Ewan's Post on Ident

Here is our ident, we wanted the minimalist feel of an independent company, while maintaining enough motion and for it to be swift but interesting. We used a simple fade for the 'Productions' and slowed the spin of the EE as the ident then fades to black.
It was all made using motion.

PLANNING - IDENT

We planned our ident to be clean and simple with a simple rotation motion.
Our Production studios name is "EE Productions". We hoped this would be memorable for our audience and enhance the sleek font effect we have used throughout our entire film.

This is our finished ident, we had some trouble with creating the motion in the application 'Motion' but got there win the end! We're very happy with the way it has turned out.

SHOOT NUMBER 2 - COMPLETED

Our second shoot went well!
The footage looks good, none of the batteries on the lights ran out this time (as they did last time) THANK GOD!
We had already begun to edit before we did our second shoot so now we are matching up the shots from the second shoot in replace of the old shots.
It is also appearing to be very difficult to match the sound recordings exactly with the actors on video!

SHOOT NUMBER 2

After looking and attempting to edit the footage from the first shoot we have had to schedule a second  shoot.

There are gaps in the narrative that don't make sense; the audience don't understand why our protagonist is running away from our antagonist. 

So, we have created new scenes to be filmed in our second shoot.

Also to be filmed in our second shoot are some reshoots of night shots that didn't come up very well on the screen due to lighting. We also had continuity problems: there were shots of our antagonist packing a bag but then running with out it. 

This is becoming very difficult!

SHOOT NUMBER 1

A successful first day of shooting done and finished! We managed to remember all the equipment on the last day but forgot some lighting equipment on the first day so we will have to see how the footage turns out before we can judge whether we want to use all the footage!
Ewan and I took turns in recording both the sound and the filming and we got a variety of shots from all sorts of angles and different locations.
Can't wait to show you guys!

PLANNING - COSTUME/PROPS/ACTORS

Here are some screenshots from some of the footage we recently filmed to show the costumes and props developments and how they have altered slightly.

PLANNING - SHOOTING SCHEDULE

This is the first edit of our shooting schedule although it had to be changed because our actor (Meredith Mack) dropped out. However, we used the same dates to do all the same shots just with our other actor (Grace Teale). Although when we decided to add another scene for our narrative to make sense, we did have to do another day of shooting. We also reshot some of the night shots to see if we could get some clearer shots of our protagonist in better lighting.

PLANNING - Dialogue

On deciding a dialogue, a conversation over the phone between our protagonist and her mother, we have drafted a script:

Mum:

''Hey darling''

''Hope you had a good day, how are you?''

''When will you be back?''

''Okay see you soon! Have fun!''