Today we began to plan our preliminary film task.
The genre that we got for this task was action.
In the group we have decided to use all of us as actors and we will be the three main actors throughout the film, we thought this was a good idea because we wouldn't have to rely on anybody else, and it also means that we could get our task done quicker.
Because our genre is action, we decided to base our film on a school girl who has a precious necklace from her Grandmother and she thinks this is the only reason it is special, however one of the teachers at the school wants the necklace for another reason. The teacher hires a hit man to get the necklace for her (this is the main part of action in the film) and his way of getting into the school is by pretending to be a delivery man. After waiting for the right time, the hit man took his chance to get the necklace off of the innocent girl, to do this he had to tackle her as the girl seemed to have a few fighting skills that she threw at him, when he got the necklace off of the girl he left her laying on the floor and gave his boss a call to let her know he'd done what she asked, he then ran off with the necklace to give to her.
Project Diary
Day 1:
Today we picked the genre of our film out of a hat and we got Action. We then had to think of an idea of what our film is going to be about and once we'd done this we created our storyboard for our preliminary task. By doing a storyboard it made sure that we were prepared and planned for our filming task.
The genre that we got for this task was action.
In the group we have decided to use all of us as actors and we will be the three main actors throughout the film, we thought this was a good idea because we wouldn't have to rely on anybody else, and it also means that we could get our task done quicker.
Because our genre is action, we decided to base our film on a school girl who has a precious necklace from her Grandmother and she thinks this is the only reason it is special, however one of the teachers at the school wants the necklace for another reason. The teacher hires a hit man to get the necklace for her (this is the main part of action in the film) and his way of getting into the school is by pretending to be a delivery man. After waiting for the right time, the hit man took his chance to get the necklace off of the innocent girl, to do this he had to tackle her as the girl seemed to have a few fighting skills that she threw at him, when he got the necklace off of the girl he left her laying on the floor and gave his boss a call to let her know he'd done what she asked, he then ran off with the necklace to give to her.
Project Diary
Day 1:
Today we picked the genre of our film out of a hat and we got Action. We then had to think of an idea of what our film is going to be about and once we'd done this we created our storyboard for our preliminary task. By doing a storyboard it made sure that we were prepared and planned for our filming task.
Day 2:
On our second day of our preliminary task we began to film. As a group we decided to do all of our filming around our school's grounds which we believed would make it much easier for us to film and also save us a lot of time. We decided to film our first few shots outside the front of the school and also in the dining area and the toilets. We all had a go at filming on this day because we all had to be in a scene at one point.
Day 3:
Today was the third day of our prelim task, we still had a few more shots to film and we decided to film these down link corridor and also down a staircase. We had to make sure that we included all of the main type of shots that we needed, for example on this day of filming we managed to film a tracking shot of Pip walking along the lockers in the corridor and the camera was following her.
Day 4:
Today, Renae was the main camera woman because she didn't need to be in any of the scenes whereas Pip and Ant did. Today we had to re-film one scene a couple of times because at the start we couldn't get the timing right.
Day 5:
Today was the fourth day of our prelim task and we've managed to get all of our filming done and we only have editing to do. We decided to do our editing as a group as we felt that this would ensure that we all had the same footage and also it meant that we could include all of our editing skills instead of only one person's. However, this also means that we can only do something once we have all agreed on it.
Day 6:
Today we had more editing to do, and to make our prelim better we have to add music in to make it more suspicious, however we're struggling to all decide on one track that we like. We know that we need something like James Bond to create suspense but we can't seem to find one like this at the moment. For the first scene we have chosen to use the song: Writing on the wall by Sam Smith, we think this goes with the first scene because it is a simple and innocent song which is like the girl in the first scene however it has a hidden message which again is like the girl because her necklace is her hidden message. We then decided on the Avenger's theme tune for the start of the action part in our film as it builds up the suspense for the audience.
Day 7:
Today we are finishing off our editing for our preliminary task, we have mainly finished all of our editing such as putting our effects and transitions in, and now we just have to decide on a few more music tracks to ad din to fit with our genre and the image that we are trying to show. We decided against the Sam Smith song as we feel it doesn't mix well with the other songs we have chosen this is because it is a lot softer and therefore doesn't really mix well with our genre. We've decided to use an action instrumental for the middle scenes to make sure that the audience isn't bored when watching the scenes that don't have any dialogue in, it also creates suspense when leading up to the main part in the film.
Day 8:
Today is our final day of editing our preliminary task, we have used a few different music tracks: we used 'the sound of war' in our opening scene, we used this track because it sounds enticing and gets the audience interested right at the start. For the second shots we used the song 'sucker for pain' this is because there's some rapping in the song which shows his rebellious side. We then used 'suspenseful background music' this was to again create suspense for the audience. The next track that we used was 'avengers', we used this track because it relates to our genre of action. The last tack that we used was the 'suspenseful background music' again, this was to show that the hit man has got away with his actions. We have also added in a phone ringing audio to make sure that the audience understand exactly what is going on. We also added a voice over in to help the audience to know what is going on.