Probelm with filming

We were planning to re-shoot our clips on saturday but due to Luke pulling out 10 minutes before we were scheduled to film this means that we were forced to cancel bcuase we needed both of the actors to film this part of the opening. The caused us to re-schedule to thurday, this was a difficult decision becuase it is a day before our deadline which means we will not have very much time to edit our film, but this was the only option we had as people in our group had commitments on the other days.

Filming Schedule

Saturday 24th- Afternoon  CANCELLED DUE TO UNAVAILABILITY OF ACTORSLuke (kidnapper) and Charli (heroine)

• Luke and newspaper
• Luke going upstairs
• Luke and Charli- reactions

Monday 26th- Lunch time
Mr Smith (police man) and Miss Wilson (mother)

• investigation continues scene

New Schedule for 24th:
Thursday 29th  CANCELLED DUE TO UNAVAILABILITY OF ACTORS 

New New Schedule: Saturday 31st

Luke (kidnapper) and Charli (heroine)

• Luke and newspaper
• Luke going upstairs
• Luke and Charli- reactions

Shot list for Luke's newspaper scene

Shot list

Establishing shot of study
Point of veiw shot od newspaper
Close up of face - smirk
Point of veiw shot, putting newspaper on table
Close up of face, waits, heres noise
Long shot, luke gets up and walk out of room

This scene will only be short but we feel that it will add something extra to the whole opening and make it seem reaistic. The reason the man has a smirk on his face when he reads the newpaper is so that it shows he doesn't care and that he finds it rewarding that his actions have got so much attention.

Planning the police interveiw scene

We have been thinking about the detective scene alot becuase we want to make it look as realistc as posible, the thing we hacve thought about so far are, the different location for the interveiw, such as the offices we could do it in, we had a look at different one including the georagphy office and mrs tanners office but came to the conclustion it would be best if we used mr michies office as it was the right size. we also planned a script for the police and the girls mother, this involved a short converstaion. We also had to plan a shot list, this involved shot reverse shots, close ups, mid shots and establishing shots.
For our location we had to make some changes to the room such as moving the table into the centre of the room and putting two chairs either side, to make it look more like a police interveiw room. there is also a filling cabnet and a telephone so the room looks more like a police room. We also have peice of card folded over that has the detectives name on it which is 'Detective Smith' from our research we founf that scenes like this usually have a name sign similar to this. All of these things help with the mis-en-scene and create a more realistic feel to the opening.

The pictures above are the images of what the room looks like. We researched some pictures of police/detective desks and most of the pictures were of desks with alot of papers on them so this is the effect we tried to create with the desk. We also found that they usually have a notebook and a pen. For the dress of the polioce man we knew that he should be dressed smart with a tie, and a jacket to ensure he looked profesional.

The shot list for this scene.

Establishing shot of the room

Mid shot of the police man, showing the name tag

Shot reverse shot of the mother, mid shot, showing name tag

Shot reverse shot to police

Shot reverse shot to mother

Shot reversshot to police

Back to mother, close up

Black screen titles

Story board for police scene

This is our story board for the police interveiw scene. we thought it would be a good idea to do a story board becuase it woulod help us to gain a better understading of what we would like to happen in the scene. In the first scene shows the girls mum and the police man sat at a table, the police man is asking her basic questions like 'when did you last see your daughter?' It then changes to girls mother expressing her saddnes about the situation, then is another shot about, it will then show the two characters again having a convosation, then again to show the sad expression on the girls mothers face.
This will either be shown at the begining of the film through a television or just as extra footage, if it is shown therough a television then we will have a 'breaking news' flash the televison first to show the importance of the situation to the veiwers. It will be on in a room with the man watching it and turning it off half way through to show that he doesn't care about it.

Ideas for extra footage

In our lesson our teachers watched our film and we all agreed that a good way to improve our film would be to introduce dialouge in it. Thisd would give our film a more realistic atmosphere. We decided we should have the girl shout something when luke walks into the room that she is trapped in, saying something like 'what are you doing?!' or 'who are you?!' and then luke would reply to her. Before we just had a reaction shot of the girls face looking scared, but thought that this was unrealistic and boring. we would also need to think about if the girl knows the man, becuase if she did, then it would be a different reaction to if he was a stranger.

New Ideas

During our lesson we received feedback from our teachers and we also came up with new ideas. the feedback from both of our teachers was the same, we need to have more of a reaction form from our female actor Charli when she is in the bed, our group agreed with this and have decided to go away and re-shoot this clip in a different way in order to create a more realistic feel. We also needed more of a obvious story line there fore came up with new ideas to help us with this. Together we came up with the idea of the girls mother and father being involved in the opening, this would have them being interviewed or being shown on the television we thought about ways we could show this and came across a clip of 'Doctor Who' where a similar technique was used. If you skip to 3:07 the use of the tv is shown. We would have the girls parents talking directly into the camera, to show that they are addressing the viewers, half way through this we would then have the man turn off the tv to show he does not care even though he knows that the girl they are looking for is in his house.

We thought the television was a good idea but soon realised it would be difficult to do so decided to work on the interview idea. This would involve a police man asking the girls parents basic questions like when she last saw her daughter ect. This would involve a meeting in a small room similar to a police mans office were they would talk about the missing girl. This will help us to get our opening up to 2 minutes and will help build the story line to make it more exciting.

We also came up with another idea to help build the story line of our film. We will use this if we cant our idea of the interview doesn't work out or if we need more clips. This was to have a newspaper article on the from page regarding the missing girl. On the article we would have a picture of the girl in the dress that she is wearing in the shots of her in the bed, this will allow the audience to relate the girl on the newspaper to the one in the clips. We will have the man reading the newspaper for about 3/4 seconds and then have him throw it one a table as if he doesn't care, a similar thought to the tv scene. 

Editing

last lesson we started to edit the clips that we had previously uploaded onto our computer. Our groups didn't have any major issues when editing the film because we were confident in which clips we had to delete and which ones we could keep. Although after cutting out certain clips we discovered that our footage didn't last for 2 minutes, however we hadn't added all of our titles and we also had more to shoot which would fill up the time.
We decided to make our titles lat for 4/5 seconds, this is the same time lengths as most of our clips to have a continuing time length, from our research this shows that this is the expected time, also we have named our production company upside down productions, this title will involve the word upside down spinning onto the screen and having a logo of a old fashioned camera, the logo is below.



The font of the production company is different to the font of the titles for our film, this is what we found from our research.
We haven't decided on a colour for our titles yet but we will most probably stay with white on a black background to keep it simple and relevant to a thriller film, form our research we have found alot of thriller film have black and white titles, red is also common but we thought this would relate more to a horror thriller rather than crime.

music ideas

Our group have found it difficult to try and get a background music to go with our film. we have looked at many different music websites but we felt tha all of them didnt suit our film. We all agreed with what the music should sound like but just couldnt find anything over the internet. becuase Hannah plays the flute we thought that i may be a good idea for her to play quitely in the background of our film but soon realised that this would be difficult as Hannah is limited to the amounf of songs she can play. We have recently found a peice of music on the interent which is a flute, but only the first 20 seconds we feel would be appripriate for aour film so feel that we should cut it agfter thihs amount of time and then repeate it thoghout the 2 minutes of our film. Although we also have digetic sound that we need to imcorporate into our film towards the ending so we would need to think about how this would work with the music.

About our filming

A few problems have occured to do with the filming process these include trying to find a time when we can all film, this has been difficult becuase there are five of us that have to be free at the same time. After achool is hard becuase it means that we have to miss out on doing homework or coursework for other subjects while we film, and filimg is very time consuming becuase it takes a long time to get the perfect shot. We aslo found it difficult to find a time when our actors Luke and Charli were free becuase this was also taking up there time when it isnt even one of their subjects. Although we organised when we were goibng to film very well. Hannah came up with the idea of creating a facebook page where we were able to connect with eachother whenever we needed to, this made it easier to find a date when we were all free and happy to film. this also allowed us to share information and pictures with each other so we were all up to date.on top of this, we were able to ask other people in our group if we were not sure about something ensureing that everyone understood the task they had been given.