Filming Report

Filming Report

Over all, I filmed over two days. The first on the 1st of December, the second on the 4th of January. I found my greatest struggle was dealing with the winter light. We started filming at 11 oclock in a West-End gallery and by 1 o'clock, it started getting dark. We found that we had to rush filming just to deal with light. This meant that we had to rush the exterior shots. Our exterior shots were the easiest however when we were filming the bench with Churchill on it, the greatest struggle we had was dealing with the mass of people. On average, we only had about five seconds to do a clean shot. If we went over, tourists would get in the way or sit on the bench. It would be impolite to get them to move! Here is a screen shot of the shot I am talking about: - We only managed to get a clean shot of about five seconds before tourists got in the way-

 On our second day of filming, we hoped to film in the national gallery. Sadly the National Gallery managers rejected our  demand to film within the gallery. We did however manage to get the entrance in to the National Gallery up the three flights of steps, even though we had to negotiate with gallery managers. Our hardest shot was the 360 pan. I wanted to get a steady cam effect however we did not have the resources. Luckily warp stabiliser on adobe premiere helped us with this effect. Here is a screen shot.

Our major problem we had was camera life. I was filming on a Panasonic Camera TM700. We only had five hours of filming time, and if we stopped and started recording. The battery life would be a lot less then five hours.  This was the camera I was using:

Finally, our last shots were random shots of paintings, we did these hand held with a jolty movement to give the impression that these paintings were animated. I found these shots very effective. I used a west end gallery to do this. This is seen in the beginning of my opening sequence. 

Mood Board

Mood Board

A mood board is an image that contains lots of different photographs to create a collage effect to make someone visually understand our production aims and the plot. Mood boards are not just used for film. They can be used for food brands, or fashion products. They may include costumes, props, location, or general Mis en scene.

Here is a mood board taken from google images:

This is a James Bond mood board. It includes all things that one associates with James Bond. These include Gadgets, Cars, Guns etc.

Here is my mood board. Things that feature in my film are art works, frames, and key sites in London e.g Trafalgar Square. 

Opening Credits

I am now in the process of coming up with some OPENING CREDIT. I am going to use my research of Art House films to create conventional titles for the genre.With all film openings, the director always goes at the end. I am using my own company ident, which is called "2FacedPictures" Here are the credits that are to follow.

Excluding my Company Ident (2 FACED PICTURES)


1. Film Four Presents

2. A 2 Faced Film

3. A Oliver Mould Film

4. With Participation of
-Canal +
-FILM4
-Maison d'Artistique (made up)
-Indépendant Studio (made up)
 With Patricipation of Canal +

5. -Imogen Watkins
    -Angus Bell
   - Fabio Beverage

6. Title of Film: DEAD TRUTH

7. Production Designer: Dean Chisnall

8. Effects Supervisor: Steven Lawton

9. Music by Lola Firenze

10. Director of Photography: Iain Stirling
   
11, Directed by Oliver Mould
 

I have come up with a company i-dent. I want to call it  "2FacedPictures" which connotes the genre of my film of an "art-house fantasy".  I am in the rendering process at the moment. Creating an after affect was by far the most complex stage of the process. I learnt that it is a lot of layering, and lots of work even though my title is about five seconds. I got an image of the internet of multi coloured wall and chose the font. I got a "glitter shot" effect which goes up and down. Here is a screen shot of the rendering process:

Script

Here is my first script for 'Dead Truth' that I put together. Although there is only one light of dialogue within my opening two minutes, there is non diegetic V/O.  It is with my voice though as my protagonist was not able to do the recording. This however did not disrupt the flow of the film. I edited out Mr Thornmans lines in my actual film as I believe it disrupted the film. Please click the arrows to enlarge the script. 

I used the program of celtx. This sets the script out in a conventional feature film fashion. This gives space for shot sizes, description of location, V/O and dialogue. Celtx did not only contribute to the quality of the film though it enriched the practicality and gave us a format of how we were going to structure two days of filming. 

-Starting to do my title sequence.

I am using LIVE TYPE which makes my titles look more professional rather than the effects used in iMovie. Here is me in practice working on title "Directed By Oliver Mould"

BRAIN STORMING MY GENERAL IDEA

1. Genre
2. Plot
3. Character
4.Location

Genre: After going to a recent OCR lecture with the chief examiner of Media Studies, he made it clear that originality was key. This is why I wanted to go for a unique hybrid genre of Art House Fantasy. Preliminary, I was looking at Crime, Thriller, and Horror but it was extremely common so I wanted something that would challenge me. 

Plot: This was an extremely difficult part of the planning. I have a love for art, so I wanted to base it around this fact. I also had to try and link the fantasy element with this. I came up with the idea of a boy that can talk to paintings and hear first hand evidence from old kings themselves. This made me extremely enthusiastic. It has also never been done before according to my research.

Character: My character is not a stereo-type in anyway. He does not join in any social group what so ever. I am however influenced by Richard Ayoade's film Submarine's protagonist Oliver Tate. He is quirky and indifferent about what he wears and how he acts socially. I also wanted him to be upper class as it matched well with the surroundings

Location: Location is set in 3 places. The first is an abandoned pub. This is where Pereguine lives. The second is a London Gallery in the West End. The third is outside the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. All these places are visually interesting. We see luxury paintings, to famous sites in London, and enigmatic old streets. Our location also helps construct our upper class character.