A policeman called me Unfit!

So today MS, PG and PM, got down to doing some filming of some shots today we did some shots of a chase and the crash against the wall. I had to be an actor, as we couldnt get anyone else. So We had the legend himself Jonathan (Jonny) Nesbitt dressed up as an MI5 agent and me in a hoody running away and being pushed against a wall.

So we were filming on the side road next to the town hall, with a police car parked outside (probs protecting it from us ugly, badly-dressed student rabble. But yes after a few takes with Patrick producing a smooth hand held shot while riding along on his bike while Jonny chased after me. So yes a police man got out of his car to check what we were doing, had to explain several times, not a 'TEACHER Trailer' but a teaser trailer, he then said something about covering the camera with a line of T shirts or something ( He May of Recognized us from the protests)..  Then he decided to say I was Unfit.. How rude!!


But yes this post is just to tell you we managed to get some good shots done today. Thank you Jonny for helping us out, I would of normally got a picture of the filming process, but I didn't. I apologise.


Peaceful protest! MS

Prop list (First)

So here is a first list of our props that we are going to require (so far) for shooting our film:
Bomb - Circuit board, phone(sim card), Breif case, Clay (or similar thing), Digital clock display, Wires, Battery, soldering Iron (to make bomb with), fuse, cyclinder(type things), Silver foil, modelling tools.

Phone - phonebox?, mobile phone, old style phone, voice changer

Table for Patrick basement.. to make the bomb.

I.D cards/ profile files/ suspect photos

Sugar glass bottle if possible.

CCTV screen/ or screen to do it.
Wicked Sick-CW and [enter something here to give something to my initials] -MS

London clips

After looking through the clips we took in London I picked out a few that I thought we would be able to use and these are below:

















PG

Bomb, and how we are going to make it

So i drew up this diagram of how i am going to create a replica bomb for out filming, I added a bit of humor, Im not actually going to leave it anywhere, You can call off the police. But this is the plan of how i am going to make it. The choice of materials should be quite easy to find and PG and MS are cannibalising a Laptop as i type this. The bomb prop should be finished before the end of the week!

Serial Suicide bomber, CW

Videos from London.

Not the real footage, but MY footage, to visually show Patrick the ideas I had in my head. So here they are for you to see my mind as well.



We originally thought a pan up/down would be ideal, like in a way of, it could be this building, or this one, only the bomber knows, but it was only when filming we realized it would be better to do a pan around shot to show to show the devastation the bomb would cause if it went off in any one of these buildings.. which are below..



For some reason, my phone decided to freeze, mid filming. Clever phone.



Obviously these shots are far too long for a teaser trailer, So Patrick and I, decided it would be good to speed up the shot, or just flash part of it up randomly in the teaser. The shot could also represent a man looking up at all the building trying to find the right building, and realising the difficulty of the task ahead.

kerching - MS

Photos in Londonia.

Soo basically right, as Patrick has already blogged about our trip to London, I thought for all you nonbelievers out there, that I will provide evidence of our trip and filming (and that we werent just watching the rubbish Man Utd game in a Canary Wharf pub with some right cockney geezers. So here is evidence, as shot on my phone, obviously not going to be used as the footage in the film, But I thought it would be good for me to do some camera work as well to show my AMAZING skills and to give an idea of the shots we want.

We did kinda get stopped by security, for filming fronts of buildings (silly law) but managed to persuade them to let us continue, We were clever enough not to give away the plot line of our film, or the outcome might of not been the same.

So we arrived in Canary Wharf to get some shots, for our teaser and literally as soon as getting off the tube, this sight was to meet us. The right type of buildings we had imagined would be perfect for our teaser.

I thought I should just take a picture of Patrick doing a pan down of the buildings. We originally did a pan down/up but later found out looked better to do a pan around.

Directing Patrick on what shots we could include, not that he needs it.

We thought it would be a good idea, if we showed trains along side the buildings, to represent, busyness and that a journey is going to take place.

More buildings from a different shot

Another.. .building.

Lining up another shot.

MORE..Buildings

Samsung Omnia is useless-MS

Shots from London

Our long day in London included a detour due to the underground maintenance work, though I feel we selected the right area for the shots we wanted to get of tall business buildings. I have now downloaded all the shots we took and looked at all of them to see which are the best. I feel we definitely have at least 4 or 5 really good shots that we can work with.

We also took a few pics on my phone to document (the start of) our trip:



Matty trying to look intelligent



Me trying to wake up!



Some digital posters on the roundabout at Shepherds Bush for the new Harry Potter film

PG

On the way to London

Currently Matty and I are on the bus on the way to London to do our first bit of filming. We are going to Canary Wharf to try and get some good location shots and Matty has also noticed there is a show for the lord mayor which may allow us to get a good shot of crowds.

PG and hail to the bus driver-MS