Storyboard Draft 2
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Friday, December 9, 2011
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Preliminary Task - Our Idea
The Deep Dive
To keep in line with the criteria we wanted to film outside of the school, yet still including a room. My first idea was to film at the cafe overlooking the lake at ferry meadows, but another idea was generated which seemed much better. This included filming in a library instead of a cafe, this way it helps bring out drama between the characters, with the aim to make the audience feel tense.
In terms of content, the characters are two agents of law, whom are arguing over who killed a third. Accusations and violent conflict occur during the scene whilst and on the journey to seating themselves at a table. At the end of the film, the third character will appear alive, however not recognising them. After the visual appearance of this character on screen, no dialogue from the other characters will be said, to help emphasize the mystery of who this character is. This will help leave a lingering question on the audience's minds after the film has finished.
Transforming words into actions
To get started we knew that we wanted to film offsite, as that would be more adventurous and better suited to our storyline. So we knew that we would need to contact and arrange with an external company, which meant more effort and paperwork; but we felt so strong about taking a further leap that we agreed we could handle and distribute the work evenly to complete it.
Location wise, we decided to go big and contact Peterborough Central Library. Taking on a more producer role, I was in charge of contacting the soon to be contact, Frank Murphy. After a recce at the weekend, we left my details for someone to contact me, however they did not. So later on the next week, I rang up with intent to speak to a supervisor to try and organise this for the team. I was put in touch with Mr. Murphy.
He was very active towards the filming and was very proactive in helping us with our project, despite having to call up and reschedule many times due to other issues.
Actress wise, being part of a drama group outside of school I told Ryan and Beatrice that I would be happy to ask them about a possible feature in our film. After speaking with them, they seemed more than happy to do so, however, only two at the time could make the shoot. Beatrice also new a drama student from a different college so she contacted her, and we were then set with actresses and a location.
To keep in line with the criteria we wanted to film outside of the school, yet still including a room. My first idea was to film at the cafe overlooking the lake at ferry meadows, but another idea was generated which seemed much better. This included filming in a library instead of a cafe, this way it helps bring out drama between the characters, with the aim to make the audience feel tense.
In terms of content, the characters are two agents of law, whom are arguing over who killed a third. Accusations and violent conflict occur during the scene whilst and on the journey to seating themselves at a table. At the end of the film, the third character will appear alive, however not recognising them. After the visual appearance of this character on screen, no dialogue from the other characters will be said, to help emphasize the mystery of who this character is. This will help leave a lingering question on the audience's minds after the film has finished.
Transforming words into actions
To get started we knew that we wanted to film offsite, as that would be more adventurous and better suited to our storyline. So we knew that we would need to contact and arrange with an external company, which meant more effort and paperwork; but we felt so strong about taking a further leap that we agreed we could handle and distribute the work evenly to complete it.
Location wise, we decided to go big and contact Peterborough Central Library. Taking on a more producer role, I was in charge of contacting the soon to be contact, Frank Murphy. After a recce at the weekend, we left my details for someone to contact me, however they did not. So later on the next week, I rang up with intent to speak to a supervisor to try and organise this for the team. I was put in touch with Mr. Murphy.
He was very active towards the filming and was very proactive in helping us with our project, despite having to call up and reschedule many times due to other issues.
Actress wise, being part of a drama group outside of school I told Ryan and Beatrice that I would be happy to ask them about a possible feature in our film. After speaking with them, they seemed more than happy to do so, however, only two at the time could make the shoot. Beatrice also new a drama student from a different college so she contacted her, and we were then set with actresses and a location.
Preliminary Task - Technicalities
Criteria, The Film
Content wise, the final sequence needs to include a scene in which at least two characters enter a room through a door, cross the room to sit at opposing chairs, to then exchange a few lines of dialogue.
Criteria, Advertisement
Alongside the short movie, an accompanying advertising poster has to be made, to the size of A3, preferably made on Adobe's Photoshop.
Criteria, Evaluation
Finally, at the end of the task we have to record a podcast of ourselves talking about our project, answering a few set questions on how the preliminary assignment went.
Roles within the Team
Director - Beatrice Brown
Camera Operator - Ryan Denney
Editor - Alexander Mulley
Deadlines
Pre-Production - Present Day to November 18th
Production Window - 19th November to 26th November
Post Production - 27th November to 12th December
Presentation Day - 15th December
What do I want to learn?
Over the course of the coming lessons I would like to learn how to use a camera effectively, and what shots are used in the professional world and how to use them, This includes how to mount a camera correctly onto the tripod and how to use that then to generate good shots.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Preliminary Task - Team
The Team
During our first session, we started to discuss initial ideas for our preliminary task, and how we can distribute the roles of the task equally within the team. The roles were set to be Beatrice as director, Ryan as camera operator and myself as the editor.
We then moved on to thinking about possible plot and story lines for the production, and how to make it interesting and captivating for the audience.
Concluding the session we said that for the next time we'd meet we'd all bring further ideas for the film.
Research - Director
Directing?
A director forms the composition of the film, controlling the dramatic and artistic effects, guiding the actors and crew making sure they produce a final sequence that is similar to the original vision. So being in control and telling people what to do, or how to do it, is part of the role, but that's how people typically perceive them, but their tasks involve much more.
The director's role isnt' just limited to the time frame of filming, they are also heavily involved with pre-production and especially post-production, because the creative vision doesn't just end on set. During editing and digitally composing the film, the director's input is needed to show how colours, warmth or frigidity should be used; which shots shot be used; and sometimes he/she is present when sound and music is being produced to customize and adapt it to the needs of the film's concept / director's vision.
There are many skills a director must have, including patience, the ability to filter and use loads of information at once, and maybe one of the trickiest, working and directing actors. Below features a video of a novelist specialising in directing, talking about how to direct actors.
Below features the video "Directing Actors with Judith Weston"
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