Monday, 20 December 2010

EDLS

This is a log of all of our clips we captured in our teaser film trailer and all of the edits we used throughout filming. We got this off final cut as a digital EDL by going to file export batch list not a hand written EDL. This saved time and is used to show editors what clips we would like to keep and then they would make the final editing.

































































































Wednesday, 15 December 2010

Prop List

Prop List for Filming
our call list we have created contains a prop list already however here is another breakdown of all the props we will need in order to film our teaser trailer and who will be responsible for them
Fake Gun = Hayley
Wedding Ring = Georgia
Rope =Hayley
Suit = Adam
Black Dress and Makeup = Georgia
Camera/Equipment = Collected by Stacey 19/11/10 at 4pm - Media Center, Stratford Upon Avon College.
Car = Georgina (see call sheet for contact)

Monday, 13 December 2010

Contact Details for Actors/Actress

Adam lloyd (main male character) - 07540057255
Georgia Angus (myself) - 07850673564
Georgina (the driver) - 07896949587

Thursday, 9 December 2010

Change in Release Date

In my animatic my group produced we said our film would be released in July however due to doing research we are changing our release date to December 2011 as teasers tend to be released whilst the film is still in production giving more time to produce the film.

Film Posters Reseach

About Film Posters: The graphics and art work on many posters is of superior quality, reflecting striking designs and recognizable features from the films. "Posters" is a generic term to include a wide variety of sizes and types, including 1, 2, 3, and 6 sheets, half-sheets, inserts, window cards, jumbo window cards, and lobby cards. Classic and Vintage Film Posters and Pictures have become valued collector's items.

This information was found at http://www.filmsite.org/posters.html

Therefore i will focus on my artistic skills on my film poster rather than any text i want to be seen and my film poster will be large and placed outside cinemas in order to promote the film.

Little white lies front cover reseach

This is the website that shows all of 'little white lies' front covers. http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/the-magazine
There is a consistent pop art pattern and they stand out from all the other typical film magazine front covers. I would like to do something similar for my film as i think it looks interesting and it would stretch my photoshop skills further.

Tuesday, 23 November 2010

Summary of Filming Process

This is How our Filming Progress went:
Myself, Stacey and Hayley all took part in the filming progress i was an actress as well as involved in filming scenes without me in. Connor could not attend the filming due to financial transport issues and therefore he will hopefully be more part in the editing side of our project. We let the people in charge of the car park know when we were starting filming and when we had finished, they were ever so helpful and interested in what we were doing. They allocated us a certain part of the car park which wouldn't be busy so that we could get on with our filming. We also wore fluorescent clothing to make people recognise that we were filming. We tried to use a tripod for various scenes in our trailer however we had problems trying to balance this and get it straight, They yellow bubble was stubborn and wouldn't go in the middle. We did a short clip of Adam inside the car this was tricky trying to get the camera in a suitable place for what we wanted to show and also to get lighting. We did not have profession interior lighting as this wouldn't have been affordable so instead we used a smart phone with a torch application, this worked well in the end as it was compact, convenient and cheap. Myself, Stacey and Hayley all used the Sony camera at various points of the day. We set the white balance and focused and zoomed in order to suit our footage. However when looking back at our unused footage some shots were out of focused and therefore couldn't be used. In the future with more experience of the camera and its features we would have been able to improve this however we believed we did the best we could. There was a scene where i had to lie on the floor is a short black dress. The temperature was freezing and therefore we attempted to work as quick as possible for these scenes. The team work was really well i didn't know how to get to the chosen car park so Stacey picked me up. There were other minor problems throughout the day however we managed to solve these. Myself and Stacey had never met Adam the actor before however he was very friendly and there was no awkwardness. We all had fun filming our teaser trailer and it was a good experience.

Monday, 22 November 2010

hunt animatics

Firstly in order to make our animatic sound realistic we created a soundtrack on garage band this contained street noise and car sounds, this was then converted to the format of mp3 and inserted to imovie where we created the rest of our animatic. The animatic was like a moving story board giving us a better insight to what our final teaser film trailer will look like. We scanned in the story board images and made some of them move for example the legs walking round the car and the accelerator in the car being pushed down. This didn't take long to do and helped us understand how to use the basics of garage band software and imovie software. We then uploaded it onto the YouTube account that i created for media studies and shared it on my blog page.

Filming in Progress

















































Here are some photos of my group filming our film teaser trailer. We wore suitable clothing making passers by aware of the filming in progress. These photos show good teamwork throughout the day. Unfortunately Connor couldn't join us whilst filming.







Obtaining Permission

In order to film in a multistory car park we need to get permission from the owner of the car park. We started by ringing Coventry city council as this is the city we were hoping to film in. They then gave us an email address of the person in charge of the CV1 car parks which is the city centre. We emailed him However this was unsuccessful and Stacey rang up Stratford City Council which told us they own 2 multistory car parks and we could use either, After viewing both we decided Our final location is Bridge foot Car Park, Stratford-Upon-Avon this was most suitable. On the day of filming at approximately 10am Hayley contacted the Stratford-Upon-Avon Police to inform them we would be using a fake gun. she rung 01789 414111 and they gave us an incident number - 127. she had to give details such as the time and place of filming, and her name.












Update
We are able to use Bridge foot Car Park and therefore wont need to use any of our contingency plans and will be able to use our original idea with the black car.

Thursday, 18 November 2010

Contingency Plan

We have ran into problems with our location of a multi story car park.

We have contacted a man called Mike O'Connor (who works for CV1 in Coventry) who is letting us know if we will be able to obtain permission to film in a car park in Coventry city centre on a Sunday afternoon. We contacted him through email which we got from ringing Coventry city council. However we have learnt that the Belgrade Plaza Car park will not let us film due to being privately owned, nor the car park on New Union Street due to our storyline involving a dead person and a gun therefore causing awareness to customers using the car park.
Instead we have come up with a contingency plan which includes:
-Filming in Stratford car park Multi story not effecting our planning or storyboard(Stacey will contact the Stratford-Upon-Avon Council to obtain permission)
-Filming in a car park in Banbury, Oxfordshire.
-Earlier filming of the black car before it is taken away due to being a hire car.
-Filming of the interior in a different car with similar features of the black car.

Monday, 15 November 2010

Font Tally

























To decide on a font for our magazine front cover, film teaser trailer and film poster, our group choose a selection of fonts that we thought could be suitable for our final product. We made a shortlist, then asked our target audience to choose their favourite font they thought would suit our product. The results we got are, the most popular font was Arial Black Bold with a space inbetween the characters. It won with 14 votes and Arial Unicode Ms with spaces came second. Our group will take the information from this research and use it to influence our final products.

Friday, 12 November 2010

Font Reseach


























This is a scan of The Observer on 17/10/10.
The article was about different fonts and what specific fonts are recognised and used for in everyday life. This will be useful to our group as we will have to think about the fonts we use on our cross media campaign. This article was interesting to read because it is an article about typography and why certain fonts are more popular. The article is an extract from Just My Type: A book about fonts, by Simon Garfield, and has given me brief insights into the history of typography, and the process of how they are created. Also, it uses the terminology given to specific parts of the letters which adds to my knowledge. The article includes findings from Anthony Cahalan on font popularity, these were his results:











Our group will stay clear from using the least favourite fonts as these are least likely to grab the audiences attention and stand out. This secondary research is reliable due to knowing its from 100 different designers. From reading this text i know our texts needs to be both attractive and piratical as it would be no good to produce something that looked boring or that wasn't readable due to have too fancy a font. This article relates well to the products i am creating as fonts can relate to your target audience for example a spirally font would be for a more feminine audience.

Potential Locations














































































Here are some various car parks in Coventry where we could potentially shoot our teaser trailer. None of these pictures are my own they are from google maps http://www.maps.google.com/ however i will be taking my own photo's for location when we are shooting the trailer for my location Recce




Friday, 5 November 2010

Health and Safety Assesment




























In order to make sure that everyone producing the film teaser trailer is kept safe throughout these are the precautions we will have to take.

Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
An Act to make further provision for securing the health, safety and welfare of persons at work, for protecting others against risks to health or safety in connection with the activities of persons at work, for controlling the keeping and use and preventing the unlawful acquisition, possession and use of dangerous substances, and for controlling certain emissions into the atmosphere; to make further provision with respect to the employment medical advisory service; to amend the law relating to building regulations, and the Building (Scotland) Act 1959; and for connected purposes

When looking at the health and safety at work act i realised i needed to provide and maintain a safe environment with safe working equipment. Ensure there is safe storage, handling and transportation due to using a moving car is our teaser film trailer. Also make sure there are adequate facilities for us all to use for example female and male toilets.

I also looked at this website to research the health and safety act.
http://www.esafetysigns.co.uk/acatalog/The-Health-and-Safety-at-Work-Act-1974.html

Wednesday, 3 November 2010

Costume Mood Board























Our group have done this mood board of different outfit ideas for costumes for our two main characters in our teaser film trailer. This is only rough however gives us a better idea of the type of outfit we want our actor and actress to wear.

Monday, 1 November 2010

Cross Media Marketing - Inception

The first thing the audience See's in the film teaser trailer is who the film is produced by letting the audience know what other films this producer has made and how well rated they are. Giving them an idea how good this film will be. The font is in a metallic silver on a black background making the text clear and giving it an edgy effect. A close up of an object spinning then appears intriguing the audience to whats going to happen. In the same font as before showing consistence and were also told a film produced by the producer for people that didn't already know. The audience then see a birds eye view of an urban city showing the location of the film. A mid shot shows us a facial expression of what could be a main character he looks shocked and worried telling the audience something has happened. A women is then seen to be dragged away by two men this could be what the mans facial expression was responding to. This then fades to black and an actors name appears he is well known and if the audience like this actor it may make them go and see the film. Another close up of an object is used however this time the audience get an idea that there is unnatural goings on as the water in the glass tilts to one side without any human involvement. Text then appears saying 'your mind' then it cuts to the main character and then the rest of the slogan appears saying 'is the scene of the crime' this gives the audience more idea about what the film is about but not giving away too much. We then get a few fast tempo cuts showing scenes from the film these include, a room spinning with two people inside it, A man covered in water and a man looking shocked on a train. Finally we are shown a cartooned landscape of the city this then turns into the title of the film which is clever and interesting. When the film is released then appears in the same font, a silver colour. At the end the audience are quickly shown the names of the people who work behind thew scenes. Throughout the trailer non diegetic sound is played which is uneasy on the ear in a minor key with drums and this sound builds up and up until the title of the film is revealed this sets tension for the audience.

Cross Media Campaign - Inception

I decided to do research on the inception cross media advertising due to deciding to do this type of genre for my teaser trailer this gives me some ideas for my own work and shows some of the basic conventions for a thriller poster, teaser trailer and magazine front cover.

Cross Media Campaign - Inception


Cross Media Campaign - Inception


Wednesday, 27 October 2010

Call Sheet

A2 MEDIA
WORKING TITLE: HUNT
CALL SHEET FOR 21st NOVEMBER 2010
CALL TIMES: 15:00 – Crew Call (Meet at Coventry Train Station) Recce + Lighting
16:00 - Set Up
16:30 – Cast Call + Into Costume (Meet on Location)
17:00 - Filming
19:00 – Break
19:30 - Filming
21:15 – Finish
Crew Contact: Stacey Mole - 07794900265
Connor Adkins - 07917697725
Georgia Angus - 07850673564
Hayley Egan – 07981070089
Cast Contacts: Reece Bruce – 07540057255
Driver Contacts: Georgina Egan - 07896949587
Location: Coventry Car Park - CVOne, Ground Floor MSCP
New Union Street
CV1 2NT
Weather: Forecast is Wind/Cloud – Please bring warm clothing, as we will be filming outside.
Catering: Please bring own food, hot drinks will be supplied.
Shooting Schedule:

TIME SHOT CAST

17:00-17:15 1 RB

17:20-17:30 2 RB

17:35-17:45 3 RB

17:50-18:00 4 RB

18:05-18:30 5 GE

18:35-19:00 6 RB

BREAK

19:30-19:55 7 GA + RB

20:00-20:15 8 GA +RB

20:20- 20:40 9 GA+ RB

20:45-21:00 10 GA+RB


REQUIREMENTS
PROPS: Gun, Wedding Ring, rope
CAMERA/EQUIPMENT: Sony A1E, tripod, batteries, tape, XLR unit
COSTUME/HAIR/MAKEUP: Black Suit, open shirt (no tie). Hairspray. Gel. Black Mascara/Eyeliner. Black Dress.

Shooting Schedule

My shooting schedule will be included in my call sheet.

Monday, 25 October 2010

Light and Testing

Myself Stacey and Hayley tested various lighting and decided overall natural lighting would be the best to use for our trailer. As the yellowish lighting gives an eery effect inside the car park. However we did use a smart phone torch app inside the car so that the camera could see clearly that the accelerator was being pressed down.

Sunday, 24 October 2010

New Media Audience reseach






















Due to our facebook audience research not being successful due to the lack of response we have now produced another survey on a well known site called survey monkey in order to find out peoples opinions on the teaser film trailer 'buried'

Saturday, 23 October 2010

Location Recce

Our final location is Bridgefoot Car Park, Stratford-Upon-Avon, here are the location shots:

































































































Thursday, 21 October 2010

Facebook Audience Reseach



















For our audience research my group and I created a Facebook questionnaire that we sent out to 20 of our friends. After 4 days of sending the questionnaire, we only received one reply. As this proved not as successful as we had hoped, we decided to work on Survey Monkey to collect results.

Wednesday, 20 October 2010

Story Board




































































































The above is my storyboard




















































This is Stacey's storyboard

Tuesday, 19 October 2010

Shot List

Shot List – HUNT 21/11/10

SHOT #

SHOT TYPE

SYNOPSIS+LOCATION

NOTES:

1

MS

Ryan driving

Car

Do not show exterior

Use tripod

2

MS

Changing gear

Car

Camera looking down on action

Use tripod

3

ECU

Accelerating

Car

Use tripod

4

CU

Rear view mirror

Car

Air freshener

Use tripod

5

POV

WS

Car driving from above

Car park

Handheld?

Use tripod

6

MS

Ryan leaving elevator

Car park

Handheld

7

MCU→MS

Car parks up, Ryan walks to woman

Car park

Handheld

8

CU

Woman’s hand with Ryan in background

Wedding ring is central focus

Tripod

9

LS→MS→CU

Behind Ryan, steadicam upwards to right side

See body in background

Handheld

11

MCU

Gun in hand, close to body

Handheld

Monday, 18 October 2010

Draft Scripts


INT. MULTI STORY CAR PARK. NIGHT.

Non-diegetic music - .................

A man walks up to a lift door, -presses the button-. This is DAVE (21); he is wearing a smart black suit with a white shirt and a black tie. HE IS CARRYING A GUN. He enters the lift -presses the button- and waits. He exits the lift and goes through a door into an EMPTY CAR PARK. He turns left and walks. He approaches something that is on the floor. IT IS A DEAD WOMAN. She is wearing a WEDDING RING.

He stands and stares.
Fade To.
HUNT.

Fade To.

Coming Soon.
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INT. MULTI STORY CAR PARK. NIGHT.

Non-diegetic music - .................

A man walks up to a lift door, -presses the button-. This is DAVE (21); he is wearing a smart black suit with a white shirt and a black tie. HE IS CARRYING A GUN. He enters the lift -presses the button- and waits. He exits the lift and goes through a door into an EMPTY CAR PARK. He turns left and walks. He approaches something that is on the floor. IT IS A DEAD WOMAN. She is wearing a WEDDING RING.

He stands and stares.
Fade To.
HUNT.

Fade To.

Coming Soon.

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I wrote a script also:


INSERT TITLE CARD: DISTRIBUTOR NAME


INT. CAR. NIGHT.


RYAN (24) is a mysterious looking man, he is tall and slim. His dark hair hair is swept back and is dressed smartly in a dark professional-looking suit. He is driving a black car very fast and appears anxious and uneasy. His face is covered in shadow and he is alone.


He accelerates and checks the rear view mirror to see if he is being followed. He drives into the lower floor of a multi-storey car park.


INT. CAR PARK. NIGHT.


The car park is dimly lit and there are not many cars around.There are no visible people either. Ryan exits an elevator and walks forward into the next level.


A WOMAN is lying on the ground. This woman is dressed smartly and appears wealthy. She is unconsciousness and her hands are tied. She is wearing a wedding ring.


Ryan approaches her slowly walking evenly and confidently. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a gun.


INSERT TITLE CARD: HUNT


He stands over the woman with the gun poised.


INSERT TITLE CARD: THIS SUMMER


END.



These are the three scripts our group have created with a variation of a story line we will try and combine both ideas in our final script.

Saturday, 16 October 2010

Group Schedule

This is a brief group schedule giving us an idea of what needs to be done each week in our group this way we can meet all the appropriate deadlines.

Thursday, 14 October 2010

Media Treatment

We created our treatment on iMovie for ease as well as showing we are using different types of new media to present our research and planning. also below is a print screen of the treatment in word.