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Posted in General, Post by Joel - Script and Cameras

Everybody wants to be a……

Posted on by Joel Garner

CAT!

We are shooting thick and fast to get the project done and we have nailed certain scenes so now we have just a couple of exterior scenes and then the den scene which will take place on tuesday, the set is looking pretty damn fine so good work to the set team for that. Union Jack dream sequence was our best shoot yet despite our lead actress injuring her hand during the final scene she was ok afterwards, thats commitment!!

In other news I thought this was a weekly thing for people to post and I believe I was the last to post on february 27th, and I have never blogged and probably never will after this! WHATS GOOIINN OOOONNN!!!

 

Lets nail these last scenes, finish up the paperwork and hand it in so we can breathe again! Also I turn 21 on the 3rd April so I can join the elite 21 club! Good work guys almost there now!!!!!!!!!!

Posted in General, Post by Joel - Script and Cameras

We’re gonna rock down to…….

Posted on by Joel Garner

……ELECTRIC AVENUE!

 

Great way to start a post over the last couple of weeks shooting events. We have made more progress with the filming including most of the living room scenes during a 8 hour shoot in the studio. We worked hard and had fun but by the end people were starting to lose focus (myself included) and mistakes were creeping in but overall it was a successful shoot. The day didn’t start off well with the news that one of our main actors dropped out but we shall move on and I think we have another actor currently poised to take his place as the lead punk. The set on friday was a great improvement with various camera angles and depth being allowed and I briefly stood back as a camera operator to get an overview of all the cameras in the studio but it didnt work as well as I thought it would so I ended up back in a familiar camera operating role by the end of the shoot. I had a say in where the cameras were to be positioned and we got some nice shots.

To quickly wrap this up…. we need to revise the schedule with studio and outside filming time with this new actor should he agree to help us out and I look forward to the next shoot!

Ciao for now and lets get JIBBY with it!

Posted in General, Post by Joel - Script and Cameras

Slight disruption there….

Posted on by Joel Garner

The last couple of weeks have been hampered by severe weather conditions in Lincoln with a couple of shoots having to be cancelled and meetings postponed untill everyone could be here without risk. Camera cards are coming along with some done for when we film on Friday 17th and the rest to be completed over the weekend. The script is near completion with the Glue sequence planned and written down. Equipment is hired for when we shoot again and I also helped with our supergroup with three of their shoots which gave me and the others who helped some good ideas on how to make our filming more productive and fun! Now that the snow has cleared up, we can motor on and nail these scenes! Come on ladies and gentlemen!!!!!

Oh and also my apologies for not posting on here for a couple of weeks, other projects have started rolling as well and my back problem causing trouble but apart from that its all good!

Posted in General, Ideas, Post by Sylvia - Director

Glue 0_o

Posted on by Sylvia

Today myself and Joel met up in the library to knock out the new glue-sniffing dream sequence. I bounced ideas off him and he was an excellent scribe. We decided not to write all the camera angles and details until we got the go ahead from the group, learning from experience that if we spend a lot of time on something before doing so, it usually gets changed or scrapped.

We watched clips from Trainspotting for inspiration and I think the ideas we got from that will shine through more when I write the shooting script for the Glue sequence.

 

Annnnd here it is :] in bullet point form :p

  • Linda sniffs the glue.
  • As she phases out, Linda turns over to find the den empty but one red balloon floating.
  • The balloon floats towards the door.
  • Linda follows the balloon to the door.
  • She opens the door and lots of red balloons float into the room.
  • Linda is engulfed in red balloons and she fights her way through them till we see one red balloon left.
  • As the balloon moves away from the camera we are now in the same girls bathroom as the one earlier in the story.
  • We hear whimpering coming from one of the toilet cubicles.
  • The cubicle door opens.
  • Susan is sat there covered in bruises and blood.
  • Linda looks at Susan completely confused.
  • “Susan?”
  • We see Susan’s eyes open.
  • Susan starts panicking and recoils into the cubicle in fear of Linda.
  • The cubicle door shuts and locks.
  • Linda tries to get into the cubicle but fails.
  • She then goes to the next cubicle and peers over.
  • Mary is sitting on the toilet.
  • She slowly (creepily – with blank eyes) looks up at Linda.
  • She then looks at the door.
  • The door opens and we see Linda standing in front of it. (The Linda who took the glue is still peering over the cubicle wall).
  • Mary gets up and walks towards Linda who backs out.
  • The cubicle door shuts.
  • Linda sits back down in the cubicle.
  • Mary distorted: “She shouldn’t have dragged you into this Susan”
  • Linda slowly opens the cubicle door and walks into the main part of the toilet.
  • We hear crowd chants of “LINDA! LINDA!” as the camera goes around her 360 degrees.
  • Linda smiles and starts savouring the moment, her arms are aloft as if saluting the crowd and enjoying stage presence. She laughs.
  • We see a glare in her eye.
  • Slowly fades to Spike repeating Linda’s name until she comes around.
  • Linda is being soothed by Spike on the mattress in the den.
  • Spike holds Linda “Whoah, we lost you for a bit there, I told Shug not to give you any.”
  • We zoom in slowly on their embrace and then zoom out to Spike on the mattress.
  • Spike moves to reveal Moon on the mattress with him.
  • Linda is suddenly stood at the end of the bed, “What are you doing!!”
  • Moon: “Fuck off! You’re not one of us!!, go back to your girlfriend Susan!”
  • Fade to Susan and Linda walking hand in hand along past the same bench the punks sat on earlier during the time lapse.
  • Linda sees the same red balloon in the distance and they run towards it.
  • It is a fun chase game.
  • The balloon remains the same distance away so Linda cannot get it and its starts appearing in opposite directions. They split up to catch it.
  • Linda turns around to see Susan and Spike sat together on the park bench.
  • Spike and Susan slowly move in towards each other intercutting with shots of a safety pin coming towards a red balloon.
  • The safety pin bursts the balloon just as their lips touch.
  • Quick cut to the Den to see Linda wake up suddenly.
  • She then leans across the mattress to be sick/dry heave.
  • End Scene.

 

Yesterday due to our producer not being able to return to Lincoln thanks to the icy climate on the roads, Helen (P.A.) and myself met up to redo the shooting schedule as everything had been pushed forward due to weather, and the existing schedule was not detailed enough, without enough consideration for the actor availability etc. So THAT was a fun two hours+ of working through the scenes and thinking through logistics of when, who, with what, wearing what, has she dyed her hair yet, is that enough time to shoot that many scenes, will we have set in time? etc. Head-ache.

But it was very worthwhile.

 

TOMORROW, editing begins, as Jack and I will meet in the edit suites to get the ball rolling on editing with what we’ve got so far. I think it will be a massive help to make this process gradual, as A) we are going to have a hell lotta footage to work through, and B) the edit suites aren’t fully booked this early on.

 

Sooo yeah, I’ve been busy. Third year is mega.

Posted in General, Post by Sylvia - Director

Week 2? Week 3? It’s definitely Week 3 now…

Posted on by Sylvia

I feel that we seem to be rolling slowly to a halt as everyone starts to focus on their dissertations and other assignments. We are getting on with things, but it’s at a very leisurely pace…

This week however, we are very nearly there with the script progression, just need to create one new scene – a glue high dream. Which will allow us to be very creative so I don’t want to rush the conception of this scene. I would prefer it if we could gather inspirations and ideas from everyone for this.

Also, we have continued progress on filming as on Tuesday we filmed scenes in the headmasters office, which turned out to be quite funny thanks to our punks. Yes we’ve squeezed in a cheeky wink to camera, breaking the fourth wall – Hustle style. And then on Wednesday we filmed the record shop scene which was so elusive to us last term due to the difficulty of finding (and keeping) a reliable Susan. But thankfully our original Susan has returned to us with renewed commitment.

It would have been a hat-trick week if our exterior shoot this morning had not been cancelled due to adverse weather conditions. Yes the real winter has arrived which we thought we’d escaped. Snow. Now when a program is set in April, you really can’t get away with snow in the exterior shots can you?

It’s a shame because we were rushing to prepare for this shoot, with Shiv, Helen and Rachel contacting me left right and centre about poster decisions, costume decisions, printing decisions all the night before. (No wonder my dissertation is enjoying little progress!) But at least we got it sorted for when we do decide to shoot.

Thankfully, the street which we want to film on isn’t going anywhere so we’ll just have to post-pone the shoot for a nicer day. Which will be sooner rather than later we hope.

 

 

Well, best be off to do stuff with my day.

You stay classy Lincoln.