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.