Thursday 18 October 2012

Production Diary: Day 1


  18th October 2012

We first started off by doing a make up trial where we all used different face paints and eye shadows to make realistic looking bruises, I was not the best person at creating them so I decided to take charge of the camera to film our progress. The first location for filming was at the house, I was in charge of the filming and also directed along side Claudia to guide Abigail on our desired outcome. We were unsure how to film under low lighting, which could mean re-filming some sections tomorrow.

We then moved to a different location closer to the forest area to prepare Rebecca, our actress playing the murdered girl. We all participated in applying the make up; I painted her arms with white face paint as well as contouring the hollows of her cheeks to give a corpselike effect. During this process I took numerous pictures of different stages of getting Rebecca ready. I was again the cameraperson and part director at the new location. The preparations took longer than expected which rushed the planned schedule for filming.












George [the dog] was over excited while travelling to the location but did not participate as we hoped today, so we decided to film other parts such as close up of Rebecca’s face and legs dangling from the tree to make the most of our time at the location. We will be attempting to film George again at a rescheduled filming session with the anticipation that we will get what we hoped for with the help of toys and treats as a reward.

When I got home I uploaded the footage we filmed today onto my computer and memory stick as backup and deleted the data off the SD card, as we are limited on memory. I edited the video of the make up trial [bruises] and uploaded it onto YouTube as evidence of our research before we filmed.

We managed to get the majority of what we planned to do completed but we need to improve our time management skills to stay on schedule and finish the product within the deadline.

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