Filming Diary (plus any changes made when filming)

The organisation of our day of shooting has to be good in order for our film opening to be successful. If we are not organised well it could mean that our piece is rushed because we were not prepared and have the possibility of our film opening being poor.  

To get over this issue of being unorganised I have produced a schedule for our group for the day of the shooting so we can keep track of time and we will know if we are lagging behind a bit of if we are rushing and going too fast.

We are going to aim to complete our shoot in two hours and forty five minutes. This seems like a short time but if we know exactly what we are doing and we know what props we are using etc. then all we need to do is get the actors in place and film.

12PM – meet at the destination of our set. This will only include the people in our group (Lewis, Alastair, Josh and George) and not the actors yet. This is because we will need some time to set the set up and put props out etc.

12:45PM- actors meet at the set. They will be informed of what they will be doing in the filming so they have an idea of what they need to be doing, prepare, get changed etc. ready to shoot.

1PM- Start filming.

2PM- we will have a short forty minute lunch break. We are going to do this because we don’t want people feeling hungry or tired. Even though this sounds like a stupid thing, we need to all be feeling 100% in order for it to be successful.

2:45- resume filming and finish.

By Lewis Bulmer 

Throughout the day Lewis Bulmer was taking different snap shots of the day when we were filming and organising the different props. Below shows the outcome... 

 Above is a picture taken when we were filming the kettle shot. Here we had to think about the timing of the kettle, the positioning of it so that we could clearly see it was our main actor flicking it on. We also had to film the kettle then boiling. First of all we tried to add in a a focus shot but it was hard to time with the kettle then coming to a boil. After several attempts we then decided it would be better if we kept the camera in focus and have it as a much faster shot. 

 Above shows a photo taken when we were deciding on where to film the cctv shot. After this photo myself and Alastair decided that it was probably better if we filmed from a different location as it didn't look like much of a CCTV shot. There is another window to the left of the photo and that is where we ended up filming it from. We used the actor to come up and down the drive on the motorbike to see weather the shot looked good enough. 

 Above and below shows a photo of when we were filming all of the different scene where the protagonist gets changed. We decided to keep the camera in the same position as it then looked like the man hadn't moved. We flipped the camera screen around once we were happy with the shot to show the actor what he looked like. 

Above shows a picture of us arranging the different props within the film. we wanted to make sure that it all looked professional and made sure that we got all of the different key signifiers within the piece. So for example there in the shot we have a briefcase, the briefcase had a nice and gun in it. We all used our knowledge of the specific genre to then create the different props. 

Above shows another shot of us checking the different angle for the CCTV shot. This photo shows the clearer part of it when we had to get the motorbike to stay in the same position to make sure that it looked like a real life CCTV shot. This was hard to analyse as I then added the CCTV effects after the filming. 

 By George Harvey