Friday 12 March 2010
These are some extremly basic thumbnails of what our film will be done by, we shall obviously record many other angles to figure out what looks best and which works best. We have these thumbnails to give us better perspective of what angles to record because If we didn't have them we would end up doing very minimum amout of camera angles and so then we won't have a good film opening.
Friday 5 March 2010
We have created a logo for our Film company, we have called it bio Films as we feel that the compnay we generate would be interested in many film genres rather then just the one. We have gone for a yellow Hazard symbol to keep the ident loud and clear to notice from distance.Pitch
My Group, Ben & Jamie and Me. we have decided to produce a film opening. Our openin is going to be eitha crime drama, such as the Jason Bourne series of films. Are other idea is a scary film such as the crazies, which is short sharp clips with a high intencity to keep the audience on edge.
Wednesday 3 March 2010
filming for final piece
first day of recording we where ment to record every scene apart from the scene inside the house, unfortunetly the weather was really bad and snowing loads, so it ruined the lighting. we managed to get one scene done though which was the stalker on the corner smoking a cigerette
Tuesday 2 March 2010
Solist notes on featuret
The original Idea of the film came from LA Times News paper arcticle. There was also a book writen on the character.
It was known that if Jamie Foxx acted the crazy side of his character badly then the film would be a disaster. (crazy gone wrong)
there was people brought from all over the world to america to help out with this film. E.g. the director was Joe Wright and his was British. The Cinema Tographer was seamus McGaney and he was from Scotland.
To create all the street set they only haqd 4 weeks to create and a team of 50.
Most the extra's for this scene were actually homeless people in the first place, the film creators helped them out by teaching them more about the film industry and also giving them a job. There was also a reason for this that they felt bad for taking them out of there home community just to make a film.
they had to teach jamie foxx how to play the instruments
It was known that if Jamie Foxx acted the crazy side of his character badly then the film would be a disaster. (crazy gone wrong)
there was people brought from all over the world to america to help out with this film. E.g. the director was Joe Wright and his was British. The Cinema Tographer was seamus McGaney and he was from Scotland.
To create all the street set they only haqd 4 weeks to create and a team of 50.
Most the extra's for this scene were actually homeless people in the first place, the film creators helped them out by teaching them more about the film industry and also giving them a job. There was also a reason for this that they felt bad for taking them out of there home community just to make a film.
they had to teach jamie foxx how to play the instruments
Tuesday 23 February 2010
The soloist trailer
Journalist Steve Lopez discovers Nathaniel Anthony Ayers , a former classical music prodigy, playing his violin on the streets of L.A. As Lopez endeavors to help the homeless man find his way back, a unique friendship is formed, one that transforms both their lives.
Friday 5 February 2010
these arm some of the thumbnails but we have but taken pictures of the scene and placed stick men onto the pictures we have drawn some arrows on to show movement within the pictures as well. We thought because a lot of the filming is in a dark atmosphere, we thought we should take the pictures in the dark as well.
Copyright free sites
Copyright free sites (Note: not all music is free to download from copyright free sites – there are download fees)
http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com/Copyright-friendly+music+and+sound
http://www.shockwave-sound.com/
http://audiojungle.net/
http://www.musicmediatracks.com/?gclid=CK6V-r7ZiJgCFUse3god7XQJCw
http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/free.html
http://freeplaymusic.com/ (free downloads)
http://www.trackline.com/acatalog/Tracks.html
http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/documentary-general-production.html
http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Sound_Files/Samples_and_Loops/
www.freesound.org (free music)
http://www.mobygratis.com/film-music.html (teacher needs to register for this one)
http://www.ljudo.com/default.asp?lang=tEnglish&do=it
http://www.jamendo.com/en
http://derekaudette.ottawaarts.com/
http://www.acoustica.com/sounds.htm
http://www.alcljudprod.se/english/ljud.php
these are some of the copyright free websites I have done some research on to find some music for our film opening.
As a group we found shockwave-sound to be one of the most useful websites.
http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com/Copyright-friendly+music+and+sound
http://www.shockwave-sound.com/
http://audiojungle.net/
http://www.musicmediatracks.com/?gclid=CK6V-r7ZiJgCFUse3god7XQJCw
http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/free.html
http://freeplaymusic.com/ (free downloads)
http://www.trackline.com/acatalog/Tracks.html
http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/documentary-general-production.html
http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Sound_Files/Samples_and_Loops/
www.freesound.org (free music)
http://www.mobygratis.com/film-music.html (teacher needs to register for this one)
http://www.ljudo.com/default.asp?lang=tEnglish&do=it
http://www.jamendo.com/en
http://derekaudette.ottawaarts.com/
http://www.acoustica.com/sounds.htm
http://www.alcljudprod.se/english/ljud.php
these are some of the copyright free websites I have done some research on to find some music for our film opening.
As a group we found shockwave-sound to be one of the most useful websites.
Monday 1 February 2010
This is going to be the actress playing the part 'victim', Lauren Harrison was choosen to play this character as she is rather small and looks like she could be very vunerable if we use the correct camera angles. we choose such a character as we know most stalkers stalk vunerable people. We couldn't exactly use a full grown bloke because it would be hard to show they are scared.
This character we shall use as the stalker. I rather tall, quite butch person, that has a dark look to him, If we was to put some big heavy boots onto this actor and a big dark coat on him and a hud up to hide his identity, then we shall be able to make him look like a suspicious character with a story behind him which will help with the rest of our film because it could develpoe a story line.
Tuesday 26 January 2010
The Silent Following Photo Montage
We have taken some photos of some of the scenery that angles that will be used in our film. we abviously havent been able to take every single camera angle as this would not be effective but we have taken some photos so we have a basic idea of what could happen. We took some photos of where the cctv footage would be to make sure it is possible to produce such a thing and now we are confident it will work.
Thumbnails
We have designed a thumbnail sheet which has around 50 pictures on it, this has all the angles and every shot that we shall record. We have focused on making sure we have as many angles as possible like a close up on putting the key in the door and a long range shot through the stalkers legs, there is also shots like a camera angle which we have focused on quite heavly. On another piece of paper we have wrote down a brief description of what each clip is about. we have figured out and wrote down on these thumbnails exactly what our idea is. We are hoping that the opening to our film shall last from 2 mins to 2 1/2 mins. The thumbnails are very specific and when recording we shall have a very good idea on what we need to do instead of recording aimlessly.
Friday 22 January 2010
top 10 horror killers
These are a few examples of killers, as we are doing a stalker it maybe a idea to make the stalker have a mask with scary props such as sharp weapons etc to make them more scary and effective character
Tuesday 12 January 2010
In this clip we like a few effects that are in it. like for instance at the time in the video 1:16 there is a sound effect that we think builds up tension and so then it would work perfect when the stalker is walking up the stairs coming to get his victim in our film opening. at the time 1:27 there is a scream that sounds horrific and if we could manage to have the victim scream like the person in this film it will be perfect.
At the time 1:38 there is a image of a man dragging a knife/weapon along the wall and we thought to show the stalker is in control and carm and relaxed and doesn't care about what he is going to do we will try and recreate this little bit as well. all together these few little bits will make our film opening a whole load better.
I have created a moodboard for a Gangster type genre, with scenes of guncrime, strong physical figures, tough characters, drug related crimes and money.
We have decided against this idea as it would be to differcult to recreate a idea without good props and real goodmise en scene such as dark locations etc.
Film title
ide's for a title......
Paranormal Behaviour
The stalker
The door that opened
Silent whisper
For whom the bell tolls
Ride the lightening
Fade to darkness
Orion
Silent passage
Silent killing
Silent House
The Silent House
A Silent House
Silent Stairs
the stalking
pulse adrenaline
the taking
taken
the followers
the following
The Silent Following
the seventeenth
unlucky number seven
silent summer
winter blood
blood winter
cold blood
the settler
confident killer
our final idea is 'The Silent Following' which shall be the title to our film opening.
Paranormal Behaviour
The stalker
The door that opened
Silent whisper
For whom the bell tolls
Ride the lightening
Fade to darkness
Orion
Silent passage
Silent killing
Silent House
The Silent House
A Silent House
Silent Stairs
the stalking
pulse adrenaline
the taking
taken
the followers
the following
The Silent Following
the seventeenth
unlucky number seven
silent summer
winter blood
blood winter
cold blood
the settler
confident killer
our final idea is 'The Silent Following' which shall be the title to our film opening.
Monday 11 January 2010
Friday 8 January 2010
we want to have a CCTV footage part in our film and we want to have a light jump to it. we shall have the stalker walking up the stairs with the cctv footage looking over him.
Friday 27 November 2009
Friday 30 October 2009
preliminary task
1. Who did you work with and how did you manage the task between you?
2. How did you plan your cover and contents page? What magazines did you use for your inspiration?
3. What technology did you use to complete the task, and how did you use it?
4. What factors did you have to take into account when planning, shooting and editing?
5. Which magazines conventions does the magazine follow?
6. Which does it break?
7. Who is your target audience and how does the layout/images/fonts/colour pallate/cover lines appeal to them?
8. Does the magazine appeal to new or regular readers – how do you know?
9. How successful was your magazine cover? Identify what worked well, and with hindsight, what would you improve/do differently?
10. What have you learnt about producing a magazine front cover and contents page? Looking ahead, how will this learning be significant when completing the rest of your foundation coursework?
2. How did you plan your cover and contents page? What magazines did you use for your inspiration?
3. What technology did you use to complete the task, and how did you use it?
4. What factors did you have to take into account when planning, shooting and editing?
5. Which magazines conventions does the magazine follow?
6. Which does it break?
7. Who is your target audience and how does the layout/images/fonts/colour pallate/cover lines appeal to them?
8. Does the magazine appeal to new or regular readers – how do you know?
9. How successful was your magazine cover? Identify what worked well, and with hindsight, what would you improve/do differently?
10. What have you learnt about producing a magazine front cover and contents page? Looking ahead, how will this learning be significant when completing the rest of your foundation coursework?
preliminary task
Preliminary Task - Film Evaluation Questions
1. Who did you work with and how did you manage the task between you?
2. How did you plan your short filmed piece? Did you use any other films for your inspiration?
3. What technology did you use to complete the task, and how did you use it?
4. What factors did you have to take into account when planning, shooting and editing?
5. Which film conventions does the piece follow? e.g. music, match on action, 180 degree rule, camera work etc
6. Which does it break?
7. How did you consider mise en scene? e.g. lighting, camera work, setting, costume, props etc
8. How did you consider narrative? Is there a sense of a storyline? Can any theorists be applied e.g. Barthes, Todorov, Propp, Levi Strauss
9. How successful was your filmed piece? Identify what worked well, and with hindsight, what would you improve/do differently?
10. What have you learnt about producing a short piece of film? Looking ahead, how will this learning be significant when completing the rest of your foundation coursework?
1. Who did you work with and how did you manage the task between you?
2. How did you plan your short filmed piece? Did you use any other films for your inspiration?
3. What technology did you use to complete the task, and how did you use it?
4. What factors did you have to take into account when planning, shooting and editing?
5. Which film conventions does the piece follow? e.g. music, match on action, 180 degree rule, camera work etc
6. Which does it break?
7. How did you consider mise en scene? e.g. lighting, camera work, setting, costume, props etc
8. How did you consider narrative? Is there a sense of a storyline? Can any theorists be applied e.g. Barthes, Todorov, Propp, Levi Strauss
9. How successful was your filmed piece? Identify what worked well, and with hindsight, what would you improve/do differently?
10. What have you learnt about producing a short piece of film? Looking ahead, how will this learning be significant when completing the rest of your foundation coursework?
Wednesday 28 October 2009
Tuesday 27 October 2009
the first attempt of using adobe photoshop
we had to have practice in how to use a peice of software in which you could create a magazine cover or anything else in which you needed to edit pictures.
this software was called....... adobe photoshop.
now because i joined this lesson late at the very start of the term students were taught how to use this program and because i had no experience i had no idea in what i was doing. i started off guessing and looking my way around and thinking it would be very easy to figure out what to do. but after a whole lesson and painfully failing at what to do. i took a deep breath and asked for extreme help, now the teacher miss sutton was annoyed in the fact that i had wasted a whole lesson but reluctantly ended up helping me. she took me step buy step the way in which you cut out a particular person in a photo and how to move it onto a blank background. with adobe photoshop you have to do every little change on a different layer so then you can lock and unlock them so they dont change by mistake. after working on this program for a while it all becomes very apparent and easy to use. so after all this teaching i had managed to create my very own front page to my magazine. after creating this i was sat down and told to create the contents page, all on my own.....
things i learnt during this lesson were how to use adobe photoshop and also it is easier to ask questions before you get into such a pickle its hard to get back out of it.
this software was called....... adobe photoshop.
now because i joined this lesson late at the very start of the term students were taught how to use this program and because i had no experience i had no idea in what i was doing. i started off guessing and looking my way around and thinking it would be very easy to figure out what to do. but after a whole lesson and painfully failing at what to do. i took a deep breath and asked for extreme help, now the teacher miss sutton was annoyed in the fact that i had wasted a whole lesson but reluctantly ended up helping me. she took me step buy step the way in which you cut out a particular person in a photo and how to move it onto a blank background. with adobe photoshop you have to do every little change on a different layer so then you can lock and unlock them so they dont change by mistake. after working on this program for a while it all becomes very apparent and easy to use. so after all this teaching i had managed to create my very own front page to my magazine. after creating this i was sat down and told to create the contents page, all on my own.....
things i learnt during this lesson were how to use adobe photoshop and also it is easier to ask questions before you get into such a pickle its hard to get back out of it.
band garage
our second lesson on developing our video involved another peice of software on the i-macs which was garage band.
This is a program which you develope your own music because when you make your own videos you arent allowed to use another authors music because that would be copy writing.
so on garage band you had a choice of lots of different little strings of music played on different instruments which when combined together could make an interesting tune.
we had to manage to figure out how to time it so perfect that the music went with our video we created as well as timed to perfection. some how we had manage to do this really easierly even though i thought it would be really hard. a factor that helped is the group i had been working in had past knowledge of how to use this program and knew there way around the i-macs very well.
so the garage band was a perfect top off to the video we had created and we thought it was a master peice.
the things that i had learnt from this lesson were how to use garage band and how important it was that we created our own music instead of copying others creations.
This is a program which you develope your own music because when you make your own videos you arent allowed to use another authors music because that would be copy writing.
so on garage band you had a choice of lots of different little strings of music played on different instruments which when combined together could make an interesting tune.
we had to manage to figure out how to time it so perfect that the music went with our video we created as well as timed to perfection. some how we had manage to do this really easierly even though i thought it would be really hard. a factor that helped is the group i had been working in had past knowledge of how to use this program and knew there way around the i-macs very well.
so the garage band was a perfect top off to the video we had created and we thought it was a master peice.
the things that i had learnt from this lesson were how to use garage band and how important it was that we created our own music instead of copying others creations.
i-macs- first chance of using
my second practical lesson came down to learning how to use and how to take advantage of the i-macs that the school has.
we started off having to upload the work we had recorded in the previous lesson. we had to do more renting out from the libary but to get a connection wire this time.
we started uploading the video's which was fairly easy to do but the hard part was getting onto a peice of software on the i-mac's because we had to figure a way to convert the clips we had recorded. the software that we where using was the imovies which was extremly easy to use and get your head around. we started shortening and cutting out any parts of clips which wasnt needed and stitched the whole video together and after a good hard hours work the video was looking very nippy, worth doing and something to be proud of.
some problems that we came across though where with the talk scene which we uploaded seperatly, unfortunetly there was some sound problems with it and we all sounded like chipmunks!....
but very quickly we sorted this problem and uploaded the videos again and it worked perk. It was a lucky escape because we didnt have the time to record it all again.
so some things i have learnt from this lesson was parts like using the i-macs, using imovie and also there are not many things that cant be solved when they have gone wrong seeming the technology of the i-macs is so good.
we started off having to upload the work we had recorded in the previous lesson. we had to do more renting out from the libary but to get a connection wire this time.
we started uploading the video's which was fairly easy to do but the hard part was getting onto a peice of software on the i-mac's because we had to figure a way to convert the clips we had recorded. the software that we where using was the imovies which was extremly easy to use and get your head around. we started shortening and cutting out any parts of clips which wasnt needed and stitched the whole video together and after a good hard hours work the video was looking very nippy, worth doing and something to be proud of.
some problems that we came across though where with the talk scene which we uploaded seperatly, unfortunetly there was some sound problems with it and we all sounded like chipmunks!....
but very quickly we sorted this problem and uploaded the videos again and it worked perk. It was a lucky escape because we didnt have the time to record it all again.
so some things i have learnt from this lesson was parts like using the i-macs, using imovie and also there are not many things that cant be solved when they have gone wrong seeming the technology of the i-macs is so good.
my first practical.....
my first proper practical lesson started off with a task of recording a conversation peace.
we had to invlove a conversation about what ever we wanted and also include a 180 degree camera shot.
i got put into a group that had a missing memeber which was with ben, jack and neil. the over member of the group was luke but unfortuanetly he was un able to be in the lesson.
so we started off with a plan of what will do for our video, wrote down a sketch of scene by scene lay out....
after this we rented out one a camera with a tri-pod which we would think would be very useful and easy to use when doing our 180 degree shot.
we settled down to start shooting and boys being boys our plan went completely out the window and we started shooting a run scene with quick shoots and a boy drama affect added to it.
we had some scenes that were very short, it inlvolved a long chase with jumping off drops and running through doors. a few camera angles and effects we used were a high angle, slow-motion, 180 degree angle and point of veiw. unfortunetly we never managed to finish our recording in the lesson and had to do more in the next lesson which involved our actually talking part which was were we showed the whole story to the run scene which we had,the story ended up to be abit boring in the end but we couldn't think of anything else. so overall i ended up learning some new camera angles and several ways in which you could use a camera.
we had to invlove a conversation about what ever we wanted and also include a 180 degree camera shot.
i got put into a group that had a missing memeber which was with ben, jack and neil. the over member of the group was luke but unfortuanetly he was un able to be in the lesson.
so we started off with a plan of what will do for our video, wrote down a sketch of scene by scene lay out....
after this we rented out one a camera with a tri-pod which we would think would be very useful and easy to use when doing our 180 degree shot.
we settled down to start shooting and boys being boys our plan went completely out the window and we started shooting a run scene with quick shoots and a boy drama affect added to it.
we had some scenes that were very short, it inlvolved a long chase with jumping off drops and running through doors. a few camera angles and effects we used were a high angle, slow-motion, 180 degree angle and point of veiw. unfortunetly we never managed to finish our recording in the lesson and had to do more in the next lesson which involved our actually talking part which was were we showed the whole story to the run scene which we had,the story ended up to be abit boring in the end but we couldn't think of anything else. so overall i ended up learning some new camera angles and several ways in which you could use a camera.