Tuesday 19th january

The lesson today started with a meeting with Nick (1/2 of cram creatives). Nick decided it was appropriate to deduct £20 off of each of our budgets due to Mike taking the casts contact details away and not coming in for a day meaning we were unable to contact the cast and Hayden in the other group (Detention Deficit) took the hard drive with all their footage on home and didn't turn up for the first 2 hours of the lesson. Although this was really annoying, i think it was a fair and realistic thing for Nick to do, as if we were doing this in the media industry we would have lost money for being careless and becoming behind.

The rest of the lesson was spent doing general organisation for the filming of the first episode at the end of the day. Over all i felt the shoot was successfull in the sense we got the first episode finnished, how ever i do think that we could have been far more efficient, to make the shoot go smoother i think it would have helped if Tim(camera man) Kirk(director) and Mike(script writer) had planned together how they were going to film so they didn't have to discuss as much on set. Also, although Kirk is very good at organising, he is far too nice and doesn't vocalise his instructions well and therefore people don't pay much attention

I was in charge of recording sound, i also helped Matt record the title sequence.