Production Blog: 3

In order to get our opening sequence to the standards our group wanted it, we needed to put as much time into it as we possibly could. This meant important to each of us so we used as much free time we could spend on it as we could to achieve the grade we want.

When we started doing it we wanted to get as much done as possible but we didn't sit down and talk about who was doing what or how we were all going to do the work. We left it too late before we could worry about splitting the work up and getting it done, so I chose to do as much as possible and so did Jess and Danielle and we completed the research and planning in the given time. I thought some parts were fairly easy and some were hard and that's when we came together as a group and sat down and all went through it so we could get it done quickly and easily. Once we realised that this helped us, we knew what to do for future to get our work done and on time. We made a plan to who's doing what and we each knew each other's free time by communicating every day and using all of our free periods to complete the work. 

When it came to filming we each took it seriously and made a timetable of when we were free so we could each be there and give our ideas of what we want in our opening sequence. Even though we felt like we were doing really well in keeping time we didn't realise that we need a lot more of the filming, so we was in a bit of a rush to get it finished and probably should of spent more time on getting all the shots we want.

Whilst we was filming, we decided to get all the credits out the way so didn't have to worry about them in the future and fix them if they needed it when we put it all together rather than creating them from scratch. Also, the production logo was made very early on so again we didn't have to worry about it last minute and it helped us get that one step closer of completing our opening sequence.

The editing went well, because we had been using it and getting familiar with the software we was pretty much on our way of getting it completed and we each had pictures of in our head of what its going to look like. Even if we were alone we each did a bit to getting closer and closer to completing our final product.

In Conclusion, to start of our time management skills were not the best but as we got into it and realised how important it is we got our stuff together and got on with it as much as we can to complete it. I have learned that it is best to get everything planned at the beginning rather than leaving things to later and have to rush to get it finished.