Group decisions

Actions to be agreed on:
- We think that it s neccesary to have more meetings based around shooting in order to give all group members a clearer understanding of what we are doing. On Friday the 4th filming shoot take place at kent house station. Meeting at about 4:00 so that its slightly dark.

- We also need to decide on the music used within the short clip, as well as any added sound affects, all group members should begin to research pieces of music and affects that could be used in order to have a clearer understanding of what is already avaliable.

Motions taken or rejected:
- As a group we have decided that each of the shots should be very slightly longer, to both create tension as well as enable our short clip to meet the required length of two minuites. We have agreed to film the opening scene on Friday the 6th of January at Kent house station at 4:00.

Next steps:
- Steps should be followed as shown on the shoting schedule, all filming should be complete by Friday the 6th in order to enable us to be ready to edit the folloing week. Camera person will be Lara and Ellie. The director to the short clip will be Lara, Ellie will be doing makeup and special affects on Rediola, who is acting within the short clip. 

Group timetable

Thriller opening location

After looking at a few options, we picked this one as the most suitable location for our thriller opening. The whole setting looks a bit scary , from the mud puddles on the ground ,the way the houses are almost hidden behind huge trees and also the shadows the trees create giving the effect of that scary uncomfortable environment. The lamps are a positive as apart from being an important part of the shoot they enable us good lighting.

1 min re-shoot

A re-shoot of the opening scene from the famous Thriller Film "Misery". We tried to bring a similar scene using our own tools and one of the classes at Harris Academy Bromley as our location. As for the sound we managed to take the sound of the actual footage and adapt it to our video through editing. The camera angles are very similar, almost identical to the original opening as well as our character's actions and movements.





                           This is the original scene for our retake.

Animatic

Animatic^

Preliminary task

This was a shoot where me and my group first practiced the use of camera , by putting to work what we had learned in theory about the camera angles , sound , lighting and editing. The location was one of the school empty classes and the actors were all students from our preliminary task group. The overall filming went really well as we managed to follow the 180 degree rule during the dialogue ,which means both of the characters have the same left/right relationship to each other. If broken this rule would disrupt the scene and disorient the audience. We also managed to use the over the shoulder shot where the back back of the shoulder and head of one person is used to frame the image of whatever the camera is pointing toward, during the discussion. This was a preparation for us for the final thriller shooting so we knew where to not make the same mistakes twice and improve our overall skills as a group.

Storyboard