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.

online production meeting

Today Amy and I had a meeting to discuss the first draft of filming, we communicated through FaceTime and iMessage.

Shot types -Opening

The shot types we will be using for the opening

The opening shot is a close-up shot looking down on a characters face in a storm 

Titles will grow 

soundtrack in a minor key,

The camera zooms out from above, showing the character in by lying unmoving in the dirt. 

The camera stops moving and she starts shuffling as if wakening. 

New camera at medium shot goes from looking down on her to looking up as she clumsily stands (as if dizzy). 

The camera is handheld and clumsy at the start of the following shot, however becomes more steady as the characters walk does.

A medium-long shot follows a character walking, whilst other elaborately decorated faces* appear from out of shrubs and bushes.

introduce "Zosil" into the scene. A medium close-up shot shows a face erupts from a near stream, gasping for air.

character proceeds to walk alongside the protagonist.

The camera zooms out to a long shot, whilst which characters join the protagonist to form a straight line of walking creatures. 

The protagonist is centre and leading the other characters. 

The camera cranes up to show the group of characters stood overlooking a valley, the music is triumphant and ends with the shot. 

Ident

One of the ideas for the ident for breakfast for dinner i was thinking of shooting a small scene using actors. In this scene there would be a dinner table setting with people sat around the table eating breakfast for dinner.
A birds eye medium close up view of a dinner plate with breakfast being cut up by the actors, the shot will then cut to a watch with the time displaying a typical dinner time, however I hope to only make it last a few seconds so not to bore the audience. 

Production meeting

Amy and myself have met together to discuss production so far, here are the notes from our discusion;

• The costumes; with filming dates approaching, we should look into more costume facilities to complete the casts costumes, perhaps West Yorkshire Playhouse. Two of the costumes are underway. 
• To create an accurate vision of our production, we are planning to go up and film a short mock of the film on Ilkley Moor, on Thursday 9th February. 
• Still to do; create the idents for our film opening. 
• Still to do, complete the story board.

Location & Cast

In preparation for filming, Amy and myself took a trip to Ilkley moor to scout for a place to film. We found multiple possible sets, and made changes to the script as we were inspired by our fantasy accommodating surroundings. 

Here is a video explains what we found

Here is were we have decided to film, (pin on exact location). We will film in a reasoble wooded area, remote but not too far from the road (in order to carry props to the set). Because of the set we now have we will have to make some minor script adjustments to account for the placement on rocks etc.  

For our cast we will need 5 actors for the different characters, a secondary cameraman -for when Amy and I are both in shot as our characters- a set member to fix costumes and ensure people are in the right place after takes. 
We currently have 3 actors and the set members, we're currently looking for more actors, with an advert on our Facebook page.