FILMING: Main shoot

Last Sunday we filmed our entire film excluding the opening shot which we went out and filmed on location a week or so ago. Myself, Charlee and Imogen were present but unfortunately Bethany couldn't make it so we were forced to make continue without her immediate input. 

I had visited the place where we were filming (Which was our friend Giles Westgarth's house) so I had an idea of where we would film and what the shots we would be like as we followed the plan on our storyboard. We would use the garage as the torture room as the space was great for what the film needed and the rough concrete nature of the room seemed great as part of our films mise-en-scene. There were parts of the room such as shelves that would need to be covered but this was no trouble as we had large dust sheets that would cover those areas and also were painted with blood.

We filmed the living room scene in a room upstairs, which was great as the door in the room opened up straight to a set of stairs that we would also be using in the scene. There wasn't much that we needed to change about the room to match our storyboard apart from moving a couple of pieces of furniture out of a couple of the shots that we needed to get. 

Our two captive actors (Lucy Wise and Jonathan Morris) were present and luckily for us Lucy is an amazing make up artist so she was able to give her self and Jonathan brilliant make up such as black eyes and cuts which looked great on film.

Were now in the stages of making our first edit so through this process we will decide if/what needs to be re shot and done again.  

RESEARCH PROJECT

- Magazine Industry

        - How is it changing/evolving?

        - What does the future hold?

- Audience and Institutions

        - How do audiences benefit from changes in the magazine industry?

        - What challenges are magazines (and publishers) facing?

- New Media Technologies

        - How are NMTs impacting on the Magazine Industry?

These are just some links to pages with good info I can use:

http://www.slideshare.net/SBakker/future-of-magazines

http://www.slideshare.net/jdojc/how-magazines-can-survive-the-digital-age

http://www.slideshare.net/Elasticpath/future-of-newspapers-and-magazines-in-the-digital-era-elastic-path-research-report

How is the Magazine Industry evolving?

- Magazine publishers are are becoming a lot more interactive. As the use of the internet has becoming part of daily life with easy and quick access to information through computers and smartphones, publishers have taken this as an advancement to the magazine rather than an enemy of which it could have been. They create websites, mobile applications and give the audience more of a variety in the way they read and explore their magazine's content as well as giving the market of the magazine more presence in the way the magazine is produced than in the past. Magazine publishers are creating different ways of exploring and receiving input by their audience through comment posts on articles placed on there websites and apps (If they have developed them yet). 

The use of web subscriptions is also a way that the magazine industry is evolving. Many magazines give audiences an oppertunity to may a monthly or yearly subscription to the magazine where they can read a complete issue of the magazine on there computer through a PDF download, web app, mobile app or e reader. 

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FILMING: Opening Shot

We went out on Monday 14th to film our opening shot for our film. This was the TV broadcast made by the priest (Played by myself) warning people about the disappearings and capturings that our films protagonist has committed.

We filmed this on location at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Chalfont St. Peter (Shown Below). The weather condition weren't perfect as the snow was coming down very heavily and it was extremely cold. We are unsure that this has effected the clips but if it has made a substantial difference we will go out again on a better day and re-shoot what we need to.

STORYBOARD ANIMATIC

This is the animatic of our storyboard. Rather than uploading them separately, I'm just uploading the animatic which shows off our storyboard as well as timing and transitions.

PLANNING - Final Shot List & Changes

1. Close up of TV, slow zoom, shot of protagonist on sofa.
2. Zoom of previous shot.
3. Long shot of table with religious items and polaroids4. Close up of polaroids, title, jump cut to next shot.
5. Medium shot of child playing on the floor.
6. Close up of polaroids, title.
7. Mid shot of protagonist from behind watching TV.
8. Mid shot of child playing with toys, zoom up.
9. Close up of polaroids, title.
10. Medium shot of TV and sofa.
11. Close up of polaroids, title.
12. Medium high angle shot of door.
13. Close up, low angle of door handle.
14. Close up of polaroids, title.
15. Low angle, long shot of door from the bottom of the stairs.
16. Long shot of door.
17. Extreme close up of lock on door.
18. Close up of polaroids, title.
19. Long shot of boy playing with toys.
20. Close up of polaroids, title.
21. Close up of male torture victims hands.
22. Extreme close of of victims face.
23. Close up of polaroids, title.
24. High angle, extreme close up of protagonist and victims.
25. Long shot of female torture victim.
26. Close up of polaroids.
27. Blurred medium shot of protagonist.
28. Blurred but then changes into focused extreme close up of protagonists eye.



Since we made our first shot list and storyboarded, we decided that we needed to make some small adjustments to our storyboard as it wasn't quite polished enough to begin the filming process. We changed it by adding in a few more shots in and around the scene and more shots of the polaroids in order to fit in more titles as we had underestimated how many titles we would need. After we sorted these minor details we made additional changes such as adding in a wider variety of camera angles as we didn't have many angles it was mainly camera distances so we made some more changes and in order to achieve more points towards our final grades, the varied use of camera angles was necessary. Also we changed some of the timings of the shots as we decided that some were slightly too long and some weren't long enough. we still need to write the timings on the shot list which will be done once we have decided as a group.

COURSEWORK DEADLINES

Filming, All footage captured - January 28th

Post production, Rough Cut - Febuary 15th

Final Deadline - March 8th

Individual Evaluation - March 29th

FINAL FILM: Actors/Actresses, Equipment, Locations and Props

These are our groups final decisions on our film.

Actors and Actresses:

Protagonist - Giles Westgarth

Child - Beth's Little Brother

Male Captive - Connor Barbor 

Female Captive - Lucy Wise 

Priest on TV - Oscar Bath (Myself)

Locations:

Basement - Giles Garage

Stairs - Beth's House 

Living room - Beth's house

Church for TV Segment - St Joseph's Church

Props:

Religious Paraphernalia: Beth

Children's Toys: Beth 

Chains: Myself and Imogen

Sheet for Basement floor: Myself

Table: Myself

Tatter clothing: Everyone

Preacher costume: Myself

Equipment:

HDV Camera 

Boom Mic 

Tripod 

Lighting Rig

Adobe Premier Pro CS6  Editing Software