Filming Finished.....Nearly

Went out filming in Hyde Park because there are some mirrors which reflect London's skyline.  There are 3 mirrors, spread around the park, but I picked the most fascinating one.  I have also done some additional VOX pops in Clapham Junction, that was 2 days ago.  

Most recently I've been filming in Woolwich and by Gallion's Reach DLR.  I've filmed the sculptures in the scrap yard, a model house made up of multi-coloured porter cabins and the skyline from a bridge overlooking the river.  I still need to film the time-lapse of the skyline and Richmond park.  I thought I would be finished filming, but the weather has been cloudy for the past week and for the time-lapse, it needs to be sunny.  I'm going to see if I can hire the camera out for another week because, weather permitting, I'll be out to shoot again.  

Tower 42, Filming Day 3

I filmed at the top of Tower 42 today and the view is breathtaking! Not sounding too melo-drematic when I say this, but I was so high up, I really did feel oxygen leave my lungs and my ears popped - literally! That's what you get for going so high up and that's what you get when you're as excited as I am.

My next venture after Tower 42, was Piccadilly Circus, to do some VOX pops with people on their opinion of the aesthetics of London.  I heard some some detailed and valuable answers, but those some were few and quite far between.  The feeling I went away with afterwards, was that the VOX pop questions needed another treatment because the wording was a little recondite; it was even difficult to understand to intellectual city workers who I interviewed.  So I'm attending to the questions as I type.  The answers I received were not as I was expecting, so I'm evaluating the questions and reading them over to make sure that they make sense.  I won't do much reading right now as I'm going to go to bed.  I'd like an early start tomorrow.

Update on the VOX Pops:


The revised questions for the VOX Pops, which were still not concise, judging from the type of answers I received.

Day Out To Buy Equipment!

Equipment. I've. Been.  To.  Buy! I want to edit my short-film at home, so I went out to Oxford Street to buy a firewire 800 cable to attach to my computer in order to upload the footage to FCP on my iMac - and a 1TB hard-drive to store the files on.  Now I'm all set.  It was a long day out, but for what I've accomplished - worth it!

I've been trying to upload the production schedule to this blog, with no luck! If I figure out a way, I will upload it.  I'm sure that, however, you won't need to guess that since I have FCP at home, a firewire 800 cable and a hard-drive - every single day is going to be spent editing my short-film to beauty, until it's dazzling! I was thinking of even doing a vblog, since I have a webcam.  Well, I need to go to sleep now.  Long day ahead tomorrow!

Update


Production schedule - finally figured out a way to save it from Word to JPEG

Start to Filming

This week I've begun filming for my short-film: Obscured From View.  I'll need at least 3tapes because of the technical requirements of shooting my short-film.  I'll have the production schedule uploaded up on here by tomorrow - been pre-occupied for the past couple of days, preparing to shoot and shooting.

I have a few astonishing panoramas of the skyline which I filmed yesterday; I only managed to get a view like that because I followed the postman in to the skyscraper and there were no security guards - surprisingly! Tomorrow I'm going to film more, in East London and on Thursday I'm travelling up to Tower 42 because I have an appointment to go to the top, via special arrangement.  

I'll keep you regularly updated of my progress.

Short Film Planning Week 3

I spent the whole day today storyboarding and planning the shots that I'd use, how the film would be structured and how I'd use the visuals and sound to make my short-film look stunning.  The shots will be subject to change, however, this is the main blueprint for how the film will pan out.

Jack's also confirmed that he can accompany me for security.  I've taken some more photos for inspiration, but in the half-term I'll take some more before I start filming, to be completely sure of the kind of visuals I want.  

Short Film Planning Week 2

I've started working on my short-film pitch.  So far, all I've done is to copy and paste my planning that I've put in to Word and written a synopsis, outlining what the film is about.  The powerpoint presentation won't take that long to do, but I am putting a lot of effort in to designing it and making sure that people get the point of my short-film in addition to understanding why it should be made.

I'm researching further in to locations and I've found some wacky locations to film at, such as funny shaped houses, the smallest house in Britain and other weird locations.  I've completed my list, but I may need to add or take from it as my planning continues.  This weekend I plan to take some photos in the places I plan to go to, for inspiration and to see whether the shots will work.  We have an inset day on Monday, so I'll do it then.  I've chosen the type of music that I want as the bed for the short-film - soundtrack music.  The sample (which I have included in my Powerpoint Presentation) is from the Doctor Who Specials Soundtrack.  I've listened to the entire soundtrack (I'm a big fan of Doctor Who) and chose two which struck me in-particular.

George has agreed to be the boom operator (obviously I can't be the camera man and the boom operator because they're impossible to do simultaneously, both require constant attention - I know, I'm still working solo!) and Jack: I still need to ask him about accompanying me as 'plan b' when George isn't around to accompany me on film shoots. 

Well - time's up for the lesson - says the blinking fire alarm!!

Short Film Planning

Yesterday Ms Pemberton read out a list of groups and - as I requested - I'm working solo!

Yesterday afternoon and this morning, I've been brainstorming ideas.  I started out with 3 ideas initially:

• The first idea was about 3 people who had the same prophecy: that something would happen to impact their lives......no.  Already, I could see that the narrative would be too long-winded for a short film.  So I moved on to idea number 2.....
• Idea number 2: A massive chase sequence (abstract and no storyline) which would use many angles to show a man being chased by another, sinister looking man.  Parlously pondering on whether to use this idea to turn in to a short film (as I'd been angling towards the idea and thinking about it for weeks prior) I decided not to - 
• Idea number 3 was better.  I've recently been taking long walks around the River Thames and on the streets of London.  On my long walks, I've noticed bizarre things and taken pictures of things which amazed me.  My mind has been instilled and I decided that this third idea was the best out of all three because it excited me so much and I was so inspired from the things I saw that I wanted to use them to create my short-film.  

This morning we were in the computer room and I began researching locations which I wanted to film at.  Other things I planned included who was going to be my boom operator and who'd be with me for security.  Planning - my ideas are still being seeded.  It's going well, 2 days in.