RoughCut

Here is our completed rough cut woop :)

Filming again...

Today, we finished our final shoot, which consisted of filming the montage sequence involving other locations surrounding the main college in our film. This enables the audience to get used to the area the film will be set in and a typical convention used in teenage romantic comedy films. We filmed Cineworld, Junction, Hills Road bridge, train station, church etc. We used different shot types and distances including, low angle, high angle, long shot, close up and medium shot. Most shots were all on the tripod to keep the shots steady. Me, Claire and Tom had a go at filming different shots and locations. We have now completed all our filming!

Footage ordering and takes.

Here is a list of the takes we have currently on our tape based on the order in which we filmed them yesterday:

- An opening shot panning from the ground to a view of Homerton College across the road with cars going past to show the setting as a city.
- Medium shot of the Homerton sign with a car entering.
- Long shot of Felicity and James walking down the pavement. (hand held)
- Close up take of F+J walking with conversation. (hand held)
- Long shot of Zach walking, talking on the phone. (hand held)
- Close up of Zach walking.
- Long shot showing the two characters walking from either side of shot, towards the same gate.
- Medium shot of bump.
- Close up of Zach (stunned)
- Close up of Felicity (not impressed)
- Low angle shot of Zach apologising
- Close up of Felicity. Pans from head to chest.
- Close up Zach apologising (take 2)
- High angle of Zach staring at Felicity
- Walking, hand held shot of Homerton sign
- Medium shot of characters walking in (with zoom)
- Low angle shot of Zach
- Long shot of inside of college.

Progress

Due to weather problems again we have had to reschedule our shooting again as it would be bad for our continuity of the film. As Lee said in our last post our shoot yesterday went well and we just need to shoot the sequence for our montage.

So that all members of our group would be involved, Tom now plays a small role as Felicity's younger brother James. In our opening sequence the two characters do not get on as Felicity is too worried about what other people think, we did this because we wanted to make Zach and Felicity seem as opposite and incompatible as possible so that we could create the plot where later in the film the audience would see a distinct change within both their characters. Particularly Felicity.

We are on schedule and will now be filming the rest of our footage on our first lesson back and then putting together our rough cut to meet the deadline on Friday 27th February.

Claire.

Filming

On Thursday 12th February, we shooted most of our footage. After all the re-scheduling, this went really well and we work effectively and productively. We shooted all what we planned to shoot, which was the introduction to mise-en-scene, introducing characters, conversation with 2 main characters. We all shared the roles of filming, but Dave mainly filmed as Me, Claire and Tom were in the film, but we all discussed what shots we would use. We used low angle, pan, long shot, close up, medium shot, match on action and high angle. We were very pleased with the shots because we had planed what we wanted to do. We then planned to film on Friday 13th February, but with poor weather conditions(snow) we were unable to do this, so we have rescheduled for Tuesday 24th, where we will shoot the scenery shots to introduce location around Cambridge. We feel this would ruin the continuity and spoil the mise-en-scene as we already have footage when it was sunny.

Here is some test footage which helped us get an idea for shot types and angles. Firstly we experimented with handheld and pan on the tripod in the walking shot. We preferred the pan on the tripod but would make it so you can see the face of the character aswell. We may use handheld shot to vary it. We also shot a few scenery shots to get an idea of moving images and what mise-en-scene we will go to and use. We also tested with the shots of bumping in to each other to see the best way to film things to make sure continuity and editing is at its best.

Reschedules shooting dates

Thursday 12th February - Homerton college scene with Zach and Felicity
Friday 13th February - scenery shots