Planning Diary 1

Week 1
In the first week of blogging we straight away decided we were going to create a short film, and this affected our blog as within the first we had already completely two blogs based around the subject of short films one entitled "What is a Short Film?" which after reading through again had confirmed that this was the route we wanted to take, and we then began to incorperate these ideas into our blog by posting more information based on short films. Whilst Harvey took information on our AS blog in order to help make our A2 blog a much better standard.

Week 2
The second week consisted of more ideas based around short films, diving in deeper into research of short films, until we finally used our first example of a possible influence in "Pixar Short Films" of which we would discuss what they did well in order to make their films such an outstanding success. We then proceeded to gain some brief information on previous short films we have seen, for example "About a Girl" and attempted to put across more information about typical codes and conventions as they are used first hand in a short film. Through these blogs we came up with our first "Initial Ideas" post, something we can look back on and take influence from.

Week 3
This week we began to take down some research based around short film festivals, to give an idea where abouts our film would be shown and who would go to see it with our post on intended audiences. These two posts work hand in hand and are very helpful at giving more impressions of our audience. Another 3 posts were put on blogger this week surrounding influences, based on both short films and full length films. These posts help us in decided what genre we are looking to take for our film which led us into writ ting another post around initial ideas, with the influence of our previous post we decided to explore the genre of horror, a mood board is used to emphasize the post and confirm that we are currently basing our film around the genre of horror. Jack Windsor then began to analyse the AS film saying what we could do in order to create a better film this year and proceeded to write a post surrounding media technology, consisting with the idea that we would include HD cameras. This could be linked to Harvey Young's post surrounding the idea of visual art and sound.

Week 4
This week Michael and I took the ghost idea very serious and began to think up some more information on it, including locations and costumes. Jack then posted a blog based on the genre of the film, what type of music we would incorperate into it and then expanded on a possible idea for the location of the film that as a group we decided would work. After coming up with what would be in the film this lead me to write a blog on pieces of iconorgraphy we would incorperate into the film based on the controlling idea of ghosts.

After recieving critisisms on the ghost idea Jack came up with the idea of Limbo, something that our recent posts have been based around. After coming up with some ideas with Jack i proceeded to create a mood board of what we could bring in to the film and use such images to influence us. We then had a few issues based around the controlling idea, whether we would surround it around Limbo or Purgatory, two very simular themes which we blogged about the meanings of. Michael then created a Risk Assessement sheet to ensure we knew what we were getting ourselves into with the film.