Filming Schedule

The current days in which we are planning to be filming are:

• 12th November 2010 - College

• 17th November 2010 - Connor's House

• 24th November 2010 - Connor's House

These are subject to change, and any filming changes or added days will be updated here.

Location Photos

Since we are filming the entirety of our film inside, with a few shots outside, then our location photos are pretty limited. Here are some of the rooms within the house that we will be filming in;

Ryan's Bedroom

This room shall be used throughout the film but the most important time that it will be used will be at the end of the film. When Lewis looks at the photo which he will pick up off the drawers on the far left picture, and then walk over to sit on the bed. As he looks down at the photo, with his elbows on his knees, he begins to cry as he is missing his brother. At which point, Ryan appears sat on the other bed, looking straight at him. They embrace in a hug before running back down the stairs to stop Jayne from ringing their Mum and Dad.

Garage

The garage will be used predominantly at the start of the film and will probably not be used again. It is used in our film when an argument occurs between both Ryan and Lewis in which Lewis storms out. A good thing about using the garage, is that the stairs can be used for some good camera angles. This is the exact room in which Ryan disappears after finding a pocket-watch. At which point Lewis returns to look in the garage for Ryan, to find out he is not there.

Front Room

This room shall be used quite a lot throughout our film. It is used at the very start, and then used again when they are watching the news in this room. The room is quite dark, but we should be filming it in the afternoon so if light is a problem, we will have to do the conventional methods of turning the light on.

Lewis' Bedroom

This bedroom shall be used mid-way through the film when Lewis shuts the door and then opens it up straight afterwards it, as it is a few days later. In which he then walks across the hallway, from his bedroom into the bathroom. No shots will be taken from inside the bedroom, but there will be some looking outside the bedroom.

Risk Assessment

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BBFC talk

Today we attended a talk by the BBFC regarding certain age ratings in films, at the showroom in Sheffield. In our short film, we were hoping for our film to be a certificate 12A. However, when planning our script, near the end of the film, we used the word 'shit'. We were debating on whether to use this word and whether this swear word alone would push the certificate up to a 15. We also added this question into our audience research in to whether would expect any swearing in a 12 rated film, and the majority of the answers were either mild or in the right circumstance, so again this justifies the swear word in our script.

During the talk, we learnt that as long as we were not to use the 'F' or the 'C' word and every other swear word used, such as 'shit' is not used frequently then we are able to class it as a 12A.

Also, it was noted that the swear word should be used in the right circumstance and not involve any racial or discriminative remarks. In our script, the word is used to show a state of panic as Jayne is on the phone to Mum and Dad explaining that Ryan has gone missing. We believe, that this is a reasonable time to use this language and that it would not offend our audience, as it shows a state of panic.

Will there be uses of strong language in a ‘12’ or ‘12A’ work?
The BBFC's Guidelines state that there may be strong language (eg 'f***') at ‘12’ or ‘12A’, but it must be infrequent. The context of the strong language is important and aggressive uses of strong language may result in a film or DVD being placed at the ‘15’ category. There is some allowance for puns on strong language at this category. There may be moderate language (uses of terms such as ‘bitch’ and ‘twat’ at ‘12’ 0r ‘12A’.

Discriminatory language may be present but will not be endorsed by the work as a whole. Aggressive use of discriminatory language (for example homophobic or racist terms) is unlikely to be acceptable at ‘12’ or ‘12A’ unless it is clearly condemned,

Will there be uses of strong language in a ‘12A’ work?
The BBFC's Guidelines state that there may be strong language (eg 'f***') at ‘12A’, but it must be infrequent. The context of the strong language is important and aggressive uses of strong language may result in a film or DVD being placed at the ‘15’ category. There is some allowance for puns on strong language at this category.

This was taken straight off http://www.sbbfc.co.uk/categories_1212a/

The Grandfather

The Grandfather in our film is the hardest character that we have to fill in for. He won't be in the film, as he had died a few months previously. But, we have to have pictures of him in the film and also some little stories of him. I recently asked my Grandma if she had any photos of my deceased Grandfather and she has provided me with about 40 photos. Below are some of these photos.

Since my Grandfather served in the RAF, we will have to work this into the story-line. By creating a character profile on him, we can explain that he was in the RAF during the war and then after leaving the RAF, possibly due to an injury, that he became a clock-maker.

These photos will be used in our film at the very start, when Ryan and Jayne are looking through the photos and Ryan cries at them, as he misses his Grandfather. There could be a possible theme of these being found in a drawer as their Mum and Dad have told them to tidy out the garage, so we could work it into the story-line that these are found in the garage.

I didn't see much point in uploading all the photos that I got, onto the blog. Yet, it is worth noting that on the back of the picture below reads the message;

'Lots of love sweetheart

I'm always thinking of you

Love George x x x x x x x'

Again, this is another part which we could work into the story-line and could actually make it sentimental.

Last years work

Last year, when creating our 2 minute film we could have encountered some slight problems but luckily we avoided them. The biggest example of this would be that we didn't get enough shots and that we were relying on one shot to be good, and if this particular shot either didn't work, or was not in focus or the sound wasn't right then it could have ruined the entire film.

This year after planning part of our shot list we decided that we would like to do a minimum of 2 shots per every shot that we are wanting to do and then we can have the choice of which one we want to use. In some cases we may have 3 or 4 shots just for one little section, but at least this gives us some variety and we are not stuck if one shot doesn't particularly work.

This is the project that Josh and Connor completed last year (along with 2 others);


This is the project that Luke and James completed last year (along with 2 others);


Both videos were completely different but both had good ideas and good shots. A problem that Josh and Connor had was that the storyline was quite complicated and had to get the right costumes and the right location. A problem with Luke and James was that some people didn't turn up on the particular day. In this project, we have tried to combat these problems by having a modern day storyline, and also by only relying on one other person who is not part of our media group, and everyone else is part Pigs Can't Fly Productions. This way, the costumes are not hard to do as we can wear just our normal clothing, and if an unfortunate coincidence does happen, and people can't make shooting, then it will not be too hard to rearrange.

Camera Shot Research

This is our camera shot research we conducted, just as a practice before we do actual filming. Below us in detail, what we plan to do with each shot, how well it went, and what we'll change.

Shot 1 - Change Clothes.

We are going to try to encorperate this into our storyline and we originally got the idea for the shot off the trailer for the film 'Freaky Friday'. It is be used in our film when Lewis will close the door as to be going to bed, in his pyjamas and then in a split second and change his clothes, as to indicate the next day. A slight problem that we had when practicisng this shot would be that the door we were using was not great, and Connor had to dig his fingers in to open the door. However, when we are actually filming, it will be a proper door, with a fixed handle, so won't be a problem.

Shot 2 - Walk through camera.

This shot is going to be used when Lewis walks from his room to the bathroom, and the following shot is where 'HELP' is wrote on the mirror. A slight problem we had when filming this would be that it struggles to focus when Connor walks away from the camera. We talked to our teacher about this and a way to fix this would be to zoom the camera lense in, so that were not having to walk so close to the camera.

Shot 3 - Stairs shot.

In our film we are going to have the scene in which one of the two boys runs down the stairs. This was just a simple exercise of having the shot at the top of the stairs and then cutting half-way down to a different camera shot. The shot worked fine and was quite easy just to cut both of the shots, get them both in the right position and then merge them together.

Shot 4 - Writing Help.

This is by far the hardest shot that we will have to do, and we have only put together a rough edit of what we are planning to do. By simply writing Help on the board, and doing it stages, then stepping back and drawing another line, we are hoping to create the effect that somebody is writing but actually nobody is there. This is by far the most ambitious shot that we plan to do in our film. We originally had a problem with the practice shot as the floorboards were not very sturdy and caused the camera to move. This will not be a problem for when we are filming as we are doing it on tiles, so the camera will not move. Also, we will be turning the shower on and writing the message on the condensation on the mirror, so this may be harder because we may get drip marks but using a whiteboard was the best way to test it.

In our actual film, the writing on the board will be done by a series of wipes which will either wipe vertically or horizontally to give the effect that the 'HELP' is actually being written by Ryan, who turns invisible.

Overall all shots seems succesful and we are planning to use all these shots in our final piece.

Audience Research

This is our audience research we have conducted as to provide an insight into a target audience for our 5 minute film. We asked the questions which are on our Audience questionnaire, and on the video we have shown the best 3 answers which we received. The answers will be used in the shaping of our film and have a final effect on some aspects of the Storyline, Dialogue and Age rating. Here is the video that we have made;



We gathered a lot of results from our audience research, and used only the 3 best answers for each question (apart from the last question; 'what would you do if you were invisible for a day?') We will try to correlate some graphs with some of the results which can be put into graphs, as said before, this audience research will have a shaping in the overall making of our film.

Film Name Design

This will be our logo for our film title. We think that this works well as it highlights the twin within the title and since the film is all about a set of twins and the fact that their lives are entwined. As a tagline, we are going to have 'The Fate of One, Rests With The Other'. This will appear on our film at the start shortly after our production logo is shown.

I decided to add the pocket-watch behind the logo as it makes it more relevant to our film. In our film, Ryan touches the Granddad's pocket-watch and becomes invisible. After doing this design, I realised that it would be ideal to add the tag-line to the logo, so I set about doing this.

I added the tag-line 'The fate of one, rests with the other...'. Connor originally came up with this tag-line and it fits perfectly with our film. When possibly adding this to our film, it might be ideal to introduce different parts of the title, at different times. Maybe, firstly showing the pocket-watch, followed by 'Entwined', followed by the tag-line.

After re-looking at this particular logo, I am undecided on whether to have the tag-line as 'The fate of one, rests with the other...' or 'The fate of one, lies with the other...', this could be a possible thing to ask some of our target audience.