Test shoot

So today was our test shoot and i think overall it went quite well. We were shooting 10-6 so that meant we had 8 whole hours to film:)
Everyone arrived at mine early and so we were sure to head off straight away. Our schedule consisted of:
10am-1pm --> we finished off some written work (shot logs/storyboard) and also shot all the living room scenes. we also set up both the living rooma nd shed scenes(lighting/positioning).
1.30... (lunch&waited for our actors to arrives)
3pm-6pm---> we shot all the neccesary shots in the shed.

We managed to shoot a great amount of footage in the shed, and our actors were a major help aswell. The shots we took were very good, except i think our only flaw today was being maybe a bit unorganised. I think by the final shoot we should have a neatly drawn up storyboard, a neatly typed up script and shooting script. Because although we did have this all done i do not think it was as neat as it possible could have been.
The light coming in the shed was an issue at first, we needed to block all the windows but only had sugar paper enough for two out of the six windows. So in turn we decided to cover them up with black towels and it blocked out every little bit of light and left us with the complete darkness we had hoped for! You wouldn't think it would work but it did work very well.
Also, i mentioned as a pro that filmin inside meant no off-scene noise could interveen but in fact i was wrong, there were builders opposite my road and the noise did manage to be heard, but it ok in the end because we though of shooting all of the living room scenes first and hoped for the builders to have stopped by the time we moved onto the outdoor shed; thankfully it did!

Costume- Today we also for the first time made our fake blood, we followed the recipe exactly and were happy with the turn out. Sian a.k.a K.Williams look very very very good with the blood, and even on the camer it look realistic. We used make-up to make it look like she had bruises on her head and her wrists were hurt, the make-up looked jsut as effective and i think we will be doing the exact same at our final shoot. We also smeared eyeliner and mascara onto Bekah to make her look tired and exhausted. To conclude, i think costume and make up was exceptional and we will definitely be keeping this the same next time.

Lighting- we had to move it around quite a few times in order to get something that suited us all. After numerous times of changing the two lamps around we decided to use one as a prop on the table and ang one up on a hook to make Sian look more significant.

Camera- today we used a range of different shots, just so we could get an idea of what shots we should use more of on saturday and others that we may not need to use at all. We all took our fair share of filming, directing & sound. Some shots were harder than others but we all took a good shot at them all.

Group work- As i mentioned before we all took a fair turn in filming, sound & directing. Although some of us were better at certain things we gave eachother a chance to do everything. Tom was the only one out of the three that got shown how to use the focus but so that we could all take turns he took time to teach me and Hannah how to do it and it was a great help, now we can add to the amount we have learnt. For some of us something as easy as turning on our camera seemed a struggle but as a group we didnt waste no time in helping out, isn't that right? :]]
Today was a productive and fun day. Cannot wait to upload all our footage and start editing.

WELL DONE 'TOM'S GROUP' :]
yaayyyyyyy!!