Filming 02/09/12

Jay, Rudi, James and I met up today to try and film the rest of Lifeless. After a long discussion, we decided that a lot of things have changed since the last time we filmed and so it will be easier to re-film everything. So we set out to re-film as much as possible at my dad's garage. In the end we managed to reach about the same area we were at before restarting (if we ignore the fact that Ben wasn't with us, so we couldn't shoot the scene that contained him, and we couldn't shoot the scenes that weren't in my dad's garage). We will meet up again during the first school week to shoot the scenes at school and on the streets outside school and we are meeting up every Sunday we can to film the scenes at the garage. So I think that we will finish filming within the next 3 weeks, and I will finish editing within a week or two after that. So the film should be completed in about 5 weeks time.

Update on Progress

Most of us have been on holiday the past few weeks, so we haven't managed to finish filming just yet. We will do the last of the filming by the end of next week, then I will be able to edit the film together in time for the next school term.

Filming - 05/08/12

Yesterday I met up with Jay, James, Ben and Rudi to film most of 'Lifeless'. We met at around midday and were filming until around 8.30PM. This was a very tiresome day, but we managed to get most of the filming done. The only scenes we didn't manage to film were the scene where my character gets hit by the car and the last 4 pages of dialogue from my script.

This was because it was not overcast (like when we had started filming the other week) and so we couldn't do the scene outside with the car... And we ran out of time to do the last pieces of dialogue.

I think that it was a very successful day of filming and because there was five of us, we could all talk about the different shots we were taking and the different ideas people had about each shot. We had a good mixture of camera angles and ideas for post production, so I am really looking forward to putting all of the shots together to create the final film.

I have saved all of 184 files from that day on my computer, but have decided to not start the editing process until we have finished all of the scenes, and I know exactly which shots go where in the film.

As most of us are going on holiday soon, we will be meeting up during this week to film the rest of the shots we need to complete the film.

Filming 18/07/12

On the 18th of July, Jay, James and I met up in school to shoot the first few scenes of Lifeless, it was quite overcast and because the school children broke up that day, the school was near empty. We spent a few hours filming and I took the footage home. Today I have finally managed to sit down and analyse the footage. Most of it was very good and I have completed a first draft of the first couple of scenes for the film. It is no-where near completion, but the film is looking as if it will be very good when it is finished. Next week sometime we will finish filming and I will finish editing the film before the end of the summer.

Preparing the Set...

On Tuesday (5th June) I went to my dad's garage to paint the spray room white for the filming of Lifeless. This went extremely well and it looks very good. We are now all ready to film, we just need to find a day that everyone is available to do it.

Storyboard

This is my storyboard for 'Lifeless'.

Please excuse the poor quality of the pictures, I tried to copy them onto blogger and it didn't work, so I had to print them out and scan them back into my computer to have them saved as actual picture files to upload...

Pitch for Short Film - 'Lifeless'