Single Camera Production Diary

9th February
We were given our groups at the start of this week. I was put with Ed and Jamie. We then sat together and read each others script and had a discussion about and in which one to shoot. After reading we also took in consideration if the script is actually possible to shoot, if we can get hold of the scenery, the right props and costumes and also similar characters. At the end of the lesson we decided we would do Ed's script called "The last laugh".

10th February
Next day we immediately started to work hard on the pre production, we started to do our paper works. Ed and Jamie took control of the story board as I had not been well to attend every lesson. When i came back I started to do the rest of the paper work such as risk assessment, talent releases, location release and location recces .  As we did this we realized that some of the shoots would not work so we took out a few scenes and added new ones to the script. We did this for the rest of the week.

23th February
After our week off we started to organize and decide where we would be shooting, we then went out and took photos of these places. We used the week to also finish on the story boards as these were quite long and hard to do.

2nd March
Having all the paper work done and dusted included the story board we had to start filming. We used this week to start filming the scenes which were easier and faster to do and at the same time flexible to do in lessons. Throughout out the week we went to Jamie's to record some of our footage. In the same week we also went to my place and used the creepy room to record some of our scenes.

9th March
We started to use the lesson time to edit the bits we had already recorded the previous week, we did not do any filming during lessons in this wee simply because the rest of our scenes happened at night time so we would have to wait until it gets dark so we filmed after lesson times around 7/8pm.

12th March
It is almost the end of the week and the deadline is on the 13th March. We will not be able to meet this deadline as we still have some filming to do and everyone in the group are only available on the following Monday.

19th March
Luckily we were given more time to finish and edit our short film. However today is the last day we have on this bit of work. Ed, Jamie and I have worked really hard editing and adding all the effects to make our work look better. We topped it up with some sound tracks from incompetech. We also use after effects to do the final bit which was our title and also our credits.