Final footage.

Final footage.

Our official deadline for which our filming must be completed is Friday 13th December. Yesterday (Wednesday 11th December) myself, Monika and the two other members of our cast finished off the filming. After three separate visits to St Mary's church we came to the conclusion that we had captured sufficient footage; of which we have now begun editing. Getting time alone in the church was quite a struggle as we could only leave once our lessons were done and as we all had different time-tables it was even trickier. Furthermore, all of our free periods were after 1:30pm and with the church closing shortly after and an approx. travelling time of 90 minutes we were forced to negotiate with the vicar himself - whom without we could not have made this opening sequence before the designated deadline. We were given around half an hour each time to shoot inside the church and had unlimited time outside to film the various other scenes which may take place outside of the church itself.

We thought that our filming could go one of two ways; formulate a plan and stick to it, which may well have caused a 'creative block' as to what and how the scenes were filmed. The other way was to sketch a rough outline of what and how and then configure the rest once we had arrived on location. After a short discussion we both agreed that the latter was probably the most effective way to go about things and so did exactly that. This method was indeed as successful as expected and allowed us to obtain a vast variety of shots from a variety of different angles and with a variety of different effects such as panning and zooming. Although this gives us an advantage as to the range of shots available to use, it also drastically impairs our time limit for the editing process as, obviously, the more footage we have the more sifting we must do. In fact, we have over 60 minutes of recordings, less than 2 of which can be salvaged.

The opening sequence that we filmed was set in the 1950's. For this we have researched and developed some outfits to match the fashion and tendencies of the era (shown below). The basic storyline is of a young man who has committed a deep sin and has turned to his faith for redemption. As we are creating an opening sequence and not a film/trailer we are cautious of giving too much information away within the sequence. The young man is led to the church where he enters alone and takes a seat. He begins to pray while outside the man who accompanied him greets another man and both come in to the church and take the young man away once he has had a chance to repent. Although the story does not sound remotely interesting or developed enough to attract an audience, we intend to meet this problem with a series of voiceovers and brief flickers of the past, not to mention the soundtrack which we have yet to create though we are confident that we can come up with something to match, compliment and enhance the sequence.

 

 - C.W -