All of the semiotic elements we considered during our first filming process remained exactly the same. However we have changed and edited anything that we needed to due to our previous circumstances:
There are many different factors that we needed to consider before we started filming on Sunday, some of these factors are; What props do we need? Lighting? Costume? Makeup? Equipment? Set? All these questions needed to be planned out so that we are ready for filming.
Here is a list of equipment we shall be needing in order to film:
- Digital Camcorder
- And two tripods, two different sizes for different shots
Looking through our plot and at our storyboard we previously created for the opening scene that we are going to produce we decided on a list of all the props we felt that we needed in order to film; this list is shown below with included pictures of the props that we have selected:
- Fake Blood
- Kitchen Knife
- Oil/Petrol Can
- Water
- Rope
- PVC Tape
- Bin Liners
- Chair
Most of these props that are going to be used, were found round our houses as normal day to day supplies that we all had. However we had to go out and buy fake the blood from a shop called; 'Harlequins' so that our opening scene would be more visually believable.
Preparing to film with our initial actress playing our main character, we had pre-bought some tops and jeans for Vicky to wear whilst filming some of the scenes, due to the amount of dirt, water and fake blood that we wanted to apply to the clothes in order to create a more visually successful opening scene. However due to the circumstances that arose we took the clothes we had brought for Vicky back to the shop as we had kept all of the receipts and used some old clothes that had and was prepared to use.
The Make Up will be applied by a professional/qualified media make up artist, who happened to be a group members mother. Hayden's mother happily volunteered to do all the media makeup, consisting of artificial; scars, cuts, burns, bruises and wounds. We felt this was a huge advantage for our group because we don't have the funds or technology available in order to produce the special effects that we needed in order to compare with existing media products out there with the same genre. Therefore this will visually improve our shots, creating a more realistic, believable opening scene for an audience that we will be able to relate to existing media products out there.
Health and Safety:
All of the health and safety factors we considered during our first filming process remained exactly the same. However we have changed and edited anything that we needed to due to our previous circumstances:
The locations we are using at the school had certain health and safety procedures that we had to go through before we are allowed to film. Underneath the stage and the school basement are both out of bounds for students due to health and safety. This meant we had to get permission from the head teacher as well as the school caretakers. We were each taken through health and safety risks we had to take into account whilst filming in these areas, some of these factors were:
-Removing the trap doors that lead to underneath the stage
-Walking down the stairs leading to the school basement carefully
-Entering and Exiting underneath the stage safely.
We also had to consider other health and safety factors involved with the filming for our opening scene. Screaming, crying, shouting and blood are all being used in our shots that will be filmed at the nature reserve. We realised that a passing citizen may assume someone could possibly be in trouble or hurt and contact our local police service not knowing what is going on. To overcome this problem that may occur we wrote a letter to the local police station indicating filming dates and where we will be filming just in case, as well as creating signs which we would place around the nature reserve whilst we are filming for any passing citizens to indicate that filming is going on. The letter we wrote to the police station and the signs we created are shown below:
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