Premliminary Task

             

Final thoughts

This week we finally finished our two minute film. it hasn't been the easiest time, doing it, but it has taught me alot about future filming.  We managed to hand in the film on time and it was our second attempt doing it. 

The first attempt we did,  had obvious mistakes such as, a non steady camera tripod. There was also a big blue box which would appear in the middle of the film which really confused me, my group and my teacher.  Our teacher sat us down with me and my group and told us that we need to re-shoot in order to get a good grade.  

We sat down as a group and and took certain responisbilites. One of us re wrote the script the other drew the story board and the other person went to the location and wrote down the shot types.

The second time we came to edit we used alot more techniques such as fade in, fade out and disolves. We noticed that we spent alot more time in the editing suite than the first time we did. This is because we know alot more things about final cut pro. We also experimented with final cut pro by playing around with it and working whats what by ourselves. We also used Sound track pro for sound effects. we used the same same effects as last time in our first movie but in our second movie we added more for example we used a sound called atmosphere. which had sounds of wind, trafic works and cars. 

finished

Today we finished our movie. It has been a long and stressful couple of months with the filming, organising and editing.

all together we made two films, but the first one we made turned out not being good enough to hand in. we were told that if we wanted a good grade, we would have to re- shoot. THIS WAS A WEEK AGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this last week has been the most stressful because when we planned to shoot, got the actors and location, the camera was acting up and wouldn't work. This delayed us two days and we shot the film on the saturday. 

on the monday we started the editing process. we had another problem!!! Because the camera was American, we needed to use the camera to upload it onto final cut pro.   this delayed us by another day. 

On tuesday we made subclips and put every thing together.

on wednesday we put sound effects in to it and today we copied it onto the disk by using a programme called IDVD.

Similar films

There were several films we took inspiraion from for our oppening sequence. two of these were kung fu panda and train spotting. kung fu panda for its serious opening which is soon twisted into something unexpected (this being the essence of good comedy) and train spotting for its incredible chase scene in the opening.

Props

there were many props used. computer,dorito's and  keys were all vital to making the scenes appear realistic.

 for instance when the actress appears to wake up she is on an old sofa. further more we placed a laptop directly by her side to make her appear as though she may well have been using it till she fell asleep. 

then we made sure to get a bag of junk food and spread it around her so she appeared to have fallen asleep stuffing herself on cheap snacks. this all added to the sense of patheticness and lonleyness  which helped to make it clash and contrast with the dream sequence and better define them as two different realitys as well as setting up the basis of the charecter nicely. 

the costume used by the actor and actress played a big part in the way we presented these charecters and more importantly made the audience view them in a certain way. 

in the oppening scene the hero wears tight, sleeck black clothing. this makes the audience percive her as being someone who is in control and better ties with her chasing the villian who is dressed in normal dirty and dull clothes. he wears a hoodie, wooly hat and baggy pants. this nicely achieves a cross between someone who appears to possibly be a criminal (which is backed up by him being chased) and someone who looks distincly un-amazing. careful consideration was used when choosing the costume for the out of dream sequence.

 dirty worn and baggy sweat pants were chosen along with a loose fitting and cheap looking T shirt. this was used to contrast from the sleeck cool look in the dream sequence to the charecters pathtic reality. this achieved a clear break between the two realitys without it needing to be explicitaly stated. 

Dubbing- new technique

During the film we needed to dub in words for a brief moment. This is because we were using silent footage when both people's faces were too dark to see. therefore the dubbbing is seemless. 

we used an echo effect to emphasise the fact that the person (this is a first person shot) is hurt and is dazed. we did this by simply filming two people saying the lines then uploading it onto the computer.

 we then deleted the visual elements of the shot and simply put the sound in place of the sound which was under the footage in editing. this was fun to do as it allowed us to do something that was simoultaniosly easy and unusual. To make it really effective we put in a echoo sound which sounded really good becasue, as its a first person, we see that the girl is a bit dizzy and cant hear right. ( then she wakes up from her dream)

Script

 we noticed that everone in the film business conventionally uses Celtext to write their script so we decided to download the software from google and use it to make our script.

1.EXT.STREET.DAY

          from a distance a figure appears as it gets closer we see

          that it is a young woman claire. she is dressed in a long

          overcoat and is running fast. she has piercings in her nose

          and bleach blond hair. soon after another figure appears

          from round the corner. chasing ensues. sharp turns are take

           and eventualy Claire runs offscreen. crashing noise is

          heard implying that she ran into something. 

                              CLAIRE

                    what the heck!

          

          2. INT. APARTMENT. DAY

          Claire sleeping on sofa. alarm wakes her. she gets off the

          sofa removing the junk food wrappers. heads to door and

          opens it. 

          EXT. STREET. DAY.

          Claire walks out door. is confronted by large grey dog.

          locks door before noticing. back to back shot of them and

          dog barks. Claire runs into the distance with dog chasing

          her.

                              THE NERD WHO LOVED ME

          

          

we made sure to achieve this the  best way  we could. 

all scenes were carefully shot with this rule in mind. likewise with all props. we made sure that most all details were covered to help better convey what we wanted to the audience.

 for instance we got junk food and spread it around the seemingly sleeping lead actress. this make the audience view her as someone who is lazy and unhealthy and something completley different from her dream