Reflection: Epping Forest Map

We will be focusing on the south-west part of Epping Forest seen in this map, next to Hollow Ponds. This is because it is easier for each team member to arrive there as well as having all the perfect sites needed for our storyline ideas.

 

I research the are of interest for our footage scene, so I found this in Google Maps. I found a magnified shot of the area we will be focusing on, in order to give further details of our footage location.

 

 



 
 

Reflection: Weather Forecast

 

Considering that we have only three times to borrow a camera from our college. We have had a limited amount of times to film.

 

When filming the forest scene we had an unfortunate rainy day which can be seen in our footage (if not seen directly raining, it can be noticed by the damp terrain). For this reason, our group has looked at the weather forecast to film at a day which will be rainy in the morning in order to shoot in the same weather condition. For this, we have agreed to again meet on Saturday to film.

Test Footage: Reflection

Today in class we have decided to do a test footage to confirm whether our initial location ideas (see previous posts) are suitable or not. This will allow us to develop our initial ideas in order to produce a far more professional short film. We will be filming our test footage this Saturday in the morning (19^th of October) and we have decided that we will be the actors in this scene as we will not use this as the end product.

 

 

 

 

Recce: Location of our short film

 

We have assessed the possible problems of using the settings we have chosen for our film. In this recce we have explored whether or not the two sole locations for our film would be useful and safe in order to film on.

Location: Reflection

  

 

As we already know the two locations that we will be using in order to produce our film we have booked a group visit in order to as a group decide on the settings we need to shoot the scenes when filming.

Epping Forest

This weekend we have planned in our group to visit the secondary setting of our film together in order to see which areas would be best for filming in the forest (which will be the persecution scene). Here we have taking a few pictures of the settings which will be useful for the recreation of our ideas presented in the storyboard.  

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In this scenery we have decided that it would be well suited to reflect the scene where the victim is being watched by the vigilante killer (see "Storyboard (First Draft)", hereafter "SFD". A shot-reverse-shot will be used here in order to portray both perspectives which the audience can relate to being in.

 

 

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In this other scene we have discussed that it would be perfect for the actual persecution scene (see "SFD"). We have yet not decided whether a mid shot or a long shot of the scene would be most preferable therefore we will be shooting in both terms in the day.

 

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This is another setting which would be suitable for the persecution scene so we will also be testing whether it is best to use this setting or the other when producing our short film.

Recce: forest location

Before Shooting I decided to go to the forest location which covers most part of our short film to take some pictures of the environment and what we should expect.

These are some warnings that we must take into consideration if trying to shoot some pictures near the pond.