Today we decided to film for the opening of our film, the scene where the Vicar is being interviewed for the news. We decided to change this scene to an interview because we thought that it would work better as an interview so that we could address more issues in the questions.
Beth and I filmed this scene with 2 different actors Finley Harnett and Luis Harding, however this didn't go successfully as we didn't have enough time to film. The actors hadn't yet learned the lines and on top of this people kept walking past us when we were trying to film.
We will be filming this scene again, next time at a time when there wont be any people about. In the meantime the actors will be able to learn the script so that next time our filming goes successfully. We don't have much time left as the deadline is coming up very soon so whilst we film we will continue to edit the scenes which we've already filmed.
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
EDITING- Fonts
(Revelations is spelt incorrectly in all of the images)
Yesterday myself and Charlee began to look at fonts to use for the titles. As we're making a horror-thriller I think it's good if we use a font which is fits in with this. A font that's quite large and masculine, therefore I think we should use a sans serif font so it appears masculine.
Yesterday myself and Charlee began to look at fonts to use for the titles. As we're making a horror-thriller I think it's good if we use a font which is fits in with this. A font that's quite large and masculine, therefore I think we should use a sans serif font so it appears masculine.
This was the first font which we looked at, I think this this would be a good choice as it's very similar to some other fonts in thrillers which I've looked at. I think the capitals are interesting as they stand out and make the font look masculine and powerful.
The second font we looked at is also quite spooky, the serifs make the font look like trees or sticks which makes it look scary but doesn't really fit in with the theme of our film. The fact that it's serif is another reason I don't really like this font is because it looks quite feminine which isn't conventional for a thriller film. Fonts in thrillers tend to be sans serif and quite bold and bright which this one isn't.
The third font which we looked at was this, it's very similar to the first one however I think that I prefer it as it's still sans serif and conventional for a thriller, however the letters are different heights which make it appear more interesting and appealing to look at.
Overall I think we should use the final font, 'Dirty Headline' however it's something which we'll need to decide on as a group.
Friday, 8 March 2013
PLANNING- Dialouge
This is the dialouge which beth wrote for the news shown on the TV.
Announcer:
Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen and welcome to Spotlight. Here today to explain to us the dramatic resigning of Pope Benedict due to the Saint sinner killings. The Lords messenger Arch Bishop Hartley.
Hartley:
May our lord bless you and keep you citizens of God we have received information about the dead sinners who whilst their sin was great their souls were redeemable without this violence.
Announcer:
What is the church doing about this situation?
Hartley:
Well we are obviously working with the police on these so called Saint Sinner murders and are trying to solve this as quickly as possible. There will not be a government enquiry but these murders are in no way connected to the resignation of the Pope.
Announcer:
I think the public will refuse to believe that, we all know what’s going on in the Vatican and no one here would be surprised if one of your alter boys turned and did the killings. We all know the treatment they get.
Hartley:
Obviously this has nothing to…The Vatican is in no way implicated, no minister or vicar is involved this is obviously a fanatic carrying out God’s work.
Announcer:
Are you saying you agree with the killings?
Hartley:
Obviously this is an observation upon the prophecy and the true Christians are being tested. I assure you everything is being done to persecute them but…
Announcer:
That wasn’t an answer to my question
Hartley:
Well obviously I don’t agree but in principle Satan and his hoards must be punished.
Announcer:
Final question then your Holiness.
Hartley:
Yes, fire away
Announcer:
Where is your God now?
Although we filmed this scene previously without an announcer, some of us agreed that it would be better if we made a new script, I'm still not sure if we should use the new script and film again or if we should use the old part which we filmed, however we can always decided which would fit better afterwards.
Although we filmed this scene previously without an announcer, some of us agreed that it would be better if we made a new script, I'm still not sure if we should use the new script and film again or if we should use the old part which we filmed, however we can always decided which would fit better afterwards.
Saturday, 2 March 2013
EDITING
After our first draft we decided we needed to film the whole thing again which meant editing the whole opening again as well. Last time in our first draft I think that there were too many fades in between cuts so this time I think we need to do some more jump cuts and try some different transitions to create more of a pace and not have the whole opening slow.
We've changed it so we now have cuts to the room where the torture victims are, so when the protagonist gets up and starts walking it cuts to the garage showing the victims, we've done this in black and white and have used an effect for each cut and each transition. I think it's great that we've used black and white as this was one of our early ideas and something that we've always been very keen on doing, we've juist never worked out how to include it before. The black and white is useful to us as it connotes that the room shown in black and white is a dark and dangerous place, which may be seen as unsafe, this juxtaposes with the other room used in the opening which doesn't have an effect and is bright and colourful. This creates a great contrast between the two locations, one being a safe, happy, family room and another being a dark, dangerous room; which will shock viewers as both rooms are in the same house.
At first I was worried that this would look like a flash back or something that wasn't actually happening as opposed to something happening at the same time but just a different room, however we asked some of our peers and Mr Ford and they all said that they understood that it's at the same time. I believe that we've made many improvements and it definitely looks a lot more like a thriller opening sequence.
We've changed it so we now have cuts to the room where the torture victims are, so when the protagonist gets up and starts walking it cuts to the garage showing the victims, we've done this in black and white and have used an effect for each cut and each transition. I think it's great that we've used black and white as this was one of our early ideas and something that we've always been very keen on doing, we've juist never worked out how to include it before. The black and white is useful to us as it connotes that the room shown in black and white is a dark and dangerous place, which may be seen as unsafe, this juxtaposes with the other room used in the opening which doesn't have an effect and is bright and colourful. This creates a great contrast between the two locations, one being a safe, happy, family room and another being a dark, dangerous room; which will shock viewers as both rooms are in the same house.
At first I was worried that this would look like a flash back or something that wasn't actually happening as opposed to something happening at the same time but just a different room, however we asked some of our peers and Mr Ford and they all said that they understood that it's at the same time. I believe that we've made many improvements and it definitely looks a lot more like a thriller opening sequence.
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
PLANNING- New Actors and Locations
Protagonist- Aidan Lever
Woman Tied up- Lucy Wise
Child- Angelo Gizzi
Dead man- Reece Collins
Dead female 1- Cindy Sidhu
Dead female 2- Melissa Kerrison
Location-
Living room
Kitchen
Garage
Outside Church
Props-
Bible
Rope
Car
Reece- Torture victim Angelo- Protagonists child
Melissa- Torture victim Aiden- Protagonist
Lucy- Main torture victim Cindy- Torture victim
Living room Kitchen
Woman Tied up- Lucy Wise
Child- Angelo Gizzi
Dead man- Reece Collins
Dead female 1- Cindy Sidhu
Dead female 2- Melissa Kerrison
Location-
Living room
Kitchen
Garage
Outside Church
Props-
Bible
Rope
Car
Reece- Torture victim Angelo- Protagonists child
Melissa- Torture victim Aiden- Protagonist
Lucy- Main torture victim Cindy- Torture victim
Living room Kitchen
FILMING- Third Time Filming
Myself and Oscar recently filmed again as we needed more footage, due to the fact that several actors and the location has changed we have decided to re-shoot the whole opening sequence.
Unfortunately it could only be myself and Oscar that could film this day as Charlee was away on the only day that we could film; Bethany was supposed to be coming however we waited for her but she didn't turn up. This made it a lot harder for us to film as she was supposed to be bringing the props so we had to improvise and luckily I had brought some props of my own.
We filmed in a living room with the protagonist on the sofa watching TV and a child on the floor playing with a dog, we filmed at a few different angles to see which ones we would need to use; we then filmed from the kitchen; the protagonist walking from the living room, through the kitchen. This also included a zoom into an open bible on a page about sacrifice. Oscar did most of the filming whilst I decided which angles to film at and what the actors would do; we did refer back to the storyboard however because the location changed some of the shots and the camera angles had to change as well.
As we decided that we weren't going to use the Polaroids anymore because the images and the names are blurry and it didn't really make sense, it meant that there would be more footage needed as there was now more time to film. We filmed a lot more in the garage and there was a lot more dialogue involved this time, whereas last time we had more footage of the protagonist walking towards the garage. If we were to film again I would change this so that we filmed more of the protagonist moving towards the garage so that it would build more suspense and didn't get straight into the action.
Problems during filming:
We had a few problems with continuity during filming, the scene where the protagonist walks from the kitchen towards the garage was very hard to film as there's actually another large room in the middle, with a completely different door so we weren't able to make it look like this room wasn't there. This is something which I'm worried about when it comes to editing because I'm not sure if it's possible for us to make it look like this room doesn't exist.
I think that overall this filming session went a lot better than it did last time; I think it's really good that we now have an interaction between the father and son, and that we now show the protagonists face.
Set in the garage
Filming in the kitchen
Unfortunately it could only be myself and Oscar that could film this day as Charlee was away on the only day that we could film; Bethany was supposed to be coming however we waited for her but she didn't turn up. This made it a lot harder for us to film as she was supposed to be bringing the props so we had to improvise and luckily I had brought some props of my own.
We filmed in a living room with the protagonist on the sofa watching TV and a child on the floor playing with a dog, we filmed at a few different angles to see which ones we would need to use; we then filmed from the kitchen; the protagonist walking from the living room, through the kitchen. This also included a zoom into an open bible on a page about sacrifice. Oscar did most of the filming whilst I decided which angles to film at and what the actors would do; we did refer back to the storyboard however because the location changed some of the shots and the camera angles had to change as well.
As we decided that we weren't going to use the Polaroids anymore because the images and the names are blurry and it didn't really make sense, it meant that there would be more footage needed as there was now more time to film. We filmed a lot more in the garage and there was a lot more dialogue involved this time, whereas last time we had more footage of the protagonist walking towards the garage. If we were to film again I would change this so that we filmed more of the protagonist moving towards the garage so that it would build more suspense and didn't get straight into the action.
Problems during filming:
We had a few problems with continuity during filming, the scene where the protagonist walks from the kitchen towards the garage was very hard to film as there's actually another large room in the middle, with a completely different door so we weren't able to make it look like this room wasn't there. This is something which I'm worried about when it comes to editing because I'm not sure if it's possible for us to make it look like this room doesn't exist.
I think that overall this filming session went a lot better than it did last time; I think it's really good that we now have an interaction between the father and son, and that we now show the protagonists face.
Set in the garage
Filming in the kitchen
PLANNING- What We Need to Change
After we showed Mr Ford our first draft we realised that there were a lot of things which we needed to change. We decided to change the scene where Lucy is speaking to the protagonist as we realised it wasn't very realistic and there was too much swearing. I looked at films which had similar scenes to this, a person waking up from being kidnapped and then speaking to someone else; I watched the film Saw which gave me an idea of what we needed to write for Lucy to say; we decided that she needed to act more scared. As well as this we have decided to add some violence to this scene and have the protagonist kicking Lucy and maybe throwing something at her, i think that this will make the film more scary and realistic, adding to the horror element. In our first draft we filmed the protagonists body and didn't show his face, we decided that this didn't really work so his face will now be shown and there will be an intereaction between the father and son.
We have also had to change the location to a different house as the previous house we filmed at is now unavailable, this means that we wont have the scene with the protagnist walking down the stairs; as well as this we have had to change the actor who plays the protagonist as he's unavailable to film any longer; however we have chosen a similar looking actor. Additionally we have had to change two other actors, the dead man laying on the floor, and the child. The child will now be played by a young boy and there will be an interaction between him and the father as well as some dialogue from the child.
This is one of the scenes which I looked at to see how we can change the scene where Lucy makes up and make it more realistic. From watching this scene from 'Saw' I've learned that it's a slow process and we should take more time having her actually wake up before she speaks. I've also realised that the victim needs to panic and not really speak much in the beginning before asking the questions.
We have also had to change the location to a different house as the previous house we filmed at is now unavailable, this means that we wont have the scene with the protagnist walking down the stairs; as well as this we have had to change the actor who plays the protagonist as he's unavailable to film any longer; however we have chosen a similar looking actor. Additionally we have had to change two other actors, the dead man laying on the floor, and the child. The child will now be played by a young boy and there will be an interaction between him and the father as well as some dialogue from the child.
This is one of the scenes which I looked at to see how we can change the scene where Lucy makes up and make it more realistic. From watching this scene from 'Saw' I've learned that it's a slow process and we should take more time having her actually wake up before she speaks. I've also realised that the victim needs to panic and not really speak much in the beginning before asking the questions.
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