Final Filming

We had to redo our filming from Shaunagh's house because it was incorrect and could be done better. So instead we had Harry cleaning the murder weapon and having blood on Poppy's corpse and bed. We did this by  putting strawberry sauce onto Shaunagh and her bed. We also wanted to include more shots of Harry so we did two shots of him walking down the alleyway and smoking a fag.

Peer Assessment of First Cut of Foundation Production

We encounted some problems in our first cut. Our captions were the original font and we should change that so it looks more professional, in addition to that our opening looked more like a trailer than an actual film opening. We decided to fix this by adding in a caption at the end of the opening saying 'Poppy's bedroom- 2009'.
The camerawork was very unsteady for the shot with the photo of Shaunagh, so we have decided to reshoot that shot by doing two separate shots. We will do that by looking at the whole picture and zooming in an separate shot.
The pace of the film was very slow, especially with the scene in Poles Lane, we have elected to cut down the beginning of the scene where we cant see Shaunagh that well. We also have to change the begining of the scene where Bethan is crying because something has happened with the lights.
In addition we still have to get the A-team correct with Shaunagh's voice over, we found out how to change the volume of the sound so we can play the A-team while Shaunagh is speaking. With that some of the wind is really loud and it affects the music.

Post Production- Editing

We started to do our editing for our film opening Honey Bear. We originally planned to do our editing together, however we split up into three groups; me and Harry, Shaunagh and Daisy and Smaya, Nicola and Beth.
Me and Harry started with our editing and found it very good and quick, we never encounted any major problems that really slowed us down. However the title took a little longer than we expected but still got it done.
We have decided to use the A- Team song by Ed Sheeran. It is too loud and often rises above Poppy speaking, so we are quieting the song while simultaneously increasing Poppy's voice.

Poles Lane Shoot

We went to Poles Lane to do our filming of Poppy walking down the street, first dressed as a prostitute and then as a normal person. We had originally done this on the Wednesday two weeks before however we didn't have the storyboard and made some mistakes.
So on Wednesday 14th we took a minibus up to Poles Lane and started shooting, it only took 20 minutes to film. Overall we were happy with the Poles Lane shoot because it went well and was surprisingly quick.

Shaunagh's and Nicola's House

We had to reshoot our shots and Nicky's and Shaunagh's house because of the bad lighting. We first went to Shaunagh's house because we needed more light for the shots with Shaunagh and Harry. Everything went well at Shauagh's; the lighting, the makeup and the actual filming.

Nicky's house was a bit harder, but not that much harder. Every shot we did went well of the inside however when we went outside for the memorial some problems arose. Everytime we went to light the candles they kept getting blown out by the wind. So we have decided to add in some fake flames when we were doing our editing. Except for the small problems with the memorial candles everything was good and efficient.

Job Role: Cameraman

My job was the cameraman, I had to be responsible for all the camera equipment. I had to help Nicola (director) choose the shots in the scene, depending on whether it will be a high angle or a low angle. In addition to that I had to help Daisy position the microphone so it wasn't in the shot.
I took my ideas from films such London to Brighton, the scenes with Kelly as a lower class prostitute. I also took ideas from the opening of Morvern Callar, where there is a dead body lying on the floor.The darkness in these films helps us with the death of Polly in Honey Bear.