Final filming session

We finished the last of the filming on Tuesday 8th. This was the office scene. We decided as a group to try and incorporate more comedy into this scene so we could justify our genre of comedy. We did this by adding a couple more deaths but made them comedic, we structured this by having the boss, who in the end was played by myself the main focus point and in the background Sam and and Pete who played an extra were out of focus.

Update and filming schedule change

Editing seems to be going really well. We have finished editing the footage of the car scene with sound to be edited. We had a slight problem with that scene. During Justing checking to see if Luke was alive there were some Lucazade bottles we had left on the side of the road. We didn't realise till viewing the footage at school we had left these there. Gareth a friend who has helped us with the filming stage suggested we masked the bottles. I got a tutorial and used Adobe after affects to help mask the bottles. This was fairly simple to do, I first had to track the bottles in order to mask them, a tip I got was to start at a middle point and either track forward or backward then vice versa. I then used the pen tool to select an area of the pavement I wanted, this duplicated the area in order for to place it over the bottles. The piece I had chosen was very obvious to notice because of the sharp edges so I had to use the feather tool to lighten the edges. Final to make the pavement the same colour I used the effect RGB curves to lighten the pavement and make it blend in.

We have one last scene to film which we will finish after half term and in the meantime continue editing.

Film Shoot Day

We filmed yesterday (Sunday 6th) at ........... We arrived at location at 11:00 this was later than intended however we had no access to the premises until Lucy our actress arrived. Filming went well. I mainly directed that day giving camera shots and directions to the cast and crew. Sam helped to slate things and do a bit of sound and camera work and Justin did a lot of sound and camera work.

We changed the script slightly that day due to fact we had trouble with some props which meant we had to cut out the scene where Luke's hand gets stuck in Caroline's hair. We also accidentally missed out the end of the bathroom scene. We were going to add an additional scene however this didn't fit in with the rest of the plot and would of looked out of place possibly ruining the feel of the film we were creating.

We didn't really have any problems yesterday however because we were filmimg for about 5hours+, battery started to get low on both cameras. Luckily we did have chargers for both cameras during scene set up's so we charged the cameras to get them to last for the day.

Since arriving back at school today we have managed to select the best clips of the 7d and have yet to convert and match the sound from the panasonic. The quality of the footage was really good and was increased by lighting. We took some before and after shots to witness the difference. (input picture) I have started to edit together a few clips and add colour grading. This has made a huge improvement to the overall quality and has increased the prossional look we are after.

We have one more shoot left which plan to do shortly. We are now just focusing on editing and finsihing of the poster which we will organise a photo shoot for.

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.