Production Log

Production Log

-          Was told about the project, and what it entails; watching the presentation on road safety; and assessing how it can be improved to better reach it’s target audience.

-          We watched the presentation; and were given a chance to hear feedback from the other group. The other group said that it could be seen as biased as a lot of the facts included that most of the crashes were by male teenage drivers; and it could be better to stay away from that, as there is a risk of insulting the audience. Some other criticisms were that the video clips shown were much too graphic, and put off a lot of the audience; and that the content that focussed on the emotional repercussions reached people a lot more.
My own personal critique somewhat matched the other group’s feedback; I found the clips much too graphic; It bordered on horror, and seemed to be constant, and there would be members of the group who would be sickened, rather than shocked into not driving dangerously, and there would be members of the group who wouldn’t care as they were too used to violence.

-          My idea from there was to create a clip without any violence, preferably something humorous, which still got the message across to the audience, rather than relying on shock tactics, which would most likely be ineffective on a teenage audience.

-          I began to put together a proposal for my idea to improve the presentation, and to explain why it would improve the presentation, and the message that it would put across.

-          My idea was to put across in my video the message that teenagers, particularly girls, should be careful of using their phones while walking round in public, near roads, as it is very easy to become distracted and stop paying attention to cars driving past. I wrote in my pitch that this idea would help improve the presentation, as it addresses something that no other video in the presentation did; as well as being relevant to the target audience.

-          Two other ideas were selected by the creators of the presentation to be made, and so the class was split into two groups to create each video. The video my group was meant to create was a funny video about two couples having a race to put their seatbelts on, rather than to race their cars.

-          Everyone created an individual script for the piece, and one script was chosen to be used for the video.

-          This script was changed, as it once had speech in it, and the speech was removed, as it seemed to flow a lot better with no speech, and just music playing over the video, as really, no speech was needed, as it added to the humour, of the audience thinking that they were actually going to have a real race.

-          Storyboards were created, to depict where each shot was, and it what order they would be played, so as to make it easier when filming and editing.

-          The location was selected; Teesside Park, at the car park next to Hollywood Bowl.

-          The Risk Assessments were written and distributed to all involved members of the cast and crew.

-          We scheduled which day everyone was available, and scheduled the shoot.

-          Contact sheets with everyone’s details, and the details of the shoot and times were written and distributed amongst all involved members of the cast and crew.

-          A Script Breakdown was carried out to decide what equipment was needed. We only really needed two cars; one car was Karl’s, the other Hamada’s.

-          Started filming, the equipment was not booked in advance, but the GoPro Camera was available, and so this was used. No sound or lighting equipment was necessary. The whole shoot took around 2 hours to film, and transportation was provided in Karl and Hamada’s cars. Everything ran smoothly, and all the exterior shots were filmed first, then all of the shots inside one car, and then all the shots in the other car next, to be edited together later on. We returned to the college and returned the equipment immediately after taking off the footage and saving it to a safe location.

-          Myself, Karl and Rebecca each did a separate edit of the video. The editing process took around 5 and a half hours each, and we decided on Karl’s edit to be our finished piece.

-          We handed in all Pre-Production work and the finished videos into Andy.