Institutional Regulations

There are several institutional regulations when it comes to filming. We have to rate our film based on the BBFC categories. We decided to go with an age rating of 15, due to content that may be unsuitable for younger viewers. There is no explicit language or any sexual scenes/reference to drugs, however some scenes may be upsetting, and being a horror film, it will contain some scary scenes. There are some legal issues that could come to light too, such as product placement. We have no right to use certain brands of food/clothing in our production, therefore we must avoid them. We cannot harm anybody taking part in the production either due to the ethical issues that would be brought up.
- Charlie Ball

25/01/16 Update

This week, our main aim is to complete the editing of our final production, now that we have completely finished filming. We have already begun the editing process using Final Cut Pro, and so far there has not been any major problems.

Location Choice Analysis

Text written by me, presented by Dan Neary.

19/01/16 - Filming Day 2

Today we completed our second and final day of filming our production. We felt that overall today was a more successful day of filming, as Saturday was more focused on finalising our plot, whereas today we were able to work on filming a wide variety of shot types to vastly improve our production. We decided to re-film certain sections of our footage because we felt that it would be improved by having different lighting or being shot from a different angle. A scene that we completed re-filmed involved our actor being woken up by a phone call and we re-filmed this in order to give a wider variety of shot types and to work in some more match on action. We also filmed more shots inside the house to provide a variety, as on Saturday we focused more on the outside shots.

Pre Filming Plan

As we approach our second day of filming, it is important for us to make sure that the weather was similar to the first day of filming, in order for the lighting/atmosphere to be the same. The forecast for Tuesday 19th January was as follows:

Maximum Temperature	6 °C	14:50	Minimum Temperature	-2 °C	00:20
Maximum Humidity	100 %	00:20	Minimum Humidity	81 %	16:20
Maximum Rainfall	-- mm		Minimum Rainfall	-- mm
Maximum Pressure	1020 hPa	07:50	Minimum Pressure	1018 hPa	00:20
Maximum Radiation	-- W/m2		Minimum Radiation	-- W/m2
Wind Speed (Max)	5 mph	09:20

The overall temperature would not have had an affect on our filming, but we had to check whether there is any chance of rain, as this would alter our filming conditions. Luckily, there is no rainfall forecasted for this day.

Filming Space

This is a floor plan of our filming space, which will obviously be subject to the shot that we are filming at the time and the location that we are using.

Filming Day 1 - 16/01/16

Today we completed our first day of filming for our final production. Whilst we were actually at the location, we decided to make some changes with our plot and are very pleased about the progress we have made so far. We aim to continue filming on Tuesday afternoon (19/01/16), with the hope that we can complete our filming and move on to the editing stages.

Shooting Schedule

Plot Blocking/Flowchart

Preliminary Task

Today, we filmed our preliminary task, which we will soon edit and I will upload it to this post. 

12/01/16- In today's double lesson, we completed our editing of the preliminary task which we then uploaded to YouTube.

Final Pitch

Storyboard - Preliminary Task

In today's lesson, I completed a storyboard for our preliminary task to complete our planning for this task.

Shot list - Preliminary Task

Tomorrow, I will complete a storyboard to visually demonstrate these shots.

Cast

We had to change our original actor for our production, due to some unforeseen circumstances that meant that she could not attend our planned days for filming. However, we were able to quickly find a replacement, someone who me and Dan had previously worked with in GCSE Media Studies - Caitlin Wevill. We picked her because she has previous experience with the subject, and understands what it requires. As a group, we will have to adapt our plot and filming schedule to suit the change of actor, but we should have no problem with this and it should not slow our progress with the production.

Online Tutorials- Filming

Today, I found this tutorial called '10 Tips for Beginner Film makers' and there were some key elements of this video that I thought would be useful to apply to our own mindsets when we approach the filming process. The first tip was to have some practice, as we would learn a lot more by doing practical work. This is useful for our group to consider, especially in the way that we approach the preliminary task as this is vital practice which will help to improve our own production in the long term. Another tip was to utilise the amount of resources that are available to us online ,such as YouTube channels and blogs, which are free to use and provide valuable information. One of the most important tips was to spend a lot more time on the planning and preparation of the film, as this will allow our group to be more confident with what we are producing. In addition, one of the last few tips was to not focus on the quality of the camera or the equipment, as the quality of the story is much more important.

I found this video to also be useful, as it goes over lots of different camera shots. This really demonstrates the variety of shots that we could use for our production, and displays the effects that each type of shot can have for the audience. This video would be good to act as something that our group can keep referring back to to improve our production, especially when we are working on our shot list soon.