Forth Rough Cut Of Our Opening & Improvements To Be Made

• Text change to white not green
• 'Producer and Cinematographer - Mariella Devoil'
• Change titel
• Make up production companies -> Copyright issues
• Smaller/ Subteler names
• Consistant placement of names in the bottom left hand corner
• more of a match on action on Frazer on the water scene
• Include the bucket shot?
• 'Set team' take this out  - too ammeter
• Names don't need to be true
• Include surnames
• Aspect Ratio change?

Third Rough Cut Of Our Opening & Improvements To Be Made

• Shot of Frazer looking out the window is still too long
• Sound compression is off, sound effects too loud, backing track too quiet
• At the beginning the gun sound effects should start quiet, and one loud explosion should trigger him waking up

Second Rough Cut Of Our Opening & Improvements To Be Made

• Production companies at the beginning
• Better pacing at the beginning
• No shot variety- of Frazer waking up
• More intercutting - so the audience know right away that it is PTSD 
• No Soundtrack
• POV shot of washing the hands
• Motivation of movement
• Need actual titles
• Hold the flashback and forward shots for an extra second each - the audience is too confused - the cutting is too quick
• Frazers reaction to the flashback in the mirror 
• Inc a shot of the house not exploded
• Inc a sound that makes Frazer want to look out of the window
• Frazer looks out of the window for 3 seconds too long - more consistency in lengths of shots
• The pacing lacks any consistency 
• More high / low / canted / distance - more shot variation
• Maybe needs something at the very beginning  
• Needs more engagement of the charecter 

Second Actor Profile

Name: George Turner
Age: 17
Occupation: A level Drama/ Media Student
Previous Experience: School Productions/ Multiple Short Films

Firstly, in the beginning we decided to pick Ed Cummings to be the younger actor, however his free periods and time did not match up to when we wanted to film. If we were to continue with him as our actor it would have prolonged our filming time dramatically. Therefore, we decided we would have George as the younger persona due to him having to be there as he is part of our group anyway resulting in no timing problems. However, as George was our camera man and was also becoming our actor, I took turns with him with the camera, once he was needed on screen. Overall this was the best possible way we could of dealt with the actor problem and we are happy with our outcome of the shots and filming experience.

Credit To Katy Ward, Reworded By Me.

Locations - External

1. Wall - Needed for the drowning flashback. We used this location because it looked grimy and had a drain near to it so that when we inevitably poured water everywhere it would clean itself up.

2. Field - Needed for the old man to walk through and the young solider to go battle on. We needed a field close to the school for filming convenience, one with a good backdrop, yet still a deep depth for the compression. 

Improving 'N' Painting Our Props

Yesterday during our single lesson we brought the spray paint as well as the props in as we wanted to make sure they looked authentic and fitted in with the theme and time period of our film. Therefore Katy and I used a hammer and made dents into the bucket so that it would look old/used. Then I then sprayed the bucket with primer/silver spray paint, to cover up the markings that were previously on it. After that I added a little black spray paint to add effect to the look, and as the paint was drying she used other materials to scratch/ mess up the pain to make the bucket look dirty and used.


Then to go into the transformation of the gun, it started off as orange however George decided that he wanted parts to look like more realistic, e.g wood and black metal, so we decided to cover the wood bits up with marking tape as Katy sprayed it. Katy painted the gun and after it was sprayed George added some silver bits of acrylic paint which we mixed up with black to make it darker to make it look even more authentic, this was are final outcome and process.





The last prop we improved was the sack to possibly go over our stunt actors head (undecided due to safety hazards). First I cut it in half as it would be too big on top of his head otherwise, and then I added black and green, in both light and dark shades, to make it look as if it was worn and used giving it more authenticity and a rustic effect.

Test Shots - Scene 2

Our test shots were purely to test our camera, location and our actor. Our actor was now able to experience the character on set for the first time after we had run through what we wanted. We discovered that our shots that involved camera movement would take a lot longer because we didn't have access to a dolly track or any stabilization equipment. This then lead to us having to use the tripod as fly cam tool. The problem with this is that it takes a lot of body movement to bring the camera down from the light, which creates the shaky camera. However the tracking shot from behind (mimicking a dolly shot) surprisingly worked well except for the framing where the head is cut off. Our lighting was poor in these shots due to us not having our lighting equipment.

Credit George Turner

Location - The Old Mans House

The location for our protagonists house was originally George's house, as it is near to the school, for ease when shooting. However we soon came to realise that the house, although old was filled with lots of modern technology that someone from the older generation wouldn't stereo-typically have. To overcome this we researched various care home instead. However we thought that it would take to long to get into contact with them and would be inconvenient for shooting within school hours, and if we needed to reshoot at short notice for any reason.

To overcome this we decided that instead of the care home we looked at other houses belonging to the older generation (grandparents) of our group members. The decision we made was that our group would film in George's grandparent's living room and guest room and change the setting of our scene so that our character would go downstairs, as the guest room didn't fill all of our requirements for the second half of the scene.

The reason we chose this location is because it's a genuine elderly persons home, which keeps up the realism and verisimilitude. Allowing the film opening to become more real and believable for the audience.

Credit to George Turner

What is Copyright and Why is is Important?

Copyright is a legal right made by the government as part of the law to the country. It benefits the creator of any original work with exclusive rights in which that they have the control over the work by use and distribution with all intentions of enabling the creator of whatever work is specified for normally a limited amount of time. It is property ownership in intellectual form applicable to any sort of original work. It is most seen to be used within multiple authors which each of them hold set of rights to use or license the work in which ever they wish to do so, these people are use referred to as the "rightholders". The rights in which they have access to is repoduction, distribution, public performance and moral rights such as attribution.

Credit to Katy Ward

Things To Buy

• Top half of soldier costume :)
• Gun prop :)
• Bucket :)
• Spray Paint :)
• Sack :)
• Fish wire :)

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