Barry and Sean 40 Second Pilot
Here is the first 40 seconds of my films. Am fairly happy with the flow of the film though think I might to film again with better lighting and sound.Will also be creating my own music similar to that heard so to avoid copyright.

Shooting the film
So far have been having a pretty hard time getting this done partly due to general lack of organisation but mainly because of unreliable actors. Both the actors I am using to play my two main characters Barry and Sean are definitely perfect for the parts; my friend Tom Carter (Barry) is a drama student at NCN college in Nottingham who has much acting experience as well as not being a whole lot different from Barry himself, is absolutely perfect for the part giving a whole new dimension to the character. However he is also the most unreliable forgetful person I've ever known; so finding a convenient time to film is fairly difficult, and when I do he has problems remembering his lines.
The part of Sean is being played by Steve Biggs from Nottingham Uni who although is not an actor,is literally a hippy and considering the part does not consist of many lines, I felt this would be fine. Problem is Steve can't do filming during the daytime due to a busy course timetable and can only do weekend daytime filming.....which seems to be a very difficult time to hire equipment out.
So currently still have a fuck loada work to do although should have enough basic footage to produce the 40-second pilot for next week to give a basic feel for the film. Meant to have filmed all footage by now so contemplating whether to just find a replacement actor for Sean who is more readily available or to wait until after Easter to film when daylight lasts longer.

Frameforge

I found this program fairly useful in visualising what my film would look like and getting a feel for how camera set-up and sets should look before filming. However I was only able to get a copy of a basic version so what I was able to do was a bit limited as there are nowhere near as many props and materials available, as well as being much harder to use than the newer version. Here are some keyframe visualisations from each scene.

Storyboard

Found this extremely tedious to do even though my drawings were very basic, drawing the same picture over and over again was very boring, however having a storyboard has proved to be an extremely helpful aid for reference when filming. May do these again using Frameforge now that I know how to use it properly.

Final Script
After weeks of procrastination I have finally settled on a final script and managed to figure out exactly what I need to film. I found the seminars Dena and Chris extremely useful in generating ideas and making my story more interesting and meaningful. I managed to successfully update the script with these ideas to create a narrative which I was generally much happier with. However as I began filming my first scene last week it became apparent that the film was likely to nearly double the 6 minute limit I was given for this project; also my supposed deadline for filming was near; therefore temporary sacrifices had to be made to the script.
It is still pretty much the same story,but ends a bit more abruptly.Really not liking these time limit restrictions, have to sacrifice quality for no apparent reason,but then I suppose TV shows have to do the same.