6th Draft - Final Piece

 As a group, we decided that our film may be hard to realise the genre of the piece. We decided to make the ending more horror related by showing another clip on Facebook of another attack but more horrific. We decided to adhere to the typical conventions of a horror by using low key lighting, weapons, fake blood, connotations of death and handheld camera work.

5th Draft - Final Piece

This is our 5th draft. We have included more zombie connotations and changed the titles to more facebook related ones. In this version some of the clips have been moved around.

Feedback from 4th Draft

This is the feedback we got from our screening in one of our lessons. 

Although I wanted the title sequence to contain no zombies (as it confuses the audience and makes the audience continue watching), that seems to be what everyone complained about and wanted us to improve. We filmed some more screen captures of more zombie related things and will edit that in today. 

Confusingly, the class complained about the music while others liked it. 

I do like the idea of the title names being facebook related, so I have filmed something to create that. 

It was suggested that the title didn't work and to perhaps use; 'Facebook Feed' instead. 

There is a really short time to complete all this work in time for the deadline AND finish the evaluation. 

My priority is to edit in the new bits to the title sequence

4th Draft

For this piece I made the shots a little crisper and added the titles for our title sequence.

I also made the decision to have the title of the film at the end of the sequence to intrigue the audience; also so they won't notice the zombie connotations within the title sequence.

3rd Draft

This is the 3rd draft of our title sequence. I have edited everything so it's in order and used better software (hypercam) for screen recordings. I tried using foley sound for typing and clicking of the computer but it can't really be heard due to the soundtrack.

To continue, we need to create the credits and then edit them in. Also, I would like to make the cuts of the shots a little bit crisper.

2nd Draft

This is our second draft. We found that the screen was blurred and jittery, and you couldn't see what was being typed. We played around with the scale on Final Cut Pro and followed some youtube tutorials, but was unable to make it work.

To continue, I think we should refilm at home on a software called Hypercam where you can crop and select what bit to film, doing this will hopefully keep everything within the frame clear (and hopefully HD).

If I refilm tonight, that means I can upload on thursday during free periods (as I have an exam tomorrow) and hopefully get a draft then.

Feedback from first draft

On Monday Terry and Aiden helped me to reshoot the blurry/ out of focus/ too dark frames for our title sequence.

I wasn't in on Tuesday for a double period lesson. The boys presented our first draft to Shaun and this is what I was told by the boys what the feedback was:

Need to:

• Add more images to the series of photos that contain girls or suggest that the protagonists are heterosexual 
• Screengrab filming on the macs
• Remove repeated photos 
• Equalize the amount of photos per protagonist 

Research

This is some more research into sound. We were worried that our original song would sound too 'Pop'ish.







Jump scare noises for our titles of 'A Zombie Movie'

A Zombie Movie Draft

This is the first draft of our title sequence. I think the opening the laptop parts need to be reshot as some of them are too dark or out of focus. I had some feedback from Lucy who suggested that we could film the title sequence actually on the computer, so it would look cleaner, professional and of a better quality. We also need to add a video that Terry has on his phone to upload.

Update: Over the Holidays

Over the holidays we had completed the taking photos and videos for the facebook profiles for our protagonists and uploaded them. We also filmed our title sequence clips (such as opening the laptop and the viewing of the photos and videos). The only troubles we had were the uploading (my upload speed at home isn't too great, and therefore that took longer than it should have done) and when other members in the group were unable to film on certain days due to other plans.

Now we need to:

• Convert all the clips on mpeg streamclip to dv
• start the editing process (first draft finished by 4th March)

• Sort out the sound (sort out the soundtrack and film foley sound)  

In one of our clips, there is footage of a zombie that the protagonists don't notice in the background, this is a photo to document what our zombie looked like, we decided not to be as detailed as the make up tutorial previously showed due to the fact that the video would be filmed on a phone and not on the zombie all the time as it was to be un-noticed. 

Sound

This is the first draft of our soundtrack, we decided to make the sound sound a little muted. It sounded fine on final cut pro but has distorted a little bit when uploaded to youtube, which we will have to correct.

-make foley sound (typing, mouse clicking???)



-Use this for intro titles (tall productions/ A zombie movie???)

Costumes (Plan)

This is a plan of the clothes that our protagonists would wear (of something to that effect). Throughout the shoot, our actors will wear something to this effect. 

Principal Shoot

We met up round my house at roughly 11.30 am. We then went to Bostall Woods (while it was raining).

We took a series of photographs of the locations we would take photos and videos for  our title sequence.

These are the locations we will be using for taking photographs and videos for our title sequence.

Production Plan

Fonts

Fonts

From our questionnaire, we had decided that this font was our favourite, however we had decided to play around with the font top make it more interesting. 

This is our font plain. As a group we think that this is a little plain and boring. 

I thought it would look great if there was a shadow, however as a group we decided that the light grey/white shadow makes the font look too comedic. 

Using the same shadow idea, we changed it so that there was a darker red shadow. Aiden likes this version of the font. 

As another design with the shadow idea, we changed the shadow to a dark grey. Louis likes this version. 

I am unsure as to which version I like. I think we should wait until Terry sees this (as he is absent today) and see which he prefers out of our final two. 

UPDATE: Terry came back in and decided that the one with a dark grey shadow over the red. 

Initial Storyboards

This is the second draft of our storyboards for our title sequence that we completed in Emily's class. We also spoke of preproduction plans and creating a schedule for which thing should be completed by and what we should be doing during the holidays filming wise.

 

 

 

 

 

Group Research

During one of our groups breaks and free lessons, we started to begin thinking about what sounds we would use within our title seqeunce.

These are some uncopyrighted tracks we are considering to use for the soundtrack. We are thinking about layering some of the tracks over each other, or even recording noises and making a song from that (showing the humour element in our film).




This is the sort of make up we want our zombie's to look like, maybe not as much detail like the boils and the veins, but definitely the dark eyes and emphasis on the chest.


We are thinking about use zombie screeches/cries during our title sequence. This is what we want our zombies to sound like, however we will record our own zombie noises.

 

Initial Storyboards

First Draft Story Boards: 

We started creating our story boards. This is the first draft.

 

 

 

Group Feedback

At the beginning of the lesson, we sat down with Leanne, spoke of our film idea and got feedback on what to do, also Leanne looked at our blogs and gave us feedback on how to improve our blogs.

Group Feedback:

-Research into background things (look up zombie make up, etc)

-Storyboards

Blog Feedback:

 -Add label gadget to blog
- Sort out labels on the posts
-Create a slideshare account for any future powerpoint presentions/documents 

Questionnaire

In our groups, we came up with a questionnaire to give to people about our film, this is what we got:

 

Summary:
 Overall, our audience expect for our film to be a dark comedy/horror/action. They expect to see death, violence and zombies. They expect to see zombies, killing, news footage and an introduction to the film within the title sequence. They expect to hear screams, zombie noises, gunfire and slow deep music in the title sequence. They expect to see low key / dark lighting. They think the protagonist should be aged from high teenage years to low 20 year olds. There is a 3 - 2 on the type of font the title should be (we should play around with the title more with these fonts and ask again). The audience would typically see the film late at night and at the weekend, typically children aren't around at night and this would put the audience in the mindset to be scared, getting the audience ready for the diegesis of the film. Typically, the audience expect to see a low budget.

Need to:

• Play around with the fonts 

  • Question the same audience about the titles

    • Prelim/initial storyboards for the film