planning meeting stuff from week 2 (jan 9-13)

We brainstormed a completely different idea to our first one, it involved a troubled teenage girl who found a friend that can relate to her, behind the computer he was a nice person, she liked him and trusted him, but he was manipulating her. The problem in this relationship was her religion which forbid her from seeing him. We felt that this story wasn't exciting enough and wasn't very challenging, it was no different to any other story. so we decided to not use this story board. During the planning we come up with a good idea which we could commit to. It involves a troubled kid played by Tawhir, and a brutal thug played by Daniel Glazier.the story starts with a long shot at the bus stop that Tawhir is sitting at, he receives a text asking if hes bunking again, he didn't reply. Tawhir caught the bus to an illusive park, on the way there we tried to film him and the scenery so the audience can see the setting. when he gets to the park he jumps over the fence and pulls out something and starts smoking,  this shows what sort if character he is

planning meetings stuff from week 1 (jan 4-6)

We were  all put into groups, we got to choose the people we wanted in our groups. In my group there is me, Danny and Daniel. The first thing we did was the brainstorming ideas for our storyboard and everyone came up with some good ideas. The first idea for the storyboard was really good but we had problems, we weren't enable to do use that story board, because we didn't have the right props and location for the story. To get inspiration we watched opening sequences and examples from other students. We had a back up story board in case a problem occurred with the first story. We brainstormed ideas for the second story as well which should be completely different from the first one.

credit sequences

At the beginning when the camera is going down on to the map it zooms in  a few times.The visuals in the opening credit sequence are very good, this film is about war, army or the slaves and gladiators.on the map its showing the development in the city, the camera hovers over the map going from city to city to sow the difference in them. the colors are dark and dull but with a gold lighting affect. The credits are in gold the do not really stand out from anything, the blend with the sand and the gold at the beginning. the credits are plain but however they do stand out from the map. The is a lot of Ariel shot to show the buildings and sea. at the end of its fades to black and then the name of the director and who it was written by came up in gold, this shows to the audience that they are the most important people out of every name shown. They wanted the audience just to focus on them names unlike all the other ones that were shown whilst a lot was going on in the background.

roll (camera man)

My role in the group is the camera man, I have had the most experience with cameras in the group so we though I should be assigned to be the camera man. I have to do many different shots in the opening scene, such as pan, high angle, low angle, close ups, extreme close ups, and long shots. I think i have gained many more skills and improved much more since the last time I used a camera, I am much more confident whilst using one now. I am new to using the tri pod i find that using it makes the camera capture the shots better, it makes the shots more steady.

opening sequence

This openings scene shows that the film is a comedy/horror its meant to be funny but it is quite violent. The girl has rich parents but she is meant to be a dumb blonde for example when she had a choice of a grenade, knife gun or a banana she chose the banana and when there was two signs safety and death, she chose death. A few different shots were used such as long shot, close up, mid shot. it starts with the girl ansewering the phone and having a casual conversation with a random person, but what she doesnt no is that he is about to kill her, he starts to threaten her so she puts the phone down. kids nock on her door in costumes because its halloween but instead of her giving the sweets she hits them with a baseball bat, this shows the comedy side of the film. outside is very dark and grey with fog this is normaly a set for a horror film. Even when the killer is chasing her she runs through the spriklers posing in her bra and nickers. The ladies mum and dad payed no attention to the fact they just hit something, which was their daughter.

opening sequence

This opening sequence shows that this movie will have a lot of action packed scenes, fast cars and crime. The camera shots and angles are very effective they use many different shots to show the speed of the cars. there are a lot of pan, and long shots throughout it. At the beggining thers a close up of the a convict on the bus then it fades to an extreme longshot of the bus of convicts and the surroundings, this sets the scen staight away, then three cars appear driving the wrong way on the road and heading for the bus. The drivers of the cars have no worries for authority and the law, or themselves getting hurt. The woman drives staright at the bus making the bus swerve and  ends up hitting into another car and flips over countless times.The camera pans a car to show the speed of the car. there are many close ups of the drivers and the bonet and front of the cars.

opening sequence

The first shot is on the turkey this shows straight away that its Christmas, This opening sequence is intersting the genre changes throughout, at first it shows an unhappy but wealthy family on Christmas day having their meal it seems serious and there is some tension between some characters. Something is going on between two of the characters that the rest of the family don't about,  Then it turn into a comedy, Santa who isn't real comes down their chimney and kills all of them in different ways.