Rough cut

Today we used the clips we filmed last week to create a rough cut of our final project. We edited the clips together and asked our teacher what he thought. It was obvious that we would have to go back and film shots again, such as an establishing shot.He gave us ideas about where to put our titles and to put a gap or freeze to split up the acion of our chase, seen in films such as Trainspotting and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Next week we will go back and re-film scenes that were not good enough for our final cut, and will have to think about continuity, especially the unpredictable weather.

Filming

About a week ago now we set out and filmed for a rough cut of 72 Hours. We faced varius problems concerning the use of actors (we changed our actor for the lead part after he didn't fit the role), and other team members turning up a tiny bit late; but once filming began we developed our ideas on the basic storyboard including the use of a car. The filming went smoothly and our actors were very professional, overall i think our rough cut will look quite good. I took some pictures while we were filming as you can see above.

A New Storyboard

We finally decided on a new storyboard for 72 Hours that involves a chase scene through town, and finishes in town car park with someone getting shot. However, this idea is not realistic because we would not be able to gain permission from the council to have a gun in a popular car park. We decided to have the chase through a nearby area because of the narrow winding alleys we found when going on our second location scout. We made a path that the chase would follow and applied our already made storyboard to this.

Soundtrack and Credits

A huge part of our first two minutes of our film will consist of opening credits, either behind or ontop of the action already happening in every frame. I had to find out what order these came in, so studyed various films before coming up with an order to suit my film:

• name of studio
• production company
• a film by __________
• cast
• edited
• producer, executive producer
• story by __________
• directed by _________

We want the credits to appear in some sort of timer, like the digits seen on a watch, in order to reinforce the idea of 72 Hours being timed. However, before I can finalise this we will have to look at our editing software to see if it is capable.

Whilst studying the four different parts of a extract in our practical lesson - sound, mise en scene, editing and camera angles, I started to look for suitable music to feature in my film. When I was looking through youtube and personal favourites, I found a three and a half minute techno song called Walk Through by Frances White that would be perfect for the chase scene we will be filming. The song builds tension, but starts quite quickly, therefore I am thinking of having diagetic sound until the chase begins, then adding this song in over the diagetic noise of the streets and car chase.

This is what the editing software looks like when creating a new title:

Another storyboard

We made another storyboard, this time including a chase scene, to make the opening two minutes more exciting. This storyboard was only rough, and was originally based in the car park in town, however we faced issues using a BB gun in a public place, so moved our idea to the local streets around our school. We went on another photo shoot, to assess potential locations and camera angles and this was very successful. The tiny alleyways and tight corners will provide some good shots for our piece, and we planned a route so the shots will all have continuity.

Potential locations

We went on a potential shooting location trip around our school, taking pictures of anything that could be used in our film. We had to think about genre, and how this would affect what location we could use. For example the stairs would be good for someone to jump or run down in an escape or chase scene, but the stairs and squash court were too dark, and would have made our film look like a horror/thriller.

Original storyboard

This is a few pages of our original draft storyboard for 72 Hours. After a couple of meetings we decided to change our storyboard, as we had no where to film that fits in with this storyboard.