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Final Film: Dark Days

Editing video and sound

These are screen shots of final cut pro, garage band and soundtrack pro. All of these programs allowed us to get the right video and sounds we wanted in our film. With the help of these programs it allowed us to add effects in the video and put in sound effects.

Characters

Schedule

-Meet at Franklins house at 2pm
-30mins to go over acting and camerawork
-30mins journey to get to Primrose Hill
-3pm arrive at Primrose Hill

The characters in our story are two teenagers, with two very different back-rounds. We decided to do this to contrast the two characters.

The first two times we filmed we had problems with actors, such as actors not being as co-operative as we needed and actors not showing up at all. We learned trough this that we needed to be more organised throughout the process of filming etc...

Our last time of filming we decided not to use actors because we didn't want to go through the hassle of using them. Instead we used two of our group members.


''JOSH''

Upper Middle Class, Private education lives with parents.
Blonde hair, blue eyes.
Popular in school, a confident and funny young man aged 16.

Costume



Checkered shirt,
Tight black jeans,
Bright Adiddas trainers,
Brown designer jacket.

Accesories

Ipod,
Phone,
Wallet,
Cigarettes,
Lighter,
Sweets.

''DARREN''

18, tall, broad shoulders, long hair.
Thrown out of his house at 17, receives benefits.
Father is a drug user, Mother is abused by Father but keeps quite.
Deals drugs to make a living, no qualifications.


Costume



Dark tracksuit top and bottoms,
White trainers.

Location Photos 3

This is our third and final location. This was perfect because it was not near any roads, houses etc... so we didn't have to worry about people or sounds we didn't want. Because this was our final time filming we had all day to go there and make sure we filmed what we needed to film. The mise-en-scene of this location was perfect for what we were trying to achieve by choosing this sort of location.

Location Photos 2

This location seemed to prove successful for the genre of our film. This had good lighting, seclusion unlike our first location but the only problem was the standard of filming that we produced in this location. After this we knew our problems and knew exactly what to do and how to do it.

Location Photos 1

This was our first location chosen as a group. After filming we found that this location didn't work for our film because it was too open. In our script we needed a secluded place to fit the story etc...

Storyboard anamatic

Storyboard

Shot List

Shot List
1) CU - Characters emotion
2) Low Angle MCU - To start and to introduce characters
3) OVER THE SHOULDER - To show other body
4) POV - Characters perspective
5) ESTABLISHING SHOT - Set the scene
6) ECU - To show belongings in pockets
7) MS- To give a basic idea of what is going on i.e dragging the body
8) CU - Shoe to end
9) LS - Again see situation from far and show how discreet setting is
10) AERIAL SHOT - Modern convention, showing area.
11) MS - To show character walking across.

Script

When we first came up with the idea for our film we wrote a script. We had dialogue with the two characters but in the end we decided that having no dialogue would be better because then the effect of what the character has done is made bigger. Having no talking enhances the atmosphere of what we were trying to achieve.

Our idea for the opening of our feature film.

As a group we eventually landed on the idea of a boy killing another boy and then goes through a trumatic experience after. We were first thinking about a drug dealer killing a boy and then realized we were trying to fit a film into two minutes. we realized our mistake and then decided on the idea of filming the boy who has comitted the murder to convey his feeling about what he has done and to show the audience that.

Researching Audiences

Opening titles research: Tormented

For our opening of our film we did research on films and the film that we decided to look at was Tormented. In this video (at the bottom) you can see the opening titles and we looked at this and decided to fade into our film like this film did but insted of using music and no sound, we used the sound from the woods and didn't use music. We thought that this made the opening more emotional and brings the audience into the film right away because you hear the sound before the video starts.

This is useful because we used the sound from the woods over our titles along with the effects that we put on so the audience are asking themselves questions about where they are, who is it the sound of etc....

Opening Title sequences research: Aliens

This is the opening title sequence from Aliens (the 1979 Alien sequal), these titles start out just a black screen and all you can hear is a sound like wind blowing. Just this makes the film seem scary already. As the titles show up they are in a very simple white font that makes a big contrast on the black backround this makes you focus on where the names are on the screen and takes your focus off the backround. That is a very good technique that horror films do, they make you look somwhere when somthing else is happening or about to happen in another place on the screen. Then a very mysterious shape appears. It looks very futureistic and appears very softly first then gets clearer and clearer. As this happens there is a soft drum beat that sounds once. This is used to build suspense. And there is a gradual sound that is getting more intense and louder like the shape which is also getting bigger. All of these is used to build suspense. As this shape in the middle of the screen shifts and moves it slowly separates and forms into the letters that make up the word Aliens. The letters are in bright blue. The sound becomes more intesnse and the I in the title starts to open and as the camera goes through the opening in the screen the sound that has been getting bigger turns into a scream, the screen goes white and we are transported into space and the music slowly fades away. As we look into space the camera tilts downwards and we see an extreme long shot of a space ship. The ship is very mysterious and as it gets closer (if you saw the original Alien) we learn that this is the ship that the survivor escaped on. As the ship moves closer there are more credits and they are in the same white font that they were at the beggining.

The ship is now very close and the camera goes into a arial shot and dives into the ship through a window and as it goes in it dissolves so we are now inside the ship. The lighting of the ship is very dark and sinister. The camera starts to move then it is the end of the titles.

The viewer gets hooked on this because the beggining is so mysterious and that we want to know who or what is inside the ship floating in space.

Opening Title sequences research: Juno

This title sequence from Juno is mainly cartoon but it starts out reality and she takes a swig of orange juice then music starts. that is the only thing we can hear throughout the whole opening. It starts a tracking shot then she walks past a tree and she walks into a cartoon world. As she walks through the cartoon its like it is in a book because it uses a very clever editing technique that makes it look like someone is turning pages and looking at different cartoon pictures. Also she is always walking in every shot which tells us that she is trying to get somewhere but not nessicarly in a hurry. As the shots change we follow her through her town to get where she wants to go. The font of the titles is also very cartoony. The music used is a happy song and the colours that are used are aslo very happy, and some of the locations like to what the song says.

From this opening title the veiwer is hooked because it is very integing and we want to know more about this girl and where she is walking to ect.....

Opening Title sequences research: Lord of War

This title sequence is simple but effective in giving the audience a little about what the film is about. Bullets and guns. The titles start with a tilt shot, then the camera moves into one of the mechines and follows bullets being made. at one point it almost picks a bullet and then throughout the opening we the audience are the bullet and we see what happens to them and how they get made then used. The bullet eventually ends up in a box, the screen goes black and a moment later the box is opened by a Russian soldier, from this we can tell that Russia will have somthing to do with the movie and that when the screen when black it was time passing as well as being in a box.

Then the box is opened again and we are in a different country. We see a crane arm come towards the box and all the bullets are knocked onto the floor. As we care still the bullet we are picked up and put into the box again. The font that is used for the names is very army like and that gives us more of a clue of what the film is about. Later on the bullets are dumped onto the ground and it is picked up and loaded into a magaizne for a gun. The gun is then fired a few times and then it gets to the bullet we have been watching and we are looking down the barrel like we are the bullet again and ready to be fired.

The bullet is then fired and we see it in slo-motion and it hits a small boy in the head. The screen goes black and it is then the movie. I think what this tells the audience is that life is short, we are born then die. Just like the life of a bullet. And that war is horrible.

This title sequence is very effective in intriguing the audience into watching the rest of the film.

Brief

The titles and opening of a new fiction film called 'Dark Days' to last a maximum of 2 minutes.

My Preliminary Task

This is my preliminary task that is filmed with Petros and Edward and we all edited it together with Final Cut Pro. This was all shot with one camera and we used the specified techniques such as: match on action, shot reverse shot and we also stuck to the 180 degree rule while filming.







This is the areial floor plan that i drew for my pliminary task that I scanned into the computer then uploaded it onto my blog.






This is an example of match on action that myself, Petros and Ed filmed together. Match on action is when you have two shots of someone doing the same thing (eg opening a door) and to have them look like they have done it all in one motion you have to match the action that they do so it doesnt look like they suddenly jump through the door way or if they are not even through the door way from when you saw them last.





This is my GIF storybord that I created on Adobe imageread.