Ideas for production changes

In our last lesson, I proposed some new ideas for our production. As we were encouraged to add more flashbacks, I put forward the idea, that we could use them at the end of the production, as a flash forward type shot.

One of the shots that I proposed was a shot of me looking into the future as I was walking out of the poker game, of me looking at a money clip.

Another idea, is to link back to the final demand letter, and make it into a bank statement showing a lot of money.

3rd Cut Feedback

After receiving our first cut feedback, we found out that in fact there was still other changes that could be made. For example more flashbacks were encouraged as well as cutting down some of the shots that were 'boring'.

Pictures from editing and filming

This is a picture of the final demand notice letter we used as our last flashback.

This is me editing our production.

This is Ryan editing our production.

Final Editing and final filming17/2/12

After yesterday's filming, Ryan, Laurence and I had agreed to do filming in the afternoon, but after returning home both I found out I couldn't make the afternoon, so we decided to film in the morning instead. Unfortunately I couldn't get hold of Laurence till he contacted me towards the end of us editing, but nevertheless we got it done.

Firstly we uploaded the video off of the camera which we shot yesterday and put them into our production. The 360 degree shot which we did again yesterday was too boring just going around twice looking at the players focusing, so we both agreed to slow it down on the players faces and make it black and white. As well as this we made it look like someone was blinking on every player as if it was a POV shot. This worked very well as it makes it more interesting and more intense.

Secondly we edited the stairs scene which we shot yesterday also. This scene also looked quite boring with me just walking up the stairs, so we did another split screen... on the top is me walking up the stairs with the camera face on and on the bottom of the screen is the handheld view.

After realising that the stairs shot at the train station still needed to be re shot we did that again within the school premises improving the lip syncing and taking out the zoom that wasn't needed. 

Lastly we needed to shoot a final flashback. For this I created a simple 'Last Notice' letter demanding over £500 which shows his lack of wealth. Then we simply filmed and over the shoulder shot of me looking at it and edited it into the train scene on the window, to act as a flashback.

Example of use of black + white in 360 degree shot

This is our bank statement used as a flash-forward

Filming 16/2/12

Today we did the last of our filming before our final cut and final editing. This didn't take very long as we only needed to improve a few shots. The first one we re-shot was the 360 degree shot which we have had many problems with before. Although before arriving at the clubhouse we had already thought of an idea. To make this shot look fluent and keep the same speed, Ryan sat down on a chair that spins round and simply held the camera while moving him self around clockwise steadily with his feet. This was very successful and we were all pleased with this shot. The other one we did again was just a simple cut for the stairs scene of me walking up the stairs. This was so we could shorten the handheld shot of me walking up the stairs and cut away to a normal shot. Overall it was a very successful day of filming.

This is the kind of chair we used, which was very successful.

Plans for this weekend and Half term

Obviously due to previous problems we need to organise what needs to be done to our production over half term. Our teacher has said that we can get a camera from school and come in during half term to edit. so, the exact shots that we need to do are: (possible improvements on shots we did tuesday)
                                                                     spinny shot
                                                                     another flashback
                                                                     entrance (stairs/handheld)
We will be in contact with eachother so that we can meet at an appropriate time over half term to make these changes before our 4th cut.

Ancillary Task continued

Now my layout is all sorted, I have composed all the text for the advert, as well as the quotes, and I have also chosen the exact colours that I am going to use. The background will be a dark grey, with the text being a dark red. This will make it stand out to the audience and the colours will match the genre.

Filming 5th Feb

Today we did some filming before our 3rd cut deadline. Some shots that we changed was that we re-filmed the shot at the golf club, walking up the stairs. This time we used a tripod to carry the camera which made it steadier.

This is the original handheld stair shot .

5th Feb 2012 Filming Problems

After our filming on Tuesday we decided that we was to film again saturday evening as it would be the correct lighting for the entrance and other shots. As well as this because we did not anticipate certain problems, we left the camera in Matteo's car. The big problem was...snow! Around 7pm it started to snow really heavilly and we could get to the clubhouse, but we wouldn't of been able to get back, so we had to delay our filming to next week and use half term to film and edit.