A new schedule

As we approached the three weeks before the deadline it became clear that we needed to manage our time more wisely so we devised a new schedule where we looked at what free periods we each had a a team and when we can get together as a group and when we as individuals could come in and work on the project. So when we devised our schedules we also decided what we was going to do in those free periods so that if one of us was going to work on the project for an hour and later that day another one of us was going to work on the project later that day we know what each other was working on.

Re-filming shots

After we had shown the class our rough cut we were not very happy with the response so we decided that it would be best if we reviewed our strongest shot and looked at how we could film new shots that would accompany our best shots and show a variation in skill. Some of the new shots we desired were ones which would show distress and anxiety from the killers victims, in order to get theses shots we travelled to a friend of Lyles who owns a large section of land where people go shooting, we obtained permission to use both a real shotgun (in order to gain the sound effects) and an airsoft pistol as a prop used by the killer in the production. We succesfully filmed a large selection of shots that were usable and appropriate for our production which we used to replace many of our weaker shots.

Feedback notes

Jamie, Will, Lyle

To get a rough structure to the shots to create a narrative
Use the strongest shots and get rid of the weakest
Try to find shots that don’t reveal too much information about the subject straight way to keep the audience on the edge of their seats
Good use of fast edits, use more of this within reason
Use the existing music but add some sound effects to add atmosphere to it….. speak to James or AJ for advice.
Get some simple but effective titles

Prop List

Below is a list of props that we will need for our trailer.

-morph suit (white full body costume that gives a manequin like appearance), the morph suit is going to differentiate our killer from the victims

-standard suit, white shirt, tie. This is going to be worn over the morph suit to give the killer a more distinguishing look, the family man suit but with a blank manequin like head.

-scrap book, this is one of the killers key props and contains both pictures and scraps of the victims clothing. He keeps this scrap book in the church where he lives

-candles, these are the only source of lighting that is used in the church. We will use additional lighting whilst filming so that our shots are clear but we want the candle shots to appear as if they are the only lighting in the building

-Rifle, this is the killers weapon and is what he uses to kill his victims.

-Polaroid camera, this is what the killer uses to photograph his victims and put the photos in his scrap book

Animatic

Weekly report-week commencing the 3rd October

This week we have finished our script for our production and have assigned key roles to our group members. We also booked our filming eqiupment for the following weekend (8th of october to the 11th). W have filmed all the shots for our animatic and have recorded a rough soundtrack for the song we wish to use however we intend to record a far better version with a friend who will accompany the song with an instrument to help create the errie atmosphere we wish to achieve in our production. We arranged a meeting with Perry Allen, a competent musician who has agreed to help us with our music in a weeks time.

Team roles

Jamie Branston:

Location organiser
Editing
Filming
Acting
Costume

Will Turner:

Editing
Filming
Acting
Script writer and editor
Props

Lyle Petts:

Editing
Filming
Acting
Music

production schedule

This our production schedule that we agreed on as a group and contains important dates such as deadlines, bank holidays and other time we have of school. The schedule allows plenty of time in post production so that we can edit and re-film any shots that need to be improved or that we feel don not reflect what we hope to capture in our production.

feedback for pitch

We recieved mixed reviews when we pitched our idea to the class for our film trailer (The Recluse), the class comented that originally we had not made the story too clear however we did remind the class that it is a teaser trailer and all though we want to reveal certain aspects of the film to the audience we do not want to spoil the film for the viewers, however we did improve on of the slides to give a clearer idea for where the story is going. Another area the class aid we needed to improve was the killer appearence slide as at this point we had not came to a definite decision on what he was going to look like.

We were told that although our pitch did not contain all the information that would improve the pitch, as a group we delivered it in a powerful and convincing way and that if we added the information we delivered through speech it would increase the effictiveness of the power point.

After looking at the feedback we made a number of changes to our pitch such as improving the slide mentioned earlier and going into more detail about the visual style we wish to achieve and the target audience we wish to engage.

Powerpoint pitch- The recluse

Powerpoint pitch- The recluse

View more presentations from callison1318.

Analysing a professional product

Analysing a professional product

View more presentations from callison1318.

This is our initial ideas board that we used to decide which direction to take our film trailer, we also listed our possible filming locations that we deemed fightening and ideas for our killer and film title.

Music video practice July 2010

When we went to knebworth house to practice our lip syncing for our practice music video I was in a group with Conor O'sullivan and Lyle Petts. The song we produced a music video for was Michael Buble's "just havent met you yet". We tried to get a wide variety of shots but struggled to get all the lyp sycing complete so when we returned to school we did a mastershot with the entire song so we could fill in the gaps with parts of the mastershot. I did the lip syncing whilst Conor did the filming and Lyle checked the shots off with our check list whilst also scouting around trying to find interesting areas that we could do our filming from. We filmed many different establishing shots of Knebworth house which we did not use in our music video.

production feedback

When we showed our first screening of our film opening we had mixed feedback from the class. Our first screening did not contain the disappearing shot because we had not filmed it by this point. Without this shot people were unable to see the supernatural side to our production and therefore assumed that "Souldier" was a spelling mistake rather then a play on words, however once we had the shot in the final cut the class said it made a lot more sense. The class liked our match on action, variety of shots throuhout the opening and the costume/props.

Filming reports

Wednesday the 24th November i went into the field near my house and filmed some establshing shots in which i slowly panned from side to side, partly to show the group the area i proposed we filmed our production and secondly to use the footage in the production itself.

On Wednesday 25th November we had a 2 hour filming session in a field adjacent to my garden. the field is very isolated with wooded areas and another field on each side. Once Aj and Alice arrive we started filming. we had to film in the morning before school, around 7.30 so that the shots remained consisitent lighting wise with the shots i filmed the day before. The filming all went to plan, we got all the shots we had hoped for and were able to edit and choose which order would be most appropriate. We took a variety shots from different angles and different positions, from filming over the shoulder close ups of me running, to fliming a extreme long shot from the other side of the field as our master shot. We filmed the same sequence many times from different angles so we could include good match-on-action. I dressed up in camoflauge wearing a beret and holding an air rfile.

The last piece of filming i did myself in my dinning room, although neither Aj or Alice could attend this filming session it wouldnt have been crucial for them to attend as the camera was set to slowly zoom out while i sat at the other end of the table in my soldiers uniform. i did this twice, one with me sitting at the table and once without, i made sure not to disturb the camera so that the filming remained in the same place. the reason for filming the same location twice is so that we could overlap the shot with me at the table with the one without to give the illusion that i dissapeared.

Deathwatch

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

Deathw Atch

View more presentations from guest51af56.

Analysis of a professional film opening

To be uploaded from Slideshare