Font Ideas - Title

During our second day of filming, Ellie took an extra shot of the seagulls flying around on the beach. The shot came out really well and we all decided we were going to use it as the background for when the title comes up. Since then I have been looking at different fonts that we could use for our title. 

Krungthep

Marion

New Gothic MT

Trajan Pro

Filming Day 2

 Scenes to be Shot:

SCENE 2 – FLASHBACK 1

EXT. BEACH – DAY

SCENE 3 – FLASHBACK 2

EXT. YOUNG JON’S FLAT – DAYTIME

SCENE 4 – FLASHBACK 3

INT. BEDROOM - EVENING

Problems we encountered:

• Extreme weather - No beach ball scene, camera shaking
• No house/bedroom to shoot dinner scene
• Having a bracelet instead of necklace - had to change sequence of events
• Limited time with the actors

How we overcame the problems:

• Instead of having the scene where the two are throwing the beach ball, we decided to change it to John finding a shell on the ground and giving it to Melissa. This I feel could actually set up the flashbacks better and links it back to the collection of shells that older John has in the scene we shot on day one.
• Due to the first change, the scenes would of all been of John giving Melissa all gifts which is nice but a bit excessive! We decided to change the scene so that Melissa would already have the key and that they would be walking into the flat together.
• Scene 4 was also changed due to not having a house. We therefore decided that John would give the bracelet to Melissa on a park bench. We managed to find the perfect location just beside the beach.

Overall filming went well (even though it was freezing cold!) and I think we managed to get some really nice shots.

Film Prep day 2

To prepare for the second day of filming, Ellie prepared a shot list just like the one we made for the first day we filmed:

We also decided that only me, Kat and Ellie were going to film. Kat also created a group chat so that we could organise with our actors what time to meet and how we were getting to the locations. It was decided that we were going to film on the 30th of March.

Risk Assesment

Due to filming off campus on the second day, we were asked to fill out a risk assessment.
Here is the risk assessment that we created for shooting.

Although there was extreme wind, filming went very well and there were no injuries or difficulties that we came across.

Final Casting a Wardrobe

Here is our final casting a wardrobe:

Found Young Actors!

After looking for ages, we have finally found young actors to play young Jon and Melissa. Luckily Kat's friend Sophie studies drama and was happy to play the part of Melissa. As for finding the actor for younger Jon, we decided to approach one of the guys who studies on our course. Luckily he said yes! After struggling to find someone to play the parts for so long, it was a big relief!

Filming 17/03/2015

Scenes we were shooting: 

SCENE 1 – BEFORE THE FLASHBACKS

INT. JON’s ENTRANCE HALLWAY – DAY

INT. JON’s KITCHEN – DAY 

INT. JON’s KITCHEN – DAY - reaction to FlashBacks

SCENE 5 – BEGINNING TO MOVE ON FROM THE LOSS                              

INT. JON’S KITCHEN – DAY

INT. JON’S ENTRANCE HALLWAY – DAY

We arrived at 8;30 to set to start rearranging the furniture and work around the limits that student accommodation provides.

Problems we encountered:

• The door had a massive window on and no letterbox. It was also alarmed when kept open for too long
• no where to hang the coat (key part)
• Was shared accommodation so people were walking in out
• Student numbers on the cupboards
• Multiple hobs and ovens
• no separate lounge
• no bookshelves
• lighting!!

How we over came the problems: 

• Stared the shot of him walking in through a corridor, filmed with the door open. Had to limit the scene to less 30 second due to alarm going of.
• Had the women's coat hanging over a hinge and had him hang his coat on top, was unable to tell it wasn't a coat rack.
• Instead of having the letter come through the door and bring him out of the flashbacks, we had him walk in with the letters and put them in the kitchen. The kettle is what brings him out of his trance and when he walked over to the kettle, he picks up the sympathy card on top. 
• Not much we could do to stop people walking in and out, we just had to pause filming and wait for them to leave.
• Luckily some of the cupboards didn't have numbers on so we only shot in one half of the kitchen. This worked out in our favour as it gave us space to work with and hid the extra hobs and ovens. 
• The flat had sofas and a coffee table that we rearranged to look like a living area. We did not shoot him walking into the living room from the kitchen like planned as it gives the impression that they are 2 separate rooms.
• Changed the scene from him knocking the shells off the bookshelf to him tidying up the table in the living room and knocking a book onto the jar of shells instead

Our main problem when filming was the lighting in the room due to some of the room having no windows and the rest having large over powering windows. Not only did this constantly mess with the white balance, it also effected our exposure as well. We did the best we could to deal with this problem but after reviewing footage, it is clear that we are going have to edit the exposure of some of the scenes in post. 

By surprise I found myself naturally taking control of filming along side Ellie. Together we worked together well and managed to film everything that we needed and managed to overcome all the problems we encountered.

James himself said he enjoyed his day filming and that we were one of the more professional production teams he had worked with!!