Just to say that due to the christmas holidays I wont be posting for two weeks.
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
xxx
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Reflections On Editing So Far
Our sequence is now on its way to being completed although we still have some way to go. Yesterday we got feedback and advice from Miss Thrasher and other media students. Miss Thrasher suggested many small changes that will make the sequence look a lot better, which we will do after the christmas holidays, while Selina suggested fading in from black at the beginning and Nick gave us advice on how to reduce camera sound, which is a big problem on the sequence. When we get back after the holidays we also need to rerecord the second line of Barney's dialogue.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Reflections On The Shoots - Fri 5th and Sat 13th
On Friday, we only had a shoot with Laura, as unfortunately Barney was unwell. We filmed her in the shower and I didn't get a chance to see the shots until today as I've been unwell, however I think they work really really well. Also we shot her walking down the stairs and into the kitchen with more interesting lighting. We added some contrast with candles in the hallway and I think this worked well, as it makes the shot less flat. We also reshot her walking round the table and picking up the knife, and her dropping the towel, all with more interesting lighting. I think this worked really well, and I especially love the shot of her dropping the towel as I think the lighting looks really good. We also retook the last shot due to issues with lighting.
On Saturday we had our final shoot. Once again, we ended up shooting on a rainy and cold day, but despite this we managed to shoot Barney's outdoor shots. These included a pan of him leaving the park, his conversation from different angles and shots of him at the door, ringing the bell, and waiting at the door. The sound was bad again because of the rain, so we recorded the dialogue in the house. Alice also went outside and recorded some atmospheric outdoor sound, as the rain hitting the umbrella sounded really bad and you can really hear it on camera. We also re-recorded the clocks to 5.00 rather than 7.00.
On Saturday we had our final shoot. Once again, we ended up shooting on a rainy and cold day, but despite this we managed to shoot Barney's outdoor shots. These included a pan of him leaving the park, his conversation from different angles and shots of him at the door, ringing the bell, and waiting at the door. The sound was bad again because of the rain, so we recorded the dialogue in the house. Alice also went outside and recorded some atmospheric outdoor sound, as the rain hitting the umbrella sounded really bad and you can really hear it on camera. We also re-recorded the clocks to 5.00 rather than 7.00.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Evaluation Of Things That Could Have Gone Wrong
Before the real shoot we thought about things that could go wrong. These things were problems with organisation, communication, technical and group dynamics.
Our organisation was good overall, although I was late for the shoot (we had agreed to meet an hour earlier than the actors) I did let the group know before the time we had agreed to meet that I would be late. Other than that our organisation was good for example, we knew that there was a chance it would rain so we took umbrellas with us on the shoot, we also had a good shooting script that we followed word for word, although our big issue was timing as everything took us longer than we expected and maybe in some cases longer that it should have. In our group both communication and group dynamics are very good as all three of us get on and we make sure we allow everyone to voice their opinions, we also make sure that we do an equal share of the work, although on the day of the shoot when we started to run out of time I did let the group know that I was going to be bossy so that we could get the shoot finished. On the shoot we ensured that the actors were warm and well fed (thanks Alice!). Technically we are also quite good, we considered continuity, sound and lighting during our filming however continuity is going to be an issue for us mainly because the lighting changes a lot in the time it takes for Barney to walk down the street. To rectify this we will either have to rerecord the dialogue and replace what he says so that when he's on the phone he doesn't tell Laura that he's at the end of the road, or we have to cut the conversation on the phone out of the sequence. The fact they are together should come across from the picture on her dressing table but we are going to ask people for feedback on what to do before we make our decision. After watching the footage today we've agreed to retake some shots of Barney, him walking up the drive, him walking along the street from behind and (as Alice suggested on her blog, the shots of him ringing the doorbell), we will have to try and do these in the same light as they were taken in before which may be really difficult but we'll try :-). We also need to retake the establishing shot of the house and of the bathroom window and we will have to retake the shot of outside the door while she's in the shower. We will take these shots on our reshoot on Friday and will plan a shooting script as soon as possible.
Our organisation was good overall, although I was late for the shoot (we had agreed to meet an hour earlier than the actors) I did let the group know before the time we had agreed to meet that I would be late. Other than that our organisation was good for example, we knew that there was a chance it would rain so we took umbrellas with us on the shoot, we also had a good shooting script that we followed word for word, although our big issue was timing as everything took us longer than we expected and maybe in some cases longer that it should have. In our group both communication and group dynamics are very good as all three of us get on and we make sure we allow everyone to voice their opinions, we also make sure that we do an equal share of the work, although on the day of the shoot when we started to run out of time I did let the group know that I was going to be bossy so that we could get the shoot finished. On the shoot we ensured that the actors were warm and well fed (thanks Alice!). Technically we are also quite good, we considered continuity, sound and lighting during our filming however continuity is going to be an issue for us mainly because the lighting changes a lot in the time it takes for Barney to walk down the street. To rectify this we will either have to rerecord the dialogue and replace what he says so that when he's on the phone he doesn't tell Laura that he's at the end of the road, or we have to cut the conversation on the phone out of the sequence. The fact they are together should come across from the picture on her dressing table but we are going to ask people for feedback on what to do before we make our decision. After watching the footage today we've agreed to retake some shots of Barney, him walking up the drive, him walking along the street from behind and (as Alice suggested on her blog, the shots of him ringing the doorbell), we will have to try and do these in the same light as they were taken in before which may be really difficult but we'll try :-). We also need to retake the establishing shot of the house and of the bathroom window and we will have to retake the shot of outside the door while she's in the shower. We will take these shots on our reshoot on Friday and will plan a shooting script as soon as possible.
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