Vlog Update 2

Here's a little vlog update on where we are up to so far with the production of our short film.

Update of Production Schedule 4

We are approaching the final deadline of our package consisting of a short film, film poster and a film review. Throughout the past few weeks we have been on schedule with the tasks we have had to complete and have continued to keep on track with the production of our film. We have finished all filming and re-takes of the footage needed for our short film, which means I must now focus on finishing my poster and review for the film. Over the next week I will be completing the final drafts of these and begin my evaluation questions.

Vlog Update 1

Here is another quick vlog update on one of the issues that has occurred throughout the production stage and how we are going to resolve it.

Rough Cut Feedback

This is all of the feedback we had received from our rough cut of our short film 'Decisions'. The audience all managed to successfully understand the genre of the film, which is part of the Drama genre. The audience seemed to like the editing effects that we decided to include throughout, especially the title sequence at the beginning of the film. Some of the improvements we could make from this feedback is to add a voiceover over the clips, which is what we are planning to do over the next few weeks. Also, due to the film not being entirely finished yet the storyline comes across as quite confusing so we will be completing the film process soon to make the narrative clearer throughout. Overall, we were given a Level 3 for our rough cut and once we have made all our improvements and finished our short film we are hoping to gain a Level 4 towards the end.

Update of Production Schedule 3

This is a continued update of my production schedule, which shows that we have completed our second day of filming and received feedback from my first draft of our short film. In the next week we will be having our last filming day and hopefully will have a finished rough draft of our short film. This means we will be on track with our production schedule and will have our short film finalised by the end deadline. 

Planning to Film - Email

This is a screenshot of an email made by one of my other group members who organised one of our filming days. The email shows that we managed to work out when everyone was available and therefore chose that day to film. It also shows the certain types of shots and equipment needed during that filming session. This worked really well as everyone knew what they needed to be doing on the day and when they were needed to help throughout the filming process. By using the email to organise this filming session, it presented us in a professional light and shows that we took our initiative to organise the group.

Filming Day 2

On our second filming day we was able to film two scenes, including the car and the doctors scene. We were able to get a whole range of different shots as we started filming quite early on in the day, which meant we had more hours to film in daylight. As we had so much time to film, this meant we do not have to re-take any of the shots that we got within the second day. The screenshot shows some of the footage we was able to get and I uploaded all of this onto WeVideo to continue creating a rough editing version of our short film.

Audience Feedback

Update of Production Schedule 2

This is another update of our production schedule, which shows that we have completed one day of filming but we have got to schedule another day of filming due to the fact it started to become dark on our final scene outside. We are also going to be designing our institution logos for our short film next week, which means we will be on track with the production schedule.

Planning Sheet

Tasks	Responsibility	Completed
Overall narrative planning	I created a PowerPoint of the final ideas pitch and made a mind map of all our initial ideas.	Completed
Storyboard	I volunteered to draw up the storyboard and create the animatic.	Completed
Production schedule- continuously updated	I have been nominated to be in charge of the continually updated production schedule very week.	Updated
List of Characters with character analysis	I took pictures of the audtionees and helped write the analysis of each one to show how we chose our final characters.	Completed
List of props and costumes	I was responsible for creating the list of props an costumes. Once we had chosen all props and costumes that will be used in our film I wrote a brief description of the reasons why we have chosen them.	Completed
Location recce	I took responsibility of taking recces of the potential locations we could use within our short film. Then after making our final decisions on the film I narrowed down the recces to the places we are actually going to be using.	Completed
Screenplay/script	I took responsibility of helping to write the script with one other of my team members. I also took on the role of producing the screenplay for the group in the end.	Completed
Out-takes	As I took on the role of director and camera-woman I will eventually posting some out-takes of our first day of filming.	To be uploaded soon.
Account of re-filming if needed	We have still got to film a few more scenes for our film and when we have our second filming day I will make sure we re-film any shots that we need.	Scheduled for next week.
Sound- what are you going to need and where	We are currently researching any extra sounds we need for our film, but as we are including a voiceover this is the only main sound that will be in our film. I will recording the voiceover with our main character next week.	Currently researching into.

Filming Day 1

On our first day of filming we managed to film the first few scenes of our short film, which included the montage of Edward waking me up until the scene of the rough sleeper receiving food from Edward. We successfully achieved to film some really good shots and angles throughout the day and it allowed me to create a rough of the footage we have filmed so far. Due to lighting conditions and the time of day we need to re-film the scene where Edward smiles at the woman who appears to be upset. Apart from that, as a director I was very pleased with how our first day of filming went altogether. The image above shows the process of making a rough cut of the footage we have so far and I decided to use WeVideo to create the rough cut.

Risk Assessment Sheet

Locations

Other Character Auditions

Lily King

17 Years old

Shy

Independent

Lily had volunteered to be one of the actors within our short film as she has had a lot of experience within the acting industry. This was very beneficial towards us because it meant that we did not have to search for another actor, which could have taken us a long period of time. Lily had auditioned for the role of the rough sleeper and she fit this character perfectly, as there was minimal speaking and she was a very realtisic throughout her audition. We had decided that Lily should play the part of the rough sleeper due to her reserved and apprehensive personality.

Grace Staines

18 Years old

Sympathetic

Honest

Our net audtionee was Grace, who was auditioning for the role of the doctor in our short film. Grace has a very keen interest in biology and medicene, which is why we thought she would be perfect for this role in our film. Grace comes across as quite a serious individual, which is also another reason why she had auditioned for the role as doctors must be really sincere when it comes to medical conditions. We decided that Grace should definately take on the character of the doctor due to the similar traits that she holds.  

Auditions for Edward's Character

Connor Dye

17 Years old

5'10

Confident
Witty

 We interviewed Conor for the position of our protagonist, Edward. He fitted the bill perfectly with regards to our idea of Edward, a dark haired, sarcastic teenager with confidence, and a flair for acting. We scouted him from our school production, in which we thought he had all of the necessary qualities. We did actually offer him the role, but he decided he was too busy with his own media coursework, and wouldn't have time for filming and school work at the same time.

Jenson Grech

17 Years old

5'8

Charismatic

Enthusiastic

We then moved on to Jenson, who is a very charismatic young man and would definitely be a fine actor for our position of Edward, as it is essential that his character is played well, in order to effectively portray our story. It is clear Jenson is a very talented actor. So talented in fact, that he wouldn't be available for the job of Edward, as he is too busy also, being in a drama production outside of school, which requires frequent and last minute rehearsals, meaning he would not be reliable for filming. As a result, we must continued searching for our character of Edward.

George Deverill

5'6

Intelligent

Humorous

Our final auditionee for the part of Edward was George, who is quite a confident individual and comes across as a well-educated young man. We decided that George would play a perfect position for Edward's character as he is quite geeky and different compared other people. George had never taken part in any form of acting or drama production so we thought it could be really risky taken him on as our main character. However, George has a lot of available times to film throughout the week but his personality really shined in the audition so we chose to cast him as Edward in the end.

Animatic Feedback

This is some of the feedback I had received from my animatic I made before beginning the production of my short film. Within my feedback it all seems to be very positive as the audience state that the narrative is clear and makes sense. The audience also said that my animations were quite clear, which is good considering it was my first time using the programme. However, something I could improve if I were to make this animatic again is to reduce the amount of pauses throughout and allow it to flow much better until the end.

Equipment and Apparatus List

Here is a equipment and apparatus list I have created for the pre and post-production stages of our short film. The list shows the types of items we will be using, the cost  of this equipment, how many will be using and any other notes that need to be made. The list shows that all of the apparatus we will be using do not need to be funded by a company or person as most of it will be provided by our school media department. We only need 1 of each piece of equipment as our group only consists of three people and we are able to schedule filming days together. Within the notes column I made a note of the key things we should check before using and assembling all of the equipment. This equipment and apparatus list allows us an overview of everything we are using throughout the production stages and when we need it for.