The Filming

After a successful presentation, we all decided to meet up on the monday at 9am to start filming because we all acknowledged the severity of the amount of work we needed to do. That being the filming, the editing of a suitable sequence, the rotarscoping (which is roughly 1920 frames which needed to be sketched, excluding background images), the re-edit, the SFX and the sequencing of the SFX and actual film, also the finalising stage and the adminstration, e.g. the Evaulation/report.

Our filming schedule went as followed:

09-11: Film
11-12: Dinner
12-15:Film

Within the 9-11 filming slot we gathered a variety of shots, some of the actors running up the stairs from different angles so we could switch between shots, making the film more fast paced, giving the film a sense of suspence. We also filmed other action shots like fighting movements and mexican stand-off like scenes.

Within the 11-12 time slot we all gathered lunch and discussed the other shots what we needed and we decided to go to the the nearest costume/prop shop to buy props, which were:

• A plain mask (£4)
• 2 swords (£4 each, one for each actor)

The 12-15 slot we starting filming within the Arboretum, we have discussed we need the main bulk of the fight scene completed in this shot, so we gathered alot of wide shots of the fight scene, mid shots and reaction shots. We also filmed quite a few P.O.V shots and some shots like the sword flying away and experimental shots which turned out great e.g. shot of actors shadows and a bullet time style shot (actors are still and the camera pans around the actors, then they move). Basically 99% of the shots what we needed to cover.

The day after the main filming we decided to gather a few more shots jdjdk