Sunday, 7 December 2014

Production Update

Today I managed to complete the remaining scenes meaning I have now finished taking pictures ready for my opening title sequence.

At first I thought that I wasn’t going to be able to get the pictures of Jimmy leaving, whereby he has to walk across a field, as the weather was awful. It was hail stoning and the rain was very heavy. Luckily, this passed over and we were fortunate to be able to complete this scene. Initially, I stated that this will be done on Wythenshawe Park however there were a number of football matches going on so we decided to use the field at Timperley Cricket Club. I took a range of shots including:
  • A close up of Jimmy’s feet walking
  • A long shot of Jimmy walking away (his back to the camera)
  • A long shot of Jimmy turning to face Maggie and Blake
  • A Long shot of Maggie and Blake together as they watch Jimmy walk away
I started to take pictures of Maggie and Blake from the right hand side of them but there was a stall selling Christmas trees in the background therefore I had to take these pictures from the left hand side but this change did not have any effect.  

Right hand side:

Left hand side:

By the time I and the characters were ready to do the scene where Jimmy sees his mother and Blake arguing in the window the weather had brightened up so I worried whether the sun would reflect on the window meaning I couldn’t see Maggie and Blake in the window. Luckily, this did not happen so I was able to see them arguing in the window clearly.

The final scene was where Maggie (Jimmy’s mother) is comforting Jimmy after he has been to visit his biological father’s grave. This was done in my living room. The first two pictures I took were with the flash on however this made the images very bright and harsh therefore I decided to turn the flash off and use the natural lighting.

With the flash on:

With the flash off:

Finally, I decided to take a picture (a long shot) of some holiday homes at Agden Brow as I thought this shot would look good on my DVD front cover as it would show the background of Jimmy’s life and give the audience some incline that he is a Gypsy as they usually gravitate to these kind of areas and living spaces.

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