Filming... can it possibly be finished!?

Yesterday Laura and I were trying our hardest to find a boy to star in our film and after being let down three times we thought this would be hard, we found this was the case as Laura asked two of them and they both said they had other plans. After some thought, and trying to get hold of every boy i knew, someone said yes! :)

I spoke to him and arranged with him to meet me and Laura to do some filming in the morning, when he arrived we got all the shots we needed and a few extra because he was very cooperative which was such a relief as our short film needs to be finished by Friday and we are now on a very tight schedule to get it finished, our boy has also agreed that if we need him tomorrow he should be able to come in. :)

After finishing our filming we had planned to get a camera and import our filming onto the mac, this is where we struck another problem! there was another group using the mac we needed and the camera too, we then decided to get on with our preliminary task (the poster).

Whilst we were filming in the graveyard we also got some photos of the background we wanted for our poster and a photo of the boy to use for the silhouette, we needed more photos because the ones we had didn't achieve the golden spiral rule and we needed the silhouette to be the main focus of our poster, so when we found we couldn't start editing we decided to make our poster and finished it before the end of the day, this means we are now one down.. two to go! then our media is finished :/

Tomorrow... because we couldn't get any editing done today we have decided that we are going to edit our film and finish our magazine film review for the best part of tomorrow and if it comes to it we will have to stay after school to finish it as it needs to be done by friday.

Editing

Editing today showed me a few more errors in our shots that we need to re-film.
I was editing the bathroom scenes and found a continuity error as the girl is brushing her teeth, as she goes to brush her teeth she turns the tap off and in the next shot the tap is back on so we will need to re-film one of the shots again to show she leaves the tap on rather than it just magically being on again.
I think we may need to film most of the house scenes again as we want our film to be perfect.

Re-filming

Whilst editing our film today we found that a few of our shots didn't work out so we are going to re-film them.

The first thing we found was that in the scenes of the graveyard we had broken the 180 degree rule so the scene didnt have continuity and had to get rid of one of the scenes we wanted to include so we will have to get some more footage of the graveyard scenes to fill the gap.

The second problem we found was that we didnt have enough footage of the girl looking at the gravestone and the gravestone looking bake up at her and we are going to need more scenes like this if we want to create a connection between the girl and the grave, we will re-film this when we film the scenes with the boy at the graveyard.

Another part of our short film we need to re-film are the scenes as the girl is waking up in her bedroom, we need to do this because the lighting is not right and needs to be lighter and the mise en scene is not right in some shots either as it contains things in the shot that shouldn't be there, we shall therefore need to re-schedule a time for re-filming this soon at laura's house.

Also with the scenes at laura's house we have spotted that in the kitchen scenes there is a shadow that shouldn't be there as she is supposed to be home alone, another thing we need to change is the food in the fridge as there is too much food in there to show her mum is never there and things in the fridge that a mother or daughter shouldn't have in there if they live alone with no father figure, we will also re-film this when we film other things again at laura's house.

I noticed that the cereal box that we were using had three happy children on the front which i thought would ruin the illusion that our character is sad and lonely, however, we thought that this was just being to picky but after speaking to our teachers about it i feel we should use a differnt cereal box so it carries on the feeling of loneliness, from this mistake i have learnt that when we are filming next time to take more attention to details like this so we don't have to re-film again.

another let down...

we were suppose to get some more filming done today with our boy in the shots, preferably Day 1 of our story would be completed and we were going to get the final shots of the boy and girl at school, with the hinting of the connection between them.

unfortunately at last minute our boy pulled out and so we could not film. i am hoping he will be free soon, so that we can try and complete filming altogether by the end of next week

here is a filming schedule that we can hopefully stick to

Week Commencing

Filming hazards

When we start filming we need to think of the hazards our settings may have which could endanger us, so i have thought of a few;

Graveyard scenes:

• One of us may trip over or slip on the ground, Likelihood: Medium
• Filming may offend or upset some people visiting the graveyard, Likelihood: medium/high
• Empty holes or uneven graves on the ground may trip us, Likelihood: Medium

School scenes:

• if we film at the end of school clening will be being done so floor may be wet and one of us may slip or fall, Likelihood: Low
• doors or gates may get locked and we may not be able to get out if we do not ask permissions to film, Likelihood: Low
• People in school may make filming difficult, Likelihood: medium/high

Home scenes:

• At home you are generally off guard so may not be expecting anything to go wrong so if it does it will be a shock, Likelihood: medium
• Knives in the kitchen, Likelihood: Medium
• slipping in the bathroom scenes, Likelihood: Low/ medium

Bus scenes:

• Some members of the public may not cooperate and make filming difficult or even get offended that we are filming, Likelihood: medium/high
• Their is a hazard that the bus may crash as we are filming, Likelihood: Low/medium

Now we know about these hazards we will have to be careful as we are filming and make sure we do our best to avoid these dangers.

Let down again

Today we were again supposed to get most of the filming done but unfortunately laura is ill and i cant even start filming because our actress cannot be filmed today!
I am therefore going to make a start on the other element of our short film task, the task i am going to make a start on is the film poster, although we were going to use a still from our film this is now not possible as we haven't been able to film yet, I am now going to use a picture of the graveyard we took last week for our ideas of settings.
Amy x

Problems with filming again

As I wrote yesterday we were going to start our filming today, however, we were needing to film outside and the weather has not turned out the best for this to be successful, also we were planning on filming the whole of the opening sequence because then it would look better in our film when the starting and ending where the same, as the lighting and weather would all be the same, we can no longer do this because we need our boy character to be in these shots and we have recently found out that he cannot do it today, so we are going to find out a time when we can all film and get alot done because then our filming will run smoothly, also the corridor where we were going to film in school has had a smashed window so we cannot film there.
Apart from this we have planned which shots we need to film at one time and when we are now thinking of filming them so even though this let down has not been a help we are going to find a way around it.

Problems

We had planned out when we were going to film and who we were going to film with, however we were let down by our main character so this is a big problem, also because we were planning on using our main characters house to film in, so as well as having to find a new character to be in our film we are going to have to find new settings to film our film in. We had a few practice shots of what we wanted to include in our film but problems with one of the cameras led to our footage being deleted.

let down....

hi amy, just a quick messageto let you know about how filming is now going to have to be postponed, so much for those 3 or 4 frees that were perfect for our filming! think it might be a good idea to find someone else for our film now as they have totally messed us around and let us down big time!
speak to you soon
laura x x