Production: Re-shoot day

Today we filmed everything we decided we need to in the evaluation of our rough draft. It went well, and we used the time effectively. I had previously emailed Mr Hopkins about gaining access to one of the grand stands at the track to film the actor walking us the stairs into the stands, I also had to speak to Mr Webber about using a workshop for the day to use for the rest of the filming as it had lots of different aspects that could help the clip. 

In the Workshop we filmed all the different shots of the protagonist putting on the race suit; we find this important because it will show the audience that he is going to be the protagonist of the film. Luckily, we spoke to Jacob and he let us borrow his race gear and helmet again and his friend Sam lent us his boots so that we could form a full costume.

This time we focused a lot more on the consideration of the angles and making sure that the camera was steady as on the first filming day we had a few shaky shots that we avoided this time by taking more copies of the shots so that we have back ups when it comes to editing.

The first time we filmed the shots in the grand stand of the protagonist walking up the stairs we had our shadows and the shadows of the camera in the shot which was an issue when editing because we didn't have different angles to cut in to be able to remove the shadows. This time we learnt from the previous mistakes and made sure that we checked the shots and that shadows weren't going to be an issue this time.

Production: Initial rough cut

This is the clip that we showed our focus, during the focus group we were also watching it and made notes of things that we need to change. This is what we came up with:

• We have decided that we need to enhance the colour on the establishing shots as the ground was frosty on our shoot day.

• We also need to re film the racer walking up the stairs and use a range of shots to with it.

• We need to film the racer putting the race suit on as we haven't shooted that yet and we feel that we need a wider range of footage.

• We need to add sound into the clip to enhance the emotions we are trying to portray

• We also need to add titles that include idents so that it includes the right elements so that it looks like a conventional opening that we looked at in our research and planning.

Issues that we found when we were watching it are that the clip is only 52 seconds long so we will use the elements above to extend the length to fit the 2 minutes, we also found that we will need to take the argument scene out unfortunately as it doesn't make sense without having the diegetic sound of what it happening, and we were avoiding having a script in the opening clip. 

Production: Audience testing

Earlier today we had a group of about 10 people that were both male and female and they were all over the age of 12 so that it would be real answers from the target market of our choice. During this session we showed the group the rough cut of the film and then asked them some questions. We got the answers we were hoping for along with some tips on how we could improve the film, however the main response was that they could tell that it was going to be a motor sport film and this is good as it is what we were hoping for.

This is a screenshot of the questions that we handed out to the group.
From the group we found that we need to add sound so that it adds atmosphere and creates meeting to the shots. Also we found that we will need to do another focus group that involves the different options of sound and titles that we are going to add onto the clip in the second draft of the film. The sound will mostly be non - diegetic as it will create theme of emotion that the rest of the film would have.

Production: Editing

As a group we are doing the editing with input from every one, the editing is taking place on my laptop as I have access to iMovie, however we thought about the risk that if I'm not in school on a day that we have planned to do the editing then the group won't have access to the footage, therefore we created a google drive account which is going to allow us to access the footage on any laptop at any time.

Production: Filming Day

Today we had access to a section of the Silverstone circuit called Corpse runway and tunnel, we also had unlimited access to the pits and the grand stands. For a short while of the day we were supplied with a car and a driver to work with in order to express the conventions of motor sport film. Harry, Dan and I went out and all had a go at filming different shots each to spread the work load.

In my opinion this day was successful however some shots we need to re shoot and film in other locations. All of this ext filming is going to be completed by Wednesday the 27th February. We have planned to meet at Harry's house to film the hospital scenes and argument so that it is in the right environment. By setting a time to get this done we have allowed weeks to complete the editing.

Here is a shot of me and Harry taking some establishing shots of the track on the day...

This is us setting up the camera to film our first shot which was an establishing shot. Throughout the day we faced many challenges however we faced the head on and fixed the situation as soon as we could so that we could still film everything we needed to. One of the issues was that the first tripod we had was broken, we had to thing back to school to get a new one however we could have prevented this by checking the tripod was in full working condition before we left.

Here are some more pictures of us filming throughout the day in the different locations:

This is me doing the fake makeup on harry for the hospital scene:

Planning: Call sheets

When we were delegating the jobs Harry created the call sheets and informed us of the plans so that we could be prepared for the days with the correct resources.

Planning: Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is a non-governmental body for classifying cinema films was set up in 1912. All decisions on the classification of a film are based on the guidelines from BBFC, they are regularly updated which is based on the current views of different films.

Our group has decided to rate our film a 12A, this is because we want to allow the widest range possible to view our film. Teenagers are at the stage when they are understanding what they want to have as a career so we thought by opening the film up to all teenagers it will allow those teenagers that are aspiring to be motor-sport drivers to understand the industry and its consequences clearly. There is nothing in our film that will make it a 15 as we knew not to add these elements as it would mean our target audience would be even more specific and this is what we were trying to avoid.

Below is an image found on the BBFC website, it is all of the ratings that films can be given: