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Friday, 10 February 2017

Day 4 | Short film

16:17:00
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.

Wednesday, 8 February 2017

Day 4 | Filming Preparation

06:01:00
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.


The times and costumes we are using for this scene have been acknowledged by all of the actors so they know what to do and when to attend. This filming day is slightly different to the rest as we are filming day 4 on a school day, so we all have to ask for permission to miss a day of lessons to do our short film. I will be bringing the props needed for our film and Robert will be bringing all of the essential filming equipment.

The weather forecast for filming day 4 is basically the same as the last filming day so we are grateful for this, so the footage should look like it is all filmed on the same day for realistic reasons.


Monday, 6 February 2017

Filming our main scene

01:36:00
At 11 o'clock on sunday morning, I met up with all of the actors committing to be in our film in Ottery St. Mary and we all travelled up to East Hill where our filming would take place. Once we all arrived up there , we met up with Robert (my filming partner) and started to explain the plan/script out to the other actors and prepared the set with props positioning etc.

From 11:00am - 2:00pm , we filmed our interrogation scene which went very well and great quality footage was captured by Robert and myself. The actors did what they were told and the props were used effectively.

Shortly after, our car chase crew arrived (Oliver and Ellis) in their two Ford Fiestas at 2:00pm which were driving through East Hill while Robert and I were recording different camera shots of them till 4:00pm.

At 4:00pm, everyone was starting to get very cold and the day was getting dark so we decided to call it a day and finish. This also was because our main Canon DSLR cameras batteries were both dead and the memory card became full.

Overall the day of filming went very well and we obtained some very good footage. However , we cant tell how well it went until we review all of the footage we've got on the macs back in the classroom. When we do this, we will then be able to make a decision if we need to re-shoot any certain scenes. From my point of view, I feel that we will probably need to reshoot  a lot of the car chase scene as I felt that we didn't get enough footage or a variety of shots.





Sunday, 22 January 2017

Day 3 | Short Film

14:09:00
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.



Friday, 20 January 2017

Day 3 | Filming Preparation

13:53:00
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:


At 11:00 on the 22nd January is when we plan to see our actors at the set on East Hill and are hoping to shoot the main interrogation scene until 15:00pm and complete the running/chase scene until 16:20.

We will bring the same filming equipment  swell as the Tri-pod for stable filming shots and parts of the costumes for our character 'Crimson' and Morgans character 'Jack'. I will also bring all of the weapon props including the guns and smoke grenades which we will handle with caution. Also , the forecast is meant to be just sunny spells and grey clouds which is exactly what we want for our media filming.


Due to our previous experience with the last two filming days, we expect the location of the set to get busy as the day goes on, so we are making signs to Waern the public to avoid the set so we are not disturbed in a polite manner.







Monday, 16 January 2017

Wednesday, 11 January 2017

Audacity

16:51:00
To enhance mine and Roberts short film audio. I have been working in Audacity to remove unwanted noise for better sound quality in our film. Examples of these unwanted noises include; the character speaks and an unwanted irritable sound wave disturbance occurs. This is when I use audacity to remove all of these audio sounds so the character’s speech sounds crisp and clear for the audience to listen to while watching out short film. In my opinion, I am now experienced with audacity as I used it last year at AS level for our title opening sequence in media studies. So, my skills in Audacity have improved and are confident. After I have edited these clean and crisp audio tracks that we have recorded alongside out footage, they are inserted into the final edited film, synced up in time with the footage and are then finished.


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