Filming Schedule

Filming Schedule

After having two weeks off for our mock exams and half term we looked back at our timetable of when we are free to start filming again. We decided to film the latter half of this week and hopefully have everything we need by the start of next week so we can get on with editing.

Cassia also posted questions onto the facebook group as a way of finding out when we could use our actors.

Questionnaire research

Questionnaire research

As a group, we created a questionnaire about film noir and handed it out to a range of people to get feedback on our ideas and see if there are any changes we should make to suit our target audience. Once we collected all our questionnaires back, we put all the data into Microsoft Excel and created pie charts on each question to show the range of answers and percentages. Our pie charts show the results of the questionnaires and allow us to see what our target audience looks for in a good film so that we can take into account this information when making our own film.

Starting to edit

Starting to edit

Using the Mac's

A video of what we did during yesterday's lesson. I also used the soundtrack from neo-noir film Body Heat to make the video more interesting and still fit in with the film noir genre of my coursework.

Communication

Communication

During the filming process, we have used Facebook to communicate with each other.  We created a Facebook group to post when we're planning on filming, what scenes and where we're going to film and what props and actors we need. Below are some examples of our posts.

Filming Day 3

Filming Day 3

Today I had a university interview and so could not participate in the filming. However, Cassia and Lib continued to film without me and got some shoots of the bedroom scene where Charlie writes in her diary.

Filming Day 2

Filming Day 2

Filming Day 1

A video diary of our first day of filming.

Filming Day 1

Filming Day 1

Today we spent an hour and forty five minutes shooting the first part of our film. We shot the first two scenes and ensured that we had enough of each shot to give us choice when we come to edit it.
We used K10 and the English office to film and whilst we shot our film we also took pictures of us filming and working as a group.

Cassia and Hollie

Cassia, Emily and Hollie

Cassia, Hollie and Emily looking at the footage

Cassia with the sheet of scenes, camera angles and shot types

Me shooting a very low shot from the floor

Filming Cassia in the office

Filming is fun!

Trying different angles/shot types

Filming Cassia and Hollie

Filming Schedule

This week we created a filming schedule for next week (Mon 3rd - Fri 7th).

This schedule tells us what scenes we're going to do, where we're going to go, which actors we need and what props/clothing we need. We're going to stay to this as much as possible to ensure that we get our film done in good time.

Storyboard 1

A video of our first storyboard. These are only rough ideas/guidelines for us to follow and could change during the filming process depending on what works on camera and what doesn't.

Cassia also wrote a step-by-step guide for the first scene with the yellow parts highlighting the shot types, the green parts showing a transition or editing technique and the red parts showing the sound we will be using.