This is our podcast on our sample scenes.
Friday, 21 January 2011
Filming Schedule
1. 5th January we did some preliminary filming of key scenes at the required location.
2. We started our proper filming on Sunday 8th January.
3. We didn't get through it all and so we scheduled another date to film the rest which was Tuesday 11th January.
However in retrospect, we feel we should have waited longer before we started filming as after we looked at our clips we thought our movie flowed more like a trailer rather than a two minute opening. We then made a change to the story board and created an alternate ending.
4. We will film the alternate ending on Tuesday 25th January. This will require a different location, which will be a school.
5. We will film the establishing shot/opening shot on Wednesday 26th January. We need another time to film where the house will be more visible than how it was shown in our previous attempt.
2. We started our proper filming on Sunday 8th January.
3. We didn't get through it all and so we scheduled another date to film the rest which was Tuesday 11th January.
However in retrospect, we feel we should have waited longer before we started filming as after we looked at our clips we thought our movie flowed more like a trailer rather than a two minute opening. We then made a change to the story board and created an alternate ending.
4. We will film the alternate ending on Tuesday 25th January. This will require a different location, which will be a school.
5. We will film the establishing shot/opening shot on Wednesday 26th January. We need another time to film where the house will be more visible than how it was shown in our previous attempt.
Thursday, 20 January 2011
Audience Feedback
We have begun to receive some audience feedback to our intial idea of our opening 2 minute film.
When describing to a fellow student what our opening included the student, Ben Glover pointed out a key piece of critism.
This led us to realise that the audience might mis-interpret who the killer is, and might believe that it is the child who kills the babysitter. This is not the case. If we were to complete the film it would follow a story line somewhat similar to Prom Night, where Rachael is stalked by some mystery person who killed the babysitter when she was younger and is still following her, and continues to kill the people around her to get to her. Another similar idea to All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, in which Mandy is stalked by someone who kills her friends to get to her."Who is the killer? Because from what you just told me I'm unsure as to who has killed the babysitter, was it the child or someone else who we don't see in the opening two minutes?"
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
Deconstruction of 'Hannibal'
Deconstruction of the opening 2 minutes.
Release date: 2001
Director: Ridley Scott
Budget: $87,000,000
Opening weekend,
USA: $58,003,121
UK: £6,402,540
It begins with a black screen and a voice over. There is non-diegetic music of a piano playing. The voice over is a conversation between two men. The voices connote that one man is middle aged and the other quite old.
Titles then appear on the blank black screen. The titles are in capital letters, a sans serif font and red. Apart from the font type, this description adheres to the conventional appearance of horror titles. Serif font is the orthodox choice usually for horror films.
The picture/scene that matches the voices begins as a small box in the corner and it progressively enlarges to fill the whole screen. This gives the audience a feeling of mystery or uncertainty. The shot shows an apartment or house with expensive looking interiors in a gothic style. The colour scheme of the interior is black and red signifying the owner may be a dark character. There are 3 men in the scene. It is an establishing shot and it is not easy to see the characters clearly, it is a view from the side. One is a helper/side kick looking archetype dressed in uniform. One is sat comfortably in an armchair wearing casual attire facing another man. This man is very old, sat in an arch in a wheelchair and is dressed in a formal suit.
The 3rd shop is a close up which shows a ghastly looking face of the old man. It comes across to be a surgically reformed face. He has a glass eye, fake lips and multiple scars. This image was intended to shock the audience. This is a typical archetype of a villain.
The 4th shot is a close up of the relaxed dress man being questioned by the old man. He doesn't come across as disturbed by the old man. We see this through his indifferent tone of voice yet his face is expressive as he engages in conversation in a casual manner.
After deconstructing this film we decided we wouldn't specifically relate it to our media coursework idea but we wanted to show a variety of the genre we're studying, to widen our knowledge of the genre.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212985/
Release date: 2001
Budget: $87,000,000
Opening weekend,
USA: $58,003,121
UK: £6,402,540
It begins with a black screen and a voice over. There is non-diegetic music of a piano playing. The voice over is a conversation between two men. The voices connote that one man is middle aged and the other quite old.
Titles then appear on the blank black screen. The titles are in capital letters, a sans serif font and red. Apart from the font type, this description adheres to the conventional appearance of horror titles. Serif font is the orthodox choice usually for horror films.
The picture/scene that matches the voices begins as a small box in the corner and it progressively enlarges to fill the whole screen. This gives the audience a feeling of mystery or uncertainty. The shot shows an apartment or house with expensive looking interiors in a gothic style. The colour scheme of the interior is black and red signifying the owner may be a dark character. There are 3 men in the scene. It is an establishing shot and it is not easy to see the characters clearly, it is a view from the side. One is a helper/side kick looking archetype dressed in uniform. One is sat comfortably in an armchair wearing casual attire facing another man. This man is very old, sat in an arch in a wheelchair and is dressed in a formal suit.
The 3rd shop is a close up which shows a ghastly looking face of the old man. It comes across to be a surgically reformed face. He has a glass eye, fake lips and multiple scars. This image was intended to shock the audience. This is a typical archetype of a villain.
The 4th shot is a close up of the relaxed dress man being questioned by the old man. He doesn't come across as disturbed by the old man. We see this through his indifferent tone of voice yet his face is expressive as he engages in conversation in a casual manner.
After deconstructing this film we decided we wouldn't specifically relate it to our media coursework idea but we wanted to show a variety of the genre we're studying, to widen our knowledge of the genre.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212985/
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Company Names/Idents
Becky and I have thought of various company names and idents but we narrowed it down to:
We created the name banana productions because it was a product of experiments of us mixing our names together.
The picture/ident we thought would work is a shot of me and Becky's faces holding a banana up as a smile and a sad face. However, this idea is not finalized as we are questioning how appropriate it would be for the slasher genre.
Famous examples of distributors:
We came up with the name Tribal Entertainment because it derived from a personal reference to our filming. As the babysitter is downstairs and hears noises coming from the bedroom upstairs, the noises resemble that of tribal drums. We liked that the name sprang from personal experience filming and that is was a memorable title to remember.
We have not thought of an image to suit the name as yet.
We researched the name Tribal Entertainment on imdb.com and there were 2 production companies with similar names; Tribal Home Entertainment and Tribalfilm Entertainment. However it is not an exact match so we will still use Tribal Entertainment as our distributor name.
We also researched the title Banana Productions. There were many similar matches such as
Banana Split Productions and Blue Banana Productions; However, because these were not exact matches we will still use the name Banana Productions.
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18/01/11.
We have changed the Production name to Banana Drama. This relates more to the genre of our film opening as it could be interpreted as more sinister than Banana Productions. It also is memorable as it rhymes well. We have discussed having a a moving image ident of a banana being massacred.
- Producer: Banana Productions
- Distributor: Tribal Entertainment
We created the name banana productions because it was a product of experiments of us mixing our names together.
The picture/ident we thought would work is a shot of me and Becky's faces holding a banana up as a smile and a sad face. However, this idea is not finalized as we are questioning how appropriate it would be for the slasher genre.
Famous examples of distributors:
We came up with the name Tribal Entertainment because it derived from a personal reference to our filming. As the babysitter is downstairs and hears noises coming from the bedroom upstairs, the noises resemble that of tribal drums. We liked that the name sprang from personal experience filming and that is was a memorable title to remember.
We have not thought of an image to suit the name as yet.
We researched the name Tribal Entertainment on imdb.com and there were 2 production companies with similar names; Tribal Home Entertainment and Tribalfilm Entertainment. However it is not an exact match so we will still use Tribal Entertainment as our distributor name.
We also researched the title Banana Productions. There were many similar matches such as
Banana Split Productions and Blue Banana Productions; However, because these were not exact matches we will still use the name Banana Productions.
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18/01/11.
We have changed the Production name to Banana Drama. This relates more to the genre of our film opening as it could be interpreted as more sinister than Banana Productions. It also is memorable as it rhymes well. We have discussed having a a moving image ident of a banana being massacred.
Monday, 17 January 2011
Call sheet for 'Sleep Tight'
This acted like annotations to our storyboard.
'Sleep Tight' Call Sheet.
Call Sheet Continued for 'Sleep Tight'
'Sleep Tight' Call Sheet Continued
'Sleep Tight' Call Sheet.
Call Sheet Continued for 'Sleep Tight'
'Sleep Tight' Call Sheet Continued
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