Updated Diary

Project Diary

	Project Target	Target Reached	Comments
September
	Introduction – to introduce the whole project in detail and outline who we are and our aims.	Yes
	Holiday Homework – To Research the topic of horror in detail and show our findings.	Yes
Meeting	This was our first ever meeting, where we were all introduced and discussed our very first ideas relatIing back to everything we had researched.
October
	Initial Ideas – An outline of our first original ideas as a group.	Yes
	Logo Drafts – sketches of what we are hoping to achieve with our Logo, its vital as it represents us.	Yes
	Logo Research - Research into the progression of logos throughout the years and how that can help us when designing ours.	Yes
	Production Name/Logo – To come up with a production name and to start creating ideas for our logo, which represents us.	Yes	We had an initial design that was finished in October, however when updating it in January we improved it.
	Treatment – This is an overall synopsis of our film, detailing everything from the name to the synopsis itself.	Yes	This was our first detailed plan of our film.
	Storyboard – We have several different versions of our storyboard that have all been shown, as well as our final piece.	Yes	We have changed and adapted our storyboard to suit our final teaser trailer.
	Shooting Script – This was essential as it detailed everything in the order in which we would be shooting on the day.	Yes	Was planned according to our storyboard.
	Poster Ideas – This was just a simple sketch to suit the storyboard at the time, for our different variations we are using different poster ideas.	Yes	We have loads of shots which were taken on the day of shooting although we will be practising more shots at a later date.
	Audience demographic – This is where we have detailed our audience and whom we expect to specifically come and see our film.	Yes	We had split our demographic down into detail. Although we planned to add mood boards in January.
	Audience research – This is where we have asked people questions about the horror genre and used their answers to make decisions about our teaser.	Yes	This was used to help plan our whole teaser.
	Audience research Response – this is looking through the response which we have had and using that to help our project as a whole.	Yes	We used our research to the best of our ability by assessing what has been said.
	Textual Analysis of a teaser trailer –This is assessing the conventions and looking for things that we might be able to include.	Yes	Each person will have to have completed that by November.
	Textual Analysis of a Poster – This is for what is commonly used in posters so that we understand what we are aiming for.	Yes	These should be completed by December the latest/
	Textual Analysis of a Magazine feature – This will be the one that we have to research the least as we have all had experience creating magazines beforehand although we will have to relate them to our project and our genre.	Yes	These will have to be done by November
	Initial Feature Research – We will have to look into more than one cover to understand it more.	Yes	We all will have a better understanding.
	Poster Designs – Sketches of our design which we intednt to have	Yes	Not all of them have been carried out as we have found one we really like.
	Inspirational Shots – Throughout our research we have found shots which have been inspirational for different reasons which is why we have blogged them.	Yes	This will be updated throughout our whole research process.
	Costume ideas – This is our ideas for each characters costume throughout the teaser trailer.	Yes	This will be updated in the production section.
	Make –up – This is our intended make up.	Yes	There are lots of shots of our actual make up on the day of filming that will be updated within the PRO.
	Props – We went shopping for all our props and also some inspiration.	Yes	We had many ideas although within the shop which can be assessed.
	Eqipment – We have collected all of the equipment we will be potentially using and decided to find out about them.	Yes
	Lighting practise – We got to know the lights and how they benefitted us.	Yes	This was very beneficial to our teaser.
November
	iPhone Practise – this was a practise filmed on an iPhone with very low quality.	Yes	This gave us time to practise our order of shots.
	Shot Practise – this was using the correct equipment in college	Yes	This gave us time to work with the equipment.
	Roles of the Actors – Selecting the actors we need and the characters that they will be playing.	Yes	Actors also get to have their own opinion in how to portray our character.
	Shot Practise photographs – This is illustrating what we done on the day and how we worked.	Yes	This is evidence of us working and how we adapted when using the equipment
	Shot Explanation – This goes through each shot which we have practised and would like to use and explains them so that we understand why we are using them.	Yes
	Possible sound – This was created in Garageband that was not in relation to our trailer, so the timing was off.	Yes	This was good to get a small understanding of the sound and also plan what our final piece would be.
	Age Certificate – this was helping to certify our film and gain a better knowledge of the BBFC	Yes	This was effective as it helped us with what to include and what to omit.
December
	Filming Experience – we will let you know how the filming went and the pros and cons about the day.	Yes	This we filmed so that we wouldn’t hopefully miss anything out and we were getting bored of writing.
	Make-Up and Costume- Showing how everything turned out on the day	Yes	Most things went to plan.
	Shooting Photographs- Again showing how everything worked out on the day.	Yes	These are very representative of our day.
	Props and Equipment – An explanation of how they were used on the day	Yes	Shows you how we put them to use and also allowed us to show our skills development.
	Feature Magazine – how the day helped other aspects of our project	Yes
	Poster – how the day and the experience helped certain areas of our project we didn’t expect it to.	Yes
January
	Software – This will show you how much we have developed as a team.	Yes	We have shown past and present and they are pretty different.
	Locations – We have used lots of different places that we would like to show.	Yes	There is a variety in all of the places although some were better.
February
	Rough Cut	Yes	We have spent a long time playing with all of the possibilities of editing after creating our rough cut which shows minimal editing at a very early stage.
March
	Final Teaser	Yes	This shows our final project
	Final Film Poster	Yes	This shows our final project
	Final Magazine Feature	Yes	This shows our final project
	Evaluation Question 1	Yes	We have evaluated our conventions which have been used throughout the campaign.
	Evaluation Question 2	Yes	We have evaluated the combination of all of the products within the campaign
	Evaluation Question 3	Yes	We have evaluated all of the feedback given by our audience
	Evaluation Question 4	Yes	We have evaluated the use of media technologies throughout the project.