Unit 1

Date - Friday 8th November, 2019


What task was I asked to complete?
Today, my task was to complete a shot list for my group and I's short film. This would prepare us when we went out and shot the short film. As it lists the costumes, shot types, angle of shots and description.

What was I able to achieve and how did it go?
I achieved making the shot list and it went well. However, i believe that there were too many shots for our short film. This will make the editing and filming process longer.

What could you have improved on in today's lesson?
Today I could have improved my speed as the shot list took very long and delayed planning time for our short film.

What are the plans/improvements you will do for homework/in your future lessons? 
My plans for future work is to use this shot list when filming and planning costume types and a clear order of what shots will be included in each scene.


Date - Tuesday 12th November 2019


What task was I asked to complete?
Today, my task was to continue my work for the short film my group and I are creating. I created the legal and ethical sheets and read through my lines in today's lesson.

What was I able to achieve and how did it go?
I was able to successfully create the legal and ethical sheet, this was important as it protects the filming and editing process of the short film.To provide future documents that show the information on how my group were successfully able to legally and ethically create our film.

What could you have improved on in today's lesson?
I could have improved on my acting skills by practising my lines with more facial expression. As well as practise more of my body language that my character portrays, through the scripts stage directions.

What are the plans/improvements you will do for homework/in your future lessons? 
My future plan in lessons is to teach the sound equipment to the sound manager in my group and act as my character when shooting out short film.


Date - 13th November 2019

What task was I asked to complete?
Today's task was to start filming our short film. I had to act my character (Dan) and follow the directors instructions. 


What was I able to achieve and how did it go?
I was able to act in most of the shots we took and follow the directors instructions.

What could you have improved on in today's lesson?
I could have improved my continuity when acting, as staying in position. I also could have improved on memorizing my lines.

What are the plans/improvements you will do for homework/in your future lessons? 
My plans for next lesson are to learn more of my lines and remember my costume and rpops when acting.

Date - 15th November 2019


What task was I asked to complete?
The task, I was asked to complete was to continue filming/shooting the short film my group and I are working on. Today, my role is to act as my character (Dan) and focus on memorizing lines and listen to the directions given from the director. 

What was I able to achieve and how did it go?
It went very well as my group and I finished shooting all our over the shoulder and mid shot scenes for the short film. My group and I achieved most of our targets for this lesson. All we missed out on finishing was our close up shots.

What could you have improved on in today's lesson?
In today's lesson my group and I could have improved on timing as filming was delayed due to technical issues with the sound equipment and camera. We should have checked our equipment once we'd received it. To speed up the shooting process.

What are the plans/improvements you will do for homework/in your future lessons? 
Next lesson, my plans are to finish our first rough draft of the short film, by shooting the close up and then editing our scenes to finish our rough edit of the Escape, our short film.


Date 18th November 2019

What task was I asked to complete?
The task I was asked to complete was to finish my close up shots for the rough/draft short film shoot. I had to act as my character, Dan. And say the lines while using facial expressions.

What was I able to achieve and how did it go?
It went well, although my group and I were told that we had to edit our draft short film individually, and not just one person in that group. This will delay our process when finalising our short film.

What could you have improved on in today's lesson?
Today, I could have improved on my timing as towards the end of the lesson I ran out of time to upload the footage we shot onto Premiere Pro to start editing. However, I don't have all our footage (the rest is on another computer) so it would be hard to start editing without all the footage anyway. 

What are the plans/improvements you will do for homework/in your future lessons? 
Next lesson, I am going to gather all my footage and begin to edit the draft of the short film. I will be editing all the footage using Premiere Pro and gather the audios with the shoots to prepare for cutting the clips/scenes.


Date 21st November 2019


What tasks was I asked to complete?
Today my group and I had to finish shooting our close up shots and create a shot log to prepare us for editing the short film.

What was I able to achieve and how did it go?
I was able to achieve shooting the close ups, however I ran out of time and had to create the shot log in my spare time. Overall, the shooting went well as the equipment captured the audio and visuals very well.

What could you have improved on in today's lesson?
In today's lesson I could have improved on my timing as I ran out of time to complete my shot log. I could have improved my timing by packing away the equipment at a faster pace.

What are your plans/improvements you will do for homework/in your future lesson?

Next lesson, I will be going through the shot log and begin the editing the rough edit of my group's short film.


Date 23rd November 2019

What tasks was I asked to complete?
My task for today was to start editing my first edit of my group and I's short film. For editing we used Premiere Pro. To organise our editing, we created shot logs for each page/minute of the script/film.

What was I able to achieve and how did it go?
I was able to begin editing and organise my audio with the scenes to help breakdown scene by scene, this improves my editing as it is easier and faster when clipping scenes. 

What could you have improved on in today's lesson?
I could have improved on my speed as I was quite slow with editing, this is because I had to find the audio that went with each scene and match them in time to capture the scene visually and audibly.

What are your plans/improvements you will do for homework/in your future lesson?
My plans for next lesson are to continue editing, once my editing is finished my group snd I will review out edited short film and list what to include and exclude, as well as how to improve for out final finished editing of this short film. 


Date 25th november 2019 

What tasks was I asked to complete?
In today's lesson I began editing my first rough edit of the short film my group and i are creating. I used Premiere Pro to edit with. We had to create a rough edit to know what to improve on with our final edit.

What was I able to achieve and how did it go?
I achieve part of the editing process, although I didn't complete the edit due to my timing. This was because my group and I were struggling to match scenes, as there was a missing scene from our shot log. 

What could you have improved on in today's lesson?
In today's lesson i could have improved on my timing when finding the footage for my short film, rough edit.

What are your plans/improvements you will do for homework/in your future lesson?
My plans for next lesson are to finish my rough edit and start reshooting scenes for the final edit. 

Date 26th november 2019

What tasks was I asked to complete?
I was asked to start re shooting and finish my rough edit. My group and I had to re shoot most of our scenes because the rough edit scenes were poor quality. We used different shot types to create a more interesting visual.

What was I able to achieve and how did it go?
It went well as I finished editing my rough edit and shot 2 pages of the script for our final edit. Although we ran out of time to finish the rest of the re shoot. We still collected good quality footage to use in our final edit.

What could you have improved on in today's lesson?
Today, my group and i could have improved on timing as we didn't finish re shooting all the footage we wanted to. However, the footage we filmed has improved in quality, in comparison to our rough edit. 

What are your plans/improvements you will do for homework/in your future lesson?
Next lesson, my group and i plan to finish re shooting our final edit scenes and begin the final editing process, using Premiere Pro. 


Date 27th November 2019

What tasks was I asked to complete?
I was asked to re shoot my short film for the final edit and evaluate my rough edit that I edited in the previous lesson. By evaluating my rough edit, I had to receive feedback then write about how the negatives and how i can improve.

What was I able to achieve and how did it go?
I was able to evaluate my rough edit successfully and start re shooting. Re shooting went well, although we ran out of time.

What could you have improved on in today's lesson?
I could have improved on timing as my group and I ran out of time when re shooting because we struggled with technical difficulties with the audio.

What are your plans/improvements you will do for homework/in your future lesson?
Next lesson, my group and I plan to finish re shooting our scenes and begin editing our final edit of the short film. 


Date 28th November 2019

What tasks was I asked to complete?
Today my group and I had to film close ups for our final edit. When filming our close ups we suffered with some technical issues and the footage became unusable. Also one of the main actors was absent for that lesson, therefore we couldn't finish filming our final edit. 

What was I able to achieve and how did it go?
We weren't able to achieve a lot of filming, although my group and I finished writing our shot log and storyboard for our final edit. 

What could you have improved on in today's lesson?
My group and I could have improved on the timing as our filming process failed and our writing process took up a lot of time. 

What are your plans/improvements you will do for homework/in your future lesson?
Next lesson, my group and I planned to start filming our final edit scenes and start editing them. 


Date 29th November 2019


What tasks was I asked to complete?
My group and I were asked to finish filming our final edit footage/shoots and upload our footage and audio onto our computers. This will allow us to have a quicker editing process for next lesson. 

What was I able to achieve and how did it go?
It went very well as my group and I finished filming all of our script/scenes and uploaded our audio and footage successfully.

What could you have improved on in today's lesson?
We couldn't have improved on anything this lesson as we had finished all the tasks that we needed to complete.

What are your plans/improvements you will do for homework/in your future lesson?
Next lesson, my group and I plan to edit our final cut next lesson and finish our short film.


Date 2nd December 2019 


What tasks was I asked to complete?

I was asked to finish my final edit and plan what we want to re shoot and how we can improve our final edit.

What was I able to achieve and how did it go?
It went wall, as I finished my final edit and my group and I planned to re shoot some scenes in our short film. For example, we are re shooting some close ups and filming a final shot of the three character walking into the field, as it links to the script and gives a final  meaning behind it.

What could you have improved on in today's lesson?
My group and I could have improved on timing as not everyone had finished their final edit and it delayed time for planning the next lesson.

What are your plans/improvements you will do for homework/in your future lesson?
My plans for next lesson, are to re shoot some scenes and plan a little more and see how else we can improve our short film over the next the next two lessons.


Date 3th December 2019 


What tasks was I asked to complete?
I was asked to start re shooting scenes for our second final edit and plan what we want to re shoot as well as what action we want to include, by voting in my group on the best ideas, to improve our short film.

What was I able to achieve and how did it go?
I was able to achieve this quite successfully, as my group and I filmed 3 out of the 5 five scenes that we need to re shoot, however because there were no suitable classrooms we could film in, it delayed our filming process.

What could you have improved on in today's lesson?
My group and I could have improved on planning as it would have sped up our time filming and we could edit sooner. To plan we should next time find a suitable classroom before lesson, so that we have a location to film in as it will quicken the filming process and help us focus on editing.

What are your plans/improvements you will do for homework/in your future lesson?
Next lesson, my group and I plan to finish re shooting all our scenes and begin editing our second final edit. This will allow us to finish everything by the deadline on Monday, if we complete our plans successfully.


Date 4th December 2019

What tasks was I asked to complete?
The task my group and I had to complete was to finish the last scenes for our final edit/short film and upload the footage onto our computers. 

What was I able to achieve and how did it go?
My group and I were able to achieve the task very well as we finished shooting. For example, we shot our running scene that finalised the short film and gave a more satisfying ending. We also uploaded all our scenes successfully. 

What could you have improved on in today's lesson?
We could have improved on planning as in the beginning of the lesson we struggled to find a classroom to film in, however we found one eventually it just delayed the filming process. 

What are your plans/improvements you will do for homework/in your future lesson?
My group and I plan to edit our final short film over the next two lessons, and I will edit our film on Premiere Pro. 

Date 10th December 2019

What tasks was I asked to complete?
I was asked to review the short films my class and I created, as well as receiving feedback and returning it. I also started a new brief on graphic design. This graphic design brief asks me to create a poster based upon film poster templates and a theme. My class and I were also tasked to re create a film poster using Photoshop and to gather eight film posters, deciding on five positive ones and three negative ones.

What was I able to achieve and how did it go?
I was able to achieve it well as I reviewed my short film and others, as well as receiving feedback. I also finished re creating the poster and reviewing the negative and positive aspects of the eight posters.

What could you have improved on in today's lesson?
I couldn't have improved on anything, as I completed all the tasks. Although I put in extra time when re creating the poster and reviewing the eight, due to timing limits in lesson.

What are your plans/improvements you will do for homework/in your future lesson?
My plans for next lesson are to complete the  new tasks given to me in lesson.





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