Myself and Sid both had a meeting with the director of Petal Child. With the shooting process taking place next week it was vital for us to sit down and go through the film, get details about locations and shots, to plan how we are going to capture the sound and determine the equipment will will be needing.
After discussion it may be very difficult to get the boom microphone in on certain shots, due to lighting reflects and multiple cameras moving. Therefore to resolve this, we will be radio miking all of the actors as well as placing some hidden mics on set.
Here is some of the diagrams of the sets we overlooked…
I also wanted to discuss specific details so we have a better sense of timing and can plan the process better.
- The deadline for this film is the 5th May, however the Director, Jane has said ideally this would be in for the week before that.
- A rough edit will be done by the 15th March, the edit without special effects will be done by the 20th March, and the edit with the special fx/animations should be completed by the end of the easter break (beginning of April.)
- We have arranged to visit some of the locations. One of the spaces is a garage, therefore we want to make sure the the space isn’t to reverby, if so we will need to plan a way to tackle the dilemma
- The mixing desk in the film studio only records into a stereo feed into the camera. This means we will need to record externally using a recorder. Therefore this will need to be clapper boarded to sync the dialogue up with the picture.
Today I attended a couple more meetings around the film. The first was a tutorial with the Petal Child’s project tutorial. I also met with a second year AP students and he agreed to assist me with the second film regarding location and post-production.