Production+Jounal

= Production Journal For The Yellow Group =

Karen made an initial contact with the group. Our group consists of Heather Borden, Lauren Fenstermaker, Karen Preston, Jonathan Regino, Eric Ruppert, and Sara Shoop.
 * May 11, 2011-KP**

Our group decided on the following project roles:
 * May 13, 2011-KP**

1. **Producer** - Karen 2. **Writer** - Heather and Eric 3. **Designer** - Lauren 4. **Creative Director** - Jonathan 5. **Video Editor** - Sara

Eric set up the Wiki space entitled yellowgroup579 & sent yellow member invites out. This space will be used to record progress with our project.
 * May 15, 2001-KP**

Time Line Due
 * May 16th to May 22nd-KP **

Our Production Schedule
** May 23rd to May 29th-KP **
 * Topic is chosen & agreed upon by the group. Think of something you can use in your classroom with students or perhaps a tutorial for teacher training that can be shared.
 * Write the script and storyboard
 * You must include an opening montage sequence to generate interest and reflect the mood, similar to a movie title sequence or ESPN open.

** May 30th to June 5th **
 * Record your digital video

** June 6th to June 12th **
 * Story Boards Due
 * The storyboard illustrates the video presentation structure with thumbnail sketches of each scene. Notes of proposed transition, special effects, sound and title tracks include: text, background color, placement & size of graphic, fonts - color, size, type for text and headings. Notes about proposed dialogue/narration text are included. All sketches are numbered, and there is a logical sequence to the presentation.
 * Edit Video

** June 13th to June 19th **
 * Make the final transition and sound edits to the final group video, be sure to add credits at the end.

** June 20th to June 26th **
 * Production Journal with final reflection report
 * Final Video Due

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Karen set up a Sype session for 8 PM. All Yellow Team members participated. Topic selection was made - Chef Jonathan would do a cooking presentation. Writers were to develop a script, possibly 2 scripts for 2 separate dishes & choose a best fit.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">May 17, 2011 - KP & All **

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">**May 17, 2011 - LF** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Took part in conference call and laid out our plan of action. As Designer I was to start researching storyboarding, and create once the script was complete.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">**May 17,2011** **- ER & HB** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Conference call between 2 writers for groundwork on the first stages of brainstorming. Eric agreed to have something started Sat morning with creative collaboration between the 2 writers to occur throughout the week & have something finalized by next week's end to fulfill the time line.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">**May 18, 2011** **- ER** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Writer's Script process page developed on wiki. Eric laid out a few ideas on some potential dishes/ with a very rough story. Heather wanted to build upon the waffle idea.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Researched use of Movie Maker. Began experimenting with photos and video in Movie Maker.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">May 19, 2011-SS **

Met with the group online using Skype. The encounter was difficult to manage since there were so many people. In the future, contacts will be may with 3 or fewer in the group. The producer will speak with the writers, or the producer will speak with the designer and editor, or the producer will speak with the director and editor. Topics discussed were the time line, possible film topics, and ways to accomplish this task. Eric and Heather are going to meet via the telephone to map out the dialogue. Once this is accomplished, Lauren will design the set including the coloring, lighting, background, screen shots.
 * May 20, 2011-KP**

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">**May 22, 2011 - HB** Collaborating and brainstorming ideas for the video

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">**May 23, 2011** - **ER & HB** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Additional script development / creative brainstorming between writers <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">More additions, questions, answers, and more questions between writers.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">**May 24, 2011** - **ER** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Wrapping up questions and solidifying ideas, angles, music selection, etc between writers.

Conducted research through watching videos and searching online for script formats
 * May 24, 2011** - **HB**

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">**May 25, 2011** - **ER** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Added to existing beginning script. Heather did a great job starting us out. Full script developed.

Found and posted script formatting resources to the wiki Created outline before writing script Wrote and posted beginning of script
 * May 25, 2011** - **HB**

Continued to write and revise script
 * May 26. 2011** - **ER & HB**

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">**May 27, 2011** - **ER & HB** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Minor tweaks to developed script after incorporating director Karen's ideas about including cross-curricular subjects. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">45 min conference call between Heather & Eric to finalize thoughts, scripts, reflections. Heather called the script a wrap, created a new Wiki page called, "Final Screenplay" & she posted the script onto several areas where all can view it.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Once Screenplay was complete Lauren started a rough draft of the storyboard. This included sketches and ideas about what the video production would possibly look like.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">May 27, 2011 - LF **

Researched editing transitions and adding transitions to Movie Maker.
 * May 27, 2011- SS**

Located a camera fo the video shoot and located an actor and a card holder for the video. I also obtained a location for the video.
 * May 30, 2011- JR**

Changed the date of video shoot from **<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">May 30th to June 5th **<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">to the week of June 6th to fit the production schedule and the time-line for the storyboards.
 * May 30, 2011- JR**

Possible Skype encounter again tonight to discuss and encourage the team. Meeting did not take place until June 1.
 * May 31, 2011-KP**

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">**J****une 1, 2011** - **ER** <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Texts to director Karen & Heather to get all 3 on Skype at same time to see what changes, modifications need made. We discussed time line, the storyboards need beefed up a bit, we all feel we have a solid script & should have a good final product.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Skyped with Karen and Jonathan. Discussed re-creating a final, more solid storyboard for the final production. Through talking with Jonathan about where the video will be filmed, much more detail and description will be added to Storyboards.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">June 1, 2011 - LF **

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Skyped with Karen. Discussed editing time line, music ideas, and credits.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">June 1, 2011- SS **

Searched for music to add to video edit on freeplaymusic.com.
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">June 3, 2011- SS **

Shopped for products needed to shoot the video (food products, orange plates, and other props)
 * June 5, 2011- JR**

Recorded the waffle video with help of my actor (Neal) and my card holder (Maria)
 * June 6, 2011- JR**

Karen skyped with Lauren, Jonathan, and Eric tonight. We discussed the progress on our storyboards and upcoming video. We also talked about adding transitions to our final video. Karen will skype with Heather and Sara in the next few days since they were unavailable to join us. Karen will talk to Sara about ADA recommendations and apply them to our video.
 * June 8, 2011-KP & all**

Uploaded the pictures and videos to the wiki.
 * June 8, 2011- JR**

Emailed the larger videos to group members because they were to big to add to the wiki.
 * June 8, 2011- JR**

Emailed the larger videos to Sara for editing because they were to big to add to the wiki.
 * June 9, 2011- JR**

Sent an email to Cheryl, facilitator of this class, asking for clarification on the short script submission. Our storyboards already contain brief dialogue and action for each shot. I asked if we needed to submit more to cover the short script submission. Her reply was that since we already had the descriptions included on the boards we did not need further information.
 * June 11, 2011-KP**

Emailed all of the videos and pictures to Sara for editing for easier access.
 * June 12, 2011- JR**

Received all videos and picture from JR. Began editing.
 * June 12, 2011-SS**

Selected images to incorporate into video.
 * June 15, 2011-SS**

Selected music to incorporate into video
 * June 17, 2011- SS**

Completed editing and uploaded to 4shared for group review.
 * June 18, 2011-SS**

Sent a message to the group to view the video that Sara posted on the wiki. In the message I also shared the final tasks that needed to be completed by Wednesday, June 22. The final tasks were to update the Production Journal with any last additions from their role and to complete the Final Project Report.
 * June 19, 2011-KP**