we lied...:)

okay so before when we showed our final desings, we were lying. we managed to get some feedback on them and so things have been altered again, but we are much much happy with our changes. these should hopefully now be the final ones!

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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.

stressful...

today we filmed all our 'house' shots, it was a looonnngg day but by the end of it i think we have finally corrected the errors. we were always sure in switiching all the lights on around my house to make sure that the lighting on our film was much better this time, we also made sure that the continuity error with our tap in the bathroom was corrected and also had my mum emptying out our fridge and getting rid of those beers and only showing a bare minimum of food in it ;)

after accidentally filming over the first lot of work we managed to get done before lunch, we then went back on ourselves and had to frustrantingly film the whole lot again for the THIRD time. i am now officially sick of hearing the ringing of my stupid alarm clock, and Amy has had that many costume changes that not even Lady Gaga in concert could compete with! (god i am so sad! look at what this project is doing to me! i am now making cheesy jokes on the blog! gahh!)

we shall now go on to shoot the final shots at school with our boy and also the graveyard finish with our boy. and then hopefully that will be a wrap! we shall neatly finish editing our whole film, design our poster and magazine review and have it all nice and ready for friday. (dear god i need a miracle!!)

Filming has finally started

Yesterday we were really unsure about our film and were even considering changing our idea, however, we have decided to stick with it and try and get it done, also whilst having these thoughts we decided to do some practice shots around the school which we were not sure of how to film or if they would work but after doing them we now know how they will work in our film and are quite confident about filming them.

We have made some changes in our film, one of the changes is our main character, as we were let down many times by two different people we have just decided that it will be better if one of us was the main character and I have said that i will be her, the only problem with this is that i will not be able to film the scenes that i am acting in so i am going to film all the other scenes that i can and help laura set up the shots and give ideas to how they will be filmed. Also because I am now going to be the main character in our film we could use some of the practise shots of me in the school in our film if we need them.

Today we actually got some filming done, although we couldn't get our boy character available to film today we got most of the graveyard shots done and we got a few more shots than we may actually need but i think this is a good idea because then we will not need to go back to film any more and will have more shots to include when editing if we find we do actually need them.

Film poster

This is the picture i will use for the film poster. I am not sure what our film is going to be called for sure yet, i will just make a mock up of the poster for now untill we have a definate name for our film, i will then re-make the poster with our chosen name on it.
I have chosen this picture as i feel it represents our film quite well, the main plot of our film includes the setting of the graveyard, and this is where the twist in our film happens so it may be quite an iconic scene in our film which the audience will recognise, I also think that a picture of a graveyard is quite interesting because it will trigger different feelings for different people and some may be able to relate to this picture in some way.

Filming

We are going to start filming tomorrow after school, our actress is free so we are hoping to get a few shots done, some of the shots that we are planning to get are; All of the graveyard shots right to the end so that everything stays the same in the beginning and end, also the empty school as we will be filming after school and hopefully everyone will have gone. We will also try out some other shots if we have time.

Filming

Something has finally worked out and I have found someone who has said they will be in our film as the main boy character, he is free quite often so can work with us when we need him.
He also doesn't mind who he is in the film with which is a plus, unlike our previous main character who wanted to choose who she worked with which wasn't practical for us.

Solutions

Because our main character has dropped out of our film and we now have nowhere to film we need to find a solution and quite fast, so we have asked a few people we know and think we may have found someone to film but we just need to sort out some times when we can all be available to film, as with the problem of where to film I think I may have found somewhere where we can get to quite easily, however we just need to check this with our new main character. As with our footage being deleted we thought this may not be too much of a problem because it will not be in our film and atleast we now have an idea of final shots that we will use and how to film them.

filming

i have now found someone who has agreed to star in our film as the protagonist :)
this means we can finally crack on with starting the filming
we have managed to arrange some days in which we can all go an do some camera work and also available locations, such as the house - kitchen and bedroom, graveyard and school.

we shall have the storyboard up on the blog very soon!

Laura,
Next lesson shall we get a tape and film a few shots like timelapse and match on action, we could use this to get a better idea of how to do the shots and to see if they would look good in our film and then we could add the shots we will use in our storyboard.
wb.
Amy x