Production Schedule

Week 1: What I’m doing

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13 January Build a new website for my final
major project, making tabs for context,
research, problem solving and
communication, planning and pre-
production, technical skills and
production, evaluation and exhibition.
14th January I will begin my project concept which will
consist of my centre name and number,
my name the project title, what my
project will be (short film/music
video/documentary), rational, concept
and evaluation. And also complete my
bibliography which will cover all the
websites/videos and people and their
reference.
15th January I will make and in-depth production
schedule covering everything I will do
from start to finish every day and what I
have to do for it. I will also create my
three ideas which I will send out on a
survey, then collect the answers and make
a write up on the response, then write up
a the most popular idea in full and
developed.
16th January Make my own brief, catering to the
themes of my project, and including my
final idea and the details and guidelines to
the competition I will be entering. I will
also complete my first weekly blog,
analysing the work I have done in the past
week and what I still need to do.
Week 2:
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20 January I will plan my research and look into what
and how I will research for my project.
21 – 23rd January Start my secondary research, writing up
in-depth analyse on previous short and
full-length feature films on topic, to see
how a successful film looks and what I
need to try and achieve as well as change
in my production idea.
24th January Write up my second weekly blog including
 what I have done in the past week and
what I still ned to do and how can I
improve that.
Week 3:
27th January After analysis in books, films, video guides
and websites/articles, I will write up my
idea again with changes that my research
has helped my idea change for the good.
28th January I will begin my target audience research,
which is where I will write up what is my
target audience based on similar past
productions and competitions.
29th January I will also send out a survey including my
idea fully developed finding the ideal
target audience.
30th January Finish my third weekly blog analysing my
week with what I have done good and bad
and what I still need to work on.
Week 4:
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3 February Collect survey responses
4th February I will do a full write up on my survey from
the responses I receive and conclude on
my target audience bracket.
5th February I will film a focus group asking questions
such as; If they like my idea? What’s their
favourite part and what would they
change? What ideal locations?
6th February And complete my week 4 weekly blog
talking about how my research has helped
me and changed my idea at all.
Week 5:
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10 February I will make another survey which I will
send out to 40-50 people n my chosen
target audience on social media giving
multiple perspectives from a variety of
people, do a write up the responses that I
received.
11th February I will film a target audience focus group
giving a more authentic point of view.
12th February Edit and upload focus groups onto
website.
13th February Write up 5th weekly blog talking about
surveys have helped my productions
Week 6:
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17 February Half-Term (Catch up on work)
18th February Half-Term (Catch up on work)
19th February Half-Term (Catch up on work)
20th February Half-Term (Catch up on work)
21st February 6th weekly blog to be complete
Week 7:
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23 February I will start to do my secondary research for
conventions, looking into specific camera
shots, the sound.
24th February Lighting and music in films and how it is
done well and what I will do incorporate in
my film.
25th February Create an infographic, showing all the
techniques that I have looked into from
the day before.
26th February Watch demonstrations on lighting and
camera setups being done successfully
and that I can use in my film and try in
practice shoots. Write up week 7 of my
weekly blogs
Week 8:
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1 March Practice shoots
2nd March Combining both my primary and
secondary research I will look into the best
narrative structure, sending out a survey
in what the best narrative structure for my
storyline would be, then choose from my
research and survey responses a chosen
narrative structure.
3rd March From research, I will build character
profiles, and will then audition actors for
my productions. As well as making my
location recces.
4th March Make my props list. Also do my sound
research and look into music used in films
and how I can successfully use it in my
production. Write up my 8th weekly blog
explaining how my planning went during
the week.
Week 9:
8th March Write out a rough 1st draft of the script
9th March Create the storyboards for the production.
10th March Finalise script, re-write if need be making
it as good as possible.
11th March Make sure that I have confirmation from
all crew and actors.
Week 10: As well as crew list, contingency plan.
While also completing my 9th weekly blog.
15th March And up to date production schedule.
16th March Write up any issues or problems I have
encountered during my project, and how I
settled the issue and what the result
ended up being.
17th March Go over my work checking that I have
everything including rough practices as
this allows me for to show my
development through the project.
18th March Write up my week 10 weekly blog.
Week 11:
22nd March Begin preparation for pitch
23rd March Create a power-point and que cards for
pitch.
24th March Practice pitch too 7 minutes, whole day
25th March Pitch to class idea, including context,
competition, actors, locations, price. Then
upload video of pitch to website. And do
11th weekly blog, reviewing my weekly
blog.
Week 12
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29 March Film
30th March Film
31st March Film
1st April Film
2nd April Film, weekly blog
Week 13:
5th April Film
6th April Film
7th April Film
8th April Film
9th April Film, weekly blog
Week 14:
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12 April Edit
13th April Edit
14th April Edit
15th April Edit
16th April Edit, weekly blog
Week 15:
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19 April Edit
20th April Edit
21st April Edit
22nd April Edit
23rd April Edit, weekly blog
Week 16:
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26 April Re-shoot/edit
27th April Re-shoot/edit
28th April Re-shoot/edit, then export and publish
29th April Complete any unfinished work and my
final weekly blog
Week 17:
3rd May Evaluation
4th May Evaluation
5th May Evaluation
6th May Evaluation
7th May Upload