Production Monitering Blog (15/3/11)

Progress

Last week, I worked independently in college and at home on my Unit 3 work, which I completed. I have now finished my mood board, schedule, treatment, two social advert idea outlines, documentary outline and location recce. As well as this, I visited my shooting location, speaking with my actor of shot ideas and how the shoot will pan out.

Day 1

I visited Alex's house, which will be the location of the shoot, in order to assess the shooting space in terms of health and safety and possible problems. I also took photographs of the kitchen to go in my location recce.

Day 2

I completed my location recce, writing about how suitable the location is in terms of shooting as well as health and safety concerns and potential problems. As well as this, I added the photos I took at Alex's house to the recce.

Day 3

I went over my already completed work, adding anything I thought would improve my grade and making sure my work was of a quality I thought was acceptable.
Day 4

On day four, I was ahead of schedule so I decided to move onto the targets for the following week and booked my equipment in advance, ensuring that my shoot would go ahead as planned.

Targets

My initial targets were to book my equipment, rehearse with my actor, film my social advert and transfer my footage to a college Apple Mac. Though, I was ahead of schedule last week and I booked my camera in advance. This has given me more free time and I hope to possibly start editing next week.

Contingencies

The only problems I can foresee are to do with my actor or technical problems. If Alex becomes unavailable to film at a suitable time, that will probably delay the production process as I will most likely have to reschedule my shoot. This will involve booking equipment on another day, which creates another possible problem of the equipment being unavailable. In terms of technical problems, the camera could stop working properly during the shoot. If this happens, I will have no choice but to reschedule the shoot, as I don't know how to fix a camera. Also, when transferring the footage to a college computer, the files could corrupt or be lost. If this happens, production will be delayed as I will have to find another day when my actor is available to shoot the whole advert again. This is a lot to ask of someone that isn't receiving anything for his help, so I am hoping this isn't the case when it comes to shooting next week.