Professional Practice: Music

I wanted there to be music over the top of the video, due to there being a lot of parts in a scene without any dialogue, I also thought that it would help create an atmosphere on what was happening in the film, such as how you feel when you are being bullied or watching it happen.

I tried to find royalty free music on youtube and also on a website that I had used before called,
However there was not a piece of music that I felt would work with my film.

I spoke to fellow student Illy, to see if she knew of other royalty free music sites. Even though she didn't know any music sites, she did send me a link to a person's music she listens to on sound cloud.

Here is his page: https://soundcloud.com/frazer_m

I listened to a couple of his songs and they were ok, until I came across Rising Sea. I immediately knew that I wanted to use this piece for my film. The piece only lasts for 1:11 and my film is over 3 minutes long, I will need to cut the track up and match it together.

Overall I feel this piece of music enhances the atmosphere I wanted to create through this film. Such as sadness, and tension when watching the victim being bullied.

Professional Practice: New Location and Script

I decided that for my new location I wanted it to be in a park area, this was because I needed an area that was quite big, but also where children would 'hang out'. I thought about previous locations that I had used and decided to contact the Allington Cumminuty Association on whether I could film in the field next to the building. I had used them before for my fiction adaptation video, so I was sure that I was going to get permission again.

After emailing the secretary of the chairman of ACA, he agreed to give me permission to use the field.

Now I had my location and actors I now had to create a new script, with a modern storyline.

Here is my new script.


This script is much shorter and simple, however I am happy with it. I feel that the last script I had for my first idea was too complicated and am very glad that I changed my idea.

Profession Practice Shoot: Day 2

From yesterday I learnt that having five kids at once on shoot was very complicated, because once I had filmed a shot, they would run around the park, while I was checking what next show I needed to get. As I had filmed most of the shots with the bullies on day one, I wanted to film some pick ups and other shots that involved them first, so that I could send them home. After I had sent them home I focused on getting the shots of the victim and the bully.

There was one scene that I didn't end up filming and that was the main bully walking towards the park and noticing the victim with her mum. This scene was to be at the beginning. In the end after reviewing my footage I decided that it wasn't needed, as it didn't help with the storyline that much.

I had a lot longer to film on this shoot, I filmed from 11-4pm. The weather as predicted was not as sunny as the day before and was very cloudy, this resulted into doing more pick ups from the day before, such as group shots, so that the light difference between shots didn't notice as much.

The kids did were great both days, even though they had their ups and downs, I feel that they all portrayed their characters very well.

I feel that I got all the shots needed for my film, now time to edit!

Professional Practice Shoot: Day 1

I decided to film this short film over the weekend, as all kids will more likely be available due to attending school from Mon-Fri.

I contacted all parents to see who would be available.
Luckily 4 out of the 5 kids were available however, I still needed to find someone else to be a bully.

I sent Verity an email to see if she could ask around on who would be available, particularly looking for a girl who is between the age of 10-12 from the PQA academy in rochester, from the morning group. Luckily someone replied within 24 hours before the shoot, now I had the 5 people needed for the film.

As on Saturday the PQA students have their lesson in the morning I started the shoot from 2-4 pm.



Surprisingly this shoot went really well, I was able to film half of my script. The only problem was the sun was constantly in and out between the clouds, so I have to make sure my shots aren't too bright, especially if tomorrow is not going to be sunny.
I'm glad that I was able to film most of my script as I would then be able to check through footage to see if there were any extra shots I needed in these scenes or whether I needed to do pick-ups.
After looking at the footage there were a couple shots I wanted to re-shoot and get more of, mainly close ups of faces.

Hopefully tomorrows shoot will go as well as this shoot did.

Professional Practice: Change of Idea

After filming a part of my fairytale anti-bullying film, I reviewed the footage and was not happy with the outcome. The location, the story and the scripting, just didn't seem right.

What didn't help is that I was only allocated 2-5pm on a Saturday to film every week, which wasn't sufficient enough for me.

I decided to take a risk and rescript the anti-bullying story, however this time doing it in a modern day theme.

Here is a rough idea of what my new story is going to be about:

Lou, a bully lives in an unwanted and unloveable environment with her family.

She notices a girl who has the opposite of this and starts to become jealous.

One day the bully notices the girl in a park by herself and gangs up on her with her friends.

An incident then happens between the two girls and they both end up becoming friends.

What I was worried about with creating an anti-bullying story, was being stereotypical and following a victims story.

With this new idea I have focused the story on the bully and her story.

I have contacted the parents of the PQA students that I will be re-using to film this short-film and also have found a location to film it in.

I also have a couple of dates of when I will be filming.

Hopefully this new idea will be a lot smoother than my last shoot.