Friday 4 May 2012
Sunday 15 April 2012
Rough Cut Two
Audience feedback
Charlotte Morrison-18
Positives
- Good use of non diegetic sound
- Good integrated titles
- Good range of camera angles, tilts, pans and close ups
- Obvious genre
- Could have varied camera angles
- Shaky camera at some points
Positives
- Non diegetic music made story clear
- good fast pace
- Story line was clearer and easier to understand
- Obvious genre
- Can tell actor is reading
- Pill bottle out of focus
- Days should have been made clearer
positives
- Music matched and enhanced mood
- Liked the integrated titles
- Obvious genre
- Untidy handwriting
- Sometimes it was unfocused (camera)
Positives
- Good use of lighting
- Props were effective
- Good music
- Writing could have been neater
- days should have been made clearer
Saturday 14 April 2012
Rough Cut One
Audience feedback
Mollie Rose Turkentine- 17
Positives
- Good alarm clock framing
- Liked the camera angles, especially pans
- Non diegetic sound would make story clearer
- Very slow paced
Steven Adcock- 17
Positives
- speech was clear
- Liked the different lighting
- Liked titles
Negatives
- Not enough happened in the time
- Music would be good
James Dye- 15
Positives
- It built tension, wants to see the rest
- Webcam scenes made him feel like the character was talking to him
Negative
- Needs music
- very slow not a lot happened it would be better if things were quicker.
Friday 13 April 2012
Our target audience
Our film is going to be certified as 15, this is because most of the films we had researched were of a 15 certificate. We will make sure that our film adheres to all the protocol given by the BBFC to make it suitable and reduce the need for censorship. After looking at certification guidelines its clear that our film will make it into the 15 brackets, mainly because there will be minimal physical violence in our film, as we are making a psychological thriller the violence will mainly be psychological. The violence included will not be glamorised and portrayed in a negative light. We have also considered the way we are portraying Harry's medication. We have made sure that the pills are obviously prescribed and when he comes off the pills we have made the reaction a negative one so to show his anger in a negative light.
Our film will be geared more to the male demographic as I found from my audience research that thriller films usually appeal more to the male market. As our film is a 15 its left it very open to most of the population to be able to see it. It's not much of a worry that we lose people under the age of 15 because we found through our research that people under the age of 15 are more likely to watch a comedy or rom-com.
Alfred Hitchcock is one of the most influential psychological thriller directors of our time and his film's are inspiration for ours, his films Psycho and the Birds are bother certified 15 so I'm confident our certificate and target audience are correct.
Our film is likely to appeal to the social demographic C1, C2, D and E. This is because people of demographic group A and B are more likely to want to watch something more educated and possibly policital. The top layer of this film could be associated with the hypodermic needle theory but members of the demographic group C1 or E may be able to find the under layers and find the uses and gratifications of the film. Our film is going to be certified as a 15 so it will have to mainly appeal to demographic group E. most teenagers are automatically in demographic group E because most of the time they are students and even if they do have a part time job they will still mainly relay on other for income.
Olivia Saltmarsh
Our film will be geared more to the male demographic as I found from my audience research that thriller films usually appeal more to the male market. As our film is a 15 its left it very open to most of the population to be able to see it. It's not much of a worry that we lose people under the age of 15 because we found through our research that people under the age of 15 are more likely to watch a comedy or rom-com.
Alfred Hitchcock is one of the most influential psychological thriller directors of our time and his film's are inspiration for ours, his films Psycho and the Birds are bother certified 15 so I'm confident our certificate and target audience are correct.
Our film is likely to appeal to the social demographic C1, C2, D and E. This is because people of demographic group A and B are more likely to want to watch something more educated and possibly policital. The top layer of this film could be associated with the hypodermic needle theory but members of the demographic group C1 or E may be able to find the under layers and find the uses and gratifications of the film. Our film is going to be certified as a 15 so it will have to mainly appeal to demographic group E. most teenagers are automatically in demographic group E because most of the time they are students and even if they do have a part time job they will still mainly relay on other for income.
Olivia Saltmarsh
Thursday 12 April 2012
Filming day two
Our second filming day was on the 25th of March. We had learnt from our mistakes of our first filming day and made sure we were completely organised and ready to film. Before we went to our location to film we made a definitive plan of what we were going to film when and how we were doing our titles. It was decided that it would be best to film as much of it as we could in chronological order. We acknowledged the fact that this could take us longer to film but due to our problems before we thought it was important to make sure our titles are in the right order.
We chose to do it on the 25th because it was the start of daylight savings time. This meant we had an extra hour of light which we needed because we quickly ran out of light on our last filming day. It also meant our lighting would be more continuous because we wouldn't have to increase the amount of artificial lighting we used as the natural lighting faded. We also wanted to use as much natural lighting as we could to give the film more realism which is a convention of independent film.
We understood how to use our equipment better in this filming session. we used the tripod more efficiently when filming as before we hardly used it. This wasn't much of a problem but there were sometimes wobbles when someone was filming by holding the camera. By using the tripod more and making the bulk of our film look smoother when we moved into the hand held part of it the difference would make more of an impact on the audience. Also after looking at some of the clips we filmed before we noticed that there was some background noise when we zoomed. In some clips there will be music playing over the top and the clip can be muted so we can get around that but in some clips we need the internal sound so we decided to re film those bits and physically move the camera instead of zooming to reduce the whirring.
We realised that the mise in our first set of clips was sometimes not quite right, for instance we still had some posters on the wall of our location this made our film look more armature and less organised as the mise wasn't right and some of the props didn't fit. We decided that it was really important to put this right so on our second filming day we re-evaluated the mise of the room and changed some things around to improve this.
We have one or two scenes left to film after this session. On of them is on a different location and is to be filmed outside, we have considered the health and safety aspect of filming outside near a road so have decided to film during the day on a street we know will be quiet. A good thing about doing it during the day is that all of our actors and our crew will be in the same place all day which gives us scope as to when we are planning on filming. We are also considering re filming a few scenes to improve the look and continuity of them.
Olivia Saltmarsh
We chose to do it on the 25th because it was the start of daylight savings time. This meant we had an extra hour of light which we needed because we quickly ran out of light on our last filming day. It also meant our lighting would be more continuous because we wouldn't have to increase the amount of artificial lighting we used as the natural lighting faded. We also wanted to use as much natural lighting as we could to give the film more realism which is a convention of independent film.
We understood how to use our equipment better in this filming session. we used the tripod more efficiently when filming as before we hardly used it. This wasn't much of a problem but there were sometimes wobbles when someone was filming by holding the camera. By using the tripod more and making the bulk of our film look smoother when we moved into the hand held part of it the difference would make more of an impact on the audience. Also after looking at some of the clips we filmed before we noticed that there was some background noise when we zoomed. In some clips there will be music playing over the top and the clip can be muted so we can get around that but in some clips we need the internal sound so we decided to re film those bits and physically move the camera instead of zooming to reduce the whirring.
We realised that the mise in our first set of clips was sometimes not quite right, for instance we still had some posters on the wall of our location this made our film look more armature and less organised as the mise wasn't right and some of the props didn't fit. We decided that it was really important to put this right so on our second filming day we re-evaluated the mise of the room and changed some things around to improve this.
We have one or two scenes left to film after this session. On of them is on a different location and is to be filmed outside, we have considered the health and safety aspect of filming outside near a road so have decided to film during the day on a street we know will be quiet. A good thing about doing it during the day is that all of our actors and our crew will be in the same place all day which gives us scope as to when we are planning on filming. We are also considering re filming a few scenes to improve the look and continuity of them.
Olivia Saltmarsh
Wednesday 11 April 2012
Filming Day One
Our first day of filming was a learning curve. We had to stop off at someones house to get costumes, wasting time and light. This has shown us that we should have the desired costumes at hand, and have over come this by keeping the costumes at our location.
We have decided to integrate our film titles into our film. This means that we need to be more organised a know exactly what title we want in what shot and how we are going to integrate it. However, we were not prepared for this and did not have all of our titles premade. We also did not film in chronological order, making it difficult to judge where the titles should be. This has shown us that we should have all of our titles ready when we are going to film. We are also going to film in chronological order to ensure that we have the titles in the correct places.
Lighting was another issue we encountered. As filming went on, we lost the continuity of light. As a result, we tried shading various lights however the continuity did not improve and we shall re film certain shots to gain this continuity. As the clocks go forwards, we will have more natural light and therefore more time to film.
Becky Rose
We have decided to integrate our film titles into our film. This means that we need to be more organised a know exactly what title we want in what shot and how we are going to integrate it. However, we were not prepared for this and did not have all of our titles premade. We also did not film in chronological order, making it difficult to judge where the titles should be. This has shown us that we should have all of our titles ready when we are going to film. We are also going to film in chronological order to ensure that we have the titles in the correct places.
Lighting was another issue we encountered. As filming went on, we lost the continuity of light. As a result, we tried shading various lights however the continuity did not improve and we shall re film certain shots to gain this continuity. As the clocks go forwards, we will have more natural light and therefore more time to film.
Becky Rose
Tuesday 10 April 2012
Film Schedule Sunday 25th March
We decided to film on Wednesday 21st March from 4.00 till 7.00 pm, we filmed quite a few scenes but due to natural light and some organisation problems we have decided to re-film some of the footage to improve each shot.
We are Filming again on Sunday 25th March and to combat the problems that occurred on Wednesday we have decided to organise and plan this film more, we Have created a film schedule in order to have every ready and film quickly without wasting time deciding what to do, we have planned the order in which tasks will be carried out in order to take full advantage of the natural light.
Sunday 25th March will also be a good day to film as the clocks go forward an hour on midnight on Saturday 24th giving us an extra hour of natural light to take advantage of when filming
We are Filming again on Sunday 25th March and to combat the problems that occurred on Wednesday we have decided to organise and plan this film more, we Have created a film schedule in order to have every ready and film quickly without wasting time deciding what to do, we have planned the order in which tasks will be carried out in order to take full advantage of the natural light.
Sunday 25th March will also be a good day to film as the clocks go forward an hour on midnight on Saturday 24th giving us an extra hour of natural light to take advantage of when filming
Schedule
- 4.00pm - Filming starts and everyone is going to travel to the film destination where the equipment will already be set up to save time when filming.
- Re-film - We will start off by re-filming the first set of titles we have integrated into our film, this includes the main actors' and actress' names and the title of our film, we filmed these on Wednesday although we are not sure of the quality of the footage produced and whether we will be using it, we have decided to re-film so that we have a variety of footage to choose from and cut together for optimum quality in our final used footage.
- We then decided to film the shots in chronological order as we are integrating our title and this will stop us from getting confused about the placement of our titles.
- First Morning Routine - we are shooting our first morning routine in order again so that we can take advantage of the lighting in order to improve from Wednesday's filming, this will include: The awakening scene, Shower scene, The Pills scene, Harry getting dressed and having breakfast.
- We will then film both the Monologues for Harry videoing himself as this is the only real use of dialogue in the entire opening and it will be easier for us to film these both together as the lighting will be the same for each and we will be using the same equipment just having our main character changing costume.
- lastly we will (judging on natural light) film one of our last scenes in which our main character charges out of his house with a handheld camera, we will use a match on action shot in order to professionally complete this scene and to complete this we may use two cameras so that both pieces of footage will fit together well.
Robert Thurgood Phillips
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