Re-Shoot Day 1

Philippa And James

This afternoon we had our re-shoot, filming just over half of our sequence with lots of angles on each shot. We stuck to our teachers advice on the walking shots not needing to be a continuous process and instead suggest time has passed. We reached shot 18 on our shot list completing all the shots that involve only Lewis and tomorrow will film the dragging and chasing shots.

The Den

As for the smoking shots, we stumbled across a den which we believed fitted our storyline.

 Lewis sat in here instead of on a log, this was more interesting for the narrative and allowed us to film through branches creating frame in a frame shots that are very effective.  Next shoot is tomorrow, Monday 21st February.

Second Shoot

Today we had our second shoot, unfortunately with about an hour left of our planned shooting period the sun came out from the clouds casting shadows over our actors and changing the lighting. We decided it was best to abandon shooting so as not to film footage that would break continuity rules.
 Instead we ran through the remaining shots practicing them with the intention to re-shoot them next Friday morning at the same time as our first shoot.

James the reaction shot

 This shoot was still successful however, we are 80 percent completed in terms of the shots we want to take.

James capturing the reaction shot

Today we took all of the dragging shots, again from a variety of angles.
We then filmed the reaction shots of Jack as well as part of the chase sequence.

Philippa films part of the chase sequence

We have Sunday off and on Monday we shall capture this footage during are frees, lunch and our lesson.
During this lesson we shall seek teacher advice on whether any shots need to be re-taken however we are confident that are current shots are of a high quality.

First Shoot

Today we had our first shoot. We shot at our planned location from dawn right the way up to 10 o clock, capturing some excellent footage including establishing shots of the forest and shots of our main character Jack walking through the forest. These were a variety of shots including tracking shots and hand held shots all abiding to our storyboard as well as adding in the odd shot when one of us had a moment of creativity.

We also managed to get shots of Jack smoking and reacting to the sounds of the murderers. We made sure to take at least 2 takes of every shot in case we discovered problems at the editing stage and take the same shot from different angles to give us a better choice come editing.

Our next shoot is Saturday 12th 13.15 at Grange Park Orchard.

Script

Working Script - to be used with storyboard

Storyboard shot(s) 16-18
1: Hurry the hell up!
2: Lift her legs up!
1: Screw you, I'm doing all the work.
2: Fine. Leave them then.
1: Just hurry up.

Storyboard shot(s) 19Jack gasps, slight mutter/swears
Storyboard shot(s) 21-221: (Whispered) Did you hear that?
2: You're bloody paranoid!
1: (Whispered) Shut up, listen!

Storyboard shot(s) 23Jack steps backwards, twig snaps.
Storyboard shot(s) 24
Reaction shot. Muted tracks, no sound.

Storyboard shot(s) 25-26
Everything goes silent. Jack sprints away.
Series of shouts from 1 & 2
'Music starts'

Storyboarding

Group Story Boarding 4.2.11

We have got our actors, location and story line all set. We are now working on our storyboard, after this we shall colour code each shots i.e blue post it notes for Close ups or pink for Long Shots.

7.2.11

Today we continued work on our group storyboard making a few changes to some shots, as well as colour coding.

During this meeting, we colour coded our shots to make it easier to quickly identify them.

Medium shots - Pink

Extreme Close Ups - Yellow

Long shots - Blue

Close ups - Orange

During this meeting we decided to withdraw some shots from our sequence, however we created 'recycling bin' where unwanted shots are placed. If we have time on shoots we will shoot these shots because as a group we feel that it is better to have too many shots rather than too little.

Tomorrow we will present our storyboard to our teachers with the aim of getting singed off ready for filming this coming weekend.

Planning as of 21st January

This is the result of our original planning on Friday 21st January after agreeing on our sequence First of all, we wanted to establish a storyline for our film, so started putting ideas together developing Sam's initial idea. We decided that we would have a teenage boy called Jack who is involved in a drug deal in the wood. He oversees the burial of a body but and is a witness however his drug dealing makes him an anti hero. He cannot tell anybody because he drops his phone and the killers no who he is, and blackmail him to reveal his drug dealing ways unless he keeps quiet. The story line will naturally develop and change. We brainstormed possible actors, we decided we wanted a boy who was around 6 foot tall and slim/athletic. After going through the names of people in our group we decided on Lewis Allison (A member of our group) as this is most practical and he is an experienced actor. We wanted to film in a wood, but needed somewhere close to home to maximise shooting opportunities and that was accessible during the night when we wanted to film. This made Grovelands and Trent Park difficult, where as The Orchard in Grange Park is close to both Lewis and I and is not locked at night.  We brainstormed Titles, keen on the idea of seeing or watching. This inspired titles such as Dark Witness and Fixation (from fixated). We then settled on The Witness as the film revolves around Jack and he is the witness so this seemed like a perfect title.

Our location scout

This video is a compilation of pictures from our location scout, at the Grange Park Orchard. After analysing the location and it's practicalities we have decided this where we are going to film our opening sequence.