CONSTRUCTING: LIGHTING FAILURE

Today we tried filming our first scene of our opening which included our Heston Blumenthal inspired chef preparing recipes for the restaurant. However, as we were filming we found the lighting was so bad we couldn't even see the face of the actor. As a result, we moved to an area which gave us sufficient lighting to film

Bad lighting

re-capturing the same scene (better lighting)

CONSTRUCTION: COSTUMERS

Today we started filming the costumers who appear in our restaurant opening. This included the fat girl with her mother and the biker boys. We placed a green screen in the background of our shot which will allow us after filming, to go back an edit into a  restaurant background. We also placed menus posters around our scenery setting to really emphasise and bring out the restaurant name. 

Biker Boys

Close up of fat girl picking at her teeth

CONSTRUCTION: ZEST OPENING SCENE

Location filming in Esher of ZEST establishing shot outside restaurant. Ellie, Esme and I went down to Esher to film the first bit of our opening scene. We set up the camera on the other side of the road for filming the opening shot of Esme walking into the shot.

In this scene we have the Australian female gap year student who  is arrives outside the restaurant. As she approaches the restaurant she checks her phone to verify the location in which she then appears to enter. We have close ups of the restaurant window, advertising board etc to provide us with sufficient material for cut away shots. 

PLANNING: TITLE

This is our edited title of our restaurant. We are going to place posters of this image around our scenery setting and on our menus to really emphasize and bring out our restaurant name.

LOCATION

Zest Call Sheet - A2 MEDIA STUDIES CALL SHEET

SHOOT DAY: FEBRUARY ONWARS
LOCATION:HIGH ST. ESHER, SURREY KT10, UK

WE TRAVELED TO OUR LOCAL TOWN, ESHER, TO OUR CHOSEN LOCATION, "COTE" TO FILM THE FIRST SCENE WHICH CONSISTS OF DANI (OUR GAP YEAR STUDENT) ENTERING THE RESTAURANT SHE IS ABOUT TO WORK IN FOR THE SUMMER

11:45 TO 13:))

CAMERA EQUIPMENT:

- HD CAMERA (CANNON D550)
-CANNON CAMERA
-TO BATTERIES
-1 MEMORY CARE (16GB)
-TRIPOD STAND
CAMERA BAG AND PROTECTING LENS
COLLAPSIBLE DOLLY

PROPS:
SAMSUNG PHONE

WARDROBE:
COSTUME (ESME FINNCH)DANI
OUTFIT 1- BLACK AND BLUE DIESEL JACKET, BOHEMIAN SCARF GREEN AND GREY, SAND DESERT BOOTS, BLACK TIGHTS AND WHITE SHIRT

PLANNING:TITLES

Today we did a bit of background research into how we were going to construct and present our titles. We looked at Art of the Title and observed how different movies had presented their titles. We looked at a couple of movie openings including James Bond and To Kill a Mockingbird. This gave us some ideas into how to use our creativity to make the titles interesting. For example, in James Bond Casino Royal they presented their title sequences on playing cards, guns and money ( three major themes in the movie). We decided we wanted to use food (our major theme) to compose our titles.

Food Inc gave us inspiration into how we were going to assemble our titles. Food Inc places their titles onto different food objects which we plan to do in ours.

PLANNING:LOCATION

These are the pictures we took from the interior of the restaurant. Unlike the other restaurant, this one showed qualities and characteristics that resembled our cafe like atmosphere we are trying to achieve. Although we are not using the interior of this restaurant to film, we have taken into account the qualities that make it a cafe and applying it to our own scene.