Music Research 1

Today we started to look at copyright free music websites (as we cannot use music which breaches copyright). We looked at the website incompetech.com as this website is easily accessible, free,  and has a wide range of music. As we only did this at the end of the lesson we have not yet found any possible tracks but will continue to look in lesson then update when we find some.

UPDATE

After looking at non-diegetic sountracks for the first section, we decided to use the track "Over Under" for the scene when the couple are getting ready. We feel that this track fitted well with our footage as it was calm (the footage is at the equilibrium stage), and that it felt modern (the film is set in modern day). Also, whilst we were putting it onto final cut pro, we discovered that the soundtrack fitted perfectly with the actions in the footage - by luck!

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 We will now continue our music research to find music for other stages in the film where we need.

Outside scene prep

In the video below I uploaded all the clips from the shoot and put them in the correct order and then began to trim and sort them out, I used the built in Quicktime player on the iMac to screen capture what I was doing and fast forwarded it so it wasn't too lengthy, also I added a soundtrack to make it less boring.

Actor Alteration

Originally we were going to use Dylan as our waiter - actor, but after the sound recording error, he was not available to film any other days (in half term) to re-do that scene. As we hoped to have finished filming by half term we did not really think that we would have to change actors.

Our new actor Joe

However, we quickly found a new actor- Joe. Joe is happy to act in our short film, and as me and Rosie know him well, he should be easy to work with. This week, he has been doing NCS so is quite busy, but he has Friday off and luckily we are all free to film that day too. Joe does not own a white shirt for the costume, therefore I will provide him with one so his costume is complete.

We hope that we will be able to re-film the scene quickly and will focus on framing in more detail in order to achieve the best shots possible.

Example outside

Example footage for outside scene. 

From all the footage we captured I examined it and out of the 70 odd pieces I selected the prime shots and began to trim them all. I used my quicktime software on my iMac to screen record the editing/trimming and simply put the shots in the correct order according to the storyboard and the order of dialogue sequence. The continuity of the shots in some cases were hard to chose for example in one shot where the car drives past the camera and then goes into dialogue the background needed to be going by at the same speed of the car driving past the camera. Because of this we re-took some of the shots and have several in waste footage. I thought i'd mesh all the shots together in the right order and make a mini film just to see what it would look like before proper editing and the result is below. 

Inside car camera

In our short film we are having a few lines of dialouge between the couple whilst in the car, this posed an issue of how we were going to get the shot from the angle we needed as the car had to be moving and needed as much room and a wide angle as possible. Against most peoples wishes and suggestions i decided to purchase a camera mount which goes onto any windscreen/window and allows you to manipulate it into several positions to get the shot you want.

We could not use a DSLR to film this. So i had the idea of using my new phone which has an increible camera on it which could have been used to film the whole thing because of the quality. The front camera actually recorded the footage you can see in the screenshots below to most peoples surprise because of the clarity and no microphones were needed because the sound quailty and noise cancellation. The photos below are screenshots from the footage as we didnt take any stills so the quality isnt as high as in a video but it looks mch better with the actual clip. I have also ordered a Gopro camera which has a side conncection mount which we can grab a few shots from if we decide to do so.

Evidencing & Extras on outside shoot

During out outside filming session we used several things to aid us. I asked the head of marketing at the Club if it were possible to use a golf buggy for the filming as i would be driving up and down the captains drive multiple times getting different angles and shots of the car going past as well as setting up the camera. The golf buggy allowed us to quickly move locations and i had the idea of filming from the back of it and doing a moving shot of the car from a point of view shot. I also enquired about opening the main entrance to the captains drive as it is usually closed at the time of filming, we were allowed to have it open and filmed it. Below are some evidening photos of setting up the camera/filming/golf buggy.

Still shots possible for poster

Below are some still pictures we took at the time of filming out outside scene which we thought we could possibly use for the poster we need to create. We experimented from severeal distances and angles but cherry picked these select few as possibles, we will take more for more variety in different locations such as the restaurant at the time we re film the inside scene when we will have our other male actor.