Our first day of filming was very productive as we knew what we needed to film and we done this quickly. We decided to film at Dan's house on sunday as it was a day we were all free and was easiest location to travel to.
First of all we filmed the shaving scene in the bathroom, we used extreme close ups as when filming we noticed It was clearer to see the cut on his face, whereas originally we planned to do a close up. This scene took the longest as we had to make sure It looked effective. We continued with Dan doing his morning routine which included him looking into the mirror and putting his tie on. First of all we planned to do a straight cut from shaving to putting his tie on. This seemed confusing as It jumped from one location to another so we decided to do a handheld tracking shot. This followed Dan from the bathroom to the mirror and made the scene clearer and also established the location, this worked better.
Next we filmed Dan shouting goodbye to me when I was upstairs. Originally my face was going to be included when I lean over the banister to wave goodbye but once filming my face wouldn't be in view of the shot. By doing this It made the Dans character seem more mysterious as the audience wont see his 'girlfriend'.
On the day we decided a high angle shot would be better when Dan's character pulls out from the drive way. It made It seem as though the 'girlfriend' was watching him from the upstairs window which created a more mysterious feeling as to why she watched him.
The next scene was the car scene with Georgia and Dan we stayed to our original ideas with the angles of the camera. We decided to use a long shot of Dan getting out of the car and then used a tracking shot of him going to open the boot where Georgia was. We found this worked so his movement is clear and the audience understand the location and what's going on. The end shot is from Georgia's point of view of Dan shouting the boot down after filming It and looking at the shot we though it would be more effective if georgia screams when the boot slams down and then fades to black. This worked better as was from the characters point of view so makes the audience feel included.
I thought the filming day went well this is because we knew what we needed and wanted to film. This helped us all know what was needed and we could all put in more input in dialogue and shots. By doing this we filmed everything we aimed to and meant we didn't need to film on another day.
Thursday 10 March 2011
Sunday 6 March 2011
Piano Score, First Draft
This is the first draft of what I intend to record over my piece. Its inspired from Dave Brubecks 'Blue Rondo A La Turk' which features a large improvisation in the middle section. I intend to take the chords and improvise around them, which will make it an origional piece.
Thursday 3 March 2011
Diary of our Group
Wednesday 5th January
Our first meeting we discussed each of our ideas. We explained how we would do create each opening sequence of our idea. We then went home and created each of our own short storyboards to decide the following lesson which idea to expand on.
Thursday 6th January
The next lesson we watched different opening sequences of other films and students that had made opening sequences before to get an idea of what ours would have to be like.
Friday 7th January
We decided to expand on the idea of a young girl in a boot, however we changed the setting to an industrial estate as it become more convent as Dan lived nearby where we got permission and we also was doing our filming at his house.
Wednesday 12th January
After deciding on what our story board was going to be based on we decided to talk about the acting that would be needed and who would play each character we chose Dan to be the male character and Georgia to be the young girl in the boot, we also decided to have Alice as the 'girlfriend' of the male character who would not be shown just speak in one part to give the audience the idea that the girlfriend was unaware what the male character was doing.
Thursday 13th January
This lesson was a teaching lesson of the different ways of using the camera in a quick demonstration.
1. PANNING SHOT
2. TRACKING SHOT
3. WHIP PAN
4. REVERSE TRACK
5. CRASH ZOOM
6. CRANE/BIRDS EYE VIEW/AERIAL
7. WORM'S EYE VIEW
8. LOW ANGLE of any of the above
Friday 13th January
This lesson we had to practice using a camera and different ways of using camera actions which we had previously learned about. We spent 2 hours on learning the different features and then filmed a shot of Alice and Dan arguing which we was then going to edit calling our primarily sequence to practise editing.
Wednesday 19th January
On this day we watched as a class different opening sequences e.g. The mummy, Legally blonde, Children of men and Seven.
Thursday 20th January
On this lesson we analyzed 'Children of men ' to help us see what features go into an opening sequence to intrigue the audience using mes en scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp1cXTJSVf0&tracker=False
Our first meeting we discussed each of our ideas. We explained how we would do create each opening sequence of our idea. We then went home and created each of our own short storyboards to decide the following lesson which idea to expand on.
Thursday 6th January
The next lesson we watched different opening sequences of other films and students that had made opening sequences before to get an idea of what ours would have to be like.
Friday 7th January
We decided to expand on the idea of a young girl in a boot, however we changed the setting to an industrial estate as it become more convent as Dan lived nearby where we got permission and we also was doing our filming at his house.
Wednesday 12th January
After deciding on what our story board was going to be based on we decided to talk about the acting that would be needed and who would play each character we chose Dan to be the male character and Georgia to be the young girl in the boot, we also decided to have Alice as the 'girlfriend' of the male character who would not be shown just speak in one part to give the audience the idea that the girlfriend was unaware what the male character was doing.
Thursday 13th January
This lesson was a teaching lesson of the different ways of using the camera in a quick demonstration.
1. PANNING SHOT
2. TRACKING SHOT
3. WHIP PAN
4. REVERSE TRACK
5. CRASH ZOOM
6. CRANE/BIRDS EYE VIEW/AERIAL
7. WORM'S EYE VIEW
8. LOW ANGLE of any of the above
Friday 13th January
This lesson we had to practice using a camera and different ways of using camera actions which we had previously learned about. We spent 2 hours on learning the different features and then filmed a shot of Alice and Dan arguing which we was then going to edit calling our primarily sequence to practise editing.
Wednesday 19th January
On this day we watched as a class different opening sequences e.g. The mummy, Legally blonde, Children of men and Seven.
Thursday 20th January
On this lesson we analyzed 'Children of men ' to help us see what features go into an opening sequence to intrigue the audience using mes en scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp1cXTJSVf0&tracker=False
Tuesday 1 March 2011
Props List
Male Character
Long black coat
Ordinary work clothes- Trousers, Shirt
Hair- Neat
Female Character
Ordinary clothing
Black tired eyes
Messy hair
Gag in mouth
Hands tied back
Long black coat
Ordinary work clothes- Trousers, Shirt
Hair- Neat
Female Character
Ordinary clothing
Black tired eyes
Messy hair
Gag in mouth
Hands tied back
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