Thursday 25th

We have decided that with our next lesson (Thursday 25th) we are going to take a look at some digipacks and posters, and plan our own ancillary texts based around conventions of them.
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Unfortunately, one member of our group (Levi) did not manage to make it to our lesson due to illness - resulting in us again being behind on our plans as me & Jacob had already discussed our ideas for the digipack, yet we were waiting for Levi to make the final decision on which one he preferred and we would use for our production. Therefore we will have to wait until Levi can make it to our lesson.

Delay in Filming

23/11/10
We are running behind on our filming schedule now as some of our previous shots did not work properly as the camera did not show us the full picture whereas when we put it on the iMac, it was clear that for example for our greenscreen shots round the edge there were the background as the camera made us believe that it was only the greenscreen which was in the shot. We also ended up filming over some of our previous shots meaning that we had lost some shots which were essential - therefore we had to start some of the shot-frame-animation shots again due to the issue that not all of the shots were the same (e.g. lighting, the table position, object positions etc). This has resulted in us being prevented from moving on with our filming; however we hope to film the majority of the shots on friday as we have double free.
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26/11/10
Unfortunately due to Levi being ill, it limited the amount of filming we were available to do. We managed to film a few takes of Jacob walking down Linden Avenue, however we were intending to film our tramp scene today - in which Levi was going to be the tramp. According to our shooting schedule we should now have finished filming or almost finished, which means we are extremely behind on our filming as we have not had the opportunities to film due to illnesses and absences. We will try and work around this and continue filming when it is available.

Filming

We have started to film our production work, we decided that we should film all of the chorus segments together, as they would be the easier shots, however they may take up more time as we have to prepare them aswell. We believe the filming has gone extremely well so far, especially as we have almost finished filming the chorus segments, there are one or two more shots in which we need to do this. However, we decided that when filming the stop-frame-animation shots we should film them with the writing already written for example with objects, and gradually take an object away and during editing we should reverse the shot so that we knew it would end up looking like the words "Oh Me, Oh My" rather than us having to change some letters/adjustments slightly because for example the O doesn't look as round as it should have. Therefore we hope that this will work more efficiently when editing and for the final production.

We have also started to film the green screen shots, as these shots can easily be done in a double lesson in our classroom. We decided to do these shots first as they are the ones that take longest as they need the most preparation as we have to set up the actual green screen. We had many difficulties such as trying to avoid shadows, and trying to prevent light hitting the screen. Although we found this very difficult, we believe we managed to achieve this and avoid having shadows on the screen. When filming the shot in which the male walks off of the screen, it was extremely difficult as the lights that were shining on him created a shadow as he walked off, therefore we had to try and adjust the lights so that the male could walk off of the other side of the green screen in which there would not be any shadows. We found this extremely difficult but we hope that we managed to avoid this error.

Risk Assessment

When filming our production there are not many risks that we have to take care about, except things such as checking on the streets that there are no cars coming when standing in the middle of the road - to avoid this we have decided to do it so that all of us will be facing different ways, for example look at the picture. We also need to make sure that we are careful when it comes to wires as it is possible that we could trip over them, and due to a lot of the filming being in the classroom it is possible that we could fall and hit our heads on objects such as tables and chairs. Other than that there are not many risks except extremely unlikely ones such as one of the actors falling into the pond/river with the ducks. We must ensure that the female does not push the male too hard incase he falls and injures himself. Other than this there are not any other risks, therefore when filming we will ensure that we are careful when walking around wires and round the pond/river.

Shooting Schedule

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Storyboard

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Storyboard

We have finally finished storyboarding our ideas, and have got an in-depth plan. We will upload these storyboards later in the day. However, now we can start filming some of our simple shots such as the stop-frame-animation shots in lessons as some of them are stationary simply rearranged on the table, which will not require too much time and we can easily have the stationary sat on a desk or space on our teacher's desk. Therefore as soon as we can book a camera out we will start filming these shots, until then we will start preparing for these shots such as writing the words "Oh Me, Oh My" on pieces of plain paper.

How we are using our time

Within our lessons at the moment we have decided that for all of our previous production pieces, we had never thoroughly thought through our filming shot by shot. We decided that we should discuss our shots and thoroughly understand our production before we start to storyboard, we have used our time by using it to understand in depth what we are going to film. We have also timed the lyrics to see how long each section of the song is, so that we can see how much time we need to take up rather than just generalising. Therefore shortly I will upload our notes that we have gone into depth on and our storyboards.