Good use of angles sloppy panning good use of close up
Mise-en-scene
good when she changes clothes guy was well dressed and mysterious not noticeable that she fell into a new world good use of setting and shots good costumes
Editing good panning mental people? very good editing liked double vision
Sound
Trippy soundtrack good use of dreany voice filter nice use of Diagetic sound (birds) little bit linear (only piano tunes)
we have completed a second rough draft of our film, we also have agreed that there are still several improvements to be made before the final cut. We added a piece of footage to replace one of the less refined shots at the beginning and it now looks much better. We are currently working towards our final cut for the deadline.
Unfortunately, due to weather circumstances, we have missed a weeks worth of lessons, due to the college being closed,and students not being able to get to college. to catch up, we will work on editing for our final cut, and blog and everything else at the same time.
The sound is a bit rough at the moment but for the final cut we will voice over most of the piece. The music works particularly well in this extract. We also wanted to add some more establishing shots and exchange one of them as it's a bit shaky. Some of the piece may have more effects added in, mainly to the audio.
the rough cut is nearly finished, we are just checking it through to see where we can add the new clips that Tim got, at the moment we are converting the new clips
Today's filming was successful, We finished all the shots but unfortunately there was one shot where two of the characters shake hands in which there were some continuity errors such as slight background problems, we may have to cut one of the shots in order for it too look right. However the rest of the filming was fine. I doubt the final film will look as good as it was planned, but this is what we have for now. Any sound will have to be added as a voice over, it will help add surreality to the scene if the male voice over is distorted.
We were able to successfully use our locations, and all of our group showed up, the timing of some members of the group was bad, but this was due to finding the location.
We may have animal noises in the background due to location, but we are going to use external sounds and mute the sounds from the clip.
We have sorted out our schedule for this sunday. Our filming will take place on sunday and we will be using a location of Tim's, Most of today has been spent figuring out how to get to there and when. We will be needing actors from outside the class, Lloyd has been in charge of them but if they can't make it Vonnie will attempt to find someone, and if that fails Tim can get someone from his village.
Vonnie has some elements of clothes that will work with anybody so costumes is sorted and Tim has a top hat and waistcoat for the male character. Because the lighting may change we may have some lighting equipment to help. Because Vonnie is the camera person it's her job to bring it on sunday.
1. Black Screen -hear a girl humming a tune title appears 2. close up girl- humming tune profile image of girls face 3. Wide shot slow pan- trees, wind rustling, girl humming 4. Medium shot over shoulder- girl humming, view from behind 5. wide shot- park rides move slowly creaking slightly 6. long shot- hows girl sitting on roof, looks cold, uncaring still humming 7.close up of girls eyes- girl blinks several times 8. POV of girl- shows edge of roof, music starts 9. close up of girls eyes- last blink is distorted, camera moves quickly 10. Long POV shot- man appears at roof edge 11. close up profile shot- expression unchanged, long lasting shot 12. close up of man panning- man smiles, hat covers right eye 13. close up of man -he speaks and face is a bit more visible 14. close up slow pan- girls expression blank but seemingly confused, man speaks 15. Long shot, slow pan- music quiet but gets louder, man speaks 16. close up of girl- she looks away sad, nearly nodding 17. Medium shot, long of man- excited, he speaks, energetic 18. medium shot of man- voice becomes distorted 19. close up of mans hand- quick shot 20.close up of girl- stares at hand for while than gets up 21. close up- hand reaches for his, camera cuts before they touch 22. medium long shot- man disappears, girl moves hand back confused, music loud 23. close up of girls feet- she walks to edge of roof 24. high angle from ground- she looks down 25. long shot from side- as above 26. high angle POV- showing ground 27. close up of feet- jumps 28. extreme face close up- falls 29. close up of girl hitting ground safely- (costume/location change) 30. V. long shot of girl- girl confused looks round
we intend to book the camera for the following dates: 22/01/09 - 25/01/09 Rough cut deadline: Thursday 29th January Final cut deadline: Thursday 5th of February
For our mood board we used images that were dark and some that were strange and surreal. There are some pictures of the northern lights as they are a naturally strange occurance. Most of the pictures are characters reminiscent of the mad hatter, as this is a character similar to a character in our film idea, there is a significance of the hat in the film so there were quite a few hats. The girl on the roof is similar to a shot that could be done in a part of the film. There were also some shots from Donnie darko and pans labyrinth (inspirations for the film) and quite a few evil looking women from other films.
The music is slow and meant to be creepy to fit the mood of the film and images.
Journey through the depths of a mysterious wonderland as Olivia struggles with her understanding of reality. Following Black, a strange man with an interesting hat, Olivia's concept of what is real and what isn't unravels as the line between imagination and reality becomes thinner.
- A short pitch for the film, exposing as little of the film as possible but still leaving it interesting enough for people to want to see it.
Possible taglines for the film: What is real? The line between worlds is breaking Do you know what is here? Do you know what is real? Where is reality? Dreams can come true
Possible names: Crack in the line Dream hole Crack in the light Final dreams Last dreams Rabbit Break in the line
Initial ideas: The story starts with a young girl with apparent mental health problems. The girl follows a man she thinks she sees in her mind and starts to retreat into this fantasy world more and more, however as the film goes on the line between fantasy and reality becomes thinner until it becomes obvious that there was never fantasy only reality. Because of this the girl turns more insane and ends with her in a prison imagining her family in a normal setting as it once was. The film is focusing on fantasy and reality and how people can never understand what is real and what isn't. The scene that we could do would be the beginning which shows the first switches between reality and fantasy when she goes to wonderland or possibly the end where she is sitting in a prison alone.
The main character: Young and female, between 15 and 20. She lives in an ordinary home. A male character refers to her as 'rabbit'
Inspirations: Donnie Darko - Surreal events Pans labyrinth - strong influence Alice in wonderland - white rabbit type figure, wonderland Kubla khan (poem) - poem that doesn't make sense, creepy
In this group of 4 we have, Adam, Lloyd, Vonnie and Tim each of us have a separate role, these are:
Lloyd- Editor
Adam- Sound Executive
Vonnie- Camera Work and Visual Arts
Tim- Director
Lloyd: I want to bring the knowledge that I have picked up over the years, using Final Cut and other programs to this project and also the skills I have used in past projects
Adam: As sound executive, I intend to bring my unique taste in music to this project, I also believe that music is one of the most important features of the film, and hence listen closely to music in films, with this I should be able to look at the film we made and create a piece that fits the scene.
