On Tuesday, we continued the second part of our filming. We asked a friend to borrow his car for our filming which meant that we all had to arrange an out-of-lesson time that everyone would be able to attend filming. Eventually we argreed on Tuesday afternoon which meant we would only have around 1.30mins to do the filming and a lot of time was then wasted by trying to find the right location. We got various shots that we needed and tryed to cram in a few more at the end however, these might have to be re-taken as we would ideally like to have spent a bit more time on this part.
Today, we done more filming. We completely re-shot all of the footage that we took on day one of filming as we had more time and also had access to the outside of Ana's mum's cafe without feeling that we were being disturbing (which we have no idea why we never thought of that in the first place.) The filming we did on Tuesday was in dry weather unlike last Thursday's filiming which was raining and today the weather was also dry meaning that the continuity would also be better. After uploading the footage from today, we feel that slightly more filming on the 'kidnapping action' should be done before we start editing, other then that, the shots were successful.
Thursday, 29 January 2009
Monday, 26 January 2009
filming part 1
When we began our filming, we decided to use a local cafe to do the opening first shots.
I, myself use to go there a lot so I thought the people who worked there, would be ok with it and they were. We thought as a group to film outside, since it won’t disturb the people inside. When we started filming, it didn’t go quite smooth. Since it was outside a cafe, some people kept walking by with a grin saying sorry. It did get annoying after a while. Maybe the problem was that we decided to film at peak hour for cafes, but we managed to get the shots we needed done. We also did have some difficulties when acting too, as we are not that professional and laughter is a main theme when a mistake is occurred. As a result we had to do more shots to get it right.
I wanted to do lots of different angled shots when the actors were doing the same thing, to get some good match-cuts when editing so, me and Laura did a couple of them.
The next lesson we didn’t do any filming due to the time we had, but decided to see what we had got and how to improve. Some shots were alright but some had to be done again, because of the framing and mise-on-scene. We found out it is important to keep the costumes the same and not to change anything in the period when filming. We improved our skills on the programme we used to create our opening sequence clip. It was tricky to use, but the main functions had gotten mastered.
On the second part of the filming we got all of the shots that didn’t look right and re-did them. Also i had asked a good friend if we could use his car. This was adding realism and we thought, it would look good if we had a 1 series BMW in our opening sequence. My friend let us use it, but even with that we had limited time so we got a lot of shots done in no time. We got some good shots too, when the camera was looking in the side mirrors as the girl walked passed. It was a P.O.V shot and worked well. Overall, I think that the time with the car was rushed because we spent more time looking for another good location with the car instead of doing actual planned filming. However the shots that we did, worked well.
I, myself use to go there a lot so I thought the people who worked there, would be ok with it and they were. We thought as a group to film outside, since it won’t disturb the people inside. When we started filming, it didn’t go quite smooth. Since it was outside a cafe, some people kept walking by with a grin saying sorry. It did get annoying after a while. Maybe the problem was that we decided to film at peak hour for cafes, but we managed to get the shots we needed done. We also did have some difficulties when acting too, as we are not that professional and laughter is a main theme when a mistake is occurred. As a result we had to do more shots to get it right.
I wanted to do lots of different angled shots when the actors were doing the same thing, to get some good match-cuts when editing so, me and Laura did a couple of them.
The next lesson we didn’t do any filming due to the time we had, but decided to see what we had got and how to improve. Some shots were alright but some had to be done again, because of the framing and mise-on-scene. We found out it is important to keep the costumes the same and not to change anything in the period when filming. We improved our skills on the programme we used to create our opening sequence clip. It was tricky to use, but the main functions had gotten mastered.
On the second part of the filming we got all of the shots that didn’t look right and re-did them. Also i had asked a good friend if we could use his car. This was adding realism and we thought, it would look good if we had a 1 series BMW in our opening sequence. My friend let us use it, but even with that we had limited time so we got a lot of shots done in no time. We got some good shots too, when the camera was looking in the side mirrors as the girl walked passed. It was a P.O.V shot and worked well. Overall, I think that the time with the car was rushed because we spent more time looking for another good location with the car instead of doing actual planned filming. However the shots that we did, worked well.
Improving filming and Using LiveType (#12)
In today's lesson we decided not to do any filming due to the time we had and some props we didn't have. Instead we decided to look at the footage we had already uploaded and what we might have to film again and what we need to do next. We noticed a few mistakes which means we might have to re-film them such as one shot with bad framing and another shot where a member of a group was accidentally seen on camera in a reflection.
We arranged the days that we will be filming and booked our equipment. After this we began experimenting with how to use LiveType. This is the program that we will use to create our opening credits so we experimented with different fonts and effects that we may possibly use.
We arranged the days that we will be filming and booked our equipment. After this we began experimenting with how to use LiveType. This is the program that we will use to create our opening credits so we experimented with different fonts and effects that we may possibly use.
Thursday, 22 January 2009
Day 1 of Filming (#11)
We begun our filming today. We went to a cafe for our opening shot and asked them for permission to use there premises for filming. As we didn't want to be too disturbing we decided to film outside the cafe instead. The filming went well however we had to do quite a few re-takes due to small things such as public getting in the way or just general acting mistakes. We repeated the same shots from different angles so we could do match-cuts when editing.
Me and Ana, were playing the school girl characters so the mise-en-scene was important. We dressed in clothes that looked like school uniforms.
After filming, I went to workshop, we uploaded what we had filmed and started to edit it. Not a lot could be done at this point as we did not have a lot of footage and also we noticed a few things that we wanted to change.
Me and Ana, were playing the school girl characters so the mise-en-scene was important. We dressed in clothes that looked like school uniforms.
After filming, I went to workshop, we uploaded what we had filmed and started to edit it. Not a lot could be done at this point as we did not have a lot of footage and also we noticed a few things that we wanted to change.
Day 1 of filming thriller
In todays lesson, my group and i went to a cafe located on the back roads of Angel.
Monday, 19 January 2009
Sound Demo (#10)
In the lesson today, we had a little interactive sound tutorial and exercise to do based around the film 'Casino Royale.' Firstly we had to work our way through the little tasks and the eventually the main exercise was a sound sequence task. We had to choose a sequence from the film and using the sound clips given, we had to add the sound to it so that it firstly made sense to the action taking place and secondly, it was effective.
After this, we were shown how to use Soundtrack Pro to add music to our preliminary exercise. As some people in my group had already produced a soundtrack for it, we just experimented using the program rather then create another one.
After this, we were shown how to use Soundtrack Pro to add music to our preliminary exercise. As some people in my group had already produced a soundtrack for it, we just experimented using the program rather then create another one.
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