Shooting Schedule

In this post I am going to be showing my group shooting schedule. You are probably wondering what is a shooting schedule? A shooting schedule is simply what day and what time you are going to be filming and who's going to be there. It important because you want to make sure your actors and your crew are there at the same time. So you can reduce cost and time wasted on the film. For example, you are making a stranded film. You want your character to grow a beard, he spends a few weeks growing the beard then you film all the scenes with the beard. Then you finally film the scenes without the beard. So then you save money by not paying the cast on the few weeks he needed to grow the beard and the film locations. If not filming in chronological order for example, Cast Away.

The Other Side Shooting-Schedule

Actor Release Form (One For Each Actor)

Now me and my group have started to record scenes for our thriller movie, we have to make sure we have full consent from the actors and their parents if they are under 18.

The actors we have arranged to play the role of Kyle Hawkins and Wade are both male and are under the age of 18, so we have created an actor release from for them to sign so we as a production team can avoid any trouble caused by actors not wanting to be on camera.

The actor release form is double sided, the back section of the form has some terms and conditions we encourage the actors to read before signing, here is an image of our terms and conditions:

Here are the signed forms from our actors stating that they are comfortable being filmed by us and that they have read the terms and conditions:

Alex Ellis aka Kyle Hawkins

Josh Hill aka Wade

The next post will be the shooting schedule.

Risk Assessment

When filming on location, the crew and actors are going to face potential threats that could cause them injuries. So in our group, we created a chart stating the different risks we could face when filming. The chart has a series of risks that we could face when filming and puts them into a ranking order of likely hood of happening and how we can combat them from happening in the first place.

Risk Assessment

The next post will be the actor release forms.

Animatic

Before filming the actual media product we must first create an animatic using images from the storyboard to re-enact what we want the product to look like.

                   

After it was watched by the studio we were given the go ahead but we were also given some constructive feedback.

1. Make sure that when the continuous pan moves at the same speed

2. When following the head movement make sure we snap with head movements so it works just how people look

When given these pieces of feedback we took them well and will keep them in mid when filming the rest of our product.

The next blog post will be risk assessments. 

Animatic Research.

Now we have finished our storyboard we still cannot yet start filming our media project. We need to produce an animatic. An animatic is a rough version of our film using only images from our storyboard with sound effects, dialogue and the camera movements we wish to use. Before we produce our own storyboard we must first do some research on existing animatics.

Below is an animatic fro the film Shaun of the Dead. 

                

The animatic contains a draing for each movement/shot of the camera, it contains dialouge and audio effects just like the real film would

Now I will post the real media product to go with it to see how accurate the animatic is compared to actual film.

               

Now comparing the animatic to the finished product I see one error between planning and completed product. The animatic doesn't take into account the zooms and pedestal shots that were put into the final film. Other than that the animatic is almost perfect at reflecting what the producers wanted to create. When we create our animatic we must make sure that every camera movement we wish to use is in the final film.  

The next blog post will be our animatic, enjoy!