Shooting Schedule and Action Plan

Planning – Action Plan and Shooting Schedule

Action Plan

• Create initial ideas on a storyboard
• Transfer those ideas onto a shot list
• Pick actors and locations that fit the shot list
• Make sure to have the appropriate props and costumes for each shoot
• Do a series of shoots
• Edit down the film footage that we have
• From feedback from the initial edit make changes, add/remove scenes

Rehearsals

• Due to the limited time of access to the car for the car exterior shots rehearsals were conducted on the day of the shoot. Before each shot we would run through where the car would be travelling and we would retake shots if they were not viable.
• During the rest of the various interior shots I employed this tactic also, with rehearsals before each shot then doing the take several times and editing mid shoot with changes to the shot(s).

Actors

• I utilised in my first rough cut that was drastically changed before the final product 2 actors. The car driver was used as he had qualifications in advanced driving so he could drive fast and safely around the roads. There were no auditions for this part as the viewer would only see his face briefly in the behind the wheel and his shoes as he walked to the door so he needed little acting talent.
• The second actor I used essentially acted as a hand model, the majority of the shots in the first rough cut were close ups of someone doing actions so I needed an actor who had hands that were normal and that they could do the action whilst I filmed it, no audition required either for this part as it required no talent.
• For the second rough cut the second actor was replaced with me. This was because again it mainly consisted of filming close up hands and by using the tripod and the swivelling function of the DSLR screen I was able to do the actions whilst filming at the same time, which reduced hassle for organising times to film.

Shooting Schedule

First Iteration of Film:

• 29^th February, Scout out exterior location shots
• 2^nd March, Film exterior Carr house shots and car shots
• 5^th March, Film interior Carr house shots

Second Iteration

• 16^th March, Film computer scenes in Young house
• 17^th March, Film extra shots in Young house
• 19^th March, Film laptop scenes in Young house, replace Carr interior shots with newly filmed Young interior shots
• 20^th – 25^th March, and extra shots needed