Production: Day 4

Today we started the car chase, we plan to do two separate shoots, one using a 3rd production car and another shoot on a separate day where we will get stationary shots from the side of the road.
Today’s shoot involved the 3rd production car. For the shots of the car I stood out the top of the sunroof with a tripod and filmed the cars driving up and down our road.

For the lower down shots we utilised the gorilla pod, a bendy mouldable tripod which can be attached to many surfaces. We opened the boot and attached it with the camera to the base of the open boot. We sat in the back seat, belted up, and leant over the back to get the shots we needed.
It was a very successful day and now we can’t wait for the next day of production.

ManFlick Podcast

This is the 1st of 2 ManFlick podcast's containing updates of how filming is coming along. In this one we discuss where we are currently at with production and talk through the process of how we got there. It includes our studies of film opening conventions, market research and the first bits of production we have done.

Production: Day 3

The day of retakes

We decided to put in some new footage of sam dragging the actual body out of the car, we hope this will add a bit more sense to the narrative of the piece.

We also did some retakes of when the killer and the photographer actually see each other. This extra shoot does mean that we are now one day behind schedule and will need to an an extra day to the original 4 we had planned.

Here is a slideshow of the days events in Photo's, it was created on iPhoto '09

Production: Day 2

Today's production involved the foot chase scene at Stag Meadow as well as the start of the car chase. We filmed all of the foot chase and we also did a hefty amount of production diaries to 

to show the progress we have got so far.

It was a good day of production which went really well and was heavily aided by our storyboards which made the whole process a lot easier. Hopefully there wont be any retakes to do as we have made a very rough draft of our film. We are currently using music from the Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater soundtrack of the 2005 Playstation 2 game of the same name. In the actual final draft we plan to write our own score but we felt some form of music was needed to accompany the rough draft.

Production: Day 1

The First day of production has happened marking the start of 'Witness'. It was the scene were Sam has to dig a hole and bury our dead body, Joe. We did have to to dig a hole ourselves which we filled in after, we also started making a production diary and took some photo's of the shoot

Production Day 1

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Update

Just a quick update to say we are ready to start filming, nothing is standing in our way as all the necessary things gave been organized. I'll give a more detailed post when we actually start filming, but for now here is a teaser shot of the cars we will be using in the opening sequence.

We have also completed and laminated our storyboard so it will be durable and robust enough to last us the whole shoot.

We have also made a very brief schedule on iCal so we know our shooting schedule over the next couple of weeks.

Cars Slideshow

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Market Research results

We have recently completed our survey and market research. After doing our survey which comprised of 26 people we put our data into a spreadsheet and created charts which we felt accurately displayed the data collected.

To collate and present our data we used Numbers and Keynote part of iWork' 09

This slideshow presentation shows our collected results and analysis from our market research

Market Research Analysis

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