Filming Session 4 Report

This filming session consisted of the scenes in Ben's house, which was easy to get to from school, however I could not do the original day we were supposed to film, so we had to move the filming back a day and only me and Ben could film because Amelia was unable to get there on that day. This could have been more convenient if more of us could drive as none of us had passed our driving test at the time I had to go to Ben's house, so one of Ben's friends had to drive and if we had filmed somewhere like my house which is slightly easier to get to, but I wasn't to keen on using my house at the time of deciding where to film.
However, they were the only main criticisms as the filming itself went really well and we managed to film in just over an hour. I filmed Ben making a cup of tea and then walking into the living room to watch the news report, which is what we wanted originally and then we decided to film an establishing shot for Ben's house, to set the scene.

Filming Session 3 Report

In this scene, we managed to get one of Ben's friends to act as the part of an army officer. Obviously, we had to go through a few takes first, but this was made less difficult due to the fact that we didn't need any sound as this would be a 5 second clip in the finished result. We were well equipped in terms of costume as our actor goes to army cadets, so this was all easy to film. However, in terms of location, we didn't have a lot of time to plan where we would be filming, so we had to settle for a car park and our actor, instead of marching on an airfield or an army barracks, was in fact marching on a pedestrianised footpath, therefore in the future, we would need to plan our location better, so somewhere like nearby Carver Barracks.

Report on how filming session 4 went

Overall, I believe filming session 4 went well, it was the part that is in my house where our character makes a cup of tea and watches the news report. I believe it went well because we managed to get the scenes that we wanted. One criticism would be that we couldn't get all of our group to my house to film, meaning one of us couldn't be involved, which is unfortunate. So for next time, it will be beneficial when one or more of us can drive so we can easily get to and from a filming location. Another criticism could be that in some of our scenes that we filmed in this session had reflections of us in the mirror/window, so we have had to do some editing to cut those parts out.

Filming Session 2 Report

This part of the filming went well; we filmed a news report in the same Science room as the scene with the food colourings and test tubes, which made the location aspect of the filming easy. What we did was we filmed the news reporter in front of the whiteboard and we created a background with Earth and the words "London Network News" to make it look like an actual news report
We managed to get someone not in our group to act, which was useful, especially as it would be noticed if the only actors were me, Ben and Amelia! However, we did have to film lots of takes as Josh (our actor/news reporter) forgot his lines a few times. Instead of Josh reading the lines for the news report from the table, which was clearly visible by the camera, it looked more professional if Josh was looking at the camera most of the time (and for him not to misread his lines!) and we achieved this by Amelia holding the lines next to the camera, and this proved to be successful.

Filming Session 1 Report

The first part of the Thriller film that we filmed was in one of the rooms in the Science Block at school. Amelia and I wore white coats as we were acting as scientists, and we were pouring liquid (we used food colourings) into test tubes. Thankfully, unlike in the preliminary task, both Amelia and myself were grateful that we didn't have any lines!
We were lucky to have the food colouring and to use the Science room, and, as we were pouring the food colouring away, we saw that the red food colouring looked like blood all over the sink, therefore we had to get a shot of that and put it into the film.
I think this was an excellent filming session, and was a lot more interesting and thought requiring then previous tasks.

Report on how filming session 3 went

This is our shortest filming session and it is only for about 6-8 seconds of film.And it went quite well, we got the take we wanted to get and there were no obvious problems with it. Therefore, we are happy with it. Our actor goes to army cadets and therefore knows how to march etc and has the right costume. A criticism would be that our location wasn't perfect as we had to film at school and if we had more time, we would have filmed at another location, like Carver Barracks.

Progress report on filming session 1

I thought that our first filming session went quite well, with what our group was trying to show, with all the different scientic experiments. I liked the different ways that we created all the effects with the food colouring mixed with the water. In one of the clips, there is a part of the film where the red food die was poured in the sink, which left a blood splatter effect. I thought that the camera work was at a high standard in regards to our fist filming session. I was pleased with the overall outcome of the filming that was done in the first filming session.

Report on how filming session 2 went

Overall, we believe that our second filming session where we filmed the News Report scene was a great success. We managed to get about 8 takes of the same thing, so we can watch through them all and choose our favourite. One criticism of the filming session would be that it took a while as we had to do loads of takes because our actor kept getting his lines wrong. Therefore, one way to amend this would be to get a more experienced actor to be in our film.

Report on how filming session 1 went

All in all, our first filming session went well, we got about 3 minutes worth of film. Which will go down to about 10-20 seconds. Two of our group acted in our first session, and despite being novices in acting, they did well. We found it easy to get permission for filming, permission to use the room and permission to use the camera equipment. In our first filming session (the science lab bits) we were almost gifted with one clip as we noticed that the food colouring mixed with water looked like blood. And we decided that using an effect on the clip in final cut express would give a very good effect.