Monday, 20 September 2010
Sweep shot - Practice
We thought of making a shot where the theif is trying to break into a house and we sweep around and one of the policemen is on the other side of the door. For this we wanted to have a single sweep, but couldn't go through the wall. We had a look at what effects could cover this and found the effect 'Side (towards left)'. Here is how it turned out - Link
Tom Adaway and Gareth Todd’s Questionnaire
This questionnaire was created to help identify what our target audience is and what appeals to them. Please take a moment to help us by completing our questionnaire.
1) What is your age?
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2) What is your gender?
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3) What is your favourite genre of film?
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4) Why is that your favourite genre?
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5) How often do you watch films?
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6) What do you like most in movies? (I.e. car chase, dialogue, gore, etc.)
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7) How do you prefer to watch movies? (I.e. TV, DVD, Cinema, etc.)
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8) What is your favourite movie?
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9) Why?
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10) What is your favourite scene from any movie?
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11) Why?
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12) What was the last movie you watched?
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13) What was the last movie you saw in the cinema?
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14) What did you like most about it?
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15) How many people do you watch films with?
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Thank you for your time.
Magazine front cover draft
As Gareth was at a sociology lecture on wednesday, We could not meet to discuss ideas for our project. Therefore I took the oppotunity to create a draft of the magazine front cover, as for this I did not need Gareths help.This is the e-mail I sent to Gareth detailing what I had done, the reasons I had for colour schemes, and asking him for his opinion.
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
Personnel involved
My group consists solely of Myself and Gareth, and as some of our ideas for filming require at least 3 people we have asked others to help us in some way, be it acting, manning the camera, directing, or editing.
Fortunately, I have had much experience with editing techniques from our AS project last year, as I was in charge of cutting each scene at appropriate moments so our film was not too long.
Although I was not acting at any point in our main task, I was on screen in the preliminary task, so I do at least have some experience and will therefore be acting alongside Gareth, who was the main character in our main task last year.
I was also the cameraman throughout the whole of our main task last year, and I therefore know how to handle the camera and how to activate all of the cameras options (zoom, blur, etc,).
The main reason I decided to work with Gareth was the fact that we cooperated well last year, and we both put a lot of effort into making a successful, polished film. However, Gareth also brings numerous other benfits to our production, such as his vast knowledge of music. He listens to music often and is currently undergoing his music A level, which means he knows how make, tweak and upload music that will suit our trailer. This is fortunate as I know very little about making the music itself and it would require a lot more of an effort to produce something by myself that Gareth could produce without trouble.
Gareth also has a lot of experince working with computers, and did a lot of work last year whilst editing. This also means he can help to produce the ancillary tasks (Magazine cover and DVD cover) as he has spent a lot of time working with Adobe Acrobat and similar programs which would make our products look professional.
As we may require more people to help in our task, we haved asked Sam Britcher and Tom Male to help us in any way that may be required, to which they have agreed. They have accepted that they may either need to act, film, or direct particular scenes, and that they will be called upon at a time that has not yet been decided. Fortunately, both of their timetables are quite flexible, which is good news for us as we have yet decided on a filming schedule.
Fortunately, I have had much experience with editing techniques from our AS project last year, as I was in charge of cutting each scene at appropriate moments so our film was not too long.
Although I was not acting at any point in our main task, I was on screen in the preliminary task, so I do at least have some experience and will therefore be acting alongside Gareth, who was the main character in our main task last year.
I was also the cameraman throughout the whole of our main task last year, and I therefore know how to handle the camera and how to activate all of the cameras options (zoom, blur, etc,).
The main reason I decided to work with Gareth was the fact that we cooperated well last year, and we both put a lot of effort into making a successful, polished film. However, Gareth also brings numerous other benfits to our production, such as his vast knowledge of music. He listens to music often and is currently undergoing his music A level, which means he knows how make, tweak and upload music that will suit our trailer. This is fortunate as I know very little about making the music itself and it would require a lot more of an effort to produce something by myself that Gareth could produce without trouble.
Gareth also has a lot of experince working with computers, and did a lot of work last year whilst editing. This also means he can help to produce the ancillary tasks (Magazine cover and DVD cover) as he has spent a lot of time working with Adobe Acrobat and similar programs which would make our products look professional.
As we may require more people to help in our task, we haved asked Sam Britcher and Tom Male to help us in any way that may be required, to which they have agreed. They have accepted that they may either need to act, film, or direct particular scenes, and that they will be called upon at a time that has not yet been decided. Fortunately, both of their timetables are quite flexible, which is good news for us as we have yet decided on a filming schedule.
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Storyboard that won't be used
I thought I would share the storyboard for the horror trailer that we decided we would NOT be doing, to show exactly how we were imagining the camera angles.
Monday, 13 September 2010
Ancillary Ideas
We have chosen to produce a film magazine front cover and a film poster for our ancillary tasks.
Magazine front cover research:
-Title, some have puns that match the film
-Huge picture takes up most of the room on the front cover (at least 2/3)
-Picture usually obscures part of the magazines name, to give the impression that the magazine is well known.
-Other 1/3 of space taken up by small pictures of other films reviewed in the magazine
-Plenty of very small writing that advertises what's in the magazine
-Lots of self compliments (world exclusive! read it here first!
-Large dominant feature
-Side articles
-First word in second word's first letter, e.g.
This example of a film cover incorperates most of research ideas we have come across, such as wording, picture size, font size, and side articles.
Film Poster research:
-Film poster analysis - Overveiw, typography, pictures, foreground, background.
-text easy to read
-try to reflect the mood and tone of the film to attract the right audience
-Slogan? should be memorable and should convey the idea of the film (enticing)
-Keep relatively simple
Magazine front cover research:
-Title, some have puns that match the film
-Huge picture takes up most of the room on the front cover (at least 2/3)
-Picture usually obscures part of the magazines name, to give the impression that the magazine is well known.
-Other 1/3 of space taken up by small pictures of other films reviewed in the magazine
-Plenty of very small writing that advertises what's in the magazine
-Lots of self compliments (world exclusive! read it here first!
-Large dominant feature
-Side articles
-First word in second word's first letter, e.g.
Film Poster research:
-Film poster analysis - Overveiw, typography, pictures, foreground, background.
-text easy to read
-try to reflect the mood and tone of the film to attract the right audience
-Slogan? should be memorable and should convey the idea of the film (enticing)
-Keep relatively simple
New Ideas
Due to the fact that we have already created a short horror clip for our A2 coursework (Paranoia), after much consideration, we have decided to use a different genre this year, and we hope it will demonstrate our versitility. As we used a lot of our ideas for horror already, we decided that we were limited in what we could do in the same genre. Therefore we have been thinking of ideas for the comedy genre, specifically for a film we thought of called 'bad cop, bad cop'. (a play on the phrase good cop, bad cop). Here our some of our ideas:
Opening scene Idea:
- spooky music as guy breaks into house. See door being broken open, creeps along a corridor but can hear football on tv from another room. Camera notices a cerificate on the wall that says 'Fully certified trainee policeman'.Goes to investigate the sound and as he opens the door knocks over something and makes a loud noise. Theif freezes and stares at the cop who just keeps watching football. Theif starts waving his arms about and cop still doesn't look up. Theif moves arms in front of TV and cop just moves head so he can see better. Guy takes stuff and then fades to later when almost everything has been taken. Theif says 'thanks mate' and cop waves without really paying attention.
- fades to black, next scene
- Same theif runs into 2nd cop, stare off happens (zoom in on eyes), and the cop just picks up the handbag and hands it back to the theif, saying 'Watch where you're running, son'.
-These scenes should introduce these characters as two bad cops.
- Fade to black
- While chasing after a criminal, the police officers run towards a car. but instead of getting in it, they run past to children's scooters painted in police colours. One of them puts a helmet with a siren on, and they ride off.
- Chief scene, chief says to the two cops ' Have you seen this man?' and gives them a picture of thief in balaclava, the same thief both of the cops have seen. Cops think for a while, and say 'nope never seen him'. Cheif says 'this guys a master thief, you'll have to go in disguise'. As he finishes his sentence, cuts to cops lowering newspapers with drawn on moustaches. They nod at eachother and raise their newspapers.
-Final scene, one cop says 'He jumped the fence!', they both take a run up and try to scramble up the fence, and fall to the ground exhausted. Camera pans out to reveal an open gate just around the corner.
-Final scene idea 2, robber slides across car, cops attempt it and fail miserably.
-Final scene idea 3, cops try to get in car but can't find keys. They see a cat that has the keys on a magnetic collar, and try to chase it.
We are currently in the process of arranging actors and dates for filming which will suit everybody.
Opening scene Idea:
- spooky music as guy breaks into house. See door being broken open, creeps along a corridor but can hear football on tv from another room. Camera notices a cerificate on the wall that says 'Fully certified trainee policeman'.Goes to investigate the sound and as he opens the door knocks over something and makes a loud noise. Theif freezes and stares at the cop who just keeps watching football. Theif starts waving his arms about and cop still doesn't look up. Theif moves arms in front of TV and cop just moves head so he can see better. Guy takes stuff and then fades to later when almost everything has been taken. Theif says 'thanks mate' and cop waves without really paying attention.
- fades to black, next scene
- Same theif runs into 2nd cop, stare off happens (zoom in on eyes), and the cop just picks up the handbag and hands it back to the theif, saying 'Watch where you're running, son'.
-These scenes should introduce these characters as two bad cops.
- Fade to black
- While chasing after a criminal, the police officers run towards a car. but instead of getting in it, they run past to children's scooters painted in police colours. One of them puts a helmet with a siren on, and they ride off.
- Chief scene, chief says to the two cops ' Have you seen this man?' and gives them a picture of thief in balaclava, the same thief both of the cops have seen. Cops think for a while, and say 'nope never seen him'. Cheif says 'this guys a master thief, you'll have to go in disguise'. As he finishes his sentence, cuts to cops lowering newspapers with drawn on moustaches. They nod at eachother and raise their newspapers.
-Final scene, one cop says 'He jumped the fence!', they both take a run up and try to scramble up the fence, and fall to the ground exhausted. Camera pans out to reveal an open gate just around the corner.
-Final scene idea 2, robber slides across car, cops attempt it and fail miserably.
-Final scene idea 3, cops try to get in car but can't find keys. They see a cat that has the keys on a magnetic collar, and try to chase it.
We are currently in the process of arranging actors and dates for filming which will suit everybody.
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