EXT. LEGAL OFFICE. DAY (DICe)
handbag
files
portfolio
cigarettes/ bottle of water
folder (for Bogdan)
EXT. DAY. (Tramstop at Forest Field)
cigarettes
letter (with school logo)
watch
INT. LEGAL OFFICE. DAY (York House)
law books from Boots
computer (Macs from 207 Wav?)
desk lamp (?)
pens
mug
files
stationery
graduation photos
picture frame
pins
calendar
diploma
diary
airline ticket
INT. APARTMENT. NIGHT
pictures (son & wife)
picture frames
Romanian/English books
Ro/Eng Dictionary
chessboard
stationery
plate
knife
fork
newspapers
ironing table
Rubik`s cube (?)
Monday, 23 November 2009
Long awaited update... presenting BOGDAN!
Okay, so as you can see i haven't updated my blog for like 2 weeks! Its been so damn busy these few weeks. 1st with our assignments and then our productions. Be prepared as theres alot im gonna go through so brace yourselves! So yeh, we've got another film to shoot and this one isn't a practice. We've been given scripts from Jools, which we've re-written in the way in which we want to percieve the story. Well, its been re-written like 3 or 4 times to what we've got it to now. Our story is called 'Bogdan', and is about a Romanian man who is an immigrant to the country and the story basically outlines his struggle with having to deal with the seperation with his family and how he tries to bring them over to the U.K and what issues he faces in the process.
So, last week we got our scripts (through a random dip) and our group was glad to have got the Bogdan script, as we all were more drawn to that script on first impression anyway. The day after, we had a group meeting, discussed through the script, and the group shared ideas on what they thought could be useful in the process of getting a meaning to the script and ideas on how we might approach telling this story in the most effective way possible. Luckily, we have Diana in our group, who is from a Romanian background, so we were given a head start in the background knowledge and how our character Bogdan may appear and what his characteristics may be like. Diana has done a character study on our character 'Bogdan', in which she outlines what our character will be like and what type of clothing would be suitable and what props may be effective with our Romanian character (http://duckieontrent.blogspot.com/2009/11/bogdan-capitan-de-plai.html).
We then discussed everyones roles. The main idea we had was for everyone to try out a different role from the one we had in our previous film. This is turn, would help each of us to understand the other roles more and, in essence, this would be better practice for ourselves in learning new skills. I myself was incharge of all the camera-work in the previous film, however in this film i think i want to discover more of the sound side, as i believe this is my weaker side. Therefore, i have chosen to be incharge of the sound design for Bogdan. As well as this i am the assistant director and assistant producer. I have been reading a book called 'Sound for Film & Telivision' by Tomlinson Holman:
(http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wBlRtAlKPFsC&dq='Sound+for+Film+%26+Television'+by+Tomlinson+Holman&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=HhMLS83eHZT54AbI3OS3Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBkQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=&f=false).
This book has helped me develop many interesting ideas, which were are fairly new to me. In the book i learnt about ''Hyper-REAL'' sound and the way in which this works and how sound recorded as natural may not sound 'real' when recorded (in the viewers perspective). Therefore, the technique relies with the sound being exxegarated a little during post-production. We see this in nearly all films, yet it goes un-noticed. This exxageration of sound adds so much effect to what is happening visually. Watch a film next time, and realise how the foley sound effects (e.g. footsteps) are alot louder than they would be in reality (exxageration of reality). I believe sound plays a massive part in a film, yet is is the thing that goes un-noticed the most. I think sound is VERY crucial, as it works with the audience unconsciously (as it can't be seen) yet has a MASSIVE effect with how a story is told. An identical scene played back with different music, can have a completely different meaning and message to an audience.
This is me collecting Foley sounds to include in post-production. In this specific picture i was collecting a sound for footsteps. I was completely caught off-guard :D
An example is in the film Citizen Kane, a scene where the sound can be contrasted with that in the next scene of Kane and his girlfriend in the back seat of his car. In the first scene, the sound is emphasising the seperation of the characters, Whereas, in the second, the sound is very intimate, emphasising the change of scene and moment or even change of emotion between the characters. All in all, i believe sound plays a massive part in directing the viewers attention and witl all the things i have learnt about so far, i am intending to incorporate all these ideas into our next film Bogdan as head of sound. I have written down a long list of sounds for what will be taking place in each of the scenes and i intend to collect these sounds seperately also to 'hype' up in post-production. This will all help me in the process of me learning new ideas and skills.
We then as a group decided on some location for the scenes in the script. We had 2 exterior and 2 interior shots. We had some discussion, and changed our locations around a few times and finally came up with the locations. We will have an exterior shot at behind the university DICe building, an exterior shot at the Forest tram stop, an interior shot in an office, and an interior shot of a house. We went to all the locations with the all equipment and had trial runs, just so we known and are confident that everything is right for the shoot. If any problems occured, we could then solve them on the trial run ready for the shoot. Here are some of the pictures of the locations:
Oh yeh, and we met the actors we have been given for our film today too. It was a great opportunity go through everything with them and understand their professional perpective on what they thought. We also ran through the script and went through any problems they had and rehearsed each scene until we felt it was ready for us. Both of our actors come mainly from a Drama and theatre background. For example our female actor has been in Heartbeat, Doctors, Casualty, Holby City, Children Of The Crown (Nottingham Playhouse), and has also been in some feature films. Our male actor has been in The Execution Of Damiens, Coronation Street, Holby City, Coke Zero Advert. These are just a small few from a big list of things the actors have done.
We have also got a list written up of all the props that will be included in each scene, but i'll just include that in a seperate post as iv'e written sooo much already! Well i guess thats due to the fact so much has been going on the past 2 weeks. Neway, we are going to film tomorrow, so lets hope all goes well!
So, last week we got our scripts (through a random dip) and our group was glad to have got the Bogdan script, as we all were more drawn to that script on first impression anyway. The day after, we had a group meeting, discussed through the script, and the group shared ideas on what they thought could be useful in the process of getting a meaning to the script and ideas on how we might approach telling this story in the most effective way possible. Luckily, we have Diana in our group, who is from a Romanian background, so we were given a head start in the background knowledge and how our character Bogdan may appear and what his characteristics may be like. Diana has done a character study on our character 'Bogdan', in which she outlines what our character will be like and what type of clothing would be suitable and what props may be effective with our Romanian character (http://duckieontrent.blogspot.com/2009/11/bogdan-capitan-de-plai.html).
We then discussed everyones roles. The main idea we had was for everyone to try out a different role from the one we had in our previous film. This is turn, would help each of us to understand the other roles more and, in essence, this would be better practice for ourselves in learning new skills. I myself was incharge of all the camera-work in the previous film, however in this film i think i want to discover more of the sound side, as i believe this is my weaker side. Therefore, i have chosen to be incharge of the sound design for Bogdan. As well as this i am the assistant director and assistant producer. I have been reading a book called 'Sound for Film & Telivision' by Tomlinson Holman:
(http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wBlRtAlKPFsC&dq='Sound+for+Film+%26+Television'+by+Tomlinson+Holman&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=HhMLS83eHZT54AbI3OS3Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBkQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=&f=false).
This book has helped me develop many interesting ideas, which were are fairly new to me. In the book i learnt about ''Hyper-REAL'' sound and the way in which this works and how sound recorded as natural may not sound 'real' when recorded (in the viewers perspective). Therefore, the technique relies with the sound being exxegarated a little during post-production. We see this in nearly all films, yet it goes un-noticed. This exxageration of sound adds so much effect to what is happening visually. Watch a film next time, and realise how the foley sound effects (e.g. footsteps) are alot louder than they would be in reality (exxageration of reality). I believe sound plays a massive part in a film, yet is is the thing that goes un-noticed the most. I think sound is VERY crucial, as it works with the audience unconsciously (as it can't be seen) yet has a MASSIVE effect with how a story is told. An identical scene played back with different music, can have a completely different meaning and message to an audience.
This is me collecting Foley sounds to include in post-production. In this specific picture i was collecting a sound for footsteps. I was completely caught off-guard :D
An example is in the film Citizen Kane, a scene where the sound can be contrasted with that in the next scene of Kane and his girlfriend in the back seat of his car. In the first scene, the sound is emphasising the seperation of the characters, Whereas, in the second, the sound is very intimate, emphasising the change of scene and moment or even change of emotion between the characters. All in all, i believe sound plays a massive part in directing the viewers attention and witl all the things i have learnt about so far, i am intending to incorporate all these ideas into our next film Bogdan as head of sound. I have written down a long list of sounds for what will be taking place in each of the scenes and i intend to collect these sounds seperately also to 'hype' up in post-production. This will all help me in the process of me learning new ideas and skills.
We then as a group decided on some location for the scenes in the script. We had 2 exterior and 2 interior shots. We had some discussion, and changed our locations around a few times and finally came up with the locations. We will have an exterior shot at behind the university DICe building, an exterior shot at the Forest tram stop, an interior shot in an office, and an interior shot of a house. We went to all the locations with the all equipment and had trial runs, just so we known and are confident that everything is right for the shoot. If any problems occured, we could then solve them on the trial run ready for the shoot. Here are some of the pictures of the locations:
Oh yeh, and we met the actors we have been given for our film today too. It was a great opportunity go through everything with them and understand their professional perpective on what they thought. We also ran through the script and went through any problems they had and rehearsed each scene until we felt it was ready for us. Both of our actors come mainly from a Drama and theatre background. For example our female actor has been in Heartbeat, Doctors, Casualty, Holby City, Children Of The Crown (Nottingham Playhouse), and has also been in some feature films. Our male actor has been in The Execution Of Damiens, Coronation Street, Holby City, Coke Zero Advert. These are just a small few from a big list of things the actors have done.
We have also got a list written up of all the props that will be included in each scene, but i'll just include that in a seperate post as iv'e written sooo much already! Well i guess thats due to the fact so much has been going on the past 2 weeks. Neway, we are going to film tomorrow, so lets hope all goes well!
Friday, 6 November 2009
MALac complete
On Tuesday, Me and Alan, after alot of discussion and work fnished the final edit of the MALac project and we think we did a pretty decent job of it. We were however, as a group, in some concern about certain elements (E.G. sound, lighting) which we changed and then did a second edit. The first edit can be seen from the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqbVJStELRg
Shallow Focus & Cinematographer
Ok, so this was work we got for last week so its a little overdue. I'm not sure its come up properly however with the quality, but I used the MF function on the camera after asking somebody, to get shallow depth of field (or there abouts):
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Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Film Production : MALac
So, today we completed filming our MALac storyline. After a veeeeeery long day we finalised and were happy with what we had. The only complications we had were that the actors we got tunred up quiter late. Given the fact we had to rely on them, we didn't really have a choice except chase them up. This consequently affected the lighting we had set up because we already had our lighting up and ready. However, by the time our actors came it got a little dark, therefore we could not go ahead with the lighting we had set-up initially. We then had to re-set the lighting to how we needed, which took up more time than expected. Besides this, our filming went all according to plan. Every memeber of the group did their roles as expected and altogether I think we worked very well as a group. The things we would do different next time is make sure the actors turn up on time and also take out equipment a good few days before to the actual location we are filming and practice and get ideas of how we can any overcome problems that may occur. This will, in result, help us work more quicker and efficiently when we film.
Here are a few photos on the day of filming:
Actors learning the script
Filming the house we had for our establishing shot
Sound guy checking sound levels
In action.. take 2!
Alan taking care of all health and safety measures
A few extras added by the director to add realism
A bit of dirt won't do any harm!
<< And finally, our cover images, but which one to pick? >> 
Here are a few photos on the day of filming:
Actors learning the script
Filming the house we had for our establishing shot
Sound guy checking sound levels
In action.. take 2!
Alan taking care of all health and safety measures
A few extras added by the director to add realism
A bit of dirt won't do any harm!
<< And finally, our cover images, but which one to pick? >> 
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Film Production: Practice Day: MALac
Today, we hired out all equipment that in going to be needed for our actual film. We went to our location and we set them up however we wanted to be set for our set. Here are some pictures showing what we did:
Camera Practice
Setting up lights
Picture of our location
Our cellar location for MALac scene
Minutes for the day:
-Final draft of the script, discussed and agreed upon.
-Studio light and camera rehearsal
-Booking equipment for Tuesday (on location rehearsal) and Wednesday (shoot)
-Health & Safety, Recce sheet completed
Camera Practice
Setting up lights
Picture of our location
Our cellar location for MALac scene
Minutes for the day:
-Final draft of the script, discussed and agreed upon.
-Studio light and camera rehearsal
-Booking equipment for Tuesday (on location rehearsal) and Wednesday (shoot)
-Health & Safety, Recce sheet completed
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Overview - MALac Meeting
Today we were given the groups for our production of the film MALac. We then assigned each member of the group with a role, which they were comfortable with and then had a group vote. I chose to lead camera and assist lighting. After choosing the roles we had a meeting after our seminar and planned how we were going to go about everything to help us be more time-managable and meet all targets, as well as gather ideas from each member of the group.
Minutes for the day:
• A new member has joined the group, who will take up the role of sound recording
• We have got interested actors and actresses who have e-mailed back to take part in our film
• We have sent details and asked the actors to call back
• Completed a schedule for the filming and practice for all roles
• Tuesday at 2pm after lecture we will do a set rehearsal
• Wednesday at 9am we will do a dress rehearsal
• Monday at 9am, lighting and camera practice will be done before filming on Wednesday, by people undertaking these roles
• Script will be finalised on Monday (all changes)
• The risk assessment has been scheduled to be done on Monday as well
• We have had another discussion regarding our location, after having a sound lecture. We then decided a bedroom, but have now gone back to our original idea of the cellar due to sound and lighting purposes
• For all filming we have got permission from the technician to borrow equipment (e.g. camera, lights, mic etc) on specific days, when needed, whether for practice of actual filming
Minutes for the day:
• A new member has joined the group, who will take up the role of sound recording
• We have got interested actors and actresses who have e-mailed back to take part in our film
• We have sent details and asked the actors to call back
• Completed a schedule for the filming and practice for all roles
• Tuesday at 2pm after lecture we will do a set rehearsal
• Wednesday at 9am we will do a dress rehearsal
• Monday at 9am, lighting and camera practice will be done before filming on Wednesday, by people undertaking these roles
• Script will be finalised on Monday (all changes)
• The risk assessment has been scheduled to be done on Monday as well
• We have had another discussion regarding our location, after having a sound lecture. We then decided a bedroom, but have now gone back to our original idea of the cellar due to sound and lighting purposes
• For all filming we have got permission from the technician to borrow equipment (e.g. camera, lights, mic etc) on specific days, when needed, whether for practice of actual filming
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