Production Monitoring Blog- 7th March 2011

Last week I began my pre-production work, which consists of several documents. These documents are essential, so that I know my photo shoot and production work will go to plan, and look good. Pre-production work has also helped me to think of alternatives, and contingency plans in case anything goes wrong. I was absent on Monday last week, but began to work through these documents on Wednesday. The first thing I did was created by schedule, so I know exactly when I need to carry out tasks in order for the project to be in by the deadline. As the schedule didn’t take me that long, I also created my photo shoot plan in the same lesson. In Thursday’s lesson, I began work on the treatment for my project. I got through about half of this, but didn’t manage to complete it all. On Friday, in the lesson, I continued with my treatment, and as of now, it is nearly completed. I completed my mood board in my free lesson on Friday, and also managed to work through a fair bit of my story planning sheet, and finished off my Photoshop mock-ups. I also booked my photo shoot at break on Friday for Tuesday 15th March at 10.50-11.50. Before booking the photo shoot, I had a meeting with my model to inform her of what the photo shoot would entail. Over the weekend, I constructed my flat plans, however, these still need to have colour added to them. I didn’t use any specific technical or equipment skills last week, as it mainly consisted of working through pre-production documents. Below is an image of the mood board I created.

This week, I plan to get my props sorted, as it would be a good idea to use one of my free lessons to go into town and buy them. I also plan to change these props so that they fit in with my project. On Monday this week, we were shown how to create these production monitoring blogs, and we have started in the lesson writing them up. On Wednesday, as it is a 90 minute lesson, I plan to use this purely on researching about carbon footprints, so I can start to plan how my article will be written. In Thursday’s lesson, if I have enough information on carbon footprints, I will create my InDesign document, and start to plan the layout of my article, as well as thinking of a title for the article. However, if I haven’t conducted enough research in Wednesday’s lesson, I will continue with this on Thursday. In Friday’s lesson, I would like to tidy up my pre-production work, and get it finished so that it is in for the Monday 14th deadline. In this week, I plan to improve my InDesign skills, so that the article I create looks as good as possible.


To avoid any problems in this project, I will also create back-ups of my InDesign document, and any other important documents that I create in this next week. I will also find a back-up model for the photo shoot, in case the one I have already made arrangements with doesn’t turn up. If I need any certain fonts for the InDesign project, I will make sure these are backed up on the C: Drive, so that the document doesn’t corrupt, and the fonts aren’t lost. To make sure that I do not run out of network space on my college user account, I will check this, and if there is not a lot left, I will delete unnecessary documents from other subjects.