Production Log - Week 6.

In the first lesson this week our teacher let us look at our finished treatments and make any amendments that were necessary.

In the second lesson this week we were given the lesson time to finish of our shooting scripts as they had to be completed by a certain date.

In the third lesson this week we had to start following our production schedule, therefore we had started looking at different styles in which our graphics/credits would be written in. My partner and I done some extra research into these styles by looking at a range of styles from the website 'Dafont' (http://www.dafont.com/). After selecting 5 styles we favoured, we evaluated these styles by discussing what connotations they made in relation to our films narrative. We then made a decision and chose a style that we liked, explained it and justified why we chose it. (http://lorellethompson.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/possible-styles-for-our-british-social.html).

In the fourth lesson this week we downloaded the font/style (N&D from http://www.dafont.com/) we had chose to use for our graphics in the previous lesson. My partner and I downloaded it to the software programme 'LiveType' a programme developed by apple inc. This was our first time using this sofware and therefore it took a while for us to adjust to it as we usually use Fireworks to create our graphics. However, our teacher felt that this software was better for the production of our graphics as it offered a wider range of tools specific to the production of graphics. This programme was soley created to produce animated title sequences, thefore it is a programme that specialises the resouces to create graphics, so it was perfect for us. After a while of practicing using this programme, we eventually got the hang of it and it became easy to use and we could see the differences in Fireworks and LiveType. We found that LiveType produced graphics that were more effective. By the end of this lesson my partner and I had produced our title credit 'MAZE' and our directors credit.

What have been the key issues for your production this week?

The key issues for our production this week was just learning how to use the new software programme 'LiveType' as it seemed like a very complex and difficult programme to use to create our graphics. It appeared to be very complex as the layout of this programme was very different to Fireworks which is what I was used to.

What decisions did you make about the issues and why?

My partner and I decided to proceed in using this new programme 'LiveType' to create our graphics because after much trial and error we actually started to prefer this programme, as it had a range of tools in which we could use to produce some very conventional graphics for our British social realist film.