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.

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.

Production Plan

Font notes

In Leanne's lesson we began talking about font types and a class analysis of a few title sequences.

Catch Me If You Can
-Smooth
-Flowy
-Sense of constant movement (characters are constantly moving/running away)
-2 fonts represent two different characters
San serif font - outlaw, the font is changing and moving
serif font - official, government, western? FBI Agent
-clear fonts, easy to read
-Saul Bass esque (lines and colour)

Lord of War
-White font - dark background
-Small, centered
-Bullet - dehumanises - not attached to characters
-San serif font
-Soviet writing - Russian, cold war, warish
-military cap letters (serious, no humour, unemotional)
-printed in metal
-Actors names - centered, lesser actors and crew to side
-roles - simplier - rounded, constrast

Forrest Gump
-Serif font
-plain, long (stretched)
-white - purity
-older- more traditional font/film
-newsprint
-slow paced, soft and steady, gentle
-fades in, soft and gentle
-large font, centered