First footage filmed

Yesterday (The 9th), Me, Fabian, Wil and our friend Joe went out and filmed about thirty seconds of footage. We filmed the Lumberjack waking up and narrating, setting up the rest of the film. Before this scene would be the nightmare and after this scene would be the confrontation with the Bad Wolf and his actors.

We filmed the footage twice. Once with me acting as the Lumberjack and once with our friend Joe acting as the Lumberjack. We're not sure who is better suited to play the role so we thought we would shoot us both playing the part, and with the footage we got we would select which actor better suited the role. Whoever doesn't get the part will end up playing the Bad Wolf either way.

I will soon have the footage of me and Joe and I will edit them to play next to eachother. This way our group can compare. I will put this footage on the blog with our thoughts in the next following day.

                 

Over all the day went very well. We arrived at our location at about ten o'clock and we were done by about 11 o'clock. Me and Joe got to practice the role, and I got to see the script I had written in action. It was also my first chance to direct since a production we had made at GCSE level. So it was good to get back to what I'm good at, making sure what I had envisioned was coming to fruition. While it was nothing to complex due to the nature of the script, I still made sure that things were being done the way I had imagined.

Fabian also got to get his camera out and record and take photos. When recording we done the shots several times, and Fabian would record with different shots and from different distances. He was determined to get the correct shots and took some great photographs of the location and of me and Joe as the Lumberjack.

Wil also came along and got to test his quad copter. He was able to record footage of the location from in the sky, which gave us a better look of our location and what surrounded it. I also think coming along helped Wil understand what type of feel and mood the OTS would have to itself, which will help him when it comes to producing the music.

It was a great day out and we all managed to get quite a bit of work done. While we would like to film these parts again and to refine them, since we have the footage filmed it is now on the bottom of our to do list. Before we can think about doing reshoots we need to have filmed the remaining footage, made a rough edit and created the studio ident. Once we have done this we can consider going back and filming the footage again.

Reflective comment: We had a great day production wise, and I don't think there was much more we could do to improve what we were able to do. If we are able to film these parts again, we could bring more props to better improve the Mise En Scene.