The next step

Due to no returned email from the care home, myself and Rebecca have been thinking of other options for quickness as time is running out. There was other options of emailing different care homes however we run the risk of waiting for more replies and having no time left to film. We have had to rule out any unnecessary props that would be in the room to really narrow down what we want, or rather, what we need. A modern room wouldn't fit so there was a possibility that the care home could have been unfit for purpose anyway, but this could be hard to find somewhere not modern  so we thought about somewhere very plain which we could put props in ourselves to make it look in the right era. Fortunately, Rebecca's room is all white and we could simply move anything that doesn't look right and put in what we need and so we have decided that there is where we are filming next.

Photos

Here are some of the photos:

Photos

Eventually, we got George in for the photo shoot to start our ancillary task. I feel the photo shoot went really well with camera angles and how he looked as he wore the kit that would have been worn in the world war. This really portrays the character and sets the correct scene so I think it will be good for the poster. I will upload some of the photos that I wont use and the ones that I may use too.

Emailing the carehome

Rebecca and I have been looking into more locations for filming and making sure we get the correct place that will fit well with the story. We are starting to look into care homes which I believe will be a good place if we get props to make it look like it is in the right era. So we have emailed the Hawthorn court care home in Hebburn and we are waiting for a reply back.

 

 

This is what we said in the email:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looking Back

Looking back at the filming we took on Wednesday at the cadet centre, here is a few shots that we put together:

Filming

Eventually we have started the filming process. We took the video cameras and still cameras with their tripods to the cadet centre in Kingston park to start the filming of the cadets etc. The first thing we done was look around and jot down ideas for shots and different areas for filming whilst waiting for the cadets to arrive. Some areas of the building looked to modern but we can easily work around this for other parts of the short film. there is also plenty areas that are suitable for the time period and the cadets were all in their kit so they looked the part. We took the still camera so we could take photos that could potentially be used in the ancillary tasks but I feel I got slightly too into the filming and forgotten about the camera so this is something that I will try keep in mind for next time so we have more to work with. There was a few parts of the filming where I thought that the background didn't fit with the time that it is meant to be set in, however, the sound was great and would be very useful still in the film. We just hope that the sound has came out well with the filming otherwise we will have to do it again with proper sound equipment. Many shots were good but we are going to have a few sessions of filming in this area with the same people so we get the best possible shots for the filming. As this is the first step of filming we aren't promising that these will be the best shots that we take so we will look through them when we're back at school and see where we can improve and take more and then go back to the centre next week for more filming.

Taking photos

Rebecca and I took out her nephew from nursery in the afternoon to take photos of him and check that the costume is good enough for the film setting. When we picked him up we were unfortunately too late to take him into the studio at school but we got him ready in the clothes to see how it looks. We've decided that the clothes he had aren't quite what we are after and aren't suitable for the film time so we are going out to look at other clothes like shorts and polo shirts that would pass for that era, this could be difficult but we think it is still achievable if we keep it as simple as possible.