Thursday, 30 October 2014

UPDATE



UPDATE


Our group has decided to re-shoot our house scenes, due to the fact that the lighting was too poor in the shots we had filmed on our first shoot.

- The next shoot will take place on November 16
- We will meet up at Stratford Station at 10am
- We will make our way to the location and should arrive at around 10:30am and we will begin shooting at 11am.
- We have decided to shoot all shots that take place outside of the house will be shot first as it gets dark during this time of year.
- Filming is estimated to finish around 2-3pm - This is when we will have our lunch break.

Tuesday, 28 October 2014

Filming: Day 2 - Forest Scenes



Filming: Day 2 - Forest Scenes


Today we filmed our shots for the forest scenes in our short film. This session only required both of our actors, Adeel Fareed and Claudio.

- We decided to meet at 11am at Westfield Shopping Centre in Stratford this time as we learned that it takes longer to get shots right after going through our first day of filming.

- After meeting up we decided to bought food and started to head to our location; Bushwood, Epping Forest.

- Filming started at 2pm and we managed to film shots 8-19 and shots 26 to 37.

- We were unable to film the last few shots as our camera had ran out of battery.

- The last few shots take place in front of a tree in the forest. We decided to film these shots in the forest by our college (Epping forest) as it would be more convenient for us. Although, we will be filming in a different area in the forest, the continuity of our film will not be affected as the shots we need to film show nothing but our actor and the tree trunk itself.

- From this experience we have learned to prepare extra batteries if filming for a long period of time.

Photos:











Monday, 27 October 2014

Filming Schedule - Tuesday 28th October


Filming Schedule: Forest scenes


- We plan on filming our forest scenes on Tuesday 28th October.

- We will meet up with our actors at Starbucks in Westfield Shopping Centre, Stratford at 11am.

- We will buy refreshments to have at the forest and head to the forest at 12pm.

- After that, we will start filming at 1pm and stop for a lunch break at 2pm.

- We then plan on filming at 3pm and onwards.


Weather for the day: 





Sunday, 26 October 2014

Filming: Day 1 - House Scenes



Filming: Day 1 - House scenes




Today we filmed our shots for the house scenes in our short film. This session only required one of our actors, Claudio.

- We decided to meet up at Stratford Station at 1pm and headed to our location at 2pm.

- After setting up our equipment and having our actor put on his costume we started filming at 3pm.

- We filmed from 3pm to 6pm and managed to get shots 1-6 and 21-23 done (These can be seen on an earlier post showing our storyboard)

- However, out of all our house scene shots, we still need to film shots 7, 20 and 24 as these shots take place outside it was too dark outside to film these shots.

- Shot no. 24 involves the use of screen capture software which I have downloaded (Quicktime Player) and can be done/shot very easily.

- Shots 7 and 20 involve shooting outside of a house on the pavement. Due to this we plan on shooting at a location closer to where our producers and actors live as we believe it will be more convenient. As well as that, doing this will not affect the continuity of the film as the outside of our location for the house was not shown in the previously filmed shots.

- From this experience, we have learned to give ourselves more time to film as it may take a while to get the shots we need.

Friday, 24 October 2014

Filming Schedule: Sunday 26th October



Filming Schedule: House Scenes



- We plan on filming our house scenes on Sunday 26th October.

- We will meet up with our actor at Stratford Station at 12pm.

- We will buy refreshments to have at our location and head to our location at 1pm.

- After that, we will start filming at 2pm and stop for a lunch break at 3pm.

- We then plan on filming at 4pm and onwards.

- We have checked the weather for this day and it does not appear to be raining. This will make it easier for us to film scenes outside of our location.


Monday, 6 October 2014

Costume



Costume


Character 1: Photographer

This character will be wearing two different costumes. One costume consists of sleepwear/pyjamas and the other consists of casual yet smart clothing.


Costume 1: Pyjamas




Costume 2: Casual/Smart Clothing - Red Checkered Shirt, Blue/black jeans, Black boots, Scarf, Black Jacket











Props: DSLR Camera



Character 2: Mask Being/Mysterious Being

We want this character to have a mysterious feel to him. To achieve this we decided to have this character wear a black suit along with a white mask.



Talent Release Form: Claudio Meszaros


Talent Release Form: Adeel Fareed


Call Sheets




Call Sheets




Risk Assessment




Risk Assessment


Location 1: Forest



Location 2: House





Recce Photos: Forest



Recce Photos:











Location: Bushwood, Epping Forest

Notes:

- These are pictures of our main location that we will be filming at.

- We have chosen to film in this location as are film features a chase scene in the woods and we have  found many different areas of this forest that would suit the chase scene. Also, this location is not located near any roads so it would be perfect for us to use as we plan of making use of the ambient sound around the area to create suspense.

WhatsApp Group

In order for our group to communicate outside of college and our time in class. We decided to make a WhatsApp group.





As shown in the photos above, we have discussed things such as possible film ideas, as well as camera shots and sound.


This group was also used when discussing about things such as possible actors for our short film.

Short Film Script



“ Eventide 

Written By
James Taasin



1   INT. HOUSE – DAY

FADE IN:

A teenage BOY wakes up at home, and gets ready to go out and take pictures.


2   EXT. HOUSE – DAY

The BOY is seen walking out of his house CARRYING PHOTOGRAPHY EQUIPMENT.


3   EXT. FOREST PATH – DAY

A piece of paper hangs nailed to a tree.
It is a picture of a young man.
The BOY doesn’t notice it and continues to walk down forest path.

4   EXT. FOREST – DAY

The BOY walks further into the forest, looking at around at the surroundings while doing so.

He stops in front of an old abandoned church.

The BOY pulls his camera up and takes a few pictures.

He stops to look through the photos he had taken and notices a MYSTERIOUS FIGURE in the background of one of the pictures.

He then starts taking pictures of his surroundings very rapidly. The mysterious figure cannot be seen in the photos he had taken.

The BOY pulls his camera up to take one last photo.

[POV Shot – As if looking through the camera lens]

-   WIDE SHOT of abandoned church.
CAMERA SHUTTER CLOSES, AND OPENS.

The MYSTERIOUS FIGURE is seen standing by a tree in the camera shot.

The BOY runs away in fear.


5   EXT. FOREST PATH – DAY

The boy runs down the forest path.

6   EXT. ROAD: PAVEMENT – DAY

The BOY is seen running down the side of the pavement.

He stops in front of his house and walks in after opening the door.


7   INT. BOY’s BEDROOM – DAY

The BOY sits down in front of his computer.

He Turns it on and begins typing.

The computer screen is shown as he searches for rumours on the about the forest he had visited. Blog posts are shown telling rumours of ghost sightings.

[POV Shot – As if we are looking at the BOY from the computer screen]

The BOY stares at the screen looking intrigued.



8   EXT. FOREST PATH – DUSK

The BOY stands in front of the forest paths staring, nervously.

He walks down the path.


9   EXT. FOREST – DUSK

The BOY is seen standing in the same place where he encountered the MYSTERIOUS FIGURE.

He pulls his camera up to take a picture.

[POV Shot – As if looking through the camera lens]

The MASKED BEING (MYSTERIOUS FIGURE) is seen standing by a tree in the distance.

CAMERA SHUTTER CLOSES, AND OPENS.

The MASKED BEING appears directly in front of the BOY.

The BOY runs in fear and hides behind a tree.

The MASKED BEING can be seen behind the tree in the distance.

The BOY turns to see no one behind him. He faces forwards once again with a nervous look on his face.

Suddenly, the BOY is grabbed from behind and drops his camera.

The camera flashes and takes a picture.

The camera is seen on the ground. Displaying a picture of the MASKED BEING.


FADES OUT.

Storyboards