Filming Day #2

This is the second day of filming that we had done. This was set in my house. We shot Scene 1 Shot 1, Scene 3 Shot 1 and 2, Scene 4 Shot 1, and Scene 5 Shot 2,3 and 4. We had filmed with our main character Connor Willis and Kiran Saghir. We needed a lot of equipment for these scenes and a lot of space and quiet so we took advantage of the fact everyone was out of the house all day. We used the Kitchen, Living Room, Outside front door and across the road. We had to use screwdrivers, Knife sharpener, hammer and other sharp equipment. As we were moving inside to outside we used the manual white balance focus to make sure that we got the right lighting at the right time. Below are the main issues we had when filming.

• Health and safety. We had to make sure when we were using the knives and sharp objects we needed to make sure that we don't harm anyone or ourselves. We had to do a few retakes were things went wrong or unexpected noise was heard as well.
• The weather. As we did once scene outside of the house in a establishing shot we had to make sure it was dry to do this as we had to protect the camera and the equipment as well.

Below are the photos from the filming day:

Filming Day #1

Saturday 12th Me and Emma gower started filming out opening for out media film of Necrophobia. The Location we set it in first was Kiran's garden which we then made a bonfire which our actor (connor Willis) had to rip up paper and set alight. The following points are what we had to consider when filming these scenes.

• Health and safety was a big issue with this as we had a bonfire and fire around us. We had to make sure that no one was hurt or in danger when filming this. We previously made a risk assessment which i have blogged which we have taken this bonfire into account to.
• The Weather was a issue we had as well. If it rained we would have had to delay the shoot as it would have got the camera wet and the scenes were outside with fire which would have gone out with the rain. This didn't happen so we went along as planned
• Our storyboard and Call list. We had to keep these close to hand so we knew what we were shooting and weren't delaying anything. We also had to have the right actors with us and a safe place for them to be when we weren't filming.

The scenes we filmed were Scene 2 Shot 1 and 2 and, Scene 9 Shot 1. We decided to film all the fire scenes at once so that we didn't need to do it in order and re make a fire next week. We had an allotted time that we had to do this is due to outside commitments. We used a bonfire barrel and then light pieces of paper that we dropped in it then made the flames bigger with sticks and twigs. The filming day was very successful and we did a few re takes and got a good end result. Below are the pictures from the shoot.

Cast of our film

Below are all the pictures of our cast. The pictures are to give a good understanding of what each character is supposed to be like and to give you and idea of how we are going to film and what its going to be about. As some of our cast are also media students we had to make sure we fit the filming around their filming as well.

This is our main Character Connor Willis - http://thatone-conorwastleyasmedia.blogspot.com/- Being tall he is best suitable for out character with his build as well. We asked him to be a role and he accepted straight away. We have known him through school and we knew he would be a cooperative person to work with.

We have many victims in out film but we thought there is one particular victim that has a bigger part. She does have some dialogue which the others don't. She is a teenager victim. She is a close friend Kiran Saghir. We also used her back garden as a location for our bonfire scenes.

Further on in our filming we have more victims in our film. These are the 3 typical teenagers that we are using. They are all close friends and they are all fellow media students. They need to look like average teenagers and dressed casual as everyday they would. We knew that they would be committed and very flexible with their filming as well as us.

Chloe King -http://chloeastleyasmedia.blogspot.com/-

Nicola Ho - http://nicolaastleyasmedia.blogspot.com/ -

Tayla Powell - http://taylaastleyasmedia.blogspot.com/-

Action Plan 6

This Week we will be

• Continue filming out scenes
• Upload our cast and pictures from our first shoot
• To look at sound effects and Music
• Create an animatic for our storyboard and start designing our logo and institution

Camera Techniques Workshop

In our media lesson today we had a camera technique workshop talking about the white balance and the focus of the camera. As we are going to use in camera editing we have to use the manual white balance options and manual focussing. below are all the things that we learnt in todays lesson.

• How to adjust the white balance options. This is wether we are filming inside and out and makes the picture more blue or orange depending on where we are filming.
• To make sure that we keep it on manual focussing as when the subject moves it will out focus and then affect our scene.
• To make sure that we make a Call list for all the actors directors and numbers of the places that we are filming in.
• We made a shooting checklist. This is all the things that we need when we are shooting and to make our film shoot successful.
• We made a production diary. This is a long diary of all the weeks that have become the project from week 1 to 11. Each week has a purpose and what we will be doing on that day is written down so that we are all organized. 

Music

Me and Emma gower have been searching different music that we are going to use in the opening on Youtube.com. Below is an example of us discussing our music ideas. We have overall we have 6 different songs that we have chosen and then will finally choose one and ask the video owners permission to use the music in our film. They all fit into the genre very well with the horror/thriller theme in them. We have both indivdually chosen some songs and then put them together to choose the best. Below are the options for music and the discussion of the videos:

Props

The Pictures below are all the props that we are going to use in the opening of our film. They each have a part with the main character and help you figure out his existsance and why he is doing this. The props make up the opening and The letters are used to show the audience that he has mental issues. They tell the audience that he is ignoring letters and that he is not accepting that he has issues. By burning them it shows that he dosent want anyone to know and that this helps him later on in the plot. The Knives, shovels, forks and screwdrivers all take into the gory part of the film and the opening will not show him actually usuing these but just holding them. This is for the audiences imagination to come in as they see the victims injured. The health and safety comes into the risk assessment that i did earlier on that this will put no actors or any directors at any harm. The other objects are just objects found around the household that the audeince will recognise. Also below are the two letters that we are going to use at the beginning of our film when he rips then up and chucks them into the fire. They are fake letters from the doctors and hospital about his mental health issues which shows the audience that he has mental issues right at the start.

This is the knife sharpener that we will use in one of the first scenes.