FILMING

In today's lesson we continued filming. We wanted to establish the setting for the scene and did so by using a left to right pan. We planned the shot so that the wooden panel can be used when editing to have titles appear on it.

 We also filmed the scene where Bryn gets ready for his job. We positioned the camera with a slight upward tilt showing the back of Bryn to keep his identity hidden for the time being. This was also done to leave us with an area of white space in the top left of the frame to enable us to add titles.

Also when Elliot comes into the locker room looking angry. We used a downward tilt of Elliot when he through his hat off in anger. We did this to show how his feelings have got on top of him and has forced him to concede to himself.

EDITING - iMovie

When editing our thriller film opening today, we discovered the 'Opacity' tool. This tool allows you to place a video on top of another video whilst they place at the same time, creating the look of two fading images overlapping each other. This created an amazing look, when it came to creating our dream sequence.

We continued to use this tool and experiment on this particular clip, of the young woman being represented in a dream like state and we began to merge this clip with the next clip of a close up of one of the fish mongers (murderer) knives as he strokes and cleans the knife. 

Here is the screenshot of the merging of the original clip and the fishmongers knife close up - using our new found tool 'Opacity' on iMovie.

DISTRIBUTION: PREZI

FILMING

On Thursday 30th January, Bryn, Andy and I continued filming our thriller film opening. We needed an extra person for our filming and they had to be female, and therefore we asked Amber if she would be in our film. We decided that we were going to try and film two different scenes in our double lesson. One scene included Bryn and Amber walking along the road together, as Bryn heads into Waitrose for his shift. The other scene was the more complex scene, where I (Elliot) had to pretend to be behind a fish counter, getting ready to slice up some real fish. Going outside Waitrose to film the first scene gave us the perfect opportunity to buy some fish. 

When returning to the classroom, we made a set that looked similar to a fish counter, with trays and ice, with the real fish on top. I was dressed in a white coat, that looked very similar to the ones fishmongers wear, whilst wearing a Food Standards Trilby hat. I also had a large silver knife, that I used to stab the fishes, to imply that my character was murderous. Many different shots were used, including close ups of the knife, close ups of the fish, zooms and tilt pans. 

EVAl. q.3 - DISTRIBUTION PREZI

·  PRESENT THIS IN PREZI EXPLAINING WHICH DISTRIBUTION COMPANY WOULD PRESENT YOUR FILM AND WHY YOU CHOSE THAT COMPANY (their track record) UK film council, we chose this as it is a British film and it relates to many films that the UK film council have produced. Many of these films are to do with the youth of Britain and crime. Our film contains a teenager who gets tangled up with the crime but has nothing to do with it.

·  SAY WHAT DISTRIBUTORS DO (digital and conventional screenings, cinema exhibition, DVD and other sales)  they raise awareness of films in order to create a ‘hype’ or ‘buzz’ about the film to make it popular and ‘known’ before its even been released.

·  and HOW THEY RAISE AWARENESS ( P & A, film websites with interactivity, TV spots, trailers)  They create awareness using trailers: the first trailer in the cinema is said to be the most important part of advertising the film according to David Willing (CEO of Miracle Media group because it is the publics first glimpse of the film and it creates a ‘hype’ or ‘buzz’ associating with the film.

·  EXPLAIN THE RESEARCH YOU DID TO FIND OUT ABOUT DISTRIBUTORS  (FDA, Launching Films, video presentations from this site)

·  GIVE EXAMPLES OF CASE STUDIES ( eg Shifty and Kidulthood)

LOCATION PLANNING

In today's lesson we went to Waitrose to plan and walk through one of our scenes. This enabled us to visualize how the scene would take place and blocked the shots and positions of the characters.

Where we positioned Bryn so the audience knows where he works.

Waitrose

We decided to act out our scene to see how we could position the camera for future preference

Close up image of fresh fish

We travelled to Waitrose to have a look at their fish range so we could grasp an idea on what fish we would need to buy for our scene where the fish monger is cutting up a bloody fish.

CLOSING SEQUENCE