Hey Guys!
So, myself and Dan planned on conducting an audience task in which we would pitch our film to people within our target audience. Unfortunately I couldn't be there so Dan came to the rescue and ended up doing the pitch himself. So, here's the link to the video:
Daniel Haywood AS Foundation Portfolio: Audience Task
So as always, bye for now
Monday 28 March 2016
Storyboards for Payback
Hey Guys
So here are the original storyboards we created for Payback. As you can see, not all the scenes are there. This has been the main reason for me not uploading these images sooner. Myself and Dan had already decided on the shots we wanted but didn't end up having time to draw them down. Some shots in the film even came to us at the time of filming as we were in the moment at the time and instantly were able to visualise what we wanted. So, these shots never got drawn down beforehand as we didn't visualise them until last minute so we apologise that a lot of shots are missing from these storyboards.The film at the moment is complete and should be soon heading to a blog post near you. As always, bye for now!
Thursday 10 March 2016
Titles for PayBack
Hey Guys
One of the last things we need to finish off is the titles themselves; what ones we are going to have and how we are going to have them shown, such as on top of footage already playing.
I decided to watch the openings of a few films simpler to that of the crime thriller genre we are aiming to convey. Examples of that include Taken and Jack Reacher.
To my surprise, many of them differed in what titles they showed in the opening sequence. Take 2014's Non-Stop. The only title within the opening sequence is literally the title 'Non-Stop', not even the directors name or any actors names popped up.
Jack Reacher however seemed to follow the traditional lay out of titling by highlighting names of key actors, producers, writers, the director and other key associates. As expected, each film began with a shot of the film company's logo that made it, such as 20th Century Fox and Lionsgate. In our film we have done the same by placing our Twin Gun Entertainment logo as the first thing that appears on screen.
Personally, I have come to respect Non-Stop's use of simplistic titling as it can be used to symbolise a theme of mystery and the unknown in some aspects. I believe that this simplicity and its symbolisation can help evoke the crime/mystery genre that me and Dan are trying to achieve with PayBack. Ultimately, we'll have to see how this goes and see if we end up doing this or something different.
Brace yourself for more posts coming your way soon and, as always, bye for now.
One of the last things we need to finish off is the titles themselves; what ones we are going to have and how we are going to have them shown, such as on top of footage already playing.
I decided to watch the openings of a few films simpler to that of the crime thriller genre we are aiming to convey. Examples of that include Taken and Jack Reacher.To my surprise, many of them differed in what titles they showed in the opening sequence. Take 2014's Non-Stop. The only title within the opening sequence is literally the title 'Non-Stop', not even the directors name or any actors names popped up.
Jack Reacher however seemed to follow the traditional lay out of titling by highlighting names of key actors, producers, writers, the director and other key associates. As expected, each film began with a shot of the film company's logo that made it, such as 20th Century Fox and Lionsgate. In our film we have done the same by placing our Twin Gun Entertainment logo as the first thing that appears on screen.
Personally, I have come to respect Non-Stop's use of simplistic titling as it can be used to symbolise a theme of mystery and the unknown in some aspects. I believe that this simplicity and its symbolisation can help evoke the crime/mystery genre that me and Dan are trying to achieve with PayBack. Ultimately, we'll have to see how this goes and see if we end up doing this or something different.
Brace yourself for more posts coming your way soon and, as always, bye for now.
Wednesday 9 March 2016
Update
Hey Guys
Just to let you guys know, we've just about finished everything except for a few titles and music. We should be finished by Friday (hopefully because that's when the deadline is haha).
See you guys later
Just to let you guys know, we've just about finished everything except for a few titles and music. We should be finished by Friday (hopefully because that's when the deadline is haha).
See you guys later
Saturday 5 March 2016
Thursday 3 March 2016
Filming
Hey Guys
Sorry this post is a little late but hey better late than never.
So basically this post is just about our filming stage and as you can tell by this picture of Dan redecorating, we were very productive.
The equipment we booked out between 26th-28th March consisted of a NSLR, a tripod, a focus pull lens, a gorilla mount and a clapper board. The varies props and costume were mostly provided by Dan however both myself and Amy did bring the odd thing such as... ourselves.
We began on Friday night at about 7pm in order to film all our night-time scenes in one chunk. This went successfully with the occasional blooper that we will probably share once all this is done. After a few hours we'd done and the camera battery was on it's last legs.
On the Sunday we rushed to Dan's house for about 10am to film the morning shots after the murder. Fortunately it was moderately bright enough that we could easily distinguish the film from the night-time to the ones from the day-time.
Equipped with police tape we found from the English department (don't ask) and a box of latex gloves we began filming. The filming again went swimmingly and we had completely finished all of the opening. Although people driving past did seem a little concerned at the line of police tape we accidentally left outside the house once filming inside.
Now we are done with the filming we have began our post-production process and are extremely excited for how the end result will turn out.
So, as always, bye for now.
(Dan stroking tape... as you do.)
(The hell am I doing in this? It's like some bad attempt at making The Predator's gun.)
Sorry this post is a little late but hey better late than never.
The equipment we booked out between 26th-28th March consisted of a NSLR, a tripod, a focus pull lens, a gorilla mount and a clapper board. The varies props and costume were mostly provided by Dan however both myself and Amy did bring the odd thing such as... ourselves.
We began on Friday night at about 7pm in order to film all our night-time scenes in one chunk. This went successfully with the occasional blooper that we will probably share once all this is done. After a few hours we'd done and the camera battery was on it's last legs.
On the Sunday we rushed to Dan's house for about 10am to film the morning shots after the murder. Fortunately it was moderately bright enough that we could easily distinguish the film from the night-time to the ones from the day-time.
Equipped with police tape we found from the English department (don't ask) and a box of latex gloves we began filming. The filming again went swimmingly and we had completely finished all of the opening. Although people driving past did seem a little concerned at the line of police tape we accidentally left outside the house once filming inside.
Now we are done with the filming we have began our post-production process and are extremely excited for how the end result will turn out.So, as always, bye for now.
(Dan stroking tape... as you do.)
(The hell am I doing in this? It's like some bad attempt at making The Predator's gun.)
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