Music Reference Sheet
The music reference sheet, is used because it shows that I can refer to the music I used, where about in my movie I will be using it. It also shows that I can decide on when I plan on using my music and how long I plan on having the track playing for the specific part of my film the music is set for. It also includes a artist section, to make sure that you know who has created your songs as well as a section to add the youtube link to the song so reviewers can find the song by clicking the link.
Tuesday, 26 February 2019
Monday, 18 February 2019
Short Film Pre-Production - Location Scouting
For my short film, I wanted a big open space where I could use part of it, I asked my dad if he had any available space at his office building near the enterprise park, he said he would speak to one of the supervisors called Martin Porton if the upstairs office was still available for me to use for my setting for my film. After Martin agreed, I wrote up a quick contract and after we both signed it, I was allowed to use their available space.
Short Film Pre-Production - Storyboard
Storyboard
In pre-production, storyboards are one of the most important parts of the pre-production stage because they give a visual example of what the scene should look like as well as writing to show what the scene should have included as well as a part of the story. Storyboards are helpful to cameramen because they know exactly what they need to shoot and focus on and roughly where they need to place the camera, without the storyboard, the entire project could go wrong because the camera could be placed anywhere and make the film go all wrong.
In pre-production, storyboards are one of the most important parts of the pre-production stage because they give a visual example of what the scene should look like as well as writing to show what the scene should have included as well as a part of the story. Storyboards are helpful to cameramen because they know exactly what they need to shoot and focus on and roughly where they need to place the camera, without the storyboard, the entire project could go wrong because the camera could be placed anywhere and make the film go all wrong.
Short Film Pre-Production - Proposal
The basic story for my short film, is about a group of scientists who create a machine with a unexpected repercussion.
The plot for my story is the lead scientist gets questioned about what this machine is supposed to do and once told, the team starts to have some concerns and questions if they should go any further with this project. One of the scientists has so many concerns about this project going horribly wrong, that she abandons the team as she does not want to see everything go wrong and possibly losing her friend in the process. It turns out that the machine is designed to cure schizophrenia by removing the selected personality and transforming it into disposable energy leaving the subject alive and with only their preferred personality. We also discover that the leading scientist Scott, has designed this machine because he suffers from schizophrenia and wishes to cure himself and everyone on earth who also suffers. Something goes wrong and the other personality ends up becoming its own person who is the dark version of Scott and we see the two on screen at the same time to prove that they're not the same person.
Character Breakdown:
Scott McArthur - lead scientist, hides information from his team about himself and the experiment.
Max Temple - Scotts alter-ego, dark, completely opposite of Scott.
David Goodman - part of the team, quite aggressive towards Lucy, skeptical.
John Clarke - part of the team, man with the technology, skeptical.
Lucy Green - part of the team, skeptical.
Claire Rochester part of the team, skeptical, cares about the team, worried about Scott.
Target Audience:
My target audience is probably for 12-15 year olds as there is quite a bit of explicit language and the story can also be a bit confusing for those below the age of 12. The reason I have chosen this age gap of 3 years is because I feel like 12-15 year olds would enjoy this movie and would want to learn a bit more about the split screen I will use in the editing for the end product.
The plot for my story is the lead scientist gets questioned about what this machine is supposed to do and once told, the team starts to have some concerns and questions if they should go any further with this project. One of the scientists has so many concerns about this project going horribly wrong, that she abandons the team as she does not want to see everything go wrong and possibly losing her friend in the process. It turns out that the machine is designed to cure schizophrenia by removing the selected personality and transforming it into disposable energy leaving the subject alive and with only their preferred personality. We also discover that the leading scientist Scott, has designed this machine because he suffers from schizophrenia and wishes to cure himself and everyone on earth who also suffers. Something goes wrong and the other personality ends up becoming its own person who is the dark version of Scott and we see the two on screen at the same time to prove that they're not the same person.
Character Breakdown:
Scott McArthur - lead scientist, hides information from his team about himself and the experiment.
Max Temple - Scotts alter-ego, dark, completely opposite of Scott.
David Goodman - part of the team, quite aggressive towards Lucy, skeptical.
John Clarke - part of the team, man with the technology, skeptical.
Lucy Green - part of the team, skeptical.
Claire Rochester part of the team, skeptical, cares about the team, worried about Scott.
Target Audience:
My target audience is probably for 12-15 year olds as there is quite a bit of explicit language and the story can also be a bit confusing for those below the age of 12. The reason I have chosen this age gap of 3 years is because I feel like 12-15 year olds would enjoy this movie and would want to learn a bit more about the split screen I will use in the editing for the end product.
Short Film Pre-Production - Meetings
Meeting Minutes - 08/01/2019
During this meeting, I asked everyone in my film who they wanted to play out of the remaining 4 characters. Once they had decided, I placed their names next the characters so that I could remember who is playing who.
Meeting Minutes - 09/01/2019
On the second, I asked everyone who is in my film if they were all right for filming on a certain date and at a certain time of day, everyone agreed. We also discussed where we would be meeting and how we'd get to our location for filming.
Meeting Minutes - 15/01/2019
The third meeting was during the first day of filming, we were deciding which order we were going to film in and who was needed for each shot and where each person would have to stand. We also spoke about where we should put the camera for each shot so that we got a variety of different shots so that it didn't always look the same during each shot. Another point we had, was deciding which scenes needed the microphone so that we could get some clearer audio for that scene. At the end of the first day of filming we discussed how we had another day of filming and mentioned who we'd need as well as a place and time to meet for the second part of the filming.
Meeting Minutes - 22/01/2019
This was our last meeting which was during the second and final week of filming, we discussed where we needed people to stand and how we wanted them to act, we had to decide where I'd stand as both of the characters that I'd play. We had to think about how we wanted to position the camera and how high or low we wanted it to match each persons height. We also mentioned about how long it would take to set up each scene for filming which also included how long t would take me to swap clothes for the other character I was playing.
During this meeting, I asked everyone in my film who they wanted to play out of the remaining 4 characters. Once they had decided, I placed their names next the characters so that I could remember who is playing who.
Meeting Minutes - 09/01/2019
On the second, I asked everyone who is in my film if they were all right for filming on a certain date and at a certain time of day, everyone agreed. We also discussed where we would be meeting and how we'd get to our location for filming.
Meeting Minutes - 15/01/2019
The third meeting was during the first day of filming, we were deciding which order we were going to film in and who was needed for each shot and where each person would have to stand. We also spoke about where we should put the camera for each shot so that we got a variety of different shots so that it didn't always look the same during each shot. Another point we had, was deciding which scenes needed the microphone so that we could get some clearer audio for that scene. At the end of the first day of filming we discussed how we had another day of filming and mentioned who we'd need as well as a place and time to meet for the second part of the filming.
Meeting Minutes - 22/01/2019
This was our last meeting which was during the second and final week of filming, we discussed where we needed people to stand and how we wanted them to act, we had to decide where I'd stand as both of the characters that I'd play. We had to think about how we wanted to position the camera and how high or low we wanted it to match each persons height. We also mentioned about how long it would take to set up each scene for filming which also included how long t would take me to swap clothes for the other character I was playing.
Short Film Pre-Production - Risks
Risks are very important because they provide evidence that you can identify any and all possible risks and can identify how to prevent anyone from being involved and injured by any of the risks if something were to go wrong and could put someone in danger. If you don't identify any risks before you go to film you are putting yourself and everyone included in danger, that is why you should always identify any and all risks no matter how small.
Risk Assessment
Risk Assessment B
Risk Assessment
Risk Assessment B
Thursday, 14 February 2019
Short Film Pre-Production - Characters
Obviously one thing that is needed pre-production before you can start filming, is deciding what to call your characters and who you want to portray these characters, without figuring out who is playing , then filming can become harder as people will not know who they're playing or get confused as to who their playing.
Short Film Pre-Production - Contract
Contract
We had to get permission off of a company if we wanted to film on their property, the only way to prove that we got the permission s to either have an email off the company saying that we're allowed to use their property or space. Or we have to have a signed contract signed by both the company and the student to prove that the student will stay in the parameters of the contract.
We had to get permission off of a company if we wanted to film on their property, the only way to prove that we got the permission s to either have an email off the company saying that we're allowed to use their property or space. Or we have to have a signed contract signed by both the company and the student to prove that the student will stay in the parameters of the contract.
Short Film Pre-Production - Sound
Sound
This powerpoint presentation includes links to the songs and sound effects that I used for my short film to make it more entertaining and to make certain parts of the film more tense or lively but I also needed a song for my credits to make them more enjoyable.
Short Film Pre-Production - Codes and Conventions
Codes and Conventions
Codes and conventions are a good way to show that you know abut the genre(s) you are doing and can talk about that them in depth so that anyone reviewing your work knows that you understand about the genre(s) that you have chosen and what your film must include to meet these codes and conventions.
Codes and conventions are a good way to show that you know abut the genre(s) you are doing and can talk about that them in depth so that anyone reviewing your work knows that you understand about the genre(s) that you have chosen and what your film must include to meet these codes and conventions.
Short Film Pre-Production - Consent Form
Consent forms are really important to pre-production because it shows that the people involved in your short film, are allowing their faces and voice to be used and uploaded to the internet/ YouTube. You need to get consent off of the people involved in your film so that the reviewers can see that they're allowing you to use them in your project.
Tuesday, 12 February 2019
Star Wars VII - Media Campaign
With Emma, we were given an assignment on January 31st to create a media campaign for a movie or franchise of our choice. I decided to my campaign on Star Wars VII - The Force Awakens as I am a big fan of the franchise and the film is only 3 and a bit years old, I thought that it'd be easier to my campaign as I could find everything I need for the film before its initial release in December 2015, I managed to find merchandise, the teaser trailer, official trailer and the official Star Wars Episode VII website.
Since Star Wars was bought off George Lucas by Disney, everyone was worried about what Disney would do to the Star Wars franchise but, Disney have always released amazing merchandise for any movie they have worked on and when they got all of the rights to Star Wars they started releasing merchandise in anticipation of Episode VII that started to calm a lot of fans down and started to create more excitement rather than the fans being reserved about their feelings towards a film that hadn't been released yet.
The trailer and teaser trailer also started to cause a lot more hype as they had the original soundtrack remixed slightly to have a more noticeable beat to indicate that this is a new era for Star Wars and the original score for the movies.
Star Wars Powerpoint
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