Production Log 9

What have been your key issues for the post production this week?

The key issues we faced in this week was finding suitable music that fitted with our theme and the types of shots we were showing. This was also difficult as we have to find music which was copyright free, and if not we had to find music that we could get permission to use. Another issue that we had was the credits and the title, as we changed our whole idea we had to make alterations to fit this change. We had to find suitable typography and framing for each credit that would appear on the screen. We also had to make a decision of whether we was going to put our credits over a black screen or overlay it over our opening sequence.

How have you taken into account peer feedback?

From our last piece of feedback from our class mates we improved all of the shots that didnt work and added in new things that set up the theme and story a bit better. Our teachers also gave us feedback and we changed it to make it more of a Montage which made the pace of the sequence much faster and turned it into more of a smash mouth opening

What decisions did you make about the issues and why?

The issues we faced caused us some problems during our production. The way we fixed the problems with our credits was buy seperating them onto seperate files instead of putting all on one section. This was unconventional of the British social realism genre as this wouldnt be seen and the credits would normally be shown one by one.

Another issue we faced with typography was how we was going to present out title. As we changed it to damaged goods we didnt want it to be just plain and bold, we wanted to make something significant. This is how our final porduct looked, we made the damaged part bold to try and show how much we want to emphasise how bbadly damaged she is. We put the goods in a fancy font which showed that she had a good service to offer to her customers. Another feature we added to the title was the kiss marks, in the beginning we see the main character putting red lipsitck on. Red lipstick is associated with sex and love and this is a typical thing that we see prostitutes wearing. We thought this would work well as it matches with the theme that we was trying to portray and this helps show her as a sex object. Another issue we had was where we was going to place the title in the sequence, we felt like if we placed it too near the end it would feel more like a trailer so we positioned it in the middle which made it feel more conventional of a opening scene.

Another issue we faced was finding suitable music that was copyright free and fitted with our theme. We ended up finding a  song that fitted well and was the genre of dance and house music . The beat in the music fitted well and we cut the shots to match this and it made the pace much faster and made it more tense. As we used a variety of shots and in each shot she had a change of costume it fitted well with the music and made it better and showed her doing prostitution over a long period of time.

The production logo we created was placed at the beginning of the opening sequence. We created this on flash and come up with the name of Teacup Productions, we though this would suit it well as a stereotype we hear in England is that everyone just drinks tea. We added this is as we thought it would make the BSR genre clear from the start and we also added on a animation where the teacup moves into the frame and lands on the saucer. We felt like this fitted well and made it clearer to the audience from the beginning what we going to show and by incorporating the united jack it would show this stereotype even more.