Filming First Look

This was our first look at some of our very early footage. This was also good preparation for using Final Cut and other techniques to therefore make our final edit a lot better.

Soundtrack

Our 'Love Me Do' soundtrack isn't able to be chosen because its copyrighted by The Beatles. So we found a cover of the song on Soundcloud and commented on it as the makers of the song didn't leave any contact details. We're waiting for a reply.

Rachel McAdams Photo

Now in our title sequence throughout we're going to be cutting between the shots and photos of the actors and the setting. This, the black and white one, is one of the photos we will use.

Production Log No.3

Our third day of shooting consisted of decided and carrying out our idea that in our title sequence we will only use one location. also the fact of our narrative slightly changing. In this days filming we carried out everything in the house. Making good use of the mis-en-scene available to us. We also had to re-film our previous shots, now in the house on the old fashioned carpet.

First Soundtrack Look

Today Fiona and Laine looked at multiple possible soundtracks. The possible ones we will be using are from the following:

https://audionetwork.lgfl.org.uk/terms.aspx
http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music/2
http://www.mobygratis.com/catalog

The basis of the search was to find a song by an artist who was willing to give up their copy. Therefore someone and a website which is royalty free, staying away from any copy right issues.

the song also will hopefully be similar or maybe even identical to the Beatles song 'Love Me Do'.

Production Log no.2 plus

We took videos of Opening the box and then closing it just to make sure the box is straight on the table and on camera. We tried to use the tripod to get straight non shaky shots but we couldn't get the angle we wanted which was birds eye view. After figuring out we could use Lilly to stand over Oliver and he camera we ended up staying like that until we changed props. I made oliver first start to take things out of the box but that ended up becoming to confusing ad didn't give us the right effect. So fiona came up with the idea of laying out all the objects on the table in a sophisticated and neat way. We used a tracker/dolly to get the birds eye view shot of the objects by me and Fiona on either side holding the dolly then Lilly pushing the camera along it.

Production Log No.2

Behind the scenes from our second shoot.

The shoot overall wasn't too successful. Mainly because of the facts that the yellow table cliff was really creased and, due to not being able to use a tripod, Lilly had to hold the camera herself and this footage was really shaky. Because of this we've now chosen to do this scene on the floor of Laine's Nan's living room. 

        

Feedback Response / New Idea

After responding and working with our feedback from the class we decided to change our narrative slightly. Out new idea is that the main character in the film is now the character, played by Tom Hank's, son. Being played in our film by James Marson. Therefore a much younger actor and one who will have young looking arms & hands - linking to the realism of our shots with the 'memory box'. 

Also after reviewing our feedback sheets our teacher, Sinead, helped us plot the idea of having a character in shots like below which break the 4th wall rule. Wes Anderson frequently uses them for example. This example below though is from Garden State, a RomCom directed by and staring Zach Braff.    

Casting: Part 2

This slide shows the actors who will be playing our secondary characters in our film. 

Casting: Part 1

Our main casting roles are as followed;

First Draft Feedback

These are the sheets we got given back from our class mates after watching our first drafted cut of filming.

The main point of developing which people talked about when discussing our title sequence was the soundtrack. This is because currently at this time we don't have a final established soundtrack we've decided to use. 

After feedback we've decided as a group to concentrate on this next before going onto anything new.

Audience Profile

This slide documents our audience profile and who our film would be targeted for.