Personal production log

NAME:    Mahfuza                                                                                                                       Production Company: Flash FM

DATE	TASK	My personal contribution	Evaluation of Task.
15/10/16	Preliminary task	I planned my script in order to contribute to my part in the preliminary task. I acted as a presenter and also planned which story I was going to include in the task (The mass brawl between school students). I edited the preliminary task and cut the bits out we didn’t need from the preliminary task using audacity. I also inserted the news jingle that we chose as a group and added in the fade ins and fade outs.	Preliminary task was completed. Leadership skills and team working skills were shown. Uploaded to blog.
26/11/16	Pitch	Planned and produced my part of the pitch. Explained our ideas and the ideas for my own story. Explained why I chose my story and how I will use it. Explained why we chose the name ‘Flash FM’ for our production name.	Pitch completed and presented.
26/11/16	Pitch feedback	Took down notes of feedback. Recorded the group feedback on my phone. Used the feedback to improve on my ideas and my story.	Feedback was used to make my story sound better in the radio newscast.
28/11/16	Primary research: Audience VoxPops	I found a few of my target audiences and asked what they listen to on the news (+more questions). I recorded it on my phone. Edited it on the 1st/12/2016 and uploaded it on the 3rd/12/2016	Primary research was completed. Experience of how to create VoxPops was gained. Uploaded to blog.
8/12/16 12/12/16 15/12/16 16/12/16	Audience profile	On the 8th of December I filmed the female version of our audience profile. I was in charge of deciding who our target audience female was and was in charge of recording with the camera. On the 12th we uploaded the footage onto the iMac in school and started to edit the footage, cutting out the scenes that we don’t need. On the 15th we recorded our audio to the audience profile and edited it in to the video. On the 16th we added music and completed our audience profile video.	Audience profile completed. Experience of editing audio was gained. Uploaded to blog.
18/12/16	Treatment plan	I created the treatment plan to my story for my radio news broadcast.	Treatment and contingency plan completed and uploaded to blog.
18/12/16	Contingency plan	Created the contingency plan / backup story in case I can’t do my original story.	Contingency plan completed and uploaded to blog.
19/12/16	List of sources	List of people to be interviewed and where to get the sources from.	Decided on who I was going to interview.
20/12/16	Draft script	I planned the script to my part of the radio newscast. I also did some research in order to make my draft.	Draft script completed. Independency shown. Uploaded to blog.
02/01/17	Improved script	Asked people to give me feedback on my script, what they like/dislike about it.	Improved script from the feedback.
07/12/16	Sequence of whole group newscast layout	Decided which stories would go first and last and whose story is soft news/hard news. I was in charge of the layout and scripts for the anchors as well.	The layout and sequence was completed and seemed accurate.
03/01/17	Changed my script and story to backup story	Changed script to fit the story and edited all planning.	Completed.
16/02/17	Editing	Edited my section of the whole group newscast.	Editing my story is completed
30/03/2017	editing	Edited the whole newscast with group. The whole newscast was too long so we had to cut it down. We used the software called Logic to edit and add sound FX to our product.	Editing whole group newscast completed.