Wednesday, 21 December 2011

Shot List

Shot List for our Film Taken for AS Media

The Camera Shots that we used in our film were 

Time
Camera shot used
What the shot is of 
00.00-00.07
 Production Logo on Screen throughout the 7 secs
00.07-00.28
Close up
Main Character standing next to a table that has on it a bottle of Jack Daniel’s whisky off a table. Then Main Character taking hold of a bottle of Jack Daniel’s whisky off a table. In the bottom corner of screen “Written By Philip Gatward” is shown throughout this scene.  Then Main Character moves the vodka bottle from one end of the table to another and other hand over a small glass at the same time ”Written by  David Maddy” appears on the screen. Then Main Character pouring Vodka into the glass to drink while this happens “Filmed and Directed by Seb Hall” appears on the screen. Then “Edited by Dalian White” comes up on the screen.
00.28-00.33
Panning Shot around the graveyard.
Main Character standing next to a specific grave stone in the graveyard. At the same time “Starring Dalian White “appears on the screen.
00.33-00.41
Long Shot
Main Character walking down the alley drinking as he is walking while this happens “Starring David Maddy appears on the screen.  Walking behind Main Character is the attacker holding the baseball bat.
00.41-00.47
Point of View shot.
Main Character walking up the alley and the attacker behind him. Then Main Character turns around and wacked with the baseball bat and it fades to a black screen.
00.47-01.03
Point of view shot
Main Character waking up after being attacked in an unusual room.  Blurred vision of Doctor sitting at desk writing notes. Doctor Sliding the chair towards Main Character to talk to him as he is waking up.  
01.03-01.08
Mid Shot
Main Character sitting down tied to the chair and Doctor getting up from the chair.  Doctor walks up to Main Character and takes tape off his face.
01.08-01.15
Close Up
Main Character sitting forward in his chair spitting at Doctor.  Then Doctor pulls tape away from his mouth then Doctor slaps Main Character across the face.
01.15-01.24
Panning shot
Shot of Doctor pushing his hands on the table with medical equipment on the table as well.
01.24-01.27
Close Up
Doctor opening up the draw in the desk and taking a gun out the draw . 
01.27-01.32
Mid Shot
Doctor walking towards Main Character holding gun.
01.32-01.42
Close Up
Doctor  holding Gun to Main Characters head then taking it away.  Main Character with his head down still sitting on the chair.
01.42-01.47
Long Shot
Doctor putting the gloves on
01.47-01.49
Exetreme close up
Doctor holding and pushing a piece of medical equipment .
01.49-01.51
Mid Shot
Doctor standing infront of Main Character
01.51-01.54
Title going around the screen.


Monday, 28 November 2011

Storyboards for opening and title sequence

Storyboards for new Opening and Title Sequences



 Storyboards for old opening sequence

Storyboards for old Title sequence

Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Audience profiles photos and annotations

Music
Different genres
Chart Music
Easy listener

Occupation
Part time
Supermarket

Money
Average

Clothes
Fashionable
Casual
High street

Education
College/ sixth form

Likes
Violent video games
Violent movies
Home entertainment
Weed and alcohol
Partying
Take away food
Call of Duty
Physical Sport

Dislikes
Romantic comedies
Barbie
Non-Physical Sports
Reality TV Soaps
3 Course Meals
Super Mario
Wild Life Programmes

Shops
HMV: DVDs/ Albums and posters
Game: Pre-Orders and violence

Age/ Sex
Male
Age 16-24

Other Films
Action
Comedy

Monday, 21 November 2011

locations photos for horror opening sequence

Stairs for walking in movie.
Door used in movie. As Dalian lets Teenager in to kill his friends.

Door used in movie.
Sign used in movie.
Bridge used in movie.
Bridge used in movie
Bridge used in movie.
Bridge used in movie.
Bridge used in movie.
Brook used in movie.
Gate used in movie.
Roundabout used in movie.

The first film we did didn't fit the horror genre so we did another film that does fit the horror genre so we changed the location photos the new ones are below.





Planning for Horror Title and opening Sequences


Production Name: Unique Productions

Film Title: Playtime

Plot:
A 17 year old teenage boy develops and illness and has a mental condition and plays in his local park by himself as he has no friends to go out with (isolation), He begins to start drawing aggressive and distorted images as his obsession with death gets worse. He begins to make a shortlist of who he plans to harm taking their address and watching the area where he then enters their apartment and murders his victims for no apparent reason.

Cast of Playtime:
Written By – Dalian White
Directed By – Dalian White
Screen Play – David Maddy (Teenager), Philip Gatward (Murder Victim 1), Seb Hall (Murder Victim 2)
Sound Editor –  Seb Hall
Film Editor – Philip Gatward (individual editing)

Props:
  1. Wrestling figure.
  2. Laptop.
  3. Murder Weapon Knife or Blunt object.
  4. Cast name sketches.
  5. Weird Pictures
Editorial Script:

Black screen – introduces company name 2 seconds then fade out
(Sound of pen/pencil scribbling whilst production name is on screen)

Panning shot of the teenager’s desk with props 1, 2, 4 and 5.

Extreme close up of teenager typing in victims house address into an Internet map, pans and zooms in on the address to show murder location.

Credit screen fades into Teenager walking through tunnel.

Teenager crossing the bridge (trailing shot of scrapping the murder weapon across the bridge) fade to next starting credit.

Credit screen with sound of park gate opening and closing

Teenager on spinning disk laughing which laying down (shot from birds eye view to see teen then switch to teenagers POV whilst spinning on the round about.

credit screen with sound affect of running water (river)

Teen splashes face then edit to make the teen disappear in the same shot (add stereotypical horror sound effect to emphasise the genre of film)

New credit screen music fades and shot fades on mans face standing outside

Teenager approaches flats where man is standing
[Dalian]: Hey, go straight in.

Next title screen with sound of a door unlocking.

Teen walking up the stairs towards the victims room.

Title Playtime Pops up with loud horror sound effect to make a jumpy and unexpected effect for audience.


We have changed how we have done this as the first one didn’t relate horror and didn’t make sense so we have done a new film and it relates to horror and sounds better and the other one did.


Group Planning of Horror Film….Taken

Name of the Film: Taken
Production Company Name: Unique Productions
Certificate: 18
Plot of the Story:
The story is about a teenager that has lost one of his loved ones and decideds that drink is his only option, due to the affects of depression. The teenager decides to visit the grave of his loved one to show his respects, however, leaving the graveyard his is attacked and abducted by a stranger and taken to an abandoned house where all of his over victims torture takes place.
Setting:
·         Apartment
·         Graveyard/Cemetry
·         Abandoned House
Group Roles:
·         Written By: David Maddy and Philip Gatward
·         Directed By: Seb Hall
·         Filmed By: Seb Hall
·         Edited By: Dalian White
   
·         Victim:  Dalian White
·         Evil Doctor: Philip Gatward
·         Attacker: David Maddy
Props used:
·         White Apron (Prop 1)
·         String (Prop 2)
·         Tape (Prop 3)
·         Medical Equipment (Needles, Scissors, Rubber Gloves) (Prop 4)
·         Fake Blood (Prop 5)
·         Chair (Prop 6)
·         Drink (Vodka Bottle) (Prop 7)
·         Bat (Prop 8)
·         Briefcase (Prop 9)
·         Weapon (Gun) (Prop 10)
Editorial Script:

Black Screen, Fades into the Production Company Name (Younique) lasts 2 seconds. This then fades into the film’s title (Taken) which jumps across the screen then flashes all in time with the music.
Music Continues- Title screen fades into the opening. Close up of the alcohol on the table. First name appears on screen in a Bradley Hand ITC font (Written by Philip Gatward). Pours drink as the second name appears (Written by David Maddy).


Whilst pouring the drink the third name appears (Filmed and Directed by Seb Hall). Fourth name fades in (Edited by Dalian White). Same camera shot (Close Up).
Fades into the next shot, which is a Panning shot. Camera pans around the grave yard (First Scene Location), stops at Dalian (looking at a grave). When we see Dalian standing at the graveyard, the next name fades in (Starring Dalian White).

After this, there is then a fade which then goes into a Long Shot of Dalian (Main Character) walking down an alley at the side of the graveyard. Next name appears (Starring David Maddy), walks away With Prop 7.

David enters the same shot who is following Dalian, David is carrying prop 8 (Baseball Bat).

Camera cuts/changes to a mid shot of Dalian being followed, camera angle then changes to a P.O.V (Point of View) shot from Dalian’s view of David swinging the bat. Sound affect of the swinging and also the bat hitting Dalian.

There is then a cut to a black screen, which then fades into the next shot which is also a P.O.V (Point of View) of Dalian waking up after the attack, groaning. Also at this point, there are added affects of Dalian seeing two of things (double vision). During this time there are sound affects of the radio playing, (Sailors Windpipe).

Cuts to a shot of Dalian awaking taped up to prop 6 with props 2 & 3 and Philip walking over to him (Wearing prop 1). Well lighted. Tears prop 3 of Dalian’s face. Close up of Dalian spitting prop 5 towards Philip (Wearing prop 1).

Camera fades into a shot of Philip slapping Dalian. (Still cant see his face). As he is slapped Dalian spits prop 5 over the wall.

(Music Still Playing)

Panning shot over the desk. (Looking at props 2, 3, 4 and 9).

Sound of draw opening.

Camera switches to a high angle shot to see whats in the draw.

Philip pulls out prop 10. (Head out of shot)

Camera switches back to a long shot of Dalian taped to the chair. Philip walks over with prop 10 in hand. (Head out of Shot)

Camera switches to a close up of prop 10 being pointed at Dalian’s head.

Blood on the wall (In Shot). Blood visible on Dalian's head.

Camera cuts to a shot of the desk top and Philip putting the gloves on (Head out of shot)

(Music Still Playing)

Camera cuts to a close up of Philip using prop 4.

Camera then cuts to a mid shot of Philips back. (Can’t see his face). Laughter included so he seems to be enjoying it. Dalian is out of shot so that we can’t see what's happening to him.

Laughter fades out with the camera shot



Monday, 7 November 2011

1408 review

Time                                               Description
0-14                            
14secs                                             Production logo in white writing
                                                        Dimension Films Presents  long shot and establishing shot

Black screen connotes horror, scary; something bad is going to happen.

15-28 secs                                      Black screen  establishing shot
13 secs                                           white writing for credits


28-31 secs                                     establishing shot
                                                      extreme long shot of car in the distance
3 secs                                            miserable weather, dreary
                                                     the mood of the weather is pathetic fallacy
                                                     lights on building in background
                                                     white writing shows credits
                                                     deserted/ isolated
                                                     trees in background

32 secs                                         actor's name in white writing long shot
1 sec                                             with car moving forward in the background

33 secs                                          actor's name in white writing - Samuel L Jackson
7 secs                                            car moving forwards in background close up

40 secs                                          1408 movie title on screen with car beside it long shot
3 secs                                            the 1408 is done as ghostly effect with shadowing effects as well.
                                                     rain parring in background

45 secs                                         car reversing to see signpost high angle shot
5 secs                                           this shows he is confused and lost
                                                    forest in background
                                                    looks vulnerable
                                                    rain parring in background.

50 secs                                        hear in background someone saying "opening the gates of hell"
6 secs                                          actors name in white writing- John Cusack
                                                   man driving car close up on his face

56 secs                                       man cleaning windscreen.
6 secs                                         point of view shot
                                                  sign white and Green suggests something bad is going to happen
                                                  sign says "please come back"
                                                  suggests he is going to die or something bad is going to happen to him

1:02 secs                                    actors in white writing
7 secs                                         torch used to look at map in car
                                                  mid shot of man referring to map
                                        
1:09 secs                                    car reversing backwards
6 secs                                         close up of tyre as if there is something wrong with it
                                                  he is stranded/ isolated
                                                 
1:15 secs                                    car moving               
10 secs                                       credits actors in white writing
                                                  isolated, dark
                                                  low key lighting
                                                  trees and fence in background
                                                  car stops

1:25 secs                                    looks vulnerable
5 secs                                        long shot over bridge
                                                 credits in white writing actors
                                                 car stops
                                                 one way in one way out
                                                  isolated
                                                  thunder worse
                                                  trees in background
                                                  forest
                                                  middle of nowhere

1:30                                           man turns up at house
15 secs                                      bright low key lighting
                                                 credits white writing
                                                 point of view shot of house
                                                 someone is spying on him
                                                 old fashioned flickering light

1:45                                          walking into house
7 secs                                       doorbell rings
                                                very old hotel used in film
                                                old fashioned curtains
                                                green walls homely
                                                high key lighting

1:52                                         man walks in
10 secs                                    meets man at reception with old woman
                                               old welcoming couple
                                               old fashioned hotel