Shoot Day 4

Today's shooting was a success but we could have done more. The shots that we did get worked well and the lighting was good with the sound being minimal meaning that you could hear the pairs dialogue the space is also bigger that the one I had originally planned to use meaning that the camera could be placed in a better position

However I did have some issues with the camera and one of the lenses meaning that it wouldn't focus properly meaning I couldn't get the wide shots I needed and that the shot of Ottilie exiting the door were too close which didn't work with the scene.

Below are some clips from Today's filming

Script Scaling

Originally I had planned to feature several different conversations in this piece with several friends at the party. However once I had put together my first cut with the footage I had recorded of just Roddy and Ottilie talking together it became quickly apparent that at least one of these dialogues was going to need to be cut as keeping it in would cause me to run over my five minute time limit.

However the other conversation I had hoped to keep in however decided agains't this as reshooting these scenes was proving difficult later in the production run.

This removal I believe has actually focused the piece which previously may have jumped around between different conversations too much rather than focusing too much on the dramatic centre of the film Danny and Sam's relationship. With the removal of these two other conversations I believe that the text is now properly focused on this relationship which had been my original intention.

Shoot Day 4 (Planning)

Shoot Day 4

Equipment Needed

Camera
Wide Angle Lens
Close Up Lens
Standard Lens
Tripod
Spare Batteries

Audio Recorder
Microphone
Microphone Stand

Actors Needed

Roddie Thompson
Ottilie Nye

Shots Planned

The plan for this days shoot is to shoot the outside scenes that make up the finale of the piece.

Notes

The outdoor nature of the scene means that is could be too dark to shoot outside this is one of the reasons that I changed location as the lighting outside of the principal shooting location was not sufficient for good quality cinematography

Sound could also be an issue as the road near to the shooting location could interfere with sound recording

Music - First Ideas

Three Different Tracks

Opening
Not sure exactly what inspiriation I had for this but standard kind of dance tracks but opening them up a bit removing a focus on the base and adding reverb to give the sense of a wider party

Second Track

 Emotional meeting at the end of the film as the couple reconcile
Final Track

Over the credits up beat and happy looking opptimistically towards the future

Title - Inspiration

The video above is a video about how to creatively use film titles. The example at the beginning of how the avengers used titles as an answer to a question that is posed by the film as a whole.

I chose to invert this decision and have the title be a question in this case;

WHAT COMES NEXT?

This is the question that is posed by the character of Danny early in the film with his confession of his confusion over what happens now that they are technically adults and is the central theme of the film this idea of moving forward in life and wanting to see what comes next is what causes the character of Sam to eventually reconcile with Danny and to look to the future. Below are some examples of font styles that I would like to use from similar texts.

Rough Cut 2

Shoot Day 3

Today was another successful day of shooting however I could have used more time as some of the shooting was rushed due to a number of the extras having time commitments that they had not told me about. We did get all the shots I wanted which is good because organising re-shoots with this many extras was very difficult and people have multiple commitments at this point in term

The stabiliser worked well on the day which was a massive help and made the walk through shot look really good although I did leave a tripod in frame briefly which is annoying but it is only visable for a brief so it is not that big of a deal

Below are some other clips from Today's session. These are unedited and so might be quite long