Emergency production meeting 28/03/17

Emergency production meeting 28/03/17 

Today Sophie and I held an emergency production meeting to discuss the reshoot of missing footage. Despite shooting the first scene some time ago it has since being wiped from the SD card, due to this we will reshoot tomorrow. 

Unfortunately the weather is poor, so we will use towels to protect the camera. 

Update 29/03/17

Amy was unable to film today as she was busy tonight in a last minute meeting, we have rearranged to film tomorrow morning instead when we are both free, the weather is also better.

Update Filming

Update of filming 

Saturday the 25th March Amy and I went up to film on the moors with her younger brother who plays the character of Zosil. We got our characters costumes ready and painted Zosil's body and face along with Amy's face, it was perfect weather, the sun was golden and the location looked great. However when we started filming we realised we had forgot the SD card much to our annoyance. We had the idea to barter with walkers so that we may be able to borrow their SD card if they had one and in return we'd give them something of ours to exchange back with in the future, however we didn't see many walkers with cameras and by this time we didn't have much time with the light left. In the end I had to run to tesco to buy a new one and come back up again.By the time I got back up the location the sun was going down, however we still managed to get some good footage. 


Update 23/3/17: the footage that we took from this day is the best example of how we wanted the shots to turn out, the shot types used along with the lighting and colour were what we hoped for, however we will now try to match the colour of the other shots for continuity.
      

First shots

First shots 

 We went to our location to film the first character being mine, with Amy, and a friend. We were able to film the opening shots in costume and managed to get all that we could without any other actors.


Update 22/3/17: When going to edit the footage we had we couldn't locate it, so we are going to have to re film at a later date.

Screenplay

The screen play is the script along with shooting directions for a film. Their purpose is to briefly outline the film, so they don't connote emotion. They are written in 12 point courier font, they are economical with words so they are read quickly, therefore a page equates to approximately one minute of film,
They start with a "slug line" which is a master scene heading quoting whether or not the scene is filmed internally or externally.


Here is our screenplay

ANIDONE

By

Sophie Ferreira and Amy Spence

1. EXT. MOOR. NIGHT.

The sound of thunder breaks on a lonely moorside. With the crack of thunder, a female creature, an ANIDONE, lies shivering in the scrub. Heavy rain cascades down accompanied by flashes of light. She lies partly covered by the undergrowth. Slowly she wakes.

DISSOLVE TO:

  2. EXT. MOOR. DAY

The ANIDONE begins to walk.

NARRATOR

It was foretold, that in the once thriving kingdom of Izlave, a corrosive group of beasts should arise from a storm. This group would be known as the Grezlik. Their indifferent set of morals policing a new nation; these five beasts would upturn the court of Aldar, ending the Monarchy. This tale was cursed to end in inordinate turmoil.

  3. EXT. MOOR - DAY

PHEX, an elf-like creature, appears from behind some rocks nearby. They join and begin to walk with Anidone, navigating rocks and following behind.

A face appears in a nearby stream, ZOCIL, gasping for air. The creature   clambers out of the stream, shrugging off the water like a dog. He proceeds to walk alongside Anidone and Phex.

TRESHARK, a man of the trees, comes bursting through the forest in order to follow behind the other characters.

DROAK, a well built beast clambers out strongly from behind a rock joining the line of walking characters.

4. EXT. MOOR - DAY

Characters walk together in a line. The Anidone slightly forward leading the line. Characters stop, standing at the edge of a clip/waterfall.

Final Ident

Instead of my original idea for the ident I decided to film a medium birds eye view shot of a set dinner place along with a diner's arm. In this shot an arm would be seen delivering a plate of typical breakfast food, the diner would go to take a bite, then realise it's not what they were expecting, push the plate away and go back to their original position. The title would then appear underneath the plate.
I was given assistance to make the title appear just as the hands move down the table, meaning the diner reveals it.

Filming continued

Yesterday (Sunday 19th of March) Amy and I went up onto the moors to film the scenes with her character Agor. We were planning to film the sections of the opening which included the both of us, however no was was available to help, Therefore we only filmed the parts with her character, this included some close up shots of the characters hand and some medium shots of the characters upper body, with the costume. We also got some shots of the scenery showing where the characters had come from. 
        This was followed by point of view shots from my character Anidone, these shots looked up and around and went in and out of focus to show confusion and a state of just waking up. We also got the shots of the branches we needed for the tittles to grow out from, however, it was extremely windy and rainy, the branches were moving and thus we had issues maintaining focus. 
        The rain also affected Amy's costume as the glue she used to stick the for onto her hands and face was water soluble. After filming the storm had taken a toll on us as we looked a sight, Amy still had her face paint on her which made her looked like she had rubbed her face in the mud, the patches of glue that were left on her skin looked like a mysterious disease. We were also dripping wet and had knotted hair, this lead many parents to physically move their children away from us and for us to be turned down from the public toilets. Even though it was an ordeal we managed to get some footage done and no cameras were harmed in the process.

production meeting 2

Amy and I had our second production meeting where we discussed when we will finish filming and complete our costumes.

We created a document so that we could keep on track of our deadline.