Whilst filming we hit a few distractions and disputes which put us back, but we were able to catch up within our second session. Half way through filming we had to change rooms, which complicated our filming even more due to the fact our one eighty rule had to change and we had to re shoot most of our original footage. Using the equipment wasn't much of a challenge, but it allowed us all to get accustomed to different camera makes and their stands, and due to this we had to change our original ideas for our task.
The original idea was to many more close ups of the Zombie, but seeing how we had to mange our time very well, we had to re-create the storyboard to replicate the finished task. We also had to re film a few lines of dialogue because we were breaking the 180 degree rule, we also had to re film our match on action with opening a door as both shots were taken using different doors and we decided as a group to re film within our own time.
Me and my group argued, a lot which annoyed us all and set us back a lot with our filming schedule which then allowed less time for editing. Although we did finish there were many disputes to what shot to use and where the 180 degree rule would be. Listening to each other was the biggest task that we had to go through, but we did towards the end and we produced our task for the deadline.
I didn't feel like we were prepared, although we were on paper as we had created a story board and i had written out the script, i don't think we were ready to work with each other for a part of coursework, which is why the arguments and loss of time occured. Towards the end of our first sesson i began to realise the problems and so little by little i settled the arguments and controled the enviroment and took the final say as to where the camera would be placed to save yet another argument occuring. Seeing how i have worked within this enviroment before, i was familiar with directing and also acting infornt of a camera and the stress that occurs from having little time to film and to get it right, so i took my knowledge and applied it to allowing my group to somwhat 'put up' with eachother until the filimg was done.
Wednesday 27 November 2013
Monday 25 November 2013
Thursday 24 October 2013
Script for our Preliminary Task
Zom-com….
*Scene opens with the ticking of the clock and the
students Bruce and Humphrey In after school detention.*
Humphrey: How long till we
finish?
Bruce: Umm…
Teacher: Shhh!
Humphrey: Sorry.
Bruce: Five minutes
Teacher: Shhh!
*Zombie is at the door, Sam notices the Zombie at the
door.*
Humphrey: There’s a Zombie at
the Door…*Whispers*
Bruce: Sh**
*They look at each other and then at the zombie*
Humphrey: Miss…. Miss there’s a
Zombie at the Door
Teacher: Shut up Humphrey
Bruce: But-t Miss…
Teacher: Be quiet Bruce.
Bruce: Grab a weapon, I’ve seen
this before in movies.
Humphrey: Like what
Bruce: Anything!
*The boys look around and pick up weapons. Humphrey picks
up a chair and Bruce picks up pencil. Bruce looks at his ‘weapon’ and then back
at Humphrey and then prepares to fight, with the pencil. The zombie is suddenly
at the table and plays cat and mouse with the two students, until the boys realise.
Bruce: Hang on. Zombies can’t
run.
*They look at the zombie and she shrugs. Sam goes around
the table while peter tries to be cool and jump the table. He fails and does
the walk of shame out of the door. Closing it on his way out. The Zombie turns
and see’s the teacher and stands in front of the camera.
Teacher: screams
*The boys are walking away from detention, and hear the
screams, they look back then to each other and smile, then carry on walking,
leaving their teacher and the Zombie.*
*End credits and music
continue as planned*
Description of Preliminary Task
Our preliminary task is a short sketch about two students, Humphrey and Bruce who have stayed behind with their grumpy teacher for detention. The boys are unaware that a Zombie roams the halls until Humphrey spots it from the door window. The two prepare for battle and the Zombie tries to attack. The boys then realise that Zombies can't run, and walk out, leaving their teacher with a hungry Zombie, as the boys walk away we hear a girl like scream coming from the teachers room, the boys smile and carry on walking realising that the Zombie has ate their teacher.
When shooting we decided to use our 180 degree angle when the boys are deciding what weapon to use, and our shot reverse shot from student to teacher. We chose this because we wanted to show the requirements as subtly as we could, and embedded into the storyline, not just one required shot after another.
The choice of genre is 'Zom-com', we chose this because, within in a group we all enjoyed other films such as 'Shan of the dead' so we deiced to do a comedy which involved zombies.
Wednesday 23 October 2013
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