Looking for Backing Music:

I have been on 'mobygratis.com' and have found a suitable soundtrack. As the website doesn't let you download the soundtrack straight away we have requested to download it. 

Production Meeting:

Production Meeting: 30/01/14

People Present: 

Ben Harrison
Reece G
Charlie Hall

We have discussed what we are going to do up until the 14th of Feb. 

What has been talked about / decided?

Special Effects:

As we didn't have any effect sin our rough cuts; we have decided to ad them in the forthcoming lessons. We will continue to watch some tutorials in our own time so we have an idea of how to bring our ideas to life. We will then get to work in After Effects to try to get some good results. 

Re-shooting shots:

Some shots have good composition but some are not so good. Some have bins in!! We will need to sort this out by re-shooting the shots. We will look through our rough cut and select the bad shots to re-shoot. We will do this after a few days of attempting our special effects. 

Peer Feedback:

Key points: 

• I need to improve my sequence by adding some more background ground adding some dialogue that got cut out when editing the clip. 
• I also need to cut a few of the shots. The shot of Ben walking into the college is too long so I will cut it down to a suitable length. 

Rough Cut:

Rough Cut from 28/01/14

Organisation:

Metadata: 

When we have been out filming we come back to our laptops and organise all of the clips that we have just shot. I add a brief description of each shot. For example I write if it is good or not and whats going on in the shot. I also add the good/bad tick box to the metadata. This is helpful as I know which clip is good ect. 

Booking Forms:

When we go out to film we fill out a 'AV Booking Form'. This has a list of all the equipment that we can use. The equipment that we require we tick on the sheet. We also fill out a 'Taking out' and 'Bringing back' time. When we return the equipment either Nick or Dave signed off the booking form. 

Work Books:

Before every lesson I fill out my Red 'Work Book'. This is a log of what I am going to do in every lesson. I chunk out what I doing and then at the end of every lesson I write what I have achieved in the lesson. 

After Effects:

On our schedule we are going to add our effects after the rough cut deadline. This isn't ideal as the rough cut should have some trial effects in. But we are going to add in our affects in the next few days. 

To keep footage organised I have put it into folders.

Appraising the Rough Cut

Audio: 

Some of our audio is missing due to the camera not picking the sound up. This is okay as we can re-shoot the clip or just record the dialogue using the zoom mic. At the moment the sequence has some sound effects such as footsteps, car noises and some ambient music. To improve the sounds and dialoge we will re-record some of the dialogue and add some relevant sound effects. 

Special Effects:

On our schedule we have allocated time after the deadline of the rough cut to add our special effects. We should have taken this into consideration as we should have had the effects in the rough cut. But we are going to add our effects  in the next few lessons. The only bad side is that we cannot get feedback on the effects and we wont know how to improve them. 

Sequence:

As no one in our group is the very good at acting the acting in our sequence is average. It would have been better if we got people in to act in our sequence but we had a go at it anyway. The narrative of the sequence at the moment does make sense. It makes much more sense that the animatic that we made earlier in the year. The shots flow and are much shorter than the animatic that was made. I intend to improve the shot that has a bin in. I will also re-shoot the shot of Ben with him hood up. The next shot goes to Ben with his hood down. We need to keep his hood down for continuity. 

Thursday 23/01/14

Updated:

Organisation:

Organisation:

When I imported the first footage to Premier Pro I then viewed the clips and wrote a description of the clip and ticked if it was good or not.

The Weeks' Jobs:

Definition of Matte Painting:

I have two different definitions of Matte Painting and have highlighted the similarities and differences in the two definitions. 

In Green are the things that make the definition unique and in Pink are similarities.

My Definition according to Wikipedia and The Handbook:

In 1907 the first matte painting was created by Norman Dawn. A matte painted representation of a landscape that allows film makers to create the illusion of an environment that doesn't exist in real life.  The matte painting is the section of film that has been matted out.

Meeting 17/01/14

Today we are editing the establishing shots and the shots for the 1st scene. Ben won't be editing on his laptop as he is starring in another groups film. 

Present:
Ben Harrison
Charlie Hall
Reece G

Premier Pro Work Area

Production Meeting:

Today we booked out a camera, tripod and hi-vis jackets. We then went out to take establishing shots of the college to use during the voice over in our film. We got some shots from all around the college and then uploaded them to our laptops. 

Group Members Present: 

• Ben Harrison
• Reece G
• Charlie Hall

Corridor Shot using tripod and dolly.

Reverse Ring Macro Shots: Photography Finals [Floodlight Project]

Macro Shots taken with a £3 reverse ring from Amazon used with a Canon 5D Mark III

Health & Safety around the College:

Health and Safety Talk with Gary Wolley:

Climbing on things: Climbing on things such as picnic benches can be slippery. If somebody slipped on a bench they could injure themselves. To prevent slipping over on moss and other slippery surfaces we will stay away from filming on benches. 

Corridors: We shouldn't put things on the floor to create  shot. For example, putting tomato ketchup on the floor to create the effect of blood. When it has been cleaned up the floor will be greasy for weeks after. To prevent this we will use safe props and clear away everything correctly before we leave. 

Visibility: Everyone in our glass has a good eye sight; everyone in the college may not. What we see may not be what everyone else sees. To prevent anybody tripping over cables or falling over the tripod we will wear hi-vis jackets and put out bright yellow 'Filming In Process'. This will keep everyone in the college safe. 

Gary Wolley talking to our Media Class

Costume Design Test Photos:

Costume photo 2 from Charlie Hall

Costume photo duke from Charlie Hall

Potential Hazards and Safety Risks:

V health _safety from Charlie Hall

Actor Resume:

Cating resume from Charlie Hall

Cating resume 3 from Charlie Hall

Cating resume 4 from Charlie Hall

Cating resume2 from Charlie Hall

Problems and Solutions:

Problems and Solutions:

P: Worried about the weather when filming.
S: Check the weather forecast before going out filming. 

P: Worried that we will need to catch up.
S: Stick to the schedule and know what we are doing day to day.

P: We may have actors not turn up on time and in the correct locations. 
S: Tell the actors where they should be and when and send them a text. 

P: Not remembering to film everything.
S: Make sure we film everything on the storyboards. 

P: Adding VFX to the film.
S: Research more into the effects and watch tutorials.

P: Post production editing in the time allowed.
S: Make sure we stick to the schedule. 

P: Not being organised.
S: Keep up to date by looking in our red folder and looking at the blog. 

P: Shots looking bad. 
S: Think about good composition and avoid bad composition. 

P: Actors not being available. 
S: Make sure the actors know when they should be in college. 

P: Sound not being top quality. 
S: Allowing time to re-record the sounds. 

Casting Notes:

Sentences to sum up each character:

Dan - 6ft tall, outsider, who usually dresses in dark colours. 

Duke - Duke is a tall guy who has blue eyes. He is also muscular and dresses smartly. 

Katie - Katie is an attractive female who likes to meet new people. 


Actors we could choose:

Dan - Ben Harrison - He is tall and is reasonably good at acting. He also usually dresses in dark colours. 
Reece G - Reece is slightly shorter than Ben but he could play the role. He also dresses in darker colours (Blues / Black). 

Duke - Charlie Hall. Dresses smartly and is tall. 

Katie - Dayna Crawford / Robyn Wilson. Dayna is a attractive young girl who likes to meet new people. Robyn is also an attractive young girl but doesn't have any previous experience  She likes to take pictures of herself so she would be ok to be filmed. 

Production Meeting: 06/01/14

Production Meeting:

People Present:

• Reece
• Ben
• Charlie

In this lesson we have made a schedule of what we are going to do on each day up until the deadline day. We have also discussed roles and casting of the sequence.