Almost There...

We are set to film the last two scenes for Lifeless on Monday 1st April. This will be an ideal opportunity for us to finish these few scenes, as I can then spend the evening editing the rest of the film so it can be hopefully uploaded to YouTube by Tuesday evening.

When thinking about the running sequence for the film, I decided that there are two ways it can be shown.

1. The sequence can be left as it is - that is the video is of my character running, while the song 'Deep Run' that a friend has produced for me plays in the background.
2. We can re-record the sound of the footsteps and cars to put over the top.

I will produce both of these versions and see which I prefer. When Rudi, Jay and I meet up on Monday, I will re-record the sound after we have finished the recording of the rest of the footage. That way, I can spend hours upon hours that evening 'playing around' with the footage and sound to make it perfect.

Problems... Again

We still need to film the last two scenes for Lifeless. We haven't managed to meet up recently due to Christmas, the New Year and exams coming up; but in a few weeks time we will be finishing filming and I will be able to edit it all together. I imagine that a first draft of the whole film will be ready in about a month or so's time. After looking at some of the footage, I have decided that I need to re-record some empty sound and some of the smaller sounds that are in the film (for example my gasp as I wake in the white room).

Filming - 16/12/12

Today Rudi, Jay and I met up to try and finish filming the 'spray room' scenes of Lifeless. We arrived at my dad's garage at about 10.00am and we finished at about 4.00pm. This was a very successful day of filming, as we were very focussed and managed to shoot all of the scenes. We always spent a long time on every shot, perfecting it and making sure it conveyed the correct messages. In the end after doing a shot we would each look at it from our points of view:

Rudi - as a cinematographer.
Jay - as an actor.
Me - as an actor and director.

If we all like the shot from our points of view, we moved on... If not we would spend a lot of time on the same shot (some shots took a VERY long time, while others took a matter of seconds to discuss and a few minutes to shoot). In the end we were all very happy with all of the footage.

We only need to shoot two more scenes for Lifeless and it will be finished. These scenes are:

1. When we are 'teleported' to my house.
2. When I wake up after the accident.

We will film these scenes within the next few days and then I will edit the whole film together just before the last day of term to show to our class and hopefully receive some feedback.

Filming and Editing - 13/12/12

A few days ago Rudi and I filmed the last scene to bridge the scenes at school and the running sequence together. So he gave me all the footage so far and I started editing on the 13th. In the end I managed to edit a rough version of the first half of Lifeless. I think it looks very good, but I would like to re-shoot the beginning of the sequence inside my dad's garage as I feel it is not clear that the two character's are in the same room for the first few shots. We are set to film at my Dad's garage again tomorrow, where we will re-shoot the few shots that I didn't like too much and continue with the filming process... Hopefully to the end of the film.

Filming - 2/12/12

On Sunday Rudi, Jay, James and I met up to do some more filming. I feel that it went very well as we did the last few shots with the car and we started work on the shots inside the spray room. In the end, we finished all the shots that we needed James for (so that he didn't have to come along if he didn't want to next time) and we made a good start on the shots in the spray room. The only scenes left to shoot are the beginning of the running sequence, a scene at my house and the end of the spray room section. I think we will have to meet up for a whole day in a few weeks time to finish pretty much all of this. Maybe 16th December...

I will get the footage from Sunday (and the footage from a few weeks ago) from Rudi as soon as I can. That way I can start getting a rough cut together for the opening of the film.

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.