Final Film Poster

This is the final version of the Poster for our Film:

New Magazine/Poster Images

As mentioned before, Rhian has dropped out of the fil therefore we needed new images for the magazine and poster.

Here are some images taken at the graveyard for the magazine and poster:

 A grave- the main location the film is set in with the roses and card which are the main props used by both characters.

 The main character Hallie next to the grave with the roses. 

The other character- Claire with the roses on the grave and the card in her hand- the key props



The changes for the agazine will be that instead of one picture of both characters next to the grave, there will be two pictures of both character with their key props in costume. Also, Rhian name will no be replaced with Carolines for the cast.

The changes to the poster will be instead of Rhian leaning against the card, now Caroline will be placed there.

Rhian Drops Out- Caroline Steps in

Unfortunately, Rhian Vidler who was the main character (Hallie) of Practically Strangers has dropped out due to scheduling problems with us therefore she cannot film on the days that were available.

Caroline Braganza has now replaced Rhian and will play the part of Hallie. However, I, Payal Jaiprakash will be continuing to play the role of Claire.

New Cast

Caroline Braganza as Hallie/ Girl 1

Caroline was chosen to play the role of Hallie because she looks like an ordinary girl, age between 17-18. Her hair will be out so that she looks young and to suit the character of Hallie and  will play a convincing role and helps the audience to see the age of the characters actually are which already give a bit of background knowledge to the audience of their personality this would be through stereotypcial ways such as carrying a handbag/shoulder bag, wearing make up, hair out. In addition, she will be carrying roses throughout the film (as women are normally associated with flowers).

Caroline was also chosen to play this role because she also lives close to the shooting location and is available to film on the days that we can film.

Finding Non-Diagetic Sound

For the last week I have been searching through a freeplay music site in order to find background music for our film. It was quite hard as we were trying to find something that helps to put across the meaning and feeling of our film but also has an uplifiting and light-hearted feel. It took a very long while but after Wednesday and this morning I have narrowed it down to six. Some of which we are going to use in different scenes of our film. The six that I found are:

• Autumn Nights
• Elegy For One
• Brighter Day
• Should Have Known
• Hours Of Darkness
• Down And Out

Should Have Known will be used for the scenes when Payal's character, Hallie, enters the scene and will most probably play out towards the end of the film. We still need to decided where the other scores will be placed.

Test Shoot 2

Due to technical difficulties, this version became the second test shoot. We tried filming again, this time with roses, changing the look of our main character. However whilst uploading the footage onto the computers we realised there was a fault. When viewing the footage on the computer, the speed was increased and could not be reduced and we also noticed several mistakes (such as the tripod in the scene). Therefore we decided to do the filming again a third time.

Test Shoot 1

This is the first version for the test shoot, as mentioned before we encountered many problems during the production stage. This video is from the first time we started to film. As at this point we did not have any roses so we used a teddy bear for the film instead. As the location was close to home it was easier to shoot in Brentford. However as Chiswick is further away we had less time to shoot there as it would begin to get dark earlier and so there were timing issues with the cast

We film various shots to see which would be the best to use during post production.

At this point we also did not have any bus stop shots as they were harder to film because of public access and there were people walking past and we decided that we would change the location of the bus stop shots and have them in Chiswick instead of at Brentford so that we can easily show  the E3 bus which both characters will get on. There is no voice-over or any scores added yet, as we will add these for the final version.The quality for this video has been compressed as it is not our final version. Some shots such as the card have not been added because we did not have the photo of Adam so we could not add it onto the card. So there is no close up of the card that reveals the picture.

During post production we decided to change the following things:
-The main character Hallie would have her hair out to make look her like an 18 year old
-The roses will still be used even though we couldn't use them at this point
-We would add bus stop shots
-There will be more close ups and other angles for the final film compared to the storyboard
-We would keep the grave (so it doesn't look to old) and the other locations we were using as we thought it was appropriate for the film
-The card will have a picture of the three characters with one crossed out to added another twist that both characters actually know each other and still chose to ignore each other at the Bus stop

Evaluation Of Production stage

Throughout the last few weeks. We have were filming our short film. However, we en-counted a few problems. The main problem is that we now have to use the majority of the footage we had filmed as our test shoots. Therefore we now have two test shoots instead of one. The main problem that we en-counted was scheduling. Our main cast member, Rhian, who we had cast as Hallie, was not available during our original shooting schedule that we had set. This was because she had gone away for the half term. This set us back and meant that we would then have to film on weekends and after school. However, we then found the problem was that due to the season change we couldn't film all of shots for our film. This was because it became darker around cpm.

Another problem was the fact that during our film test shoot. Rhian's hair was Blonde and her costume was different. This also caused a problem the second time around because it meant that we couldn't use the shots that she was in due to the change in hair color and hairstyle. After re-filming after our first test shoot, Payal was cast as Hallie. This was because we could not find anyone we felt best suited the part of Claire for the film. The second time around, I was cast as Hallie but we found that the shot types we used in the first test shoot did not work as well as we thought that they would. So we then decided to keep the original casting as we had had in the first test shoot. What we had then found during the second test shoot was when the footage was uploaded, some of the shots were running faster than others. The problem couldn't be solved so we then had to re-shoot for the final time.

We are now currently at the last stage of filming. We have approximately 3 more scenes to do. Hopefully within the next week, we should have all the shots for our film.