Film Front Cover Mock Up

Summary of Filming Process

This is How our Filming Progress went:
Myself, Stacey and Hayley all took part in the filming progress i was an actress as well as involved in filming scenes without me in. Connor could not attend the filming due to financial transport issues and therefore he will hopefully be more part in the editing side of our project. We let the people in charge of the car park know when we were starting filming and when we had finished, they were ever so helpful and interested in what we were doing. They allocated us a certain part of the car park which wouldn't be busy so that we could get on with our filming. We also wore fluorescent clothing to make people recognise that we were filming. We tried to use a tripod for various scenes in our trailer however we had problems trying to balance this and get it straight, They yellow bubble was stubborn and wouldn't go in the middle. We did a short clip of Adam inside the car this was tricky trying to get the camera in a suitable place for what we wanted to show and also to get lighting. We did not have profession interior lighting as this wouldn't have been affordable so instead we used a smart phone with a torch application, this worked well in the end as it was compact, convenient and cheap. Myself, Stacey and Hayley all used the Sony camera at various points of the day. We set the white balance and focused and zoomed in order to suit our footage. However when looking back at our unused footage some shots were out of focused and therefore couldn't be used. In the future with more experience of the camera and its features we would have been able to improve this however we believed we did the best we could. There was a scene where i had to lie on the floor is a short black dress. The temperature was freezing and therefore we attempted to work as quick as possible for these scenes. The team work was really well i didn't know how to get to the chosen car park so Stacey picked me up. There were other minor problems throughout the day however we managed to solve these. Myself and Stacey had never met Adam the actor before however he was very friendly and there was no awkwardness. We all had fun filming our teaser trailer and it was a good experience.

hunt animatics

Firstly in order to make our animatic sound realistic we created a soundtrack on garage band this contained street noise and car sounds, this was then converted to the format of mp3 and inserted to imovie where we created the rest of our animatic. The animatic was like a moving story board giving us a better insight to what our final teaser film trailer will look like. We scanned in the story board images and made some of them move for example the legs walking round the car and the accelerator in the car being pushed down. This didn't take long to do and helped us understand how to use the basics of garage band software and imovie software. We then uploaded it onto the YouTube account that i created for media studies and shared it on my blog page.

Filming in Progress

Here are some photos of my group filming our film teaser trailer. We wore suitable clothing making passers by aware of the filming in progress. These photos show good teamwork throughout the day. Unfortunately Connor couldn't join us whilst filming.

Obtaining Permission

In order to film in a multistory car park we need to get permission from the owner of the car park. We started by ringing Coventry city council as this is the city we were hoping to film in. They then gave us an email address of the person in charge of the CV1 car parks which is the city centre. We emailed him However this was unsuccessful and Stacey rang up Stratford City Council which told us they own 2 multistory car parks and we could use either, After viewing both we decided Our final location is Bridge foot Car Park, Stratford-Upon-Avon this was most suitable. On the day of filming at approximately 10am Hayley contacted the Stratford-Upon-Avon Police to inform them we would be using a fake gun. she rung 01789 414111 and they gave us an incident number - 127. she had to give details such as the time and place of filming, and her name.












Update
We are able to use Bridge foot Car Park and therefore wont need to use any of our contingency plans and will be able to use our original idea with the black car.

Contingency Plan

We have ran into problems with our location of a multi story car park.

We have contacted a man called Mike O'Connor (who works for CV1 in Coventry) who is letting us know if we will be able to obtain permission to film in a car park in Coventry city centre on a Sunday afternoon. We contacted him through email which we got from ringing Coventry city council. However we have learnt that the Belgrade Plaza Car park will not let us film due to being privately owned, nor the car park on New Union Street due to our storyline involving a dead person and a gun therefore causing awareness to customers using the car park.
Instead we have come up with a contingency plan which includes:
-Filming in Stratford car park Multi story not effecting our planning or storyboard(Stacey will contact the Stratford-Upon-Avon Council to obtain permission)
-Filming in a car park in Banbury, Oxfordshire.
-Earlier filming of the black car before it is taken away due to being a hire car.
-Filming of the interior in a different car with similar features of the black car.

Font Tally

To decide on a font for our magazine front cover, film teaser trailer and film poster, our group choose a selection of fonts that we thought could be suitable for our final product. We made a shortlist, then asked our target audience to choose their favourite font they thought would suit our product. The results we got are, the most popular font was Arial Black Bold with a space inbetween the characters. It won with 14 votes and Arial Unicode Ms with spaces came second. Our group will take the information from this research and use it to influence our final products.