First Day Editing 30/11/15

This is the Camtasia of what we did during our Monday lesson, we began to edit our establishing shots and have decided that on Wednesday and Saturday we are aiming to finish all our filming.
In our footage we realised that a few of our shots were unstable due to uneven-ground and shooting on a hill, we will try to make the tripod more stable during the rest of our footage.

Second Day Filming 28/11/15

Today we went on to do more establishing shots but these shots where taken at muswell hill and inside the onslow gardens. We took panning shots and also some close ups, as well as, some long shots.
As Simba was running late the rest of us decided  that Kusheda would take the role of the main character as we thought the idea of a female killer made the film plot much more mysterious and exciting.  We also began filming our main character (Kusheda) in the area outside the forest to show establishment of the location and to show the killer's journey to the forest. The shots we took were a long shot panning of her walking up a steep road, a close up of a religious poster (this was inspired by stepfather by the way he was playing religious hymns but he was in fact a killer) this is to make the title sequence look ordinary and like the major conventions of any thriller on this false plato idea. We also had shots of the church and did a few match cuts including panning of the killer entering the forest. We feel time keeping is quite difficult for particular member(s) in our group and this is something that needs to be worked on.  Next week we plan to continue filming in queens forest and get some extreme close ups and medium shots and a canted shot which adds to the main plot of our title sequence.





Since Kusheda is now the killer we changed her costume to this:



 

Location Evaluation

Location Evaluation

Queens wood (London):

Queens forest was great a great filming location, as it gives the sense of a large secluded forest. It was important we arrived at a good time as due to it being winter it becomes dark early (around 4pm)

We aimed to arrive between 9am to 12pm depending on our individual schedule.

Different factors determined how successful our filming was. It was difficult to film if it had previously rained (possibly the day before), This was because the ground and leaves would be damp, also certain areas would be left muddy ,making it difficult to walk through. This was a hazard as it was easier to slip and injury your self .

Queens wood is a public park so if we hard a large group while filming we would have needed permission from the borough

First Day Filming 25/11/15

Today we went to an area around Angel (Thornhill) to get some establishing shots before going to our actual filming location, which is in Muswell Hill. The reason we did establishing shots in a different area today was because some of us have a lesson after lunch so we didnt want to go all the way to Muswell Hill, but we wanted to use the time to get some useful establishing shots.

On Saturday we will be going to Muswell hill to start filming more establishing shots and possibly film some of the action in our opening.

41. Pitch Feedback:

Pitch Feedback:

In our Pitch we had various responses to how we presented the information about our film opening. We were told that we were very descriptive and gave very good examples on how and the method we would use to obtain what we had described in our storyboard, for instance, we showed where each shot would be placed by visiting our location before hand to ensure it was able to be filmed in. Our ideas were well thought out and had developed since we first had explained our idea a while back. By using the format prezi it was said that we were much more informative but it was also said that we didn't speak up and our voices could have been louder.

However our sound scope was not clear and could have been more punctual by having actual sounds to show them rather then just and explanation. The feedback also said that our risk assessment was thought out very well and our responses to if such things did occur was reasonable and explained well.

Some things that people were confused about was the shot we wanted to incorporated into our film where a rope would be swinging from a tree to create suspense and confusion to the viewers. The reason people were confused was because they thought that an actual person would be swinging from the rope but we quickly corrected the confusion as we were not doing that but simply just having a rope swinging from the tree.

Pitch Task 12: Risk assessment (Simbarashe)

18. Practical Remake activity Planning and Storyboard

Pitch Task 11: Production Schedule // -Kusheda & Kadisha

16th November at 11AM - Review location (Queens Woods)

25th November - Start Filming

9th December - End Filming

16th December - Start Editing // Rough cut

4th January - Editing

22nd January - Deadline

Pitch Task 10: Cematic details(Kadisha Stewart)

Pitch Task 10: Cematic Details ( Kadisha Stewart) Draft

Pitch Task 9: Title Credits ADILA NASRIN

Pitch Task 8: Sound Design (Simbarashe)

Title Sequence - "Along the path"

Diegetic Sound: There are foley sounds of chirping in the background to bring the audience into the scene. There will also be ambient sound to go along with music coming from the earphones of our main character.  We will use crushing of paper to show the sound if the actor stepping on leafs. We aim to recreate the sound of the wind blowing during the scene with a fan blowing and add paper to the breeze in order to add to the sound of leafs blowing away. 

Non-diegetic Sound: There will be no non-diegetic sounds sue to the storyline.

Pitch Task 7:Mise-en-scene-props and costume(Kadisha Stewart)

Earphones
Presents the main character (Serial killer) as an ordinary person

Bag
Holding the killers weapons

Glasses
Gives a sense of the plot as his glasses are left behind

Creates suspenses and adds tension

                                              Costumes:

The main character will be wearing dark colours preferably Black, Trousers,Shirt and shoes .
The extras which pass the main character on his journey will be wearing contrasting Light colours which represent The dark side the main character has

Extras:

Adila 

Kusheda

Kadisha

Pitch Task 6: Locations & Settings (Simbarashe)

Which location will you use?

We will be filming in Muswell hill in Highgate Woods

Which settings will you use?

These are various settings we intend to use. 

Pitch Task 5: Audience Detail ADILA NASRIN

                   

Pitch Task 4: Institutional Detail - ADILA NASRIN

 Pitch Task 4: Institutional Detail - ADILA NASRIN

   
         

Pitch Task 1: The Film, 2: What type of title sequence is it? , 3: What genre (or sub-genre) of film is it? -Kusheda

Prezi by Kusheda Begum

33: Branding our blog

For the branding of the blog I decided to use images of dusky and eerie trees in a forest as it ties in with the theme of our opening. I made the task bars and text in dark shades of black and grey to give the same atmosphere of the thriller.

32. Institutions and Distributions:

32. Institutions and Distributions:

        

Favourite Thriller

No Good Deed

I may not be the biggest fan of Thriller films, but my favourite thriller by far is No Good Deed(2014). It follows a serial on the run from police officers, he is  trying to get revenge on his ex-partner and her current boyfriend.

This movie appeals to me as it is real life situations with a plot twist of a psychopath serial killer.This  I enjoyed this film as there were a range of unexpected moments. The use of romance and lust also made the film exciting to watch. I also enjoyed this film as there where not to many gory, bloody scenes which appeal to some audiences.

Title Sequence

I feel this film had a very effective title sequence. Sound is used at the beginning of the title sequence, A news report which gives the background information of the main character, While the news report speaks there is use of slow pace music gives the senses of uncertainty as the music builds up in tempo. The titles are presented in medium font ,in the colour red which can connote to represent blood. There is a range of different shots used in this title sequence ; panning,close ups,tracking.

31. Final Ideas:

31. Final Ideas:

Film Name: Along the path:

Establishing shots of the locations and area. A forrest is the key area, slowly we learn the place is actually abandoned.

A young adult walking through the forrest, the camera follows behind him from different shots. He is listening to music with headphones. There are foley sounds of birds chirping and ambient sounds, noise made from items moving inside his bag. The forrest becomes more dense as he walks closer to the centre. The young adults moves towards the ground, where he has buried the body of someone he has killed. Camera shows close up, using a canted shot as here begins to bury the tools used to kill his victims. During this he uncovers one of the victims hands within the ground then proceds to cover up his tracks.

Genre Change:

Genre Change:

After reflecting on the stages and things we would have to do to produce a teen drama title sequence we have decided to change the genre to a thriller as we feel that we would have bigger ideas and could relate more to it.

21. Practical remake activity Evaluation

Evaluation

We recreated the title sequence of a Gone Girl we started but taking note of the sequence in order to form a storyboard and a shots list. I think this was successful as we managed to make a detailed shots list which would help us remake the sequence accurately. To back this we also made a storyboard to capture a combination of what we saw on screen to go with our shots. This was a success as we were able to capture the key scene which contribute to the essence of the title sequence in order to bring in the audience. 

However when it came to filming the sequence we struggled to get all the shots we wrote down due to poor time keeping and location factors like being unable to get to certain areas we needed for the shots. Although we didn't get all the shots down we managed to get enough to build the title sequence and for it to get the tone and atmosphere across to the audience. We were also able to incorporate the voice over to go with the title sequence which was a success as we were able to match the actual title sequence. 

Editing of the sequence was good due to us knowing the order of the scenes so we managed to bring everything together with the final cut coming out pretty good for our second prelim.  

27. Audience profile

Audience Profile

High School Musical 3 & Mean Girls  Genre: Teen Drama

Statistics about High School Musical & Mean Girls  

Although the genres may be similar the audience share different characteristics in comparison. For example One audience prefers beyonce as an artist but others One direction but on the other hand we are able to see the similarities such as they both have general interests of people and celebrities.  

30. Planning Mise-en-scene: Planning the Props

Genre Change

Genre change

Reflecting back on our creative ideas and research to produce a teen drama, our group have collectively decided to change the genre of our title sequence to a Thriller. We believe this will allow our group to successfully create a great title sequence.

30. Planning Mise-en-scene: Location and Settings

30. Planning Mise-en-scene: Planning Costume Ideas

30.) Half term planning - mise-en-scene ideas

Some of the ideas we had included black clothing on the killer, to represent his purpose in the film, and to contrast we were thinking to make every other character (if any) wear brighter, or more detailed clothing. We most probably wont be needing any makeup as we wont have any dead peoples' faces in our opening. We might need a fake hand to use as the dead persons hand, however we thought this could be achieved simply by using a real hand, but not getting the persons whole body in the shot, as it will be an extreme close up. 

Props we will be using might include a rope, to hang from the tree, a duffle bag, which will be held by the killer and it may contain weapons, we might include a spade for the killer to use in the opening too.

29. Sound design:

29. Sound design:

Part 1

Clock ticking, This sound can represent someone in class waiting for the lesson to end. Gives the feeling of the main character being bored. Car starting represents the main character getting ready to drive away. The traffic represents the character living in the city and gives a sense of the setting and characters lifestyle.

Part 2

1. The static sound was created by Adila and Kusheda by putting a piece of paper in-front of a fan and allowing the moment of the air create a peculiar sound.

2. The car backfire sound was created by Adila by pulling the elastic of the notebook and letting it spring back to make a loud shot noise.

3. The hailstones was created by Kadisha by typing on  keyboard to give the effect of hailstones dropping and hitting the ground.

30.Props & Planning production

Part 3

Part 4

Film Idea: Teenager(male). Enjoys College and wants to go on to university to study music in university. Parents do not approve want him to study Essay based subject-English. Teen turns to crime due to frustration and peer pressure

Key Props: Headphones; always listening to music during and outside college.

Laptop;Represents education

Mobile phone;social media presents the teens of today

Money;plays an important role showing the teen become corrupt

Locations: College-Estate-Supermarket

Setting:Classroom-Bedroom-Canteen-Store

Costume: Middle class parents -Suits, Smartly dressed

College teens: Casually dressed (Bright colours)

Gang: Hoodies,Tracksuit trainers (Dark colours)

Lighting: Canteen, Classroom-Natural lighting

Bedroom-Bright lighting

Store- Darker than usual

30.Finding and planning locations and settings

Part 1

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27. Create an audience profile for your ideal target audience member

Our typical audience member could be a young male or female (most likely female) because most young males prefer action movies, or if they like thrillers, it will most likely be action thrillers. Young females tend to enjoy a suspense filled crime thriller.

The age group we would think would like to watch our movie would be between ages 16-26. The reason for this is because anyone younger than 16 or even 18 may find crime thrillers disturbing as there would be violent scenes. Similarly, anyone over 26 will most likely be more interested in movies that have less shots, and more action, that would make them think rather than enjoy fast shots and loud sounds. Moreover, over 26's wont usually be classified as 'young' adults, instead they may even have families and therefore prefer watching a family movie.