Pitch/Shooting

Last week Wednesday we delivered our pitch to our class, going through what we will be creating. They seemed very interested and liked our vision of producing a short film/documentary about a zombie.
Also Friday 18th of last week we had gone out for our first shooting, we went up Streetly where Jess lives, which will be our zombie, Jon's area in the documentary. I worked alongside Amy who gave ideas as to what shots looked best. I captured numerous shots to set locations of the documentary, of the street, in long shots, Jess's house in various shots such as close ups, wide shots and also long shots.
This week Tuesday we went filming in the town center also to set location. We had all put in input as to what shots we require as our Director, Amy was unwell and absent that day. I had captured shots of the center of Bullring in establishing shots, close ups of signs around town and static shots of people walking past, where we will be speeding up whilst editing in post production.

Within the past couple of weeks as a group we have been essentially dwelling on our ideas and now have looked at ways to put them in action in terms of filming certain scenes. From our advertising campaign of looking for an actor we received a response from someone who seemed very interested in playing the role, but lives slightly far away which means we may have problems on actual filming days where are having to travel to locations. So we thought we’d use on of Jess’s friends who is also interested and willing to play the part called Jon, we decided to meet up with him one of the days next week to go through storylines and what his role entails.

We received back the questionnaires we distributed and myself and mala sat closely together and counted up the results in order for everyone in the group to analyse individually and to discuss in our treatments.
There had been slight disagreement on the plot of our storyline and scripting, it is important to have a well-structured script before going further as we can work from it in all ways. Jess has been storyboarding some shots based on the ideas we have produced as a group and we have been doing individual planning of a potential ending.

I personally have been doing some research on essentially how to shoot a documentary to get myself familiar in terms of conventions they share, tips of camera angles and interview expertise. I found out about; 

• lighting and how it should be refrained from reflecting in the eyes
•  how the interviewees’ must never look into the camera
• equipment, what we will need

We have also been preparing for our pitch which will be taking place next week, Wednesday. We created a rough sort of plan of what we will be talking about. Jessica wrote on the board whilst myself, mala and phill generated ideas what we should talk about in the presentation.