Problems...

For various reasons, we haven't been able to meet up for filming recently. But we are set to film some more this Sunday. We will hopefully finish the last scene with the car, and the scenes we need other people for this Sunday, so we will only have a few scenes to finish next time we meet.

Filming and Editing - 14/11/12

Yesterday Jay, Rudi and I met up to film the first scenes of Lifeless. We spent a good hour or so after school shooting in and around a computer room. We managed to film a lot of the beginning and only stopped because we ran out of natural light and so couldn't continue onto the beginning of the running sequence. After filming I copied the footage from Rudi's laptop to my computer and edited a very rough copy of the end of the running sequence. I did this to give people a taste of my film at our school's open day today. We will be filming this Sunday and then I will get the footage from yesterday and Sunday at the end to start editing as we move through the film.

Update for Filming - 28/10/12

There have been many inconveniences over the past few months so we haven't been able to meet up and film together. A few weeks ago I looked through the footage that we had already shot and decided there were many different parts to it that I didn't like and so told the others that I'd like to re-film it all - which they agreed to after I explained my reasoning. Today, we finally managed to meet up to film. But when we arrived at my dad's garage, we found out that, unfortunately, one of his work colleagues had used the spray room yesterday. This meant that the spray room was no longer white, but pink. So we spent a long time re-painting it and waiting for the paint to dry. In the end we decided to shoot all of the scenes that were set outside the garage. These were just the shots where my dad is getting in his car, then the shots where I am running towards the archway, and the final shot of where he hits me with the car. We spent a very long time on these shots and tried out many different ways of doing them. In the end we had a lot of footage of these scenes that I can now 'play around' with to get the sequence to the look like the way I want it. We will meet up next weekend to finish filming and also meet up after school the week after next to do the final few shots in school. If all goes to plan, the film should be ready for editing by the 11th November.

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.