Journal 17/01/11

Yesterday we filmed in the meat packing factory in Charlton, everything went well we got all of the footage that we wanted. We also found some different locations amongst the premises that we wanted to use. Such as a dark and crumbling looking alleyway, and a broken down old racing car. We found the alleyway to fit well into the scene as it adds a menacing vibe of danger to the scene. We also found the racing car to work before the alley way shot as the racing car is quite comical and shows the suspects youthfulness and outgoing and careless personality.


We think that we are hopefully completely finished with all of the footage within the premises of the meat packing factory. We hope that do not have to film anything extra, as this would be much more time consuming and would set back our production schedule. We shall hopefully start editing on Wednesday 19th January and to carry on filming and editing next week. We are finding that at this particular moment in time we are complacent and thinking that we are meeting our production schedule well, and we can only hope that this continues and that we don't run into any glitches.


Props- We also took it upon ourselves to decide what props a triad might need in the shot within the meat packing factory. We chose to use the props in the form of money and drugs, to work around the whole drug aspect we made our own. Si Hin made some fake drugs out of potato starch and we all decided upon putting them within sandwich bags. Libby also made two very small bags of drugs out of flour with salt added so that it would not stick to the bag or look at all like flour. The smaller bags will be used in other scenes for Si Hin's character to hand to his customers on the streets. Whereas the bigger bags were used within the meat packing factory to present that he was a drug dealer. Also that he was turning these big bags in to many smaller bags to be sold on. Our other prop was money, luckily Si Hin likes to save all the money he earns through working in his parents take away also any birthday and Christmas money he gets. This adds up to a lot so he was able to bring five hundred pounds out with us to the meat packing factory, to connote the massive amounts of money these triads are dealing with on a daily basis.