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.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
First Real Shoot
I've just got back from the first real shoot and I think it went quite well. We di
d have some major issues at the beginning when it started to rain. It sounded really bad but we recorded some atmospheric sound that we'll replace with the real sound of the shoot. We also had big problems with cars as there seemed to be one on the road for the whole of the outdoor shoot but we did manage to get shots when there were no cars so it worked out ok, although at first I was getting very stressed over it, as although I knew it would happen on our test shoot there seemed to be a lot less cars. After having our lunch break with the two actors, our male actor (Barney) left and we started shooting with our female character (Laura). These shots went a lot better than the outdoor ones did. The lighting was all good and the shots worked exactly as we planned, as we obviously didn't have the issue of the weather. We were also really lucky to have amazing actors who played their parts really well and didn't complain about anything even though we had them standing out in the freezing cold and Barney had to film in the rain for quite a long time without an umbrella. However, all our shots took a lot longer than we thought they would and we ended up leaving Alice's house at 10.15, but I think this was better than leaving the shots for Friday as if they didn't work 
on Friday we would have had no time to reshoot them.
Overall I think today's shoot went well and hopefully when we watch it all back we wont have too many shots to retake. However, we do still need to record Barney's dialogue and need to record Laura and Barney laughing together, which we will do as soon as we can this week. We also need to check for continuity with their dialogue, the light and her leaving the bathroom. There are pictures on the group blog of the shoot.
d have some major issues at the beginning when it started to rain. It sounded really bad but we recorded some atmospheric sound that we'll replace with the real sound of the shoot. We also had big problems with cars as there seemed to be one on the road for the whole of the outdoor shoot but we did manage to get shots when there were no cars so it worked out ok, although at first I was getting very stressed over it, as although I knew it would happen on our test shoot there seemed to be a lot less cars. After having our lunch break with the two actors, our male actor (Barney) left and we started shooting with our female character (Laura). These shots went a lot better than the outdoor ones did. The lighting was all good and the shots worked exactly as we planned, as we obviously didn't have the issue of the weather. We were also really lucky to have amazing actors who played their parts really well and didn't complain about anything even though we had them standing out in the freezing cold and Barney had to film in the rain for quite a long time without an umbrella. However, all our shots took a lot longer than we thought they would and we ended up leaving Alice's house at 10.15, but I think this was better than leaving the shots for Friday as if they didn't work 
on Friday we would have had no time to reshoot them.Overall I think today's shoot went well and hopefully when we watch it all back we wont have too many shots to retake. However, we do still need to record Barney's dialogue and need to record Laura and Barney laughing together, which we will do as soon as we can this week. We also need to check for continuity with their dialogue, the light and her leaving the bathroom. There are pictures on the group blog of the shoot.
Friday, November 28, 2008
Actors
We have now got our actors, Laura and Barney, who are going to be perfect for the characters. Laura has the exact features that we imagine for our actress, and we knew almost straight away that she would be perfect for the character. Barney also has the perfect look for the character he's going to play. We want the character to look slightly anxious, the audience is supposed to feel sorry for him and I think Barney is perfect for that r0le.
In our lesson and meeting we managed to get loads done so we're completely ready for our first real shot.
We:
- Finished the storyboard, and made sure that we got our continuity completely sorted. We're going to put a cross on the floor with masking tape so that Laura knows exactly where to stand each take.
- Completed the shooting script - we did this so we don't have any stress on the day and so that Barney and Laura didn't have to each wait around while we were filming the other.
- We met with the actors to take a picture of them which I will now post on the group blog. We also told them what time to arrive and discussed with them what they should wear (Laura - red nails etc, Barney - Black coat, smart shoes).
- We also decided who's bringing what. I need to remember:
- White towel
- Red Roses
- Red Lipstick
- Photo of the couple
- Red Napkins
We:
- Finished the storyboard, and made sure that we got our continuity completely sorted. We're going to put a cross on the floor with masking tape so that Laura knows exactly where to stand each take.
- Completed the shooting script - we did this so we don't have any stress on the day and so that Barney and Laura didn't have to each wait around while we were filming the other.
- We met with the actors to take a picture of them which I will now post on the group blog. We also told them what time to arrive and discussed with them what they should wear (Laura - red nails etc, Barney - Black coat, smart shoes).
- We also decided who's bringing what. I need to remember:
- White towel
- Red Roses
- Red Lipstick
- Photo of the couple
- Red Napkins
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