Thursday, 29 January 2009
Day1 - Recording Our News Reporter Speech
In Mary's lesson, we prepared and gave Mickey our 'breaking news' speech to record. We told him the narrative of the story in advance, so he could think about the pace and accent of his voice. In the film, this recording will be played during Susan's nightmares of killing a girl. We planned to receive this next lesson on CD. Whilst this was being processed, our group planned our storyboard and production schedule. This helped no time being waste in the making of out thriller.
Pitching Our Thriller
In Dan's lesson me and my group brainstormed ideas on our thriller. We came up of a script about a possessed girl that finds out she is the killer of Susan's death.
As a group, we pitched our ideas to our teachers, as you would to a film producer. They thought it was successful which meant we could begin our thorough plan. My group and I discussed that in next lesson we will ask Dan or Mickey to be our news reporter. Their role is to voice record the 'breaking news' speech we prepared in class.
As a group, we pitched our ideas to our teachers, as you would to a film producer. They thought it was successful which meant we could begin our thorough plan. My group and I discussed that in next lesson we will ask Dan or Mickey to be our news reporter. Their role is to voice record the 'breaking news' speech we prepared in class.
Editing Our Match Cut
In Mary's lesson, we continued and finished editing our match cut clip which is shown on the other post. The mise en scene of the diegetic sound showed the theme of the clip is more of a 'gangsta' thriller based on the count of beats. The narrative also help create this as the meeting between the two are serious and very private. Although comparing to our previous film making, I prefer the other one. This reason is because, i believe the overall use of edit wasn't enough and could have been better. However all experiences count.
Filming our Match Cut
In Dan's lesson, my group filmed our match cut on the corridor noticing the establishing shot of London. We followed out storyboard which was beneficial as no time was wasted. All had gone according to plan as usual. The only prop we used was a pen and paper to help show the narrative of the clip. These props illustrated the meeting being based on confidentiality.
Monday, 26 January 2009
Making a Pitch of Our Final Thriller Idea
In this lesson we were to present our final ideas for our thriller opening. Our first idea for the thriller opening was about a psychotic man who kidnaps and kills children. We were then told by Dan and Mickey that this idea had been used many times before and examiners prefer films that does not include children getting harassed or abused or paedophilia.
From help by Dan and Mickey, we decided that our thriller should be about a possessed girl. The synopsis of the thriller is 'A possessed girl who has a dream of someones murder. She does not know who committed the murder but awakes to find herself in her casual clothes, not in her night dress. As she is woken up by the morning breaking news on her radio, she finds blood on her hands.'
After presenting our idea to Dan, Mikey, Mareesa and the class, we recieved their approval to start filming. Everyone got the teachers approval to film their thrillers. We then finished by planning what we will be doing every media lesson starting from next lesson. In our next lesson we will get Dan to read the script we have written. Dan will be our news reader.
From help by Dan and Mickey, we decided that our thriller should be about a possessed girl. The synopsis of the thriller is 'A possessed girl who has a dream of someones murder. She does not know who committed the murder but awakes to find herself in her casual clothes, not in her night dress. As she is woken up by the morning breaking news on her radio, she finds blood on her hands.'
After presenting our idea to Dan, Mikey, Mareesa and the class, we recieved their approval to start filming. Everyone got the teachers approval to film their thrillers. We then finished by planning what we will be doing every media lesson starting from next lesson. In our next lesson we will get Dan to read the script we have written. Dan will be our news reader.
Filming Our Match Cut
This lesson started off straight away with filming, as we planned the shots in the previous lesson. Susan and Elelta were acting as the two characters while me and Lipi were directing and filming.
We decided to film in the canteen as we had planned that the setting where both characters meet would've been the canteen. Due to not having a door, which was our first shot of Susan entering, high angle shot from the corner as Susan entered This was not possible without a door, we then went back upstairs and shot the scene in the end of the corridor. The props used was a table, two chairs, a door and a contract paper and pen. This setting was perfect as we were able to get an establishing shot of London through the wide window.
We were told to use 180° shot, match cut shot and reverse shot. Our first shot was a high angle shot of Susan's feet then an over the shoulder shot from Elelta's shoulder while Susan takes her seat opposite Elelta. Here we use our first match cut shot. We then got a close up of Susan's face which then went into a mid shot of both Susan and Elelta. This shot also is an establishing shot as we see an outline of London. The reason we chose to get a couple of shots of Susan was because she is the main character with much more power. The next shot was a close up of Susan which went into an extreme close up of Susan's eyes. We then got a close up shot of Elelta following into an extreme shot of Elelta's eyes. Here we make use of 180° shot as the camera follows from Susan to Elelta.
To keep the scene flowing we then had a mid shot of both characters. Here Elelta passes contract papers to Susan to sign. As Elelta passes the papers, we took a mid shot from an angle of Susan's side. Elelta says her dialogue here 'Here's your contract sign it'. This dialogue was written this way as both the characters have met for pure business, nothing else. The scene followed with a mid shot of Susan taking the papers, then a close up of Susan signing the papers. The scene continues with an over the shoulder shot from a high angle from Susan's side. In this shot as Susan returns the papers to Elelta with force Susan shares her dialogue 'You'll get your money when the job's done'. This dialogue was written for Susan to say with force as she is the character with power. The Scene follows with a mid shot, over the shoulder from Elelta of Susan standing up ready to leave. We then include a match cut shot of Susan from Elelta's side, as Susan pushes in her chair we take a shot of her continuing to push her chair in and leaves from the set, off the camera.
We decided to film in the canteen as we had planned that the setting where both characters meet would've been the canteen. Due to not having a door, which was our first shot of Susan entering, high angle shot from the corner as Susan entered This was not possible without a door, we then went back upstairs and shot the scene in the end of the corridor. The props used was a table, two chairs, a door and a contract paper and pen. This setting was perfect as we were able to get an establishing shot of London through the wide window.
We were told to use 180° shot, match cut shot and reverse shot. Our first shot was a high angle shot of Susan's feet then an over the shoulder shot from Elelta's shoulder while Susan takes her seat opposite Elelta. Here we use our first match cut shot. We then got a close up of Susan's face which then went into a mid shot of both Susan and Elelta. This shot also is an establishing shot as we see an outline of London. The reason we chose to get a couple of shots of Susan was because she is the main character with much more power. The next shot was a close up of Susan which went into an extreme close up of Susan's eyes. We then got a close up shot of Elelta following into an extreme shot of Elelta's eyes. Here we make use of 180° shot as the camera follows from Susan to Elelta.
To keep the scene flowing we then had a mid shot of both characters. Here Elelta passes contract papers to Susan to sign. As Elelta passes the papers, we took a mid shot from an angle of Susan's side. Elelta says her dialogue here 'Here's your contract sign it'. This dialogue was written this way as both the characters have met for pure business, nothing else. The scene followed with a mid shot of Susan taking the papers, then a close up of Susan signing the papers. The scene continues with an over the shoulder shot from a high angle from Susan's side. In this shot as Susan returns the papers to Elelta with force Susan shares her dialogue 'You'll get your money when the job's done'. This dialogue was written for Susan to say with force as she is the character with power. The Scene follows with a mid shot, over the shoulder from Elelta of Susan standing up ready to leave. We then include a match cut shot of Susan from Elelta's side, as Susan pushes in her chair we take a shot of her continuing to push her chair in and leaves from the set, off the camera.
Match Cut Introduction and Plan
In this lesson we were introduced to match cuts. As Mary, our teacher was not in, the lesson was taken over by the media technicians Mickey and Mareesa. We were given a task which included a scenario and we were to then write shots for example, camera angles, length of each shot and dialogues. The synopsis was 'Eastlondon, 3pm. A man chain smokes as he sits at his home PC. He copies confidential computer files and plans to a CD. He packages them and is seen posting them.' After planning 20 shots, we were put into our group. We then planned our own version and how we were to shoot the given scenario.
After planning our own shots Mickey had shown the class the video he had made from the given scenario. We were to compare our storyboard of the scenario with Mickeys video. There were only a few similarities such as over the shoulder shots and match cuts in a certain shot along with long shots.
Our next task was to plan with our group our own match cut clip. We had decided that there would be two characters, Susan and Elelta. The synopsis was 'A character opens a door, walks into a room, sits down opposite another character and they share a few lines of dialogue'.
We then planned with our group what our clip was to include and who would say what. We were finally ready to film for next lesson!
After planning our own shots Mickey had shown the class the video he had made from the given scenario. We were to compare our storyboard of the scenario with Mickeys video. There were only a few similarities such as over the shoulder shots and match cuts in a certain shot along with long shots.
Our next task was to plan with our group our own match cut clip. We had decided that there would be two characters, Susan and Elelta. The synopsis was 'A character opens a door, walks into a room, sits down opposite another character and they share a few lines of dialogue'.
We then planned with our group what our clip was to include and who would say what. We were finally ready to film for next lesson!
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