Filming police/detective scene

We organized to use two drama teachers to act out a detective scene for the beginning of our opening. Mr Smith will be the detective and Miss Wilson will be the mother of the school girl that has gone missing. We organized a lunch time when the two teachers were free and filmed it in Mr Michie's office. We had a brief short script for them to follow but some words were changed so it would flow more naturally when we filmed the scene, we wanted to detective to be firm with the mother but also have sympathy for her, and we wanted the mother to be sad and genuinely worried and concerned for her daughter. we feel that because they are drama teachers they will feel comfortable playing the role for our film.

The script for our film was this
Detective - "so, i need to know exactly when you last saw her, do you remember?"
Mother - (pause) "of course i remember, she looked so lovely"
Detective - "mrs ....., we need to know, its vital for this investigation"
Mother - "it was sunday 18th, she left at 2 o'clock to see her friends thats all i know"
Detective - "thank you, and don't worry, we will help you find your daughter"
Mother - "please, you have too"

We filmed this by all three of us being having cameras in deferent places at the same time. Therefore we didn't have to repeat the scene too many times in order to get enough shots, the only difficulty with this was that sometimes another camera was visible in one of the shots therefore we had to move around alot. We took a variety of shots including mid shots, close ups and extreme close ups, in order to get a different perspective from different angles. Filming this scene was successful overall and didn't take as long as i expected it too. After filming this we uploaded them onto the computer and edited them into our film, this will give our film more of an exciting edge to it and will allow us to take out some of the static shots of Charli's legs and body at the beginning.

These are the pictures of the script and the shot list.

solution to problem

as soon as our group released we had a problem with filming we emailed our teachers and agreed that our deadline would be in the easter holidays, this way we would be able to re-schedule when we would film, and not have to rush the filming and editing. Although the other groups have an earlier deadline than us we had no choice due to our actors. We planned to re-shot on thursday but our actors were not available on this day so we chose saturday instead. we have found it difficult to judge when the actors are free and when our group is free, we also understand that this is not the actors course work and they have their own commitments. This has been our main struggle throughout the process. however we are going to film on saturday and we have also taken out a mac from school in order to upload our clips and edit them on thw same day when we are all together. This way we can give in our finish copy to our teachers on the 12th of April.

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.