Production journal

PRODUCTION JOURNAL FOR A 5 MINUTE FILM

Director: Callum
Cinematographer: Aaron
Editor: Sam (me)

Original plan: Our original plan was to film a film of a similar style, except it took place in an abandoned asylum. All was going well until we had to try to get inside the asylum. This was very difficult because all the doors were borded up, so we had to squeeze in through a window, with all the equipment. This really broke everyones concentration and our footage was not good. And we didn't want to go back to film, because it would be such a hassle again.

Pre filming planing : We didn't have a very long time to plan our films, or rewrite the scripts. Since we scrapped our original plans of filming in an abandoned asylum. We decided to film in the woods around our school farm. We had a few weeks to write a script and prepare everything needed. And we managed to pull it off just in time.

Film day 1: We arrived at the woods early in the morning and used the crane almost straight away. It took some time to get our concentration up, but we managed to film scene 1 by lunch. We had our lunch at 1 o clock, and filmed all afternoon to almost finnish scene 2. No strange occurrences this day.

Film day 2: We arrived at the woods at the same time and got our concentration up straight away. We finished scene 2, and got halfway through scene 3 by lunch time. We had lunch around the same time as the day before. And then set off to finnish scene 3 and half of scene 4, since the end of scene 4 takes place indoors. During filming one of our actors tripped over a brach and badly hurt their wrist. We sat down to talk about what happened that day. When a man creeped up behind us, he appeared to just be looking for mushrooms. But it was still a little suspicious, and we decided to return back to our school.

Film day 3: We started to name our clips and we had done so by 10 o clock. I then started a rough edit and finished the first scene by lunch. I then edited all afternoon and managed to edit every clip we needed.

Post filming: Trimming down the clips to get the best continuity and cut down on the time to improve pace. We also filmed the final scenes after school and during lunchtime, for the twist ending. That evening, after school, we started to edit the final part of our film. But something had to go wrong. When we listened to the footage again, everybody had a much deeper voice, and the editing program kept jumping around. Our sound recording mic on the camera was broken, so we had no sound. Luckily, we had recorded backup sound on a sound recording device, unfortunately, this sounded even deeper than the original footage. This was very frustrating, and we didn't know if there was something wrong with the program, or if was just rendering slowly.