After thorough editing and final touches, Robert and I have finished our A level media short film that consists of 5 minutes. This final version of our film includes improvements with the sound levels, visual effects, crisp editing and an improved car escape scene. Robert, myself and all of our cast/actors are very proud of the work we have produced and we are all looking forward for showing our official short film to our audiences.

1. Car shot looks exciting and leaves story on cliff hanger.
2. Colour grading shots are very good.
3. Film is now looking professional and is flowing smoothly.
4. Improve the sound levels as they are uneven.

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.

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.

Myself, Robert and the rest of the film crew spent the afternoon filming up on East Hill on the 22nd January. We assembled all of the essential equipment including the trio-pod, camera and boom microphone at 11:15 am. We then straight away went into the filming of the interrogation scene.

The day went well overall, and had some bad parts throughout, including some bad footage and incorrectly recorded sound. We also forgot to shoot some certain shots we wanted to shoot which automatically made Robert and I know that we would have to do another day of filming in this location. So we had no choice but to wait until the next filming day. Also the actors acting qualities decreased as the day went along due to tiredness and the sheer brutal coldness of the rural area. The good parts of the day included some funny moments that got us through the day swell as some very good quality shots that we will use for our main short film. Overall, our actors are very happy to perform in our short film production and are thrilled to be acting in roles they all enjoy.



We managed to film some of the interrogation scene which we will use for our actual short film, and we successfully completed the running chase scene which we were very proud of producing. We were able to accomplish this by myself driving my car at a slow speed, while Robert films Luke/Morgan running on the other side of the road.

For our next day of filming on the 22nd January, Robert and I have already begun preparing our equipment and plans for this 3rd day of filming. This next day of filming will take place in our next scene which is located on East Hill in Ottery St Mary (a much more rural area than Exeter.) I have been making a rough checklist that I have ticked off what equipment Robert and myself are planning to take with us to use, as well as making a Facebook chat for our actors to confirm their attendances to these filming days. Below is a scanned image of the rough checklist:

Robert, Harry and myself thought it was crucial that we retook the opening scene of our short film once again to obtain better quality, and a much larger range of footage so we have more to play with in the editing stage. We thought we were more successful today with our footage captured due to us planning this day in much more detail.

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.