Production Shoot: 15/11/12

Thursday 15^th November

This time we filmed some dialogue as from a class feedback session on our rough cut, it was obvious that more narrative elements such as dialogue would be needed to firmly establish the narrative. So we filmed some lines in time for before it went dark. Then when it did go dark, we improvised and used a flashlight to act as a ‘search light’ which helped add to the atmosphere. I was in my role again, so I mostly just acted, but also helped to set up the shots and we came up with some ideas through improvising with the areas in the location that were available to us.

After this we went to a construction site where which we thought would add some more variety to the scenes. Here we again used a flashlight, and got some more lines with body language as well. This part of the filming went less smoothly, as we couldn’t hear the dialogue too clearly on the camera, but we will improve this by adding voice-overs if needs be. Like last time, I just acted in this part, but me and Tom brainstormed some ideas for dialogue and helped Kieran set the camera up appropriately.

Production Shoot: 27/10/12

Saturday 27^th October 

Today, we found a river bed that acted as a nice location for some environment focused shots to get across a post apocalyptic feel, as the sky was very grey and it began to rain. We managed to capture the rain and the mood came across well, but because of the rain we had to shield the camera from it to avoid any damage. We could have waited for the rain to die down or perhaps use an effect in Pinnacle which would have been easier perhaps. We have decided that next time, should it rain, that we will use an umbrella to keep the camera out of the rain; this is simpler and more effective, although sound may be affected by the impact of the rain on the umbrella.

At the river bed I was filmed with Tom mostly as our characters were looking across the water and we also tried to film some dialogue where me and Tom improvised some lines together.

We then continued to the factory where we filmed some good action shots of us running for the action portion of the trailer and some other miscellaneous shots. This went smoothly as we had planned it out before hand and stuck to the shot list, as well as our previous use of this location. We could have possibly filmed more if we wanted to but we felt enough footage had been filmed.

Here I was again being filmed mostly as me and Tom are the main focus of the trailer, we filmed some POV running shots with the steady cam that look very professional and action movie-esque. This meant that today we managed to film a good variety of shots and locations, meaning that it was a successful day overall.