Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Shoot Day

WORK DONE

1.1 We met at 9am on Thursday 21st January, in the edit suite for a pre-production meeting,with the whole group, media staff and actress playing the mother

1.2 Met the two child actresses at the location at 9.45am, and prepped them on their role in the film

1.3. Shooting took place from 10am-12.30pm and 1pm-2.30pm

PROBLEMS

2.1 Group spent a little too much time arquing, pre-production

2.2 We wasted valuable time, searching for a cast as this could have been done, much quicker.

2.3 The location was very slippery and muddy, due to unforseen weather conditions, so there were certain areas of the woods, where it was difficult to film. Therefore we had to go and find some alternative areas in the woods.

2.4 We found out very close to our shoot, that the actresses playing the twins, had to be bakc in London my 3pm and therefore had to leave the shoot by 1.30pm. Because of this we had to focus and work very hard from the start to make sure we filmed all the shots they were in my 1.30pm

EVALUATION

3.1 The meeting before the start of filming was not very successful, as our group continued to have many disagreements. We overcame this by letting everyone in the group having their own say and then discussing their idea as a group, without being completely dissmissive.

3.2 Our actress was very successful. We hired her for the day, and this was money well spent as she did a very good job. She had good experiance, and made our filming a lot better.

3.3 The children (Eleanor and Silvia), were much less experianced than the other actress (Fion), but still performed well in their role

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Advancing our Idea

After some discussions with Matt, we had to make some fairly big adaptions to our film.
We have stuck with the basic idea, but have decided to remove all dialoque, as we think this will be more effective. Instead we are just using music, to build up tension and suspense.
We have now got our cast sorted, which was our main problem, so only a few small things need to be decided upon, before we are ready to shoot on the 22nd January.
Our main issue is that, although we have come up with various variations for a logo (as illustrated on my blog), we are yet to decide on the final design. Until we have done this we cannot get things, such as contracts signed.
Also although we have finally assigned the role of the girls, we have yet to find someone to play the part of the mother, but we are exploring several options.