production meeting...

Dillan and I had a meeting to discuss which parts of the film we still needed to film, we have made a lot of film but the final cut we believe is still to short we need to find a way to keep the suspense and tension but yet extend our draft edit to the 2 minute mark.

- we still need to find the music for the background.
- find out our foleing echniques for or extract.

We learnt that our film is very hard to film, knowing what to film with out making it repetitive and boring.
 

PLANNING understanding the assessment criteria

RESEARCH & PLANNING
Level 3 12–15 marks


• There is proficient research into similar products and a potential target audience.
I have analysed Se7en and whitechapel to understand representation and style

• There is proficient organisation of actors, locations, costumes or props.
as producers Dillan and I have looked at the most effective props which will effect the audience. The weapons which the producers have chosen effect the audience enough to effect them and create a feeling of suspence and horror. We think that the following items will have this (effetct) on our TA

• There is proficient work on shotlists, layouts, drafting, scripting or storyboarding.

• Time management is good.

• There is proficient use of digital technology or ICT in the presentation

VIDEO
Level 3 36–47 marks


There is evidence of proficiency in the creative use of many of the following technical skills:

• holding a shot steady, where appropriate;

• framing a shot, including and excluding elements as appropriate;

• using a variety of shot distances as appropriate;

• shooting material appropriate to the task set;

• selecting mise-en-scène including colour, figure, lighting, objects and setting;

• editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer;

• using varied shot transitions and other effects selectively and appropriately for the task set;

• using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set;

• using titles appropriately.
 
EVALUATION
Level 3 12–15 marks


• There is proficient understanding of the forms and conventions used in the productions.

• There is proficient understanding of the role and use of new media in various stages of the production.

• There is proficient understanding of the combination of main product and ancillary texts.

• There is proficient understanding of the significance of audience feedback.

• There is proficient skill in choice of form in which to present the evaluation.

• There is proficient ability to communicate.

• There is proficient use of digital technology or ICT in the presentation.

analasis of how our film noir is going and our aim.

Audience - our market research into audience preferences signified/indicated that our target audience would enjoy supense and having an enigma in the OTS. We have designed our OTS to deliver this. Producing an animatice helped us to plan how to effectively video the extract itself. This structure means that our OTs has a high potential of enganing the attention of our TA

representation -
genre
industry.

i think that our OTS idea could go really well and has a very high potential, although it could go really wrong as the editing and filming side of the OTS is very complex and alot of shots involved at a high pace.

storyboard animatic...

story board animatic from Ryan Fisher on Vimeo.

We chose to put our storyboard into an animatic because it shows the story in more depth. it allows the pictures (shots) to flow a lot easier. We also thaught this way of seeing the storyboard makes it more real and easier to watch (interesting).

me and dillan experimenting with foleying

foleying, by ryanfisher and dillan corder from Ryan Fisher on Vimeo.

me and dillan producing our storyboard...

This is an activity of storyboarding, me and Dillan chose to do a storyboard, this enabled us to see how we wanted our OTS to appear. We chose to do our drafting this way because it enabled us to be able to try different angles and effects by moving the post its around. We were able to choose the props we wanted to use, costume and locations of which we thought that would allow us to get the mood of our OTS out to the consumer. This way of doing our storyboard enabled of us to do an animatic, we thought this would be a effective way of showing our OTS through pictures. his experiment allowed us to  see what way of storyboarding was more effective we found that post it noting the storyboard allowed us to use our time more wisely because we didn't have to keep redrawing our storyboard every time we could just move the pictures around each time. we believe that this way of presenting our storyboard is how we believe that they may do it in the film industry this way.

NEXT STEP: We want to add sound (voice over) to our animatic to allow the viewer to see and here more clearly what our idea of our OTS will be.

research; planning locations.

this is the studio, we are planning to use this for any dialogue or sounds because it will be relatively quiet.

 this is the dark room we will use this room to film the OTS because we can use the table with dim coloured lighting.

actors...

me and dillan will be the directors of our OTS, we are hoping to get friends of ours to act in our OTS.

location...

we are unsure as of yet the location. we are using the darkroom at the moment for the darkness required for  the gloomy setting we need for our OTS.

I am researching other public places, one of my ideas is the forum up the city at night it has the right light to shoot shuttered light and produce a abstract idea, to make us seem like this is the only action and people in the world.

props...

The props we are using are 
pencils: we can use this for our copycat version of seven to Set the mood with the led being moulded in to the paper. This will be used to develop shots in to looking at evidence sheets and case reports.

Meat cleaver: this will be our murder weapon and also used for eye line intimate shots to make the audience feel the intense situation.

Sickle: This will just be for show and will be sharpened within the extract to signify to the audience the gravity of the interrogation.

Cigarettes: conventionally cigarettes in a modern film signify an antagonist or an anti-hero the hero never smokes this is the opposite to traditional film noir. Use of a cigarette in our OTS will signify to the audience the character is not a good person.

razor blade/scalpel: This will be used to make the audience to feel uncomfortable our research indicated that most people felt nervous when people are handling naked blades. 

Using all of these props in our OTS is likely to create a sense of discomfort in our audience and build tension which will set the mood for the rest of the film. We would quite like to give the impression of cutting someones throat so we will have to explore outside resources, our teacher suggested a pigs head so we will see if that is possible.

production meeting

in mine and dillans production meeting we decided that I was going to focus on doing the story board of SEVEN.1 and dillan is going to focus on detailig an form of improvement or movement in our OTS i am developing the case for ur film wih sketches and demo dvd cases so far. For the story board is is hard to know what I as a student am alowed to bring into the lesson, such as props, te props we need for our OTS are illigal to carry around as they could harm others. the props we need are knives, pens/pencils, meat clever and a scythe these props will have to go straight into a locked office so te cannot cause harm to students who are unaware cannot arm themselves or others.