Production Diary of Parallel
Day 1 - 10/11/14 - Group gets together to brainstorm ideas, we pick Max's idea about the double personality which was a good concept but didn't have a clear idea of where it was going. We came up with a possible opening sequence idea and made a film pitch to present to the class.Day 2 - 11/11/14 - We presented our project to the rest of the class and we got some mixed responses. Some people didn't seem to get the concept of the film which didn't come as much of a surprise to us because its supposed to be quite a confusing concept. But people thought it could be quite interesting once it is finished. We also came up with the name Imperium for our film which is Latin for 'control' which links quite well with our film.
Day 3 - 12/11/14 - We decided to change our name because it sounded similar to a sort of roman war type film. The name is now Dissociation which has links with trauma and mental disorders making it relevant to the film. Also we researched films opening that are similar to our idea for a film opening. the films we found were Shallow Grave, Forest Gump and Identity.
Day 4 - 13/11/14 - We thought it would be a good idea to change our genre from drama to black comedy, this is because we thought we could come up with more interesting ideas going down the comedy route. Also we each took a opening sequence that had some relevance to our movie and we took screenshots of each clip with the times that they were on the screen for.
Day 5 - 14/11/14 - This lesson we had to each look at title sequences and see how they are ordered, how long they were and what makes them effective. I focused on Identity and Forest Gump as I thought they had the most interesting openings. We found out that you shouldn't over complicate an opening sequence as it is only an introduction.
Day 6 - 17/11/14 - Today we created our shot list and each person got there individual jobs to do on the research.
Day 7 - 18/11/14 - Max and Liv started on the script, coming up with the characters names and the main idea of the script. Me and Mollie were starting our individual jobs, I was doing the film institutions and Mollie was doing the mood board.
Day 8 - 19/11/14 - We all continued on the jobs we were doing on day 7.
Day 9 - 21/11/14 - Max and Liv finished off the story board and I was making a start on the timeline as I needed the storyboard in order to complete the timeline.
Day 10 - 24/11/14 - Today we filmed our storyboard and created a shooting schedule so we know the best day to film. I completed the timeline.
Day 11 - 25/11/14 - Today we worked individually on our blogs, making sure we were all on track. We have planned to start filming on Friday.
Day 12 - 26/11/14 - Today we continued working individually on our blogs, making sure they were up to date.
Day 13 - 28/11/14 - Today we started our filming. We left school at 1:30 to get to Admirals park and filmed for around 2-3 hours. The weather was really nice and we got all of our opening shots done with some of the dialogue. I did most of the camera work, Max and Liv did some acting and we all pitched in our ideas about what we thought would look nice.
Day 14 - 1/12/14 - Today we did the second half of our filming, finishing off all the clips we had to do, the weather wasn't as nice which may be costly as the lighting could be odd from one clip to another.
Day 15 - 2/12/14 - Today we uploaded our footage which took quite a while because we had to try and transfer the footage from the pc to Max's laptop, but we did manage to test the cloning shot when it was eventually transferred.
Day 16 - 3/12/14 - I did some blogging work and tried to make a poster whilst Max was editing our movie as he knows how to do the cloning better than any of us.
Day 17 - 5/12/14 - Today was the deadline for our first draft, we got a lot of feedback from our class mates and then we continued to work on the poster.
Day 18 - 8/12/14 - We started to make adjustments to our first draft, improving the titles and cutting our some of the wobbles that made our sequence look less professional.
Day 19 - 9/12/14 - I continued to make my poster idea and Liv was trying to change the titles which was tricky as getting the animations and the font right was hard.
Day 20 - 10/12/14 - We all tried to find some music, which was tricky as it was hard to find a song that would have fit the movie well.
Day 21 - 11/12/14 - The titles are starting to look much better and the whole sequence is starting to come together how we imagined it.
Day 22 - 12/12/14 - We'd finished the titles and I stayed after school to finish the music and make it sync with the footage, we completed the final draft of our sequence.