DEADLINES

comprehensive Conventions (including APPLYING evidence throughout draft/planning posts) research; 15.03.17


Industry (including technology, distribution, budgets, box office, production strategy); 15.03.2018

Audience (including feedback + response to this); 29.03.2018

Planning for all shoots (including full storyboard, screenplay, shoot behind-the-scenes/'rushes', production schedule/updates, H+safety check, permissions); 24.03.2018

final blog check (tagging, links lists, flaws like small text, lack of illustration, lack of sub-headings); SL 31.03.2018

SS 30.03.2018

full rough cut with titles + sound/music; 17.03.2018

final cut; 24.03.2018

Q1; 12.03.2018 (Film date: 09.03.2018)

Q2; 25.03.2018 (Film date: 23.03.2018)

Q3; 22.03.17 (Film date: 18.03.2018)

Q4; 18.03.2018 (Film date: 16.03.2018)

Podcast 8

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We are talking about the issues we had with the past rough cuts and why and what we are making to fix the issues. Also what we did and what we are going to do. In addition, the deadlines for our film opening. There are also some behind the scene of us getting the establishing shots.

Production schedule update 13.12.17

Wednesday 13th December 2017:

• Film at my house: Scene of teenagers getting ready for party 
• Stalk scene leading to false scare
• After shoot we go to Hornbach to buy plastic sheets and candles for lair scene
• Call sheets to be produced at break (10:20-10:35)

Thursday 14th December 2017:

• Set up lair scene at my house

Saturday 16th December 2017:

• Re-shoot of carpark scene as we had a few recording problems and not all the costume.
• Exit light 2.0 
• Use call sheet from last time

Sunday 17th December 2017:

• Lair scene shoot 
• Call sheet to be produced Friday afternoon

Sample Scene (Carpark)

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PODCAST 5

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Our big announcement is about how we have changed our first idea completely since we have noticed that our first wasn‘t really a slasher film. So we are introducing our new idea roughly.

Planning for this week

23.11

• Location scouting

21.11-25.11

• Casting (Looking for 1 female, 4 male)
• Look for costumes and props

25.11

• Sample Scene shooting: 11am-2pm (include lunch)
• Scene: 3 males planning how to break into the house
• Scene: Blind girl leaves house, 2 males break in, 1 stays in car
• Scene: Car pulling up at the house, blind girl gets out, 2 males panic inside

VODCAST / Conventions of a film opening

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1. Idents
2. Titles
3. Establishing shots
4. Narrative Enigma
5. Sound
6. Exposition
7. Intro to Characters
8. Basic Narrative Structure
9. Genre Signification
10 Transition to Film

PODCAST 3

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In this podcast Sam and I spoke about what we have done in the past week and what we will do in the near future.

PODCAST 1+2: Introduction to our group and Idea

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In this podcast we spoke about our idea and our production company

Terminology used so far

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Terminology Log (Terms used so far) from OliStr

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Film Opening report

HOT FUZZ

Working Title

BBFC:15 MPAA: R

Budget: £8M

Box office: £80M

Distributed in 41 countries

Trailer:

TITLES

Number of people/company names in titles:Start/end time of main titles: 0:33-1:01Running time of main titles: 58 seconds
Titles in order using exact text:

UNIVERSAL PICTURES PRESENTS

IN ASSOCIATION WITH STUDIOCANAL

A WORKING TITLE PRODUCTION 

IN ASSOCIATION WITH

BIG TALK PRODUCTIONS

TITLES ANALYSIS 1: THE COMPANIES

In the opening of Hot Fuzz only 4 companies were credited and those were the main production companies. Universal Pictures is a member of the big 6 and Working Title is a subsidiary of Universal. StudioCanal is a massive European production and distribution company. Big talk is a smaller production company who is owned by ITV.

TITLES ANALYSIS 2: ROLES

No actors have been given a title which is surprising considering Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are very well known actors.

TITLES ANALYSIS 3: GENRE/NARRATIVE CONNOTATIONS

The font used for the titles is bubble, white. This connotes that this wont be a very serious movie, but it wont be childish due to the more serious white colour. Everything is in upper case, however the names of the companies have been made larger, probably to put emphasis on the names of the companies. This font has been used to signify the movie wont be serious but it wont be a kids movie either.

FIRST SHOT + THE PROTAGONIST

This is an interesting way to show the central protagonist as there is just one long take where the protagonist, in this case Simon Pegg, walks all the way up to the came and shows his badge. As he come closer we can see part of the costume and it becomes clear what he is when hes close. He is a PC.

Candelabra vodcast

Here is my first Vodcast and it is on a past film opening: Candelabra.
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10 points about a past coursework

So for this I will be giving points from Evie's Slaughter Revenge.
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1. You must create your own company idents and Evie's idents are very realistic and look authentic and I feel like I will want to do something fairly similar like the modern slightly Sci-Fi.
2. Her last ident had a diegetic audio bridge which is very common in horror movies.
3. In the very first part of the actual film she has a chase scene and the short cuts are used to show that it is a very intense chase scene. 
4. It then cuts to a pretty obvious greenscreen but its to show a movie is being filmed and it has been done by putting on a filter.
5. After a while it cuts back and forth from what seems to be the victim and then someone tied up
6. A GoPro has been used for a kind of first person view. 
7. She has used a dutch angle to suggest something is off but also add to the suspense she has created with quick shots and suspensful music and creepy sound effects
8. She has used effects that connote horror e.g. red colour, looks like blood when she announces all the names and companies in the beginning to create verisimilitude.
9. She uses candle to create a more creepy feeling and adds to natural lighting.

Shot by shot denotation

This is the video we denotated shot by shot.
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So for this video we divided the video into 3 and we all took 40 seconds each and denotated the shots in the part we had assigned to us. I had the middle section from around 1:07 to 1:47.
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Shot list of Candelabra from OliStr

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Different types of shots

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Media1 from Carla Ferra

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5 things I have learned about the coursework in AS level

1) I will need to research and watch film openings and know all the key conventions about a film opening such as actors names, directors names, company idents.
2)I will have to work constantly on this blog publishing posts as I track my progress with my film opening and research.

3)I will have to submit a creative critical reflection in which I use a presentation of some sort or a podcast and i will write/talk about different things such as how my skills have developed since the start of the coursework,

4) All the assessment objectives (AOs) you have to meet and what they imply: AO2, AO3, AO4. 

5)That you have to create your own company ident to create verisimilitude.

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Here are the AOs and the evidence needed

The creative critical reflections

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