Week 8 Reflective post

This week we filmed our first prototype for our movie. What went well was that we managed to get a lot of filming done which managed to fulfil our expectations that day - Get as much done as we could. However, what we could have changed was that we could have had Adam there so that we could also get his opinion.

Reflective Post week 7

This week was very productive as we got most of our paperwork for our pre-production done to a good quality. This week was very helpful towards our opening sequence as we got our shooting script done so we know more or less of what we're going to film and how we are going to film then. We also arranged our schedule for when we are going to film which got us more organised on our timetable to film.

Recci

These are the images of our location. The first few images were our first intention and the second set of images are the images that are for the new plan. They show images of locations where drugs are taken and different shots of the school which is where our opening sequence was shot.

Production Schedule

Call Sheet

CALL SHEET (Vauxhall Apartments)

Date and Time: December 23^rd  – 11am to 3am

Location: Vauxhall Apartments

Script shot numbers: Scenes 6-15 and 23-36

Actors Required: Fabio Fernandes

Props Required: Upper Class clothes

Crew Required: Myles Glaven holding and positioning the camera.

Equipment Required: Camera and Tripod

Travel Arrangements: None

         CALL SHEET (School Corridors)

Date and Time: December 19^th –12 am – 2pm   

Location: School Corridors  

Script shot numbers: Scenes 16-22

Actors Required: Fabio Fernandes and Omario Morris

Crew Required: Adam Jardine holding and positioning the camera.           

Equipment Required: Camera, Tripod, Baking Soda, Plastic wrap.

Travel Arrangements: None                            

Shooting Script

This is our shooting script that we used to create our opening sequence.

Call list

Editing techniques

Lately I have learned new editing techniques that can help to improve my opening sequence to make it more realistic. Here are examples of them:

Eyeline match - When the audience wants to see what the character is seeing. In this clip, the audience will want to see where the character is seeing, for example the eye contact that is currently being made and their views towards the cigarretes.

Graphic match - Where the sound matches what is being currently viewed. In this scene, when the explosion is visualized, it is followed up by sounds of things exploding, glass breaking etc. This adds more realism to the current situation.

Jump cut - A sudden transition from one thing to another to speed up the process of a current action. In this clip, there is quick transitions of him preparing himself so that this scene can be done quicker.

Crosscutting - The cutting between 2 or more scenes to show action from different locations. In this part of the movie, crosscutting is used to show the similarity between the two different locations and how they can link together as in both of the locations, there is small conflict happening which links both scenes  together.

Parallel editing - Continuously alternating two or more scenes which are happening simulatenously. From this scene, as the action is happening at the same time, the audience would believe that the police is breaking into the crazy man's house but instead they break into the wrong house which can add confusion yet interest into the scenes that will follow up.

 

Cutaway - When something is said, the current scene is paused and a reference to the audience is shown.In this scene from Family Guy, a cutaway is used to reference the audience when Lois says "the kids aren't learning anything at that Italian school" and the use of the different scene just shows that to the audience.

Transitions:

Dissolve - Where the image dissolves away into something else

Wipe - A transition that cleans away a scene to move into another

Fade In - A slow transition in which the images fades into the screen

Fade out - A slow transition in which the scene slowly fades away from the screen

Super imposition - To edit something or someone into the scene(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNTu06FY_uM)

Visual effects - Effects that are not real but can be made to add more emphasis into something, for example over dramatized explosions or lightsabers, lazers etc. In Star Wars lightsabers are widely used as lightsabers obviously don't exist.

Audience focus group

Week 6 reflective post

This week I looked at and designed a timeline about the evolution of BSR movies - looking at how they were designed in the 1960s and then moving onto present times. What I saw from this was the evolution of the diversity in characters for example in the 1960s, it was rare to find a black actor to be in a BSR whilst in the present times of 2000-2010 there is a greater diversity as there are black characters, asian characters, hispanics and white. Because of this I know that I should have more characters of a larger diversity.

Treatment for Skrew It

Beachcombing for inspiration