Preliminary Sequence:

We have made a video showing all of the different shot angles and have edited it using Final Cut. We have included: a close up, extra close up, medium shot, long shot, extra long shot, over the shoulder shot, ariel/birds eye shot, worm eye view, 180 degree rule.




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Film Title

As a group we have decided that the title of our film will be 'Sleeper'. We thought that this would be appropriate because of the plot of the film. We also considered the name 'Dreamer' however, we did not want to give too much information away in the title because the plot of the film would be too obvious. 


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Pages From Our Filming Production Booklet:

Pages from Film Production Booklet

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This presentation shows some pages from our filming production booklet.

Mind-Map

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This is the mind map we produced to get ideas for our film opening, it was actually very successful as we worked as a group and thought of lots of good ideas which we are going to include in our film opening sequence. 

Second Shooting:

We plan to do our second shooting session tomorrow (Thursday) in which we hope to complete the filming so that we can begin cutting and editing as soon as possible in order to make the best of the time we have. We have as a group decided that in order to prevent being let down again by an actor for our film, we will infact use either a family member to help us or one of the members of our group will do it. This will not make a difference on the filming as the actors face is not actually seen in the film, just the back of them. We did need it to be a male character however, as their face isn't going to be seen we realised that it will not make a difference to the film. 


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This is the remaining parts of our story boards - pages 2, 3 and 4.

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This is the first part of our storyboard.

Our Preliminary Exercise:

We all went out filming our preliminary exercise a couple of weeks ago with our camera and tri-pod. It was the first time that we were using both the camera and the tri-pod, so it was a good activity for our group to get to know how to use the equipment which we will be using for our filming. We filmed all over the school, both inside and outside. For our preliminary exercise we had to film a variety of different shots including: close up shot, extra close up shot, long shot, medium shot, aerial shot and lots more. Then, we had to film two people having a conversation sitting opposite each other and use the camera to zoom in and out to show the character's facial expressions and body language. 

Lastly, we had to do a shot following the 180 degree rule, for this we had the camera following a character around a room in a circle to capture the characters every move. 

It was a very successful exercise overall and it went very well, we managed to capture all the shots correctly and complete the exercise very well as a group. 

First Shooting

As a group we began shooting last weekend, however, it was quite unsuccessful because our actor let us down last minute and despite us trying to find someone else, we did not.


We had all of the equipment so we decided to do as much as we could and so we planned further into how we wanted things for when we were next able to film properly.


We did several run throughs and did film a small amount for which we didn't need the actor for.


We are planning to use the equipment and continue filming this week/this weekend.


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