After alot of effort from Isaac and his family they finally contacted the camera company about the faulty camera that they sent us for the first shoot we did. They have offered us another 3 days with the camera which would be useful for us along with 50% of any hires after that.
We are planning to use the camera in the Easter holidays when we can maximise the use of the time we have with the camera. The next time the camera is hired to us we are hopeful that we will use it more efficiently.
Friday 25 March 2011
Friday 18 March 2011
Second Draft Film
We have now added title to our second draft and it has started to look more like an opening sequence rather than a music video. We agree that some shots are still to long and some of the titles should be made to look more proffesional.
We have used the advice form the questionnaire from the first draft to improve our second draft here are the questionnaires:
We have used 1 new person to tell us there opinion to give us more of a variety of answers. We will be using this information to improve our final piece.
Draft Film
As you can see we have not yet added any titles. Also some of the clips are very long so we need to shorten them down to make the opening sequence more interesting for the viewer. This should help the viewer establish an enigma with the film.
We have showed the film that we made to an audience and gave them a questionnaire the results from this are shown below:
Thursday 10 March 2011
Thursday 3 March 2011
Filming
First Day
On the 21st of Febuary 2011 the camera was due to be delivered by the camera company. The scheduled delivery time was from 9 am onwards on that day. I arrived at Isaacs where the camera was addressed to a 9.30am. The camera arrived at Isaacs at approximatley 11am. When the camera arrived we soon determined a problem the camera needed time to warm up before it would turn on. When me an isaac had overlooked the main features of the camera and were comfortable about how to use it. We the set off to meet Joe.
We rang the police enquiries help line to see where we could have a fire for later on in the day and what the rules were for making a fire. the police advised us to get the land owners permission for the fire and make sure it did not cause any damage or hazard to the public i.e. compromize visibility for cars on nearby roads.
When we began to film the neccessary shots shown on our plan we soon began to understand that the shots and storyline we chose weren't as entertaining as we first thought. We never the less carried on filming the pre-planned shots until late that night. When we reomved the filmed images from the camera onto the computer and watched back we were unhappy with the results. We instantly began to think of fresh new ideas for our film. We had one day left to film the new shots so we arranged to meet early the next morning.
Second Day
I arrived at Isaacs at about 9am on the 22nd to maximise our filming time for the day. We soon found out in the morning that the camera was faulty as it had not charged all night. We tryed different plug sockets and re-setted the camera but it still did not charge. We now realised that we had to minimise the use of the camera by only shooting each shot a limited amount of times therefore increasing the probability of making mistakes.
When we were at Isaacs that morning we thought of an idea that the young girl would be missing. After asking around to relevant people at school we found that it would not be viable to use a girl under the age of 16 without there parents permission so to remove complication i asked my girlfriend Poppie Smith who studies drama at GCSE level at our school. As she is 16 and close relationships with her family made it much easier for her to be the actress in our film.
We came up with the idea of placing posters in different places. We had the idea so that we could film the different shots and cut to the others quickly to give the illusion that the main character had been placing posters everywhere in the hope of finding the 'missing' girl.
We shot the film at a high intensity throughout the day only breaking to have lunch. We had to do this as the camera was due to be picked up the next from 9am-5pm. Throughout the day i was trying to contact Poppie to arrange a time to meet. We went to my house to prepare the shots for when Poppie was available. Earlier in the day we rang my grandad to ask permission for us to use his land to shoot the fire scene. My Grandad agreed we could use his land and made a time of 7.15pm.
We realised we was out of time to meet Poppie so we arranged to meet her after at mine. We set off to Crowland to meet my Grandad and film the fire scenes. When we returned we picked up Poppie and broght her round to film the neccessary scenes.
We finally finished the days shooting and gave the camera back to Isaac to take home and upload.
Shortly after Isaac had taken the camera home we found that we had left the cameras 'shades' on from the shot by the lake when the sun was reflecting to much on the picture. Those shots need to be re-shot by us.
We are hopeful that the company we hired the camera off will hire it to us for free as they hired us a faulty camera, if this is to happen we will re-film the shots that we believe to be poor and try to film some more match on action shots to make the film more interesting.
We used flashbacks in editing so that we could give the illusion of the main character looking back to the past. We used this three times in our film at the present time.
Here is the weather report for the days we were filming.
On the 21st of Febuary 2011 the camera was due to be delivered by the camera company. The scheduled delivery time was from 9 am onwards on that day. I arrived at Isaacs where the camera was addressed to a 9.30am. The camera arrived at Isaacs at approximatley 11am. When the camera arrived we soon determined a problem the camera needed time to warm up before it would turn on. When me an isaac had overlooked the main features of the camera and were comfortable about how to use it. We the set off to meet Joe.
We rang the police enquiries help line to see where we could have a fire for later on in the day and what the rules were for making a fire. the police advised us to get the land owners permission for the fire and make sure it did not cause any damage or hazard to the public i.e. compromize visibility for cars on nearby roads.
When we began to film the neccessary shots shown on our plan we soon began to understand that the shots and storyline we chose weren't as entertaining as we first thought. We never the less carried on filming the pre-planned shots until late that night. When we reomved the filmed images from the camera onto the computer and watched back we were unhappy with the results. We instantly began to think of fresh new ideas for our film. We had one day left to film the new shots so we arranged to meet early the next morning.
Second Day
I arrived at Isaacs at about 9am on the 22nd to maximise our filming time for the day. We soon found out in the morning that the camera was faulty as it had not charged all night. We tryed different plug sockets and re-setted the camera but it still did not charge. We now realised that we had to minimise the use of the camera by only shooting each shot a limited amount of times therefore increasing the probability of making mistakes.
When we were at Isaacs that morning we thought of an idea that the young girl would be missing. After asking around to relevant people at school we found that it would not be viable to use a girl under the age of 16 without there parents permission so to remove complication i asked my girlfriend Poppie Smith who studies drama at GCSE level at our school. As she is 16 and close relationships with her family made it much easier for her to be the actress in our film.
We came up with the idea of placing posters in different places. We had the idea so that we could film the different shots and cut to the others quickly to give the illusion that the main character had been placing posters everywhere in the hope of finding the 'missing' girl.
We shot the film at a high intensity throughout the day only breaking to have lunch. We had to do this as the camera was due to be picked up the next from 9am-5pm. Throughout the day i was trying to contact Poppie to arrange a time to meet. We went to my house to prepare the shots for when Poppie was available. Earlier in the day we rang my grandad to ask permission for us to use his land to shoot the fire scene. My Grandad agreed we could use his land and made a time of 7.15pm.
We realised we was out of time to meet Poppie so we arranged to meet her after at mine. We set off to Crowland to meet my Grandad and film the fire scenes. When we returned we picked up Poppie and broght her round to film the neccessary scenes.
We finally finished the days shooting and gave the camera back to Isaac to take home and upload.
Shortly after Isaac had taken the camera home we found that we had left the cameras 'shades' on from the shot by the lake when the sun was reflecting to much on the picture. Those shots need to be re-shot by us.
We are hopeful that the company we hired the camera off will hire it to us for free as they hired us a faulty camera, if this is to happen we will re-film the shots that we believe to be poor and try to film some more match on action shots to make the film more interesting.
We used flashbacks in editing so that we could give the illusion of the main character looking back to the past. We used this three times in our film at the present time.
Here is the weather report for the days we were filming.
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