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Film Opening: Vampire Assassins

Filming Post Five

I am nearing the end of my film opening project; I have filmed the vampire and the victim scenes separately while tonight I will be shooting the killing of the victim and the destroying of the victims evidence.

The filming that I did yesterday and today taught me that when filming certain scenes the outside elements that we are unable to control, a good example of this is when we were filming the Vampire walking down the pathway to the victims house, a group of walkers passed us which ruined that shot. Because of the outside elements, continuity becomes a lot more difficult. Yesterday the weather was perfect sunny and bright, very easy to film in however today the frost was back which had the potential to ruin the shots I was going to film, however with a series of video effects the difference is unnoticeable.

I have also realized that it is a lot easier to film when you have a few willing friends/a little sister - who are willing to help. Both yesterday and today I have had help from my friends which reminded me how many people must be involved behind the scenes of a film or television show.

I will be uploading a video tonight of some behind the scenes footage which links in with my earlier post 'Filming Post Five' I would have uploaded it sooner if it wasn't for the amount of filming I had to do.

Filming Post Four

Shot 21 Problems - I found in later filming that my sister became nervous when the camera could see her face, in a previous shot which only took one take (shot 4) an over the shoulder shot is used and my actor felt completely fine with it. The problems that my actor had in this shot was that she was unsure in how she should answer and argue over the phone, however once I informed her that no sound would be present during this shot she became more confident and, after the third take, I had a perfect shot.

Shot 23 Problems - The timing with this shot became a problem; we wanted there to be a slight pause between putting the mobile down and to when there was a knock at the door. The way we rectified this problem was with the sound cue from me to the actor, a beat after the phone goes down - 'Doorbell' - my actor looked up and the desired shot actually worked.

Shot 15 Problems - This shot was not part of the video due to editing errors however, in shot 15 the victim writes on the paper board of vampire information. The problem that occurred was that the pen that the actor used didn't work and, since this seemed a main part of the shot, we had to cut and replace it with a Biro.

Shot 24 Problems - This was one of the trickiest shots we had to film; my actor had to look past the camera to the door as if I wasn't there filming. It was quite off putting for my actor however we managed to solve this problem by allowing my actor to focus on the door handle in stead of directly addressing the camera.

Shot 24 (Plus One) Problems - This is an extra shot that was not involved with the story board until the actually day of filming. The shot takes place outside the victims home and films the victim looking right then left to check who was there. The problem we had here was that my actor was unsure on to when to open the door so I created a cue by waving my arm, this however put the actor off and made them laugh on the spot thus creating another problem.

Editing Post One

My plan as always been to have my opening titles over my clips, so they remain in the same frame and become part of the film. However I have discovered that the quality of iMovie, text wise, is poor and pixels the shot itself. To save this from becoming a problem I will create a black background for my opening titles to be edited on to. I am not pleased that I have to do this, I really like the technique of having the credits in the actually shot itself.

Filming Post Three

Over the holidays I have managed to film certain scenes however there were a number of difficulties, for example; I had to use a specific filter on my camera in order to capture the computer screen, with out static appearing in the shot, another problem was the weather. Over the holidays snow hit England and since a number of my shots were to be filmed outside, this became a slight dilemma. However before Christmas the snow began to thaw which allowed certain walk ways to be free - this let me film the leather boots walking down the street (shot 22).

One shot that I was unable to film due to the weather was shot 20, where the audience can see the tail of the coat flapping behind the street corner and then disappear. The tripod became extremely unstable due to the grit and ice, and the result was the shot being incredibly shaky because of this. This shot is one of the easiest that I can film so I will be doing that shot along with several other quick shots this weekend.

During the next few days I will be filming the victim scenes and uploading 'behind the scenes clips' of me filming. I will also be recording the voice over monologue, which I have handed in for drafting, when I record the voice over monologue I will use the edited/drafted script, so I can have a better quality of work.