Shot Report (Post 12/3/11 shoot)

• Establishing Street Pans - 3rd Take is best, slow and smooth
• Forensic Introductory Shot - 7th Take is best (after continuity errors were spotted)
• Matt's off ground shot - Possibly use at end of sequence
• CU Alex talking - Good (eventually), last take is best
• CU Loui talking - Take 6 best (final take)
• Cuts on body - Stills better than pan
• Matt POV with gun - Possible
• POV of bodies - 3rd Take is best
• Final POV beast - 3rd, 5th and final take all ok
• Master shot of Soldier entering - Take 4 is best

Final Post-Production Week

Here are our target for the week ahead, as it is our final week of post-production:

• Add in the retakes of the shots we had to reshoot and colour correct them to suit the rest of the sequence
• Order the titles and add them into our sequence and make sure music is finalised to suit the action
• Play our sequence to an audience and amend it based on the feedback we receive

Our deadline is Friday 18th March, so we are planning to be completely finished before then in case we need to change anything we might have missed

Rough Edit 2 - Feedback

After speaking to Chris we were notified of various improvements:

- The Forensics randomly appear at the S/R/S, therefore they need to be introduced before moving into shot 7
- The Sun Shot (Soldier POV looks up exhausted into the sky) will be removed as it disorientates/confuses the viewer
- The Blood Shots did not come out as expected, and were too light
- Re-shoot beast POV death as Soldier doesn't show enough reaction
- Reduce LS length
- Remove the crouching/firing shot from the end as it is confusing

Our Shoot

We had our first shoot on Saturday and we are pleased to say that it all went according to plan and we got all of the shoots that we needed. The fake blood didn't look as good on camera as we wanted but we are going to colour correct it in After Effects in post-production.

By the of this week, the 7th week of our project, we aim to achieve and complete the following:-

• A finished and well-edited rough cut w/ music synced and match-on-action finished
• Feedback from both teachers and technician
• Moving titles
• Special FX in the form of colour correction, muzzle flares, smokes and wounds

Props & Costume

oday is the day before our second full shoot and we have just finished sorting out props and costume. Below we have a picture of our actor with the rest of our group.

We are pleased with the way that this costume has turned out as it looks very realistic and does the job that we need it to do.

These are the pistols that we may or may not be using in our clip. We are yet to choose which one to use as they've not been painted yet, but we shall bring them all and decide on the day.

This is the main gun that we are going to use. In our rough cut, it was green however, it was too noticeably fake so it's been painted and now we are ready to use it in our next shoot.

Above we have the gas mask, ski mask and helmet that combine to make our soldiers mask. They work well together as the mask.

JAM Studios' new Forensic Officer!

At our first shoot we used David Lewis as our Forensic. Unfortunately, he was unable to shoot on Saturday 5th March, therefore we decided to search for a new Forensic to act in our opening film seqeuence.

.....say hello to Loui Kyriacou: Our new Forensic Officer!

Group Meeting #7

All present.
Start time: 9:50AM Wednesday 2nd March 
Finish time: 10:25AM Wednesday 2nd March

• Preparations for second and third shoots.
• Second shoot is test for real shoot.
• Mask (prop) arrived and has been confirmed as fine.
• Outlined what still needed completing from pre-production.
• Agreed who was doing what during the course of this week.

We got feedback from our teacher. She expressed the same concerns with our project as we had, but we should be able to complete everything now that our schedule is sorted.