Filming Day Two

Today, we decided to film the scenes where the actors were not required. This included the drone shots, which we needed help filming (by an outside source who owned the drone) and the kill scene during the night.

The drone shots were simple to do and the weather was good enough to conduct them. We told the drone pilot what we wanted and could see the shots he was taking on the screen. We were able to get some good shots of the thick woodland from different angles and one where the drone itself was moving. Each of these were shot in 4K and should be perfect for our final product.

When night fell the group went out to film the kill scene. We decided to use ourselves in the roles so that the identity of the killer was not revealed at the start of the movie. Filming the kill scene has been (and probably will continue to be) the hardest part of our filming so far. The weather was not great so the ground was extremely muddy. Also, we struggled to get enough lighting to shoot the scenes for a while, before we decided to use phone torches and the camera light itself to shoot the scene. This makes it look really artificial, however, this can be rectified during the editing phase using colour correction. It was also very cold, so the amount of filming time was greatly reduced. However, we got the shots that we needed across the main camera and a go-pro. We also got shots of the killer themselves and used some fake blood to try and show our genre very clearly. This went ok, but the shots are not perfect so we may re-film some or use editing to make them look better. However, we got a good amount of footage to work with and if do need to do re-shoots in the near-future we will.

Since we didn't have a lot to shoot, time was managed very well and as a result we, as a group, felt very accomplished with what we had filmed during the day.

Filming Day One

Today we conducted our first filming day. The original plan was to film all of the outdoor woodland scenes today, in Thorndon Country Park and do the indoor (mostly flashback) scenes tomorrow. All of the actors turned up on time and we walked up to the park and filmed a couple of scenes, including; Brain doing work at the bench, Basket-Case taking her pills in the woodland thicket and Jock, Princess and Criminal's scene in the clearing. All of these scenes went well but took longer than expected, meaning that we ran out of time by the end of filming the third scene. So, in a change of plan we decided to film the Basket-Case and Jock flashback tonight and continue filming on other days. Even though the day had ended we had still filmed everything that we needed to, and as a result have some footage to work with.

Our Film's Certification

For our finished film we need to identify a certification that we will suggest to the BBFC. The BBFC analyses a film and certifies it, depending on what is presented in the film. Our film would be a suggested rating of 15, but way be altered to an 18 during the certification process. Whilst our film contains minimal swearing, it does contain a lot of blood and gore (since it is a Horror movie) and also has sexual references and prescription drug use, so the line between 15 and 18 is going to be a blurred one. However, we hope that it will be certified as a 15 because this will allow our target audience to be reached clearly, leading to maximum profit when the film is released.

Role Review

So, before we start our filming we need to review the group's roles during filming. In order for our filming to be successful, each person has to pay close attention to their target area and point out any problems. So, here are the final roles;

Director (Camera-Work) : Leon Bunn

Assistant Director (Shot co-ordination) : Michael Barrett

Prop Assistant (Checking Continuity, Safety, e.t.c) : Connor McMillan

Sound Choreographer (Background Noise Cancellation, Mic Manipulation) : Tom Kelly 

Production Diary 09/12/16

Our Production Storyboard

Drawn Frames For Storyboards

During the storyboarding phase of our planning we have drawn out some storyboards as a group and will later annotate them with everything that we want to have in that particular frame (sound, lighting, costume) alongside a rough drawing of a set plan (where the characters, camera and lights will be). Here are seven key frames from our movie that I have drawn out for use on our storyboards.

Top Left - This is the drone shots that will be shown after the disruption at the beginning of our two minutes. The shot is of a tree line and a setting sun.
Top Right - This frame will be a close up of the broken watch that the killer has stamped on
Bottom Left - This frame is of the whole group standing around a fire, where the flashbacks will occur, showing what has happened that lead them to this point
Bottom Right - This storyboard frame is supposed to represent the four different flashbacks shown in our opening 2 minutes; the Basket-Case taking drugs, the Criminal packing a knife, the Princess using the Jock and Criminal and the Jock being given a roll of money by the Brain.

Top Left- A Close Up of the Killer holding a bloody hammer after the first blow on their victim

Top Right - Disrupted Birds taking flight after a scream is heard

Bottom Left - Low Angle of the killer raising the hammer to murder their victim 

Mise-En-Scene in Necro5is