Production: Second Set of Footage (External Shots: Scenes 2-4)

Our second day of filming was where we would have to start filming external shots; some easy, some complicated. Because we couldn't get all of our footage shot in one day, we aimed to film at least scenes 2 to 4, thus giving us at least half the footage we would need for our final piece. We stayed in one area location (between Carshalton and Sutton) to get this days shots....

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Production: First Set of Footage (Internal Shots: Scene 1)

The only equipment we used for this recording session was a Cannon 550D EOS camera and and on-board external microphone. We decided not to use any additional lighting as the scene already had enough lighting to work with (and could be manipulated at a later date if we desired too) and it may have made the scene seem a little too vibrant and unrealistic. We...

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Production: First Attempt Issues

We all attended our arrange date to begin film production, however we came across a few issues and did not gain a lot of footage from our session. Our first issue involved the camera being faulty. It repeatedly told us that our SD memory card was full, regardless to the fact there was not one piece of content on it. Our second problem involved the tripod; it's plate that...

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Production Meeting: Plan Of Action

On the 22nd November 2012, we made a plan to meet and begin filming our projects external shots for the 25th November. We chose to do the external shots first because we felt they would have required a lot more effort and had a lot more that could go wrong with them, so we had to make sure we took a lot of time to produce the shots to how we wanted them. We agreed to all...

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Planning: Script For Opening Arguement Scene

In the opening scene, when our actor is sitting on his sofa looking frustrated, there will be an argument happening in the background between the boy's parents. Although recording the argument using improvisation might be more realistic, it will cause a lot of hesitation and confusion on what things to say. So, with this in mind, we had to create a very brief script...

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Pre-Production: Costume & Character

The next stage of pre-production, which would lead to creating our film, was to plan how we wanted our characters to look. We only had one main acting character in our film, thus meaning we didn't have to plan a costume and personality for a whole cast; just one person. Any one else in the film would be purely dressed as they are; in what they would wear...

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Planning: Script & Storyboarding

One of the most important stages of the planning was to write a script. Katie produced our script for us. Anchored Renegade To also aid us with our project, we had to create a storyboard to know exactly how and what we were going to produce. So, following the script that Katie had written for us, Matt and I began to create visual image versions/format of the script. There were around 16 pages and 30+ different shots, I have scanned and placed them all into a PowerPoint presentation to view. We will carry these sheets of paper, along with...

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Research into Environments of the Real World

Before we began our project, we wanted to explore different settings to see which would be appropriate or interesting yet realistic for our project. One of the ideas that we discussed and had to consider was that in order for our film to be realistic in Britain, it is likely the weather and overall atmosphere would have to be cloudy, dull and almost miserable due to...

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Creating A Production Company Logo

For this group project, we felt we needed an identity or logo to represent our 'short film company'. We had already had a production meeting organizing and deciding on a name (Makley Productions) but we also felt a visual presentation of this identity would have been appropriate to include as a credit in our final piece. We began looking into different film production...

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