Location Shots

Michael was filming our opening of our film. This is him in the library, using our film camera and tripod. We used a tripod so the picture quality was improved and so it avoided camera shake. Also it made it a lot easier to film, as when turning the camera around, it was a smooth and non-jerky action.

This is our actress in the library while filming there. We chose alice to be our actress, as she looked mature and we knew she did drama, so knew she would play the main character well. She went straight into the character and understood what she was doing immediately.

This is the section of the library that we were given. It was the teenagers/science fiction corner. This was a perfect location for our film as it gave us the book, chair and all of the space we needed. The only issues we had were people actually viewing the books in the library. Meaning we had to stop filming so to avoid people being in the shot. overall i was very happy with the location the library gave us. 

Filming Info

Yesterday we went filing in all of our locations. Everything went according to plan and i feel that the filming was really well done! We had a few problems but they were only minor and were easily sorted. for example, we had a small issue with the lightening when we were filming in the forest as the sun was too bright, making the wood scenes look non-scary. We filmed anyways, hoping that when we edit we can use a filter to decrease the brightness, if not we can always re-film the wood scene again on a darker duller day.
Me and Michael split the filming/directing equally. I directed for most of the library scene, explaining to Alice what we wanted her to do, writing problems down and i took a lot of photographs of us filming. In the forest scene i filmed the hand held shot, agreeing that i had the steadier hand, while i was doing these parts, Michael was directing.
I feel we were well organised for our filming, as we had prepared everything during the week. We spent our media lessons creating props and adding final adjustments to our storyboard.
I've definitely learnt that you cant just turn up somewhere and film. You have to take time so you can check the lighting and make sure it gives the right effect. Luckily we had a lengthy time in the library, making sure we had everything correct as we knew it would be difficult to go back there.



This is Michael, filming our opening







This is me with our actress Alice, looking over some footage





 

Permission From The Library We rang the library about 2 weeks prior to the date we wanted to film. Giving us plenty of time to change our idea if the library weren't happy with us filming. We rang the library explaining what we wanted to do and whether they would allow us. They asked us many questions like what we would do if a member of public went into the footage, we gave good answers and they said they would call us back later on in the week. They rang us back allowing us to film in the library. We were extremely pleased as it meant not having to change our idea, also it showed that we had taken risk with our locations. We explained that we would be at the library for 9.00am to avoid large amounts of people in the library. When we arrived we were greeted by the main librarian, showing us the section they had given us, we were pleased and they told us if we needed anything we could ask. We left the library at quarter past 10, after thanking the library for allowing us to film.

Possible Locations for Filming

We went to two possible locations for our forest scene.


We first visited a wooden area in Boddington. This would of been a good area for filming but it was pretty open and didn't give us the effect we wanted.

The second location we visited was another wooded area in Chacombe. This was defiantly more ideal, as it was more of a closed in area and it gave a scary atmosphere when the sun was setting.

Storyboard

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This is the storyboard for our entire film, this is the first storyboard we made for our opening, and obviously some changes/correction could be made in the filming process. Overall i feel we made a clear storyboard explaining our ideas

Soundtrack Mind-Map of Ideas

This is the Mind Map we made to show our soundtrack ideas

Class Presentation

Ideas presentation

This is the presentation that we presented to the class. We did this to gain feedback from our classmates and teacher about the ideas we had for the film. Although we were the last group to show our presentation and we just ran completely out of time and the group were unable to give feedback.

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Genre of Film Opening

The genre we have chosen for our film opening is thriller/adventure. We have chosen this so our film opening appeals to a wider audience, e.g. 15+. Another reason why we chose this genre is that we can use a wider range of location, props and script ideas.


Some thriller/adventure films are:
Kill Bill
Saving Private Ryan
The Dark Knight and
Inglorious Basterds