The document is a production log for a student's final major project creating a game for a BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma in Creative Media Production. It details the student's progress over several months, including researching sound recording techniques, borrowing equipment to record sound effects, scheduling and rescheduling a pitch, editing sounds, syncing audio to video, and receiving feedback to improve the project. The student worked on planning sound assets needed, explained the sound acquisition process, and reflected on lessons learned from the project.

1. Salford City College
Eccles Sixth Form Centre
BTec Level 3
Extended Diploma in Creative Media Production
Games Design
Final Major Project
Production Log
Name Macauley Kavanagh
Date Comments
Sunday
10.01.14
Scenario started, emails sent out to various developers.
Received Replies from: Wolf fire games that created receiver and Overgrowth as well as Peppy who develops Osu!
Date Comments
Sunday
19.01.14
Spent time researching various ways or recording, found a youtuber who has a series of very useful videos called Kaamos Sounds who has a large
amount of videos demonstrating the recording of various effects. This will be extremely useful.
Date Comments
Sunday
02.02.14
Cut scene decided on, will spend additional time researching and try to borrow the college’s sound recording equipment.
Will also do research on free sfx online that could be used too.
Date Comments
Sunday
09.02.14
Scheduling a pitch for next week, will do research on the statistics and other useful information for the target audience to help sell my pitch.
Date Comments
Sunday
16.02.14
Pitch delayed due to illness.
Some work from home was done, acquired video footage to work on.
Date Comments
Sunday
23.02.14
We had this week off from college, was able to do some work from home by sending out more emails to companies.
Date Comments
Sunday
02.03.14
First week back from break, pitch was rescheduled and borrowed a sound recording kit for some SFX
Date Comments
Sunday
09.03.14
Sound recording kit returned, SFX editing for production in progress, Pitch taking place 14/3/2014
Had issues with the video I acquired earlier, the format wasn’t usable with Adobe Premiere so I’m spending some time at home rendering it into a
different format that will be playable with Premiere pro.

2. Date Comments
Sunday
16.03.14
After spending a few hours going through all the sounds that I previously recorded and making edits that I’d use for the project. I imported the new
version of the cinematic this time in an MP4 format that was readable by Adobe Premiere and began syncing the audio to it. Pitch was delayed by
another week.
Date Comments
Sunday
23.03.14
Pitch took place on Wednesday of this week (or last week, I failed to mention it if I forgot)
More audio recording was done briefly outside of college for some ambient sounds including the flag and some battle cry samples.
Final parts of the video being synched, expected to be finished around 31/03/14
Date Comments
Friday
04.04.14
Final week of the project, final piece was rendered and uploaded to YouTube and all tasks added to blogger, also did an extra video demonstrating
how sound recording was done (This was recorded around week 09.03.14 but I forgot the mention it) I rendered this out and added it to youtube
too.
Adding finishing touches to blog.
Date Comments
Thursday
06.05.14
Came back to college after break, after receiving feedback and having to resubmit at a later date I chose the 23rd of May. I began adding more to
my Tasks on the blog, I added 2 more video game examples to Task 1 – Research, source on some statistics, additional information the Audio
Industry in general and included a target audience. I also restarted my work on this production log.
Date Comments
Thursday
15.05.14
Added an explanation to Task 5 – Production on how I acquired some sounds, made sure to explain every step. I also added a larger starting
paragraph to explain my feelings over how the project went to Task 7 – Evaluation and reviewing my progress.
Finally this week I also added a lot more information to my Task 4 – Planning, a list of sound assets I required to work on the project as well as how
I’d plan to record these or what locations and tools I could use to do so as well. Finally, I Requested feedback for my pitch from Mandy.