Shooting script for Saturday 13th

Our shoot is scheduled for 10.30am - 4, on Saturday 13th December at my house. We will arrive at 10.30, King will arrive at 11 so that we are all set-up by the time he arrives. We need my Dad for one short scene (walking out of the cellar), so we will bring him downstairs to the cellar when he is needed. We need King, and Amelia, but we will do King's scenes first so that he can go, as Amelia has to be there the whole time anyway.

Location: Cellar

• King's lines from all the different angles (which will be decided on location)
• King retrieving the print out
• The two men leaving together
• Typing on the screen (King)

Location: My Bedroom

• Typing on the screen (Amelia)
• Re-shoot Amelia's OTS shot of her typing as it was on blogger and not our forum
• Shot of forum (can be done anywhere, but bedroom is easier as there is more room)

Hey guys, just thinking, since we need to do a group treatment, I've done an individual one, so what are your thoughts on it so we can make a group one and agree on a final idea? (It's on my blog btw)

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Male actor number 2

Name: Kingsley Zachariah Ben-Adir

Age: 22

Height: 6ft?

Role: Man 1 (name tbc)

As mentionned before, King is an actual actor, so we are going to use this to our full potential and give him most of the lines.

Shoot 1 - feedback 4/12/08

Here is a summary of the feedback from Ms Thrasher of our first shoot.

1. Good attention to detail
2. Look at titling after you have edited and filmed your whole piece
3. Careful not to get bogged down by minute details
4. Don't run out of time
5. Maintain standard by planning

Overall lots of positive feedback, which makes us feel confident in our next shoot.

"Extremely well done!"

Male Actor number 1

Name: Rick Allen

Age: 53

Height: 6ft

Role: Man 2 (name tbc)

This is my dad, who has graciously stepped in to be one of our male actors, alongside Kingsley Zachariah Ben-Adir (a.k.a King). He won't have to do much as he will just be sharpening the knives and filling the briefcase, with one line of dialogue (as he's not an actor).

Our shoot - photographic evidence

These are some photos we took on our shoot. This is the creepy bungalow, but it was slightly too dark to actually film it, but I thought I'd upload a photo just to give an idea.




So that we could match shots if we needed to re-shoot anything, we took photos of the frames on our camera. Here are some I have included.





We thought this was a great idea as it makes it really easy to make the shot look the same because we have photographic evidence.

Looking forward to our second actual shoot, as we will have our male actors and it should be great!

Reflections of the Shoot

Shoot 1 - Saturday 29th November

What Went Wrong

• Amelia forgot to collect the equipment (tripod and boom pole) from Miss B after her French Oral. Fortunately, she picked it up the next morning and we had it on time for our shoot in the end.
• In our footage, on some shots the microphone picked up mobile signals and this can be heard. We didn't realise this would be recorded - however it is only on some shots that are not too important, and we can just cut them out.
• Planning - we didn't plan our shots out in a storyboard style; instead we just shot from every angle that everyone wanted to and it worked out pretty well. In our sequence we want a range of shots from a lot of angles to give the impression that the girl is being watched, but it was very tedious to shoot the same conversation over and over again! We now realise we need to start drafting storyboards and we are currently doing this in the form of post-it notes on sugar paper, so as to move them around in different orders.
• We couldn't decide whether to film with music from the iPod speakers, as originally agreed, or whether to add it in later. We tried it with various music tracks then disagreed about what song to use - some were too obviously depressing, others too happy. A Radiohead track called "Just" was the best, but after this we decided not to include music as the continuity would be hard to get right. We will deal with it this weekend.

What Went Well

• We managed to film all the shots we wanted for the girl's part, and the footage looks realistic and not too staged.
• We stayed within the time limit we had, even having lunch inbetween!
• All our equipment worked and was used to its full potential - there were no accidents or misplacing of items.
• Costume and make-up looked good. We actually used eyedrops to make Amelia look as though she was crying before every shot, which worked really well.
• Everyone was there on time and left at the same time, and our actor turned up with an open mind.
• We tested the script and found it to be good - it wasn't too cheesey, predictable or over the top.
• We communicated well with each other, and voiced our opinions without needing to be bossy or rude. This came up when talking about the music and everyone was very rational and decisive.
• We always thought of what was best for the group