Thursday, 31 March 2011
LB- Progress Report
LB- 30th March shoot feedback
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
AS - Progress Report (Editing) 30/03/2011
Tuesday, 29 March 2011
AS - Progress Report (Editing) 29/03/2011
We have decided to do the second flashback as he runs out of the chair. We did this as we though it would give us more effect if we have a slow paced flashback and then go into fast paced, quick cutting rate with the running.
Monday, 28 March 2011
Progress update.
Friday, 25 March 2011
AS - Progress Report (Editing) 25/03/2011
In this lesson we did not get much footage editied as we are trying to discuss about maybe having to rearrange some of the story to encapsulate the story line within the two minutes.
We did however get our first 20 seconds completed. This is part of one of the flashbacks we have in our film.
YM- Storyboarding
The purpose of a storyboard is to organise ideas we have come up with in the order we wish each shot to appear in the opening sequence. This organised structure makes the process of filming easier and more efficient as it's easier to know what we need to do and keep track of what we are doing.
Completing the Storyboard and challenges:
Ali was in charge of putting the shots we had come up with together into an organised structure and copying this order into a storyboard template.
The main issue that arose was how neither he nor and of the members in the group can draw, and we fretted that this could affect the outcome. However, it did not and the finished storyboard was good.
How useful was the Storyboarding?
We had the storyboard with us on set and looked at it while dicussing how we were going to go about the filming. However, once the filming began we didn't refer back to the storyboard and instead filmed how we felt worked better.
It was useful in the way that it helped start us off however as filing progressed we discovered that things worked and didn't work and filmed to our own accord.
AS - Anematic
This is our anematic, we have made this to give a brief idea of how our title screen will look. We will try to keep to this while we make our film opening.
Thursday, 24 March 2011
AS - Progress Report (Editing) 24/03/2011
We have started to get it into order and we have the first 15 seconds into a rough cut. This has helped us to see what we think the rest will look like.
We have started to use effects like Chroma Key and Image Control. We have used these to be able get a film noir effect we have decided on.
YM- Production Log 24/3/2011
- Post On Costumes and Props
- Questions on Audience Research
- Began Editing our footage
This weekend we are finishing our filiming in London.
YM- Costumes and Props in our shoot
We are using miniml props to show how little the protagonist has, emphasising the state he has found himself in. There is a single table with a half-empty bottle of beer and cigarette wrappers, and a chair which the protagonist sits on.
Wednesday, 23 March 2011
AS - Progress Report (Editing) 23/03/2011
Good Points:
- We managed to get most of the first minute of footage onto the editing suite.
- We have alot of footage to choose from.
- We have underestimated the amount of time we need to get across the start of the story. This could cause us to alter from the original concept a bit.
- Choosing from our footage is very hard as it is all very good.
Monday, 21 March 2011
YM- Preliminary Task Feedback
YM- Feedback on shoot- 19/03/2011
Our location for this filming trip was Ali's garage. We decided this setting provided the right feel to the film as it was small and dark.
When?
Saturday 19th March 2011
Who?
Ali, Yazmin, Luke.
What Was Successful About the Shoot?
We managed to shoot all the interior shots we aim to include. We also discovered that the lighting was murky which gave us more scope to work with.
Special Shots We Used:
Soft focus into focus shot. This looks extremely effective as it mimicks the action of the protagonist who is woken from sleep at the sound of his mobile phone ringing.
What Was Less Successful?
We found filming one of the flashbacks didn't flow as smoothly as we anticipated and were unable to get a smooth shot. We did get enough footage to use for this shot however a lot of editing will be needed to make it useable.
How Important Was Your Storyboard In The Filming Process?
We didn't really use our storyboard when filming as we knew what we needed to do interms of shots. Also, many of the shots we anticipated didn't work so we had to rearrange and add shots in to make sense of the storyline and to make the footage look better.
Friday, 18 March 2011
YM- Production Log 18/03/2011
- Introduction to the evaluation for Wilderness Woods
- Comments on moodboard
- Images on film Noir posts
- Highlighted key words in posts
YM- Production Log 17/03/2011
- Uploaded the pitch on to the blog and added explanations
- Wrote up feedback we recieved from the pitch
- Edited the post containing the preliminary to include the brief we were given
- Commented on some posts
Tonight we will:
- Look at individual posts to ensure key words are highlighted
- Make sure all personal posts are finished
Thursday, 17 March 2011
YM- What Needs to be done to complete the blog.
- Upload the Pitch we presented to the class
- Write up the feeback we recieved from the pitch
- Write the brief out that we were given for the Preliminary task under the video
- Write an introduction to the video evaulation we did at Wilderness Woods
- Upload the footage we put together from Wilderness Woods
- Adapt the presentation and layout of technical analysis to fit the requirements (all of us)
- Update the original concept development with that which we presented in our pitch
- Upload the anigmatic we did for the storyboard
- Post a post about our storyboard
- Add images to Film Noir posts (Luke)
- Highlight all keywords in posts
- LUKE- Resevoir Dogs post needs to be developed
- Genre Presentation feedback
- Call sheets and Risk assessments
- Questionnaires
- Comments on posts
LB- Technical Analysis.
Shot- Long shot of people rioting.
Duration- 3 seconds.
Mise-En-Scene- Black and white.
Shot- Medium shot of police riot van.
Duration- 3 seconds.
Mise-En-Scene- Black and white.
Shot- Long shot of police beating a man with a batton.
Duration- 6 seconds.
Mise-En-Scene- Police uniform with batton.
Shot- Titles.
Duration-3 seconds.
Mise-En-Scene- white background with black font. Revolver Entertainment Presents.
Shot- Titles.
Duration- 3 seconds.
Mise-En-Scene- white background with black font. A Gunslinger Production.
Shot- Titles.
Duration- 3 seconds.
Mise-En-Scene- white background with black font. In Association With Gateway Films And Molinare Studio.
Shot- Titles.
Duration- 3 seconds.
Mise-En-Scene- white background with black font. SHANK.
Shot- Titles.
Duration- 2 seconds.
Mise-En-Scene- white background with black font. Adam Deacon. animated pictures of character.
Shot- Titles.
Duration- 2 seconds.
Mise-En-Scene- white background with black font. Ashley 'Bashy' Thomas. animated pictures of character.
Shot- Titles.
Duration- 2 seconds.
Mise-En-Scene- white background with black font. Michael Socha. Animated pictures of character.
Shot- Titles
Duration- 2 seconds
Mise-En-Scene- white background with black font. Kaya Scodelario. Animated pictures of character.
Shot- Titles
Duration- 2 seconds
Mise-En-Scene- white background with black font. Jan Uddin. Animated pictures of character.
Shot- Titles
Duration- 2 seconds
Mise-En-Scene- white background with black font. Jessie Jacques. Animated pictures of character.
Shot- Titles
Duration- 2 seconds
Mise-En-Scene- white background with black font. And Introducing Kedar Williams- Stirling. Animated pictures of character.
Shot- Titles
Duration- 2 seconds
Mise-En-Scene- white background with black font. Casting Jane Ripley. Animated pictures of characters.
Shot- Titles
Duration- 1 seconds
Mise-En-Scene- white background with black font. Production design Rob Nicholls. Barbed wire and a building.
Shot- Titles
Duration- 1 second
Mise-En-Scene- white background with black font. Title Design James Taylor. Trees and buildings.
Shot- Titles
Duration- 1 second
Mise-En-Scene- white background with black font. Editor Julian Tranquille. burned out car.
Shot- Titles
Duration- 1 second
Mise-En-Scene- white background with black font. Director Of Photography Adam Frisch F.S.F. CCTV Camera.
Shot- Titles
Duration- 1 second
Mise-En-Scene- white background with black font. Music Chad Hubson.
Shot- Titles
Duration- 1 second
Mise-En-Scene- white background with black font. Executive Producer Justin Marciano.
Shot- Titles
Duration- 1 second
Mise-En-Scene- white background with black font. Executive Producers David Shear Mark Foligno Mike Diamond Tony Jiminez Ajay Parkash. Building in background.
Shot- Titles
Duration- 1 second
Mise-En-Scene- White background with black font. Produced by Daniel Toland Terry Stone. buildings with stairs.
Shot- Titles
Duration- 1 second
Mise-En-Scene- White background with black font. Produced by Nick Taussig. wall with railings.
Shot- Titles
Duration- 1 second
Mise-En-Scene- White background with black font. Written and Produced by Paul Van Carter. Barbed wire.
Shot- Titles
Duration- 1 second
Mise-En-Scene- White background with black font. Directed by Mo Ali.
Shot- Medium
Duration- 2 seconds
Mise-En-Scene- running legs shows that the situation is serious.
Shot- Medium
Duration- 2 seconds.
Mise-En-Scene- shows his facial expression while running away as shocked and scared.
YM- Feedback from Pitch
One issue that was raised was the length of the footage we want to have in our opening sequence. We plan to have two flashbacks in our sequence, as well as the main storyline emerging, and there were concerns that this was too much to cram into a two minuet opening. However, as we plan to have a maximum of 45 seconds used for flashbacks, we assured people that our opening sequence won't be cramped.
A second issue that presented itself was the actors involved. I think many people were unsure as to how many we planned to have due to the flashbacks involved. When we explained how many actors we wish to use, the issue of how we were going to find these actors was another issue. However, we decided we were using family and family friends to increase the reliablilty of people turning up to filming.
Another problem that we were questionned about was the weather and how we'd be able to assure the weather conditions were the same throughout the clip, especially if we need to re-film on another day. This is a difficult issue to overcome as we have no control over the weather. However, we have said we will spend a full day filiming to make sure we get the footage needed plus extra to minimise the need for another trip for filming to the same location.
However, we did recieve positive comments as as a whole, we presented strong ideas that showed we have a firm ideas of what we want to do and in which direction we want to go in.
YM- Opening Sequence Pitch
This is the presentation we pitched to our class in order to get the Green Light. In this pitch we have covered everything that needs to be considered. The presentation has information on:
- Concept Development, including a detailed outline of our opening sequence.
-Summary of findings from film openings we have analysed.
- Our moodboard we put together using text and images to put forward some ideas on mise-en-scene, fonts, locations and sound ideas.
- Summaries of the audience research we carried out, including diagrams and written explanations.
- Location reccie to our planned council estate location, where we took pictures of different angles we think would work well.
- Full outline of all our ideas for characters, props and costumes.
- Ideas we have about specific shot and technical ideas.
- Fonts we plan on using, and sound ideas we have.
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
YM- Chosen Font.
This is the font we have chosen.
YM- Audience Research
We pitched to a sample size of 15 people, both male and female (though predominantly males) of our age range as this was our target audience and would therefore give us more accurate feedback.
The purpose of undertaking the research was to gain an idea as to what our target audience thought of our storyline and other aspects we had come up with (such as mise-en-scene, sound, lighting etc). This feedback will help us develop our concept to appeal more to our target audience.
We pitched individually to those who took the questionnaire so there wasn't a set location where we gathered our respondees and asked them all to it at the same time.
To carry out the research, we presented our pitch which we had prepared for our school pitch and pitched it to our respondees so they had a full idea about our concept to get a wider vision of what the final outcome would be and how they would respond to it.