What our your top tips for filming?

Our top tip for filming is to be organised, follow the shot list to how you planned, in a very concise way to minimise confusion and increase efficiency. We made sure in filming that we all arrived at the shot locations on time to make use of all the time we could, gaining us 20 minutes of filming by the end of our filming. We would also suggest filming a lot more than neccessary incase some of our shots are not satisfactory.

Thriller Shot List

This is our shot list for our thriller. We have stuck quite well to this as well as the storyboard, but there are a few change to how the dream was shot.

Target audience.

Our target audience will be viewers aged 15+ as 'Fool's Paradise' is certified 15 following BBFC standards. This means we know our audience quite well, for example it is clear to us that our viewers will be mature, and understand the complex story line of our thriller.
Our target audience would enjoy other films such as Se7en or Momento. Both these films are simular to ours in many ways. Se7en used extensive use of quick cuts to add confusion to the scene, we hope to use a simular effect during our film. Momento is simular to our film as continuity throughout the film is confusing. Our film uses flashbacks and such effects also.

Thriller Storyboard

This is our storyboard for our thiller film. The shots that we have drawn on here our roughly what we have done for our actual shot but with a few tweaks here and there. Some are the same shot context but from a different angle.

Location recee

We filmed our Thriller opening sequence at Liams house and in the grounds as it offers a wide range of locations, from Forested areas to a cafe location which we use in the opening shot.
Shot locations:
Cafe location potential problems: As public use this area we may have to ask permission from people in the cafe if they would mind being on the film, however hopefully the cafe will be empty for our use.

We then follow the protagonist to his house where he lives, this house is Liams and is therefore owned by a family. This causes some problems.
House location potential problems: As Liam has more family members, unlike the protagonist, we will have to hide decorations in the house such as family photos or shoes to give the impression the protagonist lives by himself. Lighting in the living room was very dull and the only light offered was dim lighting through the windows or lighting from the light in the ceiling. This light in the ceiling was very orange so may give a more positive lighting effect for a negative feeling scene.

The dream sequence in our thriller 'Fool's Paradise' is filmed in a forested area, this offers more problems.
Forested location potential problems: The ground on this area may not be level so footing will be hard, especially if we film in the dark. Also this location may have stones on the foor where out Female part will have to fall on the floor, this is a problem we will over come by scouting the floor for potential harmful materials, such as big sticks or stones.

As all our shots were filmed at or in Liams grounds we knew there would not be too many problems with the public being in shot and we could use the locations when we wanted. This was benificial as we didn't have to research the local area so much.
From each of our shots we could hear the main road nearby Liam's house. This added an urban effect to the shots, which may help the viewers identify with the location easier.
Liam's little sister was abscent from the house, which was a good thing as she would not get in the way during filming.

Filming Our Thriller

We filmed our Thriller project over the weekend of 12th - 13th of February. Most the filming was done on the Saturday, which was about 4 hours of filming capturing about 15 minutes of film. On Sunday there was only a bit left to film which was the dream sequence so we were only filming for about an hour and a half. At the end of the weekend we have come away with just over 150 clips so we need to do a lot of editing to cut the clip to the 2 minutes.
Over all we think that our filming was very successful. We got many clips, some which we probably won't need but we got all the clis that we wanted to get.

How we can improve for our Thriller 'Fool's Paradise'.

Taking to account feedback and our own feelings towards our childrens film, we agreed that we need to improve on our Dialogue and Diegetic sound. During the filming of our Childrens film we did not have a script set up, so we improvised the script when we got to the set. We have realised this was a bad idea as preporation is key to filming to a set scheme. Also writing a script will enable us to highlight any negatives or problems in the script. We can also practice our dialogue before hand. Diegetic sound in our childrens film was an issue, especially during Liams monologue where we could hear a shower in the back groud, this made the dialogue harder to hear.

Postitives and Negatives of our Childrens Film

Positives:

Motion key

We used motion key in the credits at the start of our children's film opening. This is more advanced than just adding text as the credits move across the screen as you choose them to do. We will be using this technique in our thriller project.

Match on Action

We like the match on action that we have used in this task as it fits well with the sequence. It helps show where about the character is as well.

Music

The music that we added into the film opening was done on garage band. It worked well as it fitted the mood of what was going on on screen, empathetic music.




Good Story Line

People from another group who gave us feedback said that our story line was good as it made sense and was relative to the genre.

Negatives:

Dialogue

The speaking in the film opening could have been spoken more clearly. The script could have been better planned so that the dialogue flowed more within the clip.

Diegetic sound

There is some diegetic sound that was not edited out of our film opening.

Transitions

The transitions that we had were good but we need more variety and more of them.










           

call sheet research

A call sheet is a film making term for a sheet of paper issued to the cast and crew of a film production, created by an Assistant director, informing them where and when they should report for a particular day of shooting. They also have other useful information like casts contacts (phone numbers e.t.c) and which scenes are going to be shot on that day.

Stages to take in order to succeed.

What we need to do?
-Make a time scheme (locations, times, directions.)
-Script writing.
-Story boarding.
-Test shooting.
-Shooting.
-Editing.

writing script. Always do it. write it down in a simple way, actions and emotions.
'ext' 'int'.

Walk through the script. act it out, if possible at the location. this will help identify problems with script or with potential locations.
Helps find problems early.

Location recce. Find locations and diagnose any problems. make notes on what you see/hear. Take photographs. Source local information, car park, toilets, food, camera batteries etc. know everything about our location. Check weather.

Digital storyboard. Go to location and take a variety of different frames, angles and shot types. Print them or put them on your phones as reference for filming. Use google earth to get birds eye view of location maps.

Shot list. Always have a shot list. Annotate your script.

Test shots. Get used to the location.
Get used to the equipment.
Help polish up your script.
Identify props/ costumes needed. (Make up.)
Helps the edit process.
Will definitely help you before the real shoot.

Shooting schedule. Organise your shooting, day/time?
What restrictions do we have (deadlines)

Film your final shoot.