Saturday 25 March 2017

Experimenting with Motion

Experimenting with Motion - 

As max is the editor I myself didn't really get to experiment with Motion however I did sit along side max while he did so and gave him certain ideas to try out.
Motion is a new programme recently added to the schools servers that was advised by my teacher to try out incase we wanted to use it to create our titles in our sequence. Max was experimenting in class and he explained how it was similar to Cinema 4D because it has a similar layout and it works the same way as motion. We also decided to play around with our title by making it look creepy to match our genre because we wanted to know if that could be a possible option to use in our final cut. In the end we decided not use to use the motion titles and use the basic 2D titles from after effects.


Wednesday 22 March 2017

Feedback

Feed back from 2nd Screening

After we screened our film for second time our peers filled in feedback sheets again giving us constructive criticism on how to improve our title sequence. Many points addressed myself and the editor max talked over and agreed with, as cinematographer I needed to think of new camera angles that will add significance to the title sequence, i have already began to plan out new ideas of which will be included in our next shooting.

Getting feedback from my peers and teachers has really helped me in a sense of getting more orignal shots to improve the title sequence. 

An important issue that came up was when the killer was tapping the table because it was too fast, to over come this problem we are either going to re shoot it or max is going to slow it down through editing.

Monday 20 March 2017

Second Screening


Second Screening



This is the second screening we showed our peers in class which we have already received feedback on.


Wednesday 15 March 2017

Title Sequence - Casting

Title Sequence - Casting 

Film Casting - 

Title Sequence - Similar Films


Title Sequence - Similar Films 

Similar films to ours would be - Shutter Island, Seven, The Departed and The bone collector (1999).

The Bone Collector (1999) - Directed by Phillip Noyce
This film is similar to ours because the protagonist is put under a lot of pressure and tension is built as the protagonist is trying to save someone's life from the killer without much time to do so. The film uses the ticking clock technique to build suspense which is key to any thriller. 

Title Sequence - Budget

Title Sequence - Budget

The budget of this film is expected to sit around $85,000,000. This is because many similar films to ours range from $30,000,000 to $90,000,000, we have this high budget because we have high paid a list stars within our film, an example would be the protagonist Leonardo DiCaprio. This high budget will pay the cast and crew plus all the set and special effects costs.

Monday 13 March 2017

Anamatic


Anamatic

The following is an anamatic of our story boards.


Production log 3


Production Log 3

We are planning to film in the conference room that we booked out, this scene will be a re-shoot in a new location of the investigation scene that we previously filmed for our first screening. It was best to re film this because not only did the first shooting look unprofessional but it also was only 10 seconds long which is no where near enough in contrast with the killer scene. 
To re-shoot we needed a camera which I as cinematographer will operate and a tripod to make sure all of the shots are very steady.
We will use props to create a more office like atmosphere; These props are
Binders and folders,
mugs,
name tag,
calculator,
images of a crime scene,
a computer,
a kettle,
a coffee maker,
and a briefcase.
We need to shoot George walking into the conference room, working at a desk, looking at the investigation board, working at a computer and finally a burst of anger where he is frustrated.


Friday 10 March 2017

Planning Our Next Shoot

Planning Our Next Shoot

Today I took it upon myself to email Mr Jon Taylor, I did this because I wanted to book out a conference room which will be used for reshooting our investigation board scene. After getting feedback from our peers and watching the footage max recorded in his bedroom I decided that we really need to reshoot that particular scene as it looks unprofessional and it doesn't credit us.

This is the convocation i had with Mr. Taylor.



Wednesday 8 March 2017

Questionnaire of what should be added

  

Questionnaire of what I need to add to my title sequence

 I will ask my peers and teachers to fill out a questionnaire that asks them Crime/Thriller related questions. The questions will help myself decide what we need to add and after showing my group the results I will be able to take in their input of what we should add in order to make the genre clearer.

The results -
From these results I know that music should be a mixture of Intense and Eerie, there should be Quite a lot of blood, we should take ideas from seven, and it should have an element of horror within it.

There was one more result paper however it never got given back to me.













How to Improve


How to improve



After going through the feedback sheets and listening to my peers opinions and their constructive critism I have started to think about different ways we can improve our title sequence.To improve our title sequence I think we need to use our time efficiently, more use of the strobe lighting because we got good feedback from the panning shots I used while using strobe lighting. I think I will also take some canted angle shots as that gives a more uncomfortable feeling for the audience and possibly use some hand held footage as its farm more jittery and real.

Cinematography -
Canted angle shot
Low angle shot to show the killer as a more powerful being
Hand Held Footage

Sound -
Add foley sound like scratching or footsteps for example

Editing -
No gaps
Credits
Correct font
Clear narrative structure

Mise en Scene -
Possibly add a new location
More props
investigation scene needs work e.g. wrong setting.
new character








First Screening


First Screening








Feedback of First screening

Today we presented to the class our first screening which unfortunately didn't go as well as we wanted it to simply because Max didn't have the footage we recored until today. From the footage of the first shoot he was able to put together a first screening however it didn't credit the group as well as we hoped. From what we have edited so far the entire class saw the potential of the title sequence because what we had was good and Max's editing was really good. The class thought our cinematography was good and the soundtrack Max added suited the footage well. The things the class thought we need to develop are the investigation scene, clearer narrative and the length of what we presented which i agree with. Out of the class ours had the second longest length however it was still just 40 seconds which isn't good enough.



                                



                                



















Production log 2

Production Log - 2

 Today we filmed for our second shoot, this consisted of re shooting certain shots that we thought were too grainy or shaky, shooting new shots experimenting with strobe lighting and finally filming new close ups. I filmed any significant part of the rise en scene in an extreme close up because it focuses on that specific object. Some things will not be apart of the final piece because when editing some shots are much more engaging compared to others therefore we only want to use our very best shots. I also had an idea of writing on taking paper and filming that backwards which could act as an over lay through editing. This prop was mainly just to distort the audience and it turned out to look really cool.

Setting up the scene took much monger than expected because there was small light interferences overtime i wanted to use a new shot. To over come this problem we covered any light interference and resulted to using our phone torches which gave us the same eery low key lighting. This made the entire footage flow very well.

Wednesday 1 March 2017

Title Sequence Narrative


Narrative
We have come up with a narrative for our title sequences film, using todorovs narrative structure.
this is our narrative:

Equilibrium:New family move into new house. (father/ex cop and two sons/one young one late teens)
they notice that their are no kids on the street.

Disruption:children been going missing since the neighbour has lived there, only this streets children go missing
family don't believe it carry on packing
few days later one night youngest son wakes to the sound of pebbles being thrown at his window he goes to check and finds a figure of a very tall man over the road just staring at him, as a car goes by the man disappeared. weird things keep happening to the boy: he wakes up in the morning to find things have moved around in his room to finding his window wide open and footprints around his room. This becomes more serious with each happening.

Disequilibrium:the father is told about the children being murdered in depth. (only evidence are polaroid's of the dead children with them scribbled out).
fathers youngest son goes missing from his room one night. only thing left behind is a picture of both sons but the eldest eyes are scribbled out. the father believes his son has been taken by whatever has killed the other children, the father goes to the police station to look through evidence this shows him that all the murders happened exactly four days after they went missing, on the fourth day using the evidence he finds out where his son is rapidly heads there in hope of finding him alive.

Attempt to repair:father finds the place races in to find his son bound and gaged but alive, goes to leave until the killer terns up. father fights the killer he thinks he's dead. they leave to go home.

New equilibrium:they get home to find the front door wide open. they walk inside wearily and in the hallway they find the same polaroid that was on his young sons bed but with the eldest son scribbled out. the father sees the back door open and finds that his eldest son is dead in a tree in the back garden.

Created by Tommy D, Max R, George K and Harry LJ

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