Monday, 10 May 2010

Filming.

I was unable to attend all of the shoots myself but i did attend the first in dartford park. we all took our part in setting up the shoot and setting the scene, lyndsay took control of directing the shoot while tessa filmed the action itself. i took care of helping setting up the shoot under direction, such as swings and movement. the shoot alsted for about an hour because of poor weather conditions but this gave quite a lot more imput into the scene and the actresses and actors played a very good part in this shoot.

i was unable to make it to the other video shoots as i was eitehr away at the time or was unable to get to the location. Once all was filmed we had to then transfer all the files onto the computer. we had trouble doing this at points because the files didnt want to transfer through a standard usb cable. After asking for help from our college's IT department we found we needed a Firewire cable, we had a look for the cabel but couldnt find one, luckily lyndsay was able to get one so we could then move on to editing.

Production Shedule


Once we had listed everything we needed such as props, cast, locations and had our equipment, we then went on to writing up a production shedule based on the storyboard. This took time finding days right for filming for weather and depending on if everything we need such as cast, equpment and props was free. Once we had our finished shedule we were ready for filming in these locations.

Location, Props and Cast.

The groups Production Lists

Settings:
- Scary looking house
- Park, trees
- Back garden/ garden shed
Props:
- Ladder
- Newspaper clippings, family photos
- clothing, casual, normal, nothing fancy, old clothes as they will become dirty
- Torches
Sound:
- Dog barking
- Heavy panic panting
- Crackling
Cast:
- Main Girl: Hannah Hand
- Ghost Girl: Tessa Hambleton
- Villain: Zack Warner

storyboard.

Once we had our film idea and pitch we began storyboarding the final draft for the trailer, and started looking at the conventions of horror movies and fast paced trailers. The Storyboarding for the trailer as we worked with the conventions.

Conventions:
Dark
Villians
Heros
Violence
Suspence
Eiry Music
screaming
fast paced cuts in editing

SCREAM TRAILER








PARANORMAL ACTIVITY TRAILER









From watching these trailers the storyboard came togetherin fast paced, looking at the trailer conventions such as production company logo, titles and music.

Never Say Never Storyboard:

Monday, 29 March 2010

The Film Pitch

This is the film pitch for the story we came up with for the film. From this we looked itno shortening the film down just to a trailer itself



Also we found this music for our trailer as it gives an unneveing tone to the audience it is called Blood Theme composed by Daniel Licht

Production company name and logo.

Before working on our task as a team we set up a production company for the film, as without this the film can not be made, we looked into not just naming the company but into how it works and what it takes to make a film, We looked inro film diustribution, film pitches, and budgets for films. we then followed onto setting up our production company to get the film rolling. We landed on the name Alt Porductions as it fitted in with our names Aaron, Lyndsay and Tessa. It also fitted in witht he technology side of making a film and also stands for alternative. it has many meanings and was a perfect name for the company.

We brainstormed many ideas for the logo but wanted it to be beased around the ALT key on a keyboard itself, so as a basic design i photoshoped an idea and it became the logo itself later to be animated into the teaser itself.

The Finished Logo: