Vampyren Production Log

Tuesday 21st March
Yesterday we began the pre-production treatment for the vampyren production as a began creating a storyboard based of a copy of Ben's script which I have completed today along with an audition form for the actors to fill out.

Wednesday 22nd March
Today we have completed our auditions for the pre-production stage of 'vampyren' which brings closer to filming the short-film, we auditioned a number of actors such as Charlotte, Lucy, Dylann and Dan who showed promise as a member of the chosen cast

Thursday 23rd March
Today we have collected our cast for the production stage and are a hair away from completing Pre-production, so far today I have printed out and completed the release forms for the actors brining us closer to filming our first day, next week.

Ben has completed a number of stuff that I could not start without such as the storyboard, risk assessments for both locations and location recces.

Monday 26th March
Today I have filled out an equipment list that covers all seven scenes in Ben script for the short-film we are filming on Wednesday 28th March

Production - Day 1: Wednesday 28th march
Today we have completed the filming for the majority of scenes but leaving out scene 1 & 3 to be filmed another day. Ben was the director of this project, Thomas was the Assistant director for Ben and I was behind the camera, the actors themselves gave one hell of a performance as they played their roles well and staying to the script for the production. Among the collected footage we managed to grab a couple of bloopers which might be used in the Blooper reel.

The only problems I had today was that Thomas was sort of pushy trying to press record on the camera to collect bloopers when we needed to conserve the battery leaving the reserve battery for emergencies but each negative has it's positives as the day ended well and everybody was happy with their performances.

Production - Day 2: Tuesday 3rd April
Today we are finishing the day with the filming of scene 1 & 3 which we have Lucy and Dylann as our cast and the same roles which applied to the crew, however I have caused issues to the shooting by forgetting to take my SD card out of my laptop when I was sending Ben the footage for the 1st day of production the week before which left me with the SD card shells causing Ben to have to buy his own. However the production took us an 2hrs to finish and are now waiting for the finished project to view and upload to my channel and to this Blog.


Throughout the production of vampyren we mainly used the scripts to find the right angle for the scene and actions showed on screen.

throughout the production of vampyren we went through the pre-production paperwork which was listed on the pre-production checklist, we all did different amounts of paperwork which was crucial to the production such as storyboards and audition forms and feedback sheets to assess the actors who auditioned for certain roles however they weren't used as we used footage to assess the actors/ actresses instead. During the beginning of our production me, Thomas, Taylor, Charlotte got a lift of Dylann whilst Lucy got the train to Redcar as both Ben and Dan lived in Redcar and lived close to where the production took place, we all arrived safely to the location whilst we sat and waited for Lucy and Dan to turn up whilst Charlotte and Dylann went over the script.

When everybody turned up we began to film as Ben managed the crew quite well telling them how he could imagine the scene and how the actors should react to it (for example: scene 6). other than an issue from me the resource management was well put together as ben had all of the necessary props such as a homemade cross, binoculars, and the bag with other props inside. The locations where also put together brilliantly as the use of his grandma's house and his friends house helped to build the scene and show the class and personality of the characters shown in the film.

The Schedule set up was professional as it gave us the time frame we where filming and breaks if there were any and the time to be back on set and prepared to continue filming. The shoot was very professional as everything was set up ready for the actors arrival and anything we weren't using was moved to a safe place whilst everything else that was used was placed in the location that made sense and looked relevant to scene and the actions taking place.

Coming into the second day I forgot to take the micro sd card out of my laptop to put into the shell which caused problems with the shoot, however before shooting, me, ben and Thomas went to Tesco's to buy another SD card to use in the shooting other than that problem we didn't have any other problems throughout the shooting which went smoothly.

There weren't many areas the production needed to improve other than more research for props, and a mind map which could be use to show the make up artist what it was Ben was wanting for makeup.

Director Study - Jon Favreau (The Future of Film & TV)

Name: Jon 'Kolia' Favreau
Age: 51
Debut: Swingers
Debut Role: Co-producer


Jon Favreau is an American director who has progressed to strong mainstream visibility into the millennium.He earned another role in the 1993 movie ' Rudy' and met fellow castmate Vince Vaughn where their personal friendship would play an instrumental role in furthering both their professional careers within just a few years. In 1997, Jon appeared favourably on several popular sitcoms and also appeared on the 'Tracy Takes On...' comedy series. Jon went on to re-team favourably with his friend, Vince Vaughn, who enjoyed a meteoric rise into the comedy star ranks, in such lightweight features such as the 2006 'The Break-Up', 'Four Christmases'  (2008), and 'Couples Restraint' (2009).

He has commonly been now known for his work within the ironman films (2008- 2013) and has also been known as Tony Starks Head "forehead" of security and best friend theought.


Jon went on to re-team favourably with his friend, Vince Vaughn (who enjoyed rise into the comedy star ranks) in such light-weight features as the break-up (2006)

Camera Operator - Job Application

I am looking to apply for the role of camera operator.


When filming I can help operator the camera completely options, menus, etc. which can seriously come in handy for the for those who are looking for live visual effects. For the short-film I can help create meaning from angles and height of the camera to show dominant positions of the characters and object they are looking to film. I am very patient and clam when coming scenes that require a long filming time required for the character or object on set. I can work peacefully with the crew and cast on set and can pay good attention to their position on the set before shooting the scenes.


I am able to collaborate with the crew on set and can be very helpful if someone need a second opinion of certain scenes for their short films which may require a more in  depth visual effects for the crew.

Short-film task 05/03/2018 (3 Act structure)

ACT 1


A small car passed hastily along an empty road as Amelia, Chloe and James reached the edge of town, Amelia played a sweet soothing melody on her guitar as James focused on the road whilst listening out for the rude irritating sat nav to give directions and turns. The trio arrived at their new dwelling as a tall man stood waiting for their arrival. the three left the car all taking individual routes, James leaving the left hand side of the car, Amelia leaving the from the back and Chloe leaving from the right where the man was stood. "Hi, my name is Murv, it's a pleasure to meet you", Murv stuck his hand out slowly greeting the trio before he showed them around the facility, the time passed as the tour came to a stop as Murv asked for questions about the apartment as they shook their heads as Murv handed the James the keys and congratulated them as he left.












I can envisage act 1 from a mixed number of shots using both aerial shots and a use of cut conversation shots between the three characters, the aerial shot will show the distance between the characters and their destination, also it will show how isolated they are from society in both a physical sense and an emotional sense. When the characters arrive at the house I'm going to use a long shot so that the audience can get a glimpse of the house which shows their social standing, this shot will cut to a mid shot of Murv and James aligned with the left and right rule of thirds giving the characters looking room and not short sighting them creating a bad composition.


Later on in the film (act 2) I am going to use high angled shots to show the dominance of the demon in the house, the lighting should be dark (dark blue) so the audience can still see the actors but it still gives of the correct lighting for the scene. I could possibly use natural lighting to get this effect or the small camera light to maybe reflect the moon. With this scene i am also going to use canted angles to show that there is something mysterious going on and that not everything is as it seems.