Risk Assesment

Equipment List

Tripod

Sound Recording

This tripod will be used to keep our shots steady, which is vital for having a level 4 piece. We will borrow a tripod from school to film our idea. The pros of using this equipement is that it is cheap and accessbile, however, they are not 100% still, especially in windy weather, and can limit the number of shots avaliable to use as they only function for certain shots, and are hard to use in high angle shots or tracking shots.

Dylan will use this sound recorder to record audio through his microphone. Again, this is something we will borrow from school as they are quite expensive. Fortunatley, they are easy to use and portable, however, there can be complications when trying to transfer the audio into an Apple MAC.

Camera

Microphone

This is the microphone that Dylan will use to record sound, on set we will have to microphones. Ruben's own one, and one from school, so that we can pick the audio recording with the highest quality. The downside to these is that they don't always pick up the correct sound effectively and can be hard to use.

For our camera, we will use Ruben's Cannon 70D. It is a very good camera, capable of filming in high quality. We will also borrow a camera from the school and set up each scene with two different shots so we can have a wide range of camera shots and angles that we can choose from when editing.

MAC

I will use a MAC to edit our clips on premiere pro. Unfortunatley, the school macs can 
be very slow and faulty, especially when rendering, and so I may edit parts of our
film on my home laptop that has premiere pro, but isn't as powerful as the school
macs and so can't render as much and so overall is a slower process.

Inspirations - Editors

Shooting Schedule (1st Draft)

All our filming for our first takes will take place during the October half-term when we have most free time and can take our time with all the shots. Being inside for most of the filming, we can have effective control over the lighting and so time of day doesn't really influence the filming.
Before deciding these dates we have checked with the actors to see what days they are avaliable. Being only a draft, hopefully we won't need to refilm any parts.

Despite being inside for most our shots, we have still decided to check the weather forecasts for out filming locations just incase. Monday and Tuesday will have almost identical conditions in the evening, without rain, so we will not break any continuity and no shots will appear out of place or different. We are filming the outside shots on Saturday 28th as that is when my sister is able to travel home from her university and participate in the filming.

Help from an ex-pupil

Recently, a successful ex-pupil called Rob Johnstone came into school to teach us a lesson. Having completed the course last year with exceptional grades, his experience was incredibly useful as he explained how to complete a proper storyboard and effective animatic, as well as showing us the depth of planning he went into such as his shot list and filming plan.

Rob also discussed his editing techniques and how he managed to create a professional looking piece. His main point was about colour correction v colour grading. He described how changing the colours slightly in colour correction not only makes the scene look a lot more professional, it also can easily be used to create moods and certain atmospheres.

An example of this is from the opening shot of his short film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c22CZlklf8g

In this scene he purposefully made the scene darker and slightly redder all in post-production. As you can see it very effectively creates the menacing atmosphere and makes the film already look very professional. I will definfaltely experiment with colour correction in my film and will tak inspiration from this piece of work.

You can see his very good blog here, and I'm sure to gain inspiration from his very good work.