Challenges of Shooting Apparition - Craig

I personally had the problem of being the least available during the week. This meant that I wasn't able to go and help with the shooting of the first part of the sequence. I also had to take time off from a lesson to go and shoot for the other part of the sequence. The travelling to the locations themselves also took a lot of planning and certain back-up travel arrangements had to be made. The co-operation and separation into our individual roles in the production was a small challenge at first but was soon overcome. Because of time and unavailability, lots of work had to be done elsewhere and we had to rely on each other to get certain things done as a group. We did however all pull together as a group and get the work done, quickly and efficiently.

Challenges of Shooting Apparition - Will

One of the biggest problems was  getting everyone in the camera shot that gave the right effect to the audience. One example is when Craig is acting in the scene and Addam appears.  Another challenge of shooting Apparition was agreeing on the camera shots.  One example of this was in the graveyard scene, i thought that a 5 second concentrated shot on the flowers then a slow fade into the home scene would be appropriate and effective, however my colleagues adapted a different camera shot.  They had a shot of Addam placing the flowers on the grave and walking out into the distance. This concentrates the camera on the man and not on the flowers which gives a similar effect.

Challenges of Shooting Apparition - Rebecca

The biggest problem was finding times when we are all there to shoot - there were a lot of times when only three of us could make it.
The other big challenge was getting there and back because we all live so far apart, which rules out shooting on weekends.

Challenges of Shooting Apparition - Addam

Personally with shooting our project I found that providing locations was an easy task as we only needed two locations which were easy to gain permission.   One huge challenge I think affects all of us is the time we can actually shoot this project as everyone has such difficult timetables and days where we all need to be at a location some of us cannot make it.   Travel arrangements was another challenge which we occurred as being in one place at a single time for everyone to be together and also to get someone to take us to a location was quite stressful.   Together we have managed to overcome these problems just in time and should be able to produce some great work.

Apparition - The Full Story

Augustus Harper begins appearing for Dave Jones, Patricia Smith, Sunny Day and Michael Smelton, the only thing connecting them being the death of the bus driver Pepe Rodriguez (who is believed to have fallen asleep at the wheel). Harper tells the characters that he died in the bus crash, but this is not true.
Michael Smelton is investigating the death of Rodriguez, believing he was murdered. He is helped with the case by Augustus Harper, and eventually finds the killer. Sunny Day over comes her drug addiction and Patricia Smith deals with her depression. Dave Jones helps to mend his parents’ relationship.
At the end of the film, Augustus Harper asks Michael Smelton to look at the Rodriguez case files again. He sees his name listed, as well as Dave Jones, Patricia Smith and Sunny Day in the list of crash casualties. Augustus Harper is not listed.

How are you going to market the film? - Rebecca Gibson

Our target audience


Our target audience is anyone over the age of 12, as this is what we would aim to get as an age rating for our film, but our target audience is really young people (15 - 25) who enjoy watching thriller films.
I believe that thriller as a film genre is quite specific, in the sense that thriller movies can't be enjoyed by everyone - therefore they don't tend to have as wide a target audience.


How are we going to market our film?


We would market our film with promotional posters, trailers, and teaser trailers.


Possible Promotional Posters

Lesson by lesson plan

Wednesday 29th February - Filming Graveyard scene
Monday 27th February - Sound and Blog posts (logo blog post, imdb analysis)
Friday 24th February - Editing and arranging transport for Wednesday
Wednesday 22nd February- Filming the house scene
Tuesday 21st February - Arranging Transport for house shoot
Monday 20th February - Blog Posts (Shooting Schedule)
Friday 17th February - Garageband
Tuesday 14th February- Initial Gargeband testing/initial planning of filming location.
Friday 10th February - Blog Post. Writing Shot List
Tuesday  7th February - Editing the test shot.
Monday 6th February - Arranging Test shot and filming test shot.
Friday 3rd February - Blog posts (Conventions and camera shot examples, storyboard, different thriller titles)
Tuesday 31st January - Initial rough Apparition test shoot and initial thriller ideas.
Monday 30th January - Blog Posts. Logo designs.
Tuesday 24th January - 20th January - Blog Posts. Opening Sequence analysis'.
17th January - 14th January - Blog posts. Conventions posts.
January 6th - Thriller preliminary Task.