bond ‘Casino Royal’ and SE7EN. I uploaded this to my blog that evening. Next lesson I need to do Genre conventions and thriller locations.
Evening HW: I looked in to research on what I can put in my genre conventions ready to write about it next lesson.

4th Feb: Today I focused on mainly on writing about thriller conventions. I wrote a lengthy piece about it. All in my own words. I uploaded this to my blog. This took up a lot of the lesson time, I then moved on to make a spider diagram on thriller locations.

9th Feb: Today I was absent for personal reasons. People were put in to groups in the lesson I missed out in result I am in a group my by self. I worked on some bits at home in my absents and asked a few friends to act for me in my piece. Next lesson I need to upload the names and pictures of my actors.

10th Feb: Today I put the pictures of my actors on to my memory stick ready to upload to my blog for next lesson.

11th Feb: Today I worked on my blog by putting my locations up on my blog. I also uploaded pictures of my actors and gave a brief description of why they are playing those parts. I need to start to prepare ideas for my story board.

16th Feb: Today in my free periods I began to think of ideas for my piece. I made a few attempts on the story board but didn’t make one that fitted my standards.

18th Feb: in today’s lesson I worked on my story board, I spent most of my lesson doing it I finally made a story board that incorporated all of my ideas and I felt worked well. I then took pictures of all my pages and uploaded them to my blog. I am now ready to film and will do so in my free periods tomorrow. . I also need to make a risk assessment before I started to film, I also need to upload pictures of my costume with pictures.

23rd Feb: Today I made a risk assessment and uploaded it to my blog. I also uploaded pictures of my props that will be used. I then filmed the opening of my thriller I used Thomas Mortimer as my actor because I felt that he would play the part well. The filming looked quite good on camera I was quite pleased with it. Next lesson I will be able to capture it.

2nd March: Today I uploaded the pictures and annotations of my costumes on to my blog. I then captured my filming I did the previous day. I took a long time to capture because it was one of my fist times capturing by myself. After capturing it I put in on to my T drive and worked on it on adobe from my pc, I started to edit but found it difficult when trying to make how I wanted. I will have to carry on with it in the week to make it better.

06th March: Today in my free time I uploaded some information about thrillers and directors I also added pictures of the director’s number one thriller.

11th March: Today I did a bit more filming due to some of my friends having free time. We went to the park and did some filming there. There wasn’t much done but it’s some film to add on to my piece never the less. I also took some recce pictures of the locations and uploaded them to my blog that evening.

16th March: In Monday’s lesson I captured the rest of the film and joined the two pieces together. I continued to edit. I found this quite difficult so I left it for a while and looked for copyright free music and sound effects to add into the work. I found some music for the opening and a heavy breathing sound for the opening. After this I made an animatic for my story board and uploaded it to Youtube then to by blog.

18th March: In today’s lesson I decided to go off site and do some filming for the rest of my short film. This took up the whole lesson and some of my time after school. My filming is now complete and I am now ready to finish my editing for my draft piece.

19th March: Today I had free time so I captured my footage on to the computer using Adobe software ready for Monday’s lesson.

23rd March: Today I edited my footage it took up the entire lesson. I worked very hard on it and managed to finish my draft edit in the lesson. Next lesson I need to work from the feedback given from the edit.

25th March: In today’s lesson I was given feedback from my editing there was a list of things that needed to be changed. I made these changed given on the sheet they included making the sound effects flow and sound natural. I found this difficult to do, I over came this problem in the end after tweaking the sound effects.

30th March: Today I was told about the things I need to change on my blog. I spent the whole lesson making these changes there was quite a lot to be done. I did not manage to make all of these changes in the lesson but I felt like I was making good progress. I will continue with this is my spare time and next lesson.

31st March: This evening I continued to make changes on my blog from my house PC I couldn’t make many changes with the resources that I had but I made the most of them. I need to continue with this on Wednesday’s lesson.

1st April: In today’s lesson I made the final few changes to my blog. There is still a few bits that I have left to do I will be able to do these in my own time. This includes research on audiences. I need to check over my diary and make sure it is up to scratch for the final deadline I will try and do this for Thursday 02nd.

2nd April: Today I checked over my diary and made sure that it was up to date and there were no spelling mistakes in it. I am now happy with the blog and the dairy. I am on schedule for the deadline.