Health and Safety when filming

When we are filming in our locations we need to consider the many potential hazards.

Possible hazards when filming in the Ashdown Forest are:

• The risk of uneven ground and holes(rabbit and badger)  that are potential trip hazards. So we would have to check the ground where we plan to film the shots that are required.
• We must have a clear path for the camera person as they fall and damage the equipment and themselves.
• As we are filming in the forest we must make sure that we do not tresspass onto private property.
• In the forest we could come across some wild animals and must not approach them incase they find us intimidating and could lash out at us.
• We are going to be filming in an old abandoned army barrack, we have to be careful as the ceilings are quite low therefore we would have to make sure we don't hit our heads. We would also need to make sure we would have enough room.
• As the forest is a public place we woulld have to consider that some people may walk past, therefore we would need to make signs so that people are ware of us filming.

Possible hazards when filming the club scene in either the Albermarle or the live room are:

• As there will many extras present in the setting we would have to make sure that nobody damages the equipment or is injured by the equipment.
• We have to ask for permission to film at the venue and so that people agree to us filming them.
• We have to make sure the camera is out of the way of the crowd so the camera doesn't get damaged, lost or stolen.
• As a group we would have to communicate so that we know when we are filming and where we are filming in the venue.

Group Roles for pre production planning

We have decided on our group roles:

Locations

• Dom and Jake are in charge of imagery of locations and decisions about locations.

Props research

• Jack and Dani are in charge of prop research this includes organising actors and extras if needed.

Storyboarding and script

• Jake and Jack will be in charge of script writing and storyboarding.
• Dani will be doing the synopsis to our whole film.

Fillming and directing

• As a group we are all going to take part in filiming and acting in our production.
• Dom will be in charge of lighting decisions.

Health and safety

• We will be working as a group to make sure that we stick to health and safety rules when we are filming.

Final edit dialogue change

We had to cut out some of the dialogue to allow our film to fit the time allowance. We trimmed our shots as much as possible before hand but it was still to long, so we resulted in having to cut out the second half of the dialogue.

The final dialogue used in the film is: 

Dom: Your late.

Jake: Yeah. Sorry. You got it? 

Dom: It's over there.

It seems a lot shorter but it still allows us to show our shot reverse shot. 

Elements of Mise en Scene

Jake and Dom made sure that they wore the same things for every filming day, for the consistency of the shots. As of the winter weather conditions, we went for plain, dull coloured coats, scarves and hats to keep the realism in the film. It was also quite a convenient dress code, as they were all wrapped up, which added to the hidden identity and suspicion of the characters.

We were very particular about the settings we picked, the establishing shot was filmed at the front of the college so it is clear where the action is taking place from the start. We picked the bridge as a good place to show Jake walking to the main room, as the baring that covers the sides gives the effect of caging which has connotations of entrapment and danger. This fits our genre very well as the college is trapped under the characters crime that is going to be committed and the characters are putting themselves in danger.

The room where the main action and the dialogue took place was very suitable because it isn't used for anything in the college,  which makes it seem isolated and abandoned. It's also very run down looking and you can tell it's not particularly cared for. This fits our action very well as crime is going on in there; no one goes there so nothing would be suspected.