A2 Media
Jamie Robinson
Diary log
Throughout our filming process we have documented and vloged every filming day, most of them where done through vlogs where we have commented throughout the day on good and bad points, vlogs are a new form of media which have become popular on media platforms like YouTube and Facebook. We have documented a few using text due to them being short filming days of about 20 minutes.
Throughout we have all inputted our opinions into the vlogs and they were all edited together by Abbie, as they were filmed on her iPhone and the edited using imove as we are unable to import iphone files into sonny vegas pro.
Narrative
3rd December 2016
This is a vlog of our first shooting day, on this day we intended to do a large amount of our narrative footage however we did not manage to shoot everything in the one day we had put aside due to needing more amount of time than we had initially planned for.
19th December
This reshoot we used to fill the gaps in the storyboard which we did not get on the first shooting day, which where isolation shot of Abbie. Even though we had a few issues with the camera we achieved all the shots which were planned.
1st February
on this shooting day we did 2 of the shots which required the largest amount of cast which was an indoor and outdoor shots where our main female character become isolated as all her friend disappeared. The shots went very well and have worked well even though it was snowing.
4th February
This was a specific shooting day where we focused on the hospital bed isolation shot, we also shot some more isolation shots out in the forest areas to make sure we had a sufficient amount of isolation shots at a high quality. Even though these extra outdoor shots where not planned, they were a very high quality and have come in well in the music video
In half term (Thursday 16th February) we did our 5th shooting day, which was our 4th day shooting narrative. It was a day which was used to mop up all the shots we hadn’t done yet; we had many shots to do but a limited time frame, it was a rock and roll day. We had to do happy and sad memories of me and Matthew, me running down the stairs and some match on action shots of me running after Matthew and the car speeding off; to be able to get everything done we needed to keep to a tight time scale. We encountered a few problems but we were getting use to problems popping up on our filming days no matter how much we planned. Our major problem was the fact that we got locked out of Jamie’s car, the car had the camera, his keys and all the lights in it; meaning we were stuck until his dad got to mine. Half an hour later his car was unlocked but this still delayed our filming time at the forest which meant we were even more pushed for time. Although it delayed our timing a lot we were still able to get everything done and we were extremely happy with the shots we got in the forest. We didn't get a chance to vlog our feedback so we sat round on the Friday and discussed/evaluated the day; i then went and filmed the evaluation shot at the end, the feedback was a mixture of all of our ideas. The single shots of me and Matthew, although good weren't what we were hoping/looking for therefore we decided to dismiss them for the narrative; but we kept them for digipak ideas. We also all said about how adaptable and creative we were, although some ideas didn't work we still tried to work positively and get what we could get done. Hopefully the next filming day will be our last narrative filming day!!!
We needed to start thinking about our digipak and after doing our digipak questionnaire we decided to started shooting potential shots. We used Tuesday the 21st of February to go to Bexwell forest and shoot some pictures of me laying on the ground on my own. While we were there we decided to do a shot of me walking through the forest as a filler shot incase we needed it. The digipak shoot there went well; we were very lucky with the weather and the fact that sun was out gave great natural lighting. We then went back to sixth form to do the turning the key shot, another successful shot which defiantly is short listed too be used in the match on action section of the video. Altogether the hour we spent filming was extremely successful, we didn't hit any problems for once which was nice. Now we have done all the shooting we are going to assemble the rough cut and get some audience research back on it, from there we will act on their feedback to create our final cut.
Performance
For the performance element of our video we only required one shooting day due to us having a sufficient amount of shots for editing which were at a high standard. Even though this day was on a tight schedule we finished on time and achieved all the shots we intended and some more bonus shots which we are going to use in the video.
Below is a time lapse of us packing up they equipment used in the performance element, we all worked together as a team to clean up the equipment, load it into my car and trailer and tidy the room.