What are my plans?

I think we will create an actor timetable to increase our shooting efficieny as we still have problems with availability of actors. Some reshooting for advert 1 needs to be completed as it does not flow quite right at the moment. In January we hope to continue you progressing at hopefully a faster with shooting for advert 2 beginning quickly. I think we will take advert 2 more seriosuly as we have let things slide with our first advert. We have not decided yet, but we may film advert 2 and 3 simultaneously in order to speed up the filming process which will mean that we can then dedicate all of our time to editing. By the end of January we hope to have completed all of the filming for all 3 of our adverts.

Where am i at?

Overall we have been making ok progress albeit it fairly slowly. We did not fully meet the first deadline as ad 1 is not 100% completed yet and ad 2 has not been started. We believe we have nailed down a good amount of ad 1 so far which is beneficial because ad 1 appears like it will take the most time and work out of all 3. I believe that we will finish our coursework by the end of February as long as we begin to start taking the coursework more seriously and dedicate more time to both filming our adverts and editing them. So far we have encountered quite a few problems. One problem that has been fairly persistent has been our lack of being able to get our actors all togetehr at the same time and be wearing the same clothes. This is quite an important issue as it disrupts the continuity of our advert if they all look different and/or some of them are not there. We are still working to try and overcome this problem, however i believe if we create something along the lines of an actors timetable then we will easily be able to see when we can get everyone together. Another problem we have had is that our lighting has been poor on previous shooting sessions. We have overcome this by introducing some lamps for lighting which we believe has greatly imporved our situation. One more problem has been the availability of our shooting location. Advert 1 is being filmied in 1 of our school music rooms and is therefore used quite a lot throughout the day, so the availability of our location combined with the availability of our actors has been quite a large issue. We have found that it is normally available on Tuesdays for most of the day and also our actors are mostly available then so this problem is almost solved.

Overall i think we are making progress but not as fast as we need to. If we are able to really dig in to this coursework soon and dedicate the proper time and effort needed we should almost definitely be able to finish all 3 adverts by the end of February.