Dead Mans Dawning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RhSnCVaeNAPublished by: John Boocock, Jonathan Beeley, and Adam Swannick
Friday, 14 May 2010
Monday, 3 May 2010
Media Evaluation.
1. In what way does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of media products?
In our film, we aimed to show a Thriller genre of film with supernatural elements. We brought this across in the scenes leading up to Hayden finding Gianni by showing POV shots of someone following Hayden in the forest.
This is similar to the opening of the film the sixth sense in which little is shown of what is happening or of the intruder in the main protagonists house until the reveal, much like our movie.
Also drawing parallels with this film, our movie also involves a confrontation between the two characters as Gianni confronts Hayden in the forest with a sword and talking about a character who the audience learns is dead. The scene ends violently with Gianni attacking Hayden and promptly killing him. This sets up the scene for the rest of the film. Again similar to the Sixth Sense in which we drew many ideas from as source material. The intruder confronts the psychologist in his house and again talking about a past event that he is angry and upset about and the confrontation ends in the character played by Bruce Willis being killed violently as a result of the confrontation.
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
The social groups used in this film are very limited due to their being only two actors on-screen and both of which are young males. The two men portrayed in the film are on different standing points throughout the opening. Hayden defies the stereotypes by being a passive type of man, not looking for a fight whereas Gianni conforms to the dominant association with males by being overbearing and violent towards Hayden, ending in Hayden's death. The idea for the rest of the film is to show the transformation of the two characters until these roles have been reversed almost entirely and make Hayden the dominant one.
This appeals to the people who see the film as the audience is primarily male focused and they should be able to connect to the two men on the screen. While this is indeed possible with female actors, the audience would not connect with them as strongly because they do not see the similarities between themselves and the characters and it is well known that people like familiarity in a film.
Again back to the Sixth Sense, though this takes a twist on the social groups. Once again, the two people mainly involved in the confrontation (aside from the protagonist's wife) are male, though the dominant one is Bruce Willis and the intruder is scared and angry at the same time.
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
I think that this type of film would be a medium budget product due to not needing a lot of special effects, CGI and would not be aiming at a high budget distributor because of this. An ideal company to use for the product would be Elstree Studios because of their medium budget and residence in the UK. While out film is similar to products like The Sixth Sense, it would be better suited to having a smaller distribution company so that if it is not a huge hit in the box office then we would not have to worry about making back the millions we have spent in production for a simple storyline that we have.
It would be released in cinemas and on DVD to gain maximum profit from the film. It would not be shown in all cinemas but mostly in the multiplexes and the main cities to draw in as many people as it possibly could. If it were to be shown in smaller cinemas, it wouldn't get the amount of revenue able to keep the film from making a loss. The DVD sales are to boost the sales of those who missed it in the cinema or those who saw it in the cinema, enjoyed it and want to watch it again.
There are few opportunities for franchising for this movie in several ways,such as toys and merchandise. However, there are some ways that you can market this film. Movie posters and memorabilia such as wax models of the actors and collectables. Other than that, there couldn't be much of a market because of the 18+ content that would be within this film.
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
The audience for this media product would be people aged between 18 and 35 years old, primarily male but available for both genders to watch and be entertained easily. This age group is chosen because these are the people statistically most interested in the thriller and supernatural genres.
Once again I must reference the Sixth Sense, as the film appealed mainly to males and they were a large quanitity of the viewing figures.
Our film would most likely be an 18 rating due to the amount of gore, violence and language that would be shown in the rest of the film. As this is a sample of the opening, not much of that content is shown in the film and would be saved for later.
http://www.bbfc.co.uk/5. How did you attract/address your audience?
Since our intended audience is males aged between 18 and 35 years old, we decided to make the film that was not intended to be scary, but to thrill the audience, hence why it is being shot as a thriller. These scenes are realised with the use of not showing the antagonist in the opening until the last possible moment and showing shots from behind the protagonist implied to the viewers that someone was watching the character from behind, building suspense and tension to find out who it is or if there is anyone there at all.
Also is the off-screen death of Hayden. We see the sword plunge into him and it fades to black. This was done by covering the lens with a black coat quickly after the sword was plunged down and looked very effective. It showed what had happened without spelling it out for the reader.
6. What have you learnt about technology from the process of constructing the product?
Now that the film product is finished, I have learnt much on how to use both a HD camera as well as different tripod techniques to make filming look much smoother and less dragging to watch (eg. cutting down travelling scenes with nothing happening in).
A strength of using HD cameras is that it gives a much higher quality of film to watch, edit and enjoy. The downsides to it are that it is difficult to lear how to use properly. Secondly, it uses up a lot of space very quickly on the recording equipment so tyhe shots must be shot only if they are intended to be used in the film. Alternative shots must be kept to a minimum due to the limited film space we had to work with.
Manyt problems we faced was firstly finding a proper location. Some time was lost trying to find the perfect place to film. Secondly was the weather. The film's weather must be sunny and dry to film outdoors with the expensive equipment and due to it being shot in the spring, there were few days that let us film outside. We resolved these issues by taking the equipment out in our own time to shoot and managed to finish it in one day in the space of 4-5 hours of filming.
Although we used no new equipment aside from the previously mentioned HD camera. However, we managed to edit on new programs such as LiveType and Final Cut Pro. This was a more detailed editing software and we were able to learn how to use this programming to make our film look more professionally manufactured.
Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
I feel that I have learnt how to better shoot a film and organise the shots leading up to filming on location. I believe that going from a small classroom to an outdoor setting was a big step up and helped me to better understand setting mood and pacing into a film rather than showing events happening on-screen.
Secondly, I have learnt how to better edit a film in advance. I know now how to smoothly make shots progress into the next without awkward jump cuts and now know how to enhance audience immersion through use of music, theme and certain types of shot used.
The types of shot we use in the film has improved too. Our film has uses of eyeline matches, match on action and multiple uses of point of view shots. All of these have improved considerably from the preliminary task when it was very restricting to put all of these shots into the scene without making them feel out of place for the viewer.
The equipment use is much more confortable and less clunky and confusing as was first thought. I can now manouver a camera effectively and produce certain believable shots to use on screen. However, the place where I have learned the most is editing. I can put music tracks into the film, how to use the editing software to the best of my ability, use the different tools to get desired effects for the film and turn a bunch of shots into a short opening that has a mood and feel to it.
In our film, we aimed to show a Thriller genre of film with supernatural elements. We brought this across in the scenes leading up to Hayden finding Gianni by showing POV shots of someone following Hayden in the forest.
This is similar to the opening of the film the sixth sense in which little is shown of what is happening or of the intruder in the main protagonists house until the reveal, much like our movie.
Also drawing parallels with this film, our movie also involves a confrontation between the two characters as Gianni confronts Hayden in the forest with a sword and talking about a character who the audience learns is dead. The scene ends violently with Gianni attacking Hayden and promptly killing him. This sets up the scene for the rest of the film. Again similar to the Sixth Sense in which we drew many ideas from as source material. The intruder confronts the psychologist in his house and again talking about a past event that he is angry and upset about and the confrontation ends in the character played by Bruce Willis being killed violently as a result of the confrontation.
2. How does your media product represent particular social groups?
The social groups used in this film are very limited due to their being only two actors on-screen and both of which are young males. The two men portrayed in the film are on different standing points throughout the opening. Hayden defies the stereotypes by being a passive type of man, not looking for a fight whereas Gianni conforms to the dominant association with males by being overbearing and violent towards Hayden, ending in Hayden's death. The idea for the rest of the film is to show the transformation of the two characters until these roles have been reversed almost entirely and make Hayden the dominant one.
This appeals to the people who see the film as the audience is primarily male focused and they should be able to connect to the two men on the screen. While this is indeed possible with female actors, the audience would not connect with them as strongly because they do not see the similarities between themselves and the characters and it is well known that people like familiarity in a film.
Again back to the Sixth Sense, though this takes a twist on the social groups. Once again, the two people mainly involved in the confrontation (aside from the protagonist's wife) are male, though the dominant one is Bruce Willis and the intruder is scared and angry at the same time.
3. What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
I think that this type of film would be a medium budget product due to not needing a lot of special effects, CGI and would not be aiming at a high budget distributor because of this. An ideal company to use for the product would be Elstree Studios because of their medium budget and residence in the UK. While out film is similar to products like The Sixth Sense, it would be better suited to having a smaller distribution company so that if it is not a huge hit in the box office then we would not have to worry about making back the millions we have spent in production for a simple storyline that we have.
It would be released in cinemas and on DVD to gain maximum profit from the film. It would not be shown in all cinemas but mostly in the multiplexes and the main cities to draw in as many people as it possibly could. If it were to be shown in smaller cinemas, it wouldn't get the amount of revenue able to keep the film from making a loss. The DVD sales are to boost the sales of those who missed it in the cinema or those who saw it in the cinema, enjoyed it and want to watch it again.
There are few opportunities for franchising for this movie in several ways,such as toys and merchandise. However, there are some ways that you can market this film. Movie posters and memorabilia such as wax models of the actors and collectables. Other than that, there couldn't be much of a market because of the 18+ content that would be within this film.
4. Who would be the audience for your media product?
The audience for this media product would be people aged between 18 and 35 years old, primarily male but available for both genders to watch and be entertained easily. This age group is chosen because these are the people statistically most interested in the thriller and supernatural genres.
Once again I must reference the Sixth Sense, as the film appealed mainly to males and they were a large quanitity of the viewing figures.
Our film would most likely be an 18 rating due to the amount of gore, violence and language that would be shown in the rest of the film. As this is a sample of the opening, not much of that content is shown in the film and would be saved for later.
http://www.bbfc.co.uk/5. How did you attract/address your audience?
Since our intended audience is males aged between 18 and 35 years old, we decided to make the film that was not intended to be scary, but to thrill the audience, hence why it is being shot as a thriller. These scenes are realised with the use of not showing the antagonist in the opening until the last possible moment and showing shots from behind the protagonist implied to the viewers that someone was watching the character from behind, building suspense and tension to find out who it is or if there is anyone there at all.
Also is the off-screen death of Hayden. We see the sword plunge into him and it fades to black. This was done by covering the lens with a black coat quickly after the sword was plunged down and looked very effective. It showed what had happened without spelling it out for the reader.
6. What have you learnt about technology from the process of constructing the product?
Now that the film product is finished, I have learnt much on how to use both a HD camera as well as different tripod techniques to make filming look much smoother and less dragging to watch (eg. cutting down travelling scenes with nothing happening in).
A strength of using HD cameras is that it gives a much higher quality of film to watch, edit and enjoy. The downsides to it are that it is difficult to lear how to use properly. Secondly, it uses up a lot of space very quickly on the recording equipment so tyhe shots must be shot only if they are intended to be used in the film. Alternative shots must be kept to a minimum due to the limited film space we had to work with.
Manyt problems we faced was firstly finding a proper location. Some time was lost trying to find the perfect place to film. Secondly was the weather. The film's weather must be sunny and dry to film outdoors with the expensive equipment and due to it being shot in the spring, there were few days that let us film outside. We resolved these issues by taking the equipment out in our own time to shoot and managed to finish it in one day in the space of 4-5 hours of filming.
Although we used no new equipment aside from the previously mentioned HD camera. However, we managed to edit on new programs such as LiveType and Final Cut Pro. This was a more detailed editing software and we were able to learn how to use this programming to make our film look more professionally manufactured.
Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
I feel that I have learnt how to better shoot a film and organise the shots leading up to filming on location. I believe that going from a small classroom to an outdoor setting was a big step up and helped me to better understand setting mood and pacing into a film rather than showing events happening on-screen.
Secondly, I have learnt how to better edit a film in advance. I know now how to smoothly make shots progress into the next without awkward jump cuts and now know how to enhance audience immersion through use of music, theme and certain types of shot used.
The types of shot we use in the film has improved too. Our film has uses of eyeline matches, match on action and multiple uses of point of view shots. All of these have improved considerably from the preliminary task when it was very restricting to put all of these shots into the scene without making them feel out of place for the viewer.
The equipment use is much more confortable and less clunky and confusing as was first thought. I can now manouver a camera effectively and produce certain believable shots to use on screen. However, the place where I have learned the most is editing. I can put music tracks into the film, how to use the editing software to the best of my ability, use the different tools to get desired effects for the film and turn a bunch of shots into a short opening that has a mood and feel to it.
Media Film Evaluation
My film incorporates the thriller genre with the inclusion of my character Gianni Aquazi, a mentally disturbed killer whose only goals are to kill Hayden to avenge his fallen comrade. He displays his disturbed side by showing no emotion towards his former comrade and killing him showing no mercy, ignoring Hayden’s pleas. He then walks away, throwing the sword quite casually as if nothing had just happened. This shows the genres of the film. I believe our film develops the genre by introducing a story line that can be developed within realism into many other genres e.g. it could quite easily be changed to have an alien or supernatural element to explain his mental instability which was present even before his time in the SAS. There is no influence from other films in our film; it was put from head to paper. We showed the Thriller genre of the film in the scenes where Gianni slowly stalks Hayden through the forest undergrowth silently.
There is gender specific stereotypical representation in the film is the violence displayed by Gianni towards Hayden when he pushes him down and stabs him with his sword. However it is clear even with no gender difference that Gianni is the dominant character in all aspects throughout the film. There is no age class representation as they are both around the same age, and they are both the same race and ethnicity. This links into the target audience of males 18+ as it incorporates violence which is associated to males and the 18+ audience.
I don’t believe this could be something produced in a major Hollywood studio, I believe it would be produced with around a medium budget as it does not require any big professional CGI scenes or special effects, and I don’t believe it would require a big distributor. A sensible and realistic company to use would be Elstree studios as it is in the UK and does not distribute Hollywood blockbuster films. I think it would be a TV movie as a majority of films with a drama genre or subgenre tend to be very popular on television, this way I believe it would garner more attention and popularity without being made to look obsolete compared to Hollywood blockbuster releases. I think it could offer merchandising opportunities but limited ones, for example a more die hard fan could want a replica of Gianni’s sword to frame on his wall.
I would consider the age of our target audience to be 18+ as that is what the certification is, however younger ages accompanied by adults would probably find this film appealing so they could be included. The gender of the target audience would be males, as there is violence in the film which is predominantly associated with males. I think the classification criteria ‘contains violence not suitable for viewers under 18 ‘ would be appropriate as it contains for the killing blow on Hayden a blow to the neck, which according to our film certification research is not permitted to films under the 18 certificate e.g. “We initially planned for our film to be a 15, but after researching film certification and allowed contents we found a shot planned to be a pivotal point in the production to be restricted, this shot was a killing blow to the neck with a sword. Although we would not be physically showing the blow, it would be implied by a motion and a change of shot.” http://www.bbfc.co.uk/
We attracted our audience of males 18+ with our violent scene and thriller specific stalking scenes, to thrill and enthrall the audience. This is implied by not showing the second character Gianni until close to the end and only showing POV handheld camera shots to show where he is and what he is seeing, putting them in the perspective and witnessing his actions.
There is a particular point in the film which may appeal to the audience, the scene where Gianni draws his sword and shouts ‘Don’t say his name!’ This is quite a shock factor as before this scene the dialogue is calm and mediocre, this scene marks a change in intensity of actions and dialogue.
From constructing the product I have learnt a great deal about technology, for example I have learnt how to use a HD camera, the Sony HDV 1000, I’ve learnt how to use a tripod properly and to full effect, and I’ve learnt how to use editing software, like final cut and live type, which are all specifically designed for media production.
I learnt to edit and cut frames, add music and titles and add transitions and effects to a production using final cut.
I’ve also learnt how to successfully shoot various shots e.g. panning, tracking and location shots in conjunction with the tripod; I have also successfully anchored the camera on my shoulder and shot hand held shots in my stalking scenes. Also in these scenes I took full advantage of the microphone, I detached it from the mechanism which held it to the camera and placed it close to my mouth as I shot the hand held camera shots to capture my heavy breathing with more accuracy, it also made the sound clearer and more authentic. The filming process went quite smooth technology wise, the only real problems were the unevenness of the ground we filmed on which made some shots a little wonky and not being able to look where I was going due to the heaviness of the camera when attempting the hand held cam shots. The Sony HDV 1000 was new to us when we initially used it as we previously used smaller cameras with less image quality; it greatly enhanced our film in terms of image quality.
The Sony HDV 1000
The planning stage went quite smoothly as straight away I had an idea for a film which we put into the works almost immediately, elaborating and expanding the idea. We knew which method of expanding our idea suited our group from our preliminary task, we brain stormed for suitable additions to it. We researched our chosen genre and planned out actions and scenes which incorporated both the idea and the genre, which we also did with the preliminary task although we knew we didn’t need to specify genre. This greatly helped speed up the process of the second task as we pretty much knew what we were doing. I have found that in doing this project my knowledge and usage of shot types has increased, e.g. the match on action shots we used, in the preliminary task we used one to open a door, whereas in the film we used one when Gianni pushes over Hayden before he kills him.
Overall I feel that this project has been a great experience, fun to make and greatly increased my confidence in media production. I also feel my confidence with using the equipment has greatly increased as before AS media I had only ever used a phone camera and video camera, and I had also only ever used Windows Movie Maker to make a video game trailer which featured no actual filmed footage just images.
I feel that the end product has successfully fulfilled its task of being the first 2 minutes of a film, I believe it leaves a lot to be seen which may interest a viewer in seeing the rest and it suits its genre well.
There is gender specific stereotypical representation in the film is the violence displayed by Gianni towards Hayden when he pushes him down and stabs him with his sword. However it is clear even with no gender difference that Gianni is the dominant character in all aspects throughout the film. There is no age class representation as they are both around the same age, and they are both the same race and ethnicity. This links into the target audience of males 18+ as it incorporates violence which is associated to males and the 18+ audience.
I don’t believe this could be something produced in a major Hollywood studio, I believe it would be produced with around a medium budget as it does not require any big professional CGI scenes or special effects, and I don’t believe it would require a big distributor. A sensible and realistic company to use would be Elstree studios as it is in the UK and does not distribute Hollywood blockbuster films. I think it would be a TV movie as a majority of films with a drama genre or subgenre tend to be very popular on television, this way I believe it would garner more attention and popularity without being made to look obsolete compared to Hollywood blockbuster releases. I think it could offer merchandising opportunities but limited ones, for example a more die hard fan could want a replica of Gianni’s sword to frame on his wall.
I would consider the age of our target audience to be 18+ as that is what the certification is, however younger ages accompanied by adults would probably find this film appealing so they could be included. The gender of the target audience would be males, as there is violence in the film which is predominantly associated with males. I think the classification criteria ‘contains violence not suitable for viewers under 18 ‘ would be appropriate as it contains for the killing blow on Hayden a blow to the neck, which according to our film certification research is not permitted to films under the 18 certificate e.g. “We initially planned for our film to be a 15, but after researching film certification and allowed contents we found a shot planned to be a pivotal point in the production to be restricted, this shot was a killing blow to the neck with a sword. Although we would not be physically showing the blow, it would be implied by a motion and a change of shot.” http://www.bbfc.co.uk/
We attracted our audience of males 18+ with our violent scene and thriller specific stalking scenes, to thrill and enthrall the audience. This is implied by not showing the second character Gianni until close to the end and only showing POV handheld camera shots to show where he is and what he is seeing, putting them in the perspective and witnessing his actions.
There is a particular point in the film which may appeal to the audience, the scene where Gianni draws his sword and shouts ‘Don’t say his name!’ This is quite a shock factor as before this scene the dialogue is calm and mediocre, this scene marks a change in intensity of actions and dialogue.
From constructing the product I have learnt a great deal about technology, for example I have learnt how to use a HD camera, the Sony HDV 1000, I’ve learnt how to use a tripod properly and to full effect, and I’ve learnt how to use editing software, like final cut and live type, which are all specifically designed for media production.
I learnt to edit and cut frames, add music and titles and add transitions and effects to a production using final cut.
I’ve also learnt how to successfully shoot various shots e.g. panning, tracking and location shots in conjunction with the tripod; I have also successfully anchored the camera on my shoulder and shot hand held shots in my stalking scenes. Also in these scenes I took full advantage of the microphone, I detached it from the mechanism which held it to the camera and placed it close to my mouth as I shot the hand held camera shots to capture my heavy breathing with more accuracy, it also made the sound clearer and more authentic. The filming process went quite smooth technology wise, the only real problems were the unevenness of the ground we filmed on which made some shots a little wonky and not being able to look where I was going due to the heaviness of the camera when attempting the hand held cam shots. The Sony HDV 1000 was new to us when we initially used it as we previously used smaller cameras with less image quality; it greatly enhanced our film in terms of image quality.
The Sony HDV 1000
The planning stage went quite smoothly as straight away I had an idea for a film which we put into the works almost immediately, elaborating and expanding the idea. We knew which method of expanding our idea suited our group from our preliminary task, we brain stormed for suitable additions to it. We researched our chosen genre and planned out actions and scenes which incorporated both the idea and the genre, which we also did with the preliminary task although we knew we didn’t need to specify genre. This greatly helped speed up the process of the second task as we pretty much knew what we were doing. I have found that in doing this project my knowledge and usage of shot types has increased, e.g. the match on action shots we used, in the preliminary task we used one to open a door, whereas in the film we used one when Gianni pushes over Hayden before he kills him.
Overall I feel that this project has been a great experience, fun to make and greatly increased my confidence in media production. I also feel my confidence with using the equipment has greatly increased as before AS media I had only ever used a phone camera and video camera, and I had also only ever used Windows Movie Maker to make a video game trailer which featured no actual filmed footage just images.
I feel that the end product has successfully fulfilled its task of being the first 2 minutes of a film, I believe it leaves a lot to be seen which may interest a viewer in seeing the rest and it suits its genre well.
Friday, 30 April 2010
Film Script
Opening scene - The scene is a forest on the very outskirts of town. It is closed in inside and Hayden, the main character, makes his way towards it silently. As he enters, he calls out to an unseen person.
Hayden: Gianni! Gianni!
He looks into the distance, camera cuts to nothing.
Hayden: (muttering) What the hell? Gianni!
Hayden sighs. Enter Gianni in the background out of focus.
Hayden: Where's he gone?
Gianni brought into focus. He turns to face him.
Gianni: Hello Hayden.
Hayden makes his way towards his old friend, they take each other in.
Hayden: What did you bring me out here for then?
Gianni doesn't reply, but smiles at Hayden.
Hayden: Listen man, I'm sorry I didn't come to the funeral, I know how close you were with Ma-
Gianni: (drawing the sword) DON'T SAY HIS NAME!
Hayden: Gianni....nobody needs to get hurt...I haven't done anything wrong.
Gianni laughs, still inching towards Hayden. Hayden also tries to back away from he sword but Gianni follows.
Gianni: Haven't you?
Hayden: No...why? What have I done wrong?
Gianni: If it wasn't for you and your stupid mission, he'd still be alive!
Gianni pushes Hayden with a force that knocks him off of his feet. He struggles to getup again but Gianni is stood over him.
Hayden: Gianni...don't do something that you'll regret!
Gianni: I have no regrets!
He lunges forwards, stabbing Hayden. Hayden groans and the camera goes black for several seconds.
Hayden: Gianni! Gianni!
He looks into the distance, camera cuts to nothing.
Hayden: (muttering) What the hell? Gianni!
Hayden sighs. Enter Gianni in the background out of focus.
Hayden: Where's he gone?
Gianni brought into focus. He turns to face him.
Gianni: Hello Hayden.
Hayden makes his way towards his old friend, they take each other in.
Hayden: What did you bring me out here for then?
Gianni doesn't reply, but smiles at Hayden.
Hayden: Listen man, I'm sorry I didn't come to the funeral, I know how close you were with Ma-
Gianni: (drawing the sword) DON'T SAY HIS NAME!
Hayden: Gianni....nobody needs to get hurt...I haven't done anything wrong.
Gianni laughs, still inching towards Hayden. Hayden also tries to back away from he sword but Gianni follows.
Gianni: Haven't you?
Hayden: No...why? What have I done wrong?
Gianni: If it wasn't for you and your stupid mission, he'd still be alive!
Gianni pushes Hayden with a force that knocks him off of his feet. He struggles to getup again but Gianni is stood over him.
Hayden: Gianni...don't do something that you'll regret!
Gianni: I have no regrets!
He lunges forwards, stabbing Hayden. Hayden groans and the camera goes black for several seconds.
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Questionnaire Results.
1) 15-19 : 8
20-29 : 2
30+ : 0
2) Male : 6
Female : 4
3) Yes : 8
No : 2
4) Yes : 6
No : 4
5) 1-5 : 8
6-10 : 2
11+ : 0
6) Vampire : 2
Ghost : 3
Werewolf : 1
Zombie : 4
Other : 0
7) Yes : 4
No : 4
Maybe : 2
8) Yes : 8
No : 2
9) Yes : 6
No : 4
10) Forest : 4
Mansion : 1
Urban : 3
Castle : 2
20-29 : 2
30+ : 0
2) Male : 6
Female : 4
3) Yes : 8
No : 2
4) Yes : 6
No : 4
5) 1-5 : 8
6-10 : 2
11+ : 0
6) Vampire : 2
Ghost : 3
Werewolf : 1
Zombie : 4
Other : 0
7) Yes : 4
No : 4
Maybe : 2
8) Yes : 8
No : 2
9) Yes : 6
No : 4
10) Forest : 4
Mansion : 1
Urban : 3
Castle : 2
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Shot List for the Final Production
This is the shot list in chronological order after the film has been edited together.
Exterior - Forest Floor - Daytime.
SHOT 1: Opening scene, establishing ELS shot of forest and path. Hayden seen in foreground. No dialogue.
SHOT 2: Passing of time cut to show passing of time. Hayden moved further along the path. No dialogue.
SHOT 3: L shot of Hayden entering forest.
SHOT 4: POV shot of figure following Hayden into forest.
SHOT 5: Eye-line match shots. M shot of Hayden looking off camera.
Exterior - Inside Forest - Daytime
SHOT 6: Cut to what Hayden was looking at, ML shot of tree and foliage.
SHOT 7: Cut to Hayden's reaction to seeing this. M shot again.
SHOT 8: ML shot behind Hayden.
SHOT 9: L shot. Hayden in foreground. Pull shot to show background with Gianni in focus.
SHOT 10: CU of Gianni, turns to the side.
SHOT 11: Establishing LS of Hayden and Gianni.
SHOT 12: MCU of Hayden. Dialogue.
SHOT 13: CU of Gianni's face.
SHOT 14: Second MCU of Hayden.
SHOT 15: M shot of Gianni, drawing sword.
SHOT 16: M shot, PAN right as Hayden backs away and Gianni advances.
SHOT 17: ML shot, Gianni pushes Hayden.
SHOT 18: MOA M shot as Hayden falls.
SHOT 19: MCU of Gianni, camera tilted up at him.
SHOT 20: M of Hayden on floor, camera tilted down.
SHOT 21: MCU of Gianni, stabs at Hayden. Fade to black.
SHOT 22: Fade back in, L of Gianni walking away down the path. Camera pans right to the forest.
SHOT 23: M of Hayden's hand moving and gripping, fade to white background.
Exterior - Forest Floor - Daytime.
SHOT 1: Opening scene, establishing ELS shot of forest and path. Hayden seen in foreground. No dialogue.
SHOT 2: Passing of time cut to show passing of time. Hayden moved further along the path. No dialogue.
SHOT 3: L shot of Hayden entering forest.
SHOT 4: POV shot of figure following Hayden into forest.
SHOT 5: Eye-line match shots. M shot of Hayden looking off camera.
Exterior - Inside Forest - Daytime
SHOT 6: Cut to what Hayden was looking at, ML shot of tree and foliage.
SHOT 7: Cut to Hayden's reaction to seeing this. M shot again.
SHOT 8: ML shot behind Hayden.
SHOT 9: L shot. Hayden in foreground. Pull shot to show background with Gianni in focus.
SHOT 10: CU of Gianni, turns to the side.
SHOT 11: Establishing LS of Hayden and Gianni.
SHOT 12: MCU of Hayden. Dialogue.
SHOT 13: CU of Gianni's face.
SHOT 14: Second MCU of Hayden.
SHOT 15: M shot of Gianni, drawing sword.
SHOT 16: M shot, PAN right as Hayden backs away and Gianni advances.
SHOT 17: ML shot, Gianni pushes Hayden.
SHOT 18: MOA M shot as Hayden falls.
SHOT 19: MCU of Gianni, camera tilted up at him.
SHOT 20: M of Hayden on floor, camera tilted down.
SHOT 21: MCU of Gianni, stabs at Hayden. Fade to black.
SHOT 22: Fade back in, L of Gianni walking away down the path. Camera pans right to the forest.
SHOT 23: M of Hayden's hand moving and gripping, fade to white background.
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Special Effects needed
For the shoot, we are going to be using the effects of a smoke bomb. This is not a real bomb, but a chemical reaction with simple household objects to make a desired effect of smoke in the area.
I will be making a total of three to four of these smoke bombs in case will we be needing additional effects.
Here is the link for instructions on how to make a smoke bomb:
If the video doesn't work, here is the list of ingredients and simple instructions I will be following.
A pan
Aluminum foil
Scoop of Baking soda
200g Sugar
300g Potassium Nitrate (fertiliser stores)
Matches
Stove
Mixing sticks
Red Dye
A cup
A fuse, firework or string preferable.
Method:
1. Light the stove and place the pan over it.
2. Add three parts potassium to two parts sugar and add baking soda because we want it to rise. We will also add dye to make the smoke colored.
3. Mix the sugar until it liquifies into a caramel
4. Take out the mixture and place it onto the aluminum foil
5. Wrap it up tightly and put the foil in a cup, placing sticks into the mixture to allow it to aerate. Wait until it is cooled. Place the fuse into the mixture at this point.
6. When cooled, wrap tightly and ignite when ready with the fuse.
The smoke bomb should be complete
The hazards of this could be any athsmatic crew and actors inhaling the smoke and having an attack but luckily, most of the crew are not and the ones who are have safety measures in place to counter the effects of the smoke bomb.
Herre is the link for this - http://www.metacafe.com/watch/517953/mnkjbniul/
I will be making a total of three to four of these smoke bombs in case will we be needing additional effects.
Here is the link for instructions on how to make a smoke bomb:
If the video doesn't work, here is the list of ingredients and simple instructions I will be following.
A pan
Aluminum foil
Scoop of Baking soda
200g Sugar
300g Potassium Nitrate (fertiliser stores)
Matches
Stove
Mixing sticks
Red Dye
A cup
A fuse, firework or string preferable.
Method:
1. Light the stove and place the pan over it.
2. Add three parts potassium to two parts sugar and add baking soda because we want it to rise. We will also add dye to make the smoke colored.
3. Mix the sugar until it liquifies into a caramel
4. Take out the mixture and place it onto the aluminum foil
5. Wrap it up tightly and put the foil in a cup, placing sticks into the mixture to allow it to aerate. Wait until it is cooled. Place the fuse into the mixture at this point.
6. When cooled, wrap tightly and ignite when ready with the fuse.
The smoke bomb should be complete
The hazards of this could be any athsmatic crew and actors inhaling the smoke and having an attack but luckily, most of the crew are not and the ones who are have safety measures in place to counter the effects of the smoke bomb.
Herre is the link for this - http://www.metacafe.com/watch/517953/mnkjbniul/
Friday, 12 March 2010
Prop Pictures
The prop below is the only prop we have used in the entire 2 minutes of film, it is the sword Gianni used to kill Hayden.
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