The Filmores

Production Meeting

This lesson we have been adding the finishing touches to our opening sequence. Rob has been making the soundtrack for the sequence using garage band. Whilst Jon has diligently been editing the sequence, adding titles and making sure that the sequence is in the right order. Myself and Jordan have been editing the freeze frame titles, inserting silhouettes of the characters in front of a comic style background using Photoshop.
By the end of this lesson we hope to have achieved a finished opening seqences, edited, with a soundtrack and hopefully if achieved with a narration. The narration will hopefully explain the story line and will be achieved by Jordon doing a voice over.

Thursday Work

Well today we started off with 30 minutes of useful information on how to do evaluations on particular questions which proved to be very useful. In response to this the rough cut deadline has been moved to Monday 2nd March giving us some extra time to work! =D


We did a lot of editing work today. Jon has been relentlessly been using gamma, brightness and contrast to make the editing look more authentic. We managed to get a clip from part of our film and successfully put our editing to it. You'll see the editing work on the rough cut on monday.

Jordan came in at 9am, yesterday she was not in. Though, this was not intentional as she has had drama trips. Lottie has come in today and given us some good advice and help on the editing.

Rob has been doing the music and has done 72 seconds so far (1:12). Might need to make it longer which should be hard. =/

We have been looking up different types of fonts from www.dafont.com they have great fonts there and we might be using 'Comic Book' as the font.

This is the script so far:


The Filmores

OPENING SEQUENCE
Starting out in a dark, narrow and dreary alleyway. The setting is of 1930s style architecture showing little light, a few windows and a few bins. A cold wind shivers through the air as the temperatures drop in what is supposed to be some of the worst economic and financial times the United States has ever had to face.


{ENTER Don}
Don is found running fast past the camera showing half of his face to the audience whilst facing towards the end of the alleyway being chased. He is holding in his left hand a briefcase.
[Don breaths heavily]

{ENTER Mafiaman}
Running after Don because Don has stolen his brief case off him. Wearing a clean cut suit showing off that he means business in these desperate times.






~ Rob

Storyboard Clips

I've spent the last 20 minutes taking shots and uploading the Storyboard Clips. These are important because they depict what we would like to include in our opening sequence.

Here they're in order: (Left Click each image to see them enlarged)
















~ Rob

Prop-list and costume list

Our props will consist of:
1. Briefcase preferably brown.


2. Pack of playing cards


3. Wallet preferably brown


4. Money (dollars)





Costume list- Our actors will be required to wear 1930's style apparel such as

1. Bowler hat


2. Suits


3. Trench coats


4. 1930's jewelery e.g. pearls and beads.

Contributor Release Form

As part of the filming preparation we have been given forms that we need to get all the actors to fill in to allow us to release footage on them.

Location ideas

We have been looking at various locations that will may use to film. All of the photos are from Google Maps in satellite mode. All of our locations are in cambridge because it is easy to organise transport.

Christs Piece

Mill Road

Apartment Buildings near the Train Station

Blog Feedback

In response to the feedback that we had received after our blog had been shown to other members of the class was that of positive response. We had been told that we had included many in depth analyses; we had managed to convey that of a good amount of research which had had been undertaken into each genre in order to consider which one to choose. Positive feedback was also given for our mood board, as it was said to have had a good use of pictures, which was again able to convey to a viewer the mood of our project, which was to be a jazzy, 1930’s and 'swinging’ mood. Our Ident was also praised, as it seemed appealing to the viewer and interesting due to the animation created by our group.
However, we also received negative feedback. This feedback was given in order for our group to realize areas in which we needed to improve on our blog. We were told that we had too much text and needed more visual aids e.g. pictures and videos as they felt that too much text made the blog more of a task to read and that visual sources would make it more interesting. We were also told that the picture of our mood board needed to be slightly smaller so to see all the pictures. Feedback also helped us recognize that we were missing vital information e.g. a shot list, location list and were missing the information of more specific on props.
We felt as though it was essential to receive feedback as it thoroughly helped us understand what areas were wrong with our blog and planning and what needed be done in order to rectify this. This enabled us to create a stronger blog and help us do a great amount of planning for our practical, which means an overall more achievable blog and hopefully a successful practical due to detailed planning and research.
In comparison to our previous thriller blogs, our opening sequence blogs seem to be easier to comprehend, a lot more organised, aesthetically pleasing and plentiful with information. We feel as though already, our blogs seem to be far greater than our thriller blogs due to having more experience and knowing that we needed to keep updates of our blogs regular.