Lesson 2: Today me and my partner used this lesson to finish off all the pre - production work which was set from last week. This work was done at uploaded by 5pm.
Lesson 3: This lesson focused on choosing the font and style of mine and my partners opening sequence graphics. Using the website 'DaFont', we went through various fonts and selected our few favourites, that we felt were simple but had a meaningful connotation in relation to our restricted narrative, in the hope of grabbing our target audience of ages 16-24 years olds attention and interest, by raising enigma codes from the very start. We then produced a presentation, explaining why we chose the selected fonts and which one we thought would best portray our narrative and also be typically conventional of British Social Realism - http://kalkidanbrook.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/fonts-styles-for-graphics.html. 
Lesson 4: Today i was introduced to a new programme on the Apple Mac called 'Live Type', which is used to help create graphics only. The teacher spent the first half of the lesson teaching us how to use the programme - he introduced the tools and their functions, such as; being able to make the graphics animated. For the rest of the lesson me and my partner started designing our graphics, most specifically focusing on crew/cast graphics and our film title. The process of making the graphics was much more easier because in Lesson 3, my partner and i already decided what the graphics typography (font/style) would be. The typography was chosen on a website called 'DaFont', so we downloaded the font and added it to the programme. Below is an image of the final look of our title, in the style of our chosen font. THE WEEKEND!
Saturday: Finally we are on the production stage! Today me and my partner started filming shots 9 - 17 (see shooting script ), which are all the scenes that occur inside the house. We could not achieve our goal set on the call sheet of shooting the shots 8 - 21, due to the fact that it was raining, therefore when it came to shooting the rest of our opening sequence continuity would be a problem, so we wanted to avoid this issue in order to live up to the mark schemes/ briefs expectations.
What have been the key issues for your production this week?
There are a few issues in the production stage that me and my partner have faced this week, one of which is not being able to film during lesson time because our opening sequence locations are not close by - Marks Gate and Newbury Park station. Therefore, we cannot leave school as it against the rules. Another issue was that in our narrative we stated that a prop we would use is a pregnancy stick, however when it came to the production stage we clearly realised, we were not financially able to buy one as it was expensive (this is a problem Film 4 face on a bigger scale of course e.g. not being able to afford fancy, glamours sets or maybe known actors).
What decisions did you make about the issues and why?
Even though we had plenty of issues, thankfully they were minor and could be solved easily. For instance, even though we could not film during school time, we filmed during the weekend and used the call sheet to organise ourselves and realistically worked out what could be achieved (taking in a account lighting etc). The problem of not being able to get a pregnancy stick was quickly resolved by instead replacing the propp with a letter that at the front would say ' pregnancy results', this was actually better as we realised it raised more enigma codes because the audience will see the letter in Leah's hand and know its of importance but will keep wondering what its about.
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