Filming Day 3- Complete

We filmed today and completed the new scenes that we were meant to film. Filming went very well and we managed to get everything done. There were minor issues that we had to address which was lighting. As it is winter now and the day is shorter it gets darker quick. As we had to wait for Nathans brother to come to meet us at the Olympic Park it got very dark by the time we started filming. We had use the torch in our phones in order to film. You can see the shots but sometimes they can become very hard to see because of the darkness in colour. Lighting was a major problem for us when filming but apart from theme all went well. We managed the props well in terms of making  fake drug sachets. We then went to Nathans house to film the remainder flashback scenes. All went according to plan.

Planning Filming

Filming Day 1 - problems

Yesterday was the first day of filming which we managed to successfully complete. Due to the rain affecting some of our shots, we still managed to get it all done within the time stated. as the sun kept coming in and out it made filming quite hard and due to this we had to keep changing the exposure on the camera. Below you can see the difference in shots as we have it up on Final Cut Pro to show the difference

    

Above you can see that the sky is very bright an you can barely see it.

Here is the edited version of the sky which you can see much better. This was done by correcting the exposure. 

Filming Day 2 complete

We successfully filmed the scene of Nathans house on Monday 20th October. We managed to get filming done under two hours. We managed to film quickly and get everything done in the time that we needed as we followed the storyboard in order compared to the Olympic Park scene where we didn't follow the order of the storyboard. We will soon discuss when we will film the remaining scene of the alley way.

Filming Day 2 (final plan)

We have all decided to film on Monday 20th October. This is the day that Nathans mum is off from work she she will be available all day to film. Due to all of our timetables being different, we all start and finish at different times. Therefore, we will all have to be present at the filming at different times. We will all be there but some more than others. Nathan will be there for the whole filming session and myself and Billie will be there for a little while. We hope to finish this scene on Monday as it is quite short and only involves a little bit of dialogue. 

We will then plan to film our last session which is the alleyway scene. This will not be too difficult to organise as we will only need Nathans brother and his 3 friends who are our actors. 

Filming Day 1 - Pictures

We successfully filmed the Olympic Park scenes on Saturday within 4 hours. There were no problems relating to security when we were there.  We filmed according to plan however we didn't film in order. We was meant to start filming from the road first but then we decided that it would be better to do that last as their would be more traffic which is what we were filming. 

We started off filming the walking scene where we all got a chance to film including Nathan as you can see below. He was filming the view from his eyes. ( The Canal down below) 

Here is Nathan filming. 

The is the part where we filmed Nathan walking on the bridge from below. There were minor problems when filming this as the lighting kept changing as it went cloudy and sunny within minutes. We also had to zoom in to film Nathan as we couldn't see him that well in the film shot. 

Myself and Billie both had a chance to film this scene. As it started to rain we had to protect the camera as the lens would get wet and rain drop marks would appear on the scene. This happened to us in the first shoot so we had to re film this part. 

Here is Billie filming the shot above. As you can see it is sunny but it is raining. 

This was the next scene where we show Nathan walking towards the camera. 

We decided to change one of our scenes. We were filming Nathan sitting on the bench but wanted to make the shot a little different as most of our shots were long shots or mid shots. On this particular scene we decided to film in the trees and then move the leaves when we were ready to show him.

As we were in the trees we want to create a focus pull effect. However this became difficult as we had problems with the camera. We soon sorted it out after much changing. 

Behind this was the bench that we were filming where Nathan was going to sit. We also decided to create a sense of resemblance to something else. Nathan was wearing a ring, so we decided to include something about the ring which would relate to his brothers killing.

The last scene that we filmed was where we had to film the traffic and amongst the traffic on the other side of the pavement was Nathan walking. We had to take extra care when filming this scene.As you can see from the picture me and Billie are both in the middle of the road in the part where there are plants and pebbles. We had to take extra care when filming the road as their was traffic every second.  

Filming Day 1- Plans Changed

On Saturday 11th October myself and my group met up up as we were going to film the alley way scenes and the scene at Nathans house. Due to problems with the actors we were unable to film those scenes. We decided to film the Olympic Park scenes and leave the other scenes for Wednesday 15th October.

Filming Day 1 -Plan

We are planning to film the first part of our short film on Saturday 11th October. We have planned to meet up at Stratford Station from where we will make our way to the alley way and Nathans house, which is where the filming will take place.

Meetup Time: 11.00am

Wrap Time: 4.00pm

Depending on circumstances, filming will more or less last 4 and a half hours.

Within this time, we plan to film the group mugging in the alley way near Nathans house. We also plan to film the scenes of Nathan and his mother having an argument and then kicking him out.

The next scene will be him making his way towards the bridge.

The next time we will film will be Wednesday 15th October.

Equipment Booking Form

Here is the form we have filled in to take out the camera and tripod on Friday to film on Saturday: