Filming Delay

After we had filmed half of the film, the next week the weather forcast was snow. We were unable to go out and film again without refilming all the work we had already done since it would be a continuity error. Luckily the snow did not last too long and we were able to go out and film again today since it had melted.
Today we experimented with different angles and ways to film the scenes we had decided.
This weekend I will take the camera, after James has finished shooting the running shots, and film the inbetween-the-storyline scenes. This will give us all the shots we need to edit together a rough draft to be ready by the deadline.

Started Filming

Internet has been down so was unable to post anything from home for a few weeks, but should be posting regularly from now.
Yesterday we could finally get a camera booked and we went out to start filming. We had a location planned, which you can see from the first set of recce shots. We decided to use this as we figured it would be a perfect location to get the main parts of the filming done.
However, when we set off, we had not checked the weather beforehand and found that it had started to snow just as we left the building, this could be a problem for continuity but luckily it was only light and it did stop by the time we reached the location.
We managed to get quite a lot of filming done, James (who is going to be the main actor for our production) got the main speaking section out of the way and several running scenes.

Plans for next time:

• Check the weather, and bring warmer clothing.
• Refilm several shots, just in case.
• Film some more forest shots.
• Get some of the other scenes filmed.

 

This is a servey that I did at the beginning of the project, I passed it around both adults and teenagers to get a mixed response as to what film they would like, as you can see Horror got the most votes which is what we had decided to do anyway. Action did come close however, so we were thinking of including that into the film also.

This was good feedback since we were dithering and had basic ideas for a horror movie aswell as other films so it was a confirmation that we were going in the right track.

Film Distributer

http://www.bountyet.com.au/

Bounty Films could be a possible distributer for our film. They distribute small films, for cheap prices and normally specify in the Horror/Thriller genre. The production has also produced some succesful films, such as 'The Human Centipede' which became a viral hit around the world.
This would be perfect for our film since we are planning to do a zombie film and they have produced a lot of films that genre, they also advertise their films well and give them good reviews.

Storyboard Video

After finishing the images drawn on Paint Tool SAI, I imported the images into Adobe Premier Pro -which should be the programme that we use to edit our own film opening - and added them together in sequence, this should show more succesfully what we plan to do.

Unfortunatly the programme has cropped some of the clips.



Movie and Production names

This lesson we decided as a group what would be our film name and the name of the production company. We had thought of a few names previously but decided against them, finally today we settled on 'State Of Emergency' as our film name and 'Dead Cell' as our Production Company name.
I think that both of these fit well with our film and hopefully what it will be about.

Starting to create video storyboard

Started to work on a more detailed storyboard by drawing using Paint Tool Sai and my Bamboo Tablet, then I will put it all together on Windows Movie Maker since that is the programme I have at home to make a video. This will show what we plan to film, and will work as a guideline for us when we get down to filming.