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Final Production

This is our final production finally finished! 

These are the type of style we are looking for to put at the end of our film opening for the title.

Production: Editing

Today Dan has been cleaning up the cuts to make sure they are all precise and exact.


We have been talking about our opening sequence and thinking whether the start has too much narrative in it just for an opening so we are coming up with idea's to make it better. 

Production: Editing

Today we have been putting the titles onto the opening sequence to make it look more professional, Dan isn't here today so me and Jo have been doing this together. 

We also put it into black and white to make it look more as our theme, it is really effective and works really well.  

Production: Editing

We just noticed that there was a jump cut so that we had to put the wallet missing in between the cut so that it would blend better with each other.

Production: Editing

We started the editing last lesson and Dan started the first part of the first scene, while doing this we all helped and decided which parts needed to go into the filming and which parts didn't look up to our standard and that we didn't include. Jo is doing the editing today and she is doing the next scene, i keep going over to her and looking at what she is doing and seeing if she needs any help.

Production: Filming

I felt that in all the filming all went really well the only problem and difficulty we have had doing this was probably the organisation, we could of been more organised by maybe getting it done earlier on. It was extremely difficult trying to get the original cast together but then last minute my friend 'molly' helped me and offered to do it. When I knew that she and her friend matt could do it we really thought threw when we could get together to shoot it! 
I wrote to everyone who was involved through face book thanking them for helping us achieve what we wanted to achieve. 

Filming

We did the filming yesterday and it all was successful. Here are some pictures of us directing and filming it. 

Update

Today we have been discussing what is going to happen tomorrow. The plan is that Joanne is collecting the camera tomorrow morning and we have arranged two cars to pick Jo, Dan, Matt, Molly, Maria, one of Jo's friends and I up so we can go to my house to shot the lounge scene and the bedroom scene. Then everyone can go and we are going to film the alley way scene just down my road with Matt and Molly. It will probably be easier to shot it this way.


We will make sure we have more than enough clips of the each shot so that it is more doable to edit it.   


I changed the dialogue because I felt that the original didn't really go with the story line; 

Final Dialogue 

Maria: Don't you think you should take it too the police?

Molly: No i need the money

Lotte: You can earn money other ways

Jadia: Yeah Molly, hand it back! 

Molly: (Stands up) Stop telling me what to do! 

Maria: Were only trying to help.

Plot

This an image from Google maps of the alley way in which we will be shooting the scene, and there is also a picture of the house in which we are shooting the lounge and bedroom scene.

Updates

We have came up with a plan for Wednesday, James Sinclair will be picking us up from college and we now have a new cast;
Matt Lockwood and Molly Andrews are they guy and the main girl. As they are both free for Wednesday.



Name: Molly Andrews
Student at Worcester Sixth Form College
Age: 17








Name: Matt Lockwood
Student at Worcester Sixth Form College
Age: 17
















Name: Lotte Collins
Student at Kidderminster College 
Age: 17













Name: Jadia Green
Student at Worcester Sixth Form College
Age: 17

Organisation

We couldn't shoot on Friday as we didn't have the car that we were meant to be using. So we took the camera out on Friday and we were going to shoot Sunday morning but then last minute i got told i have rehearsals for the show in which we couldn't do it.

Updates

On Friday, Me, Joanne Lauren and James will be going straight from college to the alley way near our houses to shoot our first scene. This is be about 4:30 by the time we get there and so it should be dark enough for this scene. This will need to be done before 6:30 as Amy, Lauren and James has other commitments they needs to attend.

Organisation

Unfortunately Jordan can't come to these days and it is important that we film it this weekend. Because of this we have changed the role of the male part.

                                                  




Name: James Sinclair        
Age: 19
Occupation: retail                                                                              

Risk assessment for Friday

Potential Danger	Potential outcomes	Actions to avoid potential outcomes	Further comments
Loosing equitment	Pay a fine.	Don’t leave the equipment lying around anywhere, make sure you have it on you when you are in a public place.	Take good care of the equipment being lent out.
Kit getting wet from bad weather/ drinks.	Electrocution, damaged kit.	Don’t drink anything when near equipment and if the weather isn’t good then re-schedule for another day.	We will need to arrange more than one day we are all free in case we can’t do it on that day.
It may be a bit dark.	Can't see what's going on which may lead to tripping over things (wires)	We can use the cars head lights to light up the alley way until filming.	It will just be getting dark at about 4 o'clock so when it comes to filming it will be dark, this will create tension for our scene.
Lights setting things on fire.	Burns, equipment damaged.	Make sure nothing is covering the lights for example; blankets, clothing etc.	Joanne will check this regularly and stop people putting things on the kit.
Taking the camera out over the weekend.	Losing the camera.	Make sure that we have the camera in our visual sight all of the time.	Look after it with care.
Forgetting costumes and props.	Re-scheduling for another day.	Make a list of everything we need and assign the different things to different people.	Joanne will make this list after our meeting.
Running out of battery in the camera.	Re-scheduling for another day.	Ensure the battery is fully charger before working.	I will make sure it is fully charged before leaving my house.

Risk assessment for Sunday

Potential Danger	Potential outcomes	Actions to avoid potential outcomes	Further comments
Tripping over lighting kit power cables.	Serious injury, electrocution.	Cables are to be 'gaffer taped to the floor for the duration of the shot.	Joanne will be in charge of taking responsibility for using gaffer tape to keep it still.
Kit getting wet from drinks.	Electrocution, damaged kit.	Don’t drink anything when near equipment.	We will make sure we have breaks for drinks so they’re not near the equipment.
Burning ourselves on the lights.	Burns.	Make sure that the lights don’t over heat and ensure no one touches them until they are cooled down.	I will make sure the lights aren’t in the way so people don’t have to get close to them when walking past.
Lights setting things on fire.	Burns, equipment damaged.	Make sure nothing is covering the lights for example; blankets, clothing etc.	We will check this regularly and stop people putting things on the kit.
Recording over previous work.	Losing our work.	Before recording make sure it is at the end of the tape.	We will all check this before recording.
Forgetting costumes and props.	Re-scheduling for another day.	Make a list of everything we need and assign the different things to different people.	Joanne will make this list after our meeting.
Running out of battery in the camera.	Re-scheduling for another day.	Ensure the battery is fully charger before working.	I will make sure it is fully charged before leaving the house.

Shot list for Friday

Alley way scene

13. Cut away of the girl’s feet as she walks across a road, creating shadows from the headlights.

19. Cut in of her feet as she speeds up.

14. Handheld camera of a long shot of the girl walking down the alley.

15. Side shot close up of her face as she continues walking.

18. Extreme close up of the girl’s eyes as she notices someone following her.

16. Reverse over the shoulder shot, you see a dark shadow of a man behind her.

17. Begins following the man with the girl in the background, shallow depth of field.

20. Cut in to the man’s feet as he begins to run.

21. A scream as it cuts to the empty alley way.

Shot list for sunday

Bedroom scene

1. High Angle long shot of the girl sat on the bed next to a man who is sleeping

2. Medium close up of the woman looking around the room

3. Extreme close up of the girl’s eyes as she notices something

4. Close up of the wallet with the woman in the background shallow depth of field, switching from the wallet being in focus to the woman and back to the wallet. She walks over to it.

6. Shallow depth of field of the table with the wallet missing

5. Cut to a close up of the man asleep in bed, hears the door slam shut and wakes up.

7. Close up of the man as he realises it missing

 

Girls talking scene

8. Sets the scene as it shows the house, there is talking over the top of this.

9. Long shot of the girl leaving and the three women sat on the sofa.

10. Once you hear the door close there is a medium close up as one of the girls starts talking about her.

11. Two shot of the two girls (repeated)

12. Reverse shot of another woman who also starts talking. (Repeated)

Trying to set a date to film everything is so much more difficult than expected!

• We need it to be dark for the alley way scene and so we need to do it at night time.
• Friday night i have dancing rehersals till 10 and dan has work so that we can't do it then.

Communication issue

Dan was absent from the lesson today in which we booked the camera and emailed him details about what day we are taking the camera out etc.

Dan was back today and we were trying to sort out days of which we could film and the days at the weekend that me and jo can do; dan has work so we may consider having to film without him as we really need to get the filming done.

Cast

We have spoken to kate and laura and they are both free for sunday morning to do the lounge scene, i have spoken to lauren also through face-book and she is also fine with filming over the weekend.

Updates

We have booked a camera today for this weekend so that we can ge the filming done. 07/01/11

Need to check with our cast that they can all attend the filming.