Evaluation

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Final

Second Shoots

Our second location we met was a field, for our police search scene. We had the props of a torch and two high vis jackets, we also had extra actors and great battery on our camera. Me, Lewis, Dan and actor George set up our two shoes in a rough patch of grass, with the camera looking directly at them, opening up the background. I suggested the technique of tilting the camera to give the affect of realism and perhaps a point of view shot (kid lying on the floor) Also you could take it further by suggested the camera had been dropped, in a fight or tumble perhaps, and represents broken stillness. Using Lewis's dog and George as our police man, he scowers the background looking for evidence towards the abducted child. We took a variety of shots and managed to work quite well. With Dan directing, and Lewis finding locations and placing props we got filming quite quick. Learning that recently the lighting outside dramatically changes quickly, working this to our advantage we got a plethora of shots through the diffrent lightings to make sure we had a variety of diffrent lighting to picking the best looking shots.

First Shoot

We met up aty one of our locations in mind to create a variety of scenes, the letter posting scene and the abduction scene, by the time we arrived it was already late, and we had our actors ready to get to work immediatly, understanding that time was the essence to getting the darkness right, we managed to get initial shots of the postal scene, through this we really learnt the ins and outs of serious filming and the various trials it includes. Problems accourd with the battery on our camera, we had not anticipated the amount of drain that it would cause. And thus we had a major delay in filming tinme waiting to recharge our camera. We discoverd that the abduction scene that went to film was too dark, and we were unable and too unorganised to get what we really needed. Unfortunatly the first shot was not much of a succes but we learnt alot and understod more on the trivulations of filming seriously.

The next day we met up and began to look at our film clips, uploading them onto adobe premier elements we managed to salvage shots from our posting initial scene, fortunatly we took alot of shots from various angles to include variety this helped dramaticaly and we will include this tactic throughout our filming practise. I am optomistic our second shoot will be alot better.

shot list, actors, Locations

Shotlist:
-Doorway/letterbox scene: 16-17th Jan - Iver
-Walking Home/Abduction: 16-17th Jan - Iver
-Interrogation: 18-20th Jan - Chalfont
-Police Search: 23-24th Jan - Denham
-Broken Family/dinnertable: 23-24th Jan - Denham
-falling ipod: 18-20th Jan - Iver

Final Animatic

Animatic

We were given the task of creating a animatic, this is a mock up of our final film, where we apply potential effects to a slideshow of our story board, it helps us to establish the continuity of our potential shots, and how the sound/effects will coincide with them effectively, and most importantly will give us a idea of what the the film will look like. And what we can change.

With our Storyboard created we decided to work on the effects that we would input into piece.

Sound:
-Non diegetic track. Eery music creating the mood that we want.
-Footsteps, and fight noises. Used for our kidnapping sequence. To create realism.
-"I just want my kid back" quote, for the mother in the interrogation room scene
-Shouting police man, dog barks, and Field Ambience grass rustling etc, for the police search scene.
-Slamming on the table, ambience possible dialogue in the dinner table scene.
-Rain drop ambience and the crack+fall of the ipod for the last scene, ipod falling

Editing:
-fast pace shots, showing enough to see what's happening in the abduction scene
-Fade into the abduction scene, additional dark lighting to create a dark mood.
-Fade into the police search scene Create continuity
-Fade into the Dinner table scene create continuity
-Fade into the final scene create continuity
-fade out of the final scene, very slowly.

Taking photographs of each frame, we placed them into adobe premier, and placed them together adding in our effects and creating our animatic.

Comments on initial animatic:
-Excellent Sketches
-Good use of angles +Editing/fades
-More variety needed within scenes, incorporate 2-3 scenes for each sheet.

Mum in room scene (Perhaps needs a zoom)
Dinner Table Scene (Perhaps -close ups on anger development and crashing fist)

Needs some development of scenes particularly flashback.
effective music, good contrast idea.
Some use of diegetic sound added - Need to add more.
Good use of lighting.

We now need to get together a list of locations, Actors and a shooting schedule