Production log 9

Production log 9

This week has been a struggle as our deadline for production is one thursday, as we decided to change our idea we had to work quickly to get some thing that we liked to submit. We changed our idea to prostitution and we had the idea of showing her getting ready and going out to meet a guy however when we edited it last week and on tuesday we felt that it was to slow and didn't add anything for the viewers attention. We then decided that we should re-film some of our shots we re-filmed in the holidays as they came out to dark when we tried to edit them. As we don't have too much time; me and Ella both thought that it would be a good idea at this stage to work with what we got, so we decided with sir's feedback to make it more like a montage things to show the audience how many times she goes out and about, to get the idea and sense that it's the same thing every night for her. This week also then had to add music to our opening, we found this a bit difficult due to the fact that we wanted a certain beat which we could then match a pace for our repeated clips at the end. We also had to then add our credits and make our title in live type, as we changed our idea, we then had to change the title. Damaged Goods is what we chose because she has been damaged by her new lifestyle but she gets to a point were she doesn't mind her evening life. Sir gave us the idea of adding the lips on our title, which me and Ella both thought was a good idea so we looked up lips. We used free music archive to look for music because it is a copy right free website, We wanted a song also with lyrics. We settled with a drum and bass song from free music archive, we liked the beat of the song and we also liked that we could match the pace with it. Music has been a big decision this week for us because our opening is more like a montage. We also had the problem were we found a song we wanted but it wasn't copyright free. I sent an e-mail but didn't get a reply so we had to find a back-up plan, but we liked the abck up plan.

We also changed the way we were going to put our credits because we didn't like the way the appear on the screen, so we changed it in livetype to a list rather than one by one. We didn't put the credits on IMovie we only had them in live type therefore it was easy to edit. We then created a new title in live type, we wanted a title that connoted something so we had damaged and goods in two different fonts because she's a prostitute but she enjoys it. We then added copyright free kiss marks to show her personality. We didn't want to anything to dramatic because the genre is very plain.

We then had to render our credits from live type to put them into final cut were we had to make the decision of time, placing, length and order. We decided to make them so we have them on the corner of the screen and kept them on screen so we could read them. We decided on the importance by putting the production, and stars first because we thought they were the most important. 

This week has helped me and Ella see what we need to do, however keeping in mind that we don't have much time left as our deadline is fast approaching. It also helped us pick out bits that didn't need to be involved in the opening because they had no meaning. This week has also helped us get everything together and finish off production. We have had to make many new decisions this week whilst finishing production but we over come all these decision, in my view for the best with the best decisions for our work.