Filming 26/11/08

We managed to finish filming today. We have no more shots to do just the voice over and finish editing and we will be done. We had one major issue with filming today and that was that the car park was quite full, so we had to wait until the car park had emptied to get the majority of out shots. Even then we still had some shots with cars in the background which we will have to crop out.

Filming 23/11/08

Me and Nick went and filmed all of Nick's shots today. Unfortunately Joe was unable to make the shoot. We still have a little bit to shoot so we will do that on wednesday. We had a good days filming today and got alot done. The car park was empty so we did not have to adjust our shots to get rid of any modern lookin cars. After the shoot on wednesday all our filming will be done so we can just get on with the editing. There were no problems that we hadn't encounterd before, so we knew how to overcome them.

Filming 14/11/08

Our filming this day was very brief as we had other commitments to do but we did get some vital footage, we did the staircase footage which was an improvement from last time as we did not get locked in one! The staircase footage was very useful as we decided we can jump cut to shorten the time as the stairs are square and I am visible all the way down the stairs which will make that very effective. Also we used a mirror which looks round corners to film at, this caused problems as I kept getting my head in the way of the view of the mirror so i had to do a sharp turn round the corner, which meant i walked into the wall.

Filming - 12/11/08

In many ways filming today went smoothly and in many ways it didn't. We have discovered that filming is a very time consuming process. However we got a lot of our shots done in the two hours we were filming after school. When filming we sometimes pressed the record button to start filming, but we stopped filming instead, so a couple of times we have filmed ourselves setting up for the next shot, instead of shooting the actual shot. Another problem we came across is that we watched some of our footage back but forgot to fast forward the tape to the end of what we had shot so far, so we have recorded some shots over our previous shots.

We also learnt an important lesson in life. We got ourselves trapped in a stairwell on Royal Victoria Place Car park. We were looking to see if we could find a better set of stairs within our location for filming. We came across a staircase and we all entered. We then found out that there was no was way of leaving the stairs from the inside as it was a fire exit door. We had to phone Nick Reilly (Group 4) who luckily lives nearby to come and let us out.

Filming- Voiceover.

We included a voiceover in our filming, this was done on a totally seperate time and place to filming as it would not be very suitable to do it on site of shooting as the car park will echo and will have a lot of background noise. Also it was done seperately because if we did it on site there would be less time to shoot therefore the light or weather may change which will not be good for continuity editing so we did when we had a lot of time to do takes of the voiceover.
We had a few problems which we encountered during it, firstly it was the voice we want to use for the character, we needed to have a very rough, cockney accent and it was difficult to do and this took up the majority of the takes, also we had to have a change of location as well, we found where we were recording the sound that it was echoing and causing reverb, this was because it was a large room with bad acoustics, so we changed to a smaller room with objects which could absorb sound and it sounded much better.

CF feedback background research

Excellent work. You have met all deadlines and this blog demonstrates that your research is clearly informing your creative process and that you are using ICT to collaborate as a group. The pitch was outstanding - well planned, informed by research into target audience, possible locations and generic conventions through film analysis. Your treatment was very convincing. All group members are making excellent contributions to the research and you are clearly working well as a team. Your storyboarding, scripting and location reccies show that you are carefully planning your work in advance of shooting.

Your planning mark currently stands at a level 4 - well done. Nick, you would score slightly higher due to the outstanding textual analysis research.
To achieve this overall, ensure that your time management and shoots are well organised.

Keep it up!

Mrs Fernandez

Script

Ricky

(pause) Hello?

Boss

Ricky, your still with us then.

Ricky

Yeah, why wouldn't I be?

Boss

(Pause) I need you to listen...

Ricky

I thought i was picking up the package for you here, where is it?

Boss

I said listen (pause)

Ricky

OK

Boss

Are you deaf!? Didn't I just say listen? (slightly raised voice)

Ricky

Yeah

Boss

(grumbles) The package isn't there, alright? Now just listen. Last week Brighton, what...

Ricky

Boss I...

Boss

Shut up you mug. Reggie got nicked, 2 kilos of charlie went off the pier and two policemen ended up in hospital. Now that is not exactly what i call in and out. But oh no! Is this the beginning of your many screw ups? Hastings, London, Edinburgh... I tell you one thing... and you go do the bloody opposite ya muppet (annoyed/angry/frustrated)

Ricky

Look, you know I...

Boss

Ricky. You know I like ya, your a loyal man to are cause, but I can't afford having the old bill on my bottle (cockney sang for arse) 24/7 because of you incompetence.

Ricky

Wait, I can... (desperation in voice)

Boss

It's too late (pause) I've given the order. (pause) I'm sorry kid.