Monday, 19 October 2009

Reflection


The class was told to draw a picture to represent the best moment in our filming/editing process.
I attempted to draw a picture, but gave up quickly as I cannot draw. Nick asked me to upload it anyway.
The picture was suppost to be of the fisheye camera view of us all inside the car, creating a really good shot.

Sunday, 18 October 2009

Fridays filming

On friday our group set off to Max's house to record our film opening, and it was a strong success.
With five roles in the opening and three people, Max and I played an additional character each. We spent the morning recording the exterior shots, around and inside the car, and used the fisheye lens for the inside of the car which provided a fantastic shot. For the characters inside the car we cut up a vest and turned it into three balaclavas, which worked well.

In the second half of the day we had the camera dolly as well as the fisheye lens, which we used for three shots and worked very well. Max and I changed and played characters inside the house, and Rob filmed the majority of the shots inside the house.

The filming is now complete apart from three shots which can be done at a later date.

Tuesday, 13 October 2009

Animatic


Over the day, Max and Rob drew storyboards which we had already roughly drew a few days before. With these much neater storyboards, I took a photo of each of them and imported them into Final Cut, and estimated how long each shot would last.
At the end of the day, we came up with a short script for a rough voiceover for the beginning, and recorded it for the animatic.

Monday, 12 October 2009

continuity task

we created a short video to demostrate match on action, and the 180 degree rule.
the 180 degree rule is that when filming a conversation, the camera should always stay both sides of the same line, as not to confuse the audience.
match on action is that when you cut to another angle, the action should continue as if it was not two seperate shots.
this is the video i created with ali
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZgIOEgmoIA&feature=player_profilepage

Sunday, 11 October 2009

Feedback

Coming along, but you still need the prelim task and to embed the Juno opening work

Ident

My Ident for my production company, Boneyards

L3 ELLIOT (Boneyards Productions) IDENT from cmdiploma on Vimeo.


I started by finding an image of a shark, and made an Opie of it on Photoshop.
I then found a second image of water for the background.
Putting both into Final Cut, I animated the shark, and added text and music.

Fight Club Opening


Timeline i created of the fight club opening

Tuesday, 6 October 2009

Nine Frames

We created a storyboard/shot list for a fake film. We took 9 pictures off the internet and applied titles to get an idea of what the movie opening would look like. 

25 word pitches

Action film pitch- A bank robbery goes wrong as relationships break down between the people responsible and things turn out to be far diffrent than planned.

Supernatural film pitch- Life is far from normal for one young woman, who is trying to balance her life and her supernatural skills to create a normal life for herself.

Independant film pitch- Coming of age tale as a young boy begins to learn about the world his parents have covered him in collon wool from.

Animated feature film pitch- A couple try and discover the truth behind the grizzly noises heard from their bedroom window at night.

Sunday, 4 October 2009

work missing again

You need to do both tasks, Elliott.

Friday, 2 October 2009

Credits list

A Boneyards productions presents A Long Road Film (cast) David Skinner (cast) Sam Dilan (cast) Alison Ford Costume Design by James Hendon Art Direction by hannah Manson Production Design by Tom Bennit Casting by Anna Ross Film Editing by Dorn Samson Cinematography by Dody Zimmer Original Music by Sean Scott Produced by Elliott David Directed by Jamse Handson Main Title.

Moodboard- Text


Along with getting visuals to draw inspiration from for our film opening, we also gathered different types of text from the internet, that were appropriate to our opening.
We looked for text that stood out as original but didn't stand out because it looked crazy or different. 

Moodboard- Pictures


Me and Rob searched the internet and took screenshots of videos to make a moodboard to draw inspiration from in making our film opening.
We used Google, YouTube and Trailer Addict to gather the images.