Blog Tick List - Updated (2)

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RESEARCH
Genre Research and mind-maps (3 posts)	Genre Map Reasearch is completed	Action and Crime mind maps are included
Uploaded YouTube videos of openings – analysed (10 openings)	10 Youtube Clips uploaded and Analysed - Whole range of different genres	All have been completed and uploaded to the blog - Various different
Opening titles analysed in detail – font researched	Completed - Fight Club	Different Font research completed, Title research completed
Uploaded YouTube videos of similar genre openings analysed in detail (3 posts)	Completed	This has been completed today with me uploading 2 more posts - The Departed and The God Father
Costume and location research – google earth and pictures you’ve taken. (At least 2 posts)	Completed	Changed the loaction from outside to an Interication Room
Actors and props photos and interviews	Needs to be uploaded	Going to be completed today and then uploaded
Soundtrack research (non-copyright music)	SoundTrack research has been completed - Our favourite one has been uploaded to our blog - Try and compose something simular
Audience Research and Profiling (typical audience member and similar films)	Completed
Institution research (Paramount etc)	Completed	More detail has been added
Certificate research	Completed
PLANNING
Own film idea brainstorm	Completed and uploaded to the blog
Own film treatment
Relevant Online Tutorials (on filming and editing) and Comments (At least 2 posts)	Completed	Added the tutorial on how I made the practice titles - Added new tutorial about the Make-Up use for our film
Documenting of influences on production
Shot lists	Completed	Completed the shot list and shot types of filming/editing and they're in depth
Consideration of representation in your film and stereotyping – use theory from G325.
Questionnaire (and feedback) Get some feedback on your initial ideas!	Completed
Diary of filming/editing etc with photos and screen grabs (At least 3 posts)	Completed - Needs editing and uploaded	Completed on Film day - just needs editing and uploaded
Mood board	Action mood board is completed
Script	Script is Completed	Uploaded and Completed
Practice titles created and uploaded	Completed - Uploaded New one has been created and uploaded	The new one is made and uploaded to the Blog
Storyboard – animatic.
Time Management Schedule – what you did& when, problems you encountered& solved	Completed	Filming is finished and uploaded to the blog
Codes and Conventions featured in your Opening Two Minutes	Completed
Ensure that all posts have a title, detailed comments and relevant pictures which are commented on.	Completed

Audience Research - Action

 

This audience research is what we used to help make our decision on what genre to make our opening 2 minutes. We can see from the Age, Gender and Children categories on what sort of audience are more likely to watch an action film

 

In the Age category, the ages more likely to watch an action film would be from the ages of 18-44 with an overall percentage of 69%, this could be because most action films are around 15 years+ making it more appealing for the youthful/young adult population and also the middle ages population.

 

The Gender category shows that the Male Gender is more likely to watch an action film than the female audience. With the male audience having 61% of the total percentage, this means that action films are more likely to appeal to the male audience, this could be because of the fight scenes, car chases, shootings, blood etc. this could be what appeals to the male audience stereotypically, but this wouldnt appeal to most of the female audience.

 

The children Category shows us the percentage of adults that have/do not have children and how action films would appeal to them. The highest being people with no children with 54% this could be that they would be able to watch the films they like without any hassell of a young child, who would not be suitable to the young child.

 

 Overall, this is what helped us make the decision of making our opening 2 minutes an action film, as this audience research show us what type of audience that our film would appeal and also what taget audience we should be going for.

 

 

 

Codes and Conventions - Our Opening 2 minutes - Crime/Action/Interrogation

These are some of the codes and conventions of our Action/Crime/Interrogation opening 2 minutes, some of these were included in our opening 2 minutes but someone of these codes/conventions are the sterotypical action/crime film.

These are some of the codes and conventions used in our opening 2 minuutes of our film

• Weapons - Knifes, Guns etc
• Outbursts in settings
• Outbreaks in windows, doors, houses, walls etc.
• Fights
• Antagonist and Protagonist
• Sinister, up beat nerve racking music

Those codes and conventions are just some that were included in our opening two minutes. There are more stereotypical action/crime codes that are used, these are;

• Hi-Tech equipment - Gadgets etc
• Mass destruction
• Car chases/Chase scenes
• Explosions and crashes
• Many Fight scenes

Full script - OUTGONE

Non diagetic music of a struggle, scene is black with the titles showing. mid paced diagetic music
-henchman removes bag of face
-point of view show of dark room
-jump cut to close up of fairly bruised confused face.
-zooms out to mid shot establishing three character, two henchmen and a victim in the middle.
-shot establishes the surroundings, which is dark and industrial looking.
SAM: w-whats happening? why am i here?
-non diagetic music voice accompanied by footsteps
-maintaining mid shot of three characters.
Avraj: the reason for your being here is due to the consequences of your actions.
-jump cut to point of view shot of feet the feet of the man walking into the room.
- point of view shot of feet slowly pans up to reveal who he is as he continues to walk in.
- shot reverse shot,close up of Sam.
SAM: w-what do you mean my actions?
-shot back to mid shot of man in suit as he removes his jacket and pulls chair opposite Sam.
Avraj: Don't play games with me boy, you are well aware of your actions
-Avraj rolls up sleeves
Avraj: however, if you wish for me to clarify
- grabs sams hand and places it in vice.
Avraj: then i would be glad to make it apparent
-shot reverse shot
Sam: w-who are you?
- shot reverse shot
Avraj: i am here to deliver punishment for the sins of the wicked
-close up of vice being tightened
-jump cut to sams face, showing pain
Sam: STOP! please, STOP!
cose up of avraj's face
Avraj: Did you stop?
-contimnues to tighten

Equipment - Editing Programme - Sony Vegas Pro 11

Sony Vegas does not require any specialized hardware to run properly, allowing it to operate on almost any standard Windows computer across a broad range of hardware.
In areas of compositing and motion graphics Vegas provides a broad tool set including 3D track motion compositing with control over z-depth, and spatial arrangement of visual planes including plane intersection. Unfortunately keyframing of simple 2D motion lacks bezier adjustments and multiple keyframed smooth motion is marred by slowdowns or hesitations at each keyframe.
Much of the visual effects processing in Vegas follows an audio-like paradigm. Effects can be applied at any stage of the visual signal flow — event level, track level and output level effects, much like reverb, delay and flange audio effects are applied in a digital audio system, like Pro Tools, Cubase or Sonar. Master output effects can also be controlled and manipulated over time by the use of Master Bus track automation envelopes.

Sony announced Vegas Pro 11 on September 9, 2011, and it was released on October 17, 2011. Updated features include GPGPU acceleration of video decoding, effects, playback, compositing, pan/crop, transitions, and motion. Other improvements are to include enhanced text tools, enhanced stereoscopic/3D features, RAW photo support, and new event synchronization mechanisms. In addition,Vegas Pro 11 comes pre-loaded with "NewBlue" Titler Pro, a 2D and 3D titling plug-in.
Unlike previous versions of Vegas Pro, version 11 does not support Windows XP (with x64 Version - For switch compatible setup).

Equipment - Camera

Sony HDR-CX220 Camcorder

The Sony CX220 is a Full HD Camcorder featuring a wide-angle Carl Zeiss lens

With this camera we were able to:

• Get more into the frame with a wide angle lens - Record detail-packed, high quality Full HD video using the popular AVCHD format
• Get closer in a click - 32x extended zoom and advanced image processing let you zoom quickly into a scene and capture clear footage
• Shoot in low light and see the detail - The sensitive Exmor R™ CMOS sensor means you can capture detailed video and stills with reduced image noise, even in low light
• Capture quick motion in crisp detail - A high-speed BIONZ image processor gives you enhanced image quality and performance when you’re shooting fast-moving subjects
• Smooth and natural fast action - Perfect for filming sport, the 1920x1080/50p progressive mode records at a very high frame rate of 50 Full HD frames a second
• Capture stills in sharp detail - With 8.9 megapixel still image recording, you can shoot crisp, clear High Definition photos as well as movies
• Easy to review and play videos and images - Clearly see what you’ve shot on the 6.7cm (2.7 inch) Clear Photo LCD display
• Just point and shoot, without adjusting settings - iAuto automatically adjusts settings for the best results, recognising different faces, lighting and scenes such as landscapes
• Pick out the smiles in every scene - With Face Detection and Smile Shutter, you can automatically capture still photos of smiling faces while recording video
• Handy charging and connections - The USB cable stores neatly inside the Handycam®, always ready to connect to a computer, transfer videos and recharge the battery

Fight Club - Title Analysis

The opening titles to Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999) provides an excellent example of a sequence that symbolically references aspects of the film to come. This is what a title sequence must do. It should give the spectator clues as to what the film is about and in doing so shape their expectations. These clues are not always overt clues about characters and narrative but are often subtle suggestions regarding theme and mood.

The Fight Club title sequence is constructed of subtle references to themes of identity, deception and physical and psychological instability, all of which are explored in the film. The text itself can be seen to strongly suggest themes of identity. The cast and crew’s identity is displayed to the spectator in the form of titles, however the appearance and movement of these titles can be seen to connote strong ideas of not only identity but more specifically, hidden and fractured identity. In some of the titles there are what appears to be chunks absent from some letters, lines of text overlap each other and the top line of text moves further behind the more prominent, bottom line of text as if becoming hidden from the audience. The text is displayed for a short duration each time before seeming to disintegrate through use of transition that looks as though the text transforms to dust or vapour. The fact that the spectator is not given a lot of time to process the information before the titles disappear alludes to the concept of illusive identity. This is reinforced by the extremely quick presentation (one or two frames, when the film’s title ‘Fight Club’ is introduced on screen) of a larger, unreadable title card where letters fill most of the frame. This combined with the appearance of white ‘flashes’ throughout the sequence can be read as a prelude to the subliminal flashes of Tyler Durden’s character later in the film ( extremely short duration, missable visual suggestions of his presence).

The other graphics in the sequence connote ideas about the physical structure of the body. Although only suggested until the end of the title sequence, the spectator is viewing matter inside of the main character’s (and narrator’s) body and brain. We seem to be presented with particles, veins, tissue and cells – suggested but not clearly identifiable. Electric currents run through connective synaptic tissue as the camera winds its way through the represented physical environment. This immediate focus on the human body is also a precursor to themes and narrative events: The main character, experiencing severe insomnia, finds comfort in frequenting a number of support groups for sufferers of serious physical diseases such as testicular cancer. Throughout the film the body and its fragility is a focus, particularly shown in the fighting scenes. At the end of the title sequence the spectator is introduced to the main character as the camera reveals an extreme close up of his terrified face. The theme of threat to the human body is further suggested as we see him with a swollen black eye and a gun pointed into his mouth.

Outgone - Final Piece - 2 Minute Film

This is our 2 minute final AS Media production, this was filmed on Friday the 24th January
This was edited on Sony Vegas Pro 11 and there is no copy right intended 

Actors: Max Chillman as "The Henchman"
             Avraj Chagger as "The Interrogator"
             Sam McCool as "The Victim/Interrorgated"

Directed and Edited by James Young (Me)

Enjoy 

Time Management (Part 2)

We have recently decided that we are going to film the rest of the short film on Friday 24th January

Editing has started - Sunday 18th January
New Title Sequence and opening titles were made - Tuesday 21st January and was uploaded to the blogs on that day too.
Script is still to be finalized and last bits needed to be added in, should be finished by Thursday 23rd January and then ready for the filming on Friday
Everything should be completed and uploaded to our blogs, including; Finishing the film, editing and checking for any bloopers etc by Wednesday 29th January - Friday 31st January

Outgone - Brainstoming Ideas

This is just a simple brainstorm/Mind Map of our movie - Outgone. The different colour arrows show what exactly what we are going to use in our film. The Green linking up to the right type of setting/location, Costume, Genre and Extra on what we are going to use/do in our film. The Purple Arrows show the other ideas/possibilities on what we were thinking about using or the setting we were going to use, just before discussing it and then choosing our film idea. The Red Arrows simply just show the different subheadings/sub categories.

We all decided that in our film we are going to be wearing suits, the setting will be in an interrogation room where questions and answers will be asked (action scenes too) and the genre will be Action/Crime.  

Touch of Evil Analysis

In the introduction of the scene, there is a immediate close up shot of the bomb device. Following this close up, the scene progresses, as the use of the crane shot seems to progress and follow the action in the particular frame of the scene. The cinematography seems to be varied in terms of camera movement and camera angles, giving the sense of suspense within the scene.

The use of a close up shot of a person setting the bomb could connote how something tragic is about to happen and gives an insight into the expectations of the narrative as a whole. After the activation, the use of a tracking shot is evident, as the camera seems to follow the assassin planting the bomb in the car boot, which could be an enigma code, as the audience could wonder why the assassin is planting the bomb and who he intends to assassinate.
Although he is the villain, the audience are encouraged to identify with him in the form of tracking shots, as we are seemingly following him and realise his motives and intentions, ie setting a bomb, planting it in a car boot. Shortly after this, a crane shot is used to show how the car is significant in the result of the scene.

Immediately, the scene cuts to an establishing shot of the town, the use of a high angle shot is used to show how other charters are unaware of what is about to happen, normality is conveyed here. By using these shots, we are encouraged to identify with the villian, as we are seemingly observing the plan in action.

The use of long shots and medium shots are used to show how the car is being positioned intentionally in a public place within the town, in order to target the people to which the bomb was intended for.

At the beginning of the scene, there is use of non digetic sound and normal parallel sound of ticking noises coming from the bomb, excitedly the music seems to slowly rise in tempo, which could signifies how the assassin is joyfully anticipating destruction, to an extent the audience could identify with him, as we share the assassin's mood of sadistic violence, which could arouse certain pleasures from the audience.

However, there is a shift in music , when the couple get into the car, a more lively jazz music plays, this seems to pacify the scene and seems to cut the tension, from the more tense drum sounds. This music could connote a sense of irony, as the couple are unaware of the bomb in the car boot, and are not expecting a bomb to explode. The music could act as the disequilibrium, as it defecates the lively jazz music, and could connote trouble and tragedy

Comparing the Old and New Titles for Outgone

The two title sequences for our short film were both done on Sony Vegas Pro 11, which is a very good and highly rated editing programme. The first one is just a simple fade in and out from different letts spelling out - OUTGONE. Where as the new finalised one has a more action theme towards it as there is a bullet and the crashing of the title at the start with the title (OUTGONE) highlighted in the centre of the scree, adding bullet holes around the title aswell to give it the action feel towards the audience watching it. It is also 3D in a way as it catches the viewers eyes.
 These two were made by two completely different tutorials where one of them was on youtube and the other was on a website that I found by typing it in on google.
Overall i am proud of both of these as they all took time to make and shows the progress of the different types of editing used.

The new one will be used in our opening 2 minutes as it gives the audience a more action/thriller/crime effect that will be useful for our film. It also links in with our interrogation scene that we are using for our film, hence that this will give us the effect needed for an action film.

OUTGONE - New Titles COMPLETED

Here is the final and completed title sequence for our 2 minute film - Outgone - Enjoy

Finalised Opening titles - OUTGONE

For the past couple of hours I have followed a tutorial on how to make a good title sequence for our A Level film coursework, after creating and following the tutorial on how to do this title sequence,I finally completed it. This was made on Sony Vegas Pro 11, which is a good software to use for making title sequences and editing etc. In the next post will be the title sequence and the finalised edition of our titles

Outgone - Practise title sequence

Here is the practise title sequence for our 2 minute short film. We called it Outgone, this may change due to recent changes in location etc, but it may be kept the same. This was made on Sony Vegas Pro 11 and had help from youtube tutorials to make it, this is just a simple easy effective action title sequence that took me a around 2 hours to complete due to being new to the software. I will be making a new title sequence for our film.

Trainspotting - Analysis

The opening scene from ‘Trainspotting’ introduces the main characters in the film. As it is filming them doing various things it freezes on them and in white text says their name. All the main characters are male heroin addicts. The Scottish accent in the narration informs us that it is set in Scotland and we assume it belongs to the main character shot in the extract, ‘Renton’. The scene opens with Renton running on a road stealing from CD shops to pay for his addiction; symbolically he is running on the ‘road to nowhere’. The scene is energetic and rowdy due to the fast drum beat (which represents the pumping adrenaline in the men’s bodies) in the music and the fast pace of speech as well as the action taking place such as running and football. This creates an impression that the film is very male as it is mainly men in the film playing football etc. There are also someone women in the scene, however they are only there for a short shot and they are cheering on the men suggesting that the women have a very secondary type of role in the film. The smoking and reference to drugs as well as the running away in the opening scene suggests that the men ‘live fast’ and therefore do not live the conventional everyday life which represents the type of film the audience are about to watch. The film is of the drama genre however its sub genres are also comedy, crime and drug culture. ‘Trainspotting’ is classified as drama since it is a serious story due to the drug habit and several scenes that showed the real lives of junkies, and graphic images of injecting heroin. On the other hand it can be classified as comedy as there are moments of ‘black humour’ that are there to lighten up the seriousness of the film. ‘Trainspotting’ can also be under the crime and drug culture genre due to the story in itself and the characters This film gives us a very vivid and real picture of a heroin addict's every day routine and living life synchronized around getting what they need.

The scene fades in from black and then opens with a long shot of a shopping street using a low angle. Two men run into the shot and it cuts to a medium two shot of the two men. It then cuts between the shot of the two men running and their feet various times. It is a tracking shot as it moves with the men as they run. The camera pans through other parts of the shooting location as well as shooting the men running; there are also various long shots of both men running away from the camera, shot at eye level. Crane shots are also used to catch all the action of the scene. It then cuts to a medium shot of the previously running man in an apartment smoking a cigarette; he is clearly high as the camera then cuts to a long shot of the man standing in the apartment about to perhaps collapse. The camera then quickly cuts to an oblique, long shot of a group of men on a football pitch standing in pose as if they were waiting for a photo to be taken, the camera then cuts to an identical shot of another ‘team’ doing the same thing. There is a football in the central foreground of both these shots and a net in the background which creates the idea that they are about to play football. It then cuts to handheld, long and medium shots of the men playing football following them round the pitch. The audience witnesses a man being kicked in the head with a football, as he falls backwards the scene cuts back to the man in the apartment who also falls. The camera then shows a close up of the side view of the man’s face and then pans his body.

Before the camera fades in from black there is 6 seconds of blackness where the audience can only hear the sound of men running, as soon as the scene fades in we hear the drum beat of Iggy Pop’s song ‘Lust for Life’ which links to the sarcastic narration throughout the whole scene of the main character. The narration is the most famous monologue from the film and talks about the different choices society tells us to choose and how in his opinion you end life bored and unsatisfied if you take these paths. It also includes the famous film quote ‘choose life’, he cynically finishes this narration with ‘I chose not to choose life, and the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin?’ suggesting that heroin is his life and creates dramatic potential for the rest of the film and encourages the audience to watch the rest. He is basically saying he is rejecting ‘normal’ life for the ‘joys of heroin.’ The voice over narration informs the reader the main message and story behind the film about the choices we have to make in life juxtaposition with the life of a heroin addict and the choices they have to make. Throughout the extract there are also sound effects that link to the different paradigms being shown in the scene, for example an accelerating car, the laughter and shouting of the men, cheering when the ‘football team’ is in shot.

The lighting in the extract starts of bright as it is daylight in the parts where the men are running away which suggests that they do not care what time of day they commit crime, they will do it whenever the opportunity arises so that they can fund their habit. The lighting in the flat is dark and there is only one small source of light coming from outside which represents the poor living conditions a serious heroin addict has as all the can afford to pay for is there next ‘hit’. The lighting when they are playing football is outside at night time and is very dark; whilst ‘ordinary’ people sleep at night so that they are energised for work the next day, these addicts stay up playing football, this is another representation of the life they lead.

In my analysis I have shown how the opening sequence of the film ‘Trainspotting’ is an introduction to the characters, location and main plot and message of the film, in some ways the audience knows the basics of what is to come in the film. The lighting, sound, editing and camera techniques help to create an adrenaline rush for the audience so that they can relate to the characters in the film. It also helps to create an energetic atmosphere in the extract. The opening scene basically represents the life of a heroin addict

Script - Sneak Preview - Outgone

Non diagetic music of a struggle, scene is black with the titles showing. mid paced diagetic music - (Interrogration Soundtrack)
-henchman removes bag of face (Max and James)
-point of view show of dark room
-jump cut to close up of fairly bruised confused face.
-zooms out to mid shot establishing three character, two henchmen and a victim in the middle.
-shot establishes the surroundings, which is dark and industrial looking.
SAM: w-w-whats happening? why am I here?
-non diagetic music voice accompanied by footsteps
-maintaining mid shot of three characters.
Avraj: the reason for your being here is due to the consequences of your actions.
-jump cut to point of view shot of feet the feet of the man walking into the room.
- point of view shot of feet slowly pans up to reveal who he is as he continues to walk in.
- shot reverse shot,close up of Sam.
SAM: w-what do you mean my actions?
-shot back to mid shot of man in suit as he removes his jacket and pulls chair opposite Sam

SoundTrack Research - Interrogration

Even though this is a popular Call Of Duty game that is played on Xbox, Ps3 and on the PC, this Interrogation room soundtrack is the type of soundtrack we need for our opening 2 minutes, as a background soundtrack as it fades into the titles. This soundtrack has the eeary effect of being rapped ina room by yourself with one other person who's trying to ask you questions, hence it being called an Interrogration room. This soundtrack is quite easy to mimic if the right software is involved. It starts off as a hard drop of a slight bass with a crackling sound to give the sort of scary/eeary effect that it is trying to achieve and is the same throughout the soundtrack, this would give the audience a fearful effect as they would be able to relate to the person who is getting Interrogated as the actor would feel helpless, full of fear and scared on what is going to happen to him.

Overall, this soundtrack is personally the right type of soundtrack needed for our film, due to copyright we are unable to use this soundtrack as it is a part of the Call of Duty franchise. We are going to try and make one ourselves for our film by hopefully using the right software and tools for making a quality Interrogation soundtrack

Codes and Conventions - Crime/Gangster Film

Comment from Miss McKinney

Well done James - you have worked well since completing the tick list and have started making your way methodically through the unfinished tasks. Remember the deadline for research and planning is 27th January.

Action film Analysis - Casino Royale Opening 2 minutes

The starting sequence starts with showing the company idents such as Dolby Digital, MGM studios and Columbia. These are shown for recognition and credit for being part of that film. The film then starts its main narration with an establishing shot of the building the sequence is taking place in to tell the audience the location, weather and the time of day at this point. The establishing shot is also accompanied by the place name (Prague) in the bottom left hand corner to indicate to the audience what country they are in. This sequence is in black and white to indicate that its in the past and has already happened. There is no sound at this point apart from ambient sound such as footsteps and the lift door.

There are many enigma codes set at this point such as who is the man entering the building and why is he important? Why is James Bond in the office and why does he kill him?

When in conversation there are flashbacks (within the flashback) to the past. The scene is very white which contrasts the dark black scene in the office.

After the initial narration sequence the films animated title sequence starts. The non-diegetic sound the plays alongside this is a real song as there are words. The credits list many names with job titles, they appear in this order: production company, main stars, writer of the book that the film was based on, co-stars, associate producer, sound unit director, costume designer, editor, director of photography, production designer, writer/singer and producer of the song being played along with the director of music for the whole of the film, executive producers and then a repetition of the novel writer. As most films do the credits end with the producer and the director last.

The title sequence is around 4 minutes which is very long compared to most other modern films. I think this is because they wanted to keep the titles the same since the older movies as Casino Royale is now 1 of 23.

In terms of camera work there is a large range of shots. There is an establishing shot of the building where the action is about to take place to indicate to the audience where the characters are to make the narrative easier to understand and follow. There are lots of close ups in the first two minutes on all the characters faces, mostly James and the man who he is accusing of selling secrets. This is to show emotion as they are clearly in a confrontation and the close ups can give the audience and insight into what the characters are thinking or feeling at that time. Around 1 minute into the sequence, there is a very interesting shot where James and the other man are either side of the shot facing each other, there is nothing in the middle and you can only just make out where the characters are as there is little light. I think they have used this shot to show that the two characters are the complete opposite of each other and that one is the hero and one is the villain at the time

Blog Tick List - Updated

	Done?	Comment?
RESEARCH
Genre Research and mind-maps (3 posts)	Only one completed – 2 more needed to be uploaded
Uploaded YouTube videos of openings – analysed (10 openings)	7 Youtube Clips uploaded and Analysed - More to be uploaded soon	7 have been completed and uploaded, there are a few more to be uploaded and completed
Opening titles analysed in detail – font researched	Not completed – Needs uploaded
Uploaded YouTube videos of similar genre openings analysed in detail (3 posts)	Completed	This has been completed today with me uploading 2 more posts - The Departed and The God Father
Costume and location research – google earth and pictures you’ve taken. (At least 2 posts)	Completed	Changed the loaction from outside to an Interication Room
Actors and props photos and interviews	Needs to be uploaded
Soundtrack research (non-copyright music)	Needs to be composed
Audience Research and Profiling (typical audience member and similar films)	Needs to be completed
Institution research (Paramount etc)	Completed but needs more detail about the institutions	Added more depth of the film industries
Certificate research	Completed
PLANNING
Own film idea brainstorm	Needs to be completed
Own film treatment
Relevant Online Tutorials (on filming and editing) and Comments (At least 2 posts)	Completed	Added the tutorial on how I made the practice titles - Added new tutorial about the Make-Up use for our film
Documenting of influences on production	Not completed
Shot lists	Completed	Completed the shot list and shot types of filming/editing and they're in depth
Consideration of representation in your film and stereotyping – use theory from G325.	Not completed
Questionnaire (and feedback) Get some feedback on your initial ideas!	Completed
Diary of filming/editing etc with photos and screen grabs (At least 3 posts)	Not completed	Going to be completed throughout the filming as we would've already had the camera out
Mood board	Action mood board is completed
Script	Needs to be uploaded – Making it into a animatic script
Practice titles created and uploaded	Completed – Needs uploaded – On own computer	Still needs to be uploaded - New one is going to be made
Storyboard – animatic.	Needs to be completed
Time Management Schedule – what you did& when, problems you encountered& solved	Half completed	We have discussed the times on when we have started filming and are in the process of filming
Codes and Conventions featured in your Opening Two Minutes	Needs to be completed
Ensure that all posts have a title, detailed comments and relevant pictures which are commented on.	Completed