Thursday, 26 November 2009
Something A Little Bit Extra
Hers is a film I made to add on as an extra onto my DVD. I made it because I wanted to add some comedy into my film and because this would have destroyed the narrative, I decided to make an extra, 'The Making Of Norman'
Production Diary
I will keep my blog updated with information about filming, I will use this post as a Production Diary and comment on our progress of filming, and how things did and didn't go according to plan. Obviously there will be days where things do not go according to plan, and I need to report on this so that I can look back and see what went wrong, in order to stop it happening again.
Monday 23rd November: Today we did a lot of test shots in both the locations. It was a very productive day of filming because we were able to see our locations from the eye of the camera and have a much better idea of all the shots that would look good. We recorded all the footage and this can now be seen on the Other Style Notes and Test Footage post.
Tuesday 24th November: Today we managed to film all of the shots that are set on the moor. To do this we first had to collect a few propps for the camping site and then set this up, this took longer than expected and we found ourself fighting with time as the sun would soon set and lighting would be poor. We managed to film it all in perfect light though and took a lot of diffrent shots from each scene so that we had a lot to work with for editing puposes. I am very happy with our progress today, but having looked back on the footage, I have realised I do need to take some more shots of the central protagonist walking.
Thursday 26th November: Today we filmed the scenes from inside the house, and all in all it was not a very productive shooting at all, the actress we used was not quite good enough to create what I wanted, but in terms of learning, we learnt a lot today about how to contruct the scenes in the house, and even though we will need to now shoot it again, I am confident we can get some high quality footage. The props we managed to find today were very good and I think they connote exactly what we want them to.
Friday 4th December: Today we filmed all of the more scenes again because unfortunately we lost some of the footage taken from previous shootings and because we were not completely happy with previous footage shot. The filming went very well and we managed to re-film all bad and lost footage, and even managed to shoot some more shots of our central protagonist running through the moors. The shooting we got done is of a much better quality, and now (Friday 4th December) we are going to look at all the footage shot so far and create a rough cut to be posted on the blog.
Monday 23rd November: Today we did a lot of test shots in both the locations. It was a very productive day of filming because we were able to see our locations from the eye of the camera and have a much better idea of all the shots that would look good. We recorded all the footage and this can now be seen on the Other Style Notes and Test Footage post.
Tuesday 24th November: Today we managed to film all of the shots that are set on the moor. To do this we first had to collect a few propps for the camping site and then set this up, this took longer than expected and we found ourself fighting with time as the sun would soon set and lighting would be poor. We managed to film it all in perfect light though and took a lot of diffrent shots from each scene so that we had a lot to work with for editing puposes. I am very happy with our progress today, but having looked back on the footage, I have realised I do need to take some more shots of the central protagonist walking.
Thursday 26th November: Today we filmed the scenes from inside the house, and all in all it was not a very productive shooting at all, the actress we used was not quite good enough to create what I wanted, but in terms of learning, we learnt a lot today about how to contruct the scenes in the house, and even though we will need to now shoot it again, I am confident we can get some high quality footage. The props we managed to find today were very good and I think they connote exactly what we want them to.
Friday 4th December: Today we filmed all of the more scenes again because unfortunately we lost some of the footage taken from previous shootings and because we were not completely happy with previous footage shot. The filming went very well and we managed to re-film all bad and lost footage, and even managed to shoot some more shots of our central protagonist running through the moors. The shooting we got done is of a much better quality, and now (Friday 4th December) we are going to look at all the footage shot so far and create a rough cut to be posted on the blog.
Sunday, 22 November 2009
Working Title
My initial ideas on the title of my film was that I was going to call it 'The Unknown Secret'. When I presented this idea to my class they did not think that the title made sense, hence working title. They believed that a secret is unknown anyway and this does not make sense, although this is why I chose the title to create a sense of confusion, it would seem the title did not convince my target audience.
I decided to change my working title to 'Norman' , fans of Psycho will understand the meaning behind this title but for those who do not understand the title, I will now explain the character of Norman using a quite from wikipedia:
"Both the novel and Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film adaptation explain that Bates suffers severeemotional abuse as a child at the hands of his mother, Norma, who preaches to him that sex is evil and that women (except herself) are whores. The two of them live alone together in an unhealthy state of emotional dependence after the death of Bates's father. When Bates is a teenager, his mother takes a lover, making him insanely jealous. Bates then murders both of them withstrychnine and preserves his mother's corpse. Bates develops dissociative identity disorder, assuming his mother's personality, repressing her death as a way to escape the guilt of murdering her. He inherits his mother's house, where he keeps her corpse, and the family motel in Fairvale, California.
Bloch sums up Bates' multiple personalities in his stylistic form of puns: "Norman", a child dependent on his mother; "Norma", a possessive mother who kills anyone who threatens the illusion of her existence; and "Normal", a (barely) functional adult who goes through the motions of day-to-day life.Bates is finally arrested after he murders a young woman named Mary Crane (called Marion Crane in the film) and Milton Arbogast, a private investigator sent to look for her. Bates is declared insaneand sent to an institution, where the "mother" personality completely takes hold; he essentiallybecomes his mother.
Bates dies in Bloch's 1982 sequel to his novel"
(Quote from Wikipedia)
Me and Conor chose to use the character Norman as an inter-textual reference in our title because our central protagonist is very much the same as the character. He is very secretive and a bit of a 'loner'. He tortures sexually active women, just as the character Norman does. Also in the movie Psycho, you do not know he is the murderer until the end of the film, much like in our short film, the audience do not realise our central protagonist is a killer until the end.
We will also be calling our main character Norma, although this name will not be revealed during the film, but should be guessed by the audience as he is clearly the central protagonist, this all depends on whether they take the preferred reading.
"Both the novel and Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film adaptation explain that Bates suffers severeemotional abuse as a child at the hands of his mother, Norma, who preaches to him that sex is evil and that women (except herself) are whores. The two of them live alone together in an unhealthy state of emotional dependence after the death of Bates's father. When Bates is a teenager, his mother takes a lover, making him insanely jealous. Bates then murders both of them withstrychnine and preserves his mother's corpse. Bates develops dissociative identity disorder, assuming his mother's personality, repressing her death as a way to escape the guilt of murdering her. He inherits his mother's house, where he keeps her corpse, and the family motel in Fairvale, California.
Bloch sums up Bates' multiple personalities in his stylistic form of puns: "Norman", a child dependent on his mother; "Norma", a possessive mother who kills anyone who threatens the illusion of her existence; and "Normal", a (barely) functional adult who goes through the motions of day-to-day life.Bates is finally arrested after he murders a young woman named Mary Crane (called Marion Crane in the film) and Milton Arbogast, a private investigator sent to look for her. Bates is declared insaneand sent to an institution, where the "mother" personality completely takes hold; he essentiallybecomes his mother.
Bates dies in Bloch's 1982 sequel to his novel"
(Quote from Wikipedia)
Me and Conor chose to use the character Norman as an inter-textual reference in our title because our central protagonist is very much the same as the character. He is very secretive and a bit of a 'loner'. He tortures sexually active women, just as the character Norman does. Also in the movie Psycho, you do not know he is the murderer until the end of the film, much like in our short film, the audience do not realise our central protagonist is a killer until the end.
Friday, 20 November 2009
Ancillary Texts Ideas and Research 2
The second Ancillary Task that me and Conor are going to create is a magazine review article on our film. This will mean having to design the article and then making up the context to go into the article. How me and Conor will word our article will be based on what our audience feedback has told us about our film, and we must try not to be biased towards our film, but instead use idead put forward from our audience into how they felt about our film.
Research Into Film Magazine Reviews:
Me and Conor have bought a few film magazines which we have full looked at, and analyzed the review sections. The review sections usually cover a large part of the the film magazine, and will vary in size, if the film is a big hit feature film, its review will obviously be much larger and be given more space in the magazine. This can be anything from a page to a two page spread. The two magazines that me and Conor have looked into are Empire, Total Film and Filmstar.
Empire Magazine:
Empire is a fantastic magazine in my personal opinion and after reading a few issues for this research, I am now certain it will become a more regular buy for me. The magazine has a good range of color and images to attract its reader, and even in the not so colorful review pages, the layout is much easier to read than some over magazines I have looked into.
The Review:
I have looked at many of the reviews in the Empire magazine and noticed that they use a style which is visually pleasing to the reader to draw them into reading the review. A feature review will usually have one massive picture as the background with the font in a box in-front of the picture. A smaller review will have a border and be surrounded by many other reviews. The magazine uses lots of different fonts and colors to brighten up and make the review more interesting.
Main Features of a Empire Review:
Total Film Magazine:
Total Film is the second magazine that I looked at and although in my opinion not as good as Empire, this magazine is still an excellent read with some interesting articles looking at both current and past media. The layout of the review page in this magazine id very similar to empire, but it tends to squish a few more reviews into each page which in a personal opinion makes it hard to read and not as appealing.
The Review:
I have looked at many different reviews in Total Film. The review page in the Total Film magazine is not as interesting visually as the Empire magazine, and it is generally a black font, white background scenario. The article relies on images to incorporate color into it, however on some more featured articles
Main Features of a Total Film Review:
Filmstar Magazine:
Filmstar Magazine is not as popular as the other two films magazines I have rated, but is still a nice example of how a review should be set out and conducted. I like the way in which the magazine uses a lot of large sized images throughout, I think this is a very visually pleasing magazine.
The Review:
I think that the magazine manages to complete all the basics needed for a good review, and does have some influential things to say, but the review is simply not as interesting or visually pleasing as the other two magazines I reviewed, however the different set up style must be taken into account when designing my own.
Main Features of a Filmstar Review:
By incorporating all the ideas and techniques from the three magazines I have reviewed and combining this with my own knowledge, I have written up my conclusion of codes and conventions of a magazine article review, and here is how I will incorporate these into my review:
We asked for the opinion from our target audience which would be the best review magazine to use as an influence of our own review. They chose the 'Empire' magazine because it was the most visually pleasing, and they said it would be the review they were most likely to pick up and read.
The reason why we went to our target audience to pick up feedback is, we would most like our target audience to read the review in the hope to draw them into watching our short film.
First Draft:
Here is our first attempt at the film magazine. This idea was thrown out because it simply did not look real enough and did not look like it was from inside a magazine. After looking into the film reviews again, we were able to learn from the mistakes made in this draft:
Research Into Film Magazine Reviews:
Me and Conor have bought a few film magazines which we have full looked at, and analyzed the review sections. The review sections usually cover a large part of the the film magazine, and will vary in size, if the film is a big hit feature film, its review will obviously be much larger and be given more space in the magazine. This can be anything from a page to a two page spread. The two magazines that me and Conor have looked into are Empire, Total Film and Filmstar.
Empire is a fantastic magazine in my personal opinion and after reading a few issues for this research, I am now certain it will become a more regular buy for me. The magazine has a good range of color and images to attract its reader, and even in the not so colorful review pages, the layout is much easier to read than some over magazines I have looked into.
The Review:
I have looked at many of the reviews in the Empire magazine and noticed that they use a style which is visually pleasing to the reader to draw them into reading the review. A feature review will usually have one massive picture as the background with the font in a box in-front of the picture. A smaller review will have a border and be surrounded by many other reviews. The magazine uses lots of different fonts and colors to brighten up and make the review more interesting.
- A Big Picture
- Brief Synopsis/ Technical Details
- One Big Quote
- Final Verdict at the End
- Star Rating
Total Film is the second magazine that I looked at and although in my opinion not as good as Empire, this magazine is still an excellent read with some interesting articles looking at both current and past media. The layout of the review page in this magazine id very similar to empire, but it tends to squish a few more reviews into each page which in a personal opinion makes it hard to read and not as appealing.
The Review:
I have looked at many different reviews in Total Film. The review page in the Total Film magazine is not as interesting visually as the Empire magazine, and it is generally a black font, white background scenario. The article relies on images to incorporate color into it, however on some more featured articles
Main Features of a Total Film Review:
- One Quite Small Picture
- Title in Bold
- Star Rating
- Release Date
- Sentence that Sums up Movie in Bold
- Small Review
- Aurthur or Review in Bold
- Certificate Rating
- Running Time
Filmstar Magazine is not as popular as the other two films magazines I have rated, but is still a nice example of how a review should be set out and conducted. I like the way in which the magazine uses a lot of large sized images throughout, I think this is a very visually pleasing magazine.
The Review:
I think that the magazine manages to complete all the basics needed for a good review, and does have some influential things to say, but the review is simply not as interesting or visually pleasing as the other two magazines I reviewed, however the different set up style must be taken into account when designing my own.
- One Medium Sized Picture.
- Name of Directors, Writers and Stars of the film Altogether.
- Star Rating.
- Certificate , Release date and Running Time Altogether.
- Sentence that Sums up Film.
- Positives and Negatives plus Brief Synopsis.
- Small fact about the movie in a box in the middle shaped like a post-it note.
- Bold Writing at Starts of Paragraphs.
- A black line border is used with the title of the section integrated.
By incorporating all the ideas and techniques from the three magazines I have reviewed and combining this with my own knowledge, I have written up my conclusion of codes and conventions of a magazine article review, and here is how I will incorporate these into my review:
- We will use quite a large picture somewhere on the page to interest the audience
- The title should be Large and in bold but also maybe white/black in a colored box
- Then a little sentence/synopsis of the movie, again, possibly in a colored box with white/black writing underneath the title.
- Synopsis of the film, good points, bad points and overall opinion.
- Name of directors, writers, certificate rating and release date in a box somewhere on the page
- Star Rating, this could be close to the directors box(see above bullet point)
- The Crucial thing is to keep the page looking interesting and visually pleasing so it doesn't bore the audience.
We asked for the opinion from our target audience which would be the best review magazine to use as an influence of our own review. They chose the 'Empire' magazine because it was the most visually pleasing, and they said it would be the review they were most likely to pick up and read.
The reason why we went to our target audience to pick up feedback is, we would most like our target audience to read the review in the hope to draw them into watching our short film.
First Draft:
Here is our first attempt at the film magazine. This idea was thrown out because it simply did not look real enough and did not look like it was from inside a magazine. After looking into the film reviews again, we were able to learn from the mistakes made in this draft:
Ancillary Texts Ideas and Research 1
For our first piece of Ancillary Text, me and Conor are going to create a poster to promote our film, this will be different to the teaser poster created earlier on into the project because this poster will give a way a little more about the film. In this poster we will show our cast and props from our filming, rather than just showing an idea of what we may use in the film.
Initial Ideas:
The poster will be created when we shoot our filming and will show the camp site that has blood on the tents and show the camping gear scattered around the camp site. I think it would also be a good idea to show the arm hanging out of the tent to signify a death has occurred here, we will not show the identity of any character on the poster so the central protagonist will not be shown, even though it is traditional to do so, we believe our character should not have too much given away about him before watching the film, so we have chosen not to show him on our poster.
Research Into Posters:
Me and Conor have looked at a couple of horror film posters, and a couple of posters from short films, we have fully analysed them in order to pick up some ideas and techniques from these posters, notice that all the posters reviewed are from recent films, this means they have the technology, only for the high budget films, to create extremely amazing posters which me and conor do not have the software or ability to make. However we can use the techniques and create a good poster ourselves.
The Fourth Kind:
The Unstoppable:
From looking at the above posters which I have researched I have been able to draw up some ideas as to how a poster should be formed and with this in mind be able to start thinking of ideas for my own posters.
In a poster there is always one image in covering the whole poster which will be focused on ever an object or a person, this will be made clear because the object will be centred in the middle of the poster. If the central image is a person, one should assume that this is the central protagonist of the film, and if the image is of a person, one should assume that this objects plays a big part in the narrative. For example in the Friday 13th Poster, the male in the middle of the poster is assumed to be the central protagonist.
The text which should stand out most in the poster is that of the Title of the film, this will be centred horizontally, and positioned ever to the top or the bottom of the poster. On a short film poster it is quite conventional to see the name of the director/writer (usually the same person in a short film) above the title, this will be seen like this (A Film by **Alex Jowett**). Other text on the poster should include a slogan for the film, for example on the poster 'District 9' the slogan is, 'You are not welcome here'. This slogan should give a good hint to the audience what the film is about without giving away too much about twists or endings.
Final Ideas:
After looking at these posters and drawing up some conclusions, and with some great ideas by me, Conor and our media teacher, we have now come up with the final idea for our poster, I will outline here just how it should look, however this depends on whether I can apply these ideas into my editing.
The back image for our poster is going to be of the campsite that we have used in our filming, this image will be taken during filming so that the image is exactly as shown on film. The central protagonist will be in the center of the screen, and using a low angle shot, will be made to look very tall and powerful, in the background will be a victim lying dead on the floor. This idea has an inter textual reference to the Friday 13th poster.
Ont the poster in block capitals, will be the name 'Norman'. We will not use a special font for this, as the whole purpose of using the name Norman, is that it does not give away a lot about the character. Above the title will say 'A Film By Conor Potts and Alex Jowett'. AT the top of the screen will be the tag line, which we have not though up yet (this post will be updated when we do). A full listing of cast and crew will be added to the bottom of the poster in a small greyish font, we do not want this to be too visible, but should be able to be read.
Initial Ideas:
The poster will be created when we shoot our filming and will show the camp site that has blood on the tents and show the camping gear scattered around the camp site. I think it would also be a good idea to show the arm hanging out of the tent to signify a death has occurred here, we will not show the identity of any character on the poster so the central protagonist will not be shown, even though it is traditional to do so, we believe our character should not have too much given away about him before watching the film, so we have chosen not to show him on our poster.
Research Into Posters:
Me and Conor have looked at a couple of horror film posters, and a couple of posters from short films, we have fully analysed them in order to pick up some ideas and techniques from these posters, notice that all the posters reviewed are from recent films, this means they have the technology, only for the high budget films, to create extremely amazing posters which me and conor do not have the software or ability to make. However we can use the techniques and create a good poster ourselves.
The Fourth Kind:
- This poster uses lighting to its advantage to draw attention to the floating body. As this one person is the only character on the poster, this could signify he is the central protagonist.
- The poster keeps the character as anonymous by not showing his face, the face of the body actually hangs off the poster, as if by mistake. The poster wants us to focus on the mans body rather than his face.
- Because we can not see facial expressions of the person, the designer of the poster has made the body look very tensed up to show his emotion, this signifying that he is scared/panicking
- The tag-line is in the window, this creates the sense it is the words uplifting the body, this signifying a Sci-Fi influence. With the light beaming the window this signifies an alien encounter. The font of the text used in the title also signifies a Sci-Fi genre, with the words glowing like neon lights on a UFO.
- The letters of the poster are slightly stretched to create the impression that they are being lifted into the air just like the body of the male.
- Usual production team shown on bottom of poster.
- The male in the centre of the poster is made to look strong and powerful by using a high angled shot, because he is at the centre of the film poster we automatically assume that he is the central protagonist.
- Because the central protagonist has a mask on we get no sense of identity or emotion from the character, and can not make any assumptions on what the character is like, other than the mask and the machete signifying he is a serial killer. By wearing the mask the audience feels un-eased by the character, and are drawn to watch the film to find out more.
- With the red font and the machete used in the poster, this signifies a slasher genre, which will contain a lot of violence. This is connoted from the red blood used to signify death and blood.
- Blue tint used in the background of the poster to signify a supernatural, this connects with many horror films which use the very popular technique.
- The woods in the background signify an isolated setting with 'no where to run' for the victims, this makes the central protagonist look much more powerful than if the background was the centre of New York at 3 in the afternoon.
- Dark background with moonlight illuminating central protagonist is a great technique used to light up the very dark poster.
Dead Snow:
- Immediately from looking at the poster you are drawn t head on the floor, with the blood over the snow and on the chain-saw, this signifies a horror/slasher genre and violence!
- The head is wearing some kind of military hat, this signifies a war film, which is anchored by more soldiers in the background of the scene.
- The snow and mountains in the background signify the setting of the film.
- Narrative Enigma created, because you can not see the head of the man standing, it leaves the question, 'Is that his head on the floor?'. Because he is holding a chain-saw with blood on, this man clearly chopped off the head, but did he chop off his own?
- The head of the character eyes are still wide open and looking into the eyes of the audience, this signifies he is still alive and signifies a zombie!
The Collector:
- The person in the centre of the screen is clearly signifying the central protagonist.
- By wearing the leather gloves and a mask the central protagonist is clearly trying to remain anonymous as for he is showing no facial features and keeping his hand covers to stop himself creating any fingerprints. This also signifies that he is about to commit crime.
- The house in the background signifies this is a victims home, as the male is putting his mask on wile he enters. This could show he goes from house to house killing.
- The majority of the poster is taken up by the image of a butterfly shaped image, normally this would signify happiness and not be used in a horror film poster.
- Title in bigger font than other text which helps it to stand out a lot more.
- Even though it independent film, production team is still shown, showing cast and crew.
- Name of director shown as 'A ??? Film' which stand out above the rest of the production team, and signifies most of this persons ideas and thoughts went into the film.
- Not many colours used to keep it to a theme.
- Red font signifies blood and death, on the number 9? This links the number 9 to death in the film, and gets the audience questioning why, creating a narrative enigma.
- Gun shots signify gang crime and an urban scene rather than rural.
- Date of release shown in bold to help it stand out.
From looking at the above posters which I have researched I have been able to draw up some ideas as to how a poster should be formed and with this in mind be able to start thinking of ideas for my own posters.
In a poster there is always one image in covering the whole poster which will be focused on ever an object or a person, this will be made clear because the object will be centred in the middle of the poster. If the central image is a person, one should assume that this is the central protagonist of the film, and if the image is of a person, one should assume that this objects plays a big part in the narrative. For example in the Friday 13th Poster, the male in the middle of the poster is assumed to be the central protagonist.
The text which should stand out most in the poster is that of the Title of the film, this will be centred horizontally, and positioned ever to the top or the bottom of the poster. On a short film poster it is quite conventional to see the name of the director/writer (usually the same person in a short film) above the title, this will be seen like this (A Film by **Alex Jowett**). Other text on the poster should include a slogan for the film, for example on the poster 'District 9' the slogan is, 'You are not welcome here'. This slogan should give a good hint to the audience what the film is about without giving away too much about twists or endings.
Final Ideas:
After looking at these posters and drawing up some conclusions, and with some great ideas by me, Conor and our media teacher, we have now come up with the final idea for our poster, I will outline here just how it should look, however this depends on whether I can apply these ideas into my editing.
The back image for our poster is going to be of the campsite that we have used in our filming, this image will be taken during filming so that the image is exactly as shown on film. The central protagonist will be in the center of the screen, and using a low angle shot, will be made to look very tall and powerful, in the background will be a victim lying dead on the floor. This idea has an inter textual reference to the Friday 13th poster.
Ont the poster in block capitals, will be the name 'Norman'. We will not use a special font for this, as the whole purpose of using the name Norman, is that it does not give away a lot about the character. Above the title will say 'A Film By Conor Potts and Alex Jowett'. AT the top of the screen will be the tag line, which we have not though up yet (this post will be updated when we do). A full listing of cast and crew will be added to the bottom of the poster in a small greyish font, we do not want this to be too visible, but should be able to be read.
Thursday, 5 November 2009
Vodcast
Each week from the 6th November 2006, me and Conor have decided to keep you posted with our Vodcast. In each of these we will give you a week-by-week update on our progress as our media production takes shape. We decided to make this because it is much more interesting and better to follow than a diary/log, and keeps our viewers interested in our project.
Please refer to this blog each friday after 3:00 pm to be updated with our new Vodcast.
Friday 6th November- Started Pre-Production and Research
The rest of the podcast's we have made are in audio because the quality of this movie is not fantastic. Please click on the links to heard the podcasts.
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Audience Feedback and Improvements- Final Proposal
Me and Conor made a short powerpoint explaining our idea to the media class, they gave us feedback on our narrative, our working title and our production logo, this audience feedback was filmed so that me and Conor could use it to evaluate our narrative and make some changes.
After watching the footage, here is what me and Conor (Conex) changed:
Narrative- In our narrative, we had planned to have a male lying dead on the floor and the central protagonist was going to try help him up but wile doing so, pull off his arm. However Dave (our media teacher) suggested that this was not relative to the narrative. He suggested that we take this footage out of our final production.
Narrative- Our class thought that the central protagonist should spend more time exploring through the campsite, this would establish his innocence. They also thought there should be a dead body in one of the tents to signify to the audience better that this was a sight of a murder, the thought we should have a hand lying out of the tent, but the central protagonist will not notice this dead body.
Narrative- Our class also thought that we should use the sound of the crow to attract the central protagonists attention to the house as he is at the campsite, this should be when he looks up at the house and notices the smoke rising from the house and head up towards the house.
We will be applying these changes to our production, this will mean re-writing a new screenplay and writing up our ned idea, this will be completed in the next few days.
After watching the footage, here is what me and Conor (Conex) changed:
Narrative- In our narrative, we had planned to have a male lying dead on the floor and the central protagonist was going to try help him up but wile doing so, pull off his arm. However Dave (our media teacher) suggested that this was not relative to the narrative. He suggested that we take this footage out of our final production.
Narrative- Our class thought that the central protagonist should spend more time exploring through the campsite, this would establish his innocence. They also thought there should be a dead body in one of the tents to signify to the audience better that this was a sight of a murder, the thought we should have a hand lying out of the tent, but the central protagonist will not notice this dead body.
Narrative- Our class also thought that we should use the sound of the crow to attract the central protagonists attention to the house as he is at the campsite, this should be when he looks up at the house and notices the smoke rising from the house and head up towards the house.
We will be applying these changes to our production, this will mean re-writing a new screenplay and writing up our ned idea, this will be completed in the next few days.
Sunday, 1 November 2009
Production Logo
Here is the production logo which I created on Photoshop Elements 7, our production logo has been added to signify to the audience from the start that the short-film is of the slasher genre, with the use of black and red, and by using a knife and blood in the image:
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