Wednesday 24 February 2010

Progress Report

Week 1 (27th Feb - 5th March):
After watching two half an hour documentaries (Ross Kemp On Gangs and ), me and the group compared both texts and have taken several genre conventions from both texts. The codes and conventions we decided upon primarily consisted of the codes that were similarly illustrated in both texts (e.g. during the opening sequence, an over the shoulder shot of presenter whilst they’re explaining). After studying the several conventions, they were then demonstrated in our production as we drawed out our storyboards. In total we managed to draw around sixthly camera shots, which illustrated to be half of our five minute moving image production.
Week 2 (6th - 12th March):
Thus far, me and the group are aware of what shots we need to capture seeing as we have now complete our entire storyboard of the production but however still need to improvise the dialogue. Therefore, we have scripted the dialogue of the interviewees in order to for their answers to relate towards our critical investigations. Having only the interview participants’ questions as well as their answers planned out, we have simply conducted the interviews and filmed all of the three individual interviews this week. Not only the interviewing aspect being complete this week, we have additionally captured a few random shots of various elements associated to the theme of our production (e.g. Graffiti, Teenagers wearing hoodies, Locations etc.).
Week 3 (15th – 19th March) :
This week we have successfully competed the interviewing aspect of our documentary as we enquired about the scripted answers to be answered as responses during the filming process. It has been a long procedure considering that several locations were required in order to perform the actual interviews and the numerous amounts of shot types whilst filming the interviews from different angles. As well as the mise-en-scene, timings for filming were crucial this week as they had to be met with the schedule. This was mainly because the group had to work around the individual schedules of the actors timings that they were available.
Week 4 (22nd-26th March & 29th March-2nd April):
At this point in time all the filming aspect of my group’s entire project has been completed. Therefore, this entire week is simply be dedicated towards editing whole of the captured footage. As all the filming is complete, the only job left to complete is the editing process which will simply be preformed during the entire week and yet continued over the following week. The primary purpose behind the editing aspect of the production long is purely because various shots ought to be combined together as well as different effects being put into place.
Week 5 (5th April-9th April):
During this week, a majority of the production should be complete, which at this point requires the group too only embrace insignificant amounts of edits. The editing process this week primarily consists of adding in the non-diegetic sounds such as theme music, voiceover of the documentary’s narrator in addition to the diegetic sounds such as beeps during swearing of characters.

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