Meet the group!

^Chessi  ^ Toby     ^Liv       ^Me

This is the group i am going to be working with for our Video. 

Production meeting 3

Production meeting 3:
We discussed a lot of things in our group because we felt it was a good time to think about the story board and make sure it is detailed and interesting enough. We came up with the characters and who would be playing who, and we also asked people to be in our video. 
Who are we going to ask to be in the video?
-Hendrik (waitor)

-Hebib (chef)

-Theo (guy)

-Matt (person that hands over eye drops)

EXTRAS:

-Owen

-Joel

-Maxim

-Claudia

-Bella

-Camilla

-Jess

-Ollie

-Faris

(we would use the extras in the restaurant, to make a busy every day setting)

We are working out what we are going to do in our video in steps. 

Here is a rough idea of the story line and the steps it is going to be in:

Step 1

Parked car, window comes down, passes poison out window , to man on bike

Step 2

Bike drives it through village up to restaurant. (back entrance of the restaurant)

Cuts to man in restaurant

Step 3

Guy gives poison to chef; chef puts it on food and gives it to waiter to serve

Step 4

Man eats food and you see from his point of view

2nd Production meeting:Decision time!

Decision Time....

Yesterday we pitched 4 of our ideas to Mat, who is a media technician and Adam, my media teacher. We told them our ideas as a group, and we decided that the “wanted poster one”, and then the “well dressed man in the restaurant” ones were the best ones to go for.

With the other ideas, we spent a long time discussing them and we decided that we should not use them because either they have been done before, or they are going to be too hard to film in a day (like the diving one) or they were a bit too cliché (like the running through the woods one.)

My group has decided that we like the man in restaurant one, were he gets poisoned. We would film it in my dad’s restaurant/pub, called The William Bray, which is only 5-10 minutes away. We would make the film very ‘slick’ and secretive.

There is going to be a man in a nice car or motorbike, who has the poison and he is smuggling it around until he gets it into the restaurant and gives it to the chef who the puts it into the food for the man. But while he is moving the poison around subtly, you don’t see what he is hiding or smuggling, you just see people being secretive and you don’t know what they are doing. This would be effective because it makes you want to watch more, and know why he is being poisoned and who has done it. 

Prelim Group 22 Toby Ellie Louise Mariella Alexandra

Tuesday 9th October: First Production Meeting

First Production Meeting

Ideas:

 

   1)Back street, like ghost town, paper being blown along the ground. Paper stops, zooms in, see it’s an article of someone missing and wanted, mans face on the article and money reward to whoever finds him. Continues being blown until it stops at feet of man looks up and see the same guy as the man in the article, he picks up the paper, crumples it up and carry’s on walking. Modernized ghost town.

2)Girl running, iPod in, zoom in on earphones being loud, man taking pictures of her running.There is a camp in forest (peaslake) or abandoned barn (cornhurst).

   While she is running cut to hands pinning up pictures with clips and sorting them out in the camp. Girl sees the camp,stops running and walks in and then sees pictures of her all clipped up on string (pictures of her life), she hears something behind her (like a footstep)END

 3)Man eating sushi in restaurant, suited etc. (looking smart), cut to person putting poison onto sushi, serves it to him, spy’s point of view as his vision blurs he sees chef looking at him and chef smirk’s, people looking at him, then he passes out. 

  

4)Old man retracing his past, at the battle site/field, where he fought at the age of 18. Skips to flash backs of opposition invading his base, he hides but all the other soldiers die.

 These are our ideas that we had come up with in our lesson in our group. We are now going to propose three of these ideas to Mat and Luke who will be helping us film the video to see if it is achievable to film in one day. 

A bit about Kyle…

Kyle cooper, who was born in July 1962, is a modern designer of motion picture title sequences. He studied graphic design at Yale University.

 

Early in his career, Cooper worked as a creative director at R/GA , which is an advertising agency with offices in New York and Los Angeles. While he was there he created the title sequence for the 1995 American crime film “Se7en” which was work that received critical acclaim and inspired a number of younger designers. Cooper said that h wanted to create main titles that were raising the bar creatively, which is what he did in “Se7en.”

What has Kyle done?...

Kyle has directed over 150 film title sequences. He has been credited with "almost single-handedly revitalizing the main-title sequence as an art form". He is also the founder of two internationally recognized film design companies, called Imaginary Forces and Prologue Films.

Do I like Kyle?

I really enjoy watching Kyle’s opening sequences. They are really excited and exhilarating. They get you ready for the film your about to watch and get you in the mode. They make crave more of the film and I love the way he does them. He has a very specific format to his work and I admire it. Its quite hectic but draws you to the thing your watching.

The New York Times said that his 1995 title sequence for "Se7en" was one of the "most important design innovations of the 1990’s." 
Kyle says that a great title sequence sets an expectation.

"Se7en"
In class we watched and discussed the opening sequence of the film 'Se7en.' The opening sequence is like a short story told in fragments and sketches. It shows the work of an un-known man, who is making diary entries with clippings from books, self-developed photographs, found images and objects. This gives the audience an intense look into the mind of a serial killer (which we find out later in the film.)
The format of the names etc fits in very well. It is like the diary entries and letters that he is writing, so it is like the hands in the opening, wrote the names of the actors etc.

"Wimbledon"

Wimbledon is a rom-com that was out in the cinemas in 2004. The opening sequence is very entertaining and perfectly suited to the film itself. Wimbledon was one of the main titles Cooper showed at his 2009 Flux/Forget the film and Watch The Titles presentation at The Hammer Museum in L.A. He said as he introduced the opening sequence, “It doesn't always have to be about blood and eyeballs.”

In Wimbledon, Cooper effectively sets the right mood for the movie and I think he captures the audience's attention in the first few seconds. He does this with nothing more than the sound of a tennis racket hitting a ball and the crowd’s heads moving from one side to the other as they watch the ball get hit up and down the court. This mimic’s the spectators of a tennis match.

The credits are positioned on the far right and far left sides of the screen and every time the sound of the ball getting hit is heard, a credit changes to the other side of the screen.

Learning about Editing: Monday 1st October 2012

Editing our prelims!

Our group for our prelim was five of us, but to edit the shots  we got spit into two groups, one of three and one group of two.  I was in a group with Toby and Ellie and we worked together to sort out the good and bad takes and edit them to all flow well together in a short movie.

To start we checked out our shots that were in a folder with our names on them. We did this to make sure that when we check them in at the end of the editing session it means that they have defiantly been saved.

So once we had checked it out we looked through all of the shots we had and we watched them and decided which ones were good and which ones were bad. We copied and pasted them all into a folder called the ‘rush bin’.  If they were good shots that we were possibly going to use we put them in a folder called the ‘log bin’ but if they weren’t very good we left them in the rush bin.

When we found one that we liked and wanted to use we held down the letter ‘I’ and dragged it down to the time line. Once we found all the shots we wanted to use and they were all in the timeline at the time we wanted them and when they fitted in well, we adjusted the sound so that nothing over lapped and that is flowed well and there was no jumps in speech. When we sorted out the speech problems we also added in some extra background noise that was just pauses in between speech to fill in little gaps in between some of the takes were the pauses in the speech was effective. 

 This is what the programme we used looked like. It was called ‘Final Cut’.

I really enjoyed learning about editing and using final cut because it is something i am going to use a lot in Media Studies. I am looking forward to posting the clip of my Prelim! 

Analysing opening credits of films, 28th September 2012

For our prep we had to choose three different films, and analyse the opening credits. I did this on prezi, so i am going to put the link to my prezi’s under the title of the films i analysed. 

The Fighter:

http://prezi.com/dvobjf5xaeto/the-fighter/

Billy Elliot:

http://prezi.com/8yj2j6fsjbcx/billy-elliot/

The Notebook:

http://prezi.com/rkbr5igrndli/analysis-of-the-film-the-notebook/

If you copy and paste the links onto the internet you will be able to see my prezi, presentations 

:)