**Post dates have been changed so that all of my work from the different products I have made (short film, poster and double-page spread) are grouped together and therefore not all dates reflect when work was originally posted.**
This is not the finished production.
I still need to add scenes 7-12.
I still need to mix the sound properly (add more foley, ambient and non-diegetic sound).
Poster
Double-Page Spread of a film review magazine I need to finish this.
In scene 6, I decided to change the saturation as the colour orange was very prominent due to the wooden doors and the character's hair. I lowered the saturation in Premier Pro to make it look more natural.
As you can see, while editing my timeline in Adobe Premier Pro is starting to get a lot of different layers and elements. This is due to me mixing sound and visuals from a lot of different clips and allows smooth, continuous editing.
SCENE 3
Also, in my script and storyboard, in this scene 3 (the flashback shown at the end of this clip) Gen finds a pot of boiling water which Henry had left. However, at the filming location the stove that I wanted to use didn't work so we had to improvise and decided to have the water in the sink overflowing instead. I think this had the same effect as the boiling pan would've as it showed Henry forgetting something which even people without dementia do, showing this as the start of his condition and leading to his memory getting worse in later scenes.
We were very organised and had all of the correct equipment and set it up quickly
All cast and crew were very professional
We got multiple takes of each scene and from different angles
We were ahead of schedule which meant we got scenes which we were going to film the following day done then, meaning we didn't have to travel back to the location on Sunday 10th - saving time and money.
Issues
We had to change the script slightly in some areas as what I had written seemed unnatural or didn't fit. This was due to the fact that I had finished the script at short notice however what we did was good and made the narrative make more sense.
The light filters I ordered did not arrive in time for filming so some of the footage is quite orange. However I am going to correct this the best I can by color grading in Premiere Pro, which I have been watching YouTube tutorials on how to do.
In scene 11, Emily walks down the drive listening to music.
I need to put the music in in post-production and make it sound as if it is coming from the headphones. I found a tutorial on Youtube about manipulating sound in Audacity and had my first attempt.
UPDATE (FEBRUARY 2018) When editing scene 11, I found that I preferred the music from scene 10 continuing into scene 11 as it links scene 10 (in the past) to scene 11 (the more recent past of the narrative). Therefore, I have not used this manipulated sound. However, it was a good skill to learn.
Here, you can see that I am holding the camera on an angle. Consequently it looks like the car in the background is on a hill, when it is not. This is a problem with filming handheld, because unlike a tripod it is hard to maintain a straight angle all the time. However it can be corrected in post-production, and I prefer filming handheld because I think it adds to the realism of the text and looks more authentic.
In Premier Pro, I changed the scale and position of the clip. In order to get the right angle I had to scale so that the footage fit the frame.
Edited
The car and the gate look to be on more of a straight line now.
This draft is the incomplete scene. I still need to add ambient sound as there is gaps in the sound e.g. at the beginning with the shot of the 'for sale' sign. Also, uploading the video to YouTube has decreased the quality of the video so I need to experiment with exporting settings to see what looks best.
As you can see, this first draft differs from my storyboard in a few ways. This is because I had over-estimated how long the scene would be because the actors delivered the lines in a different (and better!) way than I had imagined it. For example, in my storyboard I had planned to have a pull focus from the side, like the test shot below. However, I did not film this because I did not feel it was needed and too many cuts would over complicate the scene. Instead, I have zoomed in the original clip to the character Emily's face at one point to make it so that it isn't all one shot.
We were very organised and had all of the correct equipment and set it up quickly
All cast and crew were very professional
We got multiple takes of each scene and from different angles
Issues
I found that I had over-complicated my scenes by including too many different shots, which would mean too many different shots in scenes. For example, I had planned for multiple different shots in scene 1, however when it came to it the scene was very short and only needed three different angles.
We had to change the script slightly in some areas e.g. in scene 2, we had planned for a pan to boil over, however this wasn't possible because the stove did not work. Instead, we changed this to having a tap run and overflow the sink instead. This error was down to poor communication between me and the property owner as I did not check with them whether the stove worked before writing it into my script.
Angela had been learning her lines from an earlier draft of the script she had to learn new lines very quickly (she handled this professionally).
We had to change some of the camera angles I had planned because the there wasn't enough room in the house, e.g. in the conservatory I wanted Henry to stand up and walk out at the end however the table was a lot wider than I thought it was which meant that John would not have been able to walk past without it looking strange.
Even though doing multiple takes was good, this lead to cast being and crew being stood in small rooms for prolonged periods of time. One of the cast members became unwell and fainted in between scenes. Luckily she was ok and it just meant that we brought forward our dinner break to give everyone a rest, and we picked up filming after we had eaten. We still managed to keep to time and get everything filmed before it got dark and we lost the natural light, this taught me that it is ok to not completely stick to the shooting schedule because health and safety is more important. Thankfully we had a trained first aider on site and and they were able to help make sure that Melissa was ok. From this, I am reconsidering our shooting schedule for next weekend and may move some of the scenes around to give us more breaks.
