Thursday, 29 November 2012

Shooting Schedule



Date
Location
Cast/ Crew
Props
Equipment
06/12/12
Start filming
Saiful’s house
Kashif is staring in the video
Cricket bat
Tripod
Saiful is the camera man and editor
Rubber chicken
Camera
Zuned is staring in the video
Casual clothes
I Mac
Balloons
Editing software (Adobe Premiere)




Risk assessment & Equipment & Budget

Risk assessment/ location


We as a group will need to carry out a risk assessment because we need to make sure that that the location we are going to use to for our 1 minute video. We need to make sure that the location we use is safe. Also we will need to look at the location that we are going to use because it could problems such  lose wires which could be dangerous because someone could trip over them and hurt themselves.

For our video we are going to use one of the crew members house. The risk factors could be the rain comes and this may cause one of the crew members to slip and hurt themselves. Also there is a computer there with lose wires. This is a risk factor because someone could fall over and hurt themselves and also its dangerous with the electrical equipment.



Equipment list/Budgeting:


Camera- £300
tripod- £150
Macbook for editing- £800
Editing software- £100
props- £50
lighting equipment- £20


Total budget- £1420

Thursday, 22 November 2012

Mood/Genre

In this post i will be talking about the genres/moods that will be portrayed in our 1 minute short film.

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First of all, the genre of our short film will be comedy and horror. This is because we have found that a majority of the people that we asked to fill our questionnaire preferred a movie that was comedic and scary. This told us that we could make a successful film by choosing a comedy genre or a horror genre, but we decided that we will combine the two genres to allow for a larger audience to project our film at.

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The mood of our film will be funny as well as being scary and thrilling. We decided that this would be a good mood to show in the film because it makes people nervous and anxious when watching the parts at which there is some form of horror, and then also gives them relief and joy them when it comes to the more comedic phase of the film. The way that we decided on the mood of our film is our researching the moods that are shown by other, already existing, movies and then integrating that information into our project.

The actors in our 1 minute film will convey the feeling of the story by showing facial expressions physical activities and possibly psychological effects.



1 Minute Camera Story


Story layout:

Trying to follow Torodov's theory of equilibrium will allow the short film to have balance. Torodov's theory states that a story should have equilibrium. This means that the story starts off calm and normal. The situation then escalates to a point where there is a form of disaster, then at the end the disaster situation calms down and goes back to normal,


Similar to a bell curve:
The start of the film will consist of a man in his early 20's who is throwing a night halloween party and his having fun enjoying his time with his friends. POINT OF EQUILIBRIUM. After he has the party all the guests leave and then he goes to relax while watching a scary movie in his home. While watching the scary movie he receives a phone call and is terrified because he gets a threat over the phone by a voice which he doesn't recognise.

The middle section of the story is when the man has just finished receiving the threat on the phone. He then notices that there is someone knocking on the door, but he can't actually see anyone there. So being cautious he walks towards the door slowly and as he gets closer he gets more scared. He then grabs a rubber chicken that is lying on a nearby table ,other than the cricket bat right next to it, and goes to open the door. POINT OF DISRUPTION. When he opens the door he screams only to find that there is a small child in a costume asking for some candy. He then relaxes and gives the boy some candy.

The end of the story is when the man closes the door feeling more secure, and when he turns around he gets a fright by seeing his friend with a very unexpected look on his face. He then finds out that it was a prank and then he calms down and resumes with the relaxing, of watching a scary movie. RESTORATION OF EQUILIBRIUM.















Tasks

Task 2:

COMPLETE-IN PROGRESS-NEEDS TO BE STARTED

-Identify your audience-                         
-Determine what you are trying to tell-
-Story needs to interesting and creative-
-Needs to have a clear objective-
-Come up with a proposal/treatment-
-Come up with a story board including a beginning, middle and end-
-Mood/Genre examples-
-How will the acting convey the feeling-
-Mood board-
-Mise-en-scene/props/setting/style-
-Narrative structure,linear/non-linear-
-Shot list, what camera shots are going to be used-
-Camera angles-
-Location list-
-Shooting schedule-
-Equipment/sound/lighting-
-Risk assessment-
-Budget-
-Time line/Diary entries-

Camera Shots/Angles


Unit 22: Diary Entries

08/11/12:

In this lesson we discussed the different types of camera angles, shots and sound.

15/11/12:

In this lesson we discussed the different objectives that would have to be completed for our 1 minute short film and started on some of the points.

Tasks:

-Identify your audience-
-Determine what you are trying to tell-
-Story needs to interesting and creative-
-Needs to have a clear objective-
-Come up with a proposal/treatment-
-Come up with a story board including a beginning, middle and end-
-Mood/Genre examples-
-How will the acting convey the feeling-
-Mood board-
-Mise-en-scene/props/setting/style-
-Narrative structure,linear/non-linear-
-Shot list, what camera shots are going to be used-
-Camera angles-
-Location list-
-Shooting schedule-
-Equipment/sound/lighting-
-Risk assessment-
-Budget-
-Time line-


22/11/12:

In this lesson we completed the story board and story layout for our preliminary production. We also discussed the genre and mood of our short film. Risk assessment was completed.


29/11/12:

In this lesson we started the shooting schedule, mis-en-scene, sharing work and updating blogs and finalising the location for our 1 minute short film.


06/12/12:

In this lesson we looked through each others blogs and suggested improvements that could be made to improve our work layout and contents.


13/12/12:

In this lesson I cleaned up my blog and broke down some of the larger paragraphs to decrease the amount of stress to the eyes, I will also be adding in pictures and video links for appropriate paragraphs.

20/12/12:

In this lesson myself and the group went over the story and finalised the location. However since we all had exams in the next few weeks we had to spend some time on the revision of our exams.

27/12/12:

In this lesson we added things to our blogs and made the text for the storyboard more clear and simple to understand.

03/01/13:

In this lesson we finalised the planning for our 1 minute film production. We then decided to go to the location to make sure that it is the right place, and has the correct configuration.

10/01/13:

In this lesson some of the students in our group, including myself, had exams and so we were unable to go out and film as we only had 2 people left in the group. blog improvements were then made to compensate for the loss of filming time.

17/01/13:

In this lesson we went out to film the location for our opening sequence for the film that would be used to introduce our 1 minute film.

24/01/13:

In this lesson we went to the location for our film, got the props needed, rubber chicken, and then started to film our 1 minute single camera film. However, we could not get balloons, so this prop was scrapped. During the filming process we also tweaked our storyboard by changing the scene at which the child knocks the door and gets scared away, to a scene at which there is a beggar outside wanting money, we also changed the cricket bat into a stick, as there were no cricket bats that we could use.

31/01/13:

In this lesson we started to edit our 1 minute film with its numerous videos from different angles. We then also decided that we didn't need the film for the opening sequence and just decided to have the logo alone. we also started to record the various sounds that would be needed for the film.

07/02/13:

In this lesson we carried on with editing our single camera production, we then finished our media production and we made sure that all the sounds and other effects were according to the right video clips tat were put into the program.