Monday, 30 November 2009
Sunday, 29 November 2009
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Storyboard
After a load of technical issues I've finally managed to scan the storyboard and uplolad it to Scribd.
One Step Back Storyboard PDF
One Step Back Storyboard PDF
Monday, 23 November 2009
Ancillary texts ideas & research
As part of our
coursework, we have to include two ancillary texts.
For our coursework we have chosen to do:
a poster for the film
and
a film magazine review page featuring the film
Our poster will most likely be produced in Adobe Photoshop and the film magazine review page in Microsoft Publisher.
We will produce the ancillary texts after we have finished our main production as you can't review a film that hasn't been made and the main poster needs to be relevant to the film, for example, you can't include things on the poster that won't be in the final production in case things change (cast members changing etc.)
I have a basic idea for the film magazine review page based on the main review style of the magazine Empire.
This includes a large picture/screencap for the top half of the article with the main review in the bottom half. The bottom half of the page contains the article itself as well as
coursework, we have to include two ancillary texts.
For our coursework we have chosen to do:
a poster for the film
and
a film magazine review page featuring the film
Our poster will most likely be produced in Adobe Photoshop and the film magazine review page in Microsoft Publisher.
We will produce the ancillary texts after we have finished our main production as you can't review a film that hasn't been made and the main poster needs to be relevant to the film, for example, you can't include things on the poster that won't be in the final production in case things change (cast members changing etc.)I have a basic idea for the film magazine review page based on the main review style of the magazine Empire.
This includes a large picture/screencap for the top half of the article with the main review in the bottom half. The bottom half of the page contains the article itself as well as
Production Schedule
A production schedule has been uploaded by my partner, Sam Thomas, for this week.
Schedule for Filimg
This has been made to give us both an idea of where we should be in the filming process and takes into accounts dates when we are not available.
Schedule for Filimg
This has been made to give us both an idea of where we should be in the filming process and takes into accounts dates when we are not available.
Sunday, 15 November 2009
Casting/Costume
All casting has been sorted and organized by us.
The costumes have been/will be organised by my partner, Sam Thomas.
There will be two protagonists in our film. The rest of the cast will be filled up with extras which have been sorted out as friends and other actors have agreed to help out where-ever they can.
One of the protagonists will be the 'Blue Man' he is never named but this is what people have come to call him. He will be portrayed by my partner, Sam Thomas, and will be dressed in a work-style uniform (white shirt, black ties, working trousers, black shoes blazer and a hat) over a blue Morphsuit.
He is too look like a busy business man, with not much time on his hands and will be holding a newspaper under his arm.
Our main protagonist will be portrayed by Ben Gibson. He has had acting experience when he was younger as well as in my AS coursework film and he is also available whenever we are as his school timetable is roughly the same as ours and is also a friend of ours and will happily give up free time to work on the film. He is of a normal stature and is what we see as the average teenage boy. He is 17 years old and is middle class.
The costume for this character will be basic clothing. He will most of the time just be wearing a leather coat, jeans and a t-shirt.
The costumes have been/will be organised by my partner, Sam Thomas.
There will be two protagonists in our film. The rest of the cast will be filled up with extras which have been sorted out as friends and other actors have agreed to help out where-ever they can.One of the protagonists will be the 'Blue Man' he is never named but this is what people have come to call him. He will be portrayed by my partner, Sam Thomas, and will be dressed in a work-style uniform (white shirt, black ties, working trousers, black shoes blazer and a hat) over a blue Morphsuit.
He is too look like a busy business man, with not much time on his hands and will be holding a newspaper under his arm.
Our main protagonist will be portrayed by Ben Gibson. He has had acting experience when he was younger as well as in my AS coursework film and he is also available whenever we are as his school timetable is roughly the same as ours and is also a friend of ours and will happily give up free time to work on the film. He is of a normal stature and is what we see as the average teenage boy. He is 17 years old and is middle class.
The costume for this character will be basic clothing. He will most of the time just be wearing a leather coat, jeans and a t-shirt.
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Soundtrack
The soundtrack for the film will be almost, if not entirely composed by me and my partner, Sam Thomas.
We will be using the Garageband software. We both attended a workshop on composing music in Garageband at the recent Coop Young Filmmakers Festival.
I recorded the music for the film by initially making a drum track out of loops in Garageband at school.
I then took this home and played around on guitar trying out different chord sequences until I was happy with them.
When I was ready to record I used a program called Tracktion and imported the drum track into there before using a piece of hardware called a Stealthplug to record the lead, rhythm and bass guitars over the top, using another piece of software called Amplitube to apply filters for different sounds.
The product of this resulted in a song which we felt wouldn't really fit in our own production but which was donated to a fellow student, Holly Davy.
Our own production required a slower sort of track so I went back into Garageband and made a slower, more jazzy drum track before settling on just using bass for a more lazy "just woken up" feel.
Monday, 9 November 2009
Thursday, 5 November 2009
Genre Research
The genre that we decided to do was an action/thriller/comedy hybrid.
There is a list of various comedy/thriller hybrids here.
Films like Hot Fuzz and Bad Boys are examples of action/comedy films.
Family Guy and Robot Chicken are examples of TV shows like this, albeit animated.
After watching these two shows(of similar creators[Seth green is the man behind Robot Chicken but also stars in Family Guy as Chris Griffin, and Seth Macfarlane will also take part in Robot Chicken at times e.g. P.S I love You S4EP1]) we noticed that random actions add good comedy effect e.g. Random man on fire come on screen screaming for a split second.
Having distorted physics also tends to make things more of a comedic value as well e.g. in Family Guy when people fall off something, they will hit the floor instantly, with a loud thud.
Donnie Darko - Richard Kelly - 2001
This film has a few elements we would like to take into our film.
The film is based around the main protagonist (Donnie Darko) seeing an invisible character, but is seen by him and no one else. This invisible character also has a disturbing/weird look to it which can cause unease in a way to the audience.
Camera shots in this film portray the attitude and atmosphere of the main protagonist very well which we feel would work rather well in our film as well.
A book we found that is useful for Genre Research is Film Genre Reader by Barry Keith Grant (ISBN -978-0-292-70185-4)
The idea for the mysterious blue man in the background of some shots came from the PC game Half Life/Half Life 2. In the game the character, called G-Man, is constantly seen in the background of scenes and then mysteriously disappearing again.
There is a list of various comedy/thriller hybrids here.
Films like Hot Fuzz and Bad Boys are examples of action/comedy films.
Family Guy and Robot Chicken are examples of TV shows like this, albeit animated.
After watching these two shows(of similar creators[Seth green is the man behind Robot Chicken but also stars in Family Guy as Chris Griffin, and Seth Macfarlane will also take part in Robot Chicken at times e.g. P.S I love You S4EP1]) we noticed that random actions add good comedy effect e.g. Random man on fire come on screen screaming for a split second.
Having distorted physics also tends to make things more of a comedic value as well e.g. in Family Guy when people fall off something, they will hit the floor instantly, with a loud thud.
Donnie Darko - Richard Kelly - 2001
This film has a few elements we would like to take into our film.
The film is based around the main protagonist (Donnie Darko) seeing an invisible character, but is seen by him and no one else. This invisible character also has a disturbing/weird look to it which can cause unease in a way to the audience.
Camera shots in this film portray the attitude and atmosphere of the main protagonist very well which we feel would work rather well in our film as well.
A book we found that is useful for Genre Research is Film Genre Reader by Barry Keith Grant (ISBN -978-0-292-70185-4)
The idea for the mysterious blue man in the background of some shots came from the PC game Half Life/Half Life 2. In the game the character, called G-Man, is constantly seen in the background of scenes and then mysteriously disappearing again.
Monday, 2 November 2009
Hardware
The main video camera that we will be sing for our production will be the Canon MV920.
Specifications can be found here.
It has a 25x optical zoom and an 800x digital zoom which would be useful providing you have a tripod to hold the camera steady, which we do.
The camera has a built in microphone which is good in that t doesn't necessarily require an external mic but for some scenes (such as outdoor scenes) the mic tends to be affected by interference, as I found during my AS coursework.
To counter this, the media department has purchased a RØDE microphone and accompanying boom to form a boom mic. Although this will probably require more crew to use it will surely benefit the production in the long run.
To counter this, the media department has purchased a RØDE microphone and accompanying boom to form a boom mic. Although this will probably require more crew to use it will surely benefit the production in the long run.
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