Production Log - Paper Boy

Production Blog
Tuesday 26th February
This was the day that we were put in to our production groups and i was put with Matt and Lewis which i was happy with as i knew that they would have some good ideas for our short film and also as i knew that they would get the film done to the best of our abilities. We discussed and pitched our ideas to the others to try and decide on what our story was going to be about and we decided that Matts idea was the best to go with so we went with it.
Thursday 28th Febuary - Tuesday 12th March
Me, Matt and Lewis had been doing pre-production over this period of time and we had made sure that everyone had a section of pre-production to do each. Over each of these three days at college Matt was working on the script, I was working on the props and costume list, the budget breakdown and also the talent and location release. Over these three days Lewis did the films that we took inspiration from he also started the storyboard and finished it over the weekend.
Monday 4th March - Thursday 7th March
We have been messaging in the group chat that we have with many ideas of things that we can implement into our short film ranging from different shot types and also ideas for the story line expanding on what we already had which helped a lot as we all put in some ideas into the short film. Also over this week we have been going through everything in more detail during Sujatas lessons as well as completing the pre-production that was required for us to complete so that we could film. In this week we managed to complete the rest of the pre production that was required.
Friday 8th March
We met up that day and filmed a large majority of our film from 7:00 am till 3:30 pm during this time we manged to film scenes 1 - 3 as the remaining scenes we did not have to shoot at Matts house or in the area of Matts House. We filmed Scene 1 Which was all set in Lewis' house (Matts House) all in this day. We also Filmed scene 2 which was set around Matt's House in the local area and at the local corner shop. We also managed to film scene 3 which was the scene in the creepy house and this house was next door to Matts house. We also filmed more clips on that day but I had to cut them out in the editing stage due to the time limit that i had.
Tuesday 12th March
We had began discussing on another way to end our film as we feel that we will not be able to do the torture scene as we cant make time to go and film it in the garage at Matts house and so we decided that we could do a torture scene in Manacroft park during college hours as it meant that we could have everyone there that we needed to be there.
Thursday 14th March
Me and Lewis managed to film the college scene during Sujatas lesson with Jake, Luke and a few extras as Matt was not there during the lesson.
We then went to Manacroft park during the period after lunch with Ethan and we filmed the torture scene at the park which went very well and we were able to film it all in that limited time as some of us had lessons after that period.
Friday 22nd March
On this day we had Sujata and the rest of the class watch our short films and from this the class and Sujata gave me constructive criticism and how my film can be improved and so i took in everything that people had said would improve my film and i tried to include and change what people said didn't work and what they said worked and also what they recommended i included.
Editing
After we had finished with the filming I began to edit during the lessons that we had and I also spent time after college to edit so that I can make the deadline for the rough cut.
After receiving feedback on the rough cut I am now re-editing based on the feedback that I received.
Tuesday 23rd April - Friday 26th April
Over these past three days in lesson I have been making amendments to my short film after receiving the feedback so that I can improve my grade and as I feel that what I originally had was not done to the best of my abilities and that I had a large amount of room to improvement to make. The improvement that i needed to make was to mainly add audio as there were many sections that had no audio which was not meant to be like that but it was there. This meant that the short film felt very long and it dragged but when i added the music it made the film flow much smoother and it did not feel as long as it did before.
Thursday 2nd May
Today i have worked on my re-editing scene 4 and scene 5 as they need very little done to them so I have just added the audio to them which makes the short film so much better than it was. I have then added them to my final version of the film and I have exported it.
Friday 3rd May
Today I have worked on making sure that my film is at the final stage which it is so i have exported it and left it in my student homework drive and i have also completed myself evaluation of Paper boy.

The Office

The Office (2005-2013) Many Directors

The office is an American sitcom that is set in a paper company and it follows co workers in an office. It is a single camera production so the show does not contain many complex shots.

The clip starts of with a title card saying the name of the show. It then cuts to a mid shot of the character Dwight putting his foot up onto his desk suggesting to the audience that there are no boundaries in the office and also it is showing the setting. It then cuts to a two shot where one of  Dwight's co workers is looking at what  Dwight is doing in disgust to so that the audience know that the other people in the office do not like what he is doing and it also shows the audience that Dwight is not doing this secretly. It then zooms into the co workers face so that it is a close shot and we can see his reactions before cutting to a close up shot of Dwight's foot trying to pick a pencil up this tells the audience what the other actor is looking at. The camera then zooms out back to a mid shot of Dwight so that the audience still know that it is him. The shots then alternate between the two men as they have a conversation with each other we know this as they are following the 180 degree rule and each shot is a mid shot as they are sitting at desks so we can only see from their torso. All the shots that have been used in this scene are hand held shots as there is a slight wobble on the camera in every shots which helps the realism as it makes it feel as if you are someone who is in the show.