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

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 

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. 

Update

During this lesson we went through our schedule and decided that tomorrow, we would go out and take photos for our principal shoot. Today we all updated our blogs and started to collect and create photos for the profiles of our three protagonists.

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 

Ideas

Groups were established at the beginning of the lesson.

My Group:
Louis
Aiden
Terry

Coursework Requirements: Opening titles of a new fiction film, no longer than 2 minutes.

 MARKS FOR EXAM

• Research + Planning = 20 
• Title Sequence = 60
• Evaluation = 20

DEADLINE FOR COURSEWORK - FRIDAY 21ST MARCH 2014


We then had to come up with 3 ideas for a film.


Ideas:

1. Teenagers have a huge party, all get drunk. Wake up next day, no one around completely alone, have to find out what happened.
2. Serial killer at large in town, killing all teenager boy's girlfriends, police puzzled. Need to find out who and why.
3. 3 teenage boys go out on a trip out of town, when they return their homes are empty and no one is around that isn't trying to kill them (zombies).

We then decided that the zombie apocalypse idea would be the best to make, as we would have the resources to shoot a title sequence for this film.

Our group was then sent away for the remainder of the lesson to create a pitch for our idea, using these questions as prompters: