LO3: Production Roles, Deadlines , Production Log & Meetings

Henna – Editing, risk assessment, diary log, synopsis, actor profiles, budget plan, recce photos of location and market research

Bahno – Editing, Treatment, locations, prop list, casting photographs and justifications, storyboard, recce photos of location and market research

Gift – Actors, Treatment

Daniel – Actors

Deadlines 

Task	Description	Date to be completed by	Completed? (Tick)
Own Individual idea	During this time, individually in our group we need to complete an initial idea of our own. Then we need to come together and discuss it and select or develop an idea.	07/03/2012
Develop Idea	Use elements or select an idea and develop on it within the group.	11/03/2013
	Produce a mind map to help with the ideas	11/03/2013
Synopsis	Outline what will happen within the advertisement and write up the synopsis as a group	14/03/2013
Market Research	Produce a questionnaire and give out the results	18/03/2013
	Write up the reports, and gain any additional secondary research.	20/03/2013
Confirmation of product	Discuss the cost of product, size, flavours, Broadcast timing, and channel to be aired on.	21/03/2013
Logo	Produce logo for advertisement and our group logo.	25/03/2013
Recording for advert	Record Scene 1, 2 and 3	18/04/2013
Editing and completion of work	Complete any outstanding work left, start editing.	29/04/2013
Record for advert	Record scene 4	2/05/2013
Edit	Add scene 4, last bit and edit and final touches to the advertisement.	13/05/2013

Production meetings and production log

Thursday 7th March 2013

During the two hours of this day our group (Me, Hennah, Gift and Daniel) came up with our own individual idea, which we needed to project to the group. Once we had thought, developed and written our individual ideas we pitched it to our group and then pitched it to the class.

Monday 11^th Match 2013

From this point we developed and expanded on our final idea this being Daniel and Gifts idea and used elements form ideas of ideas from other group member such as myself and also Hennah. Once we decided that this was our final decision we pitched this idea to the class and received feedback from them. After their feedback we made minor adjustments to the name of our product. When deciding our overcall decision for the product we also included a mind map outlining some of the ideas for the product and also different names for our product which lead to our final decision in what it should be. We also as a group discussed and decided on the slogan for our product.

Thursday 14^th March 2013

On this day, our group sat together and discussed information for our synopsis, and we all made sure that we agreed on the same ideas and the way we are going to present our advertising by insuring that we all worked on the synopsis as a group.

Thursday 18^th March 2013

On this afternoon, henna produced our questionnaire and as a group we also added some ideas on questions to ask. Myself and gift helped gain the results for the questionnaires and collected the results from individuals. We as a group then started grouping and organising our results on Microsoft excel in order to produce the statistics and graphs required. When the results were generated we as a group looked at our results and Hennah produced her overall report and also decided to do an individual’s analysis on each on from our questionnaire.

Thursday 21^st March 2013

As a group we decided to negotiate the cost of the drinks that we will have, the drink size this being to provide both can and bottle. We also looked at the flavours that we can include for our advertisement. From our results from the questionnaire we as a group also confirmed on channel which we will broadcasting our advertisement. In addition to tis we also looked at the time our advert should be shown at.

Monday 25^th March 2013

On this day we began looking at our logo and how we want to present the product, this being in terms of the colours used, font and graphics used in order to produce the logo. This allowed us to have a great idea on how to insure that what we used in our product meet the requirements of the target audience we identified. We also made sure that we looked into these areas to insure that the logo produced is made near a professional standard. After creating two designs we finalised the design and made a decision on which logo we wanted to opt towards for our product.

Thursday 28^th March 2013 – Thursday 11^th April March 2013

EASTER HOLDIAY

Thursday 18^th April 2013

On this day we decided to start recording our advert for the product. We as a group started on the Astro Turf. The weather was good, this being beneficial to our health and safety of our actors and ourselves. After the setup and filming we transferred all the footage on the SD card to the Mac computed. We as a group looked at the videos to insure that no particular scenes were missing or needed to re-film. Hennah once more looked to double check this.

Thursday 25^th April 2013

During this session Hennah and I tried to complete any outstanding paperwork, splitting the outstanding work between the two of us so that it would be easier to complete.  Hennah completed the actor profiles, budget plan, risk assessment, synopsis (as a group) and the audience research summary overall till date. Whereas I completed the treatment (with Gift), prop list, locations, storyboard and the casting photographs in addition to this I also did a more focused analysis on each of the questions from our questionnaire results.

Monday 29^TH April 2013

On this day me, Hennah and Gift produced a new design for our energy drink because we were not able to find the logo that Daniel had saved in his area and as he was not present this day we could not locate it. Hence instead of wasting time, we created a new and better design for our drink, printed it and stuck it to our bottle. After this Hennah and I completed any other outstanding paperwork left for this unit.

Thursday 2^nd May 2013

On this day, we filmed the remainder of our sequence for our advert. However, when we went to record we realised that Daniel had changed his shirt to black and on the previous shoot he wore navy blue hence we recorded the sequences for our TV advert from the beginning again.

Monday 6th May 2013

May bank holiday

9th May 2013

On this day Hennah and Gift started to edit the footage we already had and realised that we had to reshoot a certain scene because the actor’s positions were incorrect and they had swapped sides during the filming process. However we edited the scenes we could so that when we had recorded the new scene we could easily edit it and insert it into the timeline.

13^th May 2013

During this day I was not present however at this stage we were just uploading our work, I got in contact with Hennah and just sent her the tasks she did not have so she could upload her blog and Hennah did the same for me too. 

Meetings 

As a group we had many meetings this is one example of our meetings and how they are conducted:  

Minutes for Meeting

Meetings                                         Zeus Sport (Initial Ideas/overall decision)

Date                                               08/03/2013

Time                                              10.00 – 11.00     

Location:                                       Room 203           

Head of Meeting:                           Bahno Mirzad & Hennah              
               

Confidentiality:                               Public

               

1. Status of upcoming operational Review

Bahno Mirzad passed out copies of the brief stating the initial ideas within the group for each. Individuals within the group were made clear of what we are aiming to and what the unit consisted of us.

2. Discuss initial ideas gathered as a group/ overall decision

Hennah discussed her initial idea to the group, followed by this gift then explained his idea. Bahno also added in her initial idea. Finally Daniel went through his idea. All ideas were explored with both advantages and disadvantages.

The chairperson requested a breakdown of how the group will decide on the overall decision and from this point the group selected to use elements from each idea but have the theme sports based.

Action: To think of how to expand this theme to one main idea.

3. Make adjustments to what is necessary

As a group we discussed any improvements adjustment needed for the discussion within our group. We identified none so we moved onto setting actions for the next meeting.

Actions:                              

• Hennah - Decide and explore different areas of sports section that we could narrow our overall decision to.
• Bahno - Look at the advantages and disadvantages of the choices that Hennah has looked into.
• Gift - Explore on the name that we should have for a sport themed idea
• Daniel - Think of how the logo within our production should look like after gift provides a name to our group.