Friday (10/06/09)
Today was the last day of filming. Having filmed everything requied inside the College, it's the only part of the video left unfilmed.
Filming a fight scene is surprisingly difficult. But to fit with the camera style I decided to use throughout the rest of the filming period, I simply started rolling and filmed everything from beginning to end, keeping the camera low down to the ground and spinning around the characters in a rough manner. This technique seems to have worked extremely well as it looks like a genuine fight if you didn't know any better and only saw the footage ion the tape.
The blood used is a mixture of Golden Syrup, a very small pinch of coffee, red food dye and in small part, blue food dye. This combination made perfect and very realistic looking blood when dripped onto Daniel’s face with a pen.
The day regrettably ended in trouble. Daniel Glynn, playing Michael, slammed his head into the wall when he required to be thrown against the wall to end the fight scene. Unfortunately, the fake blood looked so realistic that no one on set could recognise the difference between the fake blood and the real blood coming from Dan’s head until sniffed.
Fortunately I decided to film the fight outside directly opposite the First Aid room, in the event of an injury. So it didn't take long to call security and have Dan seen too immediately. After seeing the First Aider, Dan was advised by all of us to go to Hospital with his mum to get the lump now protruding from his head checked out properly, simply for reassurance.
I have talked to Dan and he appears to be fine.
This ends a rather exhausting and quick filming schedule. Next week will be dedicated to logging footage and editing.
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Filming Day 2 (09/06/09)
Tuesday (09/06/09)
Didn't do too much filming today as not a whole lot more was required without filming the fight scene. Which is something I considered filming today as we ended up having a lot of time lazing around and talking between shoots. But unfortunately the cloudy weather persisted and didn't want to risk taking the PD150 camera outside with the potential for rainfall and having to refilm tomorrow.
Finished shooting the conversations between Michael and Jacob using more of the same Mid shots and close ups and filmed any walking sections in the corridor. We also shot the whole final scene in the corridor when Michaels' emotional pain comes to its' final conclusion.
The initial plan for this scene was for Michael to point the 'finger gun' and to move the camera around to Bradley o the other side of the corridor. When it came to filming, Lewis suggested that he simply walked up to the gun and make a speech daring Michael to pull the trigger.
Kudos to Lewis as, after watching the tape back, this appears a lot more effective. A real close final encounter between the two who hate each other the most. Using close ups and an unsteady camera makes the scene feel very gritty and realistic.
Tomorrow will be the fight scene outside and filming will finally be finished.
Didn't do too much filming today as not a whole lot more was required without filming the fight scene. Which is something I considered filming today as we ended up having a lot of time lazing around and talking between shoots. But unfortunately the cloudy weather persisted and didn't want to risk taking the PD150 camera outside with the potential for rainfall and having to refilm tomorrow.
Finished shooting the conversations between Michael and Jacob using more of the same Mid shots and close ups and filmed any walking sections in the corridor. We also shot the whole final scene in the corridor when Michaels' emotional pain comes to its' final conclusion.
The initial plan for this scene was for Michael to point the 'finger gun' and to move the camera around to Bradley o the other side of the corridor. When it came to filming, Lewis suggested that he simply walked up to the gun and make a speech daring Michael to pull the trigger.
Kudos to Lewis as, after watching the tape back, this appears a lot more effective. A real close final encounter between the two who hate each other the most. Using close ups and an unsteady camera makes the scene feel very gritty and realistic.
Tomorrow will be the fight scene outside and filming will finally be finished.
Filming Day 1 (08/06/09)
Monday 08/06/09
After delaying last week, I've finally managed to get production underway. Today we spent the entire shooting time in T46 filming the middle section of the video. Including the meeting in which Michael Cole discovers who he'll be working with, the conversation between Michael and Jacob on the phone, checking everything is ready for the meeting the next day and the face-to-face conversation between Michael and Jacob before the meeting begins.
Filming went extremely well, managing to get almost the entirety of these sequences filmed within the 45 minute timing period allocated by Dan Creed. A very productive day and very responsive, understanding and hardworking acting group, with those watching in the background remaining quiet and out of shot, causing no problems to the shots or camera angles at all.
The camera angles used were predominantly eye level mid shots or close ups for the conversations between Jacob and Michael, representing Bradley in low angle shots to show off his immediate dominance despite being the new man.
I feel I've been pretty creative, not all of the angles match with those in the storyboards; I feel alterations made after seeing the set have been an advantage in regards to cinematography. The majority follow those in the initial plans.
My plan is to leave the opening fight scene until the last day of filming Wednesday (10/06/09)as this will be the trickiest and most complicated scene to film and the most tiring for the actors involved.
After delaying last week, I've finally managed to get production underway. Today we spent the entire shooting time in T46 filming the middle section of the video. Including the meeting in which Michael Cole discovers who he'll be working with, the conversation between Michael and Jacob on the phone, checking everything is ready for the meeting the next day and the face-to-face conversation between Michael and Jacob before the meeting begins.
Filming went extremely well, managing to get almost the entirety of these sequences filmed within the 45 minute timing period allocated by Dan Creed. A very productive day and very responsive, understanding and hardworking acting group, with those watching in the background remaining quiet and out of shot, causing no problems to the shots or camera angles at all.
The camera angles used were predominantly eye level mid shots or close ups for the conversations between Jacob and Michael, representing Bradley in low angle shots to show off his immediate dominance despite being the new man.
I feel I've been pretty creative, not all of the angles match with those in the storyboards; I feel alterations made after seeing the set have been an advantage in regards to cinematography. The majority follow those in the initial plans.
My plan is to leave the opening fight scene until the last day of filming Wednesday (10/06/09)as this will be the trickiest and most complicated scene to film and the most tiring for the actors involved.
Thursday, 11 June 2009
All those finer details before filming
04/06/09
I was going to begin filming the first Wednesday after half term ended (03/06/09) but decided against the idea because the actors have only had the scripts in their hands for roughly 48 hours So I delayed filming until next week (Monday 08/06/09)
Actors:
Daniel Glynn - Michael Cole
Lewis-Dane Fry - Bradley Wescotch
Harry Gee-Woolley – Jacob Morrison
Locations:
T46
4th Floor Corridor
Outside college (Under Tower Block as it's close to first aid)
Props/Costume
Water
Golden Syrup
Red/Blue food dye
Coffee
Lots of random papers for desk
Suits or smart casual (Bradley should wear a much more distinctly sharper suit to highlight his superiority complex and dominance in every situation, whilst Michael should look unorganised and simply your average man making money to feed his family. (Nothing special about him.)
I was going to begin filming the first Wednesday after half term ended (03/06/09) but decided against the idea because the actors have only had the scripts in their hands for roughly 48 hours So I delayed filming until next week (Monday 08/06/09)
Actors:
Daniel Glynn - Michael Cole
Lewis-Dane Fry - Bradley Wescotch
Harry Gee-Woolley – Jacob Morrison
Locations:
T46
4th Floor Corridor
Outside college (Under Tower Block as it's close to first aid)
Props/Costume
Water
Golden Syrup
Red/Blue food dye
Coffee
Lots of random papers for desk
Suits or smart casual (Bradley should wear a much more distinctly sharper suit to highlight his superiority complex and dominance in every situation, whilst Michael should look unorganised and simply your average man making money to feed his family. (Nothing special about him.)
All I need is a location
22/05/09
Everything seems to be sorted now for filming. I have a actors:
Lewis-Dane Fry - Bradley Wescotch
Daniel Glynn - Michael Cole
Harry Gee-Woolly - Jacob Morrison
A script for 'Left and Right' which I wrote a couple of months ago when an idea spontaneously popped into my head and storyboards/treatments/call sheets and risk assessments (Especially for the fight scene) have all been filled out and completed in advance.
My initial plan would have been to film during the upcoming half term break when the college is completely empty to cause as few distractions as possible to the production time. Unfortunately, non of the 4th floor media teachers are able to come in during either the morning or afternoon College sessions to supervise and the security aren't allowed to remain in one place whilst they have an entire college to patrol.
A slight inconvenience. Will have to film after college hours and during various lessons instead.
Everything seems to be sorted now for filming. I have a actors:
Lewis-Dane Fry - Bradley Wescotch
Daniel Glynn - Michael Cole
Harry Gee-Woolly - Jacob Morrison
A script for 'Left and Right' which I wrote a couple of months ago when an idea spontaneously popped into my head and storyboards/treatments/call sheets and risk assessments (Especially for the fight scene) have all been filled out and completed in advance.
My initial plan would have been to film during the upcoming half term break when the college is completely empty to cause as few distractions as possible to the production time. Unfortunately, non of the 4th floor media teachers are able to come in during either the morning or afternoon College sessions to supervise and the security aren't allowed to remain in one place whilst they have an entire college to patrol.
A slight inconvenience. Will have to film after college hours and during various lessons instead.
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
Treatment
Programme Title: Left and Right
Director/Camera Operator: Mark Kipling
duration: Approx 10 minutes
Format: DV
Audience: The initial audience will be the general public voting for their favourite shorts in the public vote before the end submission date (July 23rd) But ultimately the main audience I need to impress consists of the Bigstar.tv panel of judges who will view the video with an open mind to any genre of film as the Amateur competition is open to any type of film the contestants come up with.
Story Resume:
Local construction budget supervisor Michael Cole finds himself slowly spiralling downhill after an attack leaves him without a penny to his name. Once the new job opening is filled by the same man tormenting Michael, paranoia and a sickening lust for revenge takes over, and immediately, the clear line between what is going on in the real world and the events taking place within Michael's own mind become blurred and almost unrecognisable.
Character Resume:
Michael Cole - Daniel Glynn
Beaten in the street and tormented mentally as new man Bradley Weschoth tortures him for all he has.
Bradley Wescotch - Lewis-Dane Fry
Gains the new position as head budget manager on the new construction project in the area at Jacobs' firm. One reason Bradley is so quickly hired is because of his financial success, but where is it coming from? Michaels' pockets, is where.
Jacob - Harry Gee-Woolley
The overall overseer of the budget, making sure it doesn't collapse in on the project. Doesn't play a large roll, but as Michael delves further into his imagination and secret, sick desires of an outcome, it raises the question whether or not Jacob is leeching off Bradleys' financial gain.
Director/Camera Operator: Mark Kipling
duration: Approx 10 minutes
Format: DV
Audience: The initial audience will be the general public voting for their favourite shorts in the public vote before the end submission date (July 23rd) But ultimately the main audience I need to impress consists of the Bigstar.tv panel of judges who will view the video with an open mind to any genre of film as the Amateur competition is open to any type of film the contestants come up with.
Story Resume:
Local construction budget supervisor Michael Cole finds himself slowly spiralling downhill after an attack leaves him without a penny to his name. Once the new job opening is filled by the same man tormenting Michael, paranoia and a sickening lust for revenge takes over, and immediately, the clear line between what is going on in the real world and the events taking place within Michael's own mind become blurred and almost unrecognisable.
Character Resume:
Michael Cole - Daniel Glynn
Beaten in the street and tormented mentally as new man Bradley Weschoth tortures him for all he has.
Bradley Wescotch - Lewis-Dane Fry
Gains the new position as head budget manager on the new construction project in the area at Jacobs' firm. One reason Bradley is so quickly hired is because of his financial success, but where is it coming from? Michaels' pockets, is where.
Jacob - Harry Gee-Woolley
The overall overseer of the budget, making sure it doesn't collapse in on the project. Doesn't play a large roll, but as Michael delves further into his imagination and secret, sick desires of an outcome, it raises the question whether or not Jacob is leeching off Bradleys' financial gain.
Bigstar.tv
After a quick search on Google I was able to find a suitable film competition to enter on the website http://www.thinksyncfilms.com/ providing a professional brief to follow in the form of competition rules. The rules state allows complete freedom over the content of the film; the only real visible restriction judging from the rules the musical requirements. The competition holders have provided entrants with a selection of songs that they have gained the rights too, stating that any music used in your film must be from the list and the visual must work well with the audio chosen. The competition originally opened in December, giving entrants 6 months to film and edit their production. Unfortunately, at the time of the Professional Brief assignment being handed to us there was very little time (Just a little under a month) for me to go through the entire production process. Also, with half term falling in the middle of this period and my script requiring the use of the College Campus, I was forced to find a new competition over the break with an extended deadline.
In the end, as my back up plan I have decided to enter a film/video competition at www.bigstar.tv The competition is divided into many different categories covering almost every common genre of film, ranging from comedy to documentary, Thriller to horror and Amateur. All with varying closing deadlines stretching through the year, the last one closing it's doors on September 11th.
I have chosen to enter the Amateur competition as this gives me an extended deadline of July 23rd, and gives me free reign over every aspect of the films production from script ideas, camera angles, locations, actors, and the music, unlike Thinksync Films.
My initial worry with Bigstar was how I was going to go about entering my piece if the contest was American. Luckily entries are submitted purely in an online manner, instantly uploaded onto the website for the viewing public to cast their votes. Bigstar is the sponsor of the competition. The contest is hosted within America but is open to everyone including inside Europe, with a first place prize of $1000 (approx £600) out of the 5 finalists ultimately chosen by a panel of judges after an initial open vote to the general public.
In the end, as my back up plan I have decided to enter a film/video competition at www.bigstar.tv The competition is divided into many different categories covering almost every common genre of film, ranging from comedy to documentary, Thriller to horror and Amateur. All with varying closing deadlines stretching through the year, the last one closing it's doors on September 11th.
I have chosen to enter the Amateur competition as this gives me an extended deadline of July 23rd, and gives me free reign over every aspect of the films production from script ideas, camera angles, locations, actors, and the music, unlike Thinksync Films.
My initial worry with Bigstar was how I was going to go about entering my piece if the contest was American. Luckily entries are submitted purely in an online manner, instantly uploaded onto the website for the viewing public to cast their votes. Bigstar is the sponsor of the competition. The contest is hosted within America but is open to everyone including inside Europe, with a first place prize of $1000 (approx £600) out of the 5 finalists ultimately chosen by a panel of judges after an initial open vote to the general public.
Think Sync Films
After a quick search on Google I was able to find a suitable film competition to enter on the website http://www.thinksyncfilms.com/ providing a professional brief to follow in the form of competition rules.
The rules state allows complete freedom over the content of the film. The only real visible restriction judging from the rules the musical requirements. The competition holders have provided entrants with a selection of songs that they have gained the rights too, stating that any music used in your film must be from the list and the visual must work well with the audio chosen.
The competition originally opened in December, giving entrants 6 months to film and edit their production. Unfortunately, at the time of the Professional Brief assignment being handed to us there was very little time (Just a little under a month) for me to go through the entire production process. Also, with half term falling in the middle of this period and my script requiring the use of the College Campus, I was forced to find a new competition over the break with an extended deadline.
The rules state allows complete freedom over the content of the film. The only real visible restriction judging from the rules the musical requirements. The competition holders have provided entrants with a selection of songs that they have gained the rights too, stating that any music used in your film must be from the list and the visual must work well with the audio chosen.
The competition originally opened in December, giving entrants 6 months to film and edit their production. Unfortunately, at the time of the Professional Brief assignment being handed to us there was very little time (Just a little under a month) for me to go through the entire production process. Also, with half term falling in the middle of this period and my script requiring the use of the College Campus, I was forced to find a new competition over the break with an extended deadline.
Professional Brief
The current assignment requires me to find a client and perform a live brief for a product that has the potential to be useful in the outside world. These products can range from posters to leaflets or even designing blue prints for a product, as long as the outcome is Media relation in some form; more commonly than not, in the shape of advertising a company.
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