Production Diary.

First group meeting: 
24/1/13
Today we got together and pitched our individual ideas to each other. We were left with the brands Magnum and PG Tips in which we both had good ideas for. Stuck on two ideas , we decided to brain storm adverts ideas to see which one would be better. For PG Tips we had the idea of promoting it to younger people such as students at university or college and for Magnum we had the idea of promoting it to men. In the end we went with Magnum and having a man sitting at a table opening a case. We would expect the case to contain a gun, but instead there is a Magnum in the guns place. We're yet to develop on the idea but this is what we have so far.

Last week
Last week we finalised an idea and began pre-production work. First we made a questionnaire about our product and target audience and gathered the results which will help us in making our advert.

5/2/13
Today we started the storyboards for our advert. Sam and i went out and scouted locations, filling in location recce's and risk assessments while out. We've managed to fill out all pre-production work and have written a production schedule. Hopefully we will stick to the schedule. Tomorrow we will be continuing with our storyboard.

8/2/13
In the first lesson today, we tested out how the lighting for our advert would be and see if we liked it. When we were sure it was okay, we began filming the first few shorts of our advert.

12th and 13th.
We continued filming as normal but found we were held back as we didn't have a watch or ear piece for our advert. However we worked around this and took some reshoots making sure we had everything we needed. Tomorrow will be our last day filming so hopefully we have the props we need by then.

14/2/13
Eventually we gathered the props we needed and were able to film the few missing shots. As we were filming the last two shots which were of the real magnum, they melted when Ross picked each one up. We only had two of these Magnums, meaning we now have to film again after our deadline, if we can.

26/2/13
Most of today we looked through what shots we had and which were the best ones before creating a new project on premiere pro. Tomorrow we will film the two shots we are missing then we will be able to finish editing our advert.

28/2/13
Yesterday, while i was off, the group managed to film the other two shots we were missing and continue editing our advert. Today we're continuing to edit and look for royalty free music we can use for our advert.

1/3/13
Our editing is finished, all we need to do is sort the music out and add the voiceover in the next lesson.

5/3/13
Ross and i recorded the voice over today and added it to the advert. Our advert is finally finished but we are double checking.