Chloe and George's top tips for filming :)

1. Always keep focused and on task.
   
   
2. Make sure you can hear all speech and that your actors speak clearly.
   
   
3. Watch back your footage to make sure you have everything you need.
   
   
4. Film scenes more than once to increase your chances of getting a clean shot.
   
   
5. Treat equipment with respect and care.
   
   
6. Take care when filming in dangerous places.
   
   
7. Make sure you have permission to film in your chosen location.
   
   

Call Sheet

We are going to film our piece over the course of one day, on Monday the 1st of March.
Chloe will be collecting and returning the camera and tripod.
We will be filming at Julian's house near the centre of Cambridge. We may film some parts at Alex's, if we can't find a suitable location for our dark room scenes at Julian's. We chose to film at Julians as he has a large house with enough space to film. We intend to get there by bus and on foot. We will be filming at a private location, but we may need to film at some public locations if we cant get the correct shots at julian's.
We will be filming during the day. For our scene in the room with the television we will use diagetic lighting, like table lamps and the light off the tv. Whereas in the scene in the dark room we will be using non diagetic lighting, to light up the room enough for the film to be clear.
George, Julian, Alex and Dave will be acting
George will be playing the role of a kidnapper, as will Julian.
Alex and Dave will play the couple being abducted.
Chloe has written a script, and the actors will need to learn it before the filming process.
Chloe will be directing and filming the piece, with help from actors not in the scenes at the time.
All of the props we need are available at Julian's. Each of our actors are providing their own outfits.
Weather should not affect our filming as we will be based indoors.
We are planning on filming all of the shots on one day, but if we need to we can film another day to finish off.
We need to record the speech from each character and create a soundtrack in garage band, and some non-diagetic sound effects for certain scenes.

Test Footage

Here is our test footage that we created. We used a handheld shot at the beginning with the trolley, to make it look more realistic to what it would be like if someone was really in the trolley. This will help us with our own thriller as we will be using handheld shots during our fight and abduction scenes.
The slow motion we used when Julian and George are at the vending machine will help us as we will be using it after a fight scene as a character falls to the ground in slow motion after being beaten up.
The shot of George walking back from the vending machine, is shot from a low angle to show dominance and power. This is how we would like our shots of the kidnappers to be shown as they are more powerful than the couple being abducted.
We have a close up of George to show his facial expression, we would like to achieve this in our final piece with the couple being abducted to show the fear and anxiety on there faces. Also, we will use close up's to show the kidnappers eyes, which will keep the audience unaware of what the abductors look like, but still show their expressions.
The shot of Julian throwing a sweet, uses fast motion. We will be using a lot of this during our fight scenes, to keep the action quick and sharp.