We finally completed all the planning today so we are now able to go out and begin filming. We have changed aspects of the film already as we believe some of the shots we initially thought of weren't amazing and wouldn't create the effect we are after.
26th January..
Today went well as we got all the first shots of the woods done, however they aren't up to the correct standard yet so we are planning to re-shoot those on our re-shoot day. We found that our setting fits very well for our film however it causes problems as it is the middle of winter so our actress, Sophie, was rather cold so we will have to address this on our re-shoot day.
27th January..
We had a few problems getting into the drama studio so were unable to complete the flashback shots today, although we did manage to get some filming of the point of view shots done. We tested out some effects on the camera such as slowing it down to create a blurred effect. However, these shots were also not up to the standard we want them for the final cut of the film as the slowing down of the footage was a bit too slow for most of the takes so these shots will also be re-shot on the re-shoot day.
29th January..
Due to the inability of filming the flashback shots we were only able to cut and edit the first few shots of the woods and the point of view shots for our first cut of the film. Therefore we have little footage to edit at the moment so we need to get our there and shoot the rest of the film in order for us to finish the final cut.
31st January..
Our full day of filming went very well as we have got many shots that can be used in the final cut of "Blackout". I believe this is because we stuck to our story board quite well although some shots were difficult to shoot due to our setting of the woods so they may have to be re-shot. In particular, the 360 degree pan around Sophie shot from a high angle was very effective and will definitely be used in the final cut. However this shot did cause a few problems as we were in the woods it was hard to find a method to create this shot effectively. In the end we decided to slow the camera speed and have Steve walking in the opposited direction to the way Sophie was spinning around. We thought that this gave the best effect as the other shots we took didnt look professional at all. Despite us filming a lot of footage that can be used in the final cut there are still some re-shoots needing to be done as some shots weren't that amazing, especially the shot of Sophie as she is stumbling about the woods, although it is quite clever and being filmed from a tree it is way too long so we will have to break it up a bit with some close ups. We plan to re-shoot those shots on the 17th february, obviously depending on the weather.
1st-3rd February..
Editing has gone well although as we do not have all the correct footage we are unable to complete the film until we have re-shot and got the shots that we want. Once we have got those shots we can play around with the editing to make the film opening more effective.
8th February..
Today we have decided to go and shoot the flashback shots as we have access to the drama studio. As the drama studio has lighting that we could play around with we took advantage of this for the party scene so we could give the effect that Sophie was actually at a club. Overall the filming went well and we have got all the shots we need for the final cut which is great.
9th February..
We now have a basic first cut of the film due to our filming yesterday however it's not amazing as we haven't had the time to go and re-shoot yet. We have also been researching the music that we want to incorporate in "Blackout" and come to the conclusion that we are going to use 'Closer' by Kings of Leon and 'Warriors Dance' by The Prodigy which we have put into the first cut. Hopefully now we can get the shots we need and bring the film up to the standard that we want it. As we had the first rough cut of the film, we got some students to evaluate our first rough cut of "Blackout". Overall they liked the general idea however as we knew there was a lot of critism about the filming, but we can sort that on our re-shoot day.
17th February..
We planned a re-shot day today however the weather has turned against us as it is raining so we will be unable to go out into the woods to do our re-shooting. This is definitely a drawback of filming outside however our setting adds to the whole thriller/horror genre. The plan is to see what the weather is like tomorrow and continue filming tomorrow depending on the weather:
From this forecast we can see that we may not be able to re-shoot tomorrow however fridays weather looks ok to go out a film. Therefore we may have to delay it for another day until friday.
18th February..
Raining again. Therefore our re-shoot day has been postponed again which is not looking good!
23rd February..
Finally we had our re-shoot day. It went well as we got the close ups that we wanted and we had a few new ideas while we were there so we took a few experimental shots that may be used in our final cut.
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