update - diary

On friday me and Georga decided to do some casting and location ideas aswell as sharing out the parts for our research and planning. In the christmas break i will be trying to post as much as i can and as often as possible to keep me busy in the countdown for christmas :D

Preliminary Task

This task will help me in the long run as i learnt to use a range of camera shots, prepare a script/storyboard of what you are going to do,how to upload and edit on the software,making sure the shots match up for continuity,and an idea of the hard work in front of me yet to do!

Locations

music room
waterfields underpass and crossing bridge   

Actors and Props

Cast

Harry Kent - Interviewer - 40 years old - superior
Shelby Robinson - Killer - mid 20s - manipulative/sly/etc
Rebecca Smith - Victim - vunerable- small - late teens


Extras

Nicole Watts, Georga West

Questionnaire Results

update

Today Georga and I made some decisions on what we are going to do.
We have decided we are going to do horror/thriller and romantic-comedy as a back up plan

Update

Today in my free period I went to the media room and finished off all of our editing which is fantastic news for the rest of the group as they dont have to do much else. Next time we meet in lesson we will be choosing some music to lay over the top of it.

The finishing product looks pretty good.
the continuity editing was hard to start with but we have now got the hang of things.

Questionnaire

Here is my questionnaire i will be giving to people to fill out.

Questionnaire

What Film Genre do you like best?

[ ] Horror

[ ] Thriller
[ ] Chick Flick

[ ] Romantic Comedy

[ ] Comedy

[ ] Action

[ ] Other   (if so what) __________________

Who is your favourite actor?

[ ] Robert Pattinson

[ ] Shia La Bouef

[ ] Rachel Mcadams

[ ] Miley Cyrus

[ ] Sylvester Stallone

[ ] Megan Fox

[ ] Amanda Seyfried

[ ] Ryan Reynolds

[ ] Julia Roberts

[ ] Daniel Craig

[ ] Other (if so who?) ___________________

If you were to buy a film from this list what would you buy?

[ ] twilight

[ ] mean girls

[ ] Transformers

[ ] disturbia

[ ] harry potter

[ ] Hannah Montana the movie

[ ] mamma mia

[ ] John tucker must die

[ ] iRobot

[ ] Pearl harbour

[ ] Toy story

[ ] Titanic

[ ] Hero

[ ] Jennifer’s body

[ ] Shaun of the dead

[ ] love actually

[ ] Girl with the dragon tattoo

[ ] social networking

the age group i will be asking is 15-18 year olds.

This will help me and Georga determine what film we will be making.

soundtrack research

films such as Twilight use well-known bands like Paramore. 

Me and Georga might make our own music for our opening.

4.3.2.1 similar film to our genre

Updates

Today my group have been editing on our preliminary task,
we found it quite easy as we had a tutorial on editing from
an older student. We done some continuity editing but 
at times found it exceptionally difficult due to the dialogue
in the scenes.

I have spoken to my fellow student Georga,
We have provisionally agreed that we will work
together for our 2 minute film task.

We have discussed the advantages and disadvantages
of working in a pair but we feel that the work
combined together will get us into a better grade boundary

As i said this is only provisional but if one of us decides that
we want  to work alone then we will do this.

December Research and Planning Mark

Shelby,

You have analysed some relevant 2 minute openings and have done some good planning. Your blog is presented clearly and you analyse in detail. It is good to see you have an idea for your opening already and have researched accordingly. Your online diary is also going well as is your use of photos etc

Targets:
Planning - questionnaire/shot lists/storyboard/animatic/mood board etc are all tasks you need to start thinking about over the next month
Research - When analyisng opening 2 minutes - discuss the order of titles and credits etc - when does the directors name come up - over the action or over black screen etc

Mark:
At the moment we are looking at B grade territory - well done!