Just to say...

Its not final. I stall have to sort out Matt's(Gabriel's) Head.....

- Joel

The magazine!!

I have taken the magazine home to finish it, just the last few touches.....

I have put about 6 different backgrounds onto the magazine. There are 2 different themes, Winter.... and a Pocket Watch.
These 2 themes were disscussed within the group.
I said we should have a dead tree to show the death of the trailer, Matt and Jo were undeicided and i think it was suggested that we have some sort of a mechanical element which would show a depth into the charatcers and a slight way in which they would work, one actions pushes another etc etc.

The theme which was left out was the Newtons Cradle. As we could not get our hands on one.... This have gitted with the theme of the cogs and a double identity through the different sides of the balls... one pushing another.
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Magazine Creation

So the magazine creation is running a bit slow. the updates have not been as fast as some may have wanted. This is because the work which must be done to it have changed quite a bit; People changing their minds about certain happenings of what we should be putting on the cover.

We currently have Chace, Gabriel, Dr Williams and Bobby on the front cover. This is because these characters will be quite predominant in the film having a greater influence than the other characters.

Inspirational Posters / Characters / Magazine Covers

Looking into the character of Dr Williams, we found that he can have a more in depth and thought provoking character bios. we looked at the character of Mr Loomis (Donald Pleasence) from Halloween we found that the doctor can play a main role in the story. He influenced us in thinking that we would be able to show the doctor as a main character, he would be able to get to know Chace and Gabriel and find out secrets and possibly stop them.......

Through this the character could be placed on the front cover of the magazine because he is now a main character

We also thought that the character of Bobby Watts(Joel hall) could be put on the front cover because he would befriend Chace when he moves to the school, this would allow him access to both sides of Chace's identity and through the later part of the film be killed.
We thought to put this character on the front cover because he would have a main part in the film, being Chace's friend, and mystery solver.

the poster of 'Hannibal' gave us the idea of having half of Chace's face darkened as the characters on the front cover's face had been darkened on the left hand side. This gives the character a two sided identity, which is the idea we want to show to our audience.


Jo and Joel

All or Nothing

So with joel not in Jo and I are cracking on with directors cut front cover :)

We took a picture of me and joel yesterday with me as gabriel and it looked
creepy as so we are going to take te photo and move it onto the photo of
chase to make it look like Gab is screaming into his ear.

I'm sure joel will get the photos up asap :)
Jo is just cutting chase out now to put him onto the background

Matt

Some inspirations

MJJ Media Productions Insprit


:D

- Joel

The Beautiful people

Once again I've been called up to do something crazy with my face unfortuitly it wasn't animated so we had us a photo shot of Joel (Dr) Turner and myself for the cover of the mag.

We had a follow student do my eye make up for Gabriel and tomorrow we shall get the chace shots :p

I complain about the make up but I must say it looked good on the photos and was a bit of a laugh

"Matt whats up with your face?!"
"If you think I'm bad you should see the other guy"

MAtt

DVD cover no more!

So today we get in to lesson to find that we no longer are supposed to be doing a dvd cover. Instead we are now making the front cover of a film magazine which we are now taking the time to look at other film magazine front covers finding an inspiration for our front cover.

We have already been told that Miss Gregory And Mr Turner are willing to star on the front cover which is awesome so we are going to edit them in to be behind Matt (Indiana Jones and Star Trek being inspiration).

We are also considering featuring free posters when the magazine is bought, other film suggestions to watch and maybe some famous actor/actress names.

Jo

Slight Poster change.

And its gud.

Ms Rappel commented on our poster yesterday, regarding the text (credits) at the bottom of the page.

The text was turned into 'Tall Film' this would mean that the text would be more compact and taller, this would replicate the text used on modern posters which will give our poster a more professional outlook.

Fonts for the poster

So for our poster we chose to have 3 different fonts to break up the different sections, the chosen three were:

American Life - For the title of our film 'Pendulum'
3rd Man - For our names and the tag line
Tall Film - For the credits

We chose to use American Life as we found it quite a creepy, eerie and blood splattered font and thought it would back-up the story line and name of our film.
3rd Man was used cause we thought it looked really cool and fitted well with our genre of film.
Tall Film was inspired from the 'Sleuth' film poster as it is elongated.

Jo

Final Poster.

So we have added some titles, names and credits to our poster.

We picked a colour scheme from the picture, Red, white and grey. this colour scheme was taken from the jumper which Matt was wearing in the picture. These colours where then moved to the titles and credits.

We then found a poster form out media room, star trek i believe and copied the credits at the bottom of the page. This would give us a generaic looking poster.
Since there was only 3 of use doing the actually filming and editing, we had to add some of the actors in. Which filled ou the information alittle bit. We tried to make the tect as squashed together as possible, this would make it seem as real life poster as we could.

And this is the finished product.

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- Joel and Matt.


"Can you stop death metalling, its kind of hard to have a conversation with alice."
Looooooooool

Since the creation of the face melt.

I thought so post this as i wish to say that we will not be using a Silhouette image of Matt's character.

Although it was not final for the final poster or DVD cover, because it was mentioned earlier I thought i should explain that we will not using it.

The silhouette picture was not viable in showing the characters fully to an audience which would make it harder to know what the film would be about, what charatcers are used etc.

Although the image may still be used it will not be a predominate pictutre, maybe as a background image but.

So yeah, thought i should just say.

- Joel

Creation of the Poster.

Ok so we started the creation of the poster yesterday!

This was a good laugh as we were able to manipulate the images which we thought would give the most effect and 'scareyness factor'

We started in creating a sketched design which we would stick too to make the best poster that we could.

We thought of having the main character 'Chace' being the main character, this would allow the viewer to know who the film would be about. Since we have deicided to have the character have a split personality we thought to have half his face be cut away to show 'Gabriel' on the other side of him. This would display both the charatcers and have the viewer know what the story may be about, and creepy them out alittle.

We started by takeing 2 facial shotsof Matt, one would be himstanding still, how we wanted 'Chace' to look, the next would be 'Chace's face being peeling(or melted) away.


We needed to cut half the face away to make way for the other shot of 'Gabriel', this was done using the 'Magnetic lasso' tool, which allowed us to get a clean cut through his face. This was then copied and put onto 2 different layers, 1 layer was darkened then the eye was liquefied. The second layer was distorted and pulled down to replicate the skin being pulled.


The secondpicture was then cut out, Matt's arm, and placed onto the top of the first picture, to make the mainpicture which we will be working with.

The image was then nearly ready to be a final draft.
We used a smudge tool set to '20' to blend the layers of the face together, this would add depth to the image and make it look somewhat realistic.

The background then needed to be changed which was meant we added a new layer then placed it at the back of the other layers.

We then thought of adding a 'faded' part of the image, this was through using the 'Magic eraser' tool to blend the image. this was combind with the dodge and burn tool which, the dodge tool was used to lighten the image then the burn tool was used to darken the image.

The image was looking alot better so we flattened all of the layer together, then toned the image alittle bit more, now that the layers were put together.

Then the image draft was ready for show.

Although after some critism from Ms Gregory, we thought to change the size of the melted chin........


Although we tried to replicate the skin melting it did not look the best.
This lead us to make a sharper looking face melt which would not look so silly.

This lead us to this image.

Which we thought is quite cool.

Just to show the photoshop steps that we took, we took a print screen of the layers. So it culd be somewhat clearer to you.


-Joel

X gonna give to you...

.....A poster that is :D
Here our ideas:

-Mirror: Back of Chace showing white hood, reflecting back would be Gabriel (reaching out)

-Face peeling: Close up image of Chace peeling back, face + Showing Gabriel underneath (Layered-using cling film or paper)

-Opposite sides: Chace on one side, Gabriel on the other. With text down the middle

-Mirror: Medium size mirror with Chace's reflection and Gabriel lurking behind him in shadow.

-Half Face: Half face Chace, other half Gabriel.

Me and Joel are drawing up the face peeling poster :) :P

Matt

Online Songs

I was looking at the names for our main protagonist/Antagonist. Gabriel already has the dark irony that he is evil but named after an angel :p Chace though has got depth to his name as he is being chased by his other half, till it is too late and he will cease to existence.....

Matt

VIDEO?!

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this is the first final cut to the video.


We have tested the audience, and will be making some changes to the video in due time."


Is what i would be saying if the video actually posted....

Seems the .DV file has faulted me again.

Video up in due course.

Sorry for the inconvenience :)

- Joel

Audience feedback

Today we had some feed back from an audience which we gathered from the sixth form.
We made a table of questions "Positive" "Negative" "Improvements and "Other Comments"

This was so they can give us direct information about specific parts of the trailer.

Over all the feed back was good, with lots of positive points, however there are still points which we need to cover.

Understanding the plot was a high feedback point.
Voice over volume was the second.

We have thought to correct these feed back points by adding more shots which will add more depth to both the characters.

Making the voice over louder will also allow us to make the story clearer as well

So today is the deadline.

And all is going well, touch wood.

Jo and Matt have liked what i have done with the film, 'LOVE IT' was repeated a few times..... (not to blow ones own trumpet.)

As for myself, i think its good!

I have added another track on top of "The Platform". This is called "Drones" taken from the same URL as "The Platform".
I have added this music because it added a few more 'bumps' and 'bashes' which would make the music have a little bit more depth, through the use of the multi layering of the music.
The new music has simply been placed over the top of the original music and then moved into place, making the two songs work well together.

The shots have been done and placed together, the music has been set in place.

The only thing now is to finalize the voice over. I am still not happy with the current voice over. Well not the quantity, there needs to be more speech within our trailer which would give the audience more depth to the story and characters.

This should be done next lesson, which is in 14 minutes...

-Joel

The deadline draws near

So the last few touches of editing are being done to our film right this minute!
(well after its saved, which takes a very long time)

Once this is done i hope to add some different music, more eerie than the first music we put on, although we will keep some sections of the original song.

We have gotten these songs from www.freeplaymusic.com which is very good and resourceful website.
We chose to get the music from this website as we only other choice would have been to take music from 50 years ago. If we had chosen that route then we would have been narrowed down to use one song, and it may not have worked well. With we have a variety of musical influences to do which would help us in make the trailer the best we could.

The 'flash' edits still need to be done which i hope to be adding within the next double free (which is now) Jo and Matt are both busy so i have to do it alone! Which wont be the best, but i will run through what i have done tomorrow!

The original music which I will be adding is from (http://freeplaymusic.com/search/category_search.php?t=v&i=1863) called "Challenger" This is a rock based instrumental which should liven up the trailer.

The music which i i have added is from (http://freeplaymusic.com/search/category_search.php?t=v&i=1235) This is called "The Platform" This is an orchestral based instrumental which should give a more eerie theme to the trailer.

So Matt was alittle too hopefully...

The final editing will SHOULD be done soon, but having some slight trouble saving... i have been waiting 20 mins just for it to save. Painful.

The editing should be done tomorrow which is good. Very good.

We have added some flash out and flash in parts to the clips to get a more generic feel to the trailer. This will also add to the ghostly beings that be........

Final shots?

Perhaps..... :D

Perhaps Yes!

Bruised and Scarred

We maybe speaking too soon but......we filmed the last scenes today :D
we got some pretty epic shots including the hall way of bodies, jack hanging from his ankles and what can I say the perry death scene that boy is a god.

So we plan to do some more editing tomorrow and add the credits with some black out writing shots :)

Looks like things are looking up *touches wood*

Peace out

Matt

Not good enough for the truth in cliche

"your trailer needs about 3 or 4 corpses in it"

You heard it here folks dead bodies sell movies, so we have two dead bodies in there already (Joel and Jo)turner sed we could kill him ;) but it seems like we are going round in circles again with the deadline on friday we are going to have to dig dead to pull this one out the bag for that A grade I want :p

Tomorrow we are going to be playing.....I mean working with the fake blood so it should be some good old fashion fun :p

peace out

Matt

Basic cut!

Today we Filmed Mr Turner's 'Doctor' shots which were pretty damn good. atleast i thought, he did help us frame some shots, without looking at the camera... good stuff.

We also found out that the 'Radio mics' are pretty damn rubbish they are wayyy to strong at picking up sound, which is good in theory but when put into a shot... terrible. too loud, too annoying horrible to listen. I thought of putting them on a 'Boom' or a long stick to lift then above the character. This would give us the ability to get away from the high pitch noise from the camera, and will give good speech to work with.

So we have filmed pretty much 85% of our film WHICH IS AMAZING.

Well a few reshots will need to be done I.E Jo dieing.
and shots that we actually need to do, I.E me dieing! :D

Ms Gregory and Mr Turner actually liked it. Although Ms Gregory still thinks we need to add more depth to Matt Killing Jo. Which we are getting around too. We all agree with this so we are set on this and wish to change it.

I'm gunna act it up sooo good!

Joel out! :D

"My house" shots were filmed!!

About ruddy time! haha...............

Yeah so Me Jo and Matt went to my house today and had some tea, except for Jo. Let down! :D

So we filmed my mother talking to the doctor! (Doctor shots yet to be done)

So we shot my mother talking on the phone, this scene was scripted, which we improvised, going through what we thought the doctor would actually be saying to the mother at this stage of the film.

This was matched with the outside shots of Chase turning into Gabreil and back!

"Side Front Side" named fairly. These shots will be cut together to make matt look like hes changing back and forth verrrry quickly to display his split personality.

More Filming!!

So we have just filmed Matt being Gabriel and walking away from the scene where he has killed Joel. Miss is pleased with the shot which we are very happy about which means we won't have to film a shot we like again :)

Jooooo:)

SO ive actually gotten around to posting some pictures!

Because i know you are oh so bored without them!

They also allow you to actually see what we are doing in our busy schedule!!

First we start with some photos of us setting up the scene for Jo's death.



This is Matt explaning how Jo should actually act in the shot.

I believe i recall "Stay still and try not to breath" This direction allowed the shot to look like Jo has just been killed, because she would be a corspe. this would generally really allow the shot and film to be slighty realistic.


This is the shot which Jo is actually dead in. This photo is documentation that we actually did it... ?


I am not really sure why this picture was taken..... Jo and her craziness i guess.


"HUG ME!" I feel represents this photos This was the "Throw photo away" shot, I had ot jump infront (not literally jump) of matt so i could direct this, seems odd but it worked. Ignore the sandwich.


Another zoomed in shot of the "Throw away photo" shot.

And with the "Soft lighting kit" came more silhouettes











And that was our most recent filming trip. Mattw as unable to do Last wednesday so we will be filming the house scene on monday.
Monday will also be host to alot more filming, i really can not remember which we said we were filming.

As of right now i think it is:
- Gregory shots (Teacher shots)
- Turner shots (Doctor shots)
- My House shots (parents shots)
- Matt walking (Around the school shots)
And possibly Matt turning into Gabriel and back to Chase in the same seat.

We have a media show case on friday!

this went ok...... Although we had a rouch cut, it still needed editing, (Which we knew, time has restrained this subject)
The story needed to be explained again and this led to more and more questions.
Ms Gregory basically said it needs to be filled out. Which is what the extra shots planned are for!

woo!

Joel ~

Dead on Arrivail

JO IS DEAD!!!!! (cause I......I mean gabriel killed her)
Filming today was epic if i do say so myself :p

Today we got all the drama studio shots done
and the walking crowd scene which would of been alot easier if school pupils weren't attracted to carmers like flies to light ¬_¬ but its done so woop :D

The kill its self was made even better by some inspirational acting by Jo and some perfection editing by the group :)

I feel everything is coming together very nicely and with just Turner's, Gregory's, joel's house and joel dieing to go (long story why both Joel and Jo both have to die...maybe on another post :p) we are feeling good that this should be a high grading piece :)



Oh I almost forgot Jo and Joel found a awesome possiblity for the soundtrack which i love so its good

Matt out

MOAR FILMING!

Yeah so basically Me and Matt filmed some of his appropriatly named "DOOR SCENES"

These shots were filmed to split up the classroom shots.

Gabriel was walking to the classroom, Chase enters.... Spooky!


So yeah.


this is me preping for Matts "Up the stairs shot" We chose this angle because the above shot would get, what we thought was a "out of body shot~"

We chose to shoot a "Foot Shot" which would allow the viewer to actually see him walking down the corridor. It would also allow us to get a variety of shots into the trailer.


And so the Blood talk begins again... this the blood shots are dawning on our group We have deicided to choose to test different combinations of blood. Mr Turner said that Soy sauce and Ketchup would make a good combination for the density and the darkness of human blood.

Matt speaks more on this!



you heard it here first people, It tasted Delicious! :D

SO tomorrow we should be filming the shots at my house! yay!
Oh my mother will be happy!
these shots are of Chase/Gabriel coming to the new house and the parent talking to the doctor on the phone.

Matt was ill on monday so me and Jo couldn't actually film, which was a realllll bad thing. So we edited the shots somewhat. So we ahve a slight couple of shots to go for the trailer! :D

yay!

I know this is all jumbled up but..... ah well!
So thats it pretty much.


Joel.

If you are reading this?!?!

Comment on any section.
Go ahead, Jo wont bite.


(she will hunt you down and slap you though)

Shes insane!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh


anyway yeah, if you want to comment on any section just write something!

all comments accepted!


~Joel.

DAMN IT MATT!!!!

Letting all those people past when we were filming today.....

aha........

Yeah so we filmed the "locker scene" shots today. A crucial moment in the shot, as "Gabriel" is reaching out to "Chase".
(Matt isn't asleep i swear....)
(The corridor shot itself, with a few extras... or passers-by)

it was pretty good, arm aching, since I had to hold up a jumper to block out the light.... for what felt like 10000000 minutes.
(10000000 minutes)

We used what we hear is an awesome piece of equipment (blame Ms Gregory if it turns out bad) The radio mics!!!! omg yay!~ This was to get around the noise that the camera creates, which is a high pitch "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" sound, very off putting, hopefully this we give us a clean sound from the characters

(Turns out we used to much of the equipment, this was a signal booster, which we needed need.)

(The mic itself, wonderfully displayed by Matt)!

After the initial fuss of setting them up we did use them well, I wanted a audio clip of Matt saying "Chase" from "Gabriel"'s point of view, so i put my down the corridor to get his voice to sound far away, but in the same setting... If you catch my drift.

Although when we set up the shot Jo wanted to use that actual clip....
we will see... ! :D


More shots will be completed on monday!


oooo! we also did Alice's Invitation hand over shot today!
We did afew shots of different areas, just to see how it was different, lighting, noise, background dressing.

We originally did it in the sixth form common room to help with the whole... community feel, and get a feel that theres not only about 10 people in our film.

The shot was pretty much a hand over of the invitation, which was... ok... we will see what it looks like what it is uploaded, NO LETTERBOXING, although i like it letterboxxed ahhaaha.......

Anyway!

Thats the most of it.

- Joel

Don't need Tabby anymore!?!

Well since we did not have Tabby yesterday we have opted to use someone else Alice!!!

This is because we are able to fit with her schedule more easily.

Alice is up for the position so we have accepted her with open arms.

Today we have talked about more shots with Mr Turner, which means that the trailer will be about 100000 minutes long...
which isnt the best...

so lots of trimming and editing.


The voice over, this was also discussed which will be formed and placed over the sequences we have so far.
Once the script is perfected it can be done easily.

A blend shot is also being discussed.... which... i gotta learn how to do.. haha.......
Although i have been told that in Final Cut express it can be done.... so....

YEAH!

More shots incoming.

Filming!

Well we did some filming today!
it was pretty damn gnarly! and yes, i did just say Gnarly. I hope its spelt right or this will be totally bad.

Anyway!!

We actually got extras today! which was amazing! Thanks to Jo!!!!! yay!!

we got 5 people, including me, 6! yay!
Tabby (our main actress) was busy today.... acting with some other people (ooo backstabbed) so we will have to shoot her scenes soon ~~ and just add them in...... yay.

I forgot my camera today... aswell as my lunch.... omg!

so i had to use my phone to take some pictures! (only 1 because i was acting yay)



This was the setting up of the panning shot. Jo and Matt did and awesome job, even if the shot turns out rubbish, i absolutely love this shot. It reminds me of the matrix... without the ninja slow-mo actions. Such a good shot to portray the whole class, which is what we wanted to do. Kudos to you guys!

SO yeah! we had an awesome time filming, tabby didnt show, but it was still good.

We just need to film tabby, and Ms Gregory, then we will be done with the class room scene.

Pendulum.

New name?!?!?!?!??!

OH YES!

So since a scene has the word Pendulum in it we have slightly decided to change the name.

But this is only a possibility would this be a possible change.

Another post today?

Are you crazy????!!!!!

No just media mad! woooo

Well today we put together our first couple os scenes which was pretty fun, me and jo went through all the shots and picked the "best looking ones" and made a short cut for our trailer!

This gave us some ideas on how to change them for the better... yay.....

so more filming!

I will write up some of the things we came up with soon!
(Most likely monday) because i dont have the notes no me right now.


- Joel

Some technical infomation.

Since i have uploaded the video to youtube then taken the code and placed it here, to embed it......
make the video host on this website....

It will not show up if you have a "block" system, this was brought to my attention in school as we do. Since the "block" system blocks youtube it will block the embeded videos.
So if you do have a blocked system then you will not be able to watch the videos which i have posted.

I thought i should mention this if you are tryign to watch the videos and they are not coming up on your screen.

:)

- Joel

We actually filmed?!?!?!

Totally awesome.

LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION!

Yeah it went pretty well.....although people didnt really want to play a part in our film. We needed some extras which, was great when asking people, but when it came to actually helping they changed their minds.

Which is utterly silly.

So we could not shoot the scenes which we wanted today.....

but we were able to shoot Ms Gregory's scene which was good!
appart from some framing issues we were able to shoot well!

Tomorrow will dawn some new challenges.... yay.

Joel OUT!

:)

Start the filming?!

Lights! Camera!



Wait wut!?

Oh yeah filming is starting!

Did we not say?


No?

Well we are saying now!

Kinda.

Since the media showcase was announced.... today...

and i am using far to many "Enter Key's" ....

We have chosen to start filming tomorrow 24th of September! (if this gets read at a later date)
The scenes which will be filmed are..... The teacher scenes!!
This is because we have both teachers on the 24th which means its prime time for filming!! :D

I was just updating you guys alittle!!!

Walk This Way

Today we did some location scouting getting photos of the class room we plan to use

Its psychology class for intentional irony :P

We also added a new shot in of our main character (matt) walking through a busy crowd

We wish to end up editing the shot so that it looks like crowd is walking by very quickly but matt walking slowly

So looking good

Test shots!!!!!!!!!! and some other stuff.

So finally the shots have been formatted for youtube..... BLARGH!

And here they are!





Sorry they were cut into two different pieces..... it was the only way!


On a slightly different note, Jo was not in school today so Me and Matt had to do some work, OMG REALLY?, I KNOW!, we did the storyboard, and I messed around with the editing. Well it wasn't really messing around, they are taking away our Mac's.... so i had to move the files to the media server.... and i cut the test shots to make 2 pieces (what you see up above you)

We have around 5(ish) more shots to add to the ending, i did not want to finish the story board without Jo as she has some in put aswel!

Test shots video.

I will be puttig a video on the blog very soon!
Having slight technical problems right now, as i can not upload to youtube in the format it is. Which is a real pain.
So in a couple of days it should.... be here!

~ Joel

Drama Studio film testing!

Today we had some more test shots in the drama studio, this means lots more picture documentary.

I will start up with the equipment.


This is the soft lighting kit!

Very good to use, we used the diffuser to redirect the light it produced to create good lighting...



The diffuser, not a giant frisbee..... awesome combo with the soft lighting kit.



first use of the soft lighting kit. It was really bright, i was quite shocked, i thought we would not be able to use them to a good standard. In the end i think we did! :D



Matt messing around with the lights.... which wasnt all games as we got a good idea from this.

Which was...

This silhouette effect(granted the light on the right could be turned off) was an excellent picture and gave us great ideas for the poster which we will be creating.

This lead to more shots being taken with the Light Vs Dark effect



these are the main pictures of the soft lighting kit, which we used as best we could.
combing the lights with the diffuser let us be able to manipulate the light so we could get just the right about the on the character.

The camera, this was used for the test shots, obviously.

Im not sure what Matt and Jo are talking about, but it seems interesting.


In taking the role as director i was helping Matt with the position of the "Picture" which was actually an envelope. Jo found this funny, for an unknown reason. Immaturity on the scene i guess.....

More director speak!


"Oh god that was a girly throw" - Matt

And yes, yes it was.

This was the set for the shot for the opening scenes, instead of an envelope it will be a picture and will all be professally done.
Using the Diffuser and the Camera, for the grestest effect!

Finished the test shots!

We finished the test shots today! this is an excellent progression. 

After letterboxing them (LOL) we are ready to edit them.

The drama studio was awesome. 

We used the soft lighting kit to create the best effect possible, this was through the use of the diffuser which was and still is an excellent piece of equipment. 

Pictures incoming

Trailers

Watching trailers for some inspirations. this was an excellent task, very fun.

we picked these films because of the editing and story behind the characters.

We picked "Fight club" for the split personality, or creation of an imaginary friend/alter-ego, which we planned to base the character 'Gabriel' on Brad Pitt's role of Tyler Durden.

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1372914457/

Orphan the film reminded Matt of our trailer,  because of the the 'creepy' plot twist, the trailer was useful to show us the flash/jump cuts at the end and the silent jump scenes, 

"You alright?"

"BLAHHHHHH"

Example.

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi780468761/

Texas Chainsaw Massacre was a pure horror trailer which we watched, this was to find the effect of the music, and how it will effect our film, we picked the sound of the "Heart beat" as a major influence into music.

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1727725849/

The Fourth Kind, this is an extremely creepy trailer. Jo specifically liked '00:54' of this trailer, when an extreme close up was on an actor talking (Jaw shot, i have deicided to call it), she thought that we could implement this into our trailer and use it for the doctor when he is revealing what is wrong with the girl. 

Matt specifically liked the shot between the archive footage and the film itself, the splice of the shots was intriguing and showed us how we can manipulate ours to recreate this.

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi120390169/

Today!

In todays lesson I(Joel) messed aroudn with the music which we could potentially put into our "Blackout" wipes......

this failed.


The story was being finalised....again.... and the first page was done.

This means a...few... need to be completed.

This is a long process as we need to talk abotu each shot..... way to many i think.... haha!


Anyway i'm out!

Shot testing!

Today we had some test shots done, not all of it. but its a start!

We missed the Drama shot, because of a class in there, Darn drama.....

Which we will be doing on Thursday, as the room is empty!

We managed to get all the test shots, apart from my(Joel) house, because its too far away, kinda.

i took some photos of the testing!

The group.

Well its changed alot, and its been a blast.

It was originally BJJ, Ben Josh Joel.
yeah we had fun, made some films.

But change happens and Josh and Ben sadly did not come into the A2 course.
This means I(Joel) had to find new partners!

Jo was drafted in the first part of the year, and she was up for the challenge.

Matt was aquired after the break, since he was a solo group he would have needed to do alot fo work. Which is a tall order.

After some conversation with Ms Gregory they found the best way to resovle the problem of being a solo, would be to join me and Jo. If that makes sense.

So we become a Trio!!!!

This is a new team, and we new people to work with new ideas are flowing, so stay tuned for some dramatic changes. Kinda.

haha!

Scouting for girls

Jo has a clash today with another lesson so isn't in
and she has all of the work in her locker so me and joel can't get hold of it

We are plaining to do some test shots this afternoon at all of the in school locations to check for light and that they will still work in our production.

School starts soon.

And we are down a member.

But we are still continuing.


Since we have started a whole new story we had to redo the story board, actors, and plot. We ahve mostly a full plot, and a story board. Jo Currently has these so I will not to be able to post them. I will hopefully be able to soon :)

errrrr

Yeah.


School GO!

NEW STORY?!?!?!

OK so after our Meet, which Josh didn't turn up too....

We have completely changed our story. We had a talk about why the girl in our story was being haunted and could see the future/events that happen around her. We came up with the idea (can't remember who said it) that the girl could be skitsophrenic, this moved on to the whole story being changed.

The plot has moved into a Psychological Thriller/Horror(abit).

I will write a full plot up here when we actually figure the whole thing out.

At this moment in time the plot stands in the outbreak of the daughter's personallity split. In a tragic event the parents deicide to move and hide truth from their daughter. As the truth is slowly revealed the daughter becomes more and more aware of another personality in her head.

further plot twists and turns will be put into this blog!


Keep watching the sky!
Or this page. :)

Ok so no posts for awhile.

Yeah ive been lazy.

Just been planning for awhile.

We have done some scouting for setting, we have found a good grave yard, which Ms said we should try impliment into the story. which we did and it has seemed to work well.

i will try to upload the pictures soon...... yet Y'know.... other stuff to do.


Pitches are on monday, (i think~)


YAY!



Laters ~~~~~~~

WE'VE CHANGED

right so after a couple of free lessons today we have thought of some new film ideas.

We have come up with 2 new films and 1 documentary.

OR a Mockumentary.

we are going see if we are allowed to do this, if so it will be done! :D

Our three new ideas are

1. A Mockumentary of the day in the life of Karl, The living dead.
A dead teen who just wants to fit in. This will based around how people try to fit into the world being different.

2. Nightmare. A film trailer which is based around a character who is tormented by a dream he/she keeps having. In this recurring dream she is attacked, horrified and scared (details we arnt sure of what happens yet) She must try to break free of this curse, which we deicided to be ghosts which haunt the house. Jo has introduced a twist in the story which would be in the form of a friend/family member who turns up to live with the main character, which strange things happen to him/her aswel, resulting in a death........ or does it?!?!??!?!

3. Diary. A film trailer based on a diary/book which fortells the future of the people nearby. An innocent adventure into an attic or warehouse...? As they read on their futures become real, aided by the book? or aided by the killer who is situated nearby.........?
A Prank? A mass Murder? you decide.
As they read on they are picked off one by one!
Panic, Horror, Pain.
you will find it within these pages.


:O:O:O::O:O:O:OO


So which one... ?

Post a comment or send us a message on your favorite!!! :D

Planning?

So we have to plan........... now.................... ?


Say what?

Planning?


Massive mind map incoming.

A new member?!?

Jo has joined our group today.

-Offically-

:D

And what input does she have?

An alarm clock.

Oh yeah.

This could turn out interesting.


New Theme of 'Horror' has been selected as we will be able to make an epic.

You will love it.

So A2 Coursework has begun!!

What will we deicide ?


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Film Trailer ~

Woooooooooooo :D




Ben Josh Joel ~