Production Diary no.1

Since the main role - Rizwana's character Aara, wasn't here today, we decided to shoot the shots where we felt she didn't have to be in it:

Kate opens door

Kate finds lipstick

Girls about to walk out of toilet

Kate comes out

camera person of the day: Jessica

Create a sound track [UPDATE]

Responding to Dan's feedback, we looked at some more song choices that we felt were more girly, and possibly better fitting for our title sequence. We all considered the instrumental for the song "Bang Bang" by Ariana Grande:

We also looked at:

Iggy Azalea's "Fancy" featuring Charli XCX (from when the clapping beat starts)

and

"Sugar" by Maroon 5 (from when the beat starts)

additionally, in the beginning, this was also a consideration for the title sequence's soundtrack, since it's quite a fun and light beat, like we want our audience to perceive our High school comedy drama

 or 

Upon editing the clips that we do have, we will decide on whether to keep our original sound track or choose one of these girlier instrumental sounds.

40. Revisions to pitch and final decisions in light of feedback

We received both positive and negative feedback. However, the negative feedback will help to improve our pitch. We need to revise our pitch and make some changes as a result of the feedback.

Positive Feedback:

• The basic idea of our story is good - a high-school drama focusing on three girls. It's different to what most of the class is doing. This gives us our unique selling point (USP).
• The storyboards are very well drawn and planned.
• Fox Searchlight Pictures is a very good choice.
• Our animatic  on Final Cut Pro

Constructive Criticism:

• The storyboards are good, but there are a few suggestions that can be added to improve them.
• The shots of the girls getting ready in the college toilets could be changed to them getting ready at home in the bathroom of one of the girls.
• Flashbacks are hard to incorporate into our film, and our audience may not understand that it's a flashback. If we intend on keeping the flashback we must make it clear for the audience i.e. voice over. The idea of flash-backing  out of the sequence then flash-backing back in could complicate our opening sequence, so it would be good to add it at the end.
• When we talked about representation we didn't quite differentiate between different social groups and character types, which are two different things. Our social group, in terms of our ethnicity, class, gender, and so on, is different from someone who is a bit nerdy and cheeky.
• Make the soundtrack more girly, more feminine and indicating fun.

 Final decisions in light of feedback:

• Few suggestions that can be added to improve the storyboards.
• The shots of the girls getting ready in the college toilets could be changed to them getting ready at home in the bathroom of one of the girls.
• Add flashback to the end of the opening sequence.
• Differentiate between different social groups and character types properly.

39. Pitch Feedback

Video of our Pitch

38. The Pitch

Risk Assessment

During pre-production and post-production, we need to make sure that we cover:

• placement of equipment - we don't want anyone to get injured by any wires, or heavy instruments.

• noise - we need to ensure that we can still hear diegetic sound whilst shooting as we don't want to only rely on non-diegetic sound in post producting/editing.

• Storage - we must ensure that all of our SD card(s), video drives and memory sticks are stored in a safe and easy to remember place at ALL times, and backed up to other devices in case of malfunctions, corruptions or any other technical difficulties.