Scouting

These following pictures are from one of the location scouts me and Jess (the producer) went on, for our 2-minute film. We wanted to find architectural buildings that were visually pleasing, and stood out from the others.

Planning for the 10 minute film!

Planning has begun for our 10 minute video.. we have the foundations of an idea that evolves around a male character, who chucks himself off the top of a building. Now in limbo, the character follows himself on the events leading up to his suicide attempt. We encounter two more characters, his girlfriend, and another male who is later found to have been sleeping with her. The ending will hopefully feature the main protagonist finding himself on the rooftop, grabbing his (own) shoulder and pulling him back. He then subsequently wakes up being resuscitated.

The majority of our group felt we should scrap the original idea of having our character (form the 2 minute video) becoming a tamp after the prospects of getting a job are dashed.

We've thought of possible locations we could use and will hopefully be getting in contact with people soon (assuming we go ahead with this idea.)

The showroom's roof could prove to be a great location for our opening. 

Re-Shooting

The week after we found ourselves re-shooting the entire film. Fortunately this time around, we filmed everything we'd shot the previous week, with the benefit of acquiring more new shots.

This time around we used the Daedo lights, which benefited us greatly.

All the problems that arose the first time around (over-exposure, certain shots being too dark to be used), were thankfully non-existent the second time around. We captured a variety of shots that complimented the narrative of our film; close-ups, low shots, high shots, long shots etc. 

As the day progressed, I was unsure with some of the shots we'd filmed, for example the shot of the 'cheese-grater' appeared too out of place for my liking, but then again it tied in with the theme of our piece.

Filming on Location

Filming commenced last Wednesday, throughout the morning we progressed in a more than productive manor; we gathered the shots we needed, and sound was to be collected another day by Alex.

However unfortunately, when the footage was in it's editing stage, a majority of the shots were either over-exposed, or too dark. On location, it was difficult to know whether the shots would be too dark or not because on the viewfinder the shot(s) seemed fine.

Here are a couple pictures I took on the day of shooting.