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That Beautiful Thursday 

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FINAL FILM

Here is my final film.

I’m actually really pleased with how the film turned out. Especially the found footage that I used, the feedback I received for the film, said the it worked really well. The one thing I had to change about the Found Footage, was the fact that I had footage of people who were actually caught up in the attack. (I had to change this because I did not have IRF to use.)

Below are some of the feedback forms I received

I’m pleased with the feedback that I got from people.

I’ve taken some of their advice on bored for when I do my next project

Editing: The Sequel

I’ve now edited the film. I’m happy with the way it turned out. I used found original footage for my opening scene , I used some scenes from the SKY NEWS documentary, ‘July 7, Ten Years On’ and used video of news reports and footage of the underground.

Another thing that I had to do is about how to color grade in Premier Pro, been here four years, but never needed to colourgrade. I needed to colour grade because every time the camera was on Olivia, the girl from Y1, it looked as though she was jauntiest. So with the help of Steve Harvey, he showed me how to match the colour . I enjoyed learning this as it was something I had never done before and will most likely need to know for university. 

Filming: The Sequel

Today, I filmed in the Therapy Room. Having taken the notes I took from the last filming, this session was easier to film. Last time, we used around 90 minutes of footage, this time, where I was able to set up the camera in different shots, we only used about 60 minutes. Yes it’s still long, but it’s still shorter than last time.

Knowing how I wanted it filmed,made this filming session, a thousand times better and it felt like it ran more smoothly.

Editing – Part Two

A LOT of my posts are going to be a ‘Part One’ or a ‘Part Two’ or sometimes a ‘Part Three’ cause it’s essentially the same post, just split into different stories. Just think of this as a mini series on ITV, the first part grabs you in, the second part makes you keep watching, then the third part lets you down so much, you start to question if ITV will ever make a good miniseries.

So previously, I filmed with Olivia and Amber in the TV studio. It didn’t really go as planned. It wasn’t what I wanted.

Now, I’ve edited a rough draft. I’m not happy at all with it. It just looks so awful! The lighting is bad, the camera wasn’t in focus, (Okay, that one might be my fault.) The acting was stiff. It just didn’t seem real. You could tell Olivia and I were reading from scripts. (The white glare in her glasses didn’t help!) Oh and the ending wasn’t how I wanted it to be. But, we’ll save the bad news for Part Three!

The good news, if you can call it that, is my audio actually sounds good.

The one thing I want to actually do is make a score, I want to make my own music for my film, not use another’s, like I have done for the first draft. The song I used was Kodaline’s ‘All I Want.’ (SonyMusic should give me the rights in a few days.)

As for the filming, I’ll wait to hear what Fay says before I start anything else.

Filming – Part One

Today, I filmed in the TV studio with Oliva and Amber. In my honest opinion, I was not a fan of how the filming came out. I think the main reason for this is because I was using the TV studio and not the therapy room, which I wanted to use.

So I dealt with the hands I was given and tried as best as I could to make the situation work. Another thing with the film was the lighting, as I mentioned earlier, I filmed in the TV studio, so there was pretty much nothing I could do about the lighting. We tried to get the lights in the actual studio to work, but they were either too dark or they wete too light and the setting of the scene was just not what I wanted for my film. I wanted my film to have a natural feel to it, and the film studio did not deliver that.

I started filming with Olivia as my actress and Amber, as my boom holder. I used the big SONY camera. This was my first time filming anything MAJOR with this camera, other films, I have used my own camera or some of the smaller cameras that James has.

When we filmed, we filmed it in two parts. We filmed with the camera on me first, then  with the camera on Olivia. The filming itself went well, both Olivia and myself managed to get through the script. Despite the laughter and the occasional tear. (The part about her friend having crushed legs, just made me LAUGH!)

Once we had finished filming my scenes and when it came to filming Olivia, I originally wanted the camera to be from her eye level, but using the pan arm, it didn’t seem as sturdy as using it hand held, I know, that makes no sense, but in my head, it does.

Filming the end scene, in which the real therapist comes in, was probably the most hardest thing I’ve filmed. Probably because Amber is about 7 feet. Trying to get the camera to line up with her was difficult.

We filmed about 90 minutes of footage, most of which was just Liv, Amber and myself corpsing. Oh and laughing at the fact that I got Azkaban and Alcatraz mixed up. (Hint, one’s fake.)

So now I’ve done with the filming (and moved the sofa back into the recording studio, Thanks Steve!) I will go and edit a first draft of the film and send to Fay to get her opinion.