Actress dropping out

Lily, our main girl actress is now not available to film anymore for our next shots so we had to find a new one fast, which meant we had to refilm all the scenes with the girl in.  This was a scary prospect but the next day we had our new actress Maddie and did started filming.  As we were really happy with our last footage, we tried to copy the angles and shots as much as we could.  Sadly, we felt some of the shots weren't as nice as the ones with Lily and we think it might've been because it wasn't as sunny so the lighting wasn't as good.  We put the footage onto final cut and starting editing.  We've put most of the sound in, and i found putting the breaths in with her running in the forest very tricky but i had to adjust the volume of each breath to where Maddie was in the shot.  So if Maddie was in the distance i realised i had to make the breaths much quite than when its a point of view shot.  So far its all going well

Rough Cut of Film

This is the rough cut of our film so far.  Half of it has not been dubbed so some of the sound levels won't be right, and also i added some titles, but just to use as notes for things that need to be added.  When editing and assembling the film ,we also decided to add in other shots we had and go against the storyboard.  I was happy we had the flexibility and choice to choose which angle we want the shot to be at.  This also meant that for example when putting in the shot of the Conor reacting to a loud noise, we could choose which reaction we preferred as some were delayed and some looked bait rushed and forced.  We were also really happy with the lighting and were planning to film the rest this weekend but… the girl actress lily couldn't film the rest of the scenes...

Editing - Day 1

We imported all our film onto final cut pro, aswell as all our sound recordings.  We started by doing a rough cut of the clips and putting all the clips in order.  Then we had to make sure the continuity of the clips worked, such as when opening a door and coming through the other side so it doesn't look delayed or to fast.  We then started editing in more detail with the clips we got.   I found this tricky at times because we were missing some scenes so it was hard to know where to place clips and how long they should be there for.  I then started dubbing over the sounds and found that using the clapper at the start made it easier to synchronise the sounds, so we will definitely do this next time we film.

Planning ahead

When we next film, we will definitely need to remember the storyboard, and just swiftly film the scenes we were missing so that we can start peopwely filming.  I also wort notes hen watching the footage we had already done and there were a few small pointers that could be redone, when we film again.  Then when we get round to editing, we need to dub in the rest of the clips an edit so they are continuous.  We then really need to focus on sound as we haven't approached that aspect yet. We are going to ask a friend who's into music to do it and I'm slightly skeptical as to whether they will capture what we want but it should be fine as our music we want isn't too complex.  We also need to do the ident and need to figure out how to draw a doodle and get it so it is drawing it on the screen. We might just do this on paint and do a screenshot recording, or use a digital sketchpad but I'm unsure whether we will have access to a digital sketchpad so we really need to start thinking about this now

Filming - Day 1

Yesterday we started filming.  We were already at a slight disadvantage as we forgot to bring the storyboard to eves hose where we wetre filming.  But luckily we had pictures on our phones of the story board so had a pretty good idea of each scene.  We got the costumes and makeup ready on our actors Lily and Conor and were ready to start.  Before filming we were worried about the lighting for the shots of Lily in her bedroom as we wanted it to be quite moody and dark.  Lukcily the natural light from outside created nice shadows that made Lily seem very mysterious.  We played around with some of our shots, for example when Conoro walks up the stairs we tried different angles to what was on the storyboard, just so we could have a choice when editing that scene in.  I found it really helpful that we had had a planned out storyboard as it allowed to to get the shots we might not have realised we needed. We also filmed many different angles of each shot, just to make the editing process easier.  However, near the end of the day at about 5pm the natural light we were using from outside dimmed, and it became too dark to film anymore so we had to stop.  This was a big limitation and we have to film again next week.   Also theres a shot where a car pulls into the driveway of the house, but we didn't have a car available yesterday so will need to film that next time we film.

Idents

An ident is a image that a television channel or film production company uses to identify its self. It is made up of text of the name of the company. It is usually and animation or another form of moving image. It is usually shown before a film starts. They can be of a movie studio or production company

Examples of film production company indents:

 

It is important that an indent has very clear to read text. There is often a lot of movement, making a more exciting logo. There should be an iterating movement in the animation of the ident. For example, the stars circling in the Paramount ident and the female lifts up her torch, referencing the Statue of Liberty in the Columbia ident. They often have a very epic to them, for example, lions, show lights, mountains. They last from bout 15-25 seconds long each.

 However we want a more modern and sleek feeling to ours. Rather than the more traditional ones such as '20th century fox' and 'columbia'. We like the sleeker look of 'Metro Goldwyn Mayer'. It looks good with the black background contrasting with the gold logo. We can put a lot of effort in this ident by putting in sound effects, music and animation. We want to make sure ours isn't to long that it will get boring for the audience. We could have loud, dramatic and kind of epic music to make it more exciting. Or we could have a sleeker feel by having it simpler and just have sound effects in time with text. This would make a very short ident.

Often independent production companies, often have slightly more themed indents. This is because these companies specialise in making certain types of films, e.g. thrillers. The independent production company, 

Gunslinger make social realism films. This is their ident;

As our film is dark psychological thriller and we want out ident to set the theme of the film. As idents are played at the very beginning of the film, they do have the power to set the film. This means that we don't want a ident that gives a very happy and relax feel. Darker colours and red will work to our advantage.

AC

Portrayal of gender

The Young Girl

We have collectively decided to name the girl starring in the opening Lily, this is due to the femininity and delicacy of the name. It is a very english name which also means a type of flower. It is thought to represent purity and beauty. This means that the audience will automatically warm up to the name and not feel threatened. Although in the beginning she is trapped by a man it is important that we show her intelligence and bravery which will automatically go against stereotypes of a dominating men as she outsmarts him.

Older Man


We want to call this character of the older man Mark. Mark is a very masculine name originating from both England and Russia. It is a very ordinary and normal name which does not attract much attention. This represents the man in all and his personality

EB