The Vow Of Chastity

The vow of chastity is made up of ten rules.

These rules consists of -

1. Filming must be shot on location, Props and sets should not be brought in.

2. The sound must never be produced apart from the images or vice versa.

3. The camera must be hand held. Any movement or immobility attainable in the hand is permitted.

4. The film must be in colour. Special lighting is not acceptable.

5. Optical work and filters are forbidden.

6. The film must not contain any superficial action. (Such as weapons, murder etc)

7. Temporal and geographical alienation are forbidden. (That is to say that the film takes place here and now.)

8. Genre movies are not acceptable.

9. The film format must be Academy 35 mm.

10. The director must not be credited.

First Practise Filming for our Thriller

Only one member of our group went out filming this was Charlie. This is because myself and Mairead were unable to attend because of a variety of reasons.

Charlie filmed two chase shots which consisted of him holding the video camera whilst running in order to give the scene a tense atmosphere. The shots were relatively good but were maybe a bit too dark which resulted in poor quality shots which were not very clear. The person who was being chased could not be seen very well because of the darkness. These shots may have to be shot again in a more brighter setting in order to get a better quality of video. Charlie filmed on the 15th/16th of January at around 7.00pm when it was already relatively dark. Charlie filmed down an alley which is close to where he lives. The alley was a good place to film because it sets the genre of action thriller and promotes mystery to the scene. Our group had also planned the chase scene occurring in an alley. Charlie filmed with one of his friends. His friend was the character being chased and Charlie filmed the point of view shots of the character chasing the other character. One of Charlies problems whilst filming was that the camera ran out of battery power which resulting in the filming to be delayed whilst he charged the battery.

When uploading the footage we were unable to upload it to the schools Mac books. This was because the software did not support the high video quality. We over came this problem by using Charlie's Mac book Pro to upload the footage for the time being whilst the software on the schools Mac books is being fixed.

First Draft of Animatic

This is the first copy of our animatic it is reasonably accurate to our short list but still needs some editing.