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Thursday 6 May 2010
Tuesday 4 May 2010
New idea
Unfortunately we were unable to reshoot singular shots due to the weather and our actress couldnt make it, so we've decide to start again with a new idea.
new shot list;
new shot list;
1. arch of trees with titles on top
2. further into the woods
3. LS of victim lying on the floor
4. tree with titles, then track 180 round the tree to find antagonist sharpening knives
5. LS of victim on the floor with antagonist in the foreground
6. ECU of gagged mouth with antagonist's feet in the background
7. pan to teddy thrown on the floor
we have come to a decision on the font for the titles;
http://www.dafont.com/font.php?file=bleeding_cowboys&page=1&nb_ppp_old=10&text=Decade+Late&nb_ppp=10&psize=m&classt=alpha
We have decided on a new name, Decade Late, and the font was found in the western category which reinforces our genre is a western thriller, due to the stand off between 2 characters.
Friday 30 April 2010
Rough Cut
we recieved feedback about our first draft of our thriller opening and the general reaction was the it was too cliché, so we have decided we will try to add in something a bit different to it.
Sunday 21 February 2010
Tuesday 9th Feb
On tuesday 9th feb we spent the day looking at how to improve our coursework. The first thing we questioned was "is it cliché?". Our piece incompasses a lot of woods/a girl tied up/flashbacks of being dragged - this would suggest the answer is yes.
We talked over many new ideas on how to change the focus of the story to something more originally. We discussed the new edited rough-cut, and noticed that the flashbacks weren't obvious enough making the flow of the images unclear. and also the flash backs jumped from very different stages into her downfall which to an audience may be very confusing. We thought the slow continuous pace was effective, but but turns out, the 45second introduction of setting the wood scene is just a bit too long... so we decided to cut it to just two or three 5second fades.
we found that we had too many close ups of the hands and gagged mouth meant the had to get rid of a few shots. We thought about more flashbacks following the story of how she got there more, but decided they weren't effective enough and therefore removed several of these. This left us with VERY little, and were forced to come up with a better idea.
The fact that our movie was beginning to become a Psychological Thriller, which restricts the amount of styles filming we achieved. We talked about combining two genres, and decided a western thriller would work well mixing up the style of the story. Shots such as jump cuts from two characters in a duel would be converted to fast jump cuts from the antagonist to the victim from their point of views.
It started to look like we were changing our whole original idea so we then tried thinking of which shots we have already filmed to use. The ones we liked best where the disorientating trees, and a e.c.u with the camera on the floor filming the gagged lips. Because a lot of the shots were taken from a third person perspective, we changed it to the perspective of mainly the antagonists. To stay away from even more cliché, the antagonist is going to be female. Maybe a relative, or parent of one of the victims friends. In conjucntion with the 'teddybear picnic' juxtaposition of lively upbeat childhood movie while watching the thriller, we connected the reason for the attack to a repressed memory the antagonist has towards this girl from when she was younger. A tattered old toy bear is going to symbolical to the reason of her actions, how her body is going to end up after the woman attacks her with the knife.
We then created a new shot list and storyboard suggesting the new shots we need to organise to shoot. We have got a new actress, Louise Huntley, to be the antagonist, but we had a problem with the deadline and organizing a shoot. Because of the last minute change, Jordan was unavailable to act, so we changed the victim to lauren, in our group, this is also good because she knows exactly how we want the character to be.
We talked over many new ideas on how to change the focus of the story to something more originally. We discussed the new edited rough-cut, and noticed that the flashbacks weren't obvious enough making the flow of the images unclear. and also the flash backs jumped from very different stages into her downfall which to an audience may be very confusing. We thought the slow continuous pace was effective, but but turns out, the 45second introduction of setting the wood scene is just a bit too long... so we decided to cut it to just two or three 5second fades.
we found that we had too many close ups of the hands and gagged mouth meant the had to get rid of a few shots. We thought about more flashbacks following the story of how she got there more, but decided they weren't effective enough and therefore removed several of these. This left us with VERY little, and were forced to come up with a better idea.
The fact that our movie was beginning to become a Psychological Thriller, which restricts the amount of styles filming we achieved. We talked about combining two genres, and decided a western thriller would work well mixing up the style of the story. Shots such as jump cuts from two characters in a duel would be converted to fast jump cuts from the antagonist to the victim from their point of views.
It started to look like we were changing our whole original idea so we then tried thinking of which shots we have already filmed to use. The ones we liked best where the disorientating trees, and a e.c.u with the camera on the floor filming the gagged lips. Because a lot of the shots were taken from a third person perspective, we changed it to the perspective of mainly the antagonists. To stay away from even more cliché, the antagonist is going to be female. Maybe a relative, or parent of one of the victims friends. In conjucntion with the 'teddybear picnic' juxtaposition of lively upbeat childhood movie while watching the thriller, we connected the reason for the attack to a repressed memory the antagonist has towards this girl from when she was younger. A tattered old toy bear is going to symbolical to the reason of her actions, how her body is going to end up after the woman attacks her with the knife.
We then created a new shot list and storyboard suggesting the new shots we need to organise to shoot. We have got a new actress, Louise Huntley, to be the antagonist, but we had a problem with the deadline and organizing a shoot. Because of the last minute change, Jordan was unavailable to act, so we changed the victim to lauren, in our group, this is also good because she knows exactly how we want the character to be.
ILP plan
We are spending and entire day to our media coursework
certain aspects we need to focus on are;
a new title, this includes: coming up with a title that is better for our thriller, and new fontto go with it and a title sequence to fit. we can use sites like http://www.dafont.com/ to find new and interesting fonts that go well with our title.
We also wanted to change the non diegetic music of our opening sequence to something with a bit more of an edge, we are considering the tune 'Teddy bears picnic' . It would be a great juxtaposition to have really sinister action happening with a happy childs song in the background, as we developed we found that we were happy with the name 'Down to the Woods'.
We then also decided that a little girl humming the tune to teddy bear picnic, with little piano joining in later would be effective. The idea of singing ' if you go down to the woods today' as the title apears is an experiment we are doing to try out once we record the sounds ourselves. We also decided to try introducing a low males voice humming under the girls to be symbolical to danger. these are some of the variations we have discussed
This is our achievement list:
- Discuss/re-write order of shots (what to keep/cut out)
- create title font desing and other titles (effect on title dissapearing - sand? )
- possibly change the name
- add zooms and flash and change colours on selection of shots
- plan to re-shoot tree's - sun - continuity
- or darken other sunny shots..
- Blog the work achieved
certain aspects we need to focus on are;
a new title, this includes: coming up with a title that is better for our thriller, and new fontto go with it and a title sequence to fit. we can use sites like http://www.dafont.com/ to find new and interesting fonts that go well with our title.
We also wanted to change the non diegetic music of our opening sequence to something with a bit more of an edge, we are considering the tune 'Teddy bears picnic' . It would be a great juxtaposition to have really sinister action happening with a happy childs song in the background, as we developed we found that we were happy with the name 'Down to the Woods'.
We then also decided that a little girl humming the tune to teddy bear picnic, with little piano joining in later would be effective. The idea of singing ' if you go down to the woods today' as the title apears is an experiment we are doing to try out once we record the sounds ourselves. We also decided to try introducing a low males voice humming under the girls to be symbolical to danger. these are some of the variations we have discussed
This is our achievement list:
- Discuss/re-write order of shots (what to keep/cut out)
- create title font desing and other titles (effect on title dissapearing - sand? )
- possibly change the name
- add zooms and flash and change colours on selection of shots
- plan to re-shoot tree's - sun - continuity
- or darken other sunny shots..
- Blog the work achieved
Thursday 21 January 2010
Filming
On january 17th we went out filming;
all of our group went to a woodland area in Jordans, and filmed all the footage we needed our actress, Jordan matthews for, from several different angles and time so that we shouldnt need to go out another time unless we had to reshoot something..
The first problem we faced was at 10:00 when we were preparing to go out filming, we checked the camera only to find out the battery was flat, so we needed to charge it as much as we could before going to film. we used this time to prepare everything fully, for example putting make up on our actress, we then shot the only shot that is inside first. the only reason it was such an issue was because we had hoped to go out in the morning to get natural morning light rather than midday.
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