CONSTRUCTION: Filming in London

First visit to London 29/12/17

On our first visit to London we came to my father’s office, Comast Construction. It was during the Christmas break to it was empty and meant we could be free where we filmed. We shot 2 scenes in the office that day. The first was the scene when we showed our newspaper prop which I created and the second was the balcony scene when I was plotting. In addition, we also filmed a quick shot scene of me preparing a tea.

Once we arrived at the office we got dressed into our suits and began setting up our created props such as Max’s Robotica name plaque. We used different angles when filming to ensure the audience knows we are working in a proper office and not a decorated classroom as we wanted to make our film look professional.

Second visit to London 22/01/18

On our second visit to London we needed to film a scene of Martin Beethan (Max) on the phone, cinematic shots of him on a bench, making a phone call followed by watching the advert and Tony (Tom) steal Rick (Richie) with Luke (Luca).

We started off by bringing the drone into London and filming in a quiet park where we wouldn’t disturb anyone. The shots we got looked great and after that was done we went to another park nearer my dad’s office came to my father’s office where we filmed Martin watching the Robotica Advert.  

Soon after we finished filming we waited a little bit for it to get darker, this is when we got ready to film the stealing Rick scene. We used a mattress cover (same one used in the altering Rick scene) to wrap Rick up to make it out that he was “new”. Furthermore, we also used a large Box Sack Truck to wheel Rick on as it looked more professional than just making him walk or carry him.

Editing and additional information

·      We filmed our scenes with a cannon 750D as well as Dji Phantom 3 Professional Drone and I edited with iMovie

·      When editing the office scene, I added in office ambience sound effects which involved people talking, phones ringing, typing as well as other “office atmosphere” noises. Moreover, I used other sound effects such as a ringing phone and a hang up button sound which I downloaded off YouTube using the YouTube-to-Mp3 converter.

·      For music I downloaded some royalty free tracks off Epidemic Sound which is a copyright free music platform full of different tunes for different genres.

·      We filmed the majority of our dialogue with our iPhones using the voice memo app and once recorded we airdropped them onto my laptop where I would import them to iMovie.