Production Blog for Working to a brief

25/02/14
Today we had our first group meeting to decide what this project was going to be about, we decided what we were each going to research, i decided i was going to research the 1860 Education Act. We also talked about the narrative, style and structure of this project so we were just throwing ideas around. We made a decision that Dale was going to be the liason manager and would keep in contact with the client.

26/02/14
Today we had another meeting, I came up with an agenda and kept track of how long each topic took to discuss, we decided that Ryan was going to be Team Leader, we assigned different job roles to each person. Jordan was in charge of pictures and archive, Rose was going to collaborate with a few of us on the script, Shemar was in charge of Storyboards, the Shot List was going to be mainly Ryan but with help with a few of us. I was going to be in charge of the schedule and make sure we are on track and that we meet the deadline, Isaak is going to be in charge of all the risk assesments and Dale & Shemar are going to be in charge of all the locations and casting actors.
I also finished all the research and annotated it too. Dale received an E-Mail from our client Alice that informed us that we are to meet with her this upcoming meeting to discuss progress, if she had any ideas and share what ideas we had to share.

27/02/14
Today we discussed our meeting with Alice and I also decided to annotate some more of my research, we talked about the topics we were going to discuss with Alice.

3/03/14
Today was the day of our meeting with our client Alice, we talked about what ideas we had and whether she approved of them, we also discussed time limits, Alice initially thought a 15 minute video would be appropriate but we explained that our target audience would be more attracted to something short and sharp that packs a punch, we then gave her our proposal to read over and asked her to give us any feedback. We also asked about any contacts she could think for us to interview. Overall i think the interview was successful and we were much clearer on the project afterwards.
When we got back to college we decided we would make two teams, the reconstruction team and the interview team, i am on the interview team so i looked for some contacts for interviews, i managed to secure two contacts for interviews.

6/03/14
Today we had a group discussion about the progress we are making, i am still talking to both contacts about arranging interviews.

10/03/14
Today me, Jordan and Isaak filmed two reconstruction scenes with Katie (our actress) we wanted to use a dolly to film Katie walking but the ground was too unstable so we created a steady-cam, we also filmed a scene in which Katie opens up her GCSE results to find that she has good grades.

12/03/14
Today me, Ryan and Shemar went over to the college to interview some performing art students about child employment licences. They were fully aware what these licences were because they were going through the process of working with children and one of the students had to licence children herself because she was in charge of a production, we also talked about the pros and cons of having a part time job whilst in school, overall i feel like these interviews went successfully and we got some good informative content.

13/03/14
Today Dale, Ryan and Shemar went and got vox pops around the college, this was successful. The questions that were asked were 'Did you have a part-time job in school?' 'If yes did you enjoy it?' 'If no would you have liked one?' and 'What are the pros and cons of working?'

18/03/14
Today me, Ryan and Shemar went over to Karen Heritage's dance studio to do an interview with her about what is an Entertainment License and how to obtain one, we also talked about child employment and finding a balance between school work and paid work.

19/03/14
Today I worked on scheduling the historical re-enactments, my tutor works with a drama group so i asked her to get in contact with one of her actors to take part in the filming, I also worked out how long this would take and how long filming would take. I looked for locations to use and came up with a main location and also a back up location incase we couldn't get permission to use the main location.

2/04/14
Today me, Ryan Bartle, Shemar Chawla and Rose Ashworth went to our client Alice Gardeners office to interview her about education and entertainment licenses.


15/05/14
Today me, Jordan Dent and Ryan Bartle wrote and recorded a voiceover for our actress Francesca, I thought this process went well overall and it sounded good.