Moving blogs

Hi everyone, for a while now I have been unable to contact Jojo. Our project has been put onto hiatus and we were waiting to hear back from her. After a lot of complications Jojo isn't coming back to school so our coursework cannot be continued. After talking to my teacher we have decided to use the other film I have been working on. During the time I have not been able to talk to Jojo, before December, I have been working on another film called morning coffee. My partner Jess also had some complication which is why I helped out. We have worked on the film from the start together, myself as both an actor in the film and as a director. We have very recently finished filming and are now on the editing stage. I will need to re-do lots of my research so will be moving to a new url and starting the blog again so I have research that suits the new film genre.
My new blog can be found here.

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Start of editing

Jojo and myself have just sat down to edit, using a similar method to filming we have make a very quick rough plan of the editing. This has helped us to see that the scene upstairs in the second room doesn't flow very well and we are planning to re-film a few scenes to make the film opening work better.

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Credits

 Using Sony Vegas we have the choice to  place the credits in many deferent angles and shots. This is the order that is appropriate for our film:

PRODUCTION COMPANY presents
a NAME  film
TITLE
Lead Cast
Supporting Cast
Casting Director
Music Composer
Costume Designer
Editor
Production Designer
Director of Photography
Executive Producer
Producer
Writer
Director

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Filming

We have just finished filming the first scenes. We found that filming is taking less time than previously thought because we have already run through all the shots and what angles to use. This has helped to speed up the time taken to make our film and gives us more time to do the next steps.

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Font

The font that we have chosen is call Mary Kate. We chose this font because it has a simplistic style that looks almost innocent look to it but the font has un-even edges on it. This gives the feeling that serif


http://www.fontspace.com/fluffybanana101/marykate

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Music

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Story board

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Casting

When casting we chose Jojo to be our actress, playing Chloe because Jojo has several years experience in acting school so will be able to use her knowledge to help to create the scene. Also as Jojo is a director it will be easier to portray what we want to happen in each scene as she will be the one acting the scene out.

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Production Plan

Date and time	Scene / page Name and number	Shots used	Actors / models inc. contact details	Crew? inc. contact details	Location inc. postcode for Satnav?	Props & costume Who’ll be bringing what to the shoot
Saturday 22d Nov	Trail shots Bottom of stairs to shop floor	Hand held/POV Medium shot Tracking Pan High angle	Chole – Jojo	Zoe– camera Dan - stagehand Zoe and Jojo - directors	Oxfam portishead highstreet 110 High Street, Portishead, Bristol, BS20 6AJ	Zoe - Tripod Jojo - Camera
Saturday 6th Dec	Shop floor to end	Hand held/POV Medium shot Tracking Pan High angle	Chloe - Jojo	Zoe- camera Zoe- stagehand Zoe and jojo - directors	Oxfam portishead highstreet 110 High Street, Portishead, Bristol, BS20 6AJ	Zoe – Tripod Jojo – Same clothes as last shoot + camera
Sunday  7th Dec	Upstairs	medium close up	Chole - Jojo	Zoe- camera Zoe- stagehand Zoe and jojo - directors	Oxfam portishead highstreet 110 High Street, Portishead, Bristol, BS20 6AJ	Zoe – Tripod Jojo – Same clothes as last shoot + camera
Saturday 13th Dec Sunday 21st Dec	Refilming shop floor		Chole - Jojo	Zoe- camera Zoe- stagehand Zoe and jojo - directors	Oxfam portishead highstreet 110 High Street, Portishead, Bristol, BS20 6AJ	Zoe – Tripod Jojo – Same clothes as last shoot + camera
	Refilming upstairs second room	medium long shot downwards angle

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Storyborad

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Ideas from films

Attack the block: In this film you never fully see the monsters but you know they are there. This leaves what    the audience thinks they look like up to their imagination. We can use this in our film as you never quite see the other person in the shop.
Click here to see Jojo's post on the opening sequence of Attack the bock.

Woman in black: Here lots of strange things happen and there is a figure that watches people from afar. This can also be used in our film as a POV shot of the person watching to see through the other person's eyes but not to reveal the other person's identity.

Dawn of the dead: In this film the characters are in a shopping mall and we can use subtle scenes of the characters using the setting from this film to apply to ours.

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Script

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Shot types

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Locations

Just started to look at filming on location. We looked at different camera angles and movement to use in the final scene. The setting works very well and we also looked at what editing will need to be done on each scene.

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Juxtapostion

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The location

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Fonts

Fonts: Fonts can have many connotations and the appearance of fonts can help to suggest what genre the film is. Here is a very classic horror looking font:

 

We can tell this by the 'painted' look of the letters. Often in horror films there is writing made from blood on the walls and this convention is now a recognisable feature of the horror genre. This font is imitating this and gives a very clear idea that the writing is linked with the horror genre or murder in some form.

Another font i picked out was this one:

Here this font's main focus is the shadowing of the letters. Using shadows in a horror genre is very common and helps to add to the creepy effect. Here the font is white like the background so the letters can only be seen through the shadow. This is similar to how a character's shadow is visible during a scene but they are not, usually before they attach another character.

Thirdly I picked this font:

This font has a handwritten look to it. Another convention of horror movies are both old fashioned vampires and laboratories, both of which feature hand written letters/instructions. This font looks similar to writing with a fountain pain, such as they did long ago.

This fint was used in The Shining and was also used in the poster's advertising the film. This font has a very slanted look and gives an iconic feel to it. It also very bold so that it stands out and is very pronounced. This gives an almost intimidating feel to the text.

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Questionnaire

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Titanic Openning sequence

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The shining opening

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