Preperation for Practice Filming

Practice Filming Preparation

In preparation for our practice filming, we have been discussing how we are going to do our makeup and hair, and what will work the best. I found some makeup tutorial videos on YouTube;

I like this video because it fits our idea of how we want the artists makeup to look. Quite old school/ retro with bold lips to suit her personality. Out of all of the videos this one gives the best guidelines and the out come looks really good.

For the actor, we were going for more of a dark, gothic look so I had a look on YouTube and found another tutorial that could help us out when it comes to filming;

I like the eyes in this video because although they have the 'smokey' effect, they look slightly dishevelled and careless. This is the look we are going for because we want the actor to look sorrowful and sad. The black under the eyes will make it clear that she has been crying and also that she's very hurt and heartbroken.

 However, I don't think we will use the bright red on the lips for our actor because I think we should keep her dark and mysterious. also we wouldn't want to make her too similar to the artist. So I have found a 'gothic' lip colour that we could use to compliment the dark eyes. Its from Rimmell London, the Kate Moss range. The lipstick is £5.49, its called 'Rossetto' and it is shade number 4. Here is a picture of the lipstick, and what is looks like on;

 

We have all decided to bring clothes from home so we could choose what looks best and what comes across the best on camera. I have some chunky black boots from river island that fit the criteria for our actors outfit ideally.

 

I have been looking for a baggy, vintage coat to be worn with these boots, preferably an old 'Barbour Wax' style men's coat, I've found one on Ebay that's quite cheap, it looks like this. The reason why I specifically think that this style of coat will look the best is because it has and 'old English' feel to it, which fits in well with our Brick Lane themed shots. Also, a lot of people know that this coat is a male coat, so it could make the audience question who's coat the actor is wearing? and also why she is hiding behind it? The questions will all be answered at the end when the girls broken hearted boyfriend is revealed, and her insecurities become clear.

 

We are going to do our first bits of practice filming in the subway in Harold Wood, Essex and also in Karina's garage. This is because these will be the most tricky scenes to get right due to the difficulties with lighting. Although, it is very important that they do look how we want them to because they are the most effective scenes. For example the garage scene is the opening and closing scene, and also what we will use to effectively narrate the story to the audience. The subway is also important because we have decided to do a variety of different shots ranging from close ups to long shots to pan shots. Therefore we need to find a different solution if we recognise these settings aren't coming across on camera as well as we'd planned. 

We have borrowed a camera and a tripod from school to bring to our practice filming, although we have already sorted out a professional filming camera to use. This is because we want to be sure that we know what we are doing and we are using the cameras correctly to the best of our ability. If we don't know how to use one; we have backup and can use the other. Another reason why we have 2  cameras is so that we can film using both, and see what one portrays our filming the best when it comes to editing. 

 

We are filming 2 days in the holidays, this is because we are going to re-shoot anything that goes wrong or we change our mind on.  We are going to travel from one setting to another by car, as I drive, But if worst comes to the worst, or something goes wrong, we have arranged the times of the local bus to ensure we can get to these places without any problems.