Day one of filming!
The first filming location you see in the film is my house; It opens with depressed Tallman is reading a comic book. For this I had to move a few things in my living room so I could fit all that I wanted in shot. As you can see in the story board (yet to be uploaded) you can see that its opens with a tracking shot of picture frames with Tallman in them helping cats down from trees and Tallman hugging his now ex girlfriend. But after I gave it more thought about it I decided to change how it opens as you can see in the new story board(yet to be uploaded) I decided to use an old wolverine comic book and stick my cover over the top. I also made use of the fact that Tallman at this point is a slob so I used a jar of marmalade and a couple of beer cans as props. On these two items I put the “Directed by” and “Davide Hodgson-Lorente” to make it a little bit different to the normal titles.
Seeing I filmed this in Late Autumn/early winter it was getting quite dark and fast so I had to film the outside scene before I filmed the inside scene even though it’s in the wrong order. This does look kind of weird because It goes from being really dark to being really light as of when he walks through the door. If I was to do this again I would defiantly try and film through the whole day, while there still is light. For the “transformation” scene I used a smoke machine, smoke being typical to the comic book genre and it looks good too.
For the shot of Tallman jumping up the building it was composed of two fast cuts, one being a close up on his feet jumping and the other his body floating up the side of the building. I managed to make it look like it was Tallman jumping up the side of the building by making my actor take off his suit and I stuffed it with towels. While I was downstairs finding the right angle to make him look “normal” my actor was dangling the costume from my bedroom window.
Day two of filming!
For this part of the film I wanted a roof and the only place I could think of that had a flat roof that was open to the public was the multi-storey car park. It took several attempts to get filming permission for this location. I went to the site office a couple of times but found it was closed and also the phone lines were broken so I had to go on a weekday straight after school and speak to the manager about what I wanted to do. I was quite lucky in the fact that I got filming permission; they refused another group from another school filming permission the day before. I was given one hour filming permission as long as I wore a High visibility jacket.
I had several problems with actors because on the day I wanted to film it turns out my actress was doing a drama workshop which she couldn’t get out of. I would of filmed with another actress but they were all in drama and I had already used Chloe the actress I wanted in a shot on the first day of filming (The picture Tallman is holding).
After all this I actually managed to get filming! This sequence was tall man landing and fighting off the evil villain to retrieve his damsel in distress. I brought a table were most of the intense duelling was going to happen. This is how Tallman jumps into the frame, I had the table on the side and the camera low down so that it was easy for my actor to re-do this shot several times.
The last shot you see with the shadows wasn’t planned it was just on the day when we were filming it the shadows were in the right place and it looked pretty funny but also quite good.
This is the almost finished product, I have the finished product on Imovie but im having some problems saving it, but once I have it, it shall replace this one. Enjoy
Reactions To: The Adventures Of TallMan!
Does the narrative make sense?
1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Not really
Did you like it?
1.Yes
2.Yes
3.Yes
4.Yes
Weaknesses?
1. Actor looks at camera
2. Lighting.
3. spinning wrong way
4. Spinning continuity and No dialogue
Good points?
1. Music, props and it was funny
2. Location and original
3. Well edited and Unique
4. good props and effects I.E. ‘Directed by’ also good music.
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