Thursday 25Th

Filming And Still Shots

Today we got the camera ready to do a characters credit, this one in paticular was a bit of a struggle, the shot is, Genny looking into a mirror and the characters name is writtin on the mirror and she wipes it off, so we found a good toilet with a good mirror in which was in the D Block the upstairs disabled toilet, the mirror is very clear unlike all the other toilets mirors. The original idea was to steam up the top right hand corner of the mirror and then to write the name in with out finger and quickly get the shot, it all worked untill we tryed filming it, as I was standing directly behind Genny so you couldn't see me in the mirror I couldn't see the writing. So we then decided we'd actually have to write on the mirror, first we thought of using red lipstick to give it the horror effect, so we went around asking the girls in our class if they had any lipstick and turns out no-one in our class wears lipstick. We looked through our make-up bags and found some liquid eyeliner. We went back up to the toilets and tried it out, as it was liquid we had to apply quite alot to the brush as it left bits out, so we had to go over letters before we could flm other wise it wouldn't show up the best it could. It looked really good, and finally we could film the shot. we had to film a few takes of this shot as sophie kept making genny laugh when she was looking in the mirror, it would of been fine if the audience was only looking at the back of Genny's head but you could see her face in the mirror too, finally we got to the bit where Genny wipes the writting off with her hand to find that it had dried, so after thinking we had finished we then had to film it all again, Genny came up with the next idea of having a bit of wet tissue in her hand for when she wipes the writting off, so we tried this and it worked. I'm really happy with this credit title evan though alot had gone wrong we worked it out and made it work.

 

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Location

Friday 26th

Filming and Creating Still Shots

Today Sophie was late due to trains being cancelled then re-opening, and Genny couldn't get in at all. So while Sophie was making her way to college I done some blogs and got the camera and props ready to start filming, Finally Sophie got in and we got to work straight away, first of all we re-shot the filing cabnet title, this became difficult trying to zoom in and move the camera at the same time gracefully, we tried it several times and in the end decided to film the close up of the degree prop and the zoom/close up of the title on te top filing draw seperatly and would then later edit it in final cut. The Re-make is set in a school and we wanted to include location in the title sequence, so I think a filing cabnet is a good prop for a school setting.

We then went onto the Art Direction shot, our original idea was to have paint brushes and on one of them to have the wood carved off the end of the handle and to have the credit written in pen on the wood. But after the feedback lesson we needed to add horror to our sequence so we decided to change the shot. The first idea was to make a pool of red paint to make it look like a pool of blood on some paper and wringing the credits in the paintusing our fingers, we asked Dave for some red paint but unfortuatley he couldn't find some instead of paint he brought us red ink, so we poured some red ink onto some glossy paper and it looked really good. Sophie told me to try write the credit with my finger and the ink just went back in its place, in result to that idea the ink stained my fingernail! We then had the genious idea of taking a still picture and editing the credit text inon Photoshop. 

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Edited In Photoshop

Shot List...

Shot 4. Close-up.

Dr M flicks watch into hand and places it in shirt pocket.  DONE

Shot 5. Mid-shot.

Dr M walks out of door, actors name on back of door window. MONDAY

Shot 6. Paning Up shot.

Starts at table legs, moves up to pause on back of laptop. Back of laptop has name of actor, then continues up stops at actors face. MONDAY

Shot 7. Midshot - Zoom onto mirror.

Actress in toilets, name of actress written on mirror, zoom in to see name. DONE

Shot 8. Midshot.

College sign, which will be used for the title of production designer. 1/2 DONE

Shot 9. Close-up.

Tape measure being pulled out. Costume Designers name on it. 1/2 DONE

Shot 10. Extreme close-up.

Starts at brush, moves down to handle which has the Art Directors name. <--This has been changed to a pool of blood then edited in Photoshop. DONE

Shot 11. Close-up.

Close-up of negatives, with the Film Editors name on it. MONDAY

Shot 12. Midshot - zoom.

Midshot of class photo, then zoom into sign in photo with Casting by. DONE

Shot 13. Close-up.

Close-up of DVD case with Cinematographer name on it. MONDAY

Shot 14. Close-up - zoom.

Close-up of sheets of music, zoom into sheets to see Original music by. MONDAY/TUESDAY

Shot 15. Midshot - zoom.

Midshot of directors chair, zoom to read name. MONDAY/TUESDAY

Shot 16. Over the shoulder - zoom.

Over the shoulder of the director, zooming in to read Producers name (Warner Brothers) MONDAY/TUESDAY

Feedback

From The Class

On Monday we had a feedback lesson where each group went up to the front of the classroom and show the rest of the class what they have done so far with their opening sequence. So me and Sophie got up to show the class what we had so far, after trying to tell the class what we were planning to do we realised that the plan wouldn't work as it was very confusing. So me and Sophie had to sit down and figure everything out, we don't have much horror in the two minute sequence so we were trying to think of ideas to include some horror into it, we were trying to explain that the original of The Sorcerers didn't come across as a horror to me, there was two killings but not by the real villain, which makes the film evan more confusing, I think that the class didn't get what we trying to do as they haven't seen the film and you have to watch it to get the jist of it. We didn't get much feedback mostly questions on how we were going to do it.

Filming

Today Me, Sophie and Genny went around the college to find a location for a few certain shots. We needed to find a toilet with a mirror in it, for a shot which involved Genny writing the name of the actress we are using and wiping it off of the mirror. Our first shot was a picture of the colleges sign, which we are using as a base for our films colleges sign and we are going to use Photoshop to edit it. We also used a wall in the corridor for the background of a close up action, which involved Alexi (a student we used for the shoot) swinging a pocket watch, catching it and placing it in his top pocket. 

Animatic

For Our Re-make Of The Sorcerers

A Animatic is a video which shows all the still pictures of the shots we are going to include in our opening sequence. We made a story board of the 15 shots/titles and coloured and tidied them up abit and then took pictures of them and imported them onto the laptops, I then went onto put all the picturs into Final Cut and edited each picture to show what is actually going to happen in the opening sequence, for example if your planning on zooming into something in the picture, you use Final Cut to show this by using the Motion Key Frame, this allows you to do pretty much what you want from zooming in to panning. This is my groups Animatic of The sorcerers.

Minamilist Film Poster For

The Sorcerers

This is my minamilist film poster for our modern remake of The Sorcerers. Its very simple and pretty boring, but i didn't want to put too much detail in as i don't think it really needs it, if you know what the film is about you can figure out what the poster is. It's supossed to be a pocket watch, as in hypotism a pocket watch is usually a popular object to use especially is films.