More filming retakes
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Thursday 22 December 2016
Day 2 | Short Film
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Robert and I attempted our 2nd attempt of filming the Exeter scene with our main antagonist actor 'Harry' on the 22nd December. We were certain from the first filming day attempt that we needed to reshoot mostly all of the first scene due to the bad weather and the densely populated area od the car park. As we used the first day of filming as an 'experimentation', we were more organised for our 2nd filming attempt and improved our last footage from the first shooting day.
We also played around with some playful shots that involved the vehicle to 'glorify' it a bit. So due to the great weather , we attempted this with no problems, here are some examples.
Form a whole mornings worth of filming, we got some excellent footage that meant we didn't need to come back to Exeter to reshoot anymore of the first opening scene. Robert and I were much more pleased with the overall success of the day and are looking forward with the rest of our filming production.
The weather was much better on this second filming day compared to the first. The cloud cover in the sky was perfect on the second filming day and some sunlight appeared as the morning progressed. Also there were not many disruptions throughout the morning which was much better than the first day. We also arrived in advance 2 hours earlier (08:00am) than the first day of filming (10:00am) which gave us plenty of time to film quality shots before the public started to enter the car park and interrupt our filming.
We experimented with several different shots in this day 2 of filming, and we straight away got back to editing our film with this valuable footage as soon as we got back to you computers. One thing that both Robert and I found very outstanding included the image stabilisation on my iPhone 6's which gave us incredible shots for our opening sequence. However, swell as using the main DSLR camera, the iPhone's camera had a permanent auto saturation which made the footage look pretty with nice colours, but this was not what we wanted for our gritty British action film, so this will make more work for us to remove/edit when we get back to Premiere pro.
We had a couple of mistakes on our day 2 of filming, including myself accidentally walking into the camera area, as well as Robert accidentally covering his finger slightly over the flat iPhone lens which ruined the iPhone footage.
We also played around with some playful shots that involved the vehicle to 'glorify' it a bit. So due to the great weather , we attempted this with no problems, here are some examples.
Form a whole mornings worth of filming, we got some excellent footage that meant we didn't need to come back to Exeter to reshoot anymore of the first opening scene. Robert and I were much more pleased with the overall success of the day and are looking forward with the rest of our filming production.
Tuesday 20 December 2016
Day 2 | Filming Preparation
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For our second day in Exeter filming preparation, Robert and I have informed Harry Cockayne once again for the next day of filming on the 22nd December. We have planned our shots very closely to the storyboard plans. However, we only have Harry's company until 12:00 pm as he has to attend an external exam at his college.
This checklist shows the exact equipment that Robert and I are going to be bringing to the set to use for filming tomorrow.
Thursday 15 December 2016
Rick assessment 2
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This second risk assessment I have made is for the second scene of our short film which is the biggest and most important scene our our whole short film. So I have thought about every risk that is possible while the day of filming on East Hill happens. As we have already filmed our first attempt at East Hill and we know now what happens on the day, this risk assessment will be very accurate and will be very useful for our day of thorough filming.
Saturday 10 December 2016
Our Animatic
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Finally Robert and I have finished our animatic which illustrates our storyboard in a film like presentation. To us , the animatic gives use a much better insight of what our short film will look like. We both think it looks great so far and are both very excited to continue with he rest of our project.
Friday 9 December 2016
Our Storyboard
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After lot of development and co-operative thinking, Robert and I have a much more thorough storyboard that tells the viewer every scene of our short film. This has taken us weeks to generate and complete to what we think is a high standard. This storyboard will definitely help us throughout the production of our short film that will take place in the next couple of months.
Sunday 4 December 2016
Class footage presentations
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During last lesson, each group in our media class presented their first minute of footage they had captured so we could all give our most honest feedback including, compliments and improvements. Robert and myself also got some good ideas by watching other peoples work.
When Robert and I presented out first minute of footage, we got a good variety of compliments and improvements including the following:
When Robert and I presented out first minute of footage, we got a good variety of compliments and improvements including the following:
First filming attempt
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During Thursday morning, we attempted to film our first scene on the top floor of the Princess-hay car park in the city of Exeter. When we arrived, the top floor was isolated with no cars whatsoever in our way or parked nearby. This firstly gave us a good impression as we could now film with no interruptions from the other members of the public. We went straight over to the lift and got Harry (our main actor) to practice coming up the lift in sync to our recording. We all found this hard as it was hard to signal each other when it was safe to come up the lift when there was no one in the way. We tried this many times but the car park was just getting more populated with shoppers so there was more interruptions as the time went on as well as the weather getting worse.
This indicated to Robert and myself that we needed to quickly come up with another idea of how to film an effective first opening shot around the car park, so we found a great area of the car park where there was an overlook of Exeters more modern area of building structures. This was very scenic and fitted into our film well so we shot some footage in this area of the car park and got excellent results as well as the weather clearing up and getting more sunny.
Thursday 1 December 2016
Costume Designs | Zeb
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Zeb, who is a high ranked employee of Igor (the main antagonist character), from Syndicate International. Zab and Igor are the ones who tracked down and captured 'Jack Morgan' for interrogation. Like in many action/adventure films, many antagonist characters have 'sidekicks' which is what the role of Zeb is (a sidekick villain.) Zebs matching physical build makes him appear more superior and threatening towards Jack the main protagonist.
The moodpboard above is what Robert and I have made to illustrate what we want Zeb's character to appear as. Zeb will wear an incredibly similar suit to Igor's so the audience can identify they are together. He will be ordered around by Igor which Zeb will obey and take control of the interrogation until Igor arrives from starting out in the city.
Robert and myself have decided who will be playing the role of this character called Zeb. This actor is called 'Luke Dix' who is a friend of Harry Cockayne (actor of Igor). Luke and Harry have very similar strong physical builds which fit the exact stereotypes off super athletic agents in action films.
Robert and myself have decided who will be playing the role of this character called Zeb. This actor is called 'Luke Dix' who is a friend of Harry Cockayne (actor of Igor). Luke and Harry have very similar strong physical builds which fit the exact stereotypes off super athletic agents in action films.
