Diary log - 8/11/2012

In today's lesson (8/11/2012), I learnt about the technical element included within the production of single camera productions. I learnt elements such as the influence of sound within a media product and camera techniques such as angles, movements, shots and equipment.

With this information, I created a two Prezis based on camera shots and angles and another on movements and equipment. The Prezis provided explanations and examples on the different elements within these two technical camera elements. These Prezis were then posted on my Blogger.

For the information that I found on the effects of sound in media products, I posted on my Blogger on all of the information I found and provided relevant examples.

We also started to look at the pre-production elements that need to be included and completed over the next few weeks (deadline is Christmas/start of January). The kinds of elements we need to produce and the questions we need to ask ourselves about our production consistently are;

• storyboard
• script (may not be necessarily needed for 1 minute production)
• characters (motivation, mood, character profile)
• plot (beginning, middle and end)
• content (overview on our story)
• stage directions (angles, shots, effects)
• setting (locations, risk assessments)

• what is the underline message?
• what is the moral of your story?
• starting point
• who are our actors/actresses?
• is the setting relevant to the plot/characters?
• what is happening in the characters heart/head/body, and how will you show it to the audience?
• climax? how will it get there? (use Torodov's theory of equilibrium)
• use of dialouge/music/sound/lighting?
• mise-en-scene elements)

We (my production team) briefly started to look at our 1 minute single camera production. We created a mind-map (which proof was also posted onto our bloggers) on some initial ideas that we may want to do for our production.