Moonlight had became the very first film with an all black cast to win 'Best picture' at The Oscars. Despite there were no Action Adventure films that won any Oscars, I was still very impressed with the films that won their well deserved awards throughout the evening.

During our lesson time, Robert and I went to a quiet meeting room to record some dubbing over sounds for our characters movements for the short film. We did this because during the filming days , we did not successfully record all of the appropriate/intended sounds that we wanted so we had to do it ourselves. We mainly did this for our villain character 'Crimson' with a belt and coat as it sounded very like the movement we wanted to hear.

Robert and I thought it would be useful to record some practice footage before the actual car chase with Oliver Hounsel being the stunt driver. The footage we recorded would hopefully replicate what we want to record on the real day of recording (on the 19th March.) We went up to East Hill (our film set) to record some practice shots of the vehicle we are using driving down the road several times with the camera mounted in different places every time. These clips below are a couple of Go Pro recordings of the practice car scenes.









The GO Pro shots were better than the DSLR shots as the DSLR shots were shaky without the image stabilisation feature which the Go Pro did have. We would need to adjust the settings on the Go Pro for the actual day of filming so the wide lens effect doesn't spoil the real footage.

For my two ancillary tasks, Robert has agreed to do the same thing to set up a photoshoot with a green screen so we can both take quality photographs of our actors individually for our film poster and double page spread magazine. These posters and magazine pages will help attract the audience to watch out short film. High quality photographs are always used in the majority of action/adventure films just like in 'James Bond', 'Mad Max', 'Harry Potter' and 'Star Wars'. I wish to replicate the conventions of these film posters as they make the subject matter in their posters to be 'the best of quality'.

Robert and I invited Luke (Zeb) and Morgan (Jack) to attend out photoshoot we had set up in the dark room at out school, with their costumes on so we could take photographs of them in different positions/angles. The green screen propped up behind the actors gave us the advantage of easily removing the background out when it came to editing on Adobe Photoshop.

After Robert and I finished shooting some quality photograph shots of our main characters in front of a green screen, we decided to create some initial poster backgrounds with some of our favourite photos we shot on the day. The following images are some of my initial poster ideas :

During the process of editing these posters, I had picked up a lot of new skills including how to crop a single image, create new layers, shade and rub out certain areas as well as being able to use special effects to enhance the photographs I was using.

After thorough planning and deep considerations from Robert and I, we have designed a fully detailed timeline of our main opening credits which flow throughout our 5 minute short film. We have inserted the credits in appropriate places where we feel they link to the film the most without distracting the viewers from the film itself:

Robert,  myself and the rest of the actors went up East Hill on the 10th Februaryto re-shoot the shots we had missing from the rest of the footage. Robert and myself made sure all of the actors were dresses identical to their last day of filming. Some mistakes that we fixed through reshooting during day 4 included actors clothing items being worn in different ways. For example, during day 3 of recording, Jacks bomber jacker was zipped up, however during day 4, it was unzipped, which will definitely cause confusion to the audience watching.

This video shows the comparison of a certain mistakes that occurred from day 3 of filming (22nd Jan) and day 4 of filming (10th Feb.)



the car chase scene will be filmed on the last day of filming (day 5) which will require Luke to be in the shot when the car shoots past him (Volkswagen Golf GT TDI) driven by Oliver Hounsel.

Robert and I are currently preparing our 4th filming reshoot day for the interrogation scene as there were some shots which definitely needed improving. Shots that we needed to do again include the shot reverse shot of Morgan and myself staring at each other, as well as Luke staring at Morgan during the interrogation and finally, the introduction shot of my character 'Crimson'. These shots are following the storyboard we have made, but we also wish to experiment with more shots to improve our short film.