Over the filming period Fri 13th Feb – Monday 24rth Feb I successfully got the filming I wanted....... eventually, but only after jumping from contingency plan to contingency plan and having filming plan's A B and C fall through. The first filming night was set for Tuesday 17th Feb, but this fell through when the assistant cameraman fell ill. I then tried to find a replacement cameraman for the following night, although finding 2 people interested in the project they were unavailable for the short notice shoot. So it was again put back to the Thursday Night, this time I actually got out to the location of the shoot for the first time, but yet again the project faltered when again the assistant cameraman dropped out after just two shots, because of the late night/early morning timing of the shoot.
Planning after these drawbacks left me with only one other night to shoot, because of other commitments that left me 200 miles away from the midlands on the Friday and Saturday. However on the morning of Sunday 21st and 24 hours before the Monday deadline Plan D came good and I and a new semi-professional cameraman finally shot the scenes between 2.00am and 6.00 am, totalling up 36 minutes of footage.
Tuesday, 24 February 2009
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
11/02/09
I have now booked the camera equipment out for the dates 13th -24th of February. And have also contacted actors and sourced props such as costume and a car for the shoot, as well as this I have contacted a assistant camerawomen to be available for the filming dates. All filming is due to start shooting over half term holiday and will be completed by the 24th of feb.
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FINAL STAGES OF PLANNING
STORYBOARD
Here is a extract from my completed storyboard to show the format in which I have planned my shots and durations, locations etc. The shots included in the extract show the generic features and elements that i have directly imported from spy/action films, these are shown in close-up conversation over mobile phones to fit it to the modern technology facter of the movie. The faces will be shot with head and shoulder shots and close up shots to show their reaction during the conversation, with one of the people being inidentifiable as shot will not show their full face, just the side of their face and the fact they are wearing sun glasses to add to their shady character, hense fitting into the spy narrative.
AUDIENCE PROFILE
My target audience is going to be mainly mature mainstream males aged 18-30, this is because the use of modern technology and electronics coupled with thrilling chase scenes with flash cars and explosions will attract this type of audience.
The demographic for this target audience would be C1, lower middle class-white collar workers, and C2 skilled working class, blue collar workers.
PLANNING
The opening will begin with a car driving into a town late at night, the driver will park and get out after revealing a gun. He will search for a drop of point on a street and once discovered will find a package with a mobile phone inside of it. After he dials the number on the phone he will have a discussion with a Russian, who will tell him his brother’s alive. After a moment of reflection of this news the todorovian disruption moment will become clear as the ex agent agrees to meet.
SHOT LIST
This is a filming shot list, and are not in the sequence from which they will be ordered into in the final edit. Filming will take place in a early hours morning shoot.
Establishing shot – Pan shot from riverside towards the town centre.
Action shot – ELS Pan from riverside to road and then following approaching car.
2 Action shots – ELS following the cars progress through town centre.
Static shots – 4-5 still shots of empty street
Audio recording of church bell
Parking shot – LS of car pulling up.
Car interior shot
Bench shot and dialogue – scripted shot of actor sitting down and talking on mobile. LS MCU CU HS. Someboy out
Here is a extract from my completed storyboard to show the format in which I have planned my shots and durations, locations etc. The shots included in the extract show the generic features and elements that i have directly imported from spy/action films, these are shown in close-up conversation over mobile phones to fit it to the modern technology facter of the movie. The faces will be shot with head and shoulder shots and close up shots to show their reaction during the conversation, with one of the people being inidentifiable as shot will not show their full face, just the side of their face and the fact they are wearing sun glasses to add to their shady character, hense fitting into the spy narrative.
AUDIENCE PROFILE
My target audience is going to be mainly mature mainstream males aged 18-30, this is because the use of modern technology and electronics coupled with thrilling chase scenes with flash cars and explosions will attract this type of audience.
The demographic for this target audience would be C1, lower middle class-white collar workers, and C2 skilled working class, blue collar workers.
PLANNING
The opening will begin with a car driving into a town late at night, the driver will park and get out after revealing a gun. He will search for a drop of point on a street and once discovered will find a package with a mobile phone inside of it. After he dials the number on the phone he will have a discussion with a Russian, who will tell him his brother’s alive. After a moment of reflection of this news the todorovian disruption moment will become clear as the ex agent agrees to meet.
SHOT LIST
This is a filming shot list, and are not in the sequence from which they will be ordered into in the final edit. Filming will take place in a early hours morning shoot.
Establishing shot – Pan shot from riverside towards the town centre.
Action shot – ELS Pan from riverside to road and then following approaching car.
2 Action shots – ELS following the cars progress through town centre.
Static shots – 4-5 still shots of empty street
Audio recording of church bell
Parking shot – LS of car pulling up.
Car interior shot
Bench shot and dialogue – scripted shot of actor sitting down and talking on mobile. LS MCU CU HS. Someboy out
ANALYSIS OF THE OPENING OF A FILM
ANALYSIS OF THE OPENING OF A FILM
The genre for this project is going to be spy/action like the Bourne films that I have chosen to analyse, this was produced and distributed by universal and was aimed at the 18-30 age group of tech savvy generation. One of the genre features at the beginning of the film are that its opening is unexplained with matt Damon’s character injured and running from the authorities for some unexplained reason.
I will utilise this feature in my film opening, the narrative features, the chase scene in it with the dark look of the environment and setting of inner city. In the scene he has a flashback, I may use this as an easy bridge in my opening to connect to different shoots I want to do, time permitting. By analysing the opening I have been able to see how much footage there is in just a 2 minute part of the film. I will need to recreate this fast pace continuity editing style in my film opening to keep it fast and exciting. I will now go on to plan my storyboard and plan to reach the filming deadline of 24th Feb. Someboy out
The genre for this project is going to be spy/action like the Bourne films that I have chosen to analyse, this was produced and distributed by universal and was aimed at the 18-30 age group of tech savvy generation. One of the genre features at the beginning of the film are that its opening is unexplained with matt Damon’s character injured and running from the authorities for some unexplained reason.
I will utilise this feature in my film opening, the narrative features, the chase scene in it with the dark look of the environment and setting of inner city. In the scene he has a flashback, I may use this as an easy bridge in my opening to connect to different shoots I want to do, time permitting. By analysing the opening I have been able to see how much footage there is in just a 2 minute part of the film. I will need to recreate this fast pace continuity editing style in my film opening to keep it fast and exciting. I will now go on to plan my storyboard and plan to reach the filming deadline of 24th Feb. Someboy out
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