Wednesday, 27 March 2013

Final Shooting

This is an extreme long shot of Jemma running towards Mia.
This is a long shot of Jemma just before she meets Mia.
This is a long shot of Jemma and Mia jogging.
This is a close up shot of the side of Jemma and Mia, the title of the film is included in the shot.
This is a two shot of Jemma and Mia speaking. We had to make it a close shot so we were able to pick up all the speech in this shot.
This is a close up shot of Jemma wanting to be sick in the bush.
This is the only shot of the body, only seeing it once makes the audience want to carry on watching so they find out whats happened. 
This is a close up shot of Jemma running to get Mia once she had seen the body.
This is a long shot of Mia with the bench in the background.  It shows how far away they were sitting from the body.
This is an extreme close up of Jemma ringing 999. Being able to see 999 makes the phone call seem more realistic.
This is a close up of Jemma on the phone to the ambulance.

This is a long shot of Jemma running to get Mia after she had spoken to the ambulance.


re-editing


In February, we reshot our film. This time we made a fewmajor improvements, including making sure our sound was working. We also changed the location of our film. 
     After we had made these improvements, we then created the music and completed all our editing. After this, we had a double check over what we had created and decided we still needed to make some major improvements. 
     These improvements included: 

  • Changing the name of our film to make it sound more like a thriller.
  • Changing the pace of some of our titles so they fit in more with what's going on in the sequence. 
  • Changing the volume of the music so it would be level with the dialogue used in some of the sequence.
  • Changing the whole music piece because when we finally fit it in with the sequence it didn't sound as scary and convincing as we had hoped. 
  • By changing the music we added more strings and deeper music, we edited out some of our shots to make it more scary, for example, we cut out more shots of the body on the ground because when you see fewer shots it makes it seem more tense.  

Risk Assessment


When we were filming our opening, we had to tackle of a few risk assessments before we were able to go ahead with the filming.

  • Before we started filming, we had to make sure the camera was set up properly. This meant that it was attached safely and properly to the tripod and that the microphone was attached to the microphone tripod correctly. 
  • We had to ensure the microphone was switched on and that the battery was in properly (as the microphone was a major issue the first time we filmed).
  • Whilst we were filming i made sure i was not disrupting any of the public and not getting in there way.
  • We made sure that all of the actors (myself and two other people) were safe and that the acting we were doing was not harmful in anyway towards, the public or the environment surrounding us.
  • We had to make that the camera and microphone had our full awareness and that they did not get lost, damaged or stolen.
  • We had to make sure the tripod was in an upright position securely on the ground and was not obstructing the public in any way.
  • Also, because we were in a public park, we had to be aware of dogs incase they got too near to the camera.

The order of our titles


Throughout our planning of the film, we had to research production companies and distribution companies.
We also researched real people who are involved in the film industry to make our titles look more realistic. One of my friends and I were the actors in the film, and my partner was the camera woman. My partner and I both directed the film.

These are the order of our titles which run throughout the opening:
  • Trinity Productions Presents
  • A Hammer Film
  • Devil's Own Luck(name)
  • Starring Jemma Christy 
  • Mia Marr
  • Screenplay by Steven Zaillian
  • Costume designer Alexandra Byrne
  • Film Editor Claire Bowman
  • Director of photography Liam Paul
  • Directed by Claire Bowman
  • Mia Marr

Sunday, 24 March 2013

Music

     As our opening sequence has dialogue running through the majority of it, we had to be specific with the music we had chosen so it didn't overpower the dialogue.
     We created our music on garage band. From using this programme, we were able to choose specific musical references which related to our sequence and the thriller/horror genre. The music we had chosen to use were non copyright so we were able to use it.
     For our first attempt on creating our music, we had a slightly upbeat piano melody with slight changes throughout the whole sequence, but this sounded too 'happy' and it didn't have enough character in it, so we decided to mix about some other instruments and find sounds which were relevant to the sequence.
     We were able to create a piece of music successfully, and it fits in perfectly with the sequence, adding more character to it.
     However, we had to alter the volume on both the speech and the film score, so we can hear all of the dialogue throughout.

production company

We have chosen to do a 'Hammer Production Film' because in our research we found out the hammer do a lot of horror/thriller films so this would go well with our film because it genre is a horror/thriller.
From looking on the Hammer Productions website, we have found that they have done similar horror/thriller films such as:


  • the quiet ones
  • the women in black
  • let me in
  • the residents


From finding out this production company has produced these films from a similar genre, we feel it would be appropriate to use for our film.

script

script

Jemma (runs up to Mia): Hi!
Mia: Hi, it's freezing today.
Jemma: I know it is cold.

(whilst running two characters are just having general conversation)

Mia: lets take a break and sit here
Jemma: yeah I'm really out of breath, I feel really sick I should have bought my inhaler.
Mia: oh yes you should have, are you okay?
Jemma(walks over to bushes): yes i think i will be fine
Jemma: (looks into the bush, looks behind shoulder and screams) OH MY GOD MIA HELP!!!

(Camera turns to where Jemma is looking and sees a dead body)

Mia (running over to Jemma): Jemma whats wrong, what the hell, wait here I will go and get help. 

(Mia runs out of shot into the distance)

Jemma (picks up phone and dials 999): hello can I have an ambulance I have found a girl lying in the bushes, we are in the wreck park please come quick. 

( Jemma puts down phone)

Jemma (looks at body, shouts): MIA MIA WERE ARE YOU? (runs towards Mia) Mia I have rung an ambulance, they are coming now.
Mia: okay good because I couldn't find any help, theres no one about.

Scene ends.