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We had to get some permission from Aaron Vanders parents, saying that we were allowed to film in their garden and to have a bonfire. We had filmed our film on Friday, 20th, January and on the camera the footage had looked clear enough. So in todays lesson we had uploaded the shots to the mac, but as we started to use Final cut the shots were not clear enough and the picture was dark. So we have decided to film our film again and we will film it tomorrow. To make the shot look clear we will need to have more light and maybe do it at an earlier time.

What we have done so far

In this post I will be informing you about what we have done within our group to get where we are now. We have shot our title sequence, so know we will have to start editing the shots to the best of our ability and see what outcome we get from it. We will start to edit it on tuesday and try to complete the editing by the end of Fridays lesson. We are nearlly finished in creating our songs, so when we have finished we will have to also edit that and make sure the shots and the voice over fit with the song. We have not done the voice over yet we hope to complete that during this week. We have sorted out the typeography there is only a few things to edit such as the colour, then we will have to find a way how to make the typeography float out of the bin. We have also found a company that will be creating our film, and we have also got our company name as well, which is called HARJ. We have also got a logo for the company. So all that is left to do is to start editing and then put everything together and see what we can create.

Filming day

Today we are going to film our film at 4.00pm. In todays lesson it was a catch up lesson for blogging. We have been advised to update our blogs. We are near enough finished with our song, we only have to add a few more beats then we will be finished. We have to now film our film, edit it, put it into the music add the voice note and put it all together. We will want to start editing our film next week so we will have to film our film today.

The voice over Script

This is going to be the voice over script for our title sequence. We have included tense and dark words and the reason for this is because our film is horror. We have included the word fire because our film is normally based around fire.
Fire is destructive… Fire destroys… Fire burns the flesh… and the soul… it takes away everything you hold dear… it can’t be controlled… it can never be stopped…  A monster born from the flames… The flames around may long have perished… but the fire still burns deep within… And it can’t be stopped… until it has consumed everything in its path.

final cut

This is the video that we had played around with in our lesson today. we had done this because we are going to create a film title sequence so it will be good for us to practise and get used to the software.

Props

We want to make the character look as if he is burnt, so we will have to buy some products. We will have to use, girls make up and some glue. We have been watching some videos on youtube to find out how the burns can look like. Mrs Moore had told us told us what we would need to create this effect. We will have a bonfire because our film is mainly based around fire. So we had to get permission from Aaron's parents to be able to do that in his garden. We have been granted permission to start a bonfire in Aaron's garden. We will have to follow some rules to make sure that nothing else happens.
These are some rules for a bonfire

Bonfire safety tips

Once the bonfire is lit, make sure you:

• keep a bucket of water or a garden hose nearby - in case of emergencies
• don’t leave the bonfire unattended
• keep children and pets away from the bonfire
• don’t throw any fireworks into the fire
• don't burn aerosols, tyres, canisters or anything containing foam or paint - many produce toxic fumes and some containers may explode, causing injury

Once the bonfire has died down, spray the embers with water to stop it reigniting.

Change of filming date

We had to change the day of when we was going to film our title sequence, because had come up. We have re scheduled to film our title sequence and that day would be a Friday, 20th, January, 2012. We will have to change our date on the film on the calendar that we have created because we are not doing it on the date that we have selected.

My production plan

I have added my calendar that my group have created onto my blog because it will keep use organised not olny that the teachers will be able to know what we will be doing on what day. This will not just guide me but it will also guide our group as well. The Google calendar is a good thing because we will know what type of things we have to do per week. We have to hand in our film by the 10th of, so we have added something to do per week in our calendar. Each week we will focus on certain things to do with our title sequence. We cant rush this otherwise we will make mistakes.

titles

Above is the titles that we are going to use in our title sequence. This typeography is good because our main theme in the film is set to be on fire and the writing of the typeography looks like fire. We have not changed the colour of the text because it will look good coming out of the fire in this colour. The titles will be show in chronilogical order in the actual film sequence but they are not in order right now.

poster

This is the poster that we have created. It will be a great way to promote our title sequence. The reason for this is because we have got some themes of the film with fire, and the child killer, also the child is mysterious as you do not actually see his face, only his shadow. The fire can create atmosphere and set the type of genre because of the colour and how horific it looks.

Hammer Film Productions

This is a company that I reckon will do a good job for us, so I would like them to create our film. This film company is British and the company’s speciality is in horror.  We want our film to be a British type theme and it is also horror, so I think that this matches what this film production that we have found. This is a good idea because bigger companies will not want to take our film on because they might think that they won’t get a good amount of money in return.  This is a good company to take on board because it is British, whereas most of the big companies are American, when American people try to create a British type film it becomes beyond the topic but it also can be comical. Our film is totally different to this it is not a comedy it is a horror based genre and we would like people to take it serious.

Thursday 5th january 2012

At the beginning of the lesson sir had discussed with us what we was going to do in today’s lesson. In the first part of the lesson we had to create a Google calendar. We are going to create a Google calendar because it is a way of setting our deadlines. We will be setting dates for when we will be completing things in our film. We as a group will have to decide what dates we reckon we will get the things completed. We will try to equal it out per task otherwise we might rush some things. I think that Google calendar is a good thing because it helps us out a lot. We will know what we are doing and what other things we have to finish off. Google calendar can be good because we can use it as our evidence for our coursework. We can add each other who are in our group, therefore everyone in our group will know the deadlines and what we need to do.

In the second part of the lesson we had started to finish off and finalise our ideas for our storyboard. Our group had to start again because there were things that we had to change. We had changed a few things in our storyboard and we had also checked with Shaun if it was to a good standard. We had also went onto the computer and started to look at some music that we will be using in the background. Unfortunately the music that we had liked had copy right. So we asked Shaun what could we do, he said that it is very easy to create a track like that and he will show us how to do it and we will then create the background music. After we had clarified that we had decided what the voice over notes will be, so we wrote about a paragraph, on what we think the voice over notes should consist of. We have come up with a lot of phrases and we will record a voice and put it in separate shots.   

How to write up a pitch for something to an audience.

1.      The introduction in your pitch should be very brief not giving away to much.

2.      The pitch should not be longer then 8-9 minutes but it should be over 5 minutes.

3.      The pitch should be telling the audience about the film but try not to give too much away.

Make sure you have answered all of the questions before you present your pitch. If you answer these questions there are no way that you will be stuck on the spot if someone asks a question. If you answer most of these questions then you have given out a good pitch.

1.      What genre is your film?

2.      What other genre’s have inspired your film to be similar to this?

3.      Who is the target audience?

4.      When will the film be released?

5.      How much it will cost to create?

6.      How much income you will receive from it?

7.      Which characters will be in it?

8.      Who is the director?

We in our groups had to answer these questions that had been given in our presentation. The presentation will be on the film idea we have come up with for our title sequence. We have to present it to the class and listen to their feedback.

Our presentation for Groundhog Day, our ideas for a new title sequence

In this lesson we as a whole class had to present our presentation in our indivual groups. The theme was a British edition of Groundhog Day. As a class we had judged people presentations and had to give them a mark out of ten for there initial idea and the presenting skills they were using. After the group had finished presenting their idea we had to give feedback to what was good and what was bad in the presentation. We had to give good reason for what we think why the people have used that type of typeography and pictures in their pre title sequence for Groundhog Day.

Our presentation was okay, it was not great because we gave too much a way. The feedback that we had got from people in the class and the teacher made us understand that we had made it look like a trailer rather than a pre title sequence.

Blogging

In this lesson we were given a chance to update our blogs and get them to a good standard. I was behind in my blogging but I had managed to get more of my work onto my blog and get it posted. I had asked my teacher to check what I have missed out to put on my blog and they had told me what to do.

Groundhod Day - Our Own Idea For A Pre Title Sequence

This is the image and typography that my group have used for the film Groundhog Day. This image would be seen in our version on the Groundhog day title sequence as it communicates the three main points that we have aimed to acheive which is;

• Romance - which can be seen clearly in the picture between the man and women.
• The British theme of the film -  having the picture be in London, the capital of England. London can be seen in some romantic comedy's as this is where the love happens.
• Comedy - as you can see they are on an ice rink and this is where we will communicate the comedy to the audience.

We had to come up with a new idea for Groundhog Day which we had to present to the class when we had completed it. There was a male character who is feeling the real heat of Groundhog day he has fallen in love with a woman which he keeps on bumping into. In many different funny ways. But every time he bumps into her she doesn’t know who he is because he is the Groundhog Day, all the time he bumps into this woman he asks her out. We had to use this and give this idea out to the class, using typeography and a screen shot of something. So we worked in a group and we went onto Google and found a picture of two people in love. Then we had gone onto Dafont and found a font that we had put on top of the picture.

Typeography and design

This is the order of which Catch me if you can goes in- Firstly it says which Studio had created it. Then the next type of typography is the Stars, it mostly is shown in the order of most fame. Then the name of the film is then shown. After this it shows the members of the crew who had created this film and what job roles that they had. The Producer and executive producer’s names are then shown. Finally the director’s name is shown last.
The typeography that had been created is a sort of wavy text like it is liquidy. The typeography throughout the whole clip is the same. Off some of the letters there are lines coming off them, this then takes it onto the next shot and it is like a cycle which keeps going on throughout the clip. There is always one character that keeps on appearing and he seems to look like a mysterious guy. It looks like he’s is doing a lot of things, which can kept the audience thinking what is going to happen next. There is mysterious music being played in this clip and that can give away what type of genre the film is about. E.g. if the film is horror there can be rock music or spooky alerts. The title "Catch me if you can" can give away what the film is about because; straight away people will think that a person is on the run, or escaping.