Planning: Film Diary #6

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Film Diary

Date: 29/11/15

Location: London Waterloo/ Aerial shots

Cast: N/A

On a trip up to London Chloe was able to get some establishing shots of London from the Shard at night which will be useful in our trailer, it will also make our trailer look more expensive and professional as aerial shots are usually quite hard and expensive to achieve. She was able to get some shots of Waterloo which we can use during our chase scene between the antagonist and protagonist, although due to busy schedules we wont be able to shoot the entirety of the chase scene in London as we are unable to get up there to film the shot of Waterloo and the aerial shot will help sell the idea that our characters are in London.

Planning: Film Diary #5

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Film Diary 

Date: 27/11/15


Location: Leatherhead/Swan Centre Car Park

Cast: Matt Cottee/Billy Cottee/Chloe Hicks/Rashmi Sen


After school we went to Leatherhead to shoot majority of the scenes, which includes the Cottee brothers, we were unsure about the location in Leatherhead however when we started shooting we were able to find good locations and get a large proportion of shots we needed. In preparation for our magazine and film poster that we will be making next term we also got some shots of the antagonists and protagonists.

Planning: Credit Titles

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Credit Titles

Draft

Final

Draft

Final

We wanted to include the flare in so it remains consistent throughout the trailer. We thought that it added some impact to the text rather than having the plain black background. 

Planning: Production Titles

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Production Titles

Research and Planning Feedback

An excellent effort so far and you should be very pleased with the level of analysis and focus you have evidenced.  Continue to map your journey towards completion of your production tasks by including video diaries and reflections on every stage of the process.

Planning: Storyboard

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Storyboard

There has been slight changes on the storyboard when making the it animatic because we thought some scenes had to be switched as it transitioned more smoothly. 

Planning: Shot List

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Shot List

Establishing shot - Washington

Long shot - Lincoln memorial

Medium shot - Miller walking sitting down

Close up - legs as she sits down, on phone

Match on action - reading article on phone

Medium shot - places phone down

Over shoulder shot of lake

Close up - phone rings, pan round/cut to her (cant see her face though)

Low angle shot  - just her phone and part of face

Long shot - twins leaving building

Medium shot - Miller confused

Medium shot - getting into car

Low angle - gun going off

Long shot - Miller put face into hands

POV - flicking through reports, pick up photo

Close up - Miller angry

Medium shot - stands up marches off

Establishing shot - NYC

Long shot - bust streets

Close up - picking up package

Over the shoulder - looking at pictures (shoot in England)

Medium shot - on plane

POV - looking at picture of mother, looking out window

Establishing shot - London

Long shot - boat party

Match on action - phone ringing

Medium shot - step outside to answer

Medium shot - party, chaos

Close up - looks around panicked, phone to ear

Long shot - High angle twins walking

POV - looking around

Low angle - walking down south-bank

Medium shot - Miller running down south-bank

Low angle medium shot - twins heading into Waterloo

Low angle medium shot - twins heading towards Waterloo

Low angle medium shot – Miller walking up into Waterloo

Long shot – Miller and chaos of waterloo station

Medium shot – Miller running onto platform as train departs

Long shot – train leaving

Close up – Miller pissed off

Over the shoulder – researching

Montage – person beaten up

E.S – Mi6 building

SRS – Miller and boss talking

Close up – Miller on street walking, bump into one twin

Flashback - Low angle shooting

Close up – follow him

Long shot - spies on them from behind wall

Close up – drive off, see her in rear view mirror, try to follow them but lose them

Close up – pulls out briefcase, cleans gun

Medium shot – holding Rashmi at gunpoint (medium shot pics of exchanging money)

Medium shot – sneaks into office

Montage: OSS looking at pic mum, visiting grave, taking pills, being shot at, throwing paper, fight with someone, racing off in car

Planning: Titles Draft: Animated Version

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Title Draft: Animated Version

The programme used was iMovie to create the animated version of the title so it looks realistic compared to the non animatic title that was created in Photoshop. Through google images I got a got a black background then uploaded it to the programme then on Youtube I found a slow motion video of a bullet breaking into the glass (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzNppQk3f8A) to represent the shattering effect which is effective as it looks professional. We got this idea by looking at the Spectre film title that made the text stand out.Then I uploaded and edited the footage by cropping key moment and overlaying the video onto the black background. The video was edited so it matches the colour scheme of background so it’s looks realistic. Then the overlaying of the flare going across the screen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkOt2nrlmGY) highlighted the title which will be added later on.

Original Clips

Planning: Layout of the Titles

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Layout of the Titles

We analysed film title and found that action title background are normally black so the text stands out. The text is written in capital letters and its 3D to make it look bolder. The colour is silver giving it a steel/metallic effect connoting clarity making it easy to see the clearness and crispness of the text. We chose the Cambria font because there’s an emphasis of the ending strokes making it eye-catching.  


The background of the production title is black so the text ‘International’ is eye-catching so it’s the first thing the audience will see. We researched film titles where we found that majority of action text in 3D. Then I added another layer then added the shattered glass effect to represent a bullet going through the “O” so it gives the action element to the title so the audience are informed straight away about the genre. The text was overlayed as it’s significant.

We made the production titles by using Adobe Photoshop to create a design of the title so we can make it animatic afterwards. This plan gave us a brief idea of what the title will look like.

Planning: Questionnaire

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Questionnaire

Age: _ 0-10  _ 11-15  _ 16-20  _ 21-30  _ 31+

Gender: _ Male  _Female

How often do you watch Action films?

What aspects of horror do you like?

Chase _

Suspense _

Cars _

Violence _ 

Guns _

Love Interest _

Other _________

What other genres do you like?

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Why do you or do you not like Action?

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Action is the best genre

_ Strongly agree

_ Agree

_ Not sure

_ Disagree

_ Strongly disagree

What's the best setting for Action?

Whats your favorite Action film + Why?

Do you prefer a male/female lead

Feedback

0-10 = 9%  16-20 = 72%   30+ = 19%

Male = 28%  Female = 72%

33% of people said they never watch action films which is interesting as that's a third, which is not what I expected as I thought action was a very popular genre that appealed to all ages, I was stunned to see that amount of the people questioned never watched action. 

Interestingly it wasn't just the males who said they watched action the most which subverts from the stereotypes that action has a mainly male audience as a quarter of females also said they watch lots of action films.

The two most popular features people look for in action films were love interest (hot man) and guns/cars, this is what i expected as they are the cliche parts of a film that make it a action film. Violence was only said 15% of the time which surprised me as I thought more people would look for that in action, guns was the most common aspect with 55% of people saying they looked for it in a action film, this is something that we can use to our advantage and include in our film to appeal to a larger audience and make more people want to see our film.

When asked what other genres people liked, so we could include the aspects of other genres people like to create a more appealing film to a larger audience, Comedy was third most popular with 36% of people saying that was another genre they liked - this doesn't really help us as we feel it would be quite hard to incorporate a comedy aspect into our action film, this is something we will have to consider at a later date but I feel it's something we won't end up incorporating in our film. Drama was the most popular with 65% of people saying that was the other genre they liked, interestingly this was most popular with people who didn't like action suggesting as long as you incorporate one of these two your trailer will be liked by audiences. This will help us when making our film as we now know to attract a larger audience we should include a physical side of things, as previously established people do like a chase scene so to optimise our films attraction to people. 

90% said city was the best setting which is interesting as we had anticipate to use city (London, NYC, Washington) as we thought it was most grand and, for production purposes, most accessible and easy to achieve a big budget look. 

Overall this questionaire was helpful in identifying what people look for in action and the aspects/location to include in our film.

Planning: Film Diary #4

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Film Diary

Date: 01/11/15

Location: Leatherhead

Cast: N/A

Today we went to shoot a time lapse in Leatherhead to use as part of our trailer, we went at around lunchtime hoping to get the most people walking past as possible. We originally shot sat on a bench with the camera facing down Leatherhead high street, there wasn't as many people as we had hoped and we weren't sure if the angle was right so we decided to get another one as a reserve. For this we felt a high angle would be good and so we figured if we went to the roof of Leatherhead shopping centre we could get the right angle, we managed to get 2 good time lapse's and will hopefully be able to incorporate them into our trailer successfully to add to the value of the trailer and make it look more expensive and professional.