‘Resonance’ Filming Log 4

I realised at school after I thought I had finished filming entirely that I completely forgot to film the shots of Jack making himself a cup of coffee. This was easy to fix as I could just take a camera home and do that myself, which I was planning on doing anyway.

I’m happy with how that turned out and with that my filming is fully complete. However, I also decided to rerecord my mums line when she calls Jack down, as I wasn’t happy with the fist takes that we did. This second time, I’m much happier with how it sounds.

‘Resonance’ Filming Log 3

This Sunday I got the same 3 of my friends around to reshoot the two main scenes of the film.

I felt that the scene with Jack and his mum was better this second time round and I’m happy with how it turned out.

The main objective for the day was the scene outside with Jack and Tyler. This time, I decided to go to a different location which meant that we didn’t have to walk as far from my house, meaning that we would have more time to film. Plus, we left to film much earlier than we did last time. Even better, the difference in lighting was much better, as it was much less cloudy and the sun was much more present.

However, unfortunately, the wind was not on our side this time. The majority of the scene has wind loud in the mix, something which at this stage I am unable to rectify. It’s definitely not perfect but it’s still much better than before. It’s as good as I could make it and I’m happy with being able to say that.

 

‘Resonance’ Filming Log 2

There’s a very brief scene which takes place in a school, and so I got all of that filmed today.

The scene is made up of two simple shots including a mid-shot on Jack and a close up of a maths paper being handed to him. The shot of the paper was actually done in reverse as a method to make sure that the paper ends up in the centre of the frame perfectly.

Other than that I got one of my teachers to say a couple of lines to put over this footage, something that really wasn’t very complex to do.

‘Resonance’ Filming Log 1

This weekend I got 3 of my friends around to get most of my filming done. This included my two main actors and a sound technician. We spent the majority of Saturday filming what I needed to get in order to know roughly how long my film is, so that if anything needs to be added/ cut I’ll know sooner rather than later.

The singular shots that aren’t directly connected to the two big scenes were almost all achieved this filming session.

The scene in which Jack talks to his mum went well, but the scene outside with Jack talking to Tyler didn’t go exactly to plan. By the time we got out there, it was already starting to get quite dark. This lead to me rushing the process and making several mistakes. Firstly, I forgot to turn the microphone on, so the scene was practically inaudible. Secondly, the majority of the shots are out of focus. Lastly, the light rapidly disappearing lead to massive changes in lighting between shots. All of this means that this scene can’t be used in my film. However, it’s still good in that I know it’s roughly the correct length.

It’s worth putting in here that a fair while ago I had gotten the opening shot for the film, as that was something I could easily get on my own. But putting only that into a singular post would be pretty redundant.

‘Ointment’ Production Log #2

So far, a second draft has been created and we are ready to get the bulk of our filming done on Sunday. Tonight, Liam is going to get exterior shots of the pub so that we don’t have to do that on Sunday. We have finished writing up a storyboard.

Since none of us are pure-born artists, Will and I ended up just writing up a basic list of the shots that we are going to need.

Below are the storyboards:

‘Ointment’ Film Log #1

This log is a record of everything that my group and I have done towards our final short film project, tilted ‘Ointment’.

So far, we have come up with the basic outline of our film. We know how many characters there will be as well as where we are planning on shooting the footage.

We’ve created a google drive folder where we will all be able to work on our script, which we have started to work on. Our draft so far covers the first scene which will take place in a pub and involves the main character (played by me and also called Dan Webb) and the bartender (played by Liam), who is letting Dan live in a room above the pub.

Dan will be in a slump, where he doesn’t have a job and is failing to pay his rent for Liam. Liam will ask for the rent and Dan will ask for some more time. This is where Dan watches an ad which inspires him to come up with a scheme to get rich: become a salesman. This is followed by Dan coming up with the idea to sell ointment from door to door by looking at the word ‘ointment’ in a dictionary.

At this point, this is all that has been drafted. We have dialogue written as well. However, so far everything that’s been written could change as we’ve only just started. But the main idea of the film is solid and set in stone, as we only have a few weeks before the deadline for this project.

The plan is that we are going to film at a pub in the morning before it opens next Sunday. However, it’s not decided on when exactly we’ll film the other scenes yet.