On Monday we met with Pat Brereton who gave us good feedback about our piece on the academic side and also other film references. We also found a piece online for our actor to audition with.
We held two auditions on Tuesday for our two favourite actors. Our main concern was their availability for April 6th & 7th to travel to Manchester for our bluescreen filming. We asked our actors to read a scene from 'American Psycho' because they had to bring a wide rage of emotions to the scene. It is really important for our actor to be able to show his expressions and emotions with his eyes and face because our piece has no dialogue. We all voted on our favourite actor and went with him.
We went out to Bray Head to plan our shots and film some possible shots there. We met with Will Tuke to discuss our project and ask him about the dolly and tracks. Sean emailed Tom Lawrence about location sound to get some advice on the best way to record our actor. While there will be no dialogue, we may still want the sounds of his footsteps and breathing etc.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Week 8: March 23rd-29th
This week we finally set about filming. We were on location on Bray Head. Filming started at 11am on Monday morning until 8pm that night. Our actor came out to meet us on location.
Because of the change in light in the story we had to film for most of the day to get dusk and night shots as well. It was really difficult to get shots at dusk because the light dims so quickly. As for the shots at night, these were very dull.
Each evening after shooting/ morning before James, Aislinn, Sean and Conor went through the footage, logged and named it. This was helpful because we knew where we stood- what needed to be re-shot and what had worked the previous day.
It was very difficult to film at night. We hired a generator to power lights for evening shots but this was heavy and impractical and the lights lit the scene synthetically. We decided to film the night shots at dusk and to darken them in post. This gave us a really short period to film within. It was really easy to miss this period as the camera detects low light a lot quicker than the human eye.
We shot from Monday to Thursday.
Because of the change in light in the story we had to film for most of the day to get dusk and night shots as well. It was really difficult to get shots at dusk because the light dims so quickly. As for the shots at night, these were very dull.
Each evening after shooting/ morning before James, Aislinn, Sean and Conor went through the footage, logged and named it. This was helpful because we knew where we stood- what needed to be re-shot and what had worked the previous day.
It was very difficult to film at night. We hired a generator to power lights for evening shots but this was heavy and impractical and the lights lit the scene synthetically. We decided to film the night shots at dusk and to darken them in post. This gave us a really short period to film within. It was really easy to miss this period as the camera detects low light a lot quicker than the human eye.
We shot from Monday to Thursday.
Week 7: March 16th-22nd 2009
This week we organised our shoot. We had to carefully plan the shot list to make sure nothing was left out, organise equipment and the costume.
We bought trousers, t-shirts and braces and made a neckerchief out of some old material. We planned our schedule and wrote-up a release form for our actor. We bought props- like our light and fashioned a lovely lampost out of it.
We had to be really careful this week to keep track of all the costs, because we had to buy props and costume and eventually we will split the costs between four of us.
We bought trousers, t-shirts and braces and made a neckerchief out of some old material. We planned our schedule and wrote-up a release form for our actor. We bought props- like our light and fashioned a lovely lampost out of it.
We had to be really careful this week to keep track of all the costs, because we had to buy props and costume and eventually we will split the costs between four of us.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Shooting: March 25th
Schedule - Wednesday 25th March
12.00pm Uploading Footage from day before and compile into rough cut
1.30pm Get Dart out to Bray
2.30pm Shoot additional footage for opening shot and re-shoot steep hillside shot
5.00pm Shoot Bray look-out scene and running shots at dusk
12.00pm Uploading Footage from day before and compile into rough cut
1.30pm Get Dart out to Bray
2.30pm Shoot additional footage for opening shot and re-shoot steep hillside shot
5.00pm Shoot Bray look-out scene and running shots at dusk
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Shooting: March 24th
Schedule - Tuesday 24th March
12.00pm Uploading Footage from day before and compile into rough cut
3.30pm Drive out to Bray
4.30pm Set up evening shots
5.00pm - onwards Shoot evening scenes
12.00pm Uploading Footage from day before and compile into rough cut
3.30pm Drive out to Bray
4.30pm Set up evening shots
5.00pm - onwards Shoot evening scenes
Shooting: March 23rd
Schedule - Monday 23rd March
9am Conor is driving to Bray
10am Go through shots - finalise
11am Anthony arrives
11.30am Shoot at Bray Head
-Emerging
-Leaf
2pm Lunch at chez Carey
3pm track through woods Norbert exploring
Birds flying (origami)
Djouce woods - falling asleep leaning against grass.
6.30pm evening shots practice without actor (generator, lights etc.)
9am Conor is driving to Bray
10am Go through shots - finalise
11am Anthony arrives
11.30am Shoot at Bray Head
-Emerging
-Leaf
2pm Lunch at chez Carey
3pm track through woods Norbert exploring
Birds flying (origami)
Djouce woods - falling asleep leaning against grass.
6.30pm evening shots practice without actor (generator, lights etc.)
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
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