Filming: What We Need To Change

Filming: First Draft Filming Day

Filming: Shooting Schedule

We will be filming the scene with the Priest giving the speech on Monday the 14th of January and we will be filming the rest of the film on Sunday the 27th of January. 

Charlee, Oscar, Beth and I will all be there when we film the scene with the Priest.
Charlee, Oscar and myself will be filming the rest of the film as Beth is unable to attend.

Filming: Actors and Location

Actors:

Protagonist: Giles Westgarth
Girl tortured: Lucy Wise
Boy tortured: Jonathan Morris
Child: Rachel Mockler
Priest: Oscar Bath

Location:

As we weren't able to use our location and child actor for unknown reasons my group and I had to quickly think of a new location and also a new child actor. This proved to be very difficult because all of our houses were being other wise occupied. However luckily Giles was very kind as to offer us to be able to film at his house this helped out a lot and them on the day Imogen found a solution to our child actor problem by using her cousin. This means that instead of using a young boy we are now using a young girl.

Filming: First day filming

Yesterday my group and I had our first filming session for the priest scene. It is only a short scene but is vital for the film to go a head as the film starts with the man watching TV with the priest being interviewed by the news. Our location for this short scene is in front of a local church as it was a very short scene with little dialogue and movement it was very easy to film. As there were so many sides of the church were we could film we had to try various places to see which one looked better. After we had found this place we set up the camera, our actor and started shooting. However we didn't think of the weather when we decided when to film and unfortunately it started to snow very heavily. This made it very difficult for Oscar (our actor) to be heard and also for me, Beth and Imogen who were filming to cover the camera up so it wouldn't break. However despite this complication me and the other girls found it particularly easy to do. We finished filming quickly as temperatures were dropping but we looked over the footage and agreed that it was exactly what we were looking for.

Overall now that we have this footage we can now start filming the rest of our film for our rough cut.

Planning: Updated shot list

Since my last post on our story board/shot list we have made a few changes due to some peoples opinions and also our teachers view so far. Here is our new and updates shot list revised:

1. Close up of TV, slow zoom, shot of protagonist on sofa.

2. Zoom of previous shot,
3. Long shot of table with religious items and Polaroids
4. Close up of Polaroids, title, jump cut to next shot
5. Medium shot of child playing on the floor
6. Close up of Polaroids, title
7. Mid shot of protagonist from behind watching TV
8. Mid shot of child playing with toys, zoom up
9. Close up of Polaroids, title
10. Medium shot of TV and sofa
11. Close up of Polaroids, title
12. Medium high angle shot of door
13. Close up, low angle of door handle
14. Close up of Polaroids, title
15. Low angle, long shot of door from the bottom of the stairs
16. Long shot of door
17. Extreme close up of lock on door
18. Close up of Polaroids, title
19. Long shot of boy playing with toys
20. Close up of Polaroids, title
21. Close up of male torture victims hands
22. Extreme close of of victims face
23. Close up of Polaroids, title
24. High angle, extreme close up of protagonist and victims
25. Long shot of female torture victim
26. Close up of polaroids
27. Blurred medium shot of protagonist
28. Blurred but then changes into focused extreme close up of protagonists eye

As you can see we have added in a few more shots of the Polaroid's because when we looked back over our previous shot list we realised that we didn't have enough Polaroid's for all of the titles. The additional changes that we have put in are much more camera angles to help to establish the room and also the characters, we hope this help the audience to connect to the characters whether its in a negative of positive way. As well as this we have changes some of the timings of the shots because some were to shot for example our zoom was to short realistically to shot. Transitions has been added in to add more interest to the sequence and to also show some of our technical skill and also makes the film flow a little more. We plan to keep make storyboard changes all the way through our filming process including after the animatic and also after we have filmed as their might be a certain shot that we want to add in.

Important dates and deadline

Last week in our coursework lesson we revised over the important dates and deadlines for our coursework piece.

15th January - animatic and storyboard
28th January - filming finished
15th February - post production rough cut
8th March - final deadline coursework complete
29th March - individual evaluations finished

I think that having these deadlines helps my group to realise how close the deadlines are and what we need to do to achieve these deadlines and will push us to work harder so we can meet them.

We have sat down as a group and we have decided that oscar will do the majority of the filming while me, Imogen and Bethany prepare for filming. My job is to take pictures of the location and actors, Imogen's job is to create the new and improved shot list ready for filming and finally Bethany's job is to bring the costumes and props.

Planning: Actors, Props, Location and Equipment

These are the final decisions, lists of actor, locations, props and equipment:

Actors and Actresses:

Protagonist - Giles Westgarth

Child - Still Need Naming 

Male Captive - Connor Barbor 

Female Captive - Lucy Wise 

Priest on TV - Oscar Bath

 

Location

Basement - Giles Garage

Stairs - Beth's House 

Living room - Beth's house

Church for TV Segment - St Joseph's Church

Props:

Religious Paraphernalia: Beth

Children's Toys: Beth 

Chains: Myself and Oscar
Sheet for Basement floor: Myself

Table: Myself

Tatter clothing: Everyone

Preacher costume: Myself

Equipment:

HDV Camera 

Boom Mic 

Tripod 

Lighting Rig

Adobe Premier Pro CS6  

Continuity task: Evaluation