Production Diary

Hello everybody! Thought I'd give you all an update on what I've done so far in my media assignment -
Me and my group, which consists of Luke Bravin and Jason Southern, have almost finished our crime opening sequence. All our filming is completed, editing of the footage is just about done and we are currently working on our blogs and mood boards. The title of the Crime opening is entitled 'Powder', referring to the substance of some drugs. It stars myself, Luke B, Charlie James and Haydn Kidd while Jason was filming the footage. He also did most of the editing and the music for the film. However, Luke and I did do our fair share to help out. The footage begins with myself as a drug addict named Big Arth who is lying on a sofa, watching the television even though it isn't on (because he's most likely high). My friend Jimmy (Luke B) then enters and we have a conversation about Jimmy misplacing some drugs intended for Big Arth. Jimmy starts explaining the possible reason for losing the cocaine which leads to a flashback of himself meeting up with his drug dealer who gives him the drugs for free before running and leaving a confused Jimmy wondering 'Why?'. Suddenly, 2 sinister men (played by extras Charlie and Haydn), one of which is armed, grab Jimmy and take him to a dark room where he is confronted by a mob boss. The boss threatens him with a pair of scissors and demands he tell where 'Enrique' is so he can kill him. Jimmy doesn't know so is apparantly knocked to the floor and has a gun aimed at his head. However, he's obviously spared. Big Arth, not seeming to care whatsoever about Jimmy's health, is extremely shocked by the fact their drug dealer is in danger. in his pyjamas, he gets off the sofa and declares to Jimmy that they are going 'to find that bloke who gives us our coke'. However, he returns to the living room seconds later to retrieve his keys then leaves again.
The whole opening is just over 2 minutes and 15 seconds which, considering the fact that we had about 15 minutes of footage altogether, is quite good. The soundtrack goes well with the footage and has no lyrics and is non-copyrighted. We added a black and white feature for the flashback to make it look different to the rest of the footage and that it's set in a different time to the rest of the coloured footage. There is also a sinister change of music that goes along with it for a menacing and sinister effect. We are satisfied with our finished project, although some of our favourite scenes were sadly cut out of the project due to the length of it. However, we feel the project is a lot better than our Preliminary task and that we have improved our performance and editing abilities from our last project. Our storyboards, split into 3 different scenes for one group member each, have been drawn and we will be starting our mood board very soon.
Hope you enjoyed my latest post.