Sunday, 16 March 2014

Production Log: Week 8

What have you contributed to this week?

This week, myself and Farhana carried on editing scenes. On Monday, our teacher came round the class to check everyone's music videos and to see if there were things that needed to be improved. He suggested that we should re-film our pathway scene as our shots needed more of a variety of shot types. On Tuesday after school, we decided we should try out green screen again and see if there would be any better changes to last time we filmed, and so we completed all the filming for that. In our Wednesday's lesson, we uploaded our green screen footage and noticed there was rarely any change and we had the same problem. On the Wednesday periods 5&6 was when we re-filmed our pathway scene in the park right next to our school, and we managed to do all the shots in time before it was lunch. We also showed our teacher the green screen problem in the Wednesday lesson, and he said that we should try again but make sure everything's set up right when we next do it. In our Thursday lesson, we uploaded the pathway shots and carried on editing.

Me, Damanjyot & Farhana filming Green Screen Performance.

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

This doesn't really fit in with the production schedule as we hadn't had an exact date to re-film some shots and to re-do green screen a second time. The job roles mean't that we had to both think hard about what we would do with the re-filming and to not become worried as it would show through our work and would effect our performance of our roles. With the overall ideas for the project, we are still contemplating whether to have the chorus scenes done as a green screen or in the music studio, making the overall idea undecided, but aware of where we want to go with the project.

Were there any problems?

There were a few problems regarding finding time to re-film and the process of how green screen came out. After trying out green screen once and there being problems, we thought the second time would be an improvement, but it turned out to be the exact same situation we were in in the first place. When we were editing the green screen scenes, the padded cell picture behind it was hard to make look perfect as the green was still visible, Damanjyot's hair was outlined in a yellow colour, and her skin on her arms had blotches on them that we couldn't edit it out. Our teacher had a look and suggested to do green screen again, but properly, which he said that he would stay behind and help us to make sure the lights are set up right etc. This creates a problem because our deadline was on Thursday and we knew we wouldn't have enough time as Damanjyot had to go somewhere important after school on the Thursday. 

How did you/will you overcome them?

To sort the problem out, we knew we had to turn to our teacher as our deadline was on the Thursday and we knew Damanjyot couldn't make it. Myself and Farhana told our teacher the problem, hoping to fit in extra time if he would let us. Knowing that our teacher sticks to the deadlines, we were worried in terms of what his answer would be. He said that he would extend the deadline till next Tuesday as he knew it wasn't our fault that our green screen turned out the way it turned out. Me and Farhana were relieved that he extended it till Tuesday, as it gave us more time to film it and then edit into the music video, without having to rush.

What are the plans for the following week?

Plans for the following week will contain filming the green screen, or if that doesn't work again, we will film in the music studio in school. Also, finishing off our editing for the Tuesday deadline - involving the London scenes, and the chorus scenes, and then finalising and cleaning it till we our satisfied to get the best grade possible.

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