George Wing Television Blog

In terms of finding locations I did struggle to begin with. I wanted to film some scenes in a church, a house and of a care home but unfortunately, after contacting Kent  Film Office it became apparent that I would  be charged quite a lot to film in such locations. I therefore needed a change of plan. I could either change my plan completely and not film in any of these locations or I could travel back home and use resources I have there. The resolution was obvious. To ensure I could definitely organise these locations before I went back, I got in touch with the local church White Ladies Aston and ended up speaking to the vicar. He said he was happy with it but needed to contact the Church Wardens first and after speaking to them I received an email to confirm that I can film there. I then got in touch with a nearby care home, where I knew the manager. I got my mother to speak in person for me just to explain the details in persona and shortly after I received a co...

After creating my first script draft,  I've began thinking about how I'm going to film a two minute trailer based off the script. I wanted to ensure I could get actors before I focused on locations, and it was just as well I did given my locations ended up having to change. I discovered this website called 'Casting Call Pro' which allows filmmakers to put up posts and advertise acting roles and actors can chose to apply and send in a CV, showreel of previous work etc. This was useful to me in helping to decide on the best actors for this role. When setting off I imported my film company logo (Yager Films) which was just from my YouTube channel where I upload short films etc. that I make in my free time, and explained it was a student project to prevent any confusion when it came to people applying. I was pleasantly surprised to find after 24 hours I ave several applications in already, one of which had played dementia roles before. E ended up with two applications ...

After speaking with Steve Coombs I noticed I had several elements of my script that I needed to change. Once I got any formatting errors out of the way as pointed out in the first draft, we brainstormed some ideas. The brainstorm flowed well, and we were both able to come up with some really interesting ideas with as to how I could improve my script. For example, we discussed the idea of George taking William back to the home. Every care home has its escapist, and William could be that one, and George knows he is in a home. The numbers '6363' could be used throughout, and have significance. The audience hear these numbers in different situations but its never revealed the meaning behind them until a nurse asks how he escaped when the doors were locked. He then follows George back to the church and types in the code on the door 6363. An example of where this set of four numbers comes about could be when buying the newspaper in the shop. He asks if the paper and rice comes to £63...

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The second shoot day was relatively straight forward. I simply needed to film some indoor house shots. It was Williams morning routine and some establishing shots to gain an insight into Williams personalty; someones home says a lot about them. So I set off filming a dripping tap into a dirty sink, and packet of food with faces on them. I shot William coming down the stairs and putting his clothes on (Vicar attire). Shots like this just gave an insight into Williams character. I didn't film a radio shot in this shoot, but when I had to re-film after my work got deleted, I included a radio shot. After filming this I was fortunate enough to hear a broadcast on life and death which was really fitting to the piece so I recorded it to test if it would add to the piece. Filming the radio shot was made really effective by having William press the button but the shot would be from behind it. At first this didn't look effective because there was no visible button, but I decided to...

Today, I finished filming my film trailer. We started at 10:30 which was when the church was booked for and started off filming William walking down the road. I wanted it to be lighter outside when it cam to filming in the church and it was a dark morning. This worked in my favour as the natural lighting let in by the large windows made scene look less 'fuzzy' compared to the artificial lighting.  I did think this through before filming, and wanted to bring some bright LED lights, but with travelling on the train I felt it to be too much of a risk, incase they got broken given their fragile build. Luckily it did brighten up and by 11:20 I was able to film inside the church effectively. I did attempt to film a tracking shot around William for the final scene, but unfortunately despite filming several times it didn't look effective. This was disappointing as I felt it was a key shot, depicting how the church was once full, and is now empty. It was only ineffective as a result...