12th February- filming

Today we completed the filming process by filming all of our shots that we will use. these shots included filming from Reigate high street and castle grounds. We used friends from our college to play the main characters in our film. We used, Ash, Scott, Andy as the teenagers that owe the money, Steve and Jon as the gangsters. After we gathered our film, we uploaded the onto the Mac's are cut them into shots, many times there were many takes on each shot, we then labelled them to make later editing easier.

Tuesday 10th February 09 - Planning

Today we made plans on how to shoot the rest of the film. This is because the scenes contain fast moving sequences involving a chase scene. This requires more actors and more time preparing each shot. Of course we have a storyboard of what we want to do but it is still quite difficult.
In addition, Steve and Jon from our group began thinking up a logo for our production company name for when we start making out credits which will be quite soon because we have the footage for the titles.
We will also start uploading and capturing the beginning of our film so it is ready for editing.

Monday 9th February 09 - First Filming Day

Today we began filming our film. We did the first few shots at Reigate College because we needed a large, dark, empty room. In addition we only needed 3 people so we could get started pretty quickly. The filming went well and we discusses each shot before we filmed it to make sure everyone was happy and that it would be the best shot we could produce. We did each shot a couple of times in different ways so when we edit it we have a wider choice in terms of what shots we could use for the final piece. One problem we might have had was the audio on the camera. Because we were unable to playback the footage we filmed straight away, we were unable to see if our voices were clearly audible.
The roles of the first few scenes are as follows:
Steven: Gang thug
Jon: Gang thug
Rachael: Gang leader
Jess: Camera
Although Jess was on camera, we all looked at the shot before we filmed it to make sure we could all decide as a group what looked best and what would be most effective for our film. We managed to get all the scenes we wanted to film completed and at the moment we should be on schedule for the rest of the filming.

5th Feb 2009 re-creating shots

today we imitated shots from the movie adulthood.  this was to practise different methods of filming for our upcoming production betrayal. we found it fairly difficult as we were the only group without a tripod. however we managed  to successfully create these shots which will be of great use to us for our production betrayal which is also a gangster/ crime film set in the UK.