Today we created an animatic for our film opening. An animatic is basically sketching every shot of the film and show how long the shot will be on for. The animatic helped us as it gave us an idea on how long our opening will last for and if we need to add or take out any shots. Here it is!-
Wednesday, 6 November 2013
Exerimenting with the camera + software.
On the third lesson of planning we decided to do some experimenting with the cameras and editing software to test out different shots we could use in the opening and how they would be edited togehter. We want to show of our skills in the opening as much as possible by having a range of good shots and camera work along with great editing skills. To do this sucessfully we need to practice and test things out, therefore we decided before filming that we would use the camera and editing software to try things out and see what looks good and what doesent work instead of doing things wrong in our opening.
We practiced many different shots and angles including, close ups, over the shoulder and some match on action. We also edited the footage together and tested some of the software out on Preimere Pro. After editing the footage we realised we had made some mistakes. We wanted to make a scene in the opening where Abbie was putting her coat on, howver we wanted to include various amounts of shots to make it visually interesting. We tried to shoot this however while editing we noticed it wasnt very smooth and looked quite stiff. The solution to this is that on every shot we should of had her puttting her whole coat on every time and choosing shots to use in the footage, instead of this we did a seperate shot for her putting her arms in the coat seperately thereofre it didn't flow.
The whole point of the exercise was to test some angles out and the editing software to make sure we make mistakes now rather than later and so that we can work out what angles fit best. Here's the clip:
We practiced many different shots and angles including, close ups, over the shoulder and some match on action. We also edited the footage together and tested some of the software out on Preimere Pro. After editing the footage we realised we had made some mistakes. We wanted to make a scene in the opening where Abbie was putting her coat on, howver we wanted to include various amounts of shots to make it visually interesting. We tried to shoot this however while editing we noticed it wasnt very smooth and looked quite stiff. The solution to this is that on every shot we should of had her puttting her whole coat on every time and choosing shots to use in the footage, instead of this we did a seperate shot for her putting her arms in the coat seperately thereofre it didn't flow.
The whole point of the exercise was to test some angles out and the editing software to make sure we make mistakes now rather than later and so that we can work out what angles fit best. Here's the clip:
Tuesday, 5 November 2013
Moodboard
I have made a mood board on my film opening;
The mood board represents what type of mood and feeling I want to portray in my film opening. The mood board contains words and pictures that link to the opening. The disease type pictures relate to the disease that has spread casing the apocalypse, this links with the injection picture wich portrays the vaccine that people took which caused the apocalypse. The little girl from the last of us portrays the type of vunrable character we are trying to portray in the film. Furthermore the vacant, destroyed places represent what the world would look like during the apocalypse and lastly the old rooms represent the hideout that we are trying the create in my garage.
The mood board represents what type of mood and feeling I want to portray in my film opening. The mood board contains words and pictures that link to the opening. The disease type pictures relate to the disease that has spread casing the apocalypse, this links with the injection picture wich portrays the vaccine that people took which caused the apocalypse. The little girl from the last of us portrays the type of vunrable character we are trying to portray in the film. Furthermore the vacant, destroyed places represent what the world would look like during the apocalypse and lastly the old rooms represent the hideout that we are trying the create in my garage.
Recce shots of locations.
As a group we decided to start looking at locations for our film. Since we didn't want too many locations in our film we decided to stick to just one. I put forward my garage which is fairly old a dingy, we thought this would be a good place to use as our survivor hide out as it looks old, authentic and it is small therefore the infected wouldn't find her easily. Here is the inside of my garage!-
This will be Abbie's hideout where she sleeps and uses the logs she has chopped to keep warm and take shelter. A you can see the garage looks compact and old showing the effect the virus has had on building's and technology. We will be filming most of the opening in this room however it will be decorated to look better and we will also add some props such as a compact log burner, an army bag and an old matrass to make it look like her hideout. We decided to do the film in a girls perspective because this is unusual in post-apocalyptic films. Abbie will use this room for shelter and to scavenge for food in the wilderness.
The location of my house and garage is in the countryside and is vacant. We thought this would suit the film as her hideout would be in a quiet area where she couldn't get infected. Here is the picture of the garage door and the window we will be using for the cliff-hanger at the end:
This will be Abbie's hideout where she sleeps and uses the logs she has chopped to keep warm and take shelter. A you can see the garage looks compact and old showing the effect the virus has had on building's and technology. We will be filming most of the opening in this room however it will be decorated to look better and we will also add some props such as a compact log burner, an army bag and an old matrass to make it look like her hideout. We decided to do the film in a girls perspective because this is unusual in post-apocalyptic films. Abbie will use this room for shelter and to scavenge for food in the wilderness.
The location of my house and garage is in the countryside and is vacant. We thought this would suit the film as her hideout would be in a quiet area where she couldn't get infected. Here is the picture of the garage door and the window we will be using for the cliff-hanger at the end:
Mindmap
So today we started our planning for our final video. Firstly in class we created a mind map of different ideas linked to the conventions and themes found in some of our post-apocalyptic research. Here is what we put together!-
The Mind Map has some of our key ideas for what we could include in the video, it also has some conventions of post-apocalyptic films that we will be defiantly be using in our opening for example, low key lighting, a news broadcast and vacant shots.
The Mind Map has some of our key ideas for what we could include in the video, it also has some conventions of post-apocalyptic films that we will be defiantly be using in our opening for example, low key lighting, a news broadcast and vacant shots.
Monday, 4 November 2013
story board.
After the first lesson of planning our movie opening we decided we had enough inspiration from post-apocalyptic films and a good idea to start our storyboard. Our story is about a girl who is a survivor of a pandemic. Scientists have found the cure to the common cold in 2015 and vaccinated hundreds of thousand's of people, however the cure went wrong and instead of curing the people it created a virus spreading world wide. Scientists managed to control the virus to a certain extent however the virus can still spread and has affected most of the population. 10 years later Abbie is the survivor of the apocalypse and is doing all she can to stay alive...
Because we had the idea we created a story board for the opening. We had to think about including a range of shots and making a opening that captivates the audience and makes them interested in the opening. We got inspiration from many films from our research for example I Am Legend, The Book Of Eli and Breaking Bad. The story board contains each different shot we will be including in our opening. Take a look!:
Because we had the idea we created a story board for the opening. We had to think about including a range of shots and making a opening that captivates the audience and makes them interested in the opening. We got inspiration from many films from our research for example I Am Legend, The Book Of Eli and Breaking Bad. The story board contains each different shot we will be including in our opening. Take a look!:
Friday, 1 November 2013
How films attract their audience.
There are many ways in which a films attract their audiences. Examples include:
Posters.
This poster is from terminator salvation and is created to attract their target audience to watch the film. Posters are simple, cheap to made and a good way to advertise the film as you can place them anywhere. However they do have disadvantages such as many people by pass the poster and they could also get vandalsised.
Trailers.
As you can see this is an example of a movie trailer. Movie trailers are used to show a massive audience usually the best clips of the movie to captivate them and make them want to see the full movie.
Internet.
Films can also be advertised on the internet, clips and images on the internet can be dislayed on a popular website to attract potential customers. The disadvantage to this is that some people would by pass the ad and would be more interesed on the other things on the web page.
Radio.
Films can also be advertised by the radio, for exmaple some marketes from the film may pay for their film to be advertised on the radio or the the radio presenter could give away free tickets or promote the film. The disadvantage of this is that their are no images so the audience wouldn't get a feel for the film.
Overall the film comapnys need to make sure they promote the film way by doing these things to attract their target audience.
Posters.
This poster is from terminator salvation and is created to attract their target audience to watch the film. Posters are simple, cheap to made and a good way to advertise the film as you can place them anywhere. However they do have disadvantages such as many people by pass the poster and they could also get vandalsised.
Trailers.
As you can see this is an example of a movie trailer. Movie trailers are used to show a massive audience usually the best clips of the movie to captivate them and make them want to see the full movie.
Internet.
Films can also be advertised on the internet, clips and images on the internet can be dislayed on a popular website to attract potential customers. The disadvantage to this is that some people would by pass the ad and would be more interesed on the other things on the web page.
Radio.
Films can also be advertised by the radio, for exmaple some marketes from the film may pay for their film to be advertised on the radio or the the radio presenter could give away free tickets or promote the film. The disadvantage of this is that their are no images so the audience wouldn't get a feel for the film.
Overall the film comapnys need to make sure they promote the film way by doing these things to attract their target audience.
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