Props, Actors, Music - Plan

Here, as you can see our Initial List of Props, Actors, Locations m Shots and Music/Sound effects, we made this so that when it came to filming/editing we had a better idea of what we needed.

Film Script

Here is the Script we planned to use in our short film when we were originally planning it, although it was a well planned out script we may have adapted it during filming to make it suit the genre better.

Filming Schedule

This is our filming schedule that we planned out before we started to film and edit our project.

Title Image

This is our  design for the title image we were going to use on the final cut of our project. We decided not to in the end as we felt that our project would look more professional and would suit the genre better if we were to go with a more simple design.

Story Boards

Here you can see the storyboards we Designed in preparation for filming our project. As you can see although they are only basic drawings they are also very informative and explanatory, this made it incredibly useful when setting up scenes in our film. The space underneath the drawings also allowed us to be able to write exactly what music and what effects we were going to use in certain scenes and also allowed us to add small stage directions to more difficult scenes that were going to be harder to re-create. When drawing the stick men in our story boards we made sure that they were easy to identify so that when it came to shooting the scenes we would be able to tell apart the different characters.

Film Plan and Intentions

I intend to make a fast paced action thriller for my film. The film i make will be about a boy who's parents were killed ion cold blood by a secret organization. Later on in his life he is kidnapped by the same organization who plan to try and get information about his parents out of him. After he escapes and starts training so that he can fight them and take them down.

The opening section of the film is about the boy escaping from the facility he is trapped in, during the opening section the boy gets interrogated and us the audience see his past through a series of flashbacks. The interrogation scenes are shot in a small dark room and the protagonist the boy is tied to a chair near a dim light. The initial shot of the scene will start with a wide angle shot of the room to help set the scene to give the audience a better sense of what is happening. Next the interrogator approaches the boy and starts to beat him up this is where we are shown 2 flashbacks,  1 of him being captured and one of his parents lying dead on the floor. after struggling out of the ropes that bind his hands he breaks free and escapes the facility.

In this short section i hope to be able to establish to the audience clearly who the main character is and help them understand his background/story. I will try to make the flashbacks quickly edited to establish they are very vivid memories this would intern hopefully make the audience more interested in the actual story. I will also add special effects to the flashback scenes such as blur to make them more visually obvious to what they are, I will also try to experiment with colors to see if i can make the flashbacks appear as i would like them.

Music will play throughout the Opening section and the music will be tense and fast paced to create a sense of danger and intensity.

I will try to use props such as weapons like hammers/screwdrivers ect.

After Researching films i found "Stormbreaker" was a good example that i could use to influence my final project, this is because it as allot of fast paced action and fast editing that i think if could be re-created would look really good.

Editing and Importing Films

We learnt how to edit our footage using imovie on the Mac’s. We learnt about how to safely connect our cameras up to the Macs through the use of Fire wires. We then went onto import our footage and as we got used to the software we learnt how to edit it too. After experimenting with effects we reviewed our newly edited footage and checked for inconsistencies.

Planning - Storyboards - Editing

We planned out our storyboards for a piece of footage we were going to record, we were told that we had to use the 3 rules that we had previously learnt about and we also had to plan a script that contained someone opening a door and entering a room

Today we also learnt how to turn on and set up a camera, we also learnt how to use a range of features that have on the camera such as how to record using it, and also how to layback your footage. We also got shown how to load a tape without damaging the camera. We then went on to learn how to put the camera on to a tripod and also how to set the tripod up to use.

Next we learnt about continuity editing and how we could apply it to our footage and how we recorded it.