Synopsis planning
Our film involves a kidnapping of a young boy and gets found by the neighbour of the house.
Location-
Our location was in Harrisons cabin which was in the back of his garden. We made this look dirty and unhygienic so it looked like he had been there for a while.
Another location we used was a small interview room which we used to do our interview with Josiah about his experience.
We also had an interview with the victims mother about how she was feeling.
Props-
we used a lot of rubbish such as tin cans and rubbish bags from cat food etc. so the cabin looked messy and not being cleaned out.
The messy clothing was another prop as we made the victim dirty and poor to show he has been kept for a long time.
Location-
Our location was in Harrisons cabin which was in the back of his garden. We made this look dirty and unhygienic so it looked like he had been there for a while.
Another location we used was a small interview room which we used to do our interview with Josiah about his experience.
We also had an interview with the victims mother about how she was feeling.
Props-
we used a lot of rubbish such as tin cans and rubbish bags from cat food etc. so the cabin looked messy and not being cleaned out.
The messy clothing was another prop as we made the victim dirty and poor to show he has been kept for a long time.
Group members
James- James took the role of being Josiah who was the character that has been locked in the dark dirty cabin that has all the mess that has built up over time being in there. These conditions were very poor which you can see in the photo bucket on my Blog. James also done the title research of similar documentaries that we could get ideas from to help our film opening look presentable and good.
Sophie- Sophie wrote out the storyboard for our film so we produced a plan for our shot sequences & camera angles with the length of shot. Sophie also done a very good job of editing the film which included the titles, credits and transitions between the video clips.
Harrison- Was playing the role of the neighbour that finds Josiah (James) in the cabin and is the main character that is seen in our film. Harrison and James also produced two newspaper articles together and done voiceover to what was happening in the video clips.
Aaron- I was the Director of Photography and filmed all of our footage with being the director of the planning of what we was going to do and what camera angles to use. Also started to do parts of editing. I produced the risk assessment and shooting schedule as well so that the three other members in our group can use.
Sophie- Sophie wrote out the storyboard for our film so we produced a plan for our shot sequences & camera angles with the length of shot. Sophie also done a very good job of editing the film which included the titles, credits and transitions between the video clips.
Harrison- Was playing the role of the neighbour that finds Josiah (James) in the cabin and is the main character that is seen in our film. Harrison and James also produced two newspaper articles together and done voiceover to what was happening in the video clips.
Aaron- I was the Director of Photography and filmed all of our footage with being the director of the planning of what we was going to do and what camera angles to use. Also started to do parts of editing. I produced the risk assessment and shooting schedule as well so that the three other members in our group can use.
Production Diary
Day
1 (13th November)- Sophie, Aaron, James and Harrison all discussed and shared our
individual pitches to each other and all decided on the best one to present to
the class. We decided to present James' as his had the best story line. After we
had presented we then decided a whole new idea which was to do a documentary and
James started to plan the prezi for this.
Day
2 (14th November)- Our prezi was created for our documentary and we presented it
to the class. Good feedback was given back to us for us to improve and we didn't
get much criticism. With the feedback we then made a few changes to our
story line and then was discussed with Miss Brookes.
Day
3 (17th November)- Our group sat together and decided on all the improvements
for our final film pitch. We then starting our sources we will be using in the
film so Aaron created a newspaper article which will be used in our film. Sophie,
James and Harrison also helped by giving him ideas.
Day
4 (18th November)- Today we began to plan our storyboard, these images show
evidence of this.
Day
5 (20th November- Sophie, Aaron, James and Harrison started blogging for preparation
for our film pitch.
Day
6 (21th November) - Aaron, James and Harrison have started to prepare the voice
over. Sophie has now completed the storyboard and our group are now filming our
storyboard.
Day
7 (25th November)- We have all continued to plan and create our storyboard.
Timings for each scene have now also been added and we are now ready to start
making the storyboard video.
Day
8 (26th November)- Aaron, James and Harrison filmed the storyboard and also did
the voice over for it. James was the voice over for the storyboard and Aaron
recorded him. Whilst doing this Harrison was designing the wall for his cabin
that we are using in our film.
Day
9 (2nd December)- Today we have continued to blog our progress and will soon be
preparing our film as most of our scenes have no been filmed the previous
weekend. Sophie have also now uploaded the storyboard film and have given evidence of
us planning our work.
Day
10 (4th December)- Today Sophie, Harrison, Aaron and James have continued filming
our interviewing at school in the drama studio. We have learnt about lighting
and camera angles during this process and we are now starting to edit our film
as our first draft.
Day
11 (5th December)- I have started to record the storyboard film and finish
filming our last scenes of the film opening. Aaron and James have continued to
edit our film and Harrison has helped Sophie with the filming of the storyboard.
Day 12 (8th December)- Today we gave feedback to other groups film drafts and also got our feedback back.
Day 13 (9th December)- We used our feed back to improve on our film draft and I continued to edit our film. Aaron, James and Harrison were blogging whilst I was doing this.
Day 14 (10th December)- We have re-filmed our interview as from our feedback we realised our interview wasn't very good and we have added thing to our film so the interview makes more sense.
Day 15 (11th December)- I continued to edit our film whilst James has gathered videos to be added into it. Harrison has carried on producing the newspaper article which James also helped him with and Aaron has been listing our shooting schedule.
Day 16 (12th December)- We presented our film to Miss and got got feedback on it which we used to edit our film in order to improve it. Aaron and Sophie both edited whilst James and Harrison did the newspaper article and re-did the voice over.
Day 17 (15th December)- Today is our last day of making our film and we have made the last improvements to our film. Whilst Sophie edited, Aaron, James and Harrison Blogged.
Location shots
The pictures in this Photobucket are of Josiah's (James) living conditions in the cabin where he was put by his kidnapper. The living conditions were shown by the pictures which show the mess on the floor with food tins, wee on newspaper, old toys that entertained him. There is also scraping on the walls with a tally chart of the amount of weeks he stayed in the shed and drawing pictures of his family in paint hat was left in there.
Filming the interview
Filming the interview with Josiah (James) about his experience being locked up in the shed. He was asked questions that he answered without showing his face because he was still very shaken from being treated disrespectfully and very badly. He did not want to show his face to the camera for people to see.
Storyboard video
This is the storyboard for our idea of the film that we are going to try and produce. This shows the camera shots and the time that we are going to film the shot for.
Peer feedback first draft
The positive feedback we got from our peers was that the acting by Harrison was a good point which he done well. We got feedback on a good setting and idea that can be be used to create a good piece of work.
The bad feedback was that we need more footage with the interview and link with more titles. Also the interview needs to be in a better location with better sound so it is clear to hear. The lighting of the location changes half way through which needs to be adapted so it looks like it runs smoothly. Need to link the shots with better transitions so it looks more like a documentary.
To improve we can add our newspaper artcules into the start and ending to show that it is a documentary.
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