All footage and sound captured and uploaded

OK, so we have finally captured and created everything that we needed to construct our final short film. The editing has been an ongoing process that both myself and Blaine have been very excited and motivated about, whilst watching and editing all the footage making little cuts here having a spark of genius there, it is really exciting to watch our hard work and effort come together as the final product is slowly taking shape.
Yesterday Blaine and I went on a long bike ride into the wilderness with some newly purchased sound recording equipment purchased by the school (A boom). we wanted to re-capture some of the ambient sound made by the birds within the graveyard. This was due to the fact that on the day of filming, maintenance was taking place and this intercepted the sound quality that we wanted and the over all feel and atmosphere we wanted to create of segregation. We decided to film the birds again and it was very good quality and we are happy that we decided to re-capture the sound.
We also used the boom to capture the voice over of the main antagonist, we wanted his voice to be very clear and dominant within the film so we recorded this sound separately to the film and within a quite location to enable the voice over to be raised specifiably to the decibel level that we desire without any ambient sounds also being increased.

We have been editing some of the scenes as we have gone along the course and now we have a large quantity of the film to the standard that we desire. We will try to finish editing the footage today and then we can also add the voiceover and re-captured ambient sounds to have our final short film finished and to a high standard that we want, before we recieve feedback from potential consumers.

Call sheet

A call sheet is a list of actors who will be required on set for each day's shooting as well as the preparation that needs to take place in order to make sure the production process runs smoothly.

We are shooting on around 6 separate days if everything goes according to plan and this is the call sheet that we have been using whilst filming and in preparation for upcoming filming dates.

The dates that I have included are not set in stone, this is due to the fact that we are not paying our friends to participate within our film, they are giving up their time out of the kindness of their hearts so in return we are mainly working around what days best suit them and which days they are available together when needed.

A call sheet can be simple or it can be very, very detailed. Our call sheet does not need to be overcomplicated like for example a feature length film call sheet with hundreds of actors needed each day, vast amounts of camera equipment, lighting equipment, wiring, sets, explosives..... You get the point. Our call sheet is laid out in a very simple two column design that includes all the information needed. To view our call sheet, which may have amendments if filming dates change follow the link below:

Google Docs call sheet

Production log 4

Yesterday we filmed our penultimate production log, bringing you up to date with our progress throughout the course and future tasks and ideas that we wanted to share with you.

We discussed vast amounts of research and ideas that we wanted to share and develop upon together before the production log so check out some previous posts to read what we are briefly discussing here.

Untitled from Tom palmer on Vimeo.

Production log 3, Presenting our Final cut express effects

We set about making this production log a little different to our usual production log entries because we had just had a tutorial on how to use Final cut express, we ended up using the end of the actual production log because we wanted to manipulate it within Final cut express to practice and show our learning experience. Feel free to watch the video below and laugh at us, not with us, at us, due to our very individual sense of humor.

Production Log 3 (Experience in Editing) from Blaine Kenneally on Vimeo.

We do only have access to Final cut express and we were informed that their will be certain limitations between using the express version and this can be seen within the video. We created a mask over myself to turn me black and white but within the express version we could only create a box/square mask around me and then bevel the edges which looked good but not to the professional standard that we desire our film to be, so in order to achieve this standard we may use a different editing program to achieve this one effect known as the 'Sin city' effect.

December schedule

To keep on top of the work that we have to complete throughout the project, both myself and Blaine thought it would be a good idea to outline the posts that we will complete over December. We wanted to do this because we also have other work to do as well as exams to revise for, so if we set out a basic structure for over the December holiday then we could stick to the plan and complete over work around this.

Blaine has created a post with each separate post that we delegated to each other and he will turn each task into a link to the post after the work has been completed to view this post and follow the links within the post click the first hyperlink below:

http://blainekenneallya2media.blogspot.com/2010/12/december-schedule.html

Production Log 2

Our second production log can be seen on my Co-director, Blaine Kenneally's blog as he kindly uploaded the second instalment to our ongoing production log/research/analogy/evaluation videos.
In my opinion this is a very good way for us to track our progression throughout the course and it is working great so far. Our teachers also like the frequent updates to.

Bellow is a link to the critical/analytical/amusing second video:

http://blainekenneallya2media.blogspot.com/2010/11/production-log-2.html

Production log

Today we filmed our first production log of many to come as this is a great way to monitor progress and tell you what we plan to do in the future, report if this was completed and then set new goals for the following weeks. Bellow is the link to Blaine Kenneally's blog as he kindly uploaded and edited the video:

http://blainekenneallya2media.blogspot.com/2010/11/production-log-1.html