New Character Bio

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Due to the problems with filming, we have chosen to use a new actor for our main character. Megan will now be playing Lily as she is free to film at convenient times to us.
This is the updated character bio:


The central character is called Lily. We have chosen this name because it is a symbol of innocence, however white lilies are also associated with death. Lily is a 17 year old college student. She works hard, and the film is set just after she receives her AS level results. She is celebrating these results with the party. She is an outgoing and strong character, which is tested in this film. We felt a weak character would not be as effective because the idea of a strong, courageous character being put in this situation is much more engaging.

Storyboard

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After talking about and deciding our storyline we created a storyboard which consists of the content, shot type, camera movement, sound and mise-en-scene of each scene in our trailer:

Problems with Filming

Blogged by Anya

This weekend we experienced some problems with getting footage for our trailer.
We had planned to do the majority of our filming over Saturday afternoon and Monday morning but were let down by cast members at the last minute.
We had planned to film our 'party scene' on the Saturday but were unable to do so as many of the people who had agreed to be in our trailer were unable to get to the location.

Our solution to this is to film our party scene in woods closer to where our cast live. This may mean that we have to film half of our cast in Fox's Forest, Cosham and the other half in Gundymoor Woods, Crookhorn/Madam's Copse, Hambledon (our original location).
We had also intended to film our main character's scenes on Monday morning (today) but our actor had to cancel due to getting a shift at her work.
We hoped to resolve this by using a different person in our trailer but we were unable to find someone at such short notice. Instead, we must either find a new main character that is free when we are or find some kind of lighting, such as a flood light, so that we can film in the evening.

Similar disruptions also happen in Hollywood. The filming of Terry Gilliam's "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" was on hiatus after the death of Heath Ledger. He was eventually replaced by Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law. The use of three actors was possible because of the fantastical nature of the story.
Our problems with filming were not so drastic and fortunately, we have not filmed anything with one actor and are having to change but that fact that there are problems with filming big productions makes us feel hopeful about the difficulties we have faced with our footage.

Bibliography:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117982130?refCatId=13
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imaginarium_of_Doctor_Parnassus#cite_note-11

Risk Assessment Form

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Due to the lighting at 6pm and the fact that our main character is unavailable at the weekend, we chose to film our trailer on Monday morning in our lesson time. Because of this, we had to fill out a risk assessment form:

Pheasant Cage Test

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We chose to take a video of the pheasant cage before filming our trailer to find any possible hazards. I went back to the woods and filmed around the cage to get an idea of the space.
From the footage we can see that the camera is easily shaken. We must watch out for this as we are not using hand held footage.
The trees block the way in some parts, this means we do not have a 360 degree view from outside the cage.
Whilst moving the silver wire is hard to see, this must be taken into account.
The green wire is more visible whilst moving but it detracts from the fearful atmosphere.
There are fallen trees inside the cage which will be both good and bad. They will help create a creepy feel but will also be dangerous if not carefully used.

Camera Tests

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We chose to test the lighting in the woods before we did any filming for our trailer as we were not sure how the trees would affect the light.
As we planned to film at 6pm, this was the time we went to do our test shoots.
Unfortunately, we underestimated how dark it would be at this time and as you can see from the footage below, we would have been unable to film.








We then went out the next day at 3pm and discovered that this would be a better time to film our trailer as the camera captured everything well.

Because of this, we had to make sure that we changed our Facebook group and that all of the cast for the party scene were aware that we had moved the shoot to 3pm.

Casting (Party Scene)

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In order to create our party scene we need a large group of people to participate. We decided the easiest and most effective way of gaining these participants was to create a Facebook Group, as we are then able to directly contact a large number of our friends instantly. In the group we have wrote a statement explaining our ideas and how we would go about making the scene itself. We also included health and safety information and informed everyone that the although it appears the characters would be drinking in the film, no alcohol would be used in the production of it and so vodka would be substituted with water, beer with apple juice and wine with blackcurrant etc.