Sunday, 18 October 2009

St Trinians Trailer and screen grabs.


This is an image from earlier in my blog when we were thinking up idea's for our film opening. St Trinians was an insperation for our film opening, especially in the make over part with all the different stereotypes they styled Annabelle into. We took a few of the same sterotypes from this and also took some others to put into and make our film opening, but watching the make over trailer gave us a few ideas of how to dress our characters on our opening.

Tuesday 13th of October - Photoshoot for film opening



This is me, Tilly. I am playing the main 'Preppy' Girl.
I am wearing i blue, Jack Wills, knitted jumper, white
skinny jeans with white plimpsoles. I have simple make-up
with my hair pinned back to complete the look.



This is Hannah. She is playing the main 'Emo' girl.
She is wearing a black vest top with a black tutu, and
tights with purple starred knee high socks and black
plimpsoles. Her make-up was just tonnes of black
eyeliner, red lipstick, with her hair pulled across her face.



This is Yasmin, also producing this film opeing
with me. She is playing the main 'Geek'. She is
waering a white polo, with a grey skirt and cardi,
black tights, white plimpsoles, braces and glasses.
Very subtle make-up. With her hair pinned back
with a small bow.



This is Emma. She is playing the main 'Tanorexic' girl.
She is wearing pink hot pants and a pink vest top under
a pink 'drama queen' t-shirt, knee high socks with fake UGGs.
We covered her face in orange face paint to look like
really over-done fake tan, with pink lipstick and eyeliner.
Her hair, just plain straight and down.



This is me again. Playing the main 'OTT Topshop girl'.
I am wearing a blue dress with a red belt and heels. Lots
of mascara, and red lipstick, looking ready to go out
for a night on the town.



This is Hannah again, playing the 'Chav'.
She is wearing grey trackies, with a black
vest top with black plimpsoles. A lot of eye
make-up and foundation and blusher, with
consealer on her lips to make them look
lighter than her face. Her hair pulled over to
one side to achieve the chav look.



This is Yas again, playing the 'Scene Kid'.
She is wearing an i heart NY top under a
Hello Kitty jacket, with jeans and white
plimpsoles. Her make-up is mostly eye
make-up with a lot of colourful eye shadow
and mascara. With her hair up and a big fringe.

Sunday, 11 October 2009

Feedback

Good work- glad to see you have been able to catch up

Storyboarding







These are photo's of our storyboard and Yas and i in the process of drawing them up. I think that storyboarding is really. realy important, it really made us think about how we want our opening to look like, and how it would all fit together, and in which order things would go in. We found it important in this process of have an overall view on how this opening would move into the film, and have an idea of the plot for the film if the whole thing were to be made.
The process was good fun, and i learned a lot from it. It was a good idea to do each frame on postit's as this gave us the advantage to move them around if we didn't like the order.

My Final Ident


I am happy with my final Ident. I originally had the image across the whole screen, however I changed this when i made it into film and added effects to it, simple to give more or an effect to the audience. The music I liked, as it was melow, and fit well with the texts and image fading in and out. I would have liked more time to fiddle around with the effects and explore more backing sounds, but i am pretty happy with my final ident.

My still ident




I came up with the idea of 'Flash Colour' as when i found my picture i thought it went well together. The image i found really captured my eye as it the was almost a bit like an abstract rainbow, and this really interested me. I started to think what i could do with it. I strugled on photoshop to make my image not look like a postcard, I managed to get around that by placing the text together around the image.

Bored to Death Timeline



On my timeline for 'Bored to Death' i managed to write down each scene, and at which time they start. I also wrote down in which scene an opening title comes up, and at what time during the scene it appears. I found this a long process, as i had to keep stopping the sequence to get everything put down accuratly. However, i believe it is a good process to do and go through, as it gives you a clearer understanding what goes on.

Bored to Death Opening titles


I chose this opening sequence to do as i think it relates to my film opening well will the page flicks. Although my film opening is not comic based, I felt this opening made me see how well the page flicks can fit each scene together, it also showed me how smoothly each scene can run into one another. I hope I manage to produce that in my film opening.

9 Key Frames from Bored to Death


Tuesday, 6 October 2009

Our Pitch Idea

We decided to use elements from both of our films to create our pitch.

This is a story produced though the eyes of a normal girl and her journal, about her life at college.
Her journal describes the different social groups she faces at college. including: chavs; tanorexics; preps/jocks; over the top topshop girls; geeks; scene kids; emos, and; the normals (her group).
The story is mostly voice over, but there is also a lot of dialogue between the different clashing groups.

The journal is a key element in the opening. There'll be pictures of the different groups and writing about them as the girl flicks through the journal. Close ups of the journal and character pictures, turn into real life footage of the people, at college.

The opening closes with a group shot of the leader of each group, doing a signature stereotype gesture. For example:
Chav - swearing
Geek - adjusting glasses
tanorexics - looking in mirror
emo - hair flick
scene - over the top pose
prep/jock - holding cricket bat/ rugby ball etc
Topshop girl - adjusting skirt/ dress
Normal - Girl with journal (middle)

Sunday, 4 October 2009

feedback

well done Tilly. Coming along well
Brief 1

Action film aimed towards 15-25yr old males

Beast tries to take over the world, while local man saves the towns people, and becomes a hero.

Brief 2

Film aimed towards males - Thriller

Young child gets snatched from mother by demonds, and mother goes on a hunt for her missing child, facing the underworld.

Brief 3

Independant film featuring a young prodaginist

A girl telling her life via her diary, meeting different people as she goes a long.

Brief 4

Animated featuring to appeal to adults.


Husband and wife tackle the worlds problems, but can the can they save the day, and their marriage?

What is continuity editing?

180 Degree Rule

The 180 degree rule, is just a guidline for the person working the camera. It's so that the shot appears the same and flows well. If a scene was being shot over one characters right sholder then it should then be shot on the other characters left sholder so it doesnt make the scene become dicombobulated.

Match on Action

Match on Action is to connect two different shots. For example, a close up of a hand opening a door, and then a long shot of the person walking into the room from inside the room. It's difficult to achieve, but with the right timing, it can really make an inpact.

Shot/Reverse Shot

When two characters are having a converstation, Shot/Reverse Shot works well as it focus' on just the character who is talking. Flicking back and forth as the conversation continues.

Our Video

Friday, 2 October 2009

Credits For Opening Sequence

A Sour Hearts Production presents
A Colour Flash Production film

(cast) Helen Smith
(cast) John Brown
(cast) Zoe Wright

Costume Design by Marilyn Williams
Art Direction by Martin Rolf
Production Design by Sarah Johnson
Casting by Debra Bailey
Film Editing by Phillip Hyne
Cinematography by Rose Smart
Original Music by Hans Zimmer
Produced by Tilly Wright
Directed by Yasmin Murr

Main Title