Fallen Grace-First Edit of final Teaser Trailer

Fallen Grace - First Edit - Teaser Trailer from Emma Taylor on Vimeo.

Final Explosion

Final Explosion from Emma Taylor on Vimeo.

Explosion Shots (Night)-With lanchashire Militia

Explsion Shots (Night) - With Lancashire Militia from Emma Taylor on Vimeo.

Forest scene Rushes

Forest Scene Rushes from Emma Taylor on Vimeo.

Explosion Rushes shoot 1

Explosions (Rushes) Shoot 1 from Emma Taylor on Vimeo.

Hill Scene rushes

Hill Scenes (Rushes) from Emma Taylor on Vimeo.

Photoshoot

Equipment Evaluation by Emma Taylor

Final Cut Pro X

For the post production editing of our trailer we have used Final Cut Pro X (FCPX). FCPX is non-linear editing software developed by Mac for their Intel-bases OS Mac computers. FCPX provides effective and extensive use of editing techniques used within the film and television production industry. It supports a number of simultaneously composed video tracks, and user friendly interface, making it easy to edit complex edits such as multi-cam editing, Chroma-key and colour grading. It is a very effective and efficient editing system, which uploads straight to Vimeo which is particularly useful for time efficiency.

Canon 6D

We used my  Canon EOS 6D to film our production, with a 82mm full frame lens with polarizing filter. This high spec professional DSLR films at 1080p HD video, giving us the clearest, cinematic footage we could get to use for trailer. However the disadvantage of using this camera is that it is very expensive, especially with the range of lenses we used and could be easily broken. The camera is also complex to operate compared to other cameras, and an in depth knowledge of camera operations such as ISO and aperture must be understood in order to be camera operator.

Dolly

We used a dolly for many of our tracking shots in the school scenes, and we used the dolly for professional looking shots. Although Broken Coal Productions do not have a professional dolly, I had made a dolly from some plastic piping from B&Q. The home – made dolly worked well in creating smooth and cinematic shots. However one issue with using the dolly was that they were not collapsible and remained their full size, making them difficult to be ported to different locations.

SD Cards

My Canon camera takes SD cards, and whilst lower spec SD cards are known for running out of storage space when filming, we used four 62GB and 32GB cards which can hold a lot of data. We didn’t have to worry about storage space on our camera running out, and on the mac we were editing on, the SD card could just be imported into the computer and the files transferred quickly onto the desktop.

Tripod

We used a tripod to stabilise some of our shots as we didn’t want any camera shake which would make our work look messy and unprofessional, even though we did take it off the tripod to have some hand held shots to give some variation. The tripod proved useful for panning tracking shots, and we also used it to go onto the dolly for extra stabilisation. It was a very key and useful part of equipment to have.

Batteries

Whilst expensive, the Canon, rechargeable lithium camera batteries (Canon LP-E6) are very effective and let us have up to 5 hours filming time for each battery (we had two). These allowed us to film continuously for a long period of time without having to stop frequently to change the battery pack.

Sigma 24-105 F4 DG OS HSM Full Frame Camera Lens

 This sigma lens which cooperates with Canon full frame cameras. I bought this lens as it is the latest addition to the ‘art’ series on lenses which give good image quality and has a 19 element/ 14 group  design, with Sigma’s FLD glass, to minimize aberrations. The 45cm focusing range enables us to use a large depth of field in our work, giving sharp image quality and cinematic effect. However, this lens is very expensive and so we had to be careful when filming with it. To stop the lens glass getting damaged, I also bought a filter to protect the lens glass.

Polarising Filter

Another filter I bought is an 82mm polarising filter which we used on the last few shoots to deepen the contrast in the colours for better quality images. This also protects the lens glass, as it is much cheaper to replace the filter than the lens glass. Prices and availability have y

Shot list for the final shoots

SHOT LISTS

Café Scene

1.       Mid shot of all three actors at table eating

2.      Mid close up of Grace smiling/laughing

(20 Minutes)

Field Scene

1.       Long shot of Clare and Sam walking and holding hands

2.      Close up of hand holding

3.      Mid shot of piggy back

4.      Mid close up of piggy back, focused on Clare’s face

(45 Minutes)

Forest Scene

1.       Close up of Clare’s feet running

2.      Close up of Clare looking scared

3.      Mid close up of Clare turning around in fear

(45 Minutes)

Helicopter

1.       Close up of buttons being pressed

2.      Close up of buttons being pressed

3.      Mid close up of buttons being present

4.      Mid close up of view outside helicopter window, over the shoulder

(1 Hour 20 Minutes)

30 minutes travel from helicopter to Chippy

5 minutes travel from Chippy to field

No travel from field to forest

Total estimated time for Chippy, helicopter, field and forest – 3 hours 5 minutes

 Explosion

1.       Long shot of explosion and Clare running (done with multiple cameras from different angles)  

(3 Hours)

Shoot 4 Evaluation by Saqib Younis

On Wednesday the 4th of December we shot the biggest scene of the trailer the party shoot, this began at 6.30pm and finished just after 9 pm.

Extras, began to arrive between 6 and half 6 through this time our production team began to set up the shoot. I set up the crane in which was a new piece of equipment to me as i had never used one before. This took around 10 to 15 minuets to do, it was placed outside on the balcony. As well as this I also helped set up the lighting.

Firstly, the roles in which we had when filming began was that Abbie was filming the trailer along with Tom  and also Tom was also in charge of capturing  the behind the scenes photos. Emma was the director, and I was in charge of sound throughout the full shoot. We began by shooting a general scene of all the extra at the party dancing, talking creating the scene of a normal teenage party. After this we shot a scene in which the disruption occurred when Charlie begins to dance with a female friend and his girlfriend and the main character Grace, takes this in the wrong way and storms out of the room with Charlie following her. We shot this scene numerous time from different angles to provide us with a a large variety of shots to choose from when it comes to editing.   After this our actor Grant arrived who is playing Mr Eastwood we began to film the argument scene in which after they go out the room they then go outside to the car park in which we filmed the argument scene. We began filming numerous shots firstly we recorded the argument between the couple. When shooting I was in control of recording the sound, Tom and Abigail were filming through the camera and Emma has directed the scene. This shot took up to half an hour due to all the angles in which we filmed from. During the set up at the start I set up the crane in which we used after filming the abduction scene. The crane shot provided us with a unique shot that would increase our options when we edited.

In conclusion it was a very successful shoot which did take time however the outcome in which the shots which were produced.

 

Fallen grace party shoot video-shoot 4

Thank You - Fallen Grace House Party Rushes from Emma Taylor on Vimeo.