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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.

First Filming Edit

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

Tuesday 23 February 2010

The true story behind The Soloist

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.

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

Diary of Recording Plans

Diary of Day Plan.

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

audience profile

Audience Profile

audience feedback

Audience Feedback

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.

Monday 11 January 2010

mood board


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.