Team Meeting

Team meeting notes: In our third group meeting we discussed:

• Who can be our actresses as we need somebody reliable.
• What days we will be filming, and what we will be filming on that date.
• what to do if one of the cast members can't make it - replacements
• Special effects- what we can and cannot do, which colours and shades to use as their are different types of cuts and bruises.
• We've discussed where to film in hollow ponds.
• We know what area to film in.
• Progression of actors and members.
• What the cargo container looks like from the inside.

Weather

As we are filming tomorrow i checked the weather report through my phone to see what the weather conditions will be like while we are filming. We have planned to start filming after college hours (4:20).

From the weather report i got, it shows that it will not be raining, but it will also not be sunny (we are still cautious about the weather, as conditions and reports can change quickly). The weather report also shows that the floor may be damp as it would have been raining from the day before.

*Leytonstone is the location of hollow ponds.

Checklist and feeback box for pre-production task

Above is an image of our tick list of what has needed to be done and blogged onto each member of the teams blog. This is the Pre-production task including recces, call sheet, etc...

Actors

As I blogged before we have been able to successfully secure a male actor for our short film which goes to the same college as us, as he is more reliable and less likely to bail out from our team like the other actors we have had before.


Thankfully, today we were able to find our female actresses which was a struggle for us as a team as no one said that they can certainly be in our short film, all the answers were maybe rather than yes. So after a long discussion we were able to conclude that we need somebody reliable; someone that will be there everyday; somebody that is not camera shy. Our answers turned to somebody on our crew would need to be the actor. The co-director Shorai, after further discussion put herself forward to become our female actress, which we are all thankful for. This allows us to start filming straight away which will be tomorrow 17/10/2014. Which is the second day of filming we planned to film on.


*We did not film on our planned date as we did not have any confirmation from any of our actors*.

Short Film idea

Recently today as a group we were discussing the different camera angles which we would use in our short film, and also what shots we will be using at what time of day. Shorai Shoniwa-Forchin a member of our group told me to look at the beginning of a film, which was part of her case study, which is called victim.



I really enjoy the beginning of the film as it creates a scene using a variety of close ups and extreme close-ups, without using an establishing shot.


If we use this as the beginning of our film instead of an establishing shot like we wrote on our story board, I believe that it would be a lot better as it is something different to what other people would be doing as we are creating a scene from different items which is at hollow ponds.


As this is a group project me and Shorai need to pitch this idea to the rest of the group to see if they are on board or if they feel it is easier to stick with the establishing shots. This then allowing us to focus our time more on shots of the actors allowing us to be able to cause tension on a better scale, as are short film will be a thriller.

Special Effects (Cut)

I am currently learning on how to create a small cut, this is quite a challenge for me as i am use to doing large cuts like stab wounds. I have done three designs which all needs improvement to it, to make it look more realistic. To crete the cuts i have used the make up kit shown before, wax and blood. I am still trying to create new ways on making this cut, such as finding thinner paint brushes to paint within the wound, using latex and cutting it making it look like skin, then underneath i would be adding cotton wool or wax to add depth into the cut. This is all experiments i will try in the future before we start filming the scene within the cargo container.

Cut 1

Above are images of the first cut i created using wax and red paint, the wax is scattered and not in a complete straight line as some small cuts i get are jigged as in its cut, skin, cut, skin.

Cut 2 

Above are images of the second cut i created, it is in the same format/ technique as cut 1, but this time i have added black, it adds depth into the cut, and also makes the skin look more dead. Items used for this cut was wax, red and black paint.

Cut 3

Above are images of the third cut i created, this time i decided to not do the jigged pattern with the wax so it is able to hold the blood within its structure. This is a more gruesome cut, which is more of a deep flesh wound. To create this cut i used wax, blood, red and black paint.

Special Effects (New Bruise)

Before in my blog i showed the work of a bruise which i can do for our short film. This time i have learnt to create a darker bruise as new bruises are normally a dark colour which then turns into the bruise i showed before being light and harder to see. I used the same make up kit to create this bruise, but used a lot of red in the background to make it a darker bruise.