Prduction Log / Meeting

My Production Log



Meeting 1: Our initial idea was of us attending a drug counselling session, where we would individually be aksed about our addictions and how we wished to deal with them this required us to follow each indiciduals progress over time, we followed the actors through the ordeal and made it evident that they werent coping with this decision to give up whatever they were addicted to, Our second scene was of me (the addict), coming out of the session and talking about how 'things werent always like this', he showed emotion, and told a story of how he got into drugs in the first place

For our next scene, we shooted shots of me dealing with Myrin (the drug dealer) afterwards we showed the connection between our characters as after this scene we also showed Josephine (the addict) trying to get more drugs from Myrin, however, Myrin got angry and demanded that Josephine paid him his money from the last time she recieved drugs from him.

Meeting 2:
We went into college initially just to collect our equipment so we could carry on filming at another location; however we decided that we might as well start at college and shoot some shots which were not initially on our storyboards. This allowed us to film shots which we would later use to link up some of our later footage so that when it came to editing we would have various shots to choose from.

We filmed in and around the school building, this was useful as we could ask teachers for any additional information or equipment we could use to enhance our performance such as a boom which we could use to improve the quality of any dialogue we may include in our filming, and any ideas which our media technicians could assist us with.

Our first shot was of me hiding drugs inside my school locker we used a wide range of camera angles such as close ups, long shots and medium shots, we also came up with a great idea of placing the camera inside the locker itself and show me opening the locker and placing the bag of drugs inside. We redone a few of our shots over and over to ensure that we had enough to work with when we reached the editing stage. We put as much emphasis on the bag as possible to make it obvious to the audience that there is something in the bag which will in future affect the storyline.

Our second shot was an extreme long shot of Myrin sitting in the canteen of college this is used to show him as a very secretive character and that there may be something very sinister about him.

This idea was one which we decided we would not put forward as the storyline was not properly

thought out, and poor camera work made us fear re filming our whole short film all over again, we decided to start on another idea, however, decided to stick with the theme and genre of our short film but, we knew we had to come up with some more unique ideas if we were going to be able to create an opening sequence we were all proud of.

Meeting 3:

Josephine and Duane met up to start on our new ideas of our film the filmed a drug scence, Myrin and I were unable to attend this meeting, however, they were able to use some of

Josephine's friends to show a party scene where they were shown to be smoking and drinking, this scene was a great success which we used in some of our opening sequence.

they were able to mix flour and sugar to make a substance which was close to the appearance of cocaine.

Meeting 4:

Me, Myrin and Josephine met up at an estate round the corner from our college, we managed to film me walking into the estate where i was then confronted by Myrin who grabbed me and pushed me up against the wall, this gave clarity to the storyline and how it would be about drugs, crime and gang culture.

Meeting 5:

we stayed in college on this day to do some group work, we brainstormed our ideas for our titles which I would later be producing, we decided to go for a more dark and sisnister approach to our opening sequence, we decided on creating an 'enigma' which meant that we were not going to give away many answers in our opening sequence to the actual synopsis of our film but leave our audience asking many questions. We began to write down the names of the people in our group on paper and the names we would be including in our titles, for example, Producer, the editor, the costume designer, etc. So that I would know exactly what to work with when I was creating our opening sequence credits, and who I should show played which part in our short film.

we planned our opening sequence thinking long and hard about our location and what kind of message we wanted to put through to our audience.