22nd January 2016

This week we continued our filming, we faced a problem because we have not got the bandages or the cardboard box yet, so we had to really think about the shot types, so that we could leave space for these props. Secondly, we were struggling  with the running scene because we were initially going to do a long shot of the protagonist being chased, but this didn't really work, so in the end we decided to do a tracking shot. At first, I struggled to film this because Hubert was running too quickly so the camera was shaking, so I had to rearrange the way I held it and we had to slow down in order to make it look effective. Nevertheless, on the film the fact that this shot is not the steadiest is effective in my opinion because it connotes that he is being chased and the hallucination. Finally, this week we have developed some of our ideas, for example, we have decided that we should cut out the eyeline match of Hubert looking at his watch  (which is off-screen) and then a close up of the watch, because I could not vision this shot as effective, and we all thought that it would negatively break up the tension. We face another challenge because we still have not found suitable sound that can juxtapose the shots and help to build up the tension.

Friday 15th January 2016

During this week our production has developed in the way that we have filmed many shots and uploaded them onto Final Cut, but they are yet to be edited because we have unsurprisingly not filmed in shot order. We faced a difficultly as we could only film certain shots at a time meaning that we had to be as precise as possible when putting the tin cans up on the second day of filming. As we do not have the bandages and the radio we had to be careful what we were getting in every shot because we obviously want to leave space for these props. In todays lesson we just caught up on where we were in the research and planning stages so that we can complete everything soon and we also scanned in the actor release form.

Model release form

BBFC Institutional regulations

Shooting Script

Sound research

This link from YouTube is influential because although it only discusses certain tips, the speaker clearly portrays the suggestion that you should always do your own thing to make it unique. This is beneficial because it means that our non-diegetic music can have aspects of non-copyright with additions. This could also work well to build the tension as we could possibly blend different sounds to really effect the senses. At the moment we have not really discussed sound, but this would be the focus after filming.

From this YouTube link I have learnt new key words for example, Library effects, which are pre-recorded effects that is not linked to a particular vision or scene. Often these sound effects are difficult to obtain, dangerous to produce or expensive, like a gun shot or explosions. However, we will obviously not divide jobs between the Dialogue, Sound Effects and Music mixer because we are limited to the amount of people within our group and we are simply not specifically trained for each sound. Finally, it was interesting how in the days of Jack Foley all of the sounds had to be recorded in one single take and what the process was to successfully achieve this. I have learnt that we should always try and create and use the most realistic sounds.

Friday 8th January

This week we began our Smart Script so that we can hopefully film next week and we produced a script taking audio recording of a fellow media group member to read the voice of the news presenter. We think that we may edit this to make it sound like a realistic news broadcast. At the moment we have not really thought of any changes within our production, apart from the changes in the shot list through more editing techniques like match on action and the 180 degree rule. Our aim is to have completed the filming by a week and a half, so that we can then edit it.