Production Log

Where: Maddie H's house.
Who: Maddie H, Niamh and George.
(Due to our differing school schedules me and Kelly were unavailable to help film.)
Equipment: DSLRS, Costumes.
Purpose: Re-shoot.
Duration: 2 hours.

The lighting was bright on the day, which was meant we didn't require any lighting for the kitchen scenes. If it was dark,however, the scenes would not of been as successful - as the kitchen scenes were filmed in Maddie's conservatory.

There were no major health risks, apart from if one member dropped a glass. However, this was unlikely as we are careful when filming.

This was the final shoot for Women's bane before the final version, with the intention to slightly tweak our performance to improve our product overall. 
Only a few scenes had to be re-shot, such as:
-The corridor scene

- All drinks scenes (pouring, placing glasses...)

-Leading up to the bedroom also had to be re-done (as George wearing a different suit.)

Production Log

Where: Maddie H's House.
Who: Maddie H, Niamh, George.
(Due to differing school schedules me and Kelly were unable to help film.)
Equipment: DSLR, Tripod, Costumes.
Purpose: Re-recording the narrative for the victim's death.
Duration: 2 Hours.

We re-shot the death scene due to a change in the narrative - where the victim was seduced and killed at a bar, but due to filming and age restrictions this wouldn't be able to happen. So, we changed the narrative so she killed the victim back at her apartment. This was meant the narrative would be easier to film and more coherent to the black and white scenes.

There were some issues with this shoot as we had all the props necessary, and most of our issues were with performance and lighting. Maddie's conservatory is mostly glass, so the lighting on a cloudy day caused issues, meaning time was wasted to wait for the sun to come back out. Also, since neither of the actors were professional actors, we had a few performance issues and both need to be fixed in future shoots. 

Production Log

Where: Maddie H's house.
Who: Maddie H, Niamh, Kaan
(Due to differing school schedules me and Kelly were unable to help film.)
Equipment: DSLRs, Costumes.
Purpose: Victim's death scene.
Duration: 2 hours.

The intention of filming at Maddie H's house was that we could move the furniture around so it resembled a bar. however after showing our teacher she said it looked more like a cafe - so we have decided to re-shoot.
Everything else was up to standard, with no mistakes in performance.

Production Log

Where: Drama department.
Who: Me, Maddie H, Niamh, Kelly and Kaan.
Equipment: DSLR, 'ink,' costume, make-up, studio light, red blanket and tripod.
purpose: Death of the victim.
Duration: 2 hours.

-Whilst filming, we decided we needed change the location - so it would look more like a bar. 
-It took us a long time to actually set up the scene, which ate heavily into our filming time. This is because the 'bar side' was patchy (due paint coming off) and when we covered it with a red blanket - the blanket was creased, so we had to iron it.
-Performance was good, but we used Maddie H's hands (she has the longest nails) and the rest of Niamh's body, which ate up time. 
-Another difficulty was the lighting, as it wasn't perfectly black, and the light box was reflecting off the wall. This ruined the whole feel of the scene.

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Where: Media department.
Who: Me, Kelly, Maddie H and Niamh.
Equipment: DSLR, lipstick, stuido lights(x2), mirror, tripod and white screen.
Purpose: Mirror sequence.
Duration: 2 hours.

for this session we aimed to film the mirror scene, where our protagonist write the actress' name on the mirror, which will appear as a part of the credits. It was difficult to frame the mirror to have none of us apart from Niamh in the scene, this ate up a lot of our time. We also had Kelly practice writing on the mirror, so it looked clear and bold for the credits. This is because she had the nicest handwriting, which looked very elegant - however, Niamh struggled to write the same way so we just had her finish the last letter.

We had to position the camera awkwardly to make sure we captured what we wanted, not interfering with the wires all across the floor - which was a small health risk; as one of us could have fell. We had to prop up the mirror(using boxes), which could have fell a couple times if we weren't careful. This happened once, but as we were all close by we stopped it from falling on the ground. 

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Where: Media room
Who: Me, Maddie H, Kelly and Niamh.
Equipment: DSLR, lipstick, studio light and white screen.
Purpose: Shots for the black and white parts of the sequence.
Duration: 2 hours.

For this shoot we aimed to to take quite a lot of shots, so they can be edited into black and white for our sequence. We had Niamh pull up her fishnet tights, apply lipstick, pull up her bra strap ect...  we had Laura Mulvey's Male Gaze Theory in mind during the shoot. Which is why all these actions can be seen as sexual - this was our intention as our protagonist is highly sexualised, 

Overall, the filming was successful with only minor health issues such a falling due to the cables (which did not happen). The cinematography and framing would allow us to easily insert credits in post production, with Niamh's performance making the shoot easy and quick. We allocated 2 hours as this shoot was our first actual shoot - so we needed more time to set everything up.

Production Log

Where: Art department.
Who: Me, Maddie H, Kelly and Niamh.
Equipment: DSLR, light box, whitescreen, lipstick and a lighter.
Purpose: Test shots, creating props/burning lipsticks.
Duration: 1 and a half hours.

For this shoot, we were creating some props that we were possibly going to use in our sequence, with us burning lipstick to create the illusion of blood - similar to American Psycho, but we decided on lipstick as our character is highly sexualised, while signifying the victim's death. As the media room was unavailable we set up in the art studio - it took a while to actually set up as we kept having to move/find items to hold others up.

The overall filming, framing and cinematography of this scene went well. However, the whole scene as was a gerneral health risk. As we were burning a lipstick, we were at risk of many things. Burning plastic is toxic and could have harmed our health, or being burned by the lighter, cables could have tripped us -which is dangerous especially when around fire.