Unit 20

RAG Rating

Understanding of single camera productions including relevant techniques, benefits and weaknesses.

A single camera production is where you produce a film with only type of camera work.

What it is: Filming takes place on an individual camera.

Pros

  • The film is all on one camera
  • No one worries about other camera's getting in the way about filming
  • Easier for certain genre's 
  • Low budget for filming
  • More lighter and more flexibility

Cons

  • Re-do the same scene with different shots
  • Everything needs to look the same as the shot before
  • Need multiple shots
  • More time is taking using it

Continuity: is where everything has to be the same throughout the film.

 Continuity Errors: is where there is a potential moment in a scene where can be visibly seen or can be heard in the background of the film. 

Group Ideas

The slideshow below shows some group ideas. Overall, the idea we decided to go with was the sleep experiment idea.

Idea

Drama called 'Released'

  • Set in a hospital
  • Five people kidnapped, become test subjects
  • Four of them become crazy, one stays sane
  • The one that stays sane, tries to escape 
  • Scientists "Look after" the subjects by giving them canned food, water which is in a dogs bowl

Brief

For this unit, we had to come up with an idea to use in a 5 minute drama film called 'Released'. Most of the filming locations that we may use include:

 A storage area

A room with no windows- No tables or chairs

Storyline

The story is about a group of people that get kidnapped by the government because they wanted test subjects for an experiment that was launched by a special agency, to try and find out of a gas stimulant can keep the individual awake for longer, this is so that in the future if conflicts were to happen soldiers are able to be active for longer hour. The five test subjects are kept in a room and as each new day passes the atmosphere gets more worse. The mental and physical health of everyone else apart from Diego "Tyler" starts to have negative effects and slowly start to lose their minds, however Diego had a higher tolerance from compared to the other test subjects. After a couple of days the group decide that they want to get out and try to escape, however Diego is only capable of doing actions and movements because everyone else is under the heavy influence of the stimulant gas. 

Script

Prop List

Location Shots

Scene 2 Location Shots

The images above are location shots for the drama film, Released. The shots here are what will be used for the second scene, where the main character walks into school and goes to their lesson. To start the scene of, we used a continuous shot to show off the location. This is where we are going to use a continuous shot where the main character, walks into school. 


Shots used in filming

The video above is the first draft of the continuous shot. Throughout the shot, there is only a variety of actions that happen. This makes the shot bland as there is no interesting events that happen in the background of the film, i.e. students coming in late, students walking in and out of classrooms etc... everything that would normally happen on a school day happens in the background of the film. Including all of the everyday school events, would make the film more interesting, as more events are happening. 

The video above is the second continuous draft shot. Throughout the shot, there is a varied range of different characters and actions happening. An example of this is used just before the main character, walks through the double doors by the stairs. Some kid is filling up his drinks bottle, with the kid filling up his drinks bottle it may represent a school, with students walking in late, people walking around the school, and teachers, shouting at students. With all of the background events happening, it shows allows the viewer to understand the scene location, which is in this particular scene, a school.

The video above is of the third draft of the continuous shot, used in our film. This one was the best of the three takes we done, because this take included extras, which gives the shot more of an interest because of the various activities that happen at different points in the shot. When certain actions happen, the camera then does a 180 angle switch so that the character is ever in-front or behind the camera (Depending on where the camera was before the significant action). An example of this is when the main character goes through the first door at the start, the camera was behind the main character, before going through the door to get a front view of the main character. Further into the shot, a teacher calls the main character, asking him where is the homework, he is yet to hand in, when the teacher, calls his name he turns around to reply to him, this signifies the moment where the camera then goes behind the main character. From here the main character continuous to turn around, and then continuing to his class.    

Film Log

The film logs above are from the filming done on the 19/01/18. The filming done was for Scene 2-Shot 1, we filmed three takes of the same scene and shot, although they are different time lengths, they each have their pros and cons. An example of this is in "Take 1", there is a camera reflection 7 seconds in to the film. Therefore this particular shot is not very professional, whereas, "Take 3" has extra actors, this makes the shot have more of a impact in setting the school scene. As we done more and more shots, the issues we had in the early stages of the filming had been fixed, making the scenes and shots better. 

Wild Tracks

Wild tracks are used when someone or something is recorded without the sound, the sound is then recorded separately. The sound audio is then synced up with the video.  

Props List

Above is the draft prop list that we will need when filming for Released. After filming some scenes the prop list may change depending on any props that have been replaced.