Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Monday, 15 April 2013
The Unpredictable film poster
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| Here is the final poster which we as a group put our ideas together and collaborated them to make our final poster. We felt that this poster was really good so we made a slight adjustment by adding a slogan from the other design poster. |
Sunday, 14 April 2013
Saturday, 13 April 2013
Critical Evaluation question 1- Matthew Gollick
Question 1: In what Ways does the media product, develop or challenge forms and conventions
of real media products?
Our media
product uses conventions of continuity through language and editing. Continuity
editing is one way of continuity of post-production. The reason for continuity
editing is to have a smooth cut between shots which makes it flow freely.
However in some films just like ours we uses a large style of fast paced
continuity just like at the beginning of our film where Brian is preparing for
the day ahead. We used a fast paced edit once Brian has hit his head on the
wall this shows something has changed to the character and fast paced cuts
gives the sense of speed making it more intense. In comparison to the ending of
our film we use UN rhythmic from slow to fast edit to capture the tensions in
the upcoming moments before Brian is run over.
Throughout the filming process we had to take into account the continuity of our film so that it made sense and that it gave the audience a rhythm to the film as described above. Continuity is a big factor in terms of conventions of real media products as it ultimately makes the film or brakes the film. We noticed when editing our film that continuity was an issue in the morning scene when Brian is preparing for the day ahead. The continues shot didn't flow correctly so we had to make adjustments here and it turned out for the better as we captured tension at the beginning with the fast rhythmic cut and this really worked out for us. Also we had to consider the 180 degree rule which we used a lot in our film. At times we had to really take into account this rule when we was in production as it needed to be 100% accurate so that the film made sense in terms of character placement in the scene where Brian and Neil are sat at the table playing poker, as it could easily confuse the audience if this rule is broken as characters may appear placed different from one shot to the next. Another convention we had to consider was eye line matches and match on action which works really well throughout our film especially in the morning scene at the beginning of the play where we get a series of "Bangs" between each shot this helped draw in the audience and was something which naturally came to us when we filmed and edited our film to get this convention 100% accurate.
We also during the post production stage of the film we had some sound effect which we planned to add later in our film. These really worked well in our film and really gave the effect which intended to do to the audience. Also whilst in the post production editing stage of our film we noticed sound at times from the background environment such as cars, public, wind and dogs these were all sounds which we found in the post production edit stage of our film. We used sound bridges and effects in final cut which helped the audio/ sound of the film run smoothly without the blowing of the wind this was a really useful filter effect which we used in post production editing. Also Final cut enabled us to alter sound levels this was key as we had music overlapping some aspects of the film and we still wanted the audio of the characters to standout above the non diagetic music.
Throughout the filming process we had to take into account the continuity of our film so that it made sense and that it gave the audience a rhythm to the film as described above. Continuity is a big factor in terms of conventions of real media products as it ultimately makes the film or brakes the film. We noticed when editing our film that continuity was an issue in the morning scene when Brian is preparing for the day ahead. The continues shot didn't flow correctly so we had to make adjustments here and it turned out for the better as we captured tension at the beginning with the fast rhythmic cut and this really worked out for us. Also we had to consider the 180 degree rule which we used a lot in our film. At times we had to really take into account this rule when we was in production as it needed to be 100% accurate so that the film made sense in terms of character placement in the scene where Brian and Neil are sat at the table playing poker, as it could easily confuse the audience if this rule is broken as characters may appear placed different from one shot to the next. Another convention we had to consider was eye line matches and match on action which works really well throughout our film especially in the morning scene at the beginning of the play where we get a series of "Bangs" between each shot this helped draw in the audience and was something which naturally came to us when we filmed and edited our film to get this convention 100% accurate.
We also during the post production stage of the film we had some sound effect which we planned to add later in our film. These really worked well in our film and really gave the effect which intended to do to the audience. Also whilst in the post production editing stage of our film we noticed sound at times from the background environment such as cars, public, wind and dogs these were all sounds which we found in the post production edit stage of our film. We used sound bridges and effects in final cut which helped the audio/ sound of the film run smoothly without the blowing of the wind this was a really useful filter effect which we used in post production editing. Also Final cut enabled us to alter sound levels this was key as we had music overlapping some aspects of the film and we still wanted the audio of the characters to standout above the non diagetic music.
Our film
works in nature of the supernatural thriller genre. Just like the genre states
the supernatural aesthetic of the genre has the link to paranormal and horror as
well as fiction fantasy which our fill has close hints to. The whole idea of
the gift which Brian gains from hitting his head on the wall follows a
paranormal and fiction narrative as it’s made up this would not really happen.
We don’t subvert the expectations of our chosen genre we have only included the nature
of the conventions of this genre.
Our film
successfully provides pleasure to our audience. From the Richard dyers theory
of entertainment I have pulled out the “Lack” which he refers to it as which
makes the audience want to watch the film.
The lacks which this theory refers to are as follows tiredness, boredom,
loneliness, poor, social and unaware. I feel that our film uses some aspects of
this theory which provides the pleasure to the audience. First of all I feel
our film engages the audience’s boredom lack through its Utopian solution of
intensity throughout the film as the film flow a series of events that appear
change from good too bad the instant story twister at the end of our film where
Brian gets run over. I also feel the title name is always in the back of the
audiences head as it states the unpredictable this is makes the audience think
about the title and think why is everything predictable but the film states
unpredictable then the sudden change in story sums it up at the end. This is a
really big intense moment at the end of the film this Utopian solution of intensity
is something we witness this engages the lack of boredom which the audience
have. I also feel in connection with Richard Dyers theory of lack in terms of
audience been entertained via money/ wealth. The Utopian solution which our
film feeds to the audience is through the “gift” which leads to money and
wealth which makes Brian richer. Our film successfully uses this lack to
pleasure the audience, throughout the film Brian becomes wealthy as a result of
the gift which he gains at the beginning of the film. This makes the audience think about winning
money and the audience will feel pleasure from this lack. Our film also covers aspects of the uses & gratifications theory which relates to the expectations of what we expect to get from watching that media text, which is the gratification. The kinds of gratifications which have been discovered cover four areas these are, Information which we would expect to find out details of the society today to satisfy our curiosity, this information comes from learning about society around the world and this helps the audience to learn about the things that happen in society allot of films capture this. Personal identity, is another gratification which inter prates the ways in which films use this gratification to make role models for example most action films like 007 for example use role models so the younger generation can be inspired to be come someone like him this gratification may change the way they dress or act to be more like their role model, also when the role model character succeeds it make us feel better ourselves. Another is Integration & social interaction, this gratification finds more detail into the character of the film, they become a friend to the audience which for example is used in more reality TV programs such as Big Brother which people may become drawn to a character throughout the show, this also happens in films for example a main character may change in a film which may effect the audience as if they have lost a friend. Watching a film helps the audience to sympathies with the character in the film which makes the audience feel like they have lost a friend. Finally, Entertainment, is also a gratification this simply highlights the main reason to why we watch a film and this highlights the more straight forward uses which we refer to as border relaxing or even just to pass time. After researching the uses and gratification theory I feel our film uses only two of the four gratification theory's this being For information, As our film follows closely the events which unfold in Brian's life heavily impacted up society and gambling which turns out to be a positive impact until the end of the film where we see a drastic twist in the story line which shows how bad things can also happen from gambling, its as if our film is educating the audience on the world of today and the outcomes of such actions. The other use of gratification which our film "The Unpredictable" uses is Integration & social interaction, as our film follows a long story line we follow closely the day to day happenings of Brian's life and the audience gain a real incite to his life, the audience may feel drawn into the characters life and the drastic twist in the story line which makes the audience sympathies and feel as if Brian is a friend of their own.
When I was
researching into films from the same genre and similar genres I came across
some great shots which I gave thought into how I could use similar shots in my
film. The real media texts which I used were "psycho", "the gift" and "Alphas" these
gave me a good set of ideas for producing my own film from these real media
texts. The idea which I really liked the idea of was from the film psycho this
was from the shower scene where the women is killed we see the camera cross
zoom into the plug hole and out from the eye of the women where the camera
zooms out from ( To help explain here is the shot bellow this paragraph which i am explaining from the film psycho). This shot was an aspect which I really liked so I decided to
take it into our own film where we used it in the morning scene where Brian is
getting ready to go to town. This consists of Brian turning on the tap where at
this point the camera is looking down at the plug hole where the bubbles begin
to flow down the camera zooms into the plug hole and out from an extreme close
up of Brian’s eye once the camera reaches into a close up of Brian’s face he
begins to dry his hair with the towel. We also used a similar shot in our title
sequence where the camera zooms into the poker chip as it lands flat and out
from Brian’s eye. This also works really well with the film. I really wanted to
put this shot into our film as I feel it works really well and captures the
effect of an inside perspective of Brian when the camera comes out from his eye
we get a feeling for the film and character within. I also liked a shot which I
decided to use in our film until we later decided not to. The reason we took
this shot out is that we didn't feel it was relevant and large amounts of cuts
had to be made to ensure we didn't run too far over the time requirement of 5
minutes. This shot was from a short film
text called “slippin” the shot which was used was showing a passage of time in
a transition, when the young males were leaving the scene once they crossed to
road a bus went by in front of the camera. I liked this shot however we later
decided to cut it from our film as it didn't really need to be there as it
already was clear a passage of time was taking place.During our title sequence i also took the inspiration form the film "se7en" the use of titles jumping and double glazing over each other gives it an effect which makes it feel abnormal this really worked well in our idea.
Critical Evaluation question 2- Matthew Gollick
Question 2- How effective is the combination of your main product and the ancillary texts?
Critical Evaluation Question 3- Matthew Gollick
3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?
Ultimately, the audience are crucial to every media production. Without the audience to feedback it is almost impossible to know what the potential audience are expecting form you as a producer. The audiences “hype”, ratings or general feedback will help the film reach its best potential and to become successful. The audience is a really important aspect to making a film successful and we started to find our audience from the use of questionnaires where random members of the public gave us useful feedback up on our ideas, for a film story line and for other materials such as title sequences we thought the entire pre-production stages engaged with our audience as much as possible they through our researching stages they gave use some constructive feedback which made us tweak, remove and re gig our ideas to make them fit the audience’s needs. So that is what we did after gathering the initial ideas.
Ultimately, the audience are crucial to every media production. Without the audience to feedback it is almost impossible to know what the potential audience are expecting form you as a producer. The audiences “hype”, ratings or general feedback will help the film reach its best potential and to become successful. The audience is a really important aspect to making a film successful and we started to find our audience from the use of questionnaires where random members of the public gave us useful feedback up on our ideas, for a film story line and for other materials such as title sequences we thought the entire pre-production stages engaged with our audience as much as possible they through our researching stages they gave use some constructive feedback which made us tweak, remove and re gig our ideas to make them fit the audience’s needs. So that is what we did after gathering the initial ideas.
The feedback below helped us find out what our
audience age range was.
From this
questionnaire we found a female and male audience however mainly male audience
where draw in by our ideas. We also found that the age of people that looked
into our film was between 12-20. However from our audience feedback we did find
that our ideas were maybe not as good as they possibly could be, so we decided
to go back into our ideas here and re think them. We decided to come up with
more ideas around our audience’s response including aspects like a twist. Then
we created another set of ideas which we posted to our blog.
We then put these ideas out to the same
audience. The feedback was heavily one sided to using idea 3 which help us make
a decision for what idea we was going to produce for our final outcome.
We
then went out and video recorded some of the public in our local environment of
the college. However this wasn't as successful for us so we decided to put out
a paper questionnaire which we sent out to the public via social networking
sites.
We used all of the findings of both video and
paper questionnaire to finalise a film idea. We did find that the feedback was
helpful and the sound of idea 3 was really dominant when we looked back at our
feedback.
The next stage was to produce our film treatment
which the group member Tom made for the film title “The unpredictable” this is
where we began to try and sell our film to the audience the feedback was really
positive and this motivated us to produce the final film idea.
We used this treatment to go and produce our
film. This treatment highlighted the key
aspects of effects which we planned to use in our film. Also gave a through
detail description of the films storyline. I then came up with some ideas for a title
sequence these ideas were placed on a questionnaire which I aimed at the same
audience as before via social media Facebook.
From this audience feedback I found out that
the first idea 1 was more liked by our audience so we decided to go ahead with
this idea and continued with it from our research during pre-production and
made it in the production stage.
Rough cut of film "The Unpredictable"
Once we had produced the rough cut version of
our film which we took into consideration the audience via their feedback and
inputs to what they think we should add to our film and title sequence as a
group we highlighted the feedback from the title sequence idea questionnaire
and we found that the overall idea worked well in the eye of the audience they
really like the idea of using close ups of Brain’s face as it gives the
impression of abnormal and paranormal activity which helps sets the mood for
the film, the audience will like the cross zoom editing effects which the idea I gathered from my research into real media texts as it is often used in supernatural thrillers, this was something which the audience really liked. However we also found that the audience wanted to see more symbols
being brought into the title sequence so I added other symbols such as chess
board game this feedback helped me meet the needs of the audience and I feel it
improved the title sequences for the better. The main film also included some
great aspects which I found from my revised idea questionnaire, the positive feedback
around the use of a dramatic twist at the end proved to be a great idea as the
audience began to get really engaged with the film through the positive feedback
which we received. One other satisfying aspect of the final film was the uses
of a wide range of shots we used to keep the audience interested with the
twisty storyline which we used for the final film. In terms of editing that we
used knowing that our audience would like it was the use of rhythmic edits and
sound effects. Rhythmic edits will help the audience to be drawn into the most
tension build up parts of the film, our film starts off with high tension and
slows down with longer shots and then becomes much faster in cuts towards the
end when the tension rises once again. The locations which we used will also
satisfy the audience as they often watch films in the supernatural genre and we
have used the day to day locations of which Brian and his friends come into
contact with this works well bearing in mind that a thriller is often based on
characters and it follows them closely to see the insight of what they feel and
see.
Final cut of film "The Unpredictable"
The questionnaires were sent out via our social media accounts to gain a much wider response from our audience.
Critical Evaluation question 4- Matthew Gollick
4. How did you use new media technologies in construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
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There was a wide range of technologies which I used
throughout the whole of this project. I will start by identifying the most
obvious ones, being Blogger which I used throughout this project to create and
display my work including text, video, images and much more. Blogger helped me
produce a wide range of post In terms of multimedia content with the ability to
embed via HTML it was really simple to reference content which I found whether
it be text, image or video Blogger enabled me to bring the content into my
posts to help me reference my work around my findings from the research.
Blogger also gave me the ability to change layouts; these gave me the chance to
change the themes of which I have chosen and even add images to the layout such
as I have with our production logo.
I also used YouTube which enabled me to upload my videos of
the test which I preformed and also for our group to upload our film and radio
trailer. YouTube also enabled us to research and find resources for my research
this was really useful especially the use of the embed tools which gave me the
ability to directly put the video which I have used into my post on blogger
software. YouTube also enabled us to communicate with the public and this
enables us to put our film out to an audience which then gives us feedback.
Social media, Facebook and twitter enabled us to share our questionnaires
with the audience. This was really
useful as by using such technology we had a much wider response from our
audience.
I also used Final cut express. I used final cut express to
produce the film and radio trailer this software enabled me to cut and edit the
video from the footage which I captured previously on the cameras and recording
devices. In this software I was able to add filters and text to the video as
well as adding sound bridges and visual effects. Whilst using this software at
first I had little knowledge and experience however now I feel really confident
in the software as I edited the film and radio trailer products myself. I have
continued to learn new features and build on my abilities in the software.
I used Photoshop for creating my very own idea for a poster
design. I already had the experience of this software as I use it on a regular
basis. However I did continue to build upon my skills by sing gradient and
mapping tools which enabled me to capture the effect which I wanted from using a
mask and a black and white gradient these features were really useful. I also
used other tool such as cropping when making my poster design this enabled me
to resize and edit the images until the image fitted my needs.
I also used slide share in my evaluation I decided to make a
presentation for one of my answers to the question number 2. This software
enabled me to upload my PowerPoint to the internet where I could then embed my PowerPoint
into a post in blogger software. This was a new piece of technology which I have
never used before and I instantly got the hand of using it and now I will be confident in using it in any future work which i produce.
I finally used resource software domain Moodle which enabled
me to collect resources from A2 Media studies. This was really useful as it
allowed me to download work sheets such as the risk assessment which I downloaded
for this project. Moodle was a great resource which I enjoyed using when I needed
a resource supplied by this course. I also used a wide range of hardware
equipment such as the SONY HD cameras which enabled me to capture footage in
1080p which helped my film look professional and crisp on the outcomes. I also
used voice recording equipment which we used for narrations for over our radio
trailer. I also used fire ware cables to transfer my captured footage from my
camera to my MAC and PC when creating the productions of the film for this
project. I also used a DSLR camera
cannon 1000D to take shots of the locations on which we used in our film production. I also used Mindomo software to create a visual mind map of all the technologies and software which I have used throughout this project highlighting the key features which I used to my advantage. Finally I used a both Google and Bing search engines to browse content when
researching during the pre-production stages of this project.
As a final point I would like to say I have enjoyed working
on this project and have found it really helpful in building up my own skills
on such software as pointed out above. I hope to take these skills and the
knowledge which I have learned whilst completing this project into work which I
produce in the future.
Friday, 12 April 2013
Tom Morris Evaluation question 4
Technology was obviously key to my work on this project. We used a HD camera to film our production, which I found importantly, easy to use, as I carried out the majority of the filming.
During the editing stage, using Final Cut, I didn't do too much of it to be honest, but when I did help, I found it quite complex, but some of it was fairly simple.
To produce our radio trailer, I used a Zoom recorder to record my voice, which was easily uploaded to Final Cut to be used as a voice over.
Other things such as Google Docs, to produce the questionnaire was very easy to use and I would use it again the future.
Blogger itself, has continued to be very effective and has always been straightforward and is a very good way to display this project.
Tom Morris Evaluation question 3
3 – What have you
learned from your audience feedback?
Having looked initially at the brief, we looked into various
genres and ideas. As you can see on the blog, we played around with other
storylines and possible outcomes, until we finally decided to go down the route
of a psychological thriller. This we thought would be effective as we had done
something of similar style the previous year. That wasn’t on the same lines of
course, but the story, in a sense, is similar in terms of the severity and
darkness to the story, even if it isn’t until the end.
Once we had decided on this idea however, it was fairly
clear on where we were to take it. The criteria stated that the film must be
five minutes, the end product being a few seconds over I believe, but we wanted
to get every aspect in, cutting it down to an extent at which it still made
sense to the viewer.
In order to understand what our audience thought of our
idea, we produced an electronic questionnaire in which we distributed on the
internet. Also, we made a video where we attempted to film various people
answering our questionnaire in person. This however, didn’t go exactly to plan,
but we had the answers from at least one person in the end.
In terms of meaning, we didn’t as such struggle, but in editing
we did have to make considerable cuts in order to get it near the five minute
mark. We initially felt this would take key parts away from the film, taking
away meaning and would confuse the reader. However, we found that we could cut
it down and still make sure it made sense and followed our story rather well,
if not better. Some parts I saw as excessive, anyway. We filmed in parts, which
helped with continuity so we didn’t get lost, as such.
Effects such as black and white and the repetition of these
shots help the viewer understand the film better. Also, sound effects over
these shots give them a better understanding of what’s happening and why.
We distributed a rough cut of our film and found that
viewers liked the idea of the storyline and the effects in which we used. We shortened
the film after due to the length. We needed to get as close to five minutes as
we could.
Tom Morris Evaluation question 2
2 – How effective
is the combination of your main product and the ancillary texts?
In our main production, we were trying to achieve a sense of
mystery and suspense, to give the viewers a shock come the end. We did this by
building up evidence that would seem to have led to only one outcome, but of
course it was the opposite.
We reflected this very well in the ancillary products also.
The film posters in which we produced contained symbols from the film, such as
the poker chips, the playing cards and in one, the face of Brian himself. On
both however, is blood. We did this in each of our posters to throw the
audience a little, as this suggests that something bad will happen, but they
don’t know how it will happen or in which context. By this I mean, given the
circumstances of the film, this could be a vision of Brian’s, but it could also
be a reality. The viewer looking at this, simply doesn't know.
The one above is my poster, which as you can see, has the elements I was
talking about. The one on the right is our final chosen one, which goes further
in using more symbols, but keeping the blood to add the sense of mystery.
We also produced a radio trailer for our film. This also
reflects all of the elements as in it you hear scenes from the film, that give
the listener an understanding of it, but not giving anything away. It uses the
same conventions of the posters really, as it gives the audience an outline but
it keeps a feeling of the unknown.
In comparison to existing products, we looked at existing
trailers and posters to give us an understanding of how they should look and
sound, belonging to this genre. We found that what were required for the radio
trailer were key parts taken from the film, sound obviously. Also sound effects
from the film that carry significance. The voiceover in the ad was also
important in the sense that it is setting a tone for the film and also of what
is to happen. It was kind of the same
for the poster, just containing the symbols, showing what happens in the film
and then the blood rather than the sound effects to add the uncertainty of the
storyline.
Tom Morris Evaluation question 1
1 – In what ways
does the media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real
media products?
In terms of understanding the continuity of our film, we of
course had previous experience from our production the year before. In that
film, we had understood the aspects of continuity well and in doing so,
produced a film that had continuity that worked quite effectively. So from
this, we had already observed the conventions of this, to an extent.
In order to understand and interpret these conventions
further, I did research into it by looking at videos, to give me a better idea
of how continuity, in particular, should work to the best of its capabilities,
giving me a vision almost of how our film should look in terms of continuity. I
feel this research helped a great deal, as I think our end product is very
strong in this department. Personally, I feel that the continuity and the
editing between shots is what set’s our film apart. We chose to adopt a quick,
snappy, rhythmic style between our shots, making the continuity what it should
be; clear, precise and keeps the viewer informed of any changes that are
happening, as well as making sense throughout.
I believe our film met the criteria of a psychological
thriller very well. We had done research into the genre and found exactly how
it should look, as well as the specific effects needed to give the viewer no
doubt of the genre in which they’re watching. Effects such as zooming in and
out of the eye reflect, I feel, the genre well. It gives us an almost weird,
unusual edge, which I believe is necessary to a psychological thriller. The
‘eye zoom’ especially, gives us a sense of the psychological state of the
subject, perhaps. Also, the flashbacks we see of the main character Brian,
further confirm this genre as it is us seeing what he sees in the future. The
sound effects of something rewinding and the black and white effect over the
film, show this again. At some points in the film, we see Point Of View shots
(POV), where we see what Brian is seeing. This puts us in the mind-set of the
character and gives us an understanding of what he is thinking, or planning to
do next, maybe. As the director, these are the effects I wanted the film to
reflect, by using these shots, such as POV’s and Over the Shoulder shots (OTS).
It puts us in the mind of the focus point and we see everything he sees, in the
same way and context he sees it, which is what I really wanted to get across to
the viewer.
Also, I wanted to stick to the conventions of the genre, and
never planned to subvert the expectations of the audience. I wanted it to be
different and un-expecting, but at the same time, I wanted it to be seen as a
psychological thriller, in which we all know and enjoy.
I don’t see there being any parodies in our film. As I said,
I wanted to keep it close to the conventions of the genre and in doing so,
avoided any parodies and ‘twists’ of the genre, such as blending two genres
together. A part we are particularly happy with is the plughole scene. We
didn’t parody as such, but took inspiration from the great film Psycho, where
we see the same thing of zooming into the round plughole and then zooming back
out of a round, eye. We differ from this as we have a different context, no one
has been killed as there was in Psycho, and there is simply water instead of
blood. This scene uses that effect well but also works cleverly as it flows
nicely with the story, as Brian goes through his morning ritual.
In terms of audience pleasure, I want the audience, as I
said, to get into the mind of Brian and to understand what he is doing and why.
Also, the film builds up this huge expectation of something amazing to happen,
and it does, to an extent. Then of course at the end, there is the twist in
which the film finishes on. This I think will surprise viewers and perhaps have
had them fooled throughout the rest of the film, which I hope they will see as
clever and that it makes a great story.
Comparing our film to real media texts, I think there are a
couple in which we looked at and took inspiration. For the title sequence, we
took ideas and the look from the one seen in Se7en, where we see the text
‘jumping’ across the screen, from its original position. This adds to the
distressed, edgy look we wanted.
The other film would of course be, Psycho. We thought it
would be interesting to take such an iconic scene and give it a twist of our
own, which I feel fits into the film very well and also tells the story in a
different way, whilst still having such clever, eye catching editing.
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
link to audience feedback questionnaire
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_4xk0PyJtU0hz_Lg3PSCAB4jHkNB0oxg8MtBktkydjE/viewform
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Rough cut of film- The Unpredictable
This is our rough cut of our film the Unpredictable. We have way too much film for the final requirements of the 5 minute film even more than the video above. However this is the rough cut of our film and from this we have pulled out some factors which we believe need amending for the final cut of our film.
The first drastic amendment which we will need to make a lot of cuts and teaks to the length of out film however keeping the same storyline. This is the at least rough cut that we had saved for our film however we did have much more film than the 5:46 version of our film above. We will continue to edit our film to reduce the length to make it fit the 5 minute requirement as much as we can.
The second change which we will have to make is adding music to the none dialogue parts of our film. This will make the film flow much better.
The third change which I will be making is around the titles of our film I feel they need tidying up and change the background font to black and the overlap font to white to give it the image of Brian's future vision.
The final change which we have decided to make is using a video effect over the black and white filters to make them look more paranormal when the character Brian sees into the future. This effect is called vignette which will give us a better effect here.
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
Film poster- Matthew Gollick
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| For our film I came up with this film poster, from my research I have taken in all the consideration from my film poster research, The main design of this poster captures the main symbols of the film which is the main aspect which I have taken from my research to develop this poster. The centre image of Brian the main character in our supernatural thriller short film, the mask which I have used works well with the background design which I used a gradient to create. The idea and the link to which I have used this captures the Gift to see into the future which Brian gains early in the film. The other icons of the playing cards, poker chips and finally the blood are all the main symbols of our film this gives a flavour to the audience who view the poster. |
Thursday, 14 February 2013
Filming pack day 3
Risk assessment
Shooting script-
shot 26- Extreme long shot
shot 27- still shot - Brian enters from right
shot 28- over shoulder medium
shot 30- over shoulder medium
shot 31- over shoulder medium
shot 32- medium to long shot
shot 33- close up of phone
shot 34- Still long shot
shot 35- medium shot - horizontal
shot 36- medium shot - horizontal
shot 37- medium shot - horizontal
shot 38- medium shot - horizontal
shot 39- medium shot - horizontal
shot 40- medium shot - horizontal
shot 41- medium shot
shot 42- long shot to extreme long shot (pan)
shot 43- close-up
location recce-
Script-
Storyboards-
Character props-
Brian's props same as day one on filming pack 1 Lewis props
Equipment-
Filming equipment for day 2
This is the
camera which we are using to film the whole of our 5 minute short film.
This is the tripod for the camera which we are using for our 5 minute short film.
Location photos-
Camera mapping-
Shooting script-
shot 26- Extreme long shot
shot 27- still shot - Brian enters from right
shot 28- over shoulder medium
shot 30- over shoulder medium
shot 31- over shoulder medium
shot 32- medium to long shot
shot 33- close up of phone
shot 34- Still long shot
shot 35- medium shot - horizontal
shot 36- medium shot - horizontal
shot 37- medium shot - horizontal
shot 38- medium shot - horizontal
shot 39- medium shot - horizontal
shot 40- medium shot - horizontal
shot 41- medium shot
shot 42- long shot to extreme long shot (pan)
shot 43- close-up
location recce-
Script-
Storyboards-
shot 26-43
Character props-
Brian's props same as day one on filming pack 1 Lewis props
Equipment-
Filming equipment for day 2
This is the tripod for the camera which we are using for our 5 minute short film.
Location photos-
This is the first location where Brian meets Neil.
The third shot is where we see Brian walking to the bus station, to return home.
This, the second shot, is where Brian and Neil go and sit in the park.
Finally, we see a shot of the bus station.
Camera mapping-
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