Our Films Location & filming Diary

When starting to create our film opening we decided that the location of our shots and the film on a whole, would be of key importance to establishing the storyline and conforming to the genre of social realism, It should ideally aid us as filmmakers in helping to tell our story to our demographic,  by bringing realistic locations into our filming; it makes our film opening appear more authentic for the audience.

Due to the hybrid nature of our film we used a mix of locations from urban to rural areas and felt they helped to enhance the social realism aspect as well as thriller due to it dramatic yet believable locations and story. We aimed the locations to be that of harsh, hard hitting, gritty and a little bit grim to represent the wide negative conception of areas inhabited by drug issues, as this reflects the quality of life and the living standards commonly stereotyped within areas inhabited by drug issues.  

 Production Filming Diary

 

Day 1

Urban Area Filming

 

Today we filmed the total mass of urban area footage, this includes the;

• Intro scenes (Master shot, long to close to mid shot sequence, shot reverse shot)
• Dialogue (Whole sequence of convo)
• Beginning of Chase (Match on action, shot reverse shot and mid shot)

We had a few problems during this day of filming, manly coming in the form of poor sound and weather. As much as we would like to, we couldn't control the weather but while using coats to avoid a wet camera we managed to successful film the urban areas with the looming grey sky we wanted. As far as sound goes we had well covered locations so only wind effected the sound thankfully, but again by placing "Wind barriers" in the form of Luke blocking the camera from the main force of wind.


Day 2
Rural Area Filming

Today we filmed the total mass of urban area footage, this includes the;

• Largest section of the chase scene (close ups, POV shots and long shots)
• Small amount of dialogue (POV, low angle and over the shoulder)

Unlike the first day of filming we had no problem with weather or wind that much, unless it was a desired sounds, the biggest problem was us as cameramen and directors not only being in  the shots but trying to not make noise on the leaves which proved very difficult for some shots. We used manly stationary shots in our rural filming so that we would not break the codes and conventions of a social realism, and by re filming we avoided being in shot.

Day 3
Vlog

The Vlog was a dialogue lead sence in which no real problems accured, it contained Toby talking directly into the camera, speaking well rehersed lines and with no unwanted sounds. this finished our filming and then we started to edit.