First day of filming

We filmed on Sunday 16th as we had planned. I called everyone the night before to confirm that filming was on it was dependant of whether the weather would force us to cancel. The next morning I woke and saw that there hadn't/wasn't any rain as of yet and that there wasn't any heavy rain as fore casted, I did check the weather on the Internet again to get an update. It stated that there was a chance of rain this did make me very optimistic for the days filming and I proceeded to confirm that we were filming.

I think the days filming was a success, we used the script and a storyboard to help decided shots however we were inspired by our surroundings to devise some creative shots, such as a high angle shot (taken from up a tree) and a low angle shot where Sam walks into the care it goes black and we see him walk away from the same low angle shot.

The quality of the footage and shots was very good. We used two cameras the Panasonic AG-HMC71E and Cannon 7d with 24-70mm 2.8l -18270mm -50mm 1.8. We had some problems with the two cameras. I didn't check the battery power on the Panasonic camera and only had twenty minutes of footage however we had the other camera which we managed to play with focus to produce some good shots however the majority of the time it only captured 3secs of footage. We managed to get past this and carried on. Another difficulty we faced was setting up the green screen, we had no rain however a high wind ment that the greenscreen kept flying away. We held it down and managed to progress.

After uploading the footage I think I am happy with the shots we captured. I have started to colour grade my footage which has added a huge improvement and makes it look a lot more professional. I will start adding soon.

Filming Dates

We have discussed as a group dates for filming.


Proplems we may have with the gap, which we plan to solve, is that people change physcialy and haircuts. Obviously this will be a problem for continuity but it is only Samuel White that we will need to keep the same.

SCENE	DATE	TIME	ACTORS NEEDED
Car Scene	Sun 16th Jan	10-12	Justin & Sam W
Office Scene	TBC	3:45-5:30	Sam W & Mr Kirk
House scenes	Sun 6th Jan	TBC	Sam W, Sam P, Ed, Lucy

Location

Due to unseen circumstances we have lost the location at my nans house. We are also now filming on the 23rd and are in discussion about location.

Poster 2nd draft

This is the 2nd draft of the poster, we have tried to make the poster similar to the proffesional ones seen outside cinema's. We have included the logo's of distributers we think would distribute our film. We have looked at working title and the type of distributors associated with similar genres to us, like 'Shaun of the Dead'. We have also put our new logo and group name down. This is 'Blue Box' which is a convergence of our old companies 'Big box' and 'Blue monkey'. I'm still not happy with the tag line 'You're in good hands with a zombie' however we are adressing this issue.

Props

We have made a list of all probs we will need for the entire film. Below is a list of props. The ones highlighted red are props we shall be searching for on Tuesday 16th:

1. Car
2. Mobile phone
3. Games controller
4. Beer cans/bottles
5. Coffee Table                                BROUGHT
6. Dirty Magazine
7. Fake hand (Either looking or making)
8. Guitar
9. Fake blood
10. Cutlery
11. Clothing
12: Zombie eye contact lense

I have done some research into how to make a fake hand. This is a website with detailed instructions on how to make a fake hand: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-a-Fake-Hand/

UPDATE
We now have a table which we brought from a charity shop. It a little wooden top with a metal frame and rather small so its perfect for what we had in mind.

We our going to make the fake hand now by getting a plastic glove and filling it with plaster of paris then we shall cover it in paper mache and finally paint it to give the effect we want.

Update

We now have a male actor for our film.

The cast is as follows:

Luke- Samuel white

Caroline- Steph Dearden

Mickey- Samuel Peckham

Dave- Edward Watson

Justin- Guy in car

We have printed of scripts for all the cast and a few of the crew. This is in preparation for a read through of the script of Sunday 14th November. The purpose of the read through is to provide the cast with information about there characters and the plot and answer any questions they may have.

UPDATE

I have now handed a script to Sam White who is our male actor who will read the script. Unfortunately Steph cannot make our Sunday rehearsal. I have sent her a message asking when she is free so we can then start to put together a filming schedule. When I recieve the dates and times I will then talk to the rest of the cast and crew about when they are free so hopefully we will have a acurate and working schedule.

We are very close to filming however we are still having problems with casting. We have sent an email to everyone in 6th form asking if anyone knows of anyone willing to star in our film We have had one reply today and will hopefully have more.

Hello,

    For our advanced portfolio for A2 media studies We are looking for a male in their early 20’s or someone who looks 20 who wouldn’t mind having the male lead in a short film. The filming would mainly take place on a Sunday. If you know anyone who is interested please can you get them to email one of these three people:

peckhams.student@ringwood.hants.sch.uk

burden.student@ringwood.hants.sch.uk

heronj.student@ringwood.hants.sch.uk

Many thanks

Sam, Ryan and Justin