Diary entry

I will be keeping a diary to explain in depth each of the things we did and keep track of what and how we are filming. I will be doing one diary for both characters and this links to the calendar because they include part of the information such as dates and tasks for that date.

15th February 2015- every scene that contains the female character was recorded today at Fabiha's fiend's house in Chadwell Heath. Altough our ideal location was Tredegar Bow we had to change it due to the unavailability of the house and we specifically need a bedroom. That is why we had to ask a friend or family member if we could film at their house. Unfortunately i was not there to film with Fabiha because i was ill. However, she told me what was done. All the needed scenes for the girl were done including a range of shots. I actually texted her and reminded her to make sure to follow the tory board and film additional scenes in case. Fabiha told me that the tripod had some issues which reulted in a few shaky shots. However the problem was solved when some sort of cloth was put under the stick of the tripod. It took from 2 to 4 hours maximum to record every single scene with the right props and range of shots. On the same day she refilmed some shots for example the opening shot of the girl sitting on her bed reading a book because the lighting and props were not good enough. She waited an hour for the sun to come back and improve lighting and she changed the bed sheets to improve mise en scene and the total look of the room.

17th february 2015- Started transfering all the clips of the girl onto Final Cut Pro and editing scene by scene with a lot of cuts. Had to even delete some scenes as they were unecessary or crop a lot of the scenes.

19th February 2015- Finished editing all the editing on final cut pro for the girl's scenes almost a rough draft. Boy's scenes left to film and edit.

27th February 2015- filmed scenes for the male charcter at Stepney Blocks. Had to get permission o leave the college by our teacher because we are not allowed to leave without permission. Asked our actor, Umed to wear a bomber jacket because that rapresents bad boys and it is a hoodraty type dressup. Also asked him to wear Raulph Lauren Trainers. Once in the blcok and filming started there were no problems whatsoever with tripod and camera. However camera kept saying that there is no memory so some of the old scenes had to be deleted. After filming and while going through scenes, a few mistakes were noticed such as the framing of the shots. That is why another date was chosen to film again.

3rd March 2015- Refilmed some, if not all the scenes for the boy. We left college at 11.15am and came back at 1.05pm. The boy's clothes were mostly different because he did not have the bomber jacket on anymore, but a black jacket with a black hoodie. That is why we had to change every scene that had his whole body in it. We also filmed a lot of close up shots of his props to emphasise how he is such as the Raulph Lauren Trainers or the fake cigarette. This definetely made a big difference to our final opening due to the level of accuracy and how we paid attention to the little details.

5th March 2015- Transferred all the boy's clips to final cut pro. Me and Fabiha edited together to then complete all the editing but that is only for the characters.

10th March 2015- We all went out to film settings and location of both characters. First we went to Stepney Green Park to film the girl's settings. Then after less than an hour we went to film for the boy's location, in Stepney area. Took an hour to film the park and the blocks,

13th March 2015- Me and Fabiha started editing but while transfering the clips of the locations onto final cut pro we noticed a lot of mistakes in the panning of the some scenes. I decided i would film those scenes again because they will be laced in the beginning of the film opening, therefore are quite importnt and have to be perfect.

15th March 2015- I went out and refilmed the girl's location. Shots are much more steady and panning is more clear. I  transfered onto final cut and edited everything in less than one hour.

Female character calendar

Here is the calendar that includes the dates we filmed the scenes with the girl. It also contains information about the locations and what exactly we did.

Male Character calendar

This is the timetable with dates included for the male character. It includes all the information about what we did in order to film his part of the opening. The blocks we went to were right next to college, in Stepney. 

Also, on the 3rd March 2015 we re filmed some, if not all the scenes for the boy. W left college at 11.15am and came back at 1.05pm. The boy's clothes were mostly different because he did not have the bomber jacket on anymore, but a black jacket with a black hoodie. That is why we had to change every scene that had his whole body in it. We also filmed a lot of close up shots of his props to emphasise how he is such as the Raulph Lauren Trainers or the fake cigarette.