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Production Diary

Day 1 (13th November)- Sophie, Aaron, James and Harrison all discussed and shared our individual pitches to each other and all decided on the best one to present to the class. We decided to present James' as his had the best story line. After we had presented we then decided a whole new idea which was to do a documentary and James started to plan the prezi for this.

Day 2 (14th November)- Our prezi was created for our documentary and we presented it to the class. Good feedback was given back to us for us to improve and we didn't get much criticism. With the feedback we then made a few changes to our story line and then was discussed with Miss Brookes.

Day 3 (17th November)- Our group sat together and decided on all the improvements for our final film pitch. We then starting our sources we will be using in the film so Aaron created a newspaper article which will be used in our film. Sophie, James and Harrison also helped by giving him ideas.

Day 4 (18th November)- Today we began to plan our storyboard, these images show evidence of this.


Day 5 (20th November- Sophie, Aaron, James and Harrison started blogging for preparation for our film pitch.

Day 6 (21th November) - Aaron, James and Harrison have started to prepare the voice over. Sophie has now completed the storyboard and our group are now filming our storyboard.

Day 7 (25th November)- We have all continued to plan and create our storyboard. Timings for each scene have now also been added and we are now ready to start making the storyboard video.

Day 8 (26th November)- Aaron, James and Harrison filmed the storyboard and also did the voice over for it. James was the voice over for the storyboard and Aaron recorded him. Whilst doing this Harrison was designing the wall for his cabin that we are using in our film.

Day 9 (2nd December)- Today we have continued to blog our progress and will soon be preparing our film as most of our scenes have no been filmed the previous weekend. Sophie have also now uploaded the storyboard film and have given evidence of us planning our work.

Day 10 (4th December)- Today Sophie, Harrison, Aaron and James have continued filming our interviewing at school in the drama studio. We have learnt about lighting and camera angles during this process and we are now starting to edit our film as our first draft.

Day 11 (5th December)- I have started to record the storyboard film and finish filming our last scenes of the film opening. Aaron and James have continued to edit our film and Harrison has helped Sophie with the filming of the storyboard.


Day 12 (8th December)- Today we gave feedback to other groups film drafts and also got our feedback back.

Day 13 (9th December)- We used our feed back to improve on our film draft and I continued to edit our film. Aaron, James and Harrison were blogging whilst I was doing this.

Day 14 (10th December)- We have re-filmed our interview as from our feedback we realised our interview wasn't very good and we have added thing to our film so the interview makes more sense.

Day 15 (11th December)- I continued to edit our film whilst James has gathered videos to be added into it. Harrison has carried on producing the newspaper article which James also helped him with and Aaron has been listing our shooting schedule.

Day 16 (12th December)- We presented our film to Miss and got got feedback on it which we used to edit our film in order to improve it. Aaron and Sophie both edited whilst James and Harrison did the newspaper article and re-did the voice over.

Day 17 (15th December)- Today is our last day of making our film and we have made the last improvements to our film. Whilst Sophie edited, Aaron, James and Harrison Blogged.