There was a unexpected twist today! Although we were meant to be doing our editing all day, we actually ended up finishing some more running scenes and talking scenes. This was a disadvantage towards our film, because unfortunately there was a error in continuity - for me. I was told last week that I did not have to participate in finishing the scenes with Aaliyah and Demi today. But because the filming had to get finished off we had to improvise and Frank (editing and video specialist/director) used a technique where he would film at a angle from my point of view so that the audience could not really see the differences in my hair and clothes.
After finishing the last minute scenes, I had some experience with filming and directing enable for me to pass this course. I enjoyed mostly spending time writing down time slots and good and bad scenes with Fabio (film editor), I finally got to see the slips and improvements in our film clips. It was interesting and I felt on-the-roll as I was writing it all down. Today we got a lot done, hopefully by the next two weeks (the next Diploma Friday) we should be on to finally starting to edit the film.
:)
Friday, 25 February 2011
Monday, 14 February 2011
Diploma Friday - ** FINISHING OF FILMING**
Today went quite well, we got a lot more filming done than we did last week Friday. We spent quite some time on the classroom scene, we rehearsed through it a lot of time possibly 20 times. Demi and Shenell were very expressive with their characters personalitys. My character Kimberley was very isolated to herself, but she seemed to come out of her shell when the two bullies (Tammie and Dawn) were bullying the nerd who told the myth (Kortney). The funny thing about my Kimberley was that she was a bully but she liked to bully the violent bullies by playing mind games with them. So its almost as if she bullies those who bullies other people. She loves weird things and strange stories, she thinks so deeply that it actually is disturbing. She is highly intelligent.
There is a part in the classroom scene when she and the other two bullies start insulting the teacher. Dawn and Tammie made comments such as "Are you eyebrows tattooed?", "Miss your not ugly but your not very pretty either". Whilst my weird individual of a character made comments such as, "My instincts tell me that I don't like you" and " You remind me of my friend, Dobby from harry potter".
This is proof that Kimberleys personality is in comparison with Tulip from the book "Tulips Touch" personality. But probably not as advanced and sickening.
I am so proud of myself! *Hugs*, because I seriously do believe that I put in the work for this scene. And I used my enthusiastic drama skills to my fullest ability and I stayed fully in character through out the whole scene.
The hired actor that Don had employed for our film was really good and she looked highly sophisticated and suited to her role.
We brought professional lights in for the classroom scene which was a good Pro for our scene. We used props such as newspapers for when the bullies started to trash the classroom when the teacher left, books, table and chairs.
Thankfully there were no Cons for this scene.
The next scene that Me and Aaliyah (Kimberley and Courtney) acted out was the scene where they both approached the cupboard. I had to seem very shocked for this scene as Tammie and Dawn jumped out at us and scared us. This scene was short.
Aaliyah and Shenell completed their other scenes aswell. The props that very used for the scenes were useful and best suited for the scenes.
We did not do any more running scenes today as there was not enough time. But Aaliyah and Demi have to finish their running scenes next Friday. *Phew*! This is a alternative for me because finally I can stop the continuity, which was started to get a bit annoying, because I love my fashion ;)
At the end of the day we then were rushed off to Miss.Coopers office (HEADTEACHER) so that we could record our Ring-a-ring-a-roses soundtrack. This turned out great, we included a cheeky laugh at the end.
Overall today went well and I really do hope that our film comes out in high definition and is successful. Something to look forward to - Editing next week Friday
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
CLEAN UP TIME!
Today was not a big deal, we practically just spend our lesson with Miss. Hassler tiding up the old maths cupboard in preparation for filming on friday. We managed to get the job done and surprisingly it did not take long! Matter of fact we even had time to head back to the music department and finishing off some blogging.
Just a QUICK reminder.. this is what the Maths Cupboard looks like:
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Friday, 4 February 2011
Our First Recording Session - FINALLY!
After 3 lessons of preparing we finally got to start recording some of our scenes. Due to a delay of some students latenesses we started with something different. Me and Shenell did not come in uniform so we improvised with what was given: A clean P.E top and Red Ties. Although I was not in full uniform, I wore boy jeans and trainers which went with my "Emo Look" as if I was rebel who did not care what the teachers thought, I had the attitude that I can do what I want and no-one can has an approval of it because I believe that my soul is protected. Although my character is played as an Emo, I socialize a lot to people whom myths and stories I am interesting in. As I am always curious to find out new things!
Naomi changed my appearance by putting makeup on my face with a emo effect and she did my hair in a freaky hairstyle. I had pink strikes in which looked cool! But Miss.Williams told me this was not allowed which spoiled the look *sigh*. But at least I managed to cover it up with a headscarf and I still looked great for my role.
We wrote up in word everything we was wearing and what our facial appearance looked like, we then had our pictures taken and attached it to the document, had it printed off and sent it to Don.
* attach photo*
Shyanne and Naomi went off to look for certain locations that we were using, Shenell went off with them. Which left me and Aaliyah waiting to get the confirmation which room we would be rehearsing the scene in and recording. In the end we decided to use the SLC room.
Which just for a recap is this room:
In this scene, Demi and Shenell aka Tammy And Dawn thought they could go off and run about the school. They came to discover that the teachers staff room was empty and open (strangely), normally it is looked. This would make the audience curious, but the two bullying students were far too stuck up to think of consequences right now. Dawn and Tammy start to peep their noses into other people's businesses by looking through other people's documents and files. Shenell and Demi were very good with improvising lines.. such as:
"Guess what I just found?" said Tammy with a satisfied look on her face.
"What!", Dawn said looking suprised.
"I just found a teachers bag! I wonder what's in it?".
Just by reading these three lines we can tell that Tammy and Dawn are trouble makers. Don made them repeat through the scene many times until it was perfect. I think that Demi seemed very experienced with acting, she played her character very well and had no disturbances. A actress should never get her social life and her acting life mixed up and Demi was very good at separating them when it came to acting on set. I think Don made the right decision when he let Demi down with the mini audition that Demi and Aaliyah auditioned for when they both wanted to play the main character. Shenell also is very enthusiastic!
Don made Naomi in charge of recording this scene at all different angels, whilst he made Shyanne the director and I observed whilst Aaliyah took photo's.
Wow! That was 2 lessons finished already..
After break, we then focused on our running scenes. This was Me, Aaliyah and Demi's chance to put on great facial expressions, because for me there was no verbal acting today, we used the Gym, Hall and turning of the corridor near the toilets as the locations for the scene when we run about the school in scare when Dawn is missing. This was very tiring because we had to run in perfect angles enable for it to look realistic, which meant we had to repeat the scene over and over again. I used the technique that they commonly use in films which is looking back whilst running to see what is behind you with a breath-taking look on my face.
Aaliyah (Courtney) was holding on to my arm tight, which is also what they do in a lot of films, the slowest characters always get dragged.
After 2nd break, Courtney and Tammy aka Aaliyah and Demi focused on their together scene. We used Dead End as the location for this. In this scene after Dawn, Kimerley And Courtney turn the corner. Kimberley aka (me) is the 2nd witness to go missing. This means I was eliminated out of the film :( But I had some time to kick back and relax :D.
Aaliyah was very expressive for this scene, as Tammy and Courtney run down the stairs as fast as lightening they hit a dead end and start pushing and banging on the locked out as hard as they can. But the door will not budge open, only then do they both notice that Kimberly has gone missing.
They use lines such as:
" Oh my gosh! It wont open" said Tammy in a crying voice.
"Hold on!" *There was a long pause. "Where's Kimberly?" said Courtney.
"Oh No!" says Tammy as she looks back fast.
Both Tammy and Courtney reverse back up the stairs and run as fast as they can!
We can tell just from these lines that they were both scared at most out of there lifes now, this is when tension starts to build up even faster! What will happen next?
Today was a good day overall, next time im going to ware less clothing underneath and a easy-to-carry-about side bag, because I was carrying a heavy bag which made me very sweaty and tired quickly.
Naomi changed my appearance by putting makeup on my face with a emo effect and she did my hair in a freaky hairstyle. I had pink strikes in which looked cool! But Miss.Williams told me this was not allowed which spoiled the look *sigh*. But at least I managed to cover it up with a headscarf and I still looked great for my role.
We wrote up in word everything we was wearing and what our facial appearance looked like, we then had our pictures taken and attached it to the document, had it printed off and sent it to Don.
* attach photo*
Shyanne and Naomi went off to look for certain locations that we were using, Shenell went off with them. Which left me and Aaliyah waiting to get the confirmation which room we would be rehearsing the scene in and recording. In the end we decided to use the SLC room.
Which just for a recap is this room:
In this scene, Demi and Shenell aka Tammy And Dawn thought they could go off and run about the school. They came to discover that the teachers staff room was empty and open (strangely), normally it is looked. This would make the audience curious, but the two bullying students were far too stuck up to think of consequences right now. Dawn and Tammy start to peep their noses into other people's businesses by looking through other people's documents and files. Shenell and Demi were very good with improvising lines.. such as:
"Guess what I just found?" said Tammy with a satisfied look on her face.
"What!", Dawn said looking suprised.
"I just found a teachers bag! I wonder what's in it?".
Just by reading these three lines we can tell that Tammy and Dawn are trouble makers. Don made them repeat through the scene many times until it was perfect. I think that Demi seemed very experienced with acting, she played her character very well and had no disturbances. A actress should never get her social life and her acting life mixed up and Demi was very good at separating them when it came to acting on set. I think Don made the right decision when he let Demi down with the mini audition that Demi and Aaliyah auditioned for when they both wanted to play the main character. Shenell also is very enthusiastic!
Don made Naomi in charge of recording this scene at all different angels, whilst he made Shyanne the director and I observed whilst Aaliyah took photo's.
Wow! That was 2 lessons finished already..
After break, we then focused on our running scenes. This was Me, Aaliyah and Demi's chance to put on great facial expressions, because for me there was no verbal acting today, we used the Gym, Hall and turning of the corridor near the toilets as the locations for the scene when we run about the school in scare when Dawn is missing. This was very tiring because we had to run in perfect angles enable for it to look realistic, which meant we had to repeat the scene over and over again. I used the technique that they commonly use in films which is looking back whilst running to see what is behind you with a breath-taking look on my face.
Aaliyah (Courtney) was holding on to my arm tight, which is also what they do in a lot of films, the slowest characters always get dragged.
After 2nd break, Courtney and Tammy aka Aaliyah and Demi focused on their together scene. We used Dead End as the location for this. In this scene after Dawn, Kimerley And Courtney turn the corner. Kimberley aka (me) is the 2nd witness to go missing. This means I was eliminated out of the film :( But I had some time to kick back and relax :D.
Aaliyah was very expressive for this scene, as Tammy and Courtney run down the stairs as fast as lightening they hit a dead end and start pushing and banging on the locked out as hard as they can. But the door will not budge open, only then do they both notice that Kimberly has gone missing.
They use lines such as:
" Oh my gosh! It wont open" said Tammy in a crying voice.
"Hold on!" *There was a long pause. "Where's Kimberly?" said Courtney.
"Oh No!" says Tammy as she looks back fast.
Both Tammy and Courtney reverse back up the stairs and run as fast as they can!
We can tell just from these lines that they were both scared at most out of there lifes now, this is when tension starts to build up even faster! What will happen next?
Today was a good day overall, next time im going to ware less clothing underneath and a easy-to-carry-about side bag, because I was carrying a heavy bag which made me very sweaty and tired quickly.
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