Writing out the script was easy because I had an idea where I would be shooting it, so when it came to writing the layout on where the actor (Conna) would going. I had an idea before the one I used for the film. In my mind the script for this film looked great the only trouble was how complicated it would be to edited all together because their was a mirror scene ( The film was a POV, so when the camera is aimed at the mirror you should only see him and no camera) I thought that because we had a lot time before we had to start filming, that I could look up ways of achieving that shot by using Google and youtube. At the end I decided to not do that idea because it was too complicated and I was just making it more harder on me.
I ended up using the 2nd script for my film which was a lot simple the second time I wrote it. The 1st time, scene 1 is all similar on what I had already writing it was only when it got to setting the envelope on fire, that was the really challenge, because I wanted it so that it would look like he was setting the envelope on fire in the room, but not actually setting it on fire in the room I wanted to find away to edited it so that I do the whole fire thing outside and then use Premier Pro to edit so that it would look like it was being done from the inside. Again I decided to not do that because it would cause me a lot of trouble, so I re-wrote it so that the hitman would have to go outside to set the fire. At the end my finished script came out great, I did do 2 (one with the camera shots on it).
Filming
Could only shot it in one day because It was the only day Conna was off work, Because Conna didn't know when he would off work again I did it all in one day.
When it came to filming, that was hard. Because it had started to rain a bit, so I decided to do the outside first just incase it started to pour down (Luckily it didn't). Doing these first shot's.
That was easy, it did take a few takes but easy to do. It was when it got to the back garden that the real trouble started. For one I had to take out the over-shoulder shot because Conna is so tall that even standing on the stairs I still couldn't get a good shot so I ended doing a wide and close up shot. Next was the wind, Because we were using matches the wind kept blowing it out and when the envelope did catch on fire it did have the effect I wanted plus it would also go out. We kept on trying until we gave up and asked someone for a lighter. Filming the scene for the last time the envelope was set on fire and gave me the right effect I wanted. I really like recording the envelope burning it looked really cool, I also had Conna, Jenna and my mum watching. Once I was sure I had enough footage and when it started to get really smoking, Conna poured the bucket of water over it. The trouble with doing this scene first was that because it took so long to do (Longer than I thought) that it started to get dark so indoors through the window it's dark whereas outside it's day time.
Once indoors I got the stairway done. That I did have to rush because someone was telling me to hurry up so lucky for me I was able to do that in one shot. It wasn't what I had intended to do, I was meant to get a wide side shot of Conna walking down the stairs and have the camera following him, but because their was someone in the living room watching tv I couldn't do it but this way came out fine.
Upstairs was a lot of trouble because I wanted to do a point of view but my camera would go out of focus, i think it's because of my camera and maybe if it was one of the smaller cameras it might have been better. Just getting the scene of walking into the bedroom picking the envelope up and taking my phone out was hard enough to do because it wouldn't focus. What really didn't help was having someone tell me to hurry up which really stressed me out a lot more then I was already was. I ended up deciding to just take a picture of the envelope and text so I wouldn't have to worry about the focus. At the end I finally got what I wanted.
What I thought would be a lot of trouble was Conna's bedroom because it was a lot smaller then what I thought it was plus the mirror which I thought I would have a lot of trouble with turned out fine, because I thought you would see me in the mirror but you didn't which was great.
Once I was done and finished, I almost forgot to do the sound of walking and car engine (didn't use at the end) lucky I was reminded and so me and Conna went out and recorded the sounds using his car. Whilst my mum and nan had another drink (even thought I was told to hurry it up) I decided to see if I could take a better picture of the envelope and the text. (text didn't come out right on premiere pro so I added text so people could read it).
Editing
Editing the film was easy at editing the clips and sound together because I knew what clips to use, I'll admit the begin was hard trying to find the best focus one, but the rest was fine. The sound and music that was easy and hard. Easy because I knew what websites to look on, hard because when it got to the scene where the hitman is making his way to the back garden I couldn't fine a music piece that suit it. I did find one but when I listen to it the second time, it really didn't sound right with then scene. Lucky I found a piece I think works a bit better with it.
The hard parts was the added effects, I wanted to change the colouring of the bb gun in black but every time I tried it wouldn't change the gun but little bits of the background. I looked on the internet for help but every time I do the same thing it won't change like it does in the videos I've watch. I tried it with two clips that needed colour changes but nether would work. I was able to use some effects for the video and audio like the clips fading in and out of the scene and the music fading out instead of the song cutting out.
At the end I think that my film came out great I really liked the fire bit and the music, in future I would try another way of filming which is not POV or get a different camera cause I was using a canon 750 so I might start looking into smaller camera and again maybe do the indoors first even if it starts to rain and just see how to combined to the film, that way the outside would look better.
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