SHOOT UPDATE- Sunday 11th November 2012

BEDROOM SCENES

( XBOX CLIP)

(SOPHIE FILMING THE BOYS)

(THROUGHOUT FILMING)

(ACTUAL XBOX WAS PLAYING LIVE)

(JAKE GETTING INTO COSTUME FOR THE SLEEPING SCENE)

(FILMING THE SCENE, ORGANISED MISE EN SCENE PROPERLY)

XBOX SCENE

Overall, the filming went well on the second day. As the group had been together once before, this made working together a lot more easier and it was a bonus that everyone got along well together, too. We followed the storyboard and filmed the scenes requiring the boys to play Xbox whilst being filmed with close up shots. We also used the technique of flashing a light on and off onto their faces whilst they were playing the same which made it clear that they were playing an action game with the rapid flashes and will also go with the shooting noises that will be present in our trailer in this part of the trailer. We got our actors to actually play the game on the Xbox to make it look and sound more realistic and this way we were ensured that they were going to act accordingly as they were having fun playing whilst getting the work done simultaneously.

POSSIBLE IMPROVEMENTS

If we would improve anything, it would be probably filming at a later time. This may be due to the fact that we had to create the darkness ourselves because we could not spend the whole day acting as our actors had other commitments. One thing we could improve, I feel, is organising more mise en scene around our actors to create a slight sense of realism that is present in a lot of British movies. Another thing we could have done was rather than filming longer scenes which will essentially be reduced to a matter of seconds, we should have filmed shorter scenes but consisting of more locations and more shots than we already filmed: we have discussed this as a group and will hopefully change in our next filming session.

SLEEPING SCENE

We used a pan to illustrate this clip of the trailer. We felt this was the most effective as to encapsulating the whole room on camera and also give a good detailed shot of our actors. I feel that the mise en scene for this clip looked casual yet very effective as it was minimal as opposed to the quite complex and open reading we have of our trailer (Barthe). We managed to film our actors in an extreme close up shot which, personally, was one of the best clips we have caught on camera. This shot offers variety to our trailer and could turn out to have any purposes later on when editing our footage.

POSSIBLE IMPROVEMENTS

One thing we could improve on could be, again, the length of the clip we captured. If we filmed snippets rather than a fully thought out scene such as we did, it'd help when having to put the trailer together once we get started on editing.