Thursday 1st March 2012

In today's lesson we went outside to film the rest of our footage, however just as we was about to film the camera went dead (which shows bad planning) so we had to postpone this for another day. So when we got back in to school, we all watched each others trailers and commented on what we liked and what we didn't understand and gave them constructive criticism. Our film is completely different to the other people's portfolios in the class as everyone is doing a trailer either horror/thriller and we are doing a comedy. So to watch a different genre was interesting, and to give criticism helped us understand the codes and conventions.

Thursday 23rd February 2012

After looking at our short film, over and over again, we decided there was still come fixes to be made, and one of the scenes wasn't correct and didn't link together. Because of this me and Hollie planned to do another day when we would get the clips we needed. Because the weather wasn't great this day, we couldn't film so we would film the week after. So for today's lesson we decided to script our radio advert, that is also required for our Advanced Portfolio. As our film is a comedy, we decided that we would add a little bit of humour so people understood that the film would be this genre. Andrew, who starred in the film, will also do the voice over for this radio ad.

Thursday 9th February 2012

Because we had thought we had finished the editing process, we decided to let Mrs Williams have a look and see what she thought. The feedback she gave was really positive and we only had to change a few little things. We decided to change these straight away and get them out of the way, after this we decided to have a look at drafting our film poster, we decided we wanted the film poster to be as simple as possible, and not give too much away. This would then make the audience wonder what was going to happen, which a film poster should do.

Thursday 2nd February 2012

Within this lesson, we finished off the trimming process of editing. After this we added the "Mission Impossible Theme" to the rest of the clips, before doing this we had to mute a majority of the clips as our short film is mainly a silent film, using slapstick comedy. The theme tune wasn't long enough for the whole film so we had to copy and clip some of the theme to make it long enough for the whole of the film. We had to make sure it linked well and that the audience wouldn't know that it had been edited and that it flowed. After we had edited the sound we added credits to the film, again playing "Keep on Running" just to add effect.

Thursday 26th January 2012

Before today's lesson came, I had managed to download the music needed for the short film. I downloaded "Keep on Running" by the Spencer Davis Group and "Mission Impossible Theme Tune", to make sure we used these songs legally, I emailed the producers and recording labels to get the right to use them. However they did not reply to my emails. Because we had already started editing the short film, we could add the song "keep on running"  to the beginning, and over the top of the clips we could use text to show who was in the film and what the film was called, making the film look even more professional. We then continued to edit the clips which then made us close to finishing the trimming process.

Thursday 19th January 2012

Today was the first day that we started to edit our short film. The first thing we did was upload the chosen clips to my laptop and then upload them to Windows Movie Maker. When they had uploaded, we decided to put them all in order first before starting to trim each clip to the desired length, because then we knew where things should be and made it easier in the long run. After putting it in order we decided to start trimming and clipping the clips so that they fitted together and we got rid of the bits that weren't needed because it had nothing to do with the story line.

Thursday 5th January 2012

Today was our first lesson back after the Christmas Holidays, so as a class we all watched what we had managed to catch on camera over the holidays. This allowed Mrs Williams to check over the footage and make sure we had everything ready to start editing. As we had all our footage, we were ready to edit straight away. So we went through the footage on the cameras and wrote down which clips we wanted to use, this would make it easier when we uploaded the clips to the computer.

20th December 2011

To begin the day we made sure Andrew was in the correct attire so that the film would all link together. After this we traveled to Hatfield Woodhouse to film the Little Girl (Maisie Marsh) on the bike scene. We met up with Maisie and her mum and started filming. Before we filmed, we also got a costume photo just in case we had to film her again at a later stage...

We got shots from all sides of the street to make sure we had enough footage to play around with when it came to editing. After this we traveled to Branton to an Equestrian Centre to film the scenes where Andrew's stunt double (me) rides off on a horse and then falls off. We got plenty of shots and I had to fall off of the pony a few times just to make sure we had the correct shot and that it would link with Andrew's shot. After this we did the scene which comes after the horse scene, which is the scene where he gets in his friends car. For this I used my dog in my car to show that Andrew was getting attacked by a dog, and then we used Hollie's car to actually drive.

After we got all the shots we needed in Branton, we went to my house to film the final scenes of the film. Therefore making us complete our filming process.

19th December 2011

During the holidays we decided to get all our filming done. On this day we filmed the scenes with the Old Lady (Gill Kincell) using different angles and distances to get the best possible shot. Before we started filming we got the actors in their costumes, after this we took photos for continuity so that if we had to come back and film another day, we knew what they looked like and it wouldn't ruin our film...

After we filmed these shots, we traveled to Andrew's house to film the opening scenes of the film. The opening shot is the establishing shot, showing where the next shot will be, the shot is an Extreme Establishing Shot of Andrew's house, the next shot was the camera panning through his house, upstairs and to the toilet where the film starts. Whilst we pan through the house we are going to have the titles and actors names showing. After this we decided to wrap for the day and do the rest the day after.

Thursday 8th December 2011

In this lesson me and Hollie, created a filming plan, so we knew when and where we would be filming. Also it would include who we would be filming with and what props and costume we needed. This would make sure we wasn't going off task and that everything would be completed in time. Below is my filming plan....

Who is involved?

o   Andrew Hindson

o   Gill Kincell

o   Maisie Marsh

o   Penny the cat

o   Louis and Maisie the dogs

What’s their role?

o   Andrew- Main role, man on a mission

o   Gill- Old Lady

o   Maisie – Little girl on bike

o   Penny – the cat

o   Louis and Maisie – savage dogs

Where will filming take place?

o   Andrew’s house

o   Gatewood Grange Farm

o   Gill Kincell’s house and road

o   Tom’s house

o   Bus stop – cemetery road

When will you film? – MUST MAKE SURE ANDREW’S COAT IS MUCKY (if it is when falling off the horse) AFTER THE HORSE SCENE

19^th December 2011

·         Little girl on bike – bus stop

·         Old lady and cat scene

20^th December 2011

·         Inside Andrew’s house

·         Horse scene

·         Lane scene (cars) – breaking down facial expressions too

·         Bacon Sandwich scene

21^st December 2011

·         Anything else if needed

What other factors need to be considered?

·         Continuity

o   Clothing

o   Extras

o   Background movement

·         Props

o   Bike – girly and pink

o   Fat suit and short blonde wig – Andy look- a- like

o   Hollie’s car

o   Tom’s car

o   Stuffed toy cat (white)

o   Bacon Sandwich

o   Old Lady clothing – head scarf, walking stick etc.

o   Toilet sign

o   Bag of crisps

o   Doll to represent Maisie

Thursday 1st December 2011

Today, as a class we looked at grade criteria for our coursework, we did this so we knew what we would have to achieve whilst we were creating our portfolio. I am aiming for a high grade as I feel that the video will be a strong part of my portfolio, as I have some past knowledge on techniques and have worked on film sets. So I am looking at a Grade 5, to be able to reach this grade I must....