Unit 1 Pre - Production Techniques Task 3) Filming log
Tuesday 22nd April 2014
Today was the first day of shooting. We are quite a way behind the other groups in the class and are behind schedule, so we are going to make sure that we get all of the filming done this week.
We only had an hour to shoot (12.00pm - 1.00 pm), so we decided to shoot the corridor shots of the trailer. Overall, the shoot went well and everyone worked well together. We used Adan, Katie, Donovan and Kausar in this scene as the actors. We filmed this scene on the top floor of our college. Even though it was dinner, there were not a lot of people there so this made it is easier for us to film what we needed to film in a short space of time.
The corridor shots were the shots in the scene that would help build the tension. This was basically shots of the main actors running through the corridors with a camera in their hand, showing that they were running away from something/looking for the ghost.
We also had time to do the stairs shots at the end. This consisted of all of the characters walking up the stairs. One of the characters were getting taken away by 'the darkness' and then the rest would turn around wondering where the character had gotten to.
Overall, we did well on time in this shoot as we only had an hour to film, so we got a lot done.
After I had wrote this, we changed the cast slightly, as one of the characters couldn't make it to the rest of the shoot days. So now James is in replacement of Adan and we are re shooting the scenes we shot on 22nd April as it would not make sense because of the character change.
Today was the first day of shooting. We are quite a way behind the other groups in the class and are behind schedule, so we are going to make sure that we get all of the filming done this week.
We only had an hour to shoot (12.00pm - 1.00 pm), so we decided to shoot the corridor shots of the trailer. Overall, the shoot went well and everyone worked well together. We used Adan, Katie, Donovan and Kausar in this scene as the actors. We filmed this scene on the top floor of our college. Even though it was dinner, there were not a lot of people there so this made it is easier for us to film what we needed to film in a short space of time.
The corridor shots were the shots in the scene that would help build the tension. This was basically shots of the main actors running through the corridors with a camera in their hand, showing that they were running away from something/looking for the ghost.
We also had time to do the stairs shots at the end. This consisted of all of the characters walking up the stairs. One of the characters were getting taken away by 'the darkness' and then the rest would turn around wondering where the character had gotten to.
Overall, we did well on time in this shoot as we only had an hour to film, so we got a lot done.
After I had wrote this, we changed the cast slightly, as one of the characters couldn't make it to the rest of the shoot days. So now James is in replacement of Adan and we are re shooting the scenes we shot on 22nd April as it would not make sense because of the character change.
Thursday 24th April 2014
Unfortunately, I was not present at this shoot as I was off ill. The original plan was to do outside shots and on Monday we will re shoot the corridor and stairs shots.
I have spoken to one of my team members, James, and he said that they still shot today from 10.30 - 1.00pm and got a lot done and that it went really well. He said that they re did the corridor shots from Tuesday, and also shot the opening outside shots and also cutaways in the basement. I will watch this outage back at some point and review it.
I have spoken to one of my team members, James, and he said that they still shot today from 10.30 - 1.00pm and got a lot done and that it went really well. He said that they re did the corridor shots from Tuesday, and also shot the opening outside shots and also cutaways in the basement. I will watch this outage back at some point and review it.
Monday 28th April 2014
I wasn't need for this shoot as James and George went out and just got cutaway filler shots for the trailer, that only took 10 minutes. I also had other work to do that had to get done, but they said that they went to an abandoned alleyway and that the shots looked really good.
I have looked over the footage and it looks really good for filler shots. We discussed as a group about how we need filler shots for this trailer, as 2 minutes 30 seconds is a long time, and it will help create the pace of the trailer a lot more. We have also duplicated on opening shots of the actual building, as the first ones aren't as good as the new ones.
I have looked over the footage and it looks really good for filler shots. We discussed as a group about how we need filler shots for this trailer, as 2 minutes 30 seconds is a long time, and it will help create the pace of the trailer a lot more. We have also duplicated on opening shots of the actual building, as the first ones aren't as good as the new ones.
Tuesday 29th April
Today, we had our final shoot day in the studio. We shot from 10.00am till 1.00pm and shot in the studio. We had to move certain things around in the studio as there was an art exhibition, so we took down a couple of stands and made sure that we put them back up after we had finished filming, as we only needed a conner of the studio.
We filmed the shot of all of the characters in a circle first. We did that shot quite a few times, as we wanted it to look good. George was the camera man, and the camera work was quite difficult as he had to walk in with the camera and pan around the characters, so we needed to get that shot perfect so it wouldn't look wobbly and unprofessional. We just did a normal lighting set up for this shot.
In the next scene, we had Donovan (the killer) sat in a chair, with old work clothes that we managed to get from the props department. We wanted the 'killer' to be taken away into the darkness, so we got Jmes behind a black curtain, to put the curtain around Donavon's head, and we shot it so it looked realistic. We had one light on Donovan's face for the effect (almost like a spotlight) and had the main lights switched off, so it was darkness. This looked really effective.
The final shot of the day was Katie and Kausar running through corridors and stairs for more pacing shots. We did wides of Kausar and Katie running, and we also did close up shots of Katie and Kausar's running up the stairs of their feet that looked really effective.
I have just looked at the footage and it looked really effective (the lighting set up) on the shot of Donovan. We have now finished filming and are ready to edit.
We filmed the shot of all of the characters in a circle first. We did that shot quite a few times, as we wanted it to look good. George was the camera man, and the camera work was quite difficult as he had to walk in with the camera and pan around the characters, so we needed to get that shot perfect so it wouldn't look wobbly and unprofessional. We just did a normal lighting set up for this shot.
In the next scene, we had Donovan (the killer) sat in a chair, with old work clothes that we managed to get from the props department. We wanted the 'killer' to be taken away into the darkness, so we got Jmes behind a black curtain, to put the curtain around Donavon's head, and we shot it so it looked realistic. We had one light on Donovan's face for the effect (almost like a spotlight) and had the main lights switched off, so it was darkness. This looked really effective.
The final shot of the day was Katie and Kausar running through corridors and stairs for more pacing shots. We did wides of Kausar and Katie running, and we also did close up shots of Katie and Kausar's running up the stairs of their feet that looked really effective.
I have just looked at the footage and it looked really effective (the lighting set up) on the shot of Donovan. We have now finished filming and are ready to edit.
Studio Shots
Running through corridors shots - Kausar and Katie (Tuesday 29th)
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