Well, I'm glad you're feeling positive, Verity and thanks for the encouragement. Anyway, here's the fifth filming blog, from yesterday. In this miniature epic, Will experiments with file transfers, Max and I stage a race and we try to fit in a little bit of filming, too. This may well be the last video blog, but there will probably be more footage, perhaps in the form of a retrospective. I'll try to add my regular update soon, too.
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Verity Watkins - Filming Done!
Woo finished all filming now! Well done to Max who found all the actors, they worked really well with us and put their own input in to our film, help us make the best of what we can all do. So now it’s just putting it all together and finishing everything off. Will and Luke have started the editing and that’s looking really good, I’m really impressed with what has been done so far, so well done guys! I think everyone has put in a really good effort with everything we have done so far. Keep up with all the hard work everyone! ☺
Thursday, 23 April 2009
William Adams - The Editing
Well guys, as you all know, i have been editing for the past 3 days now with all of the footage that we have obtained so far. I did most of the editing, Luke made the adjustments becuase he usually came to do editing in the afternoons. In a way, I think of it like this, I'm the morning shift and Luke's the afternoon shift. This edit may only be the rough cut but there is one thing that is concerning me, that this film will go over the limit that we are allowed. The 5 minutes may only be a guide line but it is one thing that does concern me. Another thing that is also concerning me is that we are cutting the rest of the filming fine becuase the rest of the filming is going to commence next monday. As well as that, we need all three of the actors on that day so that we can get this over and done with. So I am hoping that Verity (or Max or Luke) will tell all three of the actors that they need to be there on that monday. So, after the rest of the filming has been done next monday, I am hoping that I will be able to continue the editing next Tuesday and finish the final product by next Wednesday. Most of the editing has been done, so only a little bit of editing remains when I have the final footage. I have faith in you guys, so get those actors and get the filming done so we can get this done project done.
Luke Pietnik - Video Blog Four
Well I didn't record anything on set again, but here's what happened on Monday morning and the day after, as we recorded voice-overs. Enjoy...
Monday, 13 April 2009
Luke Pietnik - The Belated Update
Brilliant! I'm glad Verity's managed to post something now. Better late than never. I just changed the title so it had her name in it (I hope you don't mind, pet). I should probably mention the little meeting we had on Thursday. I met Will and Max outside the hubs to discover that the cafe was closed. The girls couldn't make it, so we sat inside the foyer area to discuss the few things that we'd been pondering over the last couple of weeks.
The soundtrack is somehwat of a dilemma. I favour going in the more creative direction and composing our own music, or failing that, blending music that exists within the public domain to create an ethereal, ambient sound, not sissimilar to Brian Eno, the music of who Max is keen to imploy. He also expressed interest in using pop and sombre rock songs to create a sense of uneasy menace. Will, Max and I discussed it at length but still remain undecided. We are sure of one thing, however: there does need to be a soundtrack, ambient or otherwise, to add to the atmosphere we intend to create. We'll think of something.
Also on the agenda was the schedule for shooting during our first week back (20th April onwards). We are hoping to utilise our time and edit what footage we have already whilst the rest is being shot. We'll have two weeks in total to have the project signed, sealed and delivered, so it's important that we maximise our time, it's the most abundant and precious resource to us at the moment. We've got to make sure that after we've shot the final day's scenes, we have time in the week to get our actors in to do voice-overs.
The fact that we've got to do so much in such a short space of time means that Will and I will probably be spending a couple of long evenings in the edit suite. I'm sure we can handle it, can't we Will? That's all until next time...
The soundtrack is somehwat of a dilemma. I favour going in the more creative direction and composing our own music, or failing that, blending music that exists within the public domain to create an ethereal, ambient sound, not sissimilar to Brian Eno, the music of who Max is keen to imploy. He also expressed interest in using pop and sombre rock songs to create a sense of uneasy menace. Will, Max and I discussed it at length but still remain undecided. We are sure of one thing, however: there does need to be a soundtrack, ambient or otherwise, to add to the atmosphere we intend to create. We'll think of something.
Also on the agenda was the schedule for shooting during our first week back (20th April onwards). We are hoping to utilise our time and edit what footage we have already whilst the rest is being shot. We'll have two weeks in total to have the project signed, sealed and delivered, so it's important that we maximise our time, it's the most abundant and precious resource to us at the moment. We've got to make sure that after we've shot the final day's scenes, we have time in the week to get our actors in to do voice-overs.
The fact that we've got to do so much in such a short space of time means that Will and I will probably be spending a couple of long evenings in the edit suite. I'm sure we can handle it, can't we Will? That's all until next time...
Verity Watkins - SORRY IT'S TAKEN AGES!!!!!
Thursday 16th Feb
Hello everyone….
So we got our roles and I feel really happy with who’s who in our group, not that I know the guys very well, Amy is the only member of the group that I know well. Amy is camera operator and I know she’s feeling a little bit worried about doing it but I know she will be great and we are all here to help her if she needs us! Luke and Will are the editors and they seemed really keen to be the editors, s im guessing they know their stuff! I trust you guys! ☺ Max is then the sound recordist and me project manager, im pretty sure everyone is going to do a brilliant job. I can’t wait to get started now! I hope to work well with the others. They seem to have a good idea of what they want to do! Which is good, I think we can all work really well together and get some good ideas flowing.
Thursday 26th Feb
This was our first meeting; it was actually only Amy, Luke and myself first of all because Max and Will were presenting their individual projects. They soon joined us later. Luke showed Amy and me his ideas, he had a fair few ideas, I was really impressed! And they all were pretty good! Amy and I hadn’t had much thought yet (and were really worried about showing our individual projects) so we hadn’t actually come up with any solid ideas yet. But was good to hear what Luke had come up with. Will also came up with a strong idea but there were some weak points to it about characters and things, Max also came up with a good idea about a bloke who broke up with his girlfriend, maybe a little bit to predictable?
Monday 2nd March
We met at the hubs trying to prepare for the pitch on Thursday and trying to finalize our ideas properly. We finally sorted out who was going to put forward which ideas and I think we came up with five ideas that followed the brief well and were fairly practical. There were a few mixed views but I think we discussed it well
MORE TO COME PROMISE GUYS! :)
Verity
Hello everyone….
So we got our roles and I feel really happy with who’s who in our group, not that I know the guys very well, Amy is the only member of the group that I know well. Amy is camera operator and I know she’s feeling a little bit worried about doing it but I know she will be great and we are all here to help her if she needs us! Luke and Will are the editors and they seemed really keen to be the editors, s im guessing they know their stuff! I trust you guys! ☺ Max is then the sound recordist and me project manager, im pretty sure everyone is going to do a brilliant job. I can’t wait to get started now! I hope to work well with the others. They seem to have a good idea of what they want to do! Which is good, I think we can all work really well together and get some good ideas flowing.
Thursday 26th Feb
This was our first meeting; it was actually only Amy, Luke and myself first of all because Max and Will were presenting their individual projects. They soon joined us later. Luke showed Amy and me his ideas, he had a fair few ideas, I was really impressed! And they all were pretty good! Amy and I hadn’t had much thought yet (and were really worried about showing our individual projects) so we hadn’t actually come up with any solid ideas yet. But was good to hear what Luke had come up with. Will also came up with a strong idea but there were some weak points to it about characters and things, Max also came up with a good idea about a bloke who broke up with his girlfriend, maybe a little bit to predictable?
Monday 2nd March
We met at the hubs trying to prepare for the pitch on Thursday and trying to finalize our ideas properly. We finally sorted out who was going to put forward which ideas and I think we came up with five ideas that followed the brief well and were fairly practical. There were a few mixed views but I think we discussed it well
MORE TO COME PROMISE GUYS! :)
Verity
Monday, 6 April 2009
Luke Pietnik - Video Blog Three
This might be the last of these blogs until after the holidays. After we'd finished filming at Chelsea's place, I realised that my behind the scenes filming was somewhat lacking in material. Here's my attempt at putting together something more substantial. Oh dear...
Thursday, 2 April 2009
Luke Pietnik - Picture Perfect
I should point out now that these photographs were taken by Will. He kindly allowed me to crop them down and post them here for him. They show vaguely what happens on-set.
Here's a picture of Max setting up the boom pole during filming for the office scene:
We got a good few close-ups of Chris in the office, as he acted angrily as Simon:
Whist recording the scene Max appears in, we were getting a lot of crackle on the mic because of wind. I therefore came up with a solution to provide protection:
And here we are readying ourselves to film the scene, my coat now tied around the microphone. Note Max's outfit. He wasn't happy about it:
There may be more soon, as well as new video blogs, but that's your lot for now. Bye!
Here's a picture of Max setting up the boom pole during filming for the office scene:
We got a good few close-ups of Chris in the office, as he acted angrily as Simon:
Whist recording the scene Max appears in, we were getting a lot of crackle on the mic because of wind. I therefore came up with a solution to provide protection:
And here we are readying ourselves to film the scene, my coat now tied around the microphone. Note Max's outfit. He wasn't happy about it:
There may be more soon, as well as new video blogs, but that's your lot for now. Bye!
Luke Pietnik - Video Blog Two
So, here's the second video blog, recorded on Tuesday. It documents the filming of Pamela's segment, which was trickier than you might think. It was nice of Amy to let us film at her house. Click to play:
William Adams - Update
Well, throughout these three days, we have been filming Marcu's scene, pamla's scene and Simon's scene. All of the filming went well apart from the third day. Well, it did go well on the third day, it's just that the batteries were running out and the only choice we had was to plug them into the charges so that we could carry on filming. we are hoping that we can film the rest of thye film after the easter holidays as well as editing the shots that we have gotten so far. Luke filmed a few things and has put them onto the blog as a youtube video, which i think is a good idea becuase it will show the teachers as well as the students what we have been doing and the satges of film preporation as well. I'm hoping that he can do more of these videos becuase I personally think it is a very good idea. Even though i wasn't hardly needed, I was the cable basher and I recorded some sounds as well. i know that's the sound recordists job but he went home becuase of something urgent.
Wednesday, 1 April 2009
Luke Pietnik - Video Blog One
We filmed most of Marcus' section of the script today - thanks for helping out Chelsea - and now all we've got to do is pick-ups and final scenes, which we'll shoot after the holidays. I managed to talk to Malcolm today, too, and also established that we can't use the edit suites during Easter. However, we can review all our footage and log it so that we know which take we're going to use in the edit. (That was Esther's idea, I believe). Everything should be fine, I think. Now, here's the first video blog that I shot on Monday, which illustrates nicely how we did on day one. There should be more of these soon, but for now, enjoy:
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