February/March 2011
I created lists to go into year 7 forms and letters and consent forms directly for year 7 pupils who wished to act in our film and took them to the different forms, the letters were placed into registers for form tutors to hand out to pupils on their list but very few were given out. Tom and Lee were working on getting actors for Miss Smith and Mr Jones, Sam created our company ident, he also spent free periods and other time filming CCTV shots around school to make up shots 17 and 30 and he also did alot of filming of tracking towards the front doors of School to create a good establishing shot.
Monday 7th March 2011
Attended: Sam, Lee, Tom
Absent: Myself (as i couldn't be picked up at a later time)
Shots Filmed: 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,11,12
I wasn't involved in this shoot but a lot of the recorded footage was very good, but there were issues with the positioning of cameras and actors and the framing, this was probably because i wasn't there to be the 'director', some footage may have to be reshot such as shot 2. A lot of test shots were carried out with camera angles from outside of windows etc but these were not on the shooting schedule and shots 11 and 12 should have been carried out at the same time as 13 to 16 and 31 and 32 as the same location, the actor who plays Mr Jones and a brainwashed child were needed, we may have problems with continuity because of this.
Tuesday 8th March 2011
Attended: Sam, Adam, Lee Tom
Absent: No-one
Shots Filmed: None
After trying to recruit actors for shots 17 to 30, 2 out of 24 actors/actresses turned up, we weren't able to do any filming on this day.
Thursday 10th March 2011
Attended: Adam, Lee, Tom
Me, Lee and Tom went into a year 7 assembly, after Tuesdays lack of students turning up, and i asked some students if they would like to act, we handed out more than enough letters.
Monday 14th March 2011
Attended: Sam, Adam, Lee, Tom
Absent: No-one
Shots Filmed:17 to 24 excluding 19 and 20, 52 and 53
Me and Tom collected in the letters from year 7's and got one reply, The Actress who played Miss Smith and the 1 brainwashed students were turning up after school so after Tom and myself recruited more from around school we filmed these shots but without Miss Smith standing at the front of the class, we would have liked to film shots 17 to 30 but no Miss Smith meant we couldn't continue, creating more chances for continuity errors. The footage was very poor, the students, who were on their lunch break, failed to follow our instructions so a reshoot is likely. After School was more productive and we filmed shots similar to 52 and 53 but we added different angles and some close ups of the brainwashed student's faces to create a wider variety of shots.
Tuesday 15th March 2011
Attended: Sam, Adam, Lee, Tom
Absent: No-one
Shots Filmed: 51 to 54
Had two very capable actresses and Miss Smith come in after school to do some close ups and long shots for a variation of shots.
Tuesday 22nd March 2010
Attended: Sam, Tom
Absent: Adam (unable to contact), Lee ( Forbidden planet rehearsals)
Shots Filmed: 21 to 23
We felt we would have to reshoot this footage so Sam and Tom did this but the quality of acting was still poor and shots immediately before and after require Miss Smith who wasn't available.
Sam spent a lot of time editing for our rough cut.
Wednesday 23rd March 2010
Period 1,2 and 3
Attended: Adam
Absent: Sam, Lee, Tom (In Lessons)
Shots Filmed: 21 to 23
Reshoot of the reshoot, managed to get more pupils, approximately 30, behavior and acting was very poor and trying to do everything myself was very difficult.
Sam again spent alot of time editing a rough cut.
Wednesday 6th April 2010
Period 1 and 2
Attended: Adam
Absent: Sam, Lee, Tom ( In lessons)
Shots Filmed: Establishing Sequence
Our feedback advised us to use more varied shots so i did some filming of establishing shots and then edited them into our film as well as editing other parts.
Lunch Time:
Attended: Adam
Absent: Sam, Lee, Tom (Valid Reasons)
Shots Filmed: 19 and 20, 34 to 46
Filming was very difficult as i was on my own but i had assistance off some actors and the final products were very good and the actors/actresses were very professional in this filming session.
After School:
Attended: Adam, Tom
Absent: Sam, Lee (valid Reasons)
Shots Filmed: 39
Me and Tom filmed one short shot and then went and edited our film.
Thursday 7th April 2011
Lunch Time and 4th period:
Attended: Adam, Tom
Absent: Sam, Lee (valid reasons)
Shots Filmed: 34 to 40
I spent lunch time filming the shots and then went to edit them with Tom when he arrived.
After School:
Attended: Adam, Lee,
Absent: Tom, Sam (Valid Reasons)
Me and Lee spent a lot of time after school editing our final film, we created a new ident as Sam's previous one wasn't working.
Friday 8th April 2011
Attended: Sam, Adam
Absent: Lee, Tom ( Not in school yet)
Me and Sam compressed and uploaded our final film to youtube, this job didn't require all of us.
We were unable to film these shots, 13, 14, 15, 16, 31, 32, our final cut was drastically over the time allowance so we had to cut alot of shots and replace the ending, this is not accurate to our storyboard now and doesn't have the same effect we feel.
