Production Log 7

What have been the key issues for your production/ post production this week and decisions made?

This week Zahra and myself had finished our pre-production planning  so we started to create our graphics, we wanted a unique title and graphics that would make a statement but not be too overpowering. When creating our 'Suffocation' title it took us a few tried to get what we wanted. We experimented with different positions and fonts and effects, we finally came to the decision that we would use the effect which gradually squashes the text together, this relates to the title because the words are almost suffocated. The simple yet effective title really has a big impact when watching it and is something Zahra and myself is very proud of. We downloaded our font on dafont.com because the fonts already installed in the programme we were using didn't have any fonts that we liked, our chosen font is very slick and smooth and can relate to a main character in are opening sequence, the letters are very refined and spaced out quite a lot relating more to our opening sequence. Zahra and Myself made sure that we choose a suitable title that would be suitable for a British Social Realism film. The typography matches our themes a lot and it something we spent a lot of time on trying to get it the best it can be. At first we used fireworks to try and edit our text but we were having difficulties because when cropping around the text we started to get some white and black bits which make our title look very un professional and tacky. We then downloaded the font we wanted to use and started to edit on LiveType and our problem was resolved. The name of the font we downloaded was 'Neou'. After creating our title we then went on to finish the rest of the credits in the same font but with just a smaller font.

After creating all our credits we then went onto doing a test plan of first shot, we went to our location and experimented with different hot types and how we would film it. We needed to create a smooth track so we decided to get creative and create our own trolley track, by attaching a camera to a trolley with some string we decided to create thing, from learning about it in class we decided to create our own. The trolley track did work but we did have some difficulties with the shakiness of the camera. We then tried to solve the problem by having someone sit in the trolley to weigh it down.                                 

We then recorded ourself showing how we made the trolley and the process we went throught to create it.