A2 advanced portfolio production diary template 2013 to 2014

A2 Media Studies Advanced Portfolio Production Diary

PROGRESS UPDATE PLAN FOR NEXT MONTH / WEEK (Including Possible Contingency Plans If Problems Anticipated)

Mon W/B 09/09/13 (Detailed Weekly Summary)

I decide which portfolio I wanted to create For next week I will be thinking and researching ideas. Such as what genre of music I wanted it to be and how I wanted to represent my artist


I decided I wanted to create an indie-pop music video and that my band is going to be quite edgy. I researched other artists who create this genre of music and took inspiration from the way they represent themselves through videos and artwork.

I want to decide the song I will be using for my music video so that I can start planning ideas and themes for it.


I researched music videos and some of the ideas I had for the video had to be re-worked as they wouldn’t fit with the type of song I have selected. Now that I have all my background information and have a clear image of the type of band, I began creating my Ancillary 2 task and started designing my digipack.

Next week I will complete my digipak design and begin my research.


I looked through NME and Q magazines as these are the type of magazines I would expect my band to be featured in. I then selected 3 posters that I thought had contrasting design elements but also ones that I was inspired by in some way. I then downloaded them onto my computer and begun to analyse them

Upload my research onto my blog and keep it up to date


Completely another ancillary 2 coursework and analyse another poster.

Design draft of my own poster from the research I have conducted


I began my ancillary 2 task of designing my poster inspired by my research and then completed the rest of my magazine poster research. I found limitations in photoshop because it crashed often when I was making my draft poster

Finish my poster and begin my digipack final desing


I finished making the rough design of my poster and uploaded it onto my blog. I then began making my 6 sided digipack which was confusing as I had to figure out how the template would work

Finish back CD and inside of digipack


I finished the rough edit of my digipack and we discussed ideas for our music video and begun a mind map

Finish mind map and decide on a final idea



We finished the mind map and made sure it was in depth. We then discussed which route would be best to create our video and discussed setting and storylines that would look effective when filmed.

Decide on a final idea


We decided on a final idea which was that we wanted to create an enigmatic storyline that had time distorted structure. The narrative would complement the lyrics as it would depict that the female character is missing a past relationship.

Devise script and think and the video more in depth and which settings would work


We began working on the script by dividing the song into 30 second sections and writing in detail the narrative that would take place in them and the shots that would be used. Send off questionnaire to recipients

Aim to have the next 3 30 second sections of the script completed or finished to begin started the storyboards the week after


Completed last sections of the script. Reviewed feedback from survey

Review script again and create storyboards for the music video


We finished storyboarding our ideas and scanned them into the computer so that they could be uploaded to out blogs

Look at the camera equipment and experiment shooting


Practiced using the camera and equipment by taking footage around the college. We practiced the shots that we knew we would need for our music video and that we thought might be difficult such as a focus shift

Aim to upload the footage onto the computer and begin to edit the filming the by cutting the shots and piecing them together


Filmed outside of class so that we can become more comfortable with the camera before we begin to record the music video. We recorded a small sequence of 5 shots of our friends meeting in the canteen. Each shot was taken from a different angle, it will then be edited together to make a sequence.

Begin the music video over the half term and aim get a majority of the filming complete in the next week


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Reviewed the footage we’d filmed previously and begun to edit it together to make a short sequence with the 5 shots. We then reviewed the shots and decided that the light exposure was too bright and that some of continuity in the sequence didn’t flow so we would need to work on that when creating our music video.

Begin shooting more of the video, possible the ‘Pub’ scene in the flashbacks


We filmed the artist getting ready before she went out and asked her to laugh and joke into the camera. We then went to the pub and filmed our artist with the male character on a night out. We uploaded this footage in the lesson.

Aim to import the footage into premiere and begin editing.


We imported and began to cut the footage down into short clips because this filming was used in the music that was a fast tempo so the edit needed to be short to ensure that it would complement the music.

Edit it together


We had a lot of footage and wasn’t able to finish it all in one lesson so we had to continue editing in today’s lesson. The flashbacks of the female character getting ready and the pub scene. We had a problem when premier wouldn’t render after many attempts we realised the bar at the top wasn’t fully pulled across the whole video

Review the edits so far and alter the where necessary


We looked at the video and took notes on things that we wanted to change we then spent the majority of the lesson altering these

Continue to edit and change the video


We realised that one of the scenes didn’t fit in with the rest of the video some of the continuity didn’t fit and the exposure was lightly bright so over the holiday we decided to film the scene again.

Film section


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We went out to a local park to film to shoot the ‘argument’ footage. We uploaded the filming, named it and put it in to folders so that it was easy to navigate.

We want to import the footage into premiere and begin to edit it next lesson

Mon W/B 03/03/14 Uploaded the footage taken so far and edited together to create Go to heaton park or another wooded place/park begin

A2 Media Studies Advanced Portfolio Production Diary (Detailed Weekly Summary)

the first sequence. Learnt about transitions in between shots and effects that can be used on them, we then experimented with different ideas

the filming


We then created a rough edit of the shots that we liked, because this was our first time we filmed it so we didn’t expect it to be perfect.

Plan to film some more shots in the park which will create the majority of our video because these will be the ‘park’ shots


We hen edited this footage so that it worked well in the video and flowed naturally.

Look at special effects that could be used


Now that we finished out rough draft we began to look at special effects we could use over the top of the filming to make it look more professional. We found that the ‘Luma’ effect made the ‘present day’ shots look more atmospheric. I created my final poster design using shots from the video in a simplistic style

Finish draft and upload it onto YouTube to begin focus group. Continue making poster+


We created our final draft of our music video and exported the video and uploaded it onto ‘Youtube’. We then created a focus group onto Facebook and included 6 participants asked them 5 questions to ask about our video so that we could gain audiences response and edit the video dependant on our consumers’ needs. I finished my poster

Edit the video from the comments we received on our focus group on Facebook and see if there is anything we want to change about the editing. Begin making final digipack


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We went watched the draft of our edit and took notes of improvements that we wanted to makes and then altered the video to create our final product. We then uploaded it onto the blog

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A2 advanced portfolio production diary template 2013 to 2014

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