On Thursday 28th January it was our groups shoot day. We all arrived at the edit suite at 9:00 am and quickly realised that we were ill prepared as we did not have an actor for our thriller. We tried to organise an actor but he was unable to come until later, so we wanted to use the time to make sure that we would be completely organised for when we eventually left. Although we began our day late, we all walked up to our location determined. The location was some woods just near the school near the Hurtwood look out point. Once we arrived there we immediately began filming and Dan Ash from A2 became our actor and he was amazing! It was very difficult as he was playing two different people but as the same person. So we had to make sure that our continuity was perfect. We would film the “bad Dan” walking and then the “good Dan” but we had to make sure that it looked like they were walking the same path as one was following the other.
We filmed a lot that morning in spite of our late start, we then went back up to the location after lunch but we left the woods and went to view point. Up there the view was so beautiful and as it had just rained the sky was dramatic and amazing for our ending sequence, although it was beautiful it was changing fast so we had to make sure we filmed quickly so as to get good continuity, and these sort of things show me how much really goes into making a film, and how much you need to pay attention to the small things. We filmed for most of the day and probably will end up with a 3 minuet film after editing and when you think of some 2 hour films that are made the effort and time that goes into a film like that is huge! It really helped me grasp an understanding of film making.
When we were almost done with our filming we all got a chance just to run around the woods with the camera getting footage for trees and the forest ground to be used as a P.OV of our main character during the final edited version. We are going to do some Foley work and also edit in some dramatic music later on and this all will help add to our sequence and will create an atmosphere and an effect.
The ending of our sequence began to change as we went along and our final version will end up a bit different to our original storyboards, but I think that this is for the best as the ending that we filmed yesterday was a lot more effective, dramatic and intriguing for the audience.
We all decided to keep our props and costumes very simple as Dan would have to change a lot to become the other character. When he was “bad Dan” he wore black jeans and white shoes and a hoodie which created a mystery about his character as it was difficult to distinguish who it was, and had his hunting knife that he eventually uses to kill his other character. Then when he was “good Dan” he just wore a black T-shirt so that he would be well seen within the woods and the same trousers and shoes. When he was “good Dan” he was covered in blood and this was easy to see on the clothing that we had chosen.
We filmed a lot that morning in spite of our late start, we then went back up to the location after lunch but we left the woods and went to view point. Up there the view was so beautiful and as it had just rained the sky was dramatic and amazing for our ending sequence, although it was beautiful it was changing fast so we had to make sure we filmed quickly so as to get good continuity, and these sort of things show me how much really goes into making a film, and how much you need to pay attention to the small things. We filmed for most of the day and probably will end up with a 3 minuet film after editing and when you think of some 2 hour films that are made the effort and time that goes into a film like that is huge! It really helped me grasp an understanding of film making.
When we were almost done with our filming we all got a chance just to run around the woods with the camera getting footage for trees and the forest ground to be used as a P.OV of our main character during the final edited version. We are going to do some Foley work and also edit in some dramatic music later on and this all will help add to our sequence and will create an atmosphere and an effect.
The ending of our sequence began to change as we went along and our final version will end up a bit different to our original storyboards, but I think that this is for the best as the ending that we filmed yesterday was a lot more effective, dramatic and intriguing for the audience.
We all decided to keep our props and costumes very simple as Dan would have to change a lot to become the other character. When he was “bad Dan” he wore black jeans and white shoes and a hoodie which created a mystery about his character as it was difficult to distinguish who it was, and had his hunting knife that he eventually uses to kill his other character. Then when he was “good Dan” he just wore a black T-shirt so that he would be well seen within the woods and the same trousers and shoes. When he was “good Dan” he was covered in blood and this was easy to see on the clothing that we had chosen.
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