Production - 4

Leaving Work Scene

In this session the group went out filming for the Leaving Work scene, in this scene the farther was going to be filmed getting ready too leave work.
walking down a silent corridor on his own this was to establish the film itself.
 We had Tom Carter as the farther and Jake as Cameraman whilst Brad Bon field and myself directed.
 This was helpful also to Brad because he is the editor and if he knew how it was filmed it would make it a lot easier to edit.

Production - 3

Script Editing

In our last session the group noticed a couple of faults in using the green room.
Part of the wall in the green room was glass so it wasn't green so, the filming angle's were limited and we didn't like that.
Also it would take a lot of editing to make the wall of skulls.
So we had to cross and redraw some of the scene's on the key shots sheet.
We also noticed if we weren't going to use the green room we had to find a new location for the torture scene and add new parts to the script.

Production - 2

Green Room Testing

For our session in the green room test footage we had to record some footage of us in the Green room. For this we used a tripod and HD Camera with the Wide Angle Camera lense.
The reason we decided to make a green room test footage was to Try out different techniques for instance we did one of me leaning on top of a table pretending to fly.
What we are hoping to do is learn how to work with the green screen and be able to make a wall off skulls in the torture room.
What we are hoping to do with the wall of skulls is to use it as a shock sequence to make the audience feel tense and think "What is going on?"

Props Sheet

In this session me and the group decided that we had to figure out what props we need to use. we decided we needed a Machete, toy gun, office chair, cigerattes and a black sack to cover up the victim's face with. This had to be done so that like in the costume sheet we would know what we needed and be prepared for filming so it would make sense and not miss anything. Anything new will be added to the sheet.

The Test footage

In our test footage we were instructed to go out and try out our camera's which were in high quality, we did this by filming random things, action shots so we would get used to using a new camera. We also used a dolly and a Camera chair a dolly is used to make a camera move so we can do tracking shots and so is the Camera except the camera man sits in the chair and another person pushes the chair therefore creating a tracking shot.

Costume Sheet

On our Film we needed various costumes to make it look professional and believable towards the audience to come up with idea's of costume we googled some kidnap movies and we taught that easiest would be is to make the kidnapper just wear a simple hoodie and jeans, whilst the victim wears a suit and looks like a father/business man that gets kidnapped.

Location sheet

During this Session our group, Tom Brad Jake and myself went out around the college to find places to take pictures in for our location sheet the places where we went where at the back of the college the woods, the Green Screen Room, Cleaners storage room and Behind the Stage. After we found places to film and took loads of picture's of the area's we then uploaded them to our macs and went to Flickr and continued to also upload them for back up and proof that we did do our work. This session was very useful because without this we wouldn't of found places to film our Trapped film.

Open title Planinng

In this Session the group started working on a planning for our open title sequence at the start of our film, personally I quite like our title planning because it suits with the whole idea of our film. We try'd out a lot of different titles seeing what our options were and we googled images for ideas and to try and make something unique and that nobody else had done. The planning was originally made paper with pencil and color pens but will be finished in and edited in Photo Shop. This session was a lot of fun because i got to see what the groups ideas are in picture's instead of words, also i found it enjoyable because it had a good out come.

Trapped Short Film Storyboard

In our lesson we were instructed to split our 4 man group into two's the Editor and Production designer had to work together to come up with and make a Title and Credit's for the short film. Whilst in the mean time the Director and Fi;lm operator worked with the Story board to draw out the scene's and create idea's for the shots and how we were going to film them

Trapped Target Audience

For this part of the unit we where instructed to go and create a spider diagram, open photo shop (National Paper A4)  open Safari or Internet explorer too find picture to do with our trapped piece and what our target audience was by adding the picture's off our target audience on to photo shop. I put picture's of food, TV and other brand's to do with our audience, our audience was aimed at teenagers.

Find Your Tribe.

When I found out my tribe i was very disappointed because I was rated a mosher, so I re did it. and read it trough carefully and after completing it again i was told to be a Scene Kid and after it saying stuff that I slowly began to agree with what it was saying.
And It was playing music i agree with and i do like having extra hair spray in my bag.
the reason we found out what our "tribe" was is because we wanted to find out what our target audience was. The target audience is the people wo watch,read buy, listen to, or use a media product.
Looking at the 'target audience' for a media product means looking at those people that its markers think will watch/buy/use it.

Trapped Mood Board

For this lesson we were told to make a mood for for preparation of our Trapped film. As our story is about kidnapping my mood board was picture's of kidnappers abandoned houses and tortured people. After I had put pictures on the Photoshop piece i used the Magnetic Lasso tool to trim away their background and added effect to them by making them color dodge or light dodge.

Trapped

Yesterday we were told about our new project, Trapped.
This was going to be based of the advert called Hooked for people who are hooked on smoking the idea of it was to come up with our very own idea of a film but it had to have somthing to do with our stimulus which was Trapped.
 We were told to each write down on a sheet of paper our own idea's and then combine them or even pick between us the one we liked most. The flim could be any genre we wanted, Horror, Thriller or even a comedy.
My idea was of a child/teenager who was trapped in his room by his voilent farther who would come and take his anger out on his son or daughter.
Tom's idea was that a person was walking down a dark alley and then being kidnapped by a random stranger.
Brad's idea was guy is walking around and sees his dad and goes up to him and notices that his dad is a zombie to. He tries to run away but is cornered and is eaten.

When we all had finished our ideas we listened to each of eachother's ideas and discussed wether or not we liked them and if we wanted to take them further and base our film around the idea.
We then decided to kind of take Tom's idea but turn it into somthing like Saw.
Where the person is kidnapped and taken into a room and tortured relentlessly.
After awhile the person escapes and then when he escapes he finds out a shocking twist.