Coffee Cup - Filming Blog

Monday

We got given the brief for ‘The Coffee Cup’ this morning, and firstly we had to choose a quote. In a group, Tasha, Rob M, Rob S and I, each chose our favourite saying from a song or poem. We then put them together and chose which one we thought would work best.

We finally settled with “Ticket to nowhere” from the song ‘Fast Car’ by Tracey Chapman.

We started to plan, creating a storyboard and shot list about a man and women in a car, who are lost and the man refuses to ask for directions. We decided that the location would need to be somewhere that looked deserted, like a country lane, but also somewhere that we were allowed to film and therefore settled on the Industrial estate/Ski Slope at Marsh Mills. We will travel there tomorrow and start filming at about 10am. I also rang the slopes Duty manager Helen Ambler to get permission to film and she agreed.

Tuesday

We got to college at 9.20am and booked out all our equipment from the ERC:

• A tripod
• A Reflector

We didn’t need to book anything else out because Rob M already had a Cannon 550D and a pocket dolly to take with us.

We left College at 10am after finalising shot lists and the storyboard and arrived at the Ski Slope at 10.20am. After a quick chat with Louisa, the Main manager of the slope, she allowed us to use the ambulance track, which resembles a lost country lane and this would mean that nobody would disturb us.

In all it took about four hours to film everything that we wanted, and we added a few shots it to create more of a Mise-on-scene. We also experimented with shots that we could create because we were using a single camera technique.

Thursday

Today we looked at the part of editing Rob M had completed on Wednesday and then each gave our input on parts that we wanted to include or take out. We changed the piece a little from the storyboard, but I think that this was a good choice because the parts we changed were unnecessary and were replaced with bits that added to the whole atmosphere of the Coffee Cup. We then handed the work in and started to write our evaluations.