Unit 24 - Week 2 of filming production diary

Monday - Location Teesside college, thankfully filming went well today despite the fact that the tripod didn't have a plate on it, we had no extras resulting it myself and most of the production crew acting as extra's instead.

Tuesday - Was a mild shoot in comparison. Based in Norton at one of the Production crew's house. Filming went until 4pm.

Wednesday - Filming started at the Billingham Forum theatre in the morning which I could not attend due by the time we started filming I had to be in Maths and then back to Norton in the afternoon. where we would film the werewolf transformation scene as the sun set we may have scared a few people due to how loud the screams got. we were filming under a bridge so the sound echoed slightly.

Thursday - Location, The Rings, Ingleby Barwick, Firstly when we got the first location we got everything we needed done but then the Camera Operator left to go on Holiday leaving us to get filming done on our own. the second location was an abandoned house which was used as a prison cell, I was a dead body lying against the cell wall.

Unit 24 - Week 1 filming Production diary

The Monday of the first week of filming was not very good because it took at least three hours for the actors to get their make-up done. When we got too location it took at least another hour to get anything done. due to the Director's lack of communication with the cast and crew meaning that there was a great deal of confusion and delay including the fact that we only got one scene wrapped.






Tuesday on the other hand however was much better we were ahead of schedule by at least 2 hours and we got all of the scenes we needed done except the final fight scene but we be shooting that after the Easter break. however it got to the point where it got too dark for us to film so we wrapped for the night.

 

Wednesday morning we did the narrating voice overs for both films as well as filmed the first scene of Oblivious as well. which was set in a classroom

Unit 24 - Pre-Production report

Once the finalised scripts were handed in it was a matter of selecting which ones were to be made into films. Once all nine selected films were chosen it was matter of which student did what. We were then told to write a letter asking for what position we wanted to perform during production.


Personally I requested to be a Boom microphone operator because I felt that since it wasn't my film I should stay out of the way.


My job during the Pre-Production was to create a sound folly, which is a list of background sounds in scenes or what sounds would need to be where. I also took up the task of seeing what props would be needed for which scenes they would be required in.


I was one of the first finished with my own work when I helped with the others such as filling out the risk assessments.
as soon as most of the Pre-production work was done we started the auditioning process for the actors.


Once the actors had been cast for both movies I worked on. we used several of the same actors in both films so that made it slightly easier. we needed to prepare the make-up for them which included werewolf fur, zombies (Scarred and pale skin).


The day that all of the Pre-Production paperwork was finished was on the first day of filming. because of the Director for the first film (Adam Mclean)  really didn't care about the paperwork. much to the chagrin of myself, Honey Louise Ryan (director for Oblivious and assistant director for Shadows that walk among us) and Kelsey Ellington (Assistant Director for Oblivious and Production co-ordinator for Shadows that walk among us.)


All in all the Pre-Production process was good but could have been better.

Unit 24: Script to Screen – writing a short film script: Task 1 – Working as a Writer

Commissioning a script

When a script is commissioned by a film production company for a new film a writer is selected to write it. The script then goes through several drafts before the final one is produced. Even then while the shooting of the film is taking place, there will be small changes in dialogue to better suit the setting of the film.

Writers contracts and employer expectations

When a writer is hired to write a script the production company will make them sign contracts so they won't sell the script to other companies. The production companies expectations is that the script is well written (Though sometimes it is doubtful that production companies know what a good script is sometimes) and keeps to the story of the proposed film.

 Legal and ethical expectations that concern writers.

The legal expectations for writers is that once a production company commissions a film for the script. They essentially own the script so you can’t sell it to another company. The ethical expectations are that they have to be paid well, except that they are not when they provide the skeletal structure for the film.

Unit 30: Self-evaluation of Christmas adverts

The theme of the project was Christmas adverts which were intended to test our skills for narrative creativity and editing skills.

We developed our ideas by group discussion such where and when we should film the adverts. Our work didn’t change throughout the project by much. Although we did change our shots to fit the location we were shooting at.

I don’t believe that the research materials I provided assisted the project much because I researched copyright although I did help with the health and safety slightly. I think I should have done a lot more to assist the project both in pre and post production of the advert.

Other examples I looked at were the Christmas adverts that John Lewis has released over the years such as “Monty the Penguin” or “Man on the Moon” so that I could understand the types of techniques that were used in them.

The techniques that were used included slow focus, and panning shots with a mixture of long and mid shots.

My skills have not developed much during this project. Because most of the time I stood in the background making sure everything technical was working right such as the tripod and camera. While my team mates worked with the cast member.

The aspects of my studies I wish I further explored was my research I feel like I should have done more of it and took a greater part in gathering the research.

The decision to do the shoot on one day and in one location I think was good in concept but I think that if it was done over two days we could have gotten better shots as the child actor we used kept smiling during filming 

The meanings and messages I wanted to convey is that no one should be left alone on Christmas.

I am mostly happy with the final piece however it is without music and the logos aren’t exactly accurate. To the proper adverts but that’s minor.

I think I would change the layout of the advert and maybe use a different actor. Because the one we used as previously stated kept smiling while we were filming.

Unit 30 - Adverts via YouTube

Hello there here is the final product of my Christmas adverts I apologise if the music is slightly distorted or the video quality is low. I look forward for the feedback

what we did today 14/01/2016

Today we are presenting our completed adverts to a focus group for feed back to make final changes to our adverts, however the advert that I made is still lacking music and logos but thankfully my version of the adverts are not being be used. So yeah. I will report back when the feedback has been received


*Edit the feed back was needed a shot showing the boy entering the front door and a shot showing the boy's grandmother other wise it's child neglect.