Reflections for Week 1-6

The first week of production was pretty slow and uneventful. We gathered together our storyboards, synopsis' (with some minor issues regarding the work of Julia D and myself) and we planned the basic plot of our movie. We started to discuss what type of movie we wanted to make and how we could manage to achieve a quality movie, worthy of a decent grade. We chose the synopsis we liked best to work from and chose a title. The movie was going to be called 'Liar. Liar. Ghost.'

The second week of production was more progressive, we started to flesh out plans for shooting and what props would be required. A shot list was adapted from the storyboards/synopsis by Julia M, consisting of the 6 scenes in our movie. I worked on a prop list, listing items necessary to each shot to help production run smoothly. Julia D worked on a shooting schedule to organise when we could all actually film. There was a lack of focus this week, which resulted in us being told to take the project more seriously.

The third week of production we began to work on actually shooting our movie, our planning however was not completely finished and the lack of scenes we would be able to shoot during class became more and more obvious. Our focus levels this week were poor as we didn't feel we needed to work too hard in class as our filming was to be done in the Boarding house. Julia also forgot her camera repeatedly that week.


The forth week of production, some minor filming had been done over the weekend. Mr Andrews spoke to us about our lack of commitment and encouraged us to improve or there would be consequences. We took this onboard and managed to film a newly added Classroom scene, which would fade into the scenes in the Boarding House. We got some footage filmed that week that built up to create a full scene. The footage from the weekend was unusable and was stored as back-up test shots. The deadline was drawing in on us and we needed to work fast or fail, Mr Andrews told us to get our act together which encouraged our productivity in filming. We finished our shot lists, prop lists and shooting schedule this week and posted them on our blogs.

The fifth week of production I was sick, I was away from Monday-Thursday that week, meaning the shooting schedule Julia D had prepared wasn't carried out. I returned into school specially and we filmed some shots from the final scenes of the movie. We managed to film the stunt where I get dragged down the stairs however when we moved on to work on further shots, Julia M's camera died. She had left the charger in Byron which impacted us greatly. We were very pressed for time with an entire film to be shot. We had to wait until Tuesday of week 6 for the charger, Mr Andrews contacted my parents about our lack of productivity this week. We also were granted an extension until August 21st on the premises that it was just a one off.

The sixth week of production was fairly successful. Julia M's charger arrived and Julia D stayed after school to help film in the boarding house. Julia M had to go to Canberra over the weekend, leaving Julia D and me to finish filming. To make this fair, Julia M agreed to edit our rough draft together for viewing on the Monday. Julia D and me managed to film the entire movie from Thursday until Sunday, with help from lots of the boarders. We completed our movie and gave a draft in by our extension deadline. Mr Andrews told us we needed to continue to focus on the rest of the editing so that we did not fall behind because of our extension.

GarageBand Background Music and FX (Names)

1. Heavy Water
2. High Dissonance
3. No Escape
4. Not So Friendly
5. Unidentified
6. Disorientated
7. Highbrow (Credits)
8. Out Of This World

Improvements to be made

Things to do before starting the final edit:

-       Re-film blurry shots

-       Film some shots of Jane Table following Nathalie to layer over the originals

-       Make some creepy music, sounds and voices

-       Film a montage of Nathalie doing pranks and the peoples reactions to the pranks

-       Shorten shots of Nathalie walking in Scene 2

-       More of a build up when Nathalie is walking down to the toilet

Shooting Schedule (draft 1)

Shot List

Shot No.	Shot Name	Scene No.	Location	Shot		Movement	Description of Action	Characters	Lighting Notes
				Type	Angle	Type
1	The Bucket	1	Bathroom	Close Up	Eye level	Pan outwards	Bucket is being filled with water.		Well lit
2	Nathalie Places the bucket	1	Dorm	Medium	High angled		Nathalie places the bucket on top of a cupboard.	Nathalie	Well lit
3	Setting up the prank	1	Dorm	Close Up	Eye level with door knob	Pan outwards	Nathalie ties a piece of string around the door knob.	Nathalie	Well lit
4	Giggles	1	Hallway/dorm	Medium	Eye level	Dolley shot	Nathalie runs down the hallway giggling.	Nathalie	Well lit
5	Olivia is on her way	1	Dorm	Medium	Eye level	Dolley shot	Olivia is walking up the stairs.	Olivia	Well lit
6	Olivia is on her way 2	1	Hallway/dorm	Medium	Eye level	Dolley shot	Olivia is walking down the hallway.	Olivia	Well lit
7	Olivia discovers the prank	1	Dorm	Medium	High angled		Olivia looks up and notices the bucket.	Olivia	Well lit
8	A failure of a prank	1	Dorm	Close up	Eye level		Olivia laughs at the failed prank.	Olivia	Well lit
9	Le sadface	1	Dorm	Close Up	Eye level		Nathalie is sad because her prank failed.	Nathalie	Well lit
10	Time for school	1	Dorm	Medium	Eye level		Boarding supervisor is calling out.	Nathalie	Well lit
11	Nathalie is on her way to school	1	Room	Medium	Eye level		Nathalie grabs her bag.	Nathalie	Well lit
12	Out the door	1	Hallway	Long shot	Eye level		Nathalie walks down the hallway, opens the door and leaves.	Nathalie	Well lit
13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
14	Entering the classroom	2	Classroom	Long shot	Eye level	Dolley shot	Nathalie enters the classroom.	Nathalie	Well lit
15	Class	2	Classroom	Long shot	High angled		Nathalie sits down and prepares her books.	Nathalie	Well lit
16	Class	2	Classroom	Close up	High angled (over shoulder shot)	Focus changed	Nathalie looks side to side to check that the teacher isn't looking and then starts scribbling down notes on a piece of paper.	Nathalie	Well lit
17	Class	2	Classroom	Medium	Eye level		The teacher walks up behind Nathalie to see what she is doing as Nathalie slams her book shut.	Nathalie	Well lit
18	Leaving the classroom	2	Classroom	Long shot	Eye level		Natahlie opens the door and leaves the classroom.	Nathalie	Well lit
19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
20	Back again	3	Doorway	Long	High Angled	Pan outwards	Nathalie opens the door and walks inside.	Nathalie	Well lit
22	Nathalie is happy	3	Hallway	Long	Eye level	Dolley shot	Nathalie is walking down the hallway.	Nathalie	Well lit
23	The mysterious piece of paper	3	Hallway	Extreme close up/close up	Straight Angled	Pan outwards	Nathalie pulls out a piece of paper.	Nathalie	Well lit
24	Nathalie smiles evily	3	Hallway	Extreme close up	Eye level		Nathalie smiles evily.	Nathalie	Well lit
25	Nathalie reads the paper	3	Hallway	Medium	Eye level	Dolley shot	Nathalie glances down at the piece of paper in her hand.	Nathalie	Well lit
26	Nathalie walks down the hallway	3	Hallway	Long	Eye level	Dolley shot	Nathalie continues to walk down the hallway.	Nathalie	Well lit
27	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
28	Nathalie wakes up	4	Bedroom	Medium	High Angled		Nathalie wakes up, sits up in bed and rubs her eyes.
29	Nathalie checks the time	4	Bedroom	Close up	Over shoulder	Focus change	Nathalie checks the time on her phone.	Nathalie	Dark, gloomy
30	Nathalie's plan	4	Bedroom	Close up	Over shoulder	Focus change	Nathalie looks to the side and notices the crumpled up prank list from earlier that day.	Nathalie	Dark, gloomy
31	Nathalie puts her plan into action	4	Bedroom	Medium	High Angled		Nathalie cups her hands around her mouth and starts yelling, "Ghost! Ghost! Ghost!"	Nathalie	Dark, gloomy
32	Dorm mates reactions 1	4	Dorms/multiple bedrooms	Close up	Eye level		Gabby sits up in bed with a worried look on her face and begins screaming.	Gabby	Dark, gloomy
33	Dorm mates reactions 2	4	Dorms/multiple bedrooms	Close up	Eye level		Olivia sits up in bed and begins screaming.	Olivia	Dark, gloomy
34	Dorm mates reactions 3	4	Dorms/multiple bedrooms	Close up	Eye level		Abbie sits up in bed and begins screaming.	Abbie	Dark, gloomy
35	Nathalie giggles	4	Bedroom	Close up	Eye level		Nathalie begins giggling quietly as she lays back down.	Nathalie	Dark, gloomy
36	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
37	Boarders talking about Nathalie	5	Bedroom	Long shot	Eye level		All the boarders are talking about how annoying Nathalie is and about the incident last night in a bedroom.	Olivia, Abbie, Gabby, others.	Morning light
38	Nathalie walks in on the boarders	5	Dorm/Bedroom	Long shot	High angled		Nathalie walks in and says hello to the boarders and they all just get up and walk away.	Nathalie, Olivia, Abbie, Gabby, others.	Morning light
39	Nathalie gets rejected	5	Dorm	Long shot	High angled		Nathalie looks down at the floor and walks away slowly with a sad look on her face.	Nathalie	Morning light
40	Nathalie walks into her room	5	Bedroom	Medium	Eye level		Nathalie walks into the room and takes a seat at her desk and starts typing on her computer.	Nathalie	Morning light
41	Nathalie checking her emails	5	Bedroom	Close up	Straight angled		Nathalie is scrolling through her emails, untill she sees a chainmail and clicks it.	Computer	Morning light
42	The chainmail	5	Bedroom	Extreme close up	Straight angled		Nathalie reads the email out loud, laughs and then slams the laptop shut.	Nathalie, Computer	Morning light
43	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
44	The Nightmare	6	Bedroom	Medium	High angled		Nathalie wakes up gasping for air with sweat dripping down her face.	Nathalie	Dark, gloomy
45	Ghost	6	Dorm	Close up	Eye level		Nathalie scratches her chin and smiles. She than begins yelling 'Ghost! Ghost! Ghost!'.	Nathalie	Dark, gloomy
46	Olivia's reaction	6	Dorm	Close up	Eye level		Olivia wakes up suddenly and screams, "Where!? Where!?"	Olivia	Dark, gloomy
47	Nathalie giggling	6	Dorm	Long shot/shot of whole dorm	High angled		A shot of the whole dorm is shown, in the background Nathalie's giggles are heard.	Nathalie	Dark, gloomy
48	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
49	Nathalie goes to the toilet	7	Bedroom/Dorm	Long shot	High angled		Nathalie opens her door whilst rubbing her eyes and walks out into the hallway.	Nathalie	Dark
50	The hallway	7	Hallway	Long shot	Eye level	Dolley Shot (Following Nathalie)	Nathalie is walking down the hallway and then suddenly hears a voice.	Nathalie	Dark
51	Nathalie gets scared	7	Hallway	Close up	Eye level		Nathalie jumps and looks left, right and behind her to find where the voice came from.	Nathalie	Dark
52	Nathalie continues	7	Hallway/Bathroom	Long shot	Eye level		Nathalie ignores the voice and continues and enters the bathroom.	Nathalie	Dark
53	Nathalie enters the bathroom	7	Bathroom	Medium	Eye level	Camera follows Nathalie	Nathalie walks into the bathroom and then into a cubical.	Nathalie	Dark
54	Nathalie hears the voices again	7	Bathroom	Long shot	High angled		Nathalie walks out of the cubical and begins washing her hands as she starts hearing the voices again.	Nathalie	Bathroom lighting
55	The voices get louder	7	Bathroom/Hallway	Long shot	High angled		Nathalie walks out of the bathroom and starts running as the voice starts calling, "Nathalie! Nathalie!"	Nathalie	Bathroom lighting
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