SKILLS Final Film - STALKED

Final Film - STALKED

DRAMA - Final Film SPACEBOY

Final Film SPACEBOY

SKILLS Group Meeting - Planning Final Shoot

Group Meeting - Planning Final Shoot

We had a meeting today to discuss the first edit Billy and I did, to organise the final shoot on Monday, and to carry on with some editing. We went through the things I had written down and posted on the Facebook group along with the edit and planned in as much detail as possible what the schedule would be for Monday. We hope that the shooting shouldn't take more than a couple of hours and then we will all come into the edit suites afterwards to transfer the final footage and complete the edit up until colour correction and sound.

The majority of the shots we still need to shoot are cutaways to feature when Lucy is struggling with her idea, as it doesn't convey time passing as well as we had hoped the long shot would. We also need other connecting shots such as her grabbing her coat and leaving and we will possibly reshoot some shots we already have but could improve on or change in some way.

We focused on getting some sound into the edit today and soon realised that sound was a bit of a worry in that we needed to try and capture more in sync sound rather than recording it afterwards, even though a lot of the time recording the sound at the same time as the filming often doesn't go well and doesn't sound as good as sound recorded afterwards. However Amy managed to put some of the clips we had into the edit and in particular the paper scrunching and the kettle fit really well.

SKILLS First Edit - Rough Cut

First Edit - Rough Cut

 

 

After we had finished filming the indoor scenes and Billy and I had stayed to capture some sounds while it was quieter we met the rest of the group in the edit suite and transferred the footage to Billy's hard drive, we discussed when we would edit and I suggested that for the first rough edit where we would just be sifting through what clips we can use and roughly what order everything would be in we didn't need everyone there chipping in. I said I would really like to have a go at editing as I am not as confident on the new software and this is where we have a bit more room for mistakes as we would be changing a lot of it later on but gave me a chance to get to grips with the controls etc without getting on everyone's nerves and having the time to experiment.

 

Billy and I agreed to come in together and do this first cut. We came into university on a few occasions over the days after the second shooting day but numerous problems prevented us from transferring footage and accessing a computer. We managed to get in today and did this edit in one go. As we were working through the edit, we soon discovered that we may need to have an extra shooting day as parts of the film didn't flow as well as we had hoped. Thankfully, it was mainly the city scenes that were the problem and is just a case of reshooting a couple of things in my flat, for example more shots of Lucy struggling to write, as I had feared we might need more emphasis on.

 

I made some notes on what we need to shoot again and we posted the edit in our Facebook group and it received good feedback, the next step is to arrange the last bit of filming.

I am looking forward to further editing sessions and working with the rest of the group, and also learning more about the colour correction and other aspects of post production as I think we can experiment more with the element of colour. I think we shot emphasise the bright nature colours in Grindleford such as the orange leaves in the above shot and dull down the city shots.

SKILLS Filming Day Two - Indoor

Filming Day Two - Indoor

We had our second day of filming today, doing the indoor city scenes involving both characters but mostly Lucy. We planned to pick up the equipment and head to the train station to film a few shots including a sequence shot. From there we would head to my flat where we would film Lucy's scene and then on to Issy's house for Callum's, however when we got to mine we decided that we didn't need to use a separate location for Callum because all of his shots were very close up and didn't give anything away about his surroundings and so to save time we did it all at mine.


We intended to get shots of Lucy struggling to write and her being frustrated about her writers block, then she would discover the postcard and decide to go to Grindleford. I think we got the shots we needed however it will depend on how it looks after the first edit whether we will need more, maybe some shots of her in different places and positions around the flat to show time passing in between her trying to write rather than just in one place - although we got a long shot it might not look like she has been trying for as long as we are intending to show.

The shots of Callum were just close-ups of him writing the postcard he will put under her door and then him opening the book which will feature after the Grindleford sequence.

I tried to make the flat look a bit more like a writer lived there by asking the rest of the group for some books etc we could put on the shelves which Josh brought. Also, Issy and I wrote a few things on some sheets of paper to cover up my board with pictures on, and also to emphasise the fact that she was thinking of ideas and didn't know where to start, so we included lots of notes and mind maps and stuck them around.



While some of the team were filming shots I put together the book that Lucy has supposed to have written and that Callum buys later on in the film. We had a meeting yesterday and afterwards Billy, Amy and I went the edit suite so Billy could transfer the footage from our first filming day and Amy and I could create the postcard and the book cover to make the idea more realistic. So I used one of Josh's books that he brought and attached the makeshift cover to that, as well as the dedication page.

SKILLS Group Meeting

Group Meeting

The meeting today was to plan what we were going to do tomorrow for the city filming. After the meeting Billy, Amy and I stayed to create the book cover, the dedication and the postcard that Callum sends to Lucy.

Here is what we came up with;

DRAMA Filming - Day Three

Filming - Day Three

As I had previously mentioned I was unable to attend todays filming due to other arrangements I can't change but I hear it all went well despite having some issues with the female actress who pulled out at last minute but the group managed to secure someone else last minute.