Production Log: Week 3

What have you contributed to this week?

For this week, we continued on finalising our shooting script. Our teacher decided to look at everyone's shooting script and gave us feedback in which we were happy about as our teacher liked our ideas for each section of the song. Although, he did mention that we should consider using performance for the chorus section on the green screen of a mental home as he thought it would make our music video flow better. We completed the shooting script on Wednesday and uploaded it. On the Thursday lesson, we started on filling in a February calender which we jotted down the shots that we will be doing on some of the days in the month which we finished and printed off a few to keep and to give to our cast, Damanjyot and Bilal. Just before the lesson ended, we managed to fill in one call sheet which held info such as the shots we are doing, our emails, props we'll be needing, etc. and on the Friday, we went back on the calendar and changed the dates as we realised we couldn't start filming until we've finished all the tasks. So, we finalised the calender, and then went onto the call sheets which we finished. Also, we started on the risks assessment sheet and managed to do all apart from one or two.

How does this fit in with the production schedule/job roles/overall ideas of the project?

This allows us a completed shooting script when we shoot our music video. We'll be able to go to different locations and know what we want to do and where. Also, we will be able to receive roles to our cast as we will be aware of what we want from them. Pre-production work helps us a big amount as we can work out exact times, the risks, and locations that are going to take place.

Were there any problems?

We considered changing the chorus scenes into performance scenes as we wanted our music video to flow and because a teacher suggested it, we though it would be for the best. For the pre-production work, the only problem we faced was the February calender sheet as we had to change some of the dates of where we were going to start shooting as me and Farhana done the shots too early because we have to start shooting when we've finished all the coursework set.

How will you/did you overcome them?

We overcame the problems by agreeing with the teacher and changing the shooting script. We changed the February calender dates to later dates.

What are the plans for the following week?

We will be carrying on doing pre-production sheets and if we're done, we might be able to start filming. Before then, we will have to ask for permission whether to use green screen as that is the only equipment we will probably be using first for shooting our music video.