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

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.

Props/Costume/Actors

Props
rope
red lipstick
wine glass
going out high heels
dark cloth or scarf

Costume list

ripped lace tights
heels
party dress
sparkly shawl

Make up


*BEFORE & AFTER PHOTO*


Actress
Jordan Matthews - playing Catherine

Changing Winds Animatic

This is our animatic of our storyboard, it just shows what our final thriller opening will look a little bit like.
we put it together on Adobe Premiere Pro, by adding photos of our story board (some editing to be darker/lighter)
We also found the music called Eerie Angel on www.freeplaymusic.com which is a site with uncopyrighted music on. We then edited it on Audacity to make it fit with the sequence, and also the bang for the flash backs we found too. We then created our own diegetic sounds like the wind (havent decided if we will use that in the real thing)

this is our storyboard we have created for our final peice, next we will turn this into an animatic

Shotlist

• Establishing setting – edge of woodland area
• Getting deeper into the woods
• Zoom into woods
• Zoom deeper
• LA shot of tall trees
• Black screen
• Woods + whistle
• ELS dog crossing camera path (walking)
• Woods + whistle (darker)
• LS dog (away from camera)
• MS of dog sniffing
• Woods – dog comes through bushes
• Shot of dogs feet walking
• Sniffing – found body
• Black screen – titles
• Just sounds – twigs breaking, heavy breathing
• CU of hands tied up
• Very short cut of body being dragged
• Hand tied – twitch
• Pan across arm – gagged mouth
• Dragging body
• CU gagged mouth – panicky breathing
• Flash back to when attacker was putting gag on her
• Face twitching
• POV of trees – disorientating
• Fast panning of trees
• Reverse shot back to POV again
• Struggle to get up, HA
• CU fidgeting hands
• Eyes open ECU shot

Continuity task finished

My groups feedback from the rest of the class + targets:
-Full variety of shots
-effective use of camera/editing
-framing mostly ok - need to improve P.O.V shot reverse shot
-sound poor due to choice of location - need to improve diegetic sound/acoustics/dialogue

we were giving 30 marks out of 60, 50%

we know what our weak points were and what we need to focus on to make our thriller opening now we can get on with it

Continuity Task

We were given the task to create a short 1 minute film with minimum 15 shots, we were given a shotlist to follow but we made up the scene/setting/dialogue etc.


1.Person A walks up to a door
2.Handle is opened / pulled
3.Shot of person A walking through the door
4.Shot of person B sat down
5.Shot of person A sitting down next to them.
6.Shot of person A asking person B if they are ok?
7.Reverse shot (CU) of person B replying?
8.Two shot of person A and B – person B asks person A a question
9.Shot of person A’s reaction and answer
10.Shot of person B’s response.
11.This may be reapeated and varied as conversation develops – think carefully about this part. The scripting is important here!
12.Shot of person A getting up.
13.Shot of person A walking away.
14.(Possible) shot of Person B.
15.Person A exits through same door as entrance. (Do NOT break the 180 degree rule!)

We filmed in one of the music practise rooms, we had a problem with space in that room. also we had issues with our camera and couldn't get it to focus. we were allowed to shoots some shots again on a different day and turn a blind eye to the bad continuity of clothes etc.
...As it was our first experience of filming...