Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Week Eighteen
It's the last week before my film is due!
I started editing , and because my brother is a professional film editor it helps that we have an extremely high quality editing computer at home.
I've done a fairly rough edit of 2:40 of the 3:48 song, and so far it's looking good!
I found a few things I filmed actually fitted better in places other than I had originally planned to put them, so it's been interesting seeing how I can rearrange what I filmed so it can be used differently, despite the fact that I filmed it with another purpose in mind.
For example a wide shot of the city from inside the cemetery turned out to be the perfect shot to put over the lyrics "The city is dead".
I will hopefully be able to finish the whole film tonight or tomorrow night, because with eams drawing near my time is running out for all of my school work, and I really want to make sure this film is as good as it possibly can be!
After a few nights of editing, my film is almost done! I got my brother to show me how to add effects, such as changing the colour of the sky, and making the mushroom cloud move.
Now all I have left to do is finalise the editing and film the city skyline shot from Doncaster Shopping Town.
I started editing , and because my brother is a professional film editor it helps that we have an extremely high quality editing computer at home.
I've done a fairly rough edit of 2:40 of the 3:48 song, and so far it's looking good!
I found a few things I filmed actually fitted better in places other than I had originally planned to put them, so it's been interesting seeing how I can rearrange what I filmed so it can be used differently, despite the fact that I filmed it with another purpose in mind.
For example a wide shot of the city from inside the cemetery turned out to be the perfect shot to put over the lyrics "The city is dead".
I will hopefully be able to finish the whole film tonight or tomorrow night, because with eams drawing near my time is running out for all of my school work, and I really want to make sure this film is as good as it possibly can be!
After a few nights of editing, my film is almost done! I got my brother to show me how to add effects, such as changing the colour of the sky, and making the mushroom cloud move.
Now all I have left to do is finalise the editing and film the city skyline shot from Doncaster Shopping Town.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Week Seventeen
Back to school! I still haven't had time to edit, so I will hopefully start this weekend.
I ended up having a history sac this week, so no time for editing unfortunately.
Next week I will get it all done!
Seventeen down, TWO to go!!
I ended up having a history sac this week, so no time for editing unfortunately.
Next week I will get it all done!
Seventeen down, TWO to go!!
Friday, October 5, 2012
Week Sixteen
After filming for four days, I was super tired. So I spent the rest of the holidays relaxing and socialising, and doing work for other subjects.
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Filming: Day Four
My extras came to my house around 11:15. Erin, Aiden, Zoe, Matt, Kellie, Kim and I walked from my house to the park, and my mum drove all the equipment down to the location.
We spent about an hour setting up tents, props and the camera and then finally began shooting.
It was a little difficult to make the extras act, most of them were put off by the fact that there wouldn't be any audio and so started miming bizarrely. It took a bit of directing to get what I wanted, but I got the shots in the end.
I shot the scenes of the arguments between the volunteer (Erin) and a refugee (Aiden) and the parts where the whole group argues with Erin before escaping.
After we finished the camp scenes, we packed up and I filmed a shot of Matt running in front of a wall covered in graffiti just beside the park.
We finished the filming at about 3pm, and then went back to my house for lunch and to relax after four solid days of filming.
We spent about an hour setting up tents, props and the camera and then finally began shooting.
It was a little difficult to make the extras act, most of them were put off by the fact that there wouldn't be any audio and so started miming bizarrely. It took a bit of directing to get what I wanted, but I got the shots in the end.
I shot the scenes of the arguments between the volunteer (Erin) and a refugee (Aiden) and the parts where the whole group argues with Erin before escaping.
After we finished the camp scenes, we packed up and I filmed a shot of Matt running in front of a wall covered in graffiti just beside the park.
We finished the filming at about 3pm, and then went back to my house for lunch and to relax after four solid days of filming.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Filming: Day Three
I tried to organise to get extras, but in the end only two came, Erin and Ryan.
Matt and Kate came, but I already knew that they would.
We all met at Box Hill and caught a train to the city. We walked to the location I had originally chosen for the photo memorial scene, and a security guy came and told us to leave. So unfortunately, we had to leave, and I had no idea where to go!
We decided to head to a park and look for some kind of wall that we could use. We eventually went to Birrarung Marr, and used a metal wall near the water. We stuck the photos and fake flowers to the wall, with the words "In memoriam" written above it. I used those words after I found a plaque for a bombing during world war two which began with "In Memoriam" and ended with "Serling remembers" (or whatever the town was called).
I framed the shots so that it wouldn't be obvious that it was near a river, and got all the footage I needed, Kate looking at the pictures, and then her and Matt being reunited and hugging (after several practise runs in which Matt almost ran Kate into the river).
After we finished that we had a lunch break, then we went to Godfrey Street to shoot the looting scene.
I stuck up the propaganda posters that I'd made on the walls, gave Erin and Ryan empty food containers to run with and Matt an umbrella to hold above the camera because it was spitting a tiny bit. we shot there, between cars and pedestrians going past and then let Ryan go home before going back to Finlay Lane to shoot some more running shots of Kate and Matt separately.
Then I realised a piece of my tripod had fallen off, so after finishing filming, we went back to Godfrey Street to look for it, but I never did.
Luckily, my dad said it was okay, and it would still work properly.
Only one day of Filming left!
Matt and Kate came, but I already knew that they would.
We all met at Box Hill and caught a train to the city. We walked to the location I had originally chosen for the photo memorial scene, and a security guy came and told us to leave. So unfortunately, we had to leave, and I had no idea where to go!
We decided to head to a park and look for some kind of wall that we could use. We eventually went to Birrarung Marr, and used a metal wall near the water. We stuck the photos and fake flowers to the wall, with the words "In memoriam" written above it. I used those words after I found a plaque for a bombing during world war two which began with "In Memoriam" and ended with "Serling remembers" (or whatever the town was called).
I framed the shots so that it wouldn't be obvious that it was near a river, and got all the footage I needed, Kate looking at the pictures, and then her and Matt being reunited and hugging (after several practise runs in which Matt almost ran Kate into the river).
After we finished that we had a lunch break, then we went to Godfrey Street to shoot the looting scene.
I stuck up the propaganda posters that I'd made on the walls, gave Erin and Ryan empty food containers to run with and Matt an umbrella to hold above the camera because it was spitting a tiny bit. we shot there, between cars and pedestrians going past and then let Ryan go home before going back to Finlay Lane to shoot some more running shots of Kate and Matt separately.
Then I realised a piece of my tripod had fallen off, so after finishing filming, we went back to Godfrey Street to look for it, but I never did.
Luckily, my dad said it was okay, and it would still work properly.
Only one day of Filming left!
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Filming: Day Two
At about 11am my mum picked up Kate then drove us to Melbourne Cemetery. We spoke with a woman in the office and I gave her my permission letter from Leask and my phone number.
Then we walked around until we found the kind of thing I was looking for, a set of about 50 graves all with the same head stones. I set up the camera and tripod and filmed a few different angles and shots of Kate walking up to her parents grave and everything I needed for that scene.
That filming took about an hour and then we left and went to Finlay Lane.
Fortunately the construction workers were gone! Kate and I stuck up the radiation posters and put some paper and plastic stuff on the ground. I set up the camera and then stepped off screen to drop newspaper to blow across the screen. This ended up causing problems because we had to wait for the wind to pick up to be able to shoot properly.
We also had a problem when a car came to drive through the alley and we had to quickly grab our stuff and get out of the way.
After that we got lunch, and sat in the fake garden at Melbourne Central, it was really nice and relaxing there, and Kate and I are really tired, so we just stayed there for about two hours instead of filming one more scene like I had planned.
We still got plenty done though, so all that's left are the extra's scenes with Kate tomorrow, and the refugee camp on Tuesday!
Then we walked around until we found the kind of thing I was looking for, a set of about 50 graves all with the same head stones. I set up the camera and tripod and filmed a few different angles and shots of Kate walking up to her parents grave and everything I needed for that scene.
That filming took about an hour and then we left and went to Finlay Lane.
Fortunately the construction workers were gone! Kate and I stuck up the radiation posters and put some paper and plastic stuff on the ground. I set up the camera and then stepped off screen to drop newspaper to blow across the screen. This ended up causing problems because we had to wait for the wind to pick up to be able to shoot properly.
We also had a problem when a car came to drive through the alley and we had to quickly grab our stuff and get out of the way.
After that we got lunch, and sat in the fake garden at Melbourne Central, it was really nice and relaxing there, and Kate and I are really tired, so we just stayed there for about two hours instead of filming one more scene like I had planned.
We still got plenty done though, so all that's left are the extra's scenes with Kate tomorrow, and the refugee camp on Tuesday!
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