Wednesday, 18 December 2013

Film Opening Feedback

Film Opening Feedback
 
 
Good Points;
  1. The crosscuts between the delivery man getting ready and the victim in the house was very effective and worked well
  2. The Production company name was unique
  3. The film overall was very good, enigma made class want to watch rest.
Bad Points;
  1. The flash between sections of film is good but gets quite repetitive after a while
  2. the news report and non-diegetic music should overlap a bit
  3. Film of delivery guy on moped shows Tesco, ruins the effect of a secretive murder
With this feedback, we will make changes to the sound and overlap the news reports the the music. we will also consider changing the number of times we use the flash.

Tuesday, 10 December 2013

Filming and Editing Update 2

Day 2 of filming was on Monday, we organised the next location a while in advance for the victims house scene, it was a good location for filming but the lighting was not as good as we hoped, as we wanted the lighting to be very high key throughout the house to contrast with the darkness of the other character and his environment. We overcame this by bringing in a new source of light, from a lamp, into the darker scenes such as the kitchen. It worked well but meant we needed to take precautions like watching that the shadows aren't seen on camera, and that we keep it consistent for shots in the same rooms. never the less it was a good scene for a home atmosphere and accommodated all of the shots we needed for the opening.

We followed the storyboard to know the general shots we needed to film and what we wanted to get, we tried lots of different ideas with camera position and scene management, taking our time to find what works well and what could be done better in our environment. After the filming we were happy with what we had but still needed one of the most important shots, which was shots close-up from the camera mounted on the front of the bike. We will capture this and possibly recapture any footage that we aren't completely satisfied with in the next and final filming session.

In class we had plenty of footage to use for editing into the final product, this was our first big start into editing the opening, the first big step was to get all of the components we are going to use in the opening and discard the other clips. This is done to reduce the amount of clutter and footage to go through in editing and means that only the best clips are used, once they had been selected we started laying them all down in the video editing program, we could trim the footage down to how long we wanted each shot as well as how to piece the shots together with transitions. basically all of the visuals and sounds are coming together and just need arranging.

Filming and Editing Update 1

Filming and Editing Update 1

Day 1 of filming was on Saturday, we had organised a location for the garage scene in Market Rasen with a large driveway. It was a good place to film as the garage lighting was good for the atmosphere, the garage itself was smaller than expected but it came together well by compacting our ideas for shots a bit more.

We took a lot of consideration into the lighting of the scene, one of the lights was obscured by things on a shelf so we tested how much light we aloud through to light the counter. We also tested many different camera positions and found some very good shots in the process, we have a few scenes still to film that we will film in the next week or so, which includes the go-pro bike shots and a low-angle close-up, as well as the scene in the next victim's house.

We followed the storyboard to be sure that we covered all the shots we set out to get, but as we were experimenting with shots and lighting, we got a few really good unexpected shots that we will try to implement into our opening.
After the first filming session and classes between the next filming sessions we managed to design and complete our production logo as well as record both of our news reporters audio.

Monday, 2 December 2013

Shot Lists


 

Shooting Schedule


 

Job Roles

Job Roles

Producer

Producers are a key part in the filming industry. They oversee filming projects and are responsible for different elements of a shoot e.g. finance, finding material for the script, hiring actors and crew. They liaise with all members of the crew from actors to directors.

We have chosen Callum Bibby as our producer because of his major input into the storyboard and initial idea. He is also one of the main actors so he would have insight into what would look good on camera.



Director

Directors are responsible for the movie its self, they are responsible for the vision of the movie and has the job of describing that vision to the crew such as cameramen, actors, lighting and set designer. They work closely with the prod cuter when casting and choosing the actors.

 

We have chosen Matthew Wheldon as our director because he work with Callum when designing the storyboard and inputted a lot when we where filming.

 

Camera

The camera operator is the person who has to take instruction from the director, they have to work in tandem with the director without mistake. They have be skilful to recreate the directors ideas with a camera.

 

We chose Harrison Cattell as our camera operator because he is confident with his skill when using a camera work well with people.

 

Editor

The editor has the job of spending long hour on a computer trying to put the director instructions and idea into a motion picture. They have the responsible of keeping the film understandable and make it presentable.

 

We chose Shane Chamberlain as our editor because he has the necessary skill and understanding to use move editing software correctly.

 

Lighting and Sound

The light and sound crew has the job of getting the light levels and sound levels to the director wish. They have to be flexible and have an understanding on lighting and sound equipment.

 

We decided that all of us should have this role because it allows us to all pitch in idea and make it a better film opening.