Alternate Angles

As previously mentioned by Richard, adding these alternate angles to the back of the master shots adds extra ease to filming and bulks out the film. From the storyboard we had, it was quite easy to see that all of the shots were from a medium to long distance, and after a while this could get quite boring. It is fair to say that adding these other camera angles of the happenings broadens our filming and potentially makes the opening sequence more interesting.

Hopefully, after drawing out these possible alter angles, filming will be much easier as our inspiration will already be drawn out.

Storyboard Filming

After making our storyboard we have successfully filmed. There was no need to edit as we filmed it using the times that we decided on during planning.

We may add music to the storyboard but that is yet to be decided...

To add to the storyboard we are going to draw on the back of he A5 sheets more possible angles to shoot from.

Story Board

We have re-done the story boards so they are easier to film and more clear for viewer. This will help us in the filming as we will be able to look back at our notes with a clear picture of what we are trying to achieve.

Story Board Redraft and Possible Locations

We have enlarged the storyboard so that each frame fits an A5 sheet. We have done this so that we are able to see a clearer image of what we are going to film, also this is so we can film the storyboard and see it clearly on camera.

Possible Locations:

Richard's Dad's surgery could be used for the office scenes

the city shots will have to be done in Cambridge or London

The forest shots will be done in the forest near richards house or in newport

Comments 13 Feb

Coming together well; the individual contributions are good.  Lorena, you need to make some individual posts please.  What about names - have you decided what to call the  location yet?  Does the film have a name?

Lesson 9/2/09 and THE SCRIPT.

This particular lesson was one of the most productive lessons that the team has achieved so far. We finished the plot summary, wrote the script and started the story boarding. 

Here is the finished script, with shot directions:

*City skyline shots of buildings.

*ESTABLISHING SHOT OF A CORPORATE BUILDING.

*Hear phone ringing, shot cuts to a man in an office writing information down.

*The office worker answers the phone...

*"Hello?"

  "Hi, so, what's the story?"

  "Well..."

*CUTS INTO FOREST SCENE (by fading into a photo of the forest on the desk).

*(Over the top of forest scene footage)...

*"Here's what I have so far, two teenage boys (boys come into shot now) were having a kick about via 'insert forest's name here'. They passed the to-be victim walking her dog in the opposite direction... (woman comes into shot now)"

*"Come on, cut to the chase!"

*SWITCHES BACK TO SHOT OF OFFICE.

*"I'm getting there ok..."

*FADES INTO ANOTHER PHOTO OF THE FOREST.

*"One of the teenagers receive a text message and loses control of the football (boy receives text message now), he turns around to get it and can't believe his eyes... (boy drops phone now)

*BACK INTO OFFICE SCENE.

*"The victim was found dead, sprawled out across the forest floor, her dog was no-where to be seen".

*"I see...".

*"So, how much is this going to cost to clear up?"

final plot idea summary

start: office scene, with man at desk on phone,
puts photos on desk
slowly zooms in on photo of empty forest
voice over
fades into actual scene
2 teenagers walk into shot, playing football
fade transition
follow teens with voice over ontop
they walk past woman with dog
one misses the ball and turns in direction of woman
looks shocked
close up of phone
fades into photo of phone on desk
see policemen conversing
policeman says what happend to woman

Possible Set

At the weekend i went down to the local forest and took some pictures as i thought they would be good for the scenes tht we have planned. We have to bear in mind that without the snow the forest will be darker thereforelook better for the planned scenes.

Lighting Devices

Over the weekend, I assembled a lighting device that could be used outdoors or indoors. I opened up a medium sized cardboard box and covered it with sheets of tin foil, with the shiny side facing outwards so it could reflect as much light as possible.

As it was my first try it wasn't incredibly neat, but for an experiment into techniques that the group may use, I thought it went incredibly well. When using it I was able to reflect a substantial amount of light in another direction.

Here are some photographs of it in action...