Curiosity Final Edit

Ending to our film

At the end of our last storyboard the robot is at the top of the car park due to changes we had made previously in our film we only had about 30 seconds left, so we decided to make him fall off of the top of the car park, find a lighter and set him self on fire. As a group we think this is the best way to finish off of the film as the title is Curiosity. We thought that this would emphasise the the meaning behind the film.

Aditions to our storyboards

After filming and editing for a couple of months we showed our teacher and they pointed out one issue that we had failed to realise, this effected the continuity of the film. the issue is between the two scenes of when the robot is created and when the creator walks to his car. Our teacher told us that there is a big chunk of time missing between those two scenes and that the viewer would get lost when watching it. What we had to do to solve this problem was film the creator walking to his car from the end of the first scene to the start of the second scene. this would involve just filming the Creator of the robot walking out of the collage to his car.

Slight changes to our story board

In our second scene on our story board the creator puts his bag on the parcel self of his car and then the robot climbs through the car to try and escape. When filming we encountered a number of problems with this, like limited space in the car try to film point of view shots, the continuity of the film didn't look very good as we found it very difficult to make the robot climb through the car.

To solve this problem when the creator approaches his car he opens his door and just simply chucks his bag onto the passengers seat. when we tried filming it this way we as a group felt that it worked a lot better than the previous way.

Filming issues

Today we tried to film the second scene and we came across a copple of complications and sturggeled to get the desired effect we first thought we would achive.

The first scene invloved the robot being made and his jouerny out of the room and ended up in his creators bag. The second scene we tried to film today was when his creator chucks his bag in his car. 'Unaware that his robot has come to life and is in his bag'. Then drives off to work and the robot climbs out of his bag explores the car then jumps out when his creator leaves the car. This was our plan but we had trobble filming the robot and make it move. We did this in our test video but dye to the restrictions and the small space of a car. You cant make the robot move without seeing the person. But then we can't not move the robot or use loads of point of veiw shots, because then it will look very emotionless.

We will discus the issue as a group and try to find a solution to the problem.

Filming Log

Our group has begun to film our short film "Curiosity". We have already found a few problems that we need to resolve. we need to redo the shots with the robot moving because the robot doesn't move correctly and we need to hide how the robot is moving because the angle of the shot gives it away. Also a shot where we had a sign in the background which we feel would divert the audiences attention to what is going on in the scene. Another shot because we forgot to move the tripod out of the shot. we've done several point of view shots to give the image your seeing from the robot eyes. With these problems in mind we checked in more detail at mise en scene, shot angles for the second scene. Our group made sure this time that when the robot moves you cant see how he is moving in the shot. Checked that no equipment was left or there was anything that would detract away from the scene.

Prop list

This is a props list that we will need every time we go filming

For the Mise en Scene to stay the same we've kept several things the same:
Actors
Locations
Prop
Costumes

speicifc's we used are:
Tom (actor)
Robot (prop)
Bag (prop)
Car (prop)

As we will be filming the majority of our film in school time, these things are easy to keep the same. When filming in other environments most things stay the same. We are all responsible for bringing in certain things. Tom is responsible for wearing the same clothes for filming and bringing. George is responsible for bringing in the bag prop. Matt is responsible for ensuring we have a camera to film with and brining the robot.

Test shoot

This is our test video we followed our storyboard as a rough guide and worked around the restrictions we had on the day of filming. for example: room where we could film, equipment like tripods. we also filmed an extra scene to give our self's and everyone else a more focused idea of what will happen in our short film.

i will post a full analysis of this video of what went wrong, what went well, our future ideas and what we are going to do from here.