21/2/2012 - Today I created and completed the storyboard from the use of the shot list. The storyboard could now help us and give us insight to what our film will look like, allowing a chronological order of what will happen in each scene.
24/02/2012 - Now that the storyboard was finished I could now work on the animatic. For this I analysed and wrote up a voiceover which would be simultaneously combined with each specific camera shot in the storyboard, which would be used in the film.
29/02/2012 - The development of a dolly system that we would be using for the library scene was completed; this was created using basic resources, yet, proved to work very effectively. As we wanted a continuous shot using the dolly, by using a standard computer chair the wheels could easily give steady movement of the camera; we did a number of test runs to get the ideal movement of the chair and camera. From here we could mark out where the chair would be pushed to and decide on how fast it would be pushed. Now developing was finished, we had a successful result of having one actor being filmed, one camera man sat on the chair, and two assistants pushing the chair. We would be filming the government agent on a computer where he is interrupted by an urgent call on his mobile, from here he rushes out, accidentally leaving his computer on with the top secret email on screen.
02/03/2012 - Today was the day filming began on the initial scene. As we all had the appropriate props we could set up and create our beginning setting of the protagonist in the counselling room. As I was director of photography I used a number of camera techniques, including match on action, 180-degree rule and shot/reverse/shot, which we found very effective. At the end of today's lesson we had finished this scene and found most the shots to be very successful, however also chose which shots needed to be re-filmed in order to create continuity, after this we could now start editing this scene.
16/03/12 - Today we started our filming of the library scene and also carried on with the editing of our scenes in the film. As we had all the appropriate props for this scene we could productively film most of the shots in this scene very quickly, including the dolly shot of the agent on the computer combined with new experimental shots like the falling chair. We started combining our library scene shots with our previous beginning counselling scene; we could then edit each shot to create continuity within the film. Our film was starting to become clearer and we could now go on to filming the next scene of the library.
21/03/12 - Today's lesson was extremely productive as we finished off filming our library scene along with starting and finishing most of our laboratory scene. Our film was starting to look very professional and of a high quality. The lab scene worked extremely well as we managed to get a science technician to allow us to use actual chemicals (liquid nitrogen) to produce a real life experiment effect, this was a brilliant addition to our shot. Here I was filming a time-lapse scene of the protagonist working on his discovery about global warming - this was achieved by slowly panning across, where the trick of the time-lapse would come from fast-forwarding the shot in the editing process. We also filmed the few final shots of the protagonist leaving the lab to walk outside and look up at the sky; for this we used a tracking shot which then merges into a point-of-view shot as he stops to look up. At this point the shot tilts and focuses on the sky where the film title 'State of Fear' will be superimposed.
23/03/12 - This was our last day of filming where we could focus on going over any gaps in our film. From looking at the roughly edited version of the film all the specific parts which needed to be re-filmed or added to were visible. We began by filming the outdoor shots of the protagonist leaving the library building and hurrying to get to the lab - these shots were vital in order to create a clear idea of what was going on for the viewer, while linking the library and laboratory scene together. I also had to re-film the final scene of the protagonist leaving the lab and walking outside as we spotted some problems with the props in the shot and also the sound that was included.
Finally, all the filming was now finished. Our group now needed to edit the film, adding in the credits, voiceover and music. After these tasks are done, we will have a finished product of our final thriller film 'State of Fear'.
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