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.

Backlash 1st and Second Cuts

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Differences Between the Cuts

After exporting our 1st cut we could clearly see that more work needed to be done, in our second cut we added more music and sound effects to create a better sense of depth in our film, it also helped to make our film more immersive and entertaining. We also added a better introduction to our film as we thought that our characters identities weren't well enough explained in our 1st cuts. By adding this scene it enabled our audience to be able to engage more with our characters identities.

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.

Shot Reverse Shot

Shot reverse shot is basically a couple of shots, which is used to display characters reactions to things and also to emphasize the events in the scene. make the audience less bored while watching. It can consist of as many shots as you want as long as you repeat the pattern.

180 degree Rule

What is the 180 Degree rule?

The 180-degree rule is a rule used when recording. It basically makes sure that the scene that the audience is seeing isn't too confusing.

In this scene we can see 2 characters, the 180-degree rule makes sure that the characters on screen don’t cross the “180 degree line”. The 180-degree is an imaginary line that separates the scene. The line cannot be broken unless it is shown to be broken by use of the camera. This ensures the audience doesn’t get disorientated and can follow the scene better.

In both pictures we can imagine a line that best describes the 180 degree rule. This rule helps the audience orientate themselves, as no matter what side of the scene the camera is on, the characters should always stay on the same side of the scene. If person 1 were to sit where person 2 is and visa versa the 180-degree rule will have been broken. This can only be achieved if the camera shows the audience the change.