PRODUCTION LOG

Pre production stage

19th January 2010- today we decided on the type of thriller genre we would like to produce for out opening sequence. We have decide to produce a physiological thriller

20th January 2010- our aim for today was to decide on an original logo for our production. Shapali and Charlotte came up with a production company name called hollow tree’. Our inspiration came from trees located in the park which looked slightly gothic. We also wanted crow flying away from the tree. We are hoping to make this image soon.

25th January 2010- today we discussed the importance of an opening sequence and its purpose we also watched a few trailers such as fight plan, panic room and American psycho and briefly discussed them during lesson time.

26th January 2010- as a class we went through the things we should include in our thriller and the thing we really shouldn’t. Also I wrote a quick list of a few of the conventions of a thriller.

27th January 2010- Today Mica and I researched on the audience we would like to appeal to. One of the sites I used was the British board of film classification which helped us decide on the age of the audience we want to target. We have gone for aged 15 and over.

i also made a mood board on audience and camera shots.



29th January 2010- today I learnt what a treatment is which I will explain within my blog and as a class went through a past students treatment.

2nd febuary 2010- today i wrote up the audiece profile and pitch my title and tagline to the group. which was successful as both team member liked it.

3rd febuary 2010- today we pitched our idea to the whole class which didnt really go good as we hoped as our idea didnt appeal to our target audience/classmates and teachers

4th febuary 2010- today we had a production meeting and decided to change our idea.

5th febuary 2010- we came up with our new idea

6th febuary 2010- we pitched our new idea to to ms Berry and started to think about settings and props we would need for this

7th febuary 2010- today i wrote the group treatment up and uploaded it on the group blog

8th febuary 2010- today we started to story board our idea and decide to do our recce on the 10th feb.

9th febuary 2010- Mica and i sat down together and nearly completed the storyboard

10th febuary 2010- went on recce with a friend who is not part of the group

11th febuary 2010- updated my blogg casino royale analysis.

12th febuary 2010- went on another recce to show the particular areas we want to focus on but had lots of technical problem and was not able to upload the videos on my blog.
did auditions for our thriller we audition 6 people and decided to choose 2 of the group members as they are more relable and easy to gget when neddded.