Production Diary - Time scheduling

In order to keep our opening sequence structured and organised as well as ensuring it is completed on time, we will be using a time schedule.

Below is the time schedule we will be using:

Also on the meeting we had on the 4th December, we agreed and organised a date for filming scene 1 and we arranged for this to be on Friday 19th December after school. We aim to go when the lighting is dark so that we build up the atmosphere to make it appear more scary.

Production Diary - 1st meeting

On the 4th December our group had our first meeting in which we discussed our task.

In this meeting we discussed the location of our opening sequence along with our cast list.

We came to a shared conclusion we are basing our filming in upper Heyford in a house. In the discussion we thought about the different camera shots we could use around the house in order to make the house look threatening and eerie, and how we would use the house.

We chose this house because it can easily look eerie and build up an effect or scariness and threat.

in order to get different angles of the house itself we are going to use we looked up it on Google maps. Below are pictures in which we screenshot from Google maps.

Main task - Pitching our idea

In order to gather all of our ideas we decided to make a presentation in which we could present to the rest of the class in order to pitch our idea. We decided to do this so we could get a response of our idea about our opening scene and improvements in which we could maybe add or change. 

 In the presentation we decided to include:

• A synopsis/Brief
• Mood board - including pictures and words
• Location - including pictures
• Characters in which we would use
• Sound

After pitching our idea the other groups in our class gave us both positive feedback and improvements in which we could make to our opening scene. Someone suggested we turn our camera like somebody else is viewing the couple sat down. This gives the audience the impression that somebody is being watched.

Main task

Brief of main task:

"Film the opening sequence of a new fiction film, including titles and soundtrack to last approximately two minutes."

After being given our main task we got into groups of a maximum of 4. In our groups we discussed and threw in different ideas in which we thought could work well as an opening scene. The sections we focused on was the genre and ideas for a synopsis.

Preliminary task - Short film

In order to meet the criteria which was asked in the preliminary task, my group decided we should plan and discuss camera shots and angles through doing a story board:

We used many different camera shots and angles in our preliminary task. Here are some screen shots from our short film of the type of shots we used:

This first camera shot we did was a long shot. By using this type of camera shot first makes a stable shot that can accommodate movement without us having to reframe.

This next shot was a close up shot through a door window. We used this type of shot to show the character looking in, possibly searching for someone.

This is a point of view/shot reverse shot. We used this to allow the audience see what the character looking through the door is looking at. this shot could possibly be used to change the audiences point of view to create a certain effect.

This is a wide shot. this shot allows the audience to see a large area in which the short film is set.

We then edited these shots all together to make one short film for our preliminary task: