Film Project: First day of shooting

So the day has come to start filming our intro, I was really excited to start and make something real and original. I pleased with our idea and what our concept was about. Our intro is filmed at the top of Loughton, near Zizzis and Staples Road School, It was my idea to have the film based here because i used to go school down the road and i know the area well, its also a good setting, dark and deserted. We walked to the top of hill to get a good establishing shot of the city, I think its a great shot to grab the audience.

After this shot we walked back down the hill to film the walking scene of Sam. We set up down a quite road and made several shots of Sam walking to the 'Victim.' This part was difficult to get a good part with good lighting, because it was so dark where we was, but after 4 shots of Sam walking we was happy.

The next section we needed to film was me and the smoking scene. This part is very iconic so we had to get it right, I filmed walking out from a house and then and over the shoulder shot, over Sam's shoulder of me. This identifies that it is me he is after.

The next part is the smoking scene which i think is really original as its not normal for students to be smoking, by the way i dont really smoke! This scene has a variation of shots, low angle and tracking, The rest of the group came up with some cool shots for this as it had to let the audience into the character and let them know a little about him. This was under a lampost so we had good lighting.

This was all the filming we got done today as it was getting late. I was very pleased with what we got done today, and i cant wait to get in the editing booth!

Film Project: Checklist for filming

Max:

Formal clothing (Blazer, tie)

Cigarettes

Briefcase

Matches

Sam:

Formal clothing (Blazer, tie)

Knife

Gun

Holly:

Casual/Smart clothing

Red Lipstick

Film Project: Production Company name

We have to create our own production company in our film so it looks original. however the production studio name was a slight 'red light' in our process of the Film Introduction. As simple as it sounds, we coudlnt think of a name that would suit our film and sound cool really. At first a few ideas flew about such as "Two Ducks Full" this was a silly one Sam said of the top of his head, it was good but not suiting for our concept. After this we decided to make the name only one word, we thought its cooler and sounds better if you can say it quickily. After a few suggestions, we had the name "Hollow Productions" we all thought it was suiting as its quite dark and different. We all agreed and we stuck with it. Our production company is "Hollow Productions

Film Project: Preliminary Sequence (what was learnt)

From doing the Preliminary Sequence alot was learnt and many skills were improved. The main things we learnt were how to work around the camera, the shots we were unsure how to do. Main skill that was learnt was how to edit, we now know how to work around Final Cut Express, the editing the software we are using, we know how to put in transitions and input font. There is still alot more features to learn about Final Cut Express, but we are defiantly on the right track and will be able to use it to its full ability.


The shots we used our sequence were shots such as a low angle, panning, over the shoulder. These are all shots that we will be using in our actually opening sequence. We also caused tension with the red herring with the scarf, it was not so clear but i think it was a good idea and showed our cinema knowledge.

Film Project: Preliminary Sequence

Here is the preliminary sequence which me and my group made. Preliminary means prior to or preparing for the main event, in this case our Film Intro. We had a go with the camera to find out how to use it and work the buttons so when we came to making the Introduction we wont waste time. It was also to look and film different shots such the reverse shot, steady cam, panning, low angles and tracking all shots that will help us make a good film.

For our sequence we choice a sort of city workers theme, two high status city slickers arrange a meet. Then an entrance of someone, we are not sure if the scarf is going to be used to strangle or put on him. It turns out to be the workers secretary and this causes a red herring and we expect something bad to happen

Film Project: Storyboarding / Plot and outline of Film Intro

Group t story board

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Here is the our final copy of our story board, the drawings were done be me but the ideas came from everyone. We uploaded it to slideshare so we can put it on our blog, i am pleased with drawings, some are a bit scrappy but they do get the point across and thats what counts.

Now i am going to give you an outline on what our Film Intro is about. The genre of it is a Thriller / Drama and we wanted to give an old looking film so its based in the 1960's hence the suits and skinny ties ect. The film is about a business in the centre of London and the three main characters Me, Sam and Holly all work there. In the movie Me 'The Victim' and Holly 'The Victims Lover' are in love and have been for a while, but Sam 'The Killer' is insane, he is normal at work but changes outside, could call him a 'private maniac'. He is also in love with Holly and believes she loves him back, but he thinks the only way to get Holly is to kill me.

Film Project: Decisions

After being put into groups we could not wait to get stuck in and start thinking of ideas of the genre of film, the plot, where, who does what roles and other small stuff. One lesson we all sat down and put our heads together, we had a brainstorm which is in our Production Book. we all shared our ideas, Holly came up with an idea for a chick flick, it was good and we done abit more thinking about and decided it would be hard to achieve and we would probally make a better movie with a different genre.


After a lesson of thinking, we all agreed with an idea of a thriller / action film, however this genre is generally the typical one students pick we believed we could make it different and stand out by maybe setting it in a different year or making a different storyline.


Me and Sam had an exam when we had to present our thoughts and ideas to the class, so Holly and Aisha presented the idea. They done well and we got some good feedback, next stage is storyboarding!