Thursday, October 6, 2011

Pre-Production-Location check list

Is a permit required for the location?
Are restrooms freely available?
Confirmation of location
Ask permission
Is there parking available
Any sound that will interfere with the shot
Electrical check
Any public interference
Is the neighbour’s film friendly?
Enough natural/electrical lighting
Are you going to stop anyone working?
Take photographs of the location before
Find out who owns the land
Turn phone onto aeroplane mode whilst filming
Is it easy to get to?
Health and safety

Script for powerpoint

We decided to print of a map of the school and write down our route that we were planning to take so it would be easier on the day to make our way around the school. We did charley and Beth’s routs in different colours so we could associate who was taking what route around the school.
On the first day of planning we decided who was doing what roles this made it easier to plan now knowing who was doing what.
Also on the map we drew area’s where the camera would be placed so we could just put the camera where it needed to be and film this saved masses of time in the long run we manage to do our how production in the time given with ease. Also with the camera being drawn on the map we were able to many in one shot which also gave us time on other shots which needed at bit more work doing to them.
Before filming we thought it was wise to seek permission from the right people to use certain areas of the school. We did this the day before production this gave us time to make our routes possible. We asked permission from art and from Mr Smith to use the elevators in maths and to run through and use their fire escape. They both approved of this and we were able to use them efficiently.
Before filming we discussed what costumes our actors would be wearing. We wanted to have a good/bad effect. So we dressed Beth in a dark colour and charley in a light colour this easily showed to the audience who was good and who was bad due the colours of the costumes.
We encountered some problems with other people who were filming at the same times as us in the same location that we needed. So we overcame this by going to another location to film so we didn’t lose time by waiting for them to finish, then we would come back to the location e needed later so we got all the shots we needed.
Editing was mainly Lauren and Charley but we all had a say it what we wanted it to look like. We wanted it to be quick a quit edge that’s why the chase sequence hasn’t really got any transitions it’s just cut. We hoped this would give it a face paced and tension building effect on the audience
We tried to create a variety of shots so the chase would be interesting to the audiences. We did this by do shots over again in different locations so that we could introduces the setting of where the chase would be.

The Chase Task

My team consisted of myself, Lauren Cooper, Beth Wilson, and Charley Perkins. At the start of the task we all decided to assign roles so we knew what we were able to achieve depending on whom did what job. I was the camera man scene as i had more experience with a camera, we all thought charley should be an actor because she was the best at editing and could achieve what we wanted with ease. Lauren was director because she, although we all had input on how the film was going to be portrayed, Lauren had the image in her head of what she wanted it to look like, and she was the best at decided the right location for a certain scene. Beth was least experienced in media, since me, Lauren, and Charley had all done it at GCSE we knew practically what sir was looking for and how we could achieve this, so since Beth was very sporty and was good at keeping good facial emotion we decided to make her an actor as well.
My role in the filming was to film the whole production, at first it was hard to get the camera exactly where Lauren wanted but it didn’t take long to get used to it. Soon as I knew what she wanted I could easily get the right shot and sometimes only need to do it once.  Lauren had some hard shots for me to do, but I managed to do my best and they turned out pretty good, as well as charley’s editing the final production looked great and the camera angles really portrayed exactly what we wanted them to. We also managed to get the emotion of the actor’s faces on most of the shots what was a great plus.
We didn’t come across any disagreements which we couldn’t resolve, the end product was a bit of everyone’s inspiration and it turned out really well and very close to our original idea. The only disagreement was the end scene where charley fell over we thought looked bad and very fake but we couldn’t do much about it so had no choice but to leave it in.