Unit 2 Part C

Day 1

Cast and crew planned to meet at Long Road Sixth Form College at 10 am. Our cast consisted of James Kirk who played the role of the forager and Kate Handford who played Alder. However we did not start filming till around 12 as it took us longer than we realised to set up and get ready for the shoot. While I helped Kate get ready, which mainly consisted of her putting in the red contacts, the cinematographer Francis, camera operator Kelsie and director Owen alongside our mentor Bradley Stearn went out to the location to set up the cameras and get some test shots. It was very useful having Bradley as he brought lots of lenses and filters that we got to use and had a lot of knowledge on framing and lighting the shots. This was especially useful as we did not shoot chronologically and so we needed to manipulate the natural light we had so that each scene matched and made sense visually. We shot scene 10 first as it was the scene with both actors. As my role is the role of the editor, on shoot I had the job of clapper loader. This got a little confusing as we didn’t always follow our shooting schedule, as according to the light we decided to shoot different shots. We also added in shots and ended up having to cut down shots as we were running out of time. While filming our Art Director Will turned the bike shed into a Lair for us to film in the next day.We realised that the contacts were one day wear and we needed it for the next day as well, as I lived closest to town I took it upon myself to cycle in and get the contacts before I came to Long Road where we were filming the next day.

Day 2

I managed to go and buy the contacts and be at Long Road for 10 as that was the lime we planned to meet. Once we all arrived, we started promptly as we had to film some shots that was on our schedule for the day before. We managed to get all the necessary shots of the forager done by 12 pm. By that time Kate our actress had arrived and Will our Art Director had everything needed in the bike shed that we used to film our lair scenes. We had a quick lunch break and got to filming in the lair. As the bike shed was quite small, only some of the crew could actually be in there when filming. It was hard to place the clapper in some of the shots as they were tight closeups or darkly lit and the light didn't catch the clapperboard. I had to make a note of this on the shooting schedule so that I wouldn't get confused when it came to editing.

Leadership skills applied
A key leadership skill applied was communication, as during the shoot I communicated with the first AD and cameramen in order to properly mark the clapperboard marking it correctly and so that it was properly in shot 

I was also organised, and ticked off the shots we did on the production schedule, if changes were made I added a little note beside the shot. 

Limits to my role and responsibilities –

As I was given the role of editor and clapper loader this limited what I could do on the days of the shoot :

• I never had control of the camera as this was the role of the cinematographer and cameraman
• I also didn’t direct the actors in what they should do as this was upto the director, however we as crew members gave the director our input on what we thought of particular shots and it was up to him to direct the actors choosing if he would take our input or not.
• I didn’t run through the takes, set up for a take and make sure everyone was in place and ready as this was the role of the 1^st AD and it would be complicating if several people did it. 

Post Production & My role

Everyone got a chance to edit on Saturday. As I was the editor, I got input from the director as to what shots he thought worked best and wrote a rough paper edit.

I then took the laptop away with all the footage logged in folders. I started editing and sent Ryd a rough cut by the 7th of November, we then met up and he gave me feedback on how to make the edit better as well as linking up sound. I then sent the 2nd roughcut to Henri who would be composing the music for our film, the 2nd roughcut included the foley sounds.

Health & Safety -

Health & sfaety is very important when shooting. There were several risks that we could have encountered when filming. We listed many of them on our risk assessments. However there were a few we hadnt thought of. On the second day of filming, we had planned to do an overhead shot of Alder as she messes with the dirt and bones. We hadn't thoroughly thought of how we would achieve this shot, and on the day we attached the camera and tripod to the top of the lair(shed). \this was not thought of before and was not on our risk assessment. This was dangerous because it could have fallen and damaged the equipment and the cast and crew. 

Below are our Risk Assessments 

Forest Risk Assessment 

Lair Risk Assessment