snatch production day 3

On this day we planned our schedule for when and where we were filming and which equipment we needed. From the college we booked;

- video camera

- tripod

-stills camera 

then everyone else used individual props for their character. We decided to film at Mel's house on a sunday, we were filming from 5-9 but only filmed mine and Mel's scenes. Filming on a  sunday was quite effective as we got a lot of time to do it and we got to film outside of the college so the scenes would look more realistic. At the end of every lesson we fill out a production sheet to show what we have done in each lesson , and a plan for what we are going to be doing for the rest of the week. Doing this is good as it makes it more organized 

snatch production day 2

today we compared the openings of films and T.V programs,  We chose a film and a T.V program  and wrote on word about how they use different techniques in the opening sequence, How the title was added and just an overall comparison of the types of images used to tell the audience what kind of film/ program it is and what type of audience it is for.

Snatch production day 1 storyboard

Today we done our character storyboard for our individual character. This consisted of a list of the shot types, a story board of what was going to happen in the scene and a drawing off our freeze frame.

Snatch character costume

In this lesson we had to create a character using costumes which we will have to bring in. I used a picture of my head and got the rest of the images of google as i have items similar/the same to this. I picked a chavvy kind of outfit as in our opening sequence we will all be kind of chavvy. rebellious teens.

Snatch Production day 1

We were introduced to the opening sequence of 'Snatch'. We needed to watch it to see how the links were made from character to character and how it flows together  as we were going to be making one of our own. Seeing this sequence helped me think about what I could do in our sequence we were going to make. After watching the video we each made up our own link that could be in a sequence. After drawing out the link we got into groups and discussed how each of our links could roll into one another. We then had to make up a name for ourselves because we were going to be featuring in the sequence as the characters. We were given a sheet that we could plan the sequence on. This would help make the build up easier as we would see it all written down. Over all it was a really productive session, we made up our names, decided how it was going to link, and decided the genre and what was basically going to happen in our sequence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAgI51QvWxs

trapped day 4

We started filming today in the woods but we didnt have the right props so we had to start from the middle of the film where I wake up after passing out on alcohol,  we were all really motivated and got a lot of good shots, but the weather was so cold we came in and Abbi and I  started to edit the film, in editing we got the film up on final cut and photoshop, cut the parts of the film where it went wrong, edited the colour and put the music onto the film. Me and Abbi had already done our opening sequence, which just me and her done previously when Richard and Sam were making the script, which was very helpful as now we had filmed a good amount of the film

trapped day 3

Today Steve and Abbi and I  went to go light painting in the woods because we thought it would be a good idea to do it where the filming is taken place,As it would tie in with the film better. But after a few tries of the light painting the light paintings were too over exposed. We knew that we had to go to a completely Dark room with minimum light in it so the writing would come out clear.

trapped day 2

after a few attempts of light painting it became easier, we moved to the hall as it was darker there, so the light painting looked a lot better. Everyone in my group worked really well on this, and Abbi put a lot of effort in so we had a good  last go of light painting. After Abbi uploaded the photo's onto flicker we worked together in editing it. We opened photoshop and edited the contrast, colour and size of the image to give a final multi-coloured image.

trapped day 1

Abbi had an idea for the opening sequence in our short film is to use light painting the word "Trapped" we both researched how to do this on google and on youtube. We used the light from Abbis lighter using a Nikon digital camera. We changed the shutter speed of the camera so that the words in lighting would come up. The first time we tried to do the light painting didn't go very well because  the room was too light so this was the out-come of the first attempt, for a first attempt i think we done pretty well, as i did the camera, i found this quite difficult as we had to change all the settings and press the camera at the exact right time. 

fridays trapped filming weather

The weather today was freezing, as we had to film the entire film outside me and Abbi were so cold, we thought that it would be a good idea to only film the first scene of our Trapped film  and do the rest on monday as we had to be outside for ages. We decided it would be a good idea to check mondays weather for cast  so we went onto the bbc website to see if the weather conditions were good enough to film on monday
heres the forcast:http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2653941

horror stills final

In the horror stills project our group was made up of Me, Josh, Mel and Beth. We each had an individual role throughout the project. I was given the task of taking all of helping Beth take the pictures that were used to create the sequence. We started the project by designing a storyboard. After doing the story board we went out and took the pictures,then we were no longer working in a group and had to edit the stills to make a sequence individually. I uploaded the pictures to Photoshop and edited some to make them look effective. I then chose a scary soundtrack to go wth the sequence then added the title and the credits.

This was the final outcome:

http://vimeo.com/29951150

light painting tutorial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IS-DBZEXcA

This video is a tutorial of how to do light painting which me and Abbi have decided to use for the opening to our 'Trapped' short movie. This video explains what you need,how you do it and what setting you need on your camera and more. This video really helped me and Abbi to get the right settings for us to achieve a perfect opening sequence for our film.
Light painting is opening the exposure long enough to use a light source
First you need a camera with the exposure settings set to 10-15 seconds. You will also need a tripod to keep the camera secure and still. Lastly you will need a light source, either a torch or a strobe light the camera you use must have a manual setting which will allow you to adjust the shutter speed

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In these lessons we went onto a website called the art of the title to look at well known films opening sequences to get ideas for our 'Trapped' opening sequence. Me and Abbi decided to make the opening sequence a kind of hint to what is going to happen in our 'Trapped' short film. Our opening scene is going to consist of flickering images of me getting ready for the party, and the woods, then at the end of the opening sequence its going to turn to me looking really scared and heavy breathing. After this the film is going to begin right from the start, so during the opening sequence the audience would become really gripped and intrigued to see what is going to happen in the film.

trapped target audience member

In this session we had to make a spider diagram of the types of brands our audience member would like.This is my idea of what our audience member for our 'Trapped' short film would be interested in. I think that the audience member would like these sort of things, because, based on our ideas for our trapped short film I would enjoy a film like this, and these are the kind of things that I am interested in. Some of the brands in the diagram, such as the alcohol and the clothing brands are used in our film,so if the audience and the character in the film are using the same product, the audience member feels as if they are linked to the protagonist.

trapped mood board

in this lesson i made my  trapped mood board i used pictures that would be represented in our trapped short film and the setting of our film in process, the the split pathway inthe moodboard is very important as in film me and abbi are stuck between the road we know and the woods and have to make a very tough  desision on which way to go. Each one of these pictures tell the story of our film in process.

find your tribe

 In this lesson we had to go onto find your tribe.co.uk and answer a series of questions to find out which social group we are in. The answer i got was that i was a 'rah' this is not very correct, as from the description it makes out that i am rich, and have no value for money. I do wear jack wills and abercrombie, however i do not think i am  like the description they had for the group i am apparently in. The test said that i also show signs of being a chav, which is completely un true as there is literally nothing chavvy about me. I do not think that people should really do these questions to see what group they are in as based on the answer i got i don't think that the test is very accurate.

trapped initial planning part 2

the next part of our planning for our film was to set our final idea for a film out on to a clear timeline, with our ideas set out into a beginning,middle and end format. This made the planning a lot easier as it was set out in a clear,organized way. Our final idea was for a girl to take a short cut through the woods to get to a party that she is running late for. She soon feels as if she is being watched and followed, as she becomes scared there is going to be a lot of close ups on her face so you can see how she is feeling. We then add a twist to the story, her friend who is also late for the party, comes up behind her, so she thinks that the person chasing her is actually her friend. However, when she thinks she is safe a person comes out of the woods and attacks her and drags her off. I think that this adds a lot of drama and twists in a short amount of time and is very effective.

trapped initial planning

in this lesson we had to plan ideas for our 'trapped' short film. We had to think of a scenario in which the character/characters were trapped. We watched a short film called Desserts to get an idea of how to create  drama and effect in a short amount of time. The title 'Trapped' to me, insinuates that the film should have a lot of drama. Every groups film had to incorporate the title into the film, so the character had to be trapped in some sort of way. Me, Richard and Sam decided that it would be a lot easier and more organized if the victim of being trapped was only one character, rather than a larger group as this would be harder to film. In the initial planning of the film, we had decided that the character would be trapped in the woods. We thought that this would have a lot of effect and drama in a short space of time.

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logo ident

When we did our logo ident, we were developing our logo ideas on photoshop. We used 3 or 4 layers on photoshop to create our logo and used different pictures to create the logo. I used a spade picture from photoshop to use as my logo picture, as i thought this was quite an original logo. We then used a website called dafont to select and download which font we wanted for our logo company name. I called my logo company, 'ace of spades productions' as i thought this was quite good, as it actually related to the spade picture. q1) the thing i found most difficult to do on photoshop, was to create the logo,and make it look how i wanted it too, in the end i got there, and now know how to do it, so i have learnt something q2) q3) the thing i am most pleased was, was that i actually got my logo done, as at first i didn't really know what to do and became quite annoyed but once i had understood what to do i was more confident in using photoshop

media production company logo planning session

in this lesson we were planning our personal media production logo, we were given paper to draw and annotate our ideas and to develop any that we thought would work well. Everybody's idea's for their logo were individual, and we thought and developed our logos to how we wanted them to look and to how we thought would look good.

logo research session

In this session, we were researching logos of our choice and finding out information about them such as, what type of product it is, what the purpose of the product is etc. We were give a piece of paper where we had to write down the information we found out about the company, draw a picture of the logo with annotations about the font and colour. The two logos i picked were Chanel and Jack wills, i chose to do these because i like the style of them.

photoshop skills session 1:club flyer task

the second thing that we had to produce on photoshop was a club flyer. We chose a  picture from flickr to put as our flyer background, relating to the music of our choice we then downloading the picture and opened it up in photoshop, making sure that the page was A5 and landscape. We then made the picture of our choice the background. After we done this we added other pictures that were related to music and blended it into the background so it looked like one picture instead of two separate ones. When we were happy with our background we had to name our club, and  write details on it such as opening/closing times,cost,what kind of music it was etc. We had to be very specific with the font and font colour as we wanted the font to stand out but still be readable. After we had put the text onto the flyer and we were happy with it we uploaded it to flickr and the flyer was complete.

photoshop skills session 1:earth & eye excercise

In our first lesson, we produced an earth and eye picture. We used two pictures to create this image. First of all we collected an image of the earth off flickr and opened it up in photo shop,we also did the same with the eye picture. We moved the picture of the earth so it was on the same page as the eye and used a tool to cut out the remaining area of the earth picture so we were just left with the earth and not the background. After this we used the eye picture as a guide so we knew how much we needed to reduce/increase the size of the earth picture so it fitted well with the iris in the eye picture. Once we had the earth the same size as the iris we used the blending tool so that the earth picture blended in with the eye and looked like the iris. After this we had completed our picture, however some people,including myself chose to edit the picture to make the earth iris stand out more, using the tools on photo shop, i clicked on the different layers on the bottom right hand size and edited them to how i thought looked good,and made it stand out. I made the background of the eye black and white , and the iris a bright cyan colour.I liked this look because the iris was the main focus in the picture, after this i saved my work and uploaded it to flickr then it was complete.