Filming Part 3

We managed to complete our filming today and here are some shots of us doing so...

The mystery man approaches but Nathan is not ready!

Becky tracking the mystery man

Nathan on his favourite seating place!

 Problems and Decisions
Problem: Final shot seems emotionally detatched but really the audience should feel sorry for the protagonist.
Decision: Have a final shot of the Protagonists eyes as they looked shocked at being kidnapped.

Problem: When standing the protagonist does not seem to accept his situation, he still seems to fight it.
Decision: Stan sits down helpless, he realises he means nothing to the Mob Manager and waits, praying that nothing will happen.

Filming Plans and Uploading 'Rushes'

We have decided to film in our double period on Friday 4th March as we had problems filming in half term. Here is the permission to do this from Andrew...

 The weather for friday is looking promising...

We have uploaded our footage we have filmed so far and hoping to finish it on Friday. Here is some evidence of doing this....

Filming Part 2

• Today was the day when we were supposed to finish filming our footage. However, the battery run out and the replacement battery had not been charged.
• We managed to film some of the footage. But in order to complete this we will now hopefully  film in our double period on Friday 4th March if we get permission from our Supervisor, Andrew. 

Filming Postponed

Filming is postponed today (Wednesday 23rd) due to bad weather. This is also coupled with bad visibility.

So hopefully we will film on Friday (25th February)... The Met Office/BBC Weather seems unsure whether it will rain in the daytime or not...

The overall view for the day is light rain.

The daytime view appears to be dry.

Filming Shots By Becky

Today we filmed the 'mob leader' scene and here are a couple of photos to show what we got up to!

Problems and Decisions

• Our original idea to use underlighting didn't work in practice so in the end we decided to use side lighting.
• Problems with Cigarette: We were going to use a cigarette, but we realised that Alex would not be able to hold it along with the glass of whiskey and the telephone. Therefore, we made the whiskey the main focus.

Here Nathan is on lighting duty whilst Shona is filming.

In this picture we can see Alex acting!

 

Filiming Timetable and Plans

We plan to film on the Wednesday (23rd February) of Half Term (Friday as back up day), this will be the outside section.

Nathan will get the 10.17 train from Hassocks to Three Bridges...

Shona will also pick up this train  at 10.21 from Burgess Hill...

• Alex will pick up a slightly later bus and meet us at the location. Becky will hopefully be able to pick Nathan and Shona up from Three Bridges.

• The other scene, in the Mob Managers headquarters will be filmed in college on Wednesday 16th, this is also the same day we will pick up the equipment for the other filming day!

Pre- Production Planning (Lighting)

By Shona

• During our scene in which we film our mob leader sitting in his office we will be using low key lighting to create a sinister effect to show that this character is not to be trusted. This should create a tense mood in the audience. 
• We will also use underlighting in this sequence, this will disfigure the mob leaders body making him shady and a threat.
• We will be using portable lights for this part of our opening.

By Becky (photography), Alex (the subject) and Nathan (Lighting operator). We have tested different lighting techniques. This is what we found:

Backlit Lighting makes him look slightly angelic, which wouldn't be appropriate for our thriller. 

Side lighting. This is a possibility because it shows a dual personality. 

Under lighting. We are most probably going to use this because it disfigures the face making Alex look sinister.

• For this exercise we only used 1 portable light but for the main practical we hope to use a couple of lights.
• Because the camera we used was on our phone we were unable to get the framing exactly as we would of liked.