Production Journal - Week 10

After this weeks hard work, toto prodctions has came to a great advance in its post-film prodction. After passing over the film from the camera, the group divided the film shots and labeled them each with the different names that corresponded to them. This is helpfull due to the fact that later in the editing process, the editior doesnt take forever to find a certain clip. we also started transcribing and jotting down the shots that we are going to use in cronological order. Friday of Week 10, toto prodctions presented the 1st draft of the documentary to the executive producer and after showing it we discussed the futur changes that we could make to have it be better. We decided on making it shorter since it was too long and mixing in more B-roll in the film durring VO.

Production Journal-Week 9

Durring this week, our group (TOTO Productions) made all the filming and shots that were needed to be taken done. During the day that we filmed, we did successfully 4 total interviews and and made a lot of different shots for VO's. Overall I believe that us as a team did a great job on completing our objectives. Although we did really well on retrieving the film, we failed in having many face to face interviews and all the Taxi and Bus drivers that we thought that might wanted to be interviewed all said no or they wanted to make a large amount of profit from an interview. To some extent my team did follow the plan to a certain extent, but we also filmed as we went, For instance we stopped at the Aulaplata SUR Office to have an interview in which was successful although we couldn't film her face. I did fulfill my individual role as I choose were the shots were made and the rest of the group took care of everything else. Manuel was the talent and Carlos was the Cinematographer. In Post-Produciton, my job is the editing part of the documentary and i believe that we are going at a good speed and the group will finish the Documentary before hand. Over all, i believe that filming day was very successful and we finished the day with more than enough of film footage which is a very positive thing for the documentary and for the team when it comes to post production.

Production Journal Week 2

Once we had our pitch approved, we now as a group had to choose who was going to do what. After looking at which person is better off doing, we ended up with Manuel Denegri as being the talent since he has good expierience and is very open to being the one who asks these questions and makes the interviews. We also decided that it was good for Ernesto Trovato to be the Researcher and he is the one who looked for all the sites and the information along as the group as a whole did. Also, Carlos Juni was choosen as the filmer since he has great idea for different shot places and is capable on fulfilling this job. I was choosen as the Editor since i am the more expierienced person who knows about editing and ideas when it comes to editing the film. This week, we also started to creat our storyboards and we are starting to through out our ideas and jotting down on paper what we feel will be succesfull in the film later on.

Production Journal Week 1

The Pitch:

What We are Doing?

      

     Toto Productions are presenting a film pitch for filming how serious the driving situation has came to in Argentina. Showing the crashes, Confirmed facts, and interviews form both the law and the people of Argentina.

Why We Are Doing IT?

     We are doing this documentary, because the driving in this country had gotten to a great extreme and its time for people to know and realize the intensity of the situation.

How will we do it?

     We will film this in many different locations helping to give and all around show of what happens when it comes to driving and their conduct. We will show the opinions of the people through interviews and show through our own filming what the truth is.

Although this wasnt the groups original idea and pitch, we like our new pitch and are happy with the choice that we made. After Mr.Wise approved of the pitch, we went to work and started furthing planning. One idea that i believe on doing in the editing process is using B-Roll footage in the beggining intro. I got this idea from the work that we did on when working on the documentary: Capturing the Friedmans. In Capturing The Friedmans, the idea of using the b-roll mixed with the film that was filmed by the film crew in the iterviews. On top of that the editing crew used a Voice Over on this mix of film to make it a great documentary and this is what inspired me to use these ideas.

Production Journal #2

This week, more calls were made out to the future people that might be interviewed and we are still strugglining to make contact and organize interviews. Also, after the finalized research was made, we started to download the B-Roll and we are making good progress on getting that done with so the editor can start making the intro to the film. Also in the group, the first draft of the talents questions were produced and once this is done i believe that the pre-production research and preparation will be done with.

Production Journal #1

After this weeks work, our group have advanced and picked up a lot this week. We have completed almost all the research that we wanted to do and at the same time we already have some interviews made. We have struggled with contacting one interviewer but at the end of this week we finally made contact and are in the process of organizing interviews. I think that overall this week as a group we have done a good job. I believe as a group we need to focus and concentrate more on the task, becomming more responsable and doing the taks that are set out.
The main outline and planning of the documentary was going to be about public schools and what are there conditions, but now after we have encountered a problem which doesnt permit us film, we have had to change ideas for the documentary and we are now going to produce a film on the dangerous streets of Argentina. This produced a setback to the group since research and everything we had before was thrown away and we now had to start again. But as a group we have caught up with the other groups and we are back on track.
For next week, I am wishing to have all interviews completely organized and ready for filming after the winter holidays.