Originally we planned to film on the opening weekdays of our 2015 Christmas holiday, however due the unfortunate weather we weren't able to film. I myself then was away between Christmas and New Year, so we weren't then able to film until New Years Day, the weather again was dreadful, so we pushed it back until the final weekend of the holidays, once again we were let down by the elements, so we moved it back until after school on Tuesday 5th, Wednesday 6th and Thursday the 7th.
These mishaps were difficult to work around, however, although we are now filming at a later stage, the weather is now slightly improving and we should still have all our shots before our editing masterclass, whereby we will need the majority of our footage.
Our current plan is to work around our free periods and time after school. We have our call sheet ready so we know what to film, and when to film it, so now its just a case of getting it done!
On Tuesday 5th we went out to shoot for the first time, however we didn't have a piece of nessersary equipment, the bag, which could have not happened had we improved communication before hand. This is vital too our shoot so we got the one clip we could get without it, which was shot 15. This wasn't all that bad, as the rain once again began to set in, so our filming would undoubtably have been cut short anyway, however we plan to film Wednesday 6th after school, and again on Thursday 7th in our free periods and after school, where the weather should improve.
On Wednesday 6th, we went out to film shots 8-14, as shot 15 was already done. The overall shoot was a success, and we realised that our location was perfect for shooting, however looking back at the footage, we need more shots to improve its fluidity and to make more sense overall, we made an effort not to break the 180 degree rule and did every shot until we got we were happy. Now we have almost half the shots, we can go back and improve certain shots as we go. Having experienced our mishap on day 1 of shooting, we were much more organised in the run up to the shoot, and we able to over come any problems we had.
We shot the following day on Thursday 7th in school. We set out to get the shots we will use for the match cuts in the school gym, we feel these were a success, however we are yet to review the footage to determine whether it is good enough to use.
Our plan from here was to film on Sunday 10th, however, once again the weather was out to get us, with snowfall over night and rain during the day. From here we planned to continue our filming on Monday 11th, Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th if we need it, at this point we should be complete with filming, and from here can begin the editing process.
We kept in contact over Facebook messenger to find dates we were all around to film, and make plans for the near future. We wanted to film on Wednesday the 20th, however we all fell ill, and with recent snowfall were waiting for the snow to full melt.
At this point we worked on updating our footage, adding music, titles and more or less, the editing! We produced
'Rough Cut 5'.
To advance on Rough Cut 5, we wanted to improve the narrative, and help the film flow better, so me and Robbie went out to film more Go-Pro footage which turned out successful. HOWEVER, although our film made sense in our story board, it didn't quite work after reviewing the final product we had in our overall film, we weren't satisfied! Our narrative could be improved massively in our opinion, just by moving clips around and composing our music to really emphasise the genre and to provide more effect. We took our ideas back to the story board, to change the layout of our clips and scenes, and decide where we needed more shots, and where we perhaps didn't need shots.
To develop on this, me and Robbie took charge to go and film a whole new scene. We incorporated a whole gym scene at the begging, along with text messages to improve the narrative and continuity. The match cuts now make sense and it flows better. Along with this, me and Alex found some music which worked great! Myself, Robbie and Alex edited this footage to the music which has turned out really well! The mark of the film went from an average C, to a predicted A, so I would reflect on this as successful.
