Thursday, 9 April 2015
Saturday, 4 April 2015
Wednesday, 1 April 2015
Friday, 13 March 2015
Thursday, 12 March 2015
Wednesday, 11 March 2015
PLANNING 57 - AUDIENCE FEEDBACK
AUDIENCE FEEDBACK
- First Title: Should be more conventional e.g. blood dripping from letter or static buzz.
- First Title: Too much font to read – should read it up to 2.5 seconds.
- Last Title: There should be a shot of the basement like a freeze frame, with Johnny’s voiceover saying ‘will you run into the realm of psychosis?’ because it is more engaging and adds to the intensity.
Monday, 2 March 2015
PLANNING 56 - PROBLEMS WE FACED DURING FILMING
PROBLEMS AND HOW WE SOLVED THEM
PROBLEMS
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HOW WE SOLVED THEM
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One problem that we faced is the camera that we began with. We started with a Panasonic camera which was heavy to hold and hard to see through as the viewer was small. Also we found that the quality wasn’t as good, and that in some scenes it was grainy.
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We solved this by changing cameras. Instead of using the Panasonic camera we changed to the 7D Canon, which has a great HD quality and is a lot easier to hold to ensure that we don’t get tired of holding it.
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Another problem that we faced is timing. As our actors are from a different college they too have other priorities, therefore they weren’t always able to film on the dates we chose.
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To solve this we made a deal of filming continuously on Saturday’s so that we were always free and that way filming wouldn’t get in the way of their learning time.
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We also faced problems when we had to secure a church location. We tried many churches in the area and got rejected as they found that doing a horror film was unacceptable in a church.
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Therefore to secure a church location, we went out of area and found one in Stepney, who were happy to help us, and understood the narrative and found that really our character was there for peace and comfort.
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Also, another problem that we faced was keeping our continuity constant. We had troubles with this as some of our actors came in different clothing so it didn’t match up to the rest of the film.
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However we solved this whilst we were editing. We re-filmed the scenes where they aren’t wearing the correct clothing and when we were editing we cut the two different scenes in half to make a whole scene.
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PLANNING 54 - FILMING DIARY DAY 6
FILMING DIARY
PLANNING 53 - FILMING DIARY DAY 5
FILMING DIARY
On Tuesday 17th February, we came into our school
location to film the final basement scene. We started off with the make up so
that it would come up on camera. Although this was time consuming as we have
never done this before, and we had to ensure that our actor’s skin was okay
throughout the whole way as him being a boy wearing makeup made him feel a
little nervous! However after this we finally got a good ‘dark under eye’ look,
and began to film. We didn’t have much time as our actors don’t really like the
feeling.
PLANNING 52 - FILMING DIARY DAY 4
FILMING DIARY
On Saturday 14th February we went to film scene 3, which
is in the church. We made our way to St Dunstan church and quickly introduced
ourselves before we got started. Although we had to keep stopping as people
were passing by when we were both inside and outside the church, it was done
quickly as the location was quiet and we didn’t have too many things to
distract us. However, we did struggle in one section of the scene because we
could get the lighting to hit the bag, as we wanted to use natural lighting
because it was in the day. After filming this we only have our last basement
scene to do, as we didn’t get this done on day 3, and a few extra things that
needed to be fixed up.
Wednesday, 18 February 2015
PLANNING 51 - MAKE UP PART 2
The make up done on our actor Faizur who plays 'Jake' was to make him look a lot more tired from having to put up with his problems and that he is slowly wasting away. We decided to go for this look and used colours from brown's to yellow, as this enhanced his dark circles.
MAKEUP FOR FILM from Rohima on Vimeo.
However, as our actor isn't used to having make up on his face, we were afraid his skin might get dry or that he would get spots. Therefore we brought his face cream so that he could apply it after we had finished, and made sure that we used a fresh, tea tree wipe and gave some top tips on how to deal with spots if he got any!
MAKEUP FOR FILM from Rohima on Vimeo.
Wednesday, 28 January 2015
PLANNING 50 - MAKEUP
MAKEUP
For scene 9 we have a section were our main actor gets beaten up by Johnny, for this scene we are hoping to give our actor a black eye to make it seem realistic. For this we looked at makeup tutorials for a black eye and cuts on the arm.
Monday, 26 January 2015
PLANNING 49 - FILMING DIARY DAY 3
FILMING DIARY
On Sunday 25th we went to Stepney Green park, to
film scenes 5 & 6. It was extremely cold on that day, so we made sure we
all dressed appropriately, but were still dressed for the scene. Also because
we had to hold the equipment, we had to make sure that we were careful when
carrying it around in order not to hurt the public and ourselves as well as
damaging any of the equipment. After filming these scenes we only have our basement scenes (Scene 3 & 9) and our church scene and a few bits from scene 2. Therefore we asked our actors to come in on Wednesday after lunch in order to film our basement scenes as they need to be done, and it also means that non of our actors miss their learning time, as we are all free.
PLANNING 48 - FILMING DIARY DAY 2
FILMING DIARY
On Saturday 24th January, after last week we
decided to make a timetable of all the things that would happen today. We went
to the church first for an hour as they could do no other time apart from
Saturdays, and we didn’t want to keep it going any longer, so we started there.
However, the church was not open therefore after waiting for half an hour we
got the message and left, but during the week we are hoping to contact them to
re-schedule to a date where they are free. After all the waiting we went back
to the school location to film the rest of the beginning scenes, although we
left out scene 3 because we knew we wouldn’t be able to get any of the other
scenes done regarding how much time we had in the building. After lunch we then
moved onto the last couple of scenes where things start happening to Jake, we
knew these scenes were going to be very long so we gave ourselves enough time
to get at least one of those scenes done. We could only do this if we stuck to
our timetable and script, otherwise we would be there for AGESSS! On Sunday the
25th of January we are hoping to film scenes 5 & 6 as we don’t
need the school’s permission for that as it is placed in Stepney Green Park.
Wednesday, 21 January 2015
PLANNING 47 - FILMING DIARY DAY 1
FILMING DIARY
On Saturday 17th January, we decided to film our
first couple of scenes; well that’s what we hoped for anyway! As some of our
actors came late we had to re-arrange some of our timings in order for us to be
on time before our location, the school, closed. We finished our scene one and
began our scene 2, we realised that this wasn’t enough and that perhaps the
next time we film we need to do a structured layout of timings for us to be on
top of time ensuring that we get plenty of filming done and for our actors to
take a break too. So for next Saturday when we film we decided to be a bit more
realistic and keep our basement scenes last as we know they will be the longest
ones to do, which will perhaps be done after school one day. Also from this we
found that we need to ensure that both the school and sixth form are open for
the next Saturday to make sure that we don’t have troubles getting into the
building.
Saturday, 17 January 2015
PLANNING 46 - RADIO TRAILER
RADIO TRAILER
IMPROVEMENTS:
After hearing this radio trailer we realised that the volume is too low and we want the trailer to seem as if it is reaching a climax. Also we think that the 'Jake' during the end is not as harsh and loud as it should be as well as the slam at the end.
Wednesday, 14 January 2015
PLANNING 45 - RECORDING OUR RADIO TRAILER
RECORDING OUR RADIO TRAILER
After producing our draft radio trailer we found that there
were big improvements to be made! For instance we now added a male
voice over so that he could introduce more of the film, rather than just using
lines from the script. Although, it did take some time to produce as our actors
had to come in at different times due to their other commitments; however we
brought them in separately and got them to record their voices and have a look
at what they have produced so far. After getting feedback from our draft radio
trailer we needed to ensure that the sounds level were equal and in certain
areas only we should make the sound louder, for example when Johnny calls for
Jake. However, we decided to keep a psychotic range of noises so it could
relate well to our film, for instance in the trailer we say ‘will you run into
the realm of psychosis’ we wanted it to sound really warped and twisted so that
this is the kind of effects our film will have on our audience.
PLANNING 44 - RADIO TRAILER SCRIPT
RADIO TRAILER SCRIPT
Red – Voice over
Green – Jake
Blue – Johnny
Black - Sounds
A young boy lost in his mind.
Eerie music begins.
Reaches the end.
“Johnny you bringing the boxes
down?”
Crashing sounds
“Why are you standing in the
dark?”
Will you run into the realm of
psychosis?
“I can’t control him anymore”. “He’s
becoming so aggressive”. “What do I do”? Overlapped.
“You don’t need those, you’ve
got me”.
Silence.
Heavy strong eerie breathing noise.
“P..p.perilous January 2015”.
“JAAAAAAKE”.
Music fades out.
Loud dragging and slamming of doors to end.
PLANNING 43 - FEEDBACK FROM DRAFT RADIO TRAILER
FEEDBACK
We showed our fellow peers both boys and girls to listen to our radio trailer and see what we did well and what could be improved.
THINGS TO IMPROVE:
- Firstly, they said that we should adjust the sounds of some of the noises so that they are equal and don't differentiate from one another too much.
- They also said to include a voice over so we could hear things about the story.
- Also said to perhaps add a different effect on to one of the lines that we said, 'will you run into the realm of psychosis' so that the audience are able to hear what is actually said.
THINGS WE DID WELL:
- Things that our audience liked were the psychotic noises that we used in the background which worked well with the theme of our story.
- Another thing that the audience liked about our radio trailer was the use of the piano in the background as it contrasted to the idea of something so elegant to be paired with a horror film.
- Lastly, on other aspect of our radio trailer that worked well was the way we said 'Perilous.. January 2015" as it suggested that perhaps our actor is running away from something which is why it sounds out of breath. However this works well as although Jake seems like his running from something, it is actually his own mind which plays well with our story line.
Sunday, 11 January 2015
PLANNING 38 - CHANGES
CHANGES MADE
Due to talking to a producer called Niraj, he pointed out certain errors in our film where our audience may find it confusing or that we were giving too much away. He helped us create more innovative ideas for our film in order for the film to work well with the psychotic storyline. For instance we found that by showing the audience the pills that Jake takes before the climatic scenes, it gives away to the audience the reason why it is happening. Therefore the story is not exciting and doesn’t allow the audience to think about what problems he must be facing in order for the villain to be shown. So we had decided to take out the pills but give hints to the audience that he is taking something, but in more of a discreet way so that the audience are able to put the story together.
Another change that we had made is to our camera, we had changed it to a canon in order to get a better quality film so that everything is seen on the video. Another reason for the change in our camera is because we found that the first camera was too heavy for us to hold when we were trying to get high angles and needed someone else to do. But with the canon it is a lot smaller and easier to handle so we can hold it with ease and also don’t need to hold a boom in order to get the sound, as the mic is attached.
Although all these changes led to changing our scripts, storyboard etc. It has made huge improvements to our film and we can see that these changes will be successful and eventually turn out to be a super cool film!
Monday, 5 January 2015
PLANNING 37 - RESPONSES FROM CHURCH
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