Week Ten

This week I worked more on my storyboard and it is almost finished! I only have about 30 seconds more to do. Although I know it isn't necessary for this task for me to storyboard my whole film, I think especially because I haven't got a clear idea for this last part in my head yet that it's really important for me to storyboard it, so that I think about it and am ready for when I need to film it.
I ran into a few problems this week, my brother isn't going to be available for when I had originally planned to film (in the first week of the school holidays) and I don't know whether I should try to move the dates or not. If I make it the week after, then I'll have his expertise on set to help everything go more smoothly (he has studied film and tv at uni and been on several film shoots) but it will only give me about two weeks to edit. But if I don't move the dates then I might end up with errors and a much less professional looking film.
I think I will either need to find another person to supervise my shoot, or move the date.
Another problem I've had is the actor I originally had to play Kate's brother is no longer an option, but I haven't found many of my actors yet anyway, so that should be easy enough to solve.
I have also sent an email to Melbourne Cemetery to see if I will be able to film there.
I received a response from the cemetery, and if Leask emails them they'll let me film there!
I'm also going to contact Box Hill Cemetery, even though it's not open on weekends, it's closer and might be easier to film at.
Ten weeks down, nine to go!

Week Nine

This week I am going to go location scouting.
Josephine showed me this website today, Melbourne Film Locations, which shows images of locations in Melbourne including alleys, streets and parks. I'm going to look around on here first to help me figure out where I need to go when I actually go to the city.
On my day off on Wednesday I went into the city and looked at several alleys and areas around Southern cross station.
I found good locations at:

• Godfrey Street
• Finlay Lane
• An area outside a building near Briscoe Lane
• Penfold Place
• Gurners Lane

It took me quite a while to scout all of these locations, although they're not too far apart, so if I plan my shoot well enough I should be able to minimise travelling and going back and forth between places. I also found some of the locations which had looked good on the website weren't what I wanted when I got there.

I tried to work more on my story board but I found the last scene where the lyrics are just "the sky is green" repeated several times quite difficult to do, because of the timing of the music and the amount of cuts and shots I want to use in that part.

Nine weeks down, ten to go!

Week Eight

I still haven't had time to finish my story board or go to the city for location scouting, but I have completed more frames of my story board, I've done about five of them now.

I have also made some more slight revisions to my script.

But I'm still not progressing as quickly as I would like to, I think I need to start planning my shoot really soon! And make sure I have all my props/extras.

Eight weeks down, eleven to go.