Shooting for the 30th November

As already mentioned, I am filming for two different courses at once and are hoping to film back-to-back and our next shooting date is the 30th of November, and trying to plan both has proven to be difficult, what with the multiple locations and larger cast, but here is my plan for the shoot.

Shooting Schedule- 30^th November 2013

Cast

Zoe Lewis

Bullie Mthembu

Lewis Snaith

Chris Coates

Locations

Swale Road

Harland Road

Scenes

Intro Scene – FS (Day, Swale)

Chris House – FS (Night, Harland)

Fight Scene – MS (Night, Swale)

Target #1 – MS (Day, Either)

Alley – MS (Day/Night, Harland)

Car Parking – MS (Night, Either)

Dr. Forrest & Hayden – MS (Either, Harland)

Schedule

Target #1 – MS (Day, Harland) – Bullie & Lewis

Dr. Forrest & Hayden – MS (Day, Harland) – Bullie & Lewis

Alley – MS (Day, Harland) – Chris & Lewis

Intro Scene – FS (Day, Swale) – Zoe

                                                                -Has to be finished by 4pm!

Fight Scene – MS (Night, Swale) – Bullie & Lewis

Car Parking – MS (Night, either) – Danny

Alley – MS (Night, Harland) – Chris & Lewis

Chris House – FS (Night, Harland) – Chris

Production Update - 21/11/13

I have already begun editing my film from what I have already filmed, the reason why I have started editing before I have even finished filming is because that means when I have finished filming, I will finish editing quicker. Especially considering that I will not be able to film this weekend due to scheduling conflicts and will continue filming 2 weeks from now. I have chosen to edit my product at home, the reason why is because my laptop has Adobe Premier CS6, which is a very reliable editing software and it means I can edit whenever I want and will have more time to complete it.

Bloopers

Here are the bloopers from our first shoot on the 3rd of November.

Production Update - 18/11/13

We did the reshoots over the weekend and they turned out just as we had hoped, however we didn't get to film all of the scenes we wanted, but thankfully the other scenes take place on a different day, so those can be filmed on a different day. The other issue is that we did not get to film last friday due to the actress not having her costume, but hopefully we can film that this week instead.

So we still have 3 scenes left to film, we will most likely film the green screen one this friday, however for the other two, the dates for those are TBA. (Also, bloopers coming soon).

Production Update - 13/11/13

We will continue shooting on Friday, me and my actress will be filming in the greenscreen room at college on Friday morning, it shouldn't take too long as it is only a few lines and just her performing them in one shot.

Shooting will continue over the weekend to re-film the scenes that we didn't manage to complete before. We are yet to fix a day yet, it depends on when the actor is available on Saturday or Sunday. Hopefully this shoot will go better this time round than it did last time and we can finish filming all of the scenes. The way how I'm going to try and improve the filming is by filming them in a different order instead of chronologically like we did last time.

Order of filming:

15/11/13 - Wyke College
Computer Scene

16-17/11/13 - My House
Kitchen, Morning
Phone Scene
Living Room Final Scene
Living Room Day
Living Room Night


After this, if everything goes well then the only scene left to film will be the intro scene as Zoe's house, which (if everything goes right) we will film that next weekend.

Cast Members

For my short film, there will be three cast members, one of them will be played by me seeing as it's just a voice over a telephone call and only for a few lines of dialogue, so that will be done by me simply because it is very easy. As for the other two characters, here is who shall be playing them.

Chris Coates - The role itself does not have any specific requirements initially; (hence why the two characters are named after their actors) however the reason why I chose Chris is because he has acting experience, studying it for 2 years at GCSE's. Also the character of Zoe is supposed to be rather aggressive towards the character of Chris and he is a very innocent person, my only worry is that he may struggle with the scenes when he needs to act frustrated and angry because of this.

Zoe Lewis - Again, the character was modeled after the actress, so this is why I chose Zoe, for I wanted someone who can be aggressive, yet likeable at the same time; otherwise the audience might hate the character for the way she treats Chris. Which she is, so hopefully that would make it easy for her to play the character; however this does lead to my issue where Zoe does not have much experience in acting, nor much confidence so it may be difficult for her.

25 Word Pitch

A writer, who is struggling to find a way to finish his story, ends up having a hallucination of his main character coming to life.

Production Update - 05/11/13

We began filming a few of the scenes on the 3rd of November, however, we will most likely reshoot the scenes, the main reason being that the character of Zoe who has to wear the same costume in all of her scenes, one of her scenes require a green screen, but we didn't realise until halfway through shooting that the t-shirt she was wearing had green on it. Also one of the scenes filmed is supposed to take place early in the morning but we filmed it in the evening and it is very obvious, also we didn't get to finish filming the scenes, so if we were to reshoot, it would be obvious that it would be filmed on different days; so we are most likely going to reshoot.

We also experienced trouble with filming the scenes in the kitchen. Firstly getting the camera into a good place to frame the shot right was difficult, my kitchen was too small and the camera was too close to the actors; this was made even more difficult by the drastic height difference between my actors. However we just put the camera on the counter and we were able to frame it correctly so they were both in the right postion. We may change the camera position during the reshoots, although I'm not sure, so I might just film the scene twice from different angles.