Filming update

Update

Today we were getting to re-film a school scene that involved Ben Hunter. However last night we had heavy snow and our school was closed. Hopefully we will be able to return to school on Monday, refill and edit by Wednesday ready to send our film off for the competition.

Here is an image on the snow which stopped filming today.

Media Competition - Zoom Young Film Awards 2013.

We have entered a media competition for the 'best trailer' category. We had to fill out an application where we had to explain our trailer in 30 words. Here is what we came up with:

"Boys Village, where the girls come to play. A controversial new soap that follows the lives of seven young adults through parties, pills and puberty."

Cast List and Charater' Names

We have now given our characters names:

Ben Hunter - Atticus
Zak Rossaye - Seb
Brandon Frowen - Nate
Karl Deacy - Asher
Hannah Parker - Cassie
Nia Jones - Dixie
Paige Rees - Pippa

here is our end image that publicises our new soap

Update

Now we have completed all of our editing, we have to play around with titles and a voice over for the last shot of our trailer. We have an English teacher who has an English accent who we would like to say 'Boy's Village, brand new british drama, coming soon to E4.' We have chosen him as he doesn't have a welsh accent, and will make the trailer applicable to all teenage audiences and not just a welsh one. we want to include the E4 logo,  'new british drama, coming soon to E4,' our title 'Boys Village' and our tag line 'where the girls come to play.'

Editing

Due to the schools network being down all week, today was the first day we were able to get our filmed footage on the mac computers and start editing. The footage is looking really good, we're hoping to finish a rough draft of our trailer together by the end of the Christmas term (20th December)

Filming update 3.0

Sunday was our last filming day in our final location. At a last minute we changed the location to our back up at Ogmore Castle, due to timings and some of our actors having commitments in the afternoon. This was not a problem though.
When we got to Ogmore Castle there were quite a few people enjoying days out with their families, we made sure to approach them and explain what we were doing. Everyone was very helpful and stood out of the way of our filming.
Due to the nature of our trailer, we decided we wanted the actors to improvise a lot to get a more naturalistic feel. This worked incredibly well and two of our actors Zak and Paige who have the main storyline of our trailer, were by far the best on the day. Below are some stills from filming: