Last scene/Deadlineee

In essence, after shooting the last scene to our short film/documentary, we had saved the last 2 weeks to edit and develop our production folder.

We had a very successful last shoot of Jon giving the tour around his room, mom and dad interviews and scenes of Jon cooking. Whilst jess applied make up to our actor, we found the room in which we were to film Jon giving a tour was still insufficient, again due to lack of set design. So to make it appear in the shot of a more teenager boys bedroom, I began cutting out pictures in magazines of anything related to cookery as the zombie in the film will be portraying a profuse passion for cooking. Amy helped me, we’d stuck down these pictures to an A3 sized paper, creating a collage to stick as posters around the room. We had also replaced and eliminated some things in the room to the convenience of when Jon gives the tour. I filmed the scene in the room in a handycam style, with some assistance off Amy and Phill of what shots we require, and for editing purposes.

cooking posters

The second scene I shot was of Jon cooking, also in a handycam style, a technique used in most documentaries. We shot a quick scene of Jon on the Xbox before shooting the mom and dad interview scenes. I’d shot that in low angles and long shots.
The interview scene with the parents went really well, we captured their emotions in close up, mid shots whilst they spoke. Phill assisted on having extreme close ups, again for the editing process.

Since, all footage had been captured by Phill and edited. The production folder has come together well, individual research and treatments have been completed by us all also analysis of audience research to enhance our production file.

We have handed in all work by deadline and anticipate high grades J

Over the past two weeks we have essentially been filming. We have shot a few scenes around Jess’s house which we are using to be Jon the zombie’s house in our documentary. Whilst i had captured location shots with Amy, Mala and phill, Jess applied make up on Jon for our next scenes of Jon walking on the street, leaving his house and a brief interview scene. I captured the interview scene, assisted by Amy in a handy cam style to give it a more documentary approach, Mala asked questions. We hoped to have also filmed the bedroom scene of Jon giving a tour around the room, we decided to have used Jess’s room but faced a slight holdback as it was not suitable in terms of props, eg- posters, cooking, poetry books due to lack of set design. 

Since, we have held production meeting whereby we discussed the expecting filming schedule and capture the footage which phill can edit. The script has now been finalized by myself and amy and have handed it to jess to continue story boarding. By the end of next week we hope to have finished filming all scenes, put together and complete our production folder and advise phill on editing our short film/documentary