Reverse time lapse

For our film, we decided to time-lapse the sky, like in the Haunting of Radcliff House. However, we decided against the sky time-lapse because the clouds weren't making much movement and it didn't even seem like anything was happening. So, instead of time-lapsing the sky we've decided to time-lapse a lake, but reversing it like in the TV drama Remember Me. We weren't sure how it would turn out, but we've ended up really liking the effect it has and the atmosphere it creates. Here it is!

Footage from Friday

Here's some of the footage we managed to catch on Friday during filming!




The reverse time-lapsed lake we discussed will be up on my blog soon also!

Friday's title sequence stills

Friday's filming!

So, last Friday we finished off our filming during our morning media lesson. We planned on re-filming my scene with Bonnie the dog as we didn't feel that we had continuity in the filming that we already had (which is why I'm wearing the same clothing), but we ended up sorting it out so we didn't re-film that. We did get a few still shots for the title sequence, though, which have turned out really great on Kelly's canon!

Storyboards

These are the story boards we ended up using for our final film. We obviously didn't stick to them 100% as we ended up adding a few things when filming, but here they are:

Costume

As I was scanning through my blog, I realized that I hadn't made a post about the costume used for the film! We decided to have Keeley wearing a stark white dress (which ended up costing £50!!), a plain black pair of Mary-Jane's and a crimson ribbon. We felt that the combination of the fancy dress and simple shoes would look quite formal, which we liked. We also thought that by using the red ribbon we would create a symbol that would be easily recognizable and that viewers would pick up on whenever it reappeared on screen. To make the symbolisation really strong, we decided to use it in the dolls hair also. Before filming, I put a slight curl in Keeley's hair and tried to make her look a bit dead by hollowing her cheeks out, paling her skin and bruising beneath her eyes with make-up.

The set

So, we ended up filming at Hilly Fields, as planned. After filming at Tucker's Park, we decided we needed to find somewhere a lot more secluded and surrounded by greenland. We walked for ages to find the perfect tree to attach the swing to, and we finally found one in close proximity of a large forest. Here it is:

Filming stills

We managed to capture a few stills from Sunday, mainly of the creepy setting and our poor, frozen leading actress Keeley. After freezing her to death, we force fed her marshmallows and hot chocolate, alongside wrapping her in 12 blankets.

Filming (finally)!!!

The other day we managed to finish our filming! We've created a little montage of the days antics and tribulations, here it is:

We're having a last minute costume meeting today about everything we've managed to find and how we're going to make it all work. Hopefully everything will go well!

Quick vlog

So, here's just a short vlog with Mac 4's Elle! In this vlog Elle and I just discuss how our opening 2 minute films are going and our progress in media. Here it is:

We've had a bit of a shop around for props, but everything so far has either been too expensive or not what we're looking for. Hopefully we'll find something soon on eBay or Amazon, nothing too expensive but something just right!