Production log 4

Re-Shooting our investigation scene.

Today we re-shot our investigation scene because the lighting in the first scenes we shot looked too bright so we decided we would either re shoot the scenes at a different time of day when its darker or just shoot in a different area. We ended up deciding to shoot in the English staff room as it was easier to control the lighting in the room. The staff room also had a pin board and a large table where the detective could sit and work on his case. We got a number of creative shots such as over the shoulder and high angles looking over the top of George (detective). We only had an hour to shoot as much as we could so we had to be efficient with our time and setting up, so when harry and myself were setting up the pin board and the table, Tommy and George were shooting the scene of George walking down the corridor towards the camera. This worked well as by the time they had shot that scene, we had set up the scene in the staff room so we were ready for them to continue filming straight away. If we had more time i would probably try to film a few more random shots just in case we needed some fillers.

Production Log 3

Production Log 3

In today's lesson we booked out a conference room because we wanted to re film our investigation scene that i had originally done at home. The reason we decided we would re film this scene is because the area i filmed it in was too small and it didn't tell the audience enough about where it was. So today we decided that using a conference room would work better as it had a better environment and looked more realistic. We got a number of different shots of the scene with George in playing as the investigator trying to solve the crimes.
Some  of the props we used in today's shoot were photos of children that we had got ourselves used them as victims of the crimes and some other pictures to create the investigation board such a map, newspaper article, a suspect photo and copy of fingerprints and footprints. A couple of other things we used in the scene of George sitting at the table were more photos and some other random bits that you would find in an office environment such as pens, pins, paper clips and folders.

Production Log 2

Production Log 2 

In todays lesson we went back to the drama room that we filmed in during our first shoot. This time we re filmed some of our shots and added a few new ones. We managed to film our opening shot of harrys feet and then him sitting down at the table where he would open the book which is supposed to represent a new story beginning.   We needed to re shot a few scenes because the lighting wasn't good enough in the original footage or it was too grainy. Although we want our footage to look a little grainy we don't want it to spoil the footage or make it un clear what is going on.

In this shoot we used pretty much the same props as the same one which is
Fake knife
Fake butchers knife
Fake blood
Tracing paper
A sheet of yarn to lay on the table.

Production Log 1

Production log 1

Today myself harry George and Tommy filmed our first shoot in the drama room, we used our prop book that harry made, fake blood, a strobe light, netted yarn, fake knives and the filming equipment. Tommy being the cinematographer came up with the different camera shot ideas and the rest of the group gave a few ideas here and there. As i am the editor i gave some hints on what things would look good in our final piece and how some of the shots would be effective.

These are photographs of our prop book -

Production log

Production log

1 and 2 first film shoot monday 27th of feb.
location - drama room possibly dark room, if we cannot book out  either of the rooms we will sign out through getting permission of jerry to find another location to film a different scene. This will then be edited later on to change the ordering of the scenes we record.
Equipment - camera, steady cam, tripod and possibly go pro to get a pop shot if we are going to film in the woods.
coatume - long sleeve shirt, jeans, and boots.
propps - antagonists book, fake blood, string, tape, pictures, scale and a pen.