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2/18/2010 04:03:00 pm
Date: 15th February 2010
Began filming at: 10:20am
Scenes: 12 to 17
On Monday the 15th of February we finally began filming Hunting Innocence. My partner and I decided that our first location to be shot would be Catford Rail Stations with the scenes that would see the protagonist getting off the train, getting out of the train station and approaching her home. We had planned to film all of these major scenes all in one go since because of our busy schedules we didn't know if we would all be able to make it to the next filming session. However, unfortunately due to some technical difficulties, I had not known that the camera's batteries were both not fully charged and forgot to check.
By my fault entirely, I should have checked before filming as we had to cut our filming session short as we ran out of batteries prematurely.
But we did manage to get some great shots of the protagonist leaving the train station and walking up the road, even though it was quite a struggle at some points as we had a few passer-bys; there were cases were people actually complained to us as they did not want to appear in our film and there were also a few shots with people running right in front of the camera in order to catch their trains.
Still to be filmed: scene of protagonist waiting at Beckenham Hill Rail Station, shots of protagonist entering a train and leaving a train and scene of arrival of protagonist at her house.
Posted by
Marina
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2/17/2010 02:11:00 pm
These are the schedules that we will use to help organise and guide us when it comes to filming.
Posted by
Marina
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2/11/2010 03:43:00 pm
Finding out that music in the opening sequence had to be copyright free was a real dilemma. We had loads of different ideas for song choices including, 'For Blue skies' by Strays Don't Sleep, 'Broken' by Lifehouse, and 'Unstoppable' by The Calling. However as this is not possible we decided to take what we like from these songs and recreate it using copyright free music and sounds.
We wanted the sound of a clock ticking playing continuously throughout the piece - a sound like this is present in the song 'For Blue Skies.' The clock is to symbolise how time is of the essence for both Abby and her Mum. Hopefully we can get a clock sound off of free sounds.org.
To add to the tone of the film we hope we can find some melancholy sounding music to play also throughout the piece. This should enhance the chilling atmosphere of the film and really make the audience pay attention to what is happening on screen.
We intend to play the sound of the trains which will act as synchronous sound as it should match up with the images on screens. Adding to the feeling of urgency of the events going on so that it feels like a realistic portrayal of an event that happened rather than an event played back with the addition of a melancholy soundtrack.
The voice over conversation between Abby and her Mum is undoubtedly the most important sound that will be played throughout the piece. An example of the conversation can be heard on the animated storyboard. The actual conversation will be constructed with better equipment, then we should have a better microphone and telephone sound effects e.g. dial tone, at our disposal.
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Marina
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2/08/2010 10:30:00 am
Here is an animated version of our storyboard. It took the better part of a week to make and I have to say I'm pretty proud of it! My partner in crime was the master behind this master-piece, and with much hard-work she cropped each box on the storyboard and saved it individually, before compiling them in Windows Movie Maker.
This is what she had to say abut the process: "I had a lot of difficulty getting train sounds off of the Internet as I couldn't register to freesounds.org with my email address. After finishing the piece and conversing with my partner I realised she had an email address compatible with registering, so this will prohibit their being a problem when it comes to making the actual piece.
So instead of posting the storyboard silent I put on a piece of music. I chose the song 'For Blue Skies' by Strays Don't Sleep as it features a lot of the aspects that Marina and I were going to try and recreate using different copyright free sounds. For example, the clock ticking, and atmospheric sound. Additionally this was the song I was going to suggest to Marina that we use for our opening scene before I found out you could only use copyright free music. No copyright infringement was intended by me doing this.
Finally I set about trying to make an example of what the voice over conversation between Abby and her Mum would sound like. I did not have high hopes for this as I have a very low quality microphone and just really didn't think it would work but...it didn't turn out too badly! My Mum, always keen to help me, kindly stepped in to read Ellen's lines and I read Abby's. This will not be the final voice over as unintentionally there's a comedic value to the conversation due to just how many 'takes' it took to get it right. So enjoy and laugh it up...we did!"
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Marina
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2/04/2010 12:23:00 pm
This the storyboard of the opening sequence of our film. It depicts protagonist Abby at the train station where she deliberates whether or not to go home after the disturbing phone call she'd previously received from her mother telling her not to come home. Eventually she decides to go home and is shocked at what she finds.
Posted by
Marina
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2/02/2010 10:37:00 am
Catford Rail Station:
Beckenham Hill Rail Station:
Lower Sydenham:
In its pre-production stages, Hunting Innocence has now fully equipped with its location shots.
The contributing factors to making the decisions where: the availability of the train station as we wanted thestation to be deserted when we filmed there, its accessibility, how easily Charlotte, Katie and I could get there and ultimately what the station looked like. The stations in the running were: Catford, Beckenham Hill and Lower Sydenham.
In the end we decided to go with Catford Station and Beckenham Hill.We are going to be filming (soon enough) at Catford's Catford Rail Station, located in the borough of Lewisham. Being somewhere my partner and I know well, we concluded that this staion would be more than appropiate because of its history. Having been the location of a few crime scenes, Catford Rail Station has gloomy, eery feel to its atmosphere which we believe would set the perfect tone for our thriller. We will feature most of the opening sequence in the station as we belive it can capture of the genre than just having the protagonist walking alone for most of the sequence; if this was the case we thought it would look too tedious and the audience would not really understand why we would have spent the opening so long in only one location.
And we chose Beckenham Hill as the other station the protagonist would use as it also fulfilled the criteria and it's normally deserted on the weekends, except for the odd person, and it is also in close proximity to all of us. I don't think its been the location of any crimes like Catford but it is a creepy looking station!
Posted by
Marina
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2/01/2010 01:56:00 pm
This is the casting shot of our actress Katie Buxton who will be playing the part of protagonist Abby.
