Research and Planning: Christmas Plans

College has now broken up for christmas, and so I need to make plans for what I will do over the 2 weeks off.
- Continue filming and attempt to get all footage
- Go to the locations
- Take the SLR shots for my magazine/film poster

Research and Planning: Film Magazine Progress

Research and Planning: Film Poster Prodution

Research and Planning: Production of Film Magazine

Research and Planning: Footage

Research and Planning: iShowU of my progress

Research and Planning: Voiceover Research

I have embedded the video to the Lovely Bones trailer, as I think this voice-over may work well in our film. The fact that she is talking from her own experiences is something which I think works good - and may help our trailer. I need to obviously speak to our group and get their opinions on this type of sound.

Research and Planning: Magazine Cover Lines

Research and Planning: Audience Feedback from Rough Cut

These are photographs of the audience feedback which we received from the showing of the rough cut of our trailer. This would help us in the continuing filming of our trailer, as well as showing us where to improve.

We can see from this that some of the editing is a bit fast paced, as well as the improvement of sound. (as at the moment we do not have any sound embedded into our trailer.

Research and Planning: Presentation, Rough Cut

Today we had a presentation where we showed people the footage we have so far in order to receive audience feedback

Research and Planning: Filming

At the end of last week we began filming for our trailer, we filmed at two locations, the train station and college. We will begin editing it, in order to show to the group on Thursday so that we can get audience feedback.

Research and Planning: Plan of the week

This week I plan to: 

Look at the footage we have shot and make sure that my area, cinematography is okay.

Assist with the editing of our trailer to ensure we have a rough cut for Thursday

Present our rough cut trailer to the group 

Look at Audience Feedback

Research and Planning: Film Company Logo

 

We have decided on using this as our production company logo. 

Will will add to it some text with our production company title.  

Research and Planning: Film Productions Company

Today we have came up with a few name ideas for our distribution company.
We wanted to keep with the horror/thriller genre for our film production company, much like the pre-exsisting company "Twisted Pictures". 
Our ideas are:
I thought of PANIC PICTURES
Paige thought of DECAY PICTURES
& Bethan thought of FEARFUL FILMS 
We will get some audience feedback on these and see which one is most preferred.

Research and Planning: Main Actress's Outfit

Research and Planning: Shooting Schedule

Research and Planning: Script

Scene One (College)
Actor 1: I'm really excited for this weekend.
Actor 2: Me too, can't wait to see Jasmine, I haven't seen her since she left college.
Actor 3: Oh me neither, I hope she's okay.
Actor 4 (Jess) :Does anyone else feel like they're being watched?
Actor 5: Why would anyone want to watch you?
Actor (Jess): Okayyy

*Click click click* Cut to scene two (shed) then cut to caption 'you never know who's watching'

Scene Three (Montage)
Actor 4 (Jess): What you doing?

Actor 1 (phonecall): Who's that?
Actor 4 (Jess): Unknown number.

Actor 2: What's been up with you lately, you've been acting strange.
Actor 4(Jess): I just keep getting messages all the time, I feel as if someones always watching me.


Scene 4 (House):
Neighbour: What are you doing by that window?!

*knocks on door*

Actor 4 (Jess: Hi, are you okay?
Neighbour: Did you just see that, there was someone by the window. Thought I would see if you're okay.
Actor 4 ||(Jess): Oh not again! Well, erm thanks for letting me know. 

Scene Five (Train Station):
Actor 4 (Jess): What do you want (screams).

Scene Six (Park):


Scene Seven (Car Park):
Actor Four (Jess): LEAVE ME ALONE, GET OFF ME, WHO ARE YOU?!, ARRRRGHHHHH, HELP HELP. *bangs on window*

Research and Planning: Actor Organisation

This is a conversation I had with our main Actor(Stalker) Luke Martiradonna via social networking website Twitter.

Research and Planning: The Script

Today we gathered to write our script for our trailer. 

Here is a quick snap of me writing our script.

This is just a rough outline of what we would like our actors to say, in scene one we may allow the actors to go slightly off script as we want it to appear natural and spontaneous speech in order to look realistic.

Research and Planning: Font for Magazine

Research and Planning: Make-up shots

Research and Planning: The Mask

Today we bought the mask which our stalker will be wearing in our trailer.

Research and Planning: Plan of the Week

This week I plan to:

-buy the mask for our trailer

-begin filming our trailer

-font research for my magazine

-Upload Make-Up shots

Research and Planning: Test Shot

This is a test shot of our first location: College.
This showed us a few problems with the shot, as there is too much background noise from the road outside of college, which is good that we spotted now in our test shot, as oppose to when we had actually filmed the trailer. 

Research and Planning: SLR Test Shots

 This image was taken without flash and is slightly out of focus

Here the image is still without flash, however I think the focus is much better. The lighting is still quite dull though

 I think that this image works well as the flash was used and it looks much brighter. The lighting is natural, and it has a sharp quality.

We took another shot from above (high angle shot) in order to see what the lighting would be like from this angle. We used the flash for this image and I think it has come out quite well. I will bare in mind the fact that we would be better using flash on our pictures, even when outside.

 This is just a test photo of inside, and as you can see the colours are very washed out. As inside has artificial lighting, the lighting on this image has a yellow hue to it. This image was used without flash, and so if using the SLR for my work whilst shooting inside, I plan to use the flash in order to avoid this lighting. 

Research and Planning: Location Risk Assessments

Research and Planning: Costume and Props for film magazine and poster

As well as costume and props for the trailer, it is also important that I concentrate on what costume and props will be needed for my individual film poster and magazine. 

The costume for my film poster and magazine will mainly be the same as in the trailer. 

However, instead of showing the victim to be wearing white, if I plan to only use her in my poster (not show the stalker) I will choose her to wear black in order to portray the genre of the film much clearer. However, for my magazine I mainly plan to use just the stalker for the image up to now. 

MAGAZINE OUTFIT:

Stalker's Outfit: 

Mask

Black oversized hoodie

Hair tied back in order to conceal identity

Dark clothing and t-shirts

Victim's Outfit: 

White dress

Minimal Make-up 

Hair Down 

POSTER OUTFIT:

Stalker's Outfit: 

Mask

Black oversized hoodie

Hair tied back in order to conceal identity

Dark clothing and t-shirts

Victim's Outfit: 

Black Dress

Dark Make-up 

Hair straightened 

Research and Planning: Location Recce's

Our mise-en-scene manager, Paige Lowe has completed the location recce's for our trailer. These involve the 6 locations for which we plan to use in our trailer. As well as any information which will be needed such as lighting and power information.