Evaluation question 4 finish
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Friday, 8 April 2011
Evaluation question 2
From this we have been able to learn that our posters have been successful at been able to grab the eye as well as making the viewer want to know more about the film. We also learned that our magazine does appeal to a younger and maybe more mainstream audience. With the film we can see that it has ended up fitting much more into the thriller/crime genre then the original plan of it been a horror film, we had realized this during production and aimed it more at a thriller audience.
Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Friday, 1 April 2011
Monday, 21 March 2011
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Film poster work in progress and name change
Hear is my work in progress for the poster as youcan see there has been a name change from PULL OVER to ENIGMA this is because of the lack of car secenes as we decided not to use this method in our film the tag line now is "How will you solve it..." .
Thursday, 17 February 2011
filming progress
Over past few weeks we have completed filming on our short film and are currently putting it through the final stages of editing the film. Several changes have been made from the original script, mainly the character of Sarah has been changed to a male character called Jonathan due to the fact that the actress we had asked to play the role of Sarah had to pull out due to college commitments. Thus we started a search for someone who would be available for filming whenever we needed to film and ended up just changing the gender of the character.
Also we realised that we may not have enough story content to fill the 5 minute time slot we were aiming for so we wrote some extra scenes into the script so that we would be able to give the story and characters more depth. Here are extracts for some of the scenes that we added or extended.
The 1st of these scenes was a scene between detective Peterson and Jonathan:
Peterson: So do you want to tell us what happened?
Jonathan: Well we went down to the woods, and ....
The 2nd scene we extended was the phone call between Peterson and Scott:
Scott: Sir We've got a big problem here
Paterson: Scott, What have you found?
The final and major alteration was to the final scene which we changed quite drastically to include direct interaction between Scott and Jonathan which allows Jonathan himself to explain his motives:
Jonathan: Why? Because i spent my entire life been bullied by pricks like them and i snapped
As expected the film does not completely stick to the script as we allowed a bit of room for improvisation by the actors but in whole we kept to the script as close as possible.
Also we realised that we may not have enough story content to fill the 5 minute time slot we were aiming for so we wrote some extra scenes into the script so that we would be able to give the story and characters more depth. Here are extracts for some of the scenes that we added or extended.
The 1st of these scenes was a scene between detective Peterson and Jonathan:
Peterson: So do you want to tell us what happened?
Jonathan: Well we went down to the woods, and ....
The 2nd scene we extended was the phone call between Peterson and Scott:
Scott: Sir We've got a big problem here
Paterson: Scott, What have you found?
The final and major alteration was to the final scene which we changed quite drastically to include direct interaction between Scott and Jonathan which allows Jonathan himself to explain his motives:
Jonathan: Why? Because i spent my entire life been bullied by pricks like them and i snapped
As expected the film does not completely stick to the script as we allowed a bit of room for improvisation by the actors but in whole we kept to the script as close as possible.
Monday, 7 February 2011
Script first draft
Here is our 1st Draft for our script for our film. There will probably be some changes in the final film because we may improvise some scenes on the day as well as adding or cutting scenes from the film to get the film to fit into the allocated time slot.
The film opens on a black screen and we here the noise of someone knocking on a door. The next shot is from inside the house looking down a hallway towards the door that suddenly just swings forwards revealing two men wearing long coats with shirt and tie underneath.
Detective Peterson: Hello, is anybody here?
Detective Scott: This is the police
Their calls are answered with silence and the police officers start to advance into the hallway. There are no lights on in the house and all the curtains are drawn. All the light will be natural light. Then there is a sudden noise in the kitchen.
DS: Who’s there, show your self
There is no response to this. They open the kitchen door and turn on the light. At the table Luke is sat at the table apparently asleep with his head laid on the table, the door out of the kitchen is ajar. Scott moves towards Luke and attempts to wake him up and Peterson goes to look at the door. After several seconds of vicious shaking Luke falls of the chair to the floor. Scott begins to back away towards the door they came through and steps on someone’s foot both he and the girl scream.
DP: What the hells going on in there
Peterson reappears at the door and sees a girl whose face is dirty and clothes are tattered. She is cowering in the corner of the room holding her foot that Woods has just stood on.
DP: Are you the person who rang for help? About your friends?
Sarah nods slowly looking at the policemen
DS: Would you like to tell us what happened?
This time Sarah starts laughing hysterically turning into crying she explains what has happened to the officers.
Sarah: The woods… the woods… there’s someone in the woods… and my friends… please you have to help them … please THE WOODS
DP: Scott it looks like we’ve got a problem, I’ll stay with the girl you go find the others
Sarah interrupts in a new fit of hysterical crying
S: Their dead, they’re all dead
DP: Be Careful Scott, Take no risks
DS: Yes Sir, I’ll be in touch
Scott leaves the house in a rush and it then the camera cuts to a shot of Scott running through the woods. He suddenly stops and looks in terror straight at the camera and picks up his phone. Cuts back to Peterson in the house who is now alone in the kitchen
DP: Scott, Any news
DS: Yes sir, She’s right I’ve found one and it doesn’t look like their death was an accident either
DP: Get back here; I’ll call for back up
DS: Ok, Have you managed to get anything out of the girl?
DP: Not yet, she just said she wanted to clean herself up
DS: Well keep your eye on her, for now she’s the only lead we’ve got
DP: Understood
Peterson begins to move out of the kitchen too look up the stairs but see’s that the cupboard door is slightly ajar, he moves towards it and opens the cupboard reveals a camera and begins to watch. It cuts to Scott finding the final body. His phone rings and he picks it up
DP: Scott we got a mess….
The phone line goes dead
DS: Peterson? Are you there?
Scott begins to run to back towards the house. It suddenly cuts to Scott coming cautiously through the door.
DS: Peterson? Are you Ok? What’s going on?!
Scott edges down the hall towards the kitchen and as he enters see’s the camera layer on the kitchen table. He picks up the camera and begins to watch at the end of the camera’s tape the camera drops. Sarah then picks up the camera and she turns it off. Over dramatic music then starts
The film opens on a black screen and we here the noise of someone knocking on a door. The next shot is from inside the house looking down a hallway towards the door that suddenly just swings forwards revealing two men wearing long coats with shirt and tie underneath.
Detective Peterson: Hello, is anybody here?
Detective Scott: This is the police
Their calls are answered with silence and the police officers start to advance into the hallway. There are no lights on in the house and all the curtains are drawn. All the light will be natural light. Then there is a sudden noise in the kitchen.
DS: Who’s there, show your self
There is no response to this. They open the kitchen door and turn on the light. At the table Luke is sat at the table apparently asleep with his head laid on the table, the door out of the kitchen is ajar. Scott moves towards Luke and attempts to wake him up and Peterson goes to look at the door. After several seconds of vicious shaking Luke falls of the chair to the floor. Scott begins to back away towards the door they came through and steps on someone’s foot both he and the girl scream.
DP: What the hells going on in there
Peterson reappears at the door and sees a girl whose face is dirty and clothes are tattered. She is cowering in the corner of the room holding her foot that Woods has just stood on.
DP: Are you the person who rang for help? About your friends?
Sarah nods slowly looking at the policemen
DS: Would you like to tell us what happened?
This time Sarah starts laughing hysterically turning into crying she explains what has happened to the officers.
Sarah: The woods… the woods… there’s someone in the woods… and my friends… please you have to help them … please THE WOODS
DP: Scott it looks like we’ve got a problem, I’ll stay with the girl you go find the others
Sarah interrupts in a new fit of hysterical crying
S: Their dead, they’re all dead
DP: Be Careful Scott, Take no risks
DS: Yes Sir, I’ll be in touch
Scott leaves the house in a rush and it then the camera cuts to a shot of Scott running through the woods. He suddenly stops and looks in terror straight at the camera and picks up his phone. Cuts back to Peterson in the house who is now alone in the kitchen
DP: Scott, Any news
DS: Yes sir, She’s right I’ve found one and it doesn’t look like their death was an accident either
DP: Get back here; I’ll call for back up
DS: Ok, Have you managed to get anything out of the girl?
DP: Not yet, she just said she wanted to clean herself up
DS: Well keep your eye on her, for now she’s the only lead we’ve got
DP: Understood
Peterson begins to move out of the kitchen too look up the stairs but see’s that the cupboard door is slightly ajar, he moves towards it and opens the cupboard reveals a camera and begins to watch. It cuts to Scott finding the final body. His phone rings and he picks it up
DP: Scott we got a mess….
The phone line goes dead
DS: Peterson? Are you there?
Scott begins to run to back towards the house. It suddenly cuts to Scott coming cautiously through the door.
DS: Peterson? Are you Ok? What’s going on?!
Scott edges down the hall towards the kitchen and as he enters see’s the camera layer on the kitchen table. He picks up the camera and begins to watch at the end of the camera’s tape the camera drops. Sarah then picks up the camera and she turns it off. Over dramatic music then starts
double page spread review draft
For our coursework we were asked to create a double paged spread from a film review magazine that would include a review of our film. So while we were preparing to film we decided we would design our double page spread and start to complete it the best we could without our actual film been made:
The idea we came up with was to present the film in a list of films that we had enjoyed over the last 12 months that most people would probably have missed. We choose these films by looking at the list of highest grossing films of 2010 (http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=2010&p=.htm) and looked for films we had watched that we felt should have performed better at the box office. We decided to do two film reviews each. I choose to review two classic horror films that have been remade for the modern audience, A Nightmare On Elm Street and The Crazies, and Tim chose two films adapted from comic books and graphic novels, Kick-Ass and Scott Pilgrim Vs The World.
The idea we came up with was to present the film in a list of films that we had enjoyed over the last 12 months that most people would probably have missed. We choose these films by looking at the list of highest grossing films of 2010 (http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=2010&p=.htm) and looked for films we had watched that we felt should have performed better at the box office. We decided to do two film reviews each. I choose to review two classic horror films that have been remade for the modern audience, A Nightmare On Elm Street and The Crazies, and Tim chose two films adapted from comic books and graphic novels, Kick-Ass and Scott Pilgrim Vs The World.
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Friday, 14 January 2011
Poster ideas
We have been exploring several different ideas and techniques we can use to create our film poster by using software photo shop.
Our first idea was to change the whole poster into black and white to give it a mysterious look that draws on early
film noir films:
However we then had the idea to use a technique similar to that used in Sin City where the main bulk of the poster would be in black and white but the subject would be in color, unfortunately we don't have our actors to try and create this poster so we used a photo we already
had for our practice
Our first idea was to change the whole poster into black and white to give it a mysterious look that draws on early
film noir films:However we then had the idea to use a technique similar to that used in Sin City where the main bulk of the poster would be in black and white but the subject would be in color, unfortunately we don't have our actors to try and create this poster so we used a photo we already
had for our practice
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