filming week 2

Filming dairy week 2

I have been filming again recently and I now have about 25 minutes of film that I can use from the POV of the bike, now I think I need to add some storey into the film, most importantly the drug bits, I have filmed some short sequences of pills on a kitchen table, I think when I come to edit I will work these into the film as flashes on screen only on for a small amount of time. 

starting filming

Filming dairy week 1

*I have started filming my trailer and so far it is going well. I have decided to film at Seven Kings Park, as it has a skate park and the right amount of ramps and jumps for the action shots. This location is also good because it means there will always be a variety of people riding bikes and skateboards around anyway; this means it will look a lot more like how I want it too setting the appropriate mood for my trailer. I have mainly been filming by attaching the camera to the front of the bike and just riding around and up and down ramps. I have watched all of this footage and so far I have a few shots I think I will be able to use but I will be getting a lot more over the coming weeks.

stills from filming

shot list

this is a section of my shot list from filming.

Shot number	Action description	Shot description
1	Close up of the tire of the bike	Close up, pov
2	Long shot of the far ramp, the ramp has people standing on top of it	Long shot, pov
3	Slightly raises camera towards the sky so the figures are within the shot but are towards the bottom of the screen	Long shot, weather shot, pov
4	Hand then appears in front of camera partially blocking the camera	Extreme close up, pov
5	Shot of the ramp again in between the fingers of the hand	Long shot, very wide shot, pov
6	Hand comes back into shot briefly and then away to show the ramp long shot again	Pov, extreme close up
7	Face comes down upside down towards the camera and then hands are again put in front.	Extreme close up, pov
8	Young male figure appears coming towards the camera rising up as he comes as if he is walking on a ramp or stairs	Medium close up, pov
9	After this the boy is still standing there although he is slightly covered by the hand this time holding tape.	Close up, pov
10	The boy is then seen running back down the ramp and out of the shot, this leads to the ramp to be back in the shot	Long shot, pov
11	The boy is then back in the shot running towards and then past the ramp in the  distance	Long shot, pov
12	The hands then reappear with the tape again for a couple of second holding it quite close to the camera	Close up, pov
13	Reverts back to a long shot of the ramp	Long shot, pov
14	And then again back to the hands with the tape	Close up, pov
15	The camera then pans left and the back to its original position	Panning shot, pov
16	It ten pans left again and a boy’s head appears upside down in front of the screen. This appears for a few seconds as he appears to be attaching something and then he goes back up and out of shot.	Pans left, extreme close up, pov
17	Reverts back to the original shot of the ramp. Being far away.	Pans right, Long shot, pov
18	Returns to the shot of the hands in front of the screen.	Close up, pov
19	Shot pans left, there are figures in front of the camera on ramps and riding, they are not focused on in the shot.	Long shot, panning shot left, pov
20	The hand then reapers across the screen again. For a brief amount of time and then goes out of shot.	Extreme close up, pov
21	Pans back to the right. Long shot of the far ramp.	Panning shot right, extreme long shot, pov
22	The camera then shakes in circular movements from left to right. And then moves down at a angle and forwards.	Pov
23	The camera the reaches the floor and then levels out and is at ground level.	Pov
24	Next the camera pans left slightly and then right again, all of this is done at some speed.	Fast panning left to right, pov
25	At this point the camera is quite close to the ramp and is constantly moving forwards. The camera is also leaning slightly to the left.	Medium close up, pov
26	The camera is then swung left really quickly and then appears to contact the ramp and flips over multiple times	Extreme close up and panning shot, pov
27	The camera then comes to a complete standstill facing the ground, which is the ramp. This remains perfectly still for some time and the shadow appears which blocks out the light the bike remains in the same position.	Extreme close up, pov
28	The camera is then pulled upright. And is facing the little boy from before the sun is also glaring towards the camera so that everything is obscured.	Medium close up, panning, pov
29	A hat is then placed in front of the camera so that it is partially obscured.	Pov, close up
30	The hat is then taken away from the camera to reveal a shot at a slight angle facing towards the ramp the camera was originally on.	Wide shot, pov
31	A figure then appears on screen for a couple of seconds and then the camera pans left and up into a shot of the young boy who came up to the bike originally, the sun again obscures this.	Medium close up, pov

location shots

making my film trailer and location shots

making my film

i have decided that i want to shoot my film in two locations. the first  will be Seven Kings park, Ilford, Essex and the second in a dead end street which i wont post the name of as i don't want people going there. to film in seven kings park i have sent a email to the people that run the park, and so far they have not replied and i am not convinced they will reply at all. i have gone to the park office and asked there and they refereed me to the same people i had already emailed. Although the park keeper did say that he didn't mind if i used the park to film my trailer.the road that i am going to film on i have taken location shots for and these are below, i have asked all the residents within this area if it is OK for me too film there and explained what the film will be used for.all  of the residents there have said it is OK for me too film there.
  
location 1

location 2 

looking at film trailer

X-Men Origins: Wolverine Trailer

Doesn’t tell you a lot with just the trailer, just a snapshot of what it is about. This is good because it makes people want to go and see the film to find out what will happen.

Very quick changes between the different shots, this increases the action and tension of the whole trailer, as it does not let you focus on anything for to long.

Green lantern trailer

Action film, big budget, shows a clear main character straight away.

CGI wasn’t to a high standard so probably a lower budget then the x men film. Shows some of the story in the opening bits like when the alien falls to earth and sends his ring out to find the main character.

control

Control

Tell you a bit of the storey through the trailer.

 There is also never a shot on screen for more then 5’s and all of the shots are different.

The entire mood of the trailer changes around half way through, this is signaled by a change in the music and the main character shouting at his wife. There are two main tracks through out the entire trailer; these are both tracks by the people that the film is based on.

There is text coming up every now and then showing parts of reviews, saying for example “amazing” or “brilliant”

The music also cuts out at various points so you can hear specific parts of text, this happens three times through out the trailer, and at each point the mood changes slightly with the first two and then drastically during the third. This middle section is also the only section where you hear and see the main character talking as a narrator for a long amount of time, although he does have one line at the end, on which the trailer ends on.

8 mile

 8mile

*Opening shot showing a charter who you later find out is the main character walking away from the camera with a bin bag over his shoulder. You then see the same character in a different scene telling a nursery rhyme to someone that looks like they are his daughters. Then cuts to black with text showing who directed the film at the bottom of the screen. After this a backing track starts which then continues over all of the rest of the trailer.

*There are many fast paced shots as with the control trailer. This helps to keep the audiences interest through out trailer.

*There is a clear storey being told within the trailer, but it still leaves enough gaps to make sure that you don’t know everything within the film, and still have to go and see it.

what i have gathered from looking at these trailers

Now I have looked at all of these different trailers I have picked up on a lot of consistent themes and trends that I will use in my trailer.

The things I want in my trailer:

I think that the film would work best if I shot it in POV (point of view) as this would lead to the viewer feeling like they are seeing it from the characters eyes.

I would also like the trailer to include shots from a bike; I think these would be good as they would be fast and high action and movement. (I would want these to be shot in a skate park environment so that there are a lot of different angle shots on the ramps.)

I don’t really want to show too much of the story as from watching the other trailers it is not drastically needed to make a great trailer. This has lead to me thinking I am going to make it without the career element within the trailer just with the affect of the drugs on his perception of reality and the world around him.

I think a good way of doing this would be linking different shots of say the sky or trees and then having jumps between the scenes with these being key, for example, the bike could go over a jump and get a shot of the sky, this would then lead to another shot of the sky but when it comes back to ground level it would be in a different place, thus showing a jump in movement or time. I could also do it with people.

This would work by me taking two similar shots at two different times, this could lead to people appearing and disappearing, I think this would work well but may take a couple of shots. I was also thinking I could show some very fast short shots in-between these, like flashing images of the drugs and pills that the main character has been taking. I think I will have to be careful choosing what drugs to use in these shots, as I don’t want the images to look like prescription drugs. For these shots I think I will use high angle and close up shots of the substances.

A shot of the main character, shot into the sun or in a darker environment so that you cant see all there face thus adding mystery to the film trailer making people want to go and see the actual film.

Other character shots within the film trailer Flashing up. Much similar to the effect I want to do with the drugs theme with in the film.

I have also decided to add in some text, like an important line within the film, or something similar.

I think I also need to keep all of the sequences within the film quite short so the entire trailer is faster paced and edgy. Similar to the control trailer