- 1 character
- 6-7 years old
- White
- Hair colour doesn't matter
- Small boy
Cast List
- Phil's kid
- A room with a big window.
Friday, 27 November 2015
Characters, cast and location
Character List
Cast List
Cast List
Friday, 13 November 2015
First Production Meetings - not finished
After we had split into groups we had our first production meetings. We discussed all our ideas for our thrillers and what we thought was each of our best ideas. We discussed all the details of our ideas that we might have missed when we presented them to the class so that we could all visualize every idea. We thought about what would be the most visually exciting and cut ideas that we thought would be too boring. We also considered out thriller genre and decided we wanted to build tension in our opening, which helped us choose our idea. I feel that our whole group had similar opinions on the favourite idea, which I felt was the one about a cannibal who serves human meat to guests. Once we had decided what were our best ideas, we narrowed it down to our favourite idea and started storyboarding it.
We are at the point where we have a storyboard for our main idea and a list of sounds and props that we need.
We are at the point where we have a storyboard for our main idea and a list of sounds and props that we need.
Dividing Into Groups
We were randomly divided into groups of 3 or 4 for our coursework project. Some of us had issues with our groups so there was some moving around between groups, but my group stayed the same. I'm in a group of 3 with two other girls. At first I was worried as I don't know either of them very well, but I feel that it's actually a good thing as we will be more focused on the task and have very different ideas. I have good first impressions of our group as we work really well together and have progressed really quickly in our first production meetings.
Initial Coursework Task Ideas
1. A group of 19-21 year old girls who decide to pull a heist, robbing a painting from an art gallery in London. The film is based on their run from the police and the aftermath of the heist.
The opening sequence is as series of close up shots of the girls preparing for the heist, like hands putting stuff in bags, lighting a cigarette, putting on lipstick, loading guns. The credits flash over the screen in white as this is happening. The sequence would end with a shot of the girls walking out a door in slow motion while the title comes up on the screen.
2. About a school shooter, following the life of the shooter leading up to the shooting itself. We would find out his motives for doing the killing and see his normal life.
The opening for this idea would be the guy packing a gun into his bag and then cut to him cycling to school. There would be large doors into the school which the guy would walk through. You would then only see the doors but hear the sounds inside of screams, gunshots and then finally silence. The shooter would then walk out in slow motion and red and blue lights would flash on his face as he falls to his knees. The title would play as the screen fades to black.
3. About a stripper who murders her private clients and guts them to sell their organs on the black market for extra money. The film would follow her life and why she is doing this.
The opening would be shots of her getting ready, putting on lipstick, getting dressed, doing her hair and makeup. At the end of this she would slip a knife into her garter and walk out onto the stage through a curtain, which would close and we would then hear men cheering.
4. A serial killer who murders people on the tube at night. Follows both the killers life and the police searching for him, eventually the stories cross over when he gets closer to getting to caught.
The opening sequence would be of peoples legs on the tube. The camera would follow people from a tube carriage to outside the station from really low down do it was just filming legs and feet. The camera would eventually focus on one persons legs and follow them out the station before panning out when they're outside so you can see their whole body.
The opening sequence is as series of close up shots of the girls preparing for the heist, like hands putting stuff in bags, lighting a cigarette, putting on lipstick, loading guns. The credits flash over the screen in white as this is happening. The sequence would end with a shot of the girls walking out a door in slow motion while the title comes up on the screen.
2. About a school shooter, following the life of the shooter leading up to the shooting itself. We would find out his motives for doing the killing and see his normal life.
The opening for this idea would be the guy packing a gun into his bag and then cut to him cycling to school. There would be large doors into the school which the guy would walk through. You would then only see the doors but hear the sounds inside of screams, gunshots and then finally silence. The shooter would then walk out in slow motion and red and blue lights would flash on his face as he falls to his knees. The title would play as the screen fades to black.
3. About a stripper who murders her private clients and guts them to sell their organs on the black market for extra money. The film would follow her life and why she is doing this.
The opening would be shots of her getting ready, putting on lipstick, getting dressed, doing her hair and makeup. At the end of this she would slip a knife into her garter and walk out onto the stage through a curtain, which would close and we would then hear men cheering.
4. A serial killer who murders people on the tube at night. Follows both the killers life and the police searching for him, eventually the stories cross over when he gets closer to getting to caught.
The opening sequence would be of peoples legs on the tube. The camera would follow people from a tube carriage to outside the station from really low down do it was just filming legs and feet. The camera would eventually focus on one persons legs and follow them out the station before panning out when they're outside so you can see their whole body.
Sunday, 18 October 2015
Saturday, 17 October 2015
The Actual Coursework Task!
Video
Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.
Main task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes.
All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source. Both preliminary and main tasks may be done individually or as a group. Maximum four members to a group.
Friday, 16 October 2015
Prelim Task: Editing
After we finished filming our footage for our prelim task, we went to the editing suite to start post production. We first were taught how to use the editing program, Adobe Premiere, to cut our footage together and make it flow smoothly from one shot to another. We learnt how to choose when we wanted a shot to start/end by pressing 'i' on the keyboard when we wanted the shot to start and 'o' when we wanted it to cut, standing for 'in' and 'out'. We started with a shot of one of the actors walking through the door and then cut to a shot of her walking towards the other actor. Even though we filmed the shot walking through the door in a different part of the room and after we had filmed the next scene, it still looked like she was walking in as we edited it into the beginning of the scene.
We were careful to put our cuts in the right places and fit them in with the dialogue to ensure the whole scene flowed together and held continuity. We did this by watching through each shot and cutting and pasting in at the same points of dialogue. It was really helpful having shot each scene with the full script as it meant we could reuse shots and had a lot of freedom as to what our final product would look like.
We worked in a group of three rather than a one or two, which proved more difficult for me as it slowed the whole process down. However, we all had a go at editing and helped each other out, putting all our knowledge together giving us a nice final outcome.
We were careful to put our cuts in the right places and fit them in with the dialogue to ensure the whole scene flowed together and held continuity. We did this by watching through each shot and cutting and pasting in at the same points of dialogue. It was really helpful having shot each scene with the full script as it meant we could reuse shots and had a lot of freedom as to what our final product would look like.
We worked in a group of three rather than a one or two, which proved more difficult for me as it slowed the whole process down. However, we all had a go at editing and helped each other out, putting all our knowledge together giving us a nice final outcome.
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