Question 1 - Evaluation

There are many typical thriller conventions that are included in our film. The first and I believe to be the most obvious convention is fast paced action. Thriller films would definitely not be called Thrillers if hey didn't have any action in them. This can include car chases, fight scenes and even normal chase scenes. In our film, we have definitely shown fast paced action from the very first scene. The film opens with Jonathan Sinclair (main character)running from three policemen. While this scene is going on, we obviously want to show the audience that this is a fast scene so we have edited the shots to be quick and fast as if it were a real movie. For example, in Bourne Legacy, while he is being chased by the enemies, the cuts between the shots are generally quick and normally do not last for longer than 5 seconds.
Another element and convention that is apparent in our film is a chase scene. Throughout at least the first 30 of our film, we experience Jonathan running from the police. Now since chase scenes are often linked with fast paced action, we had to edit the first few seconds really fast to ensure to the audience that they understood a chase scene was taking place. For example, in the film League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, there is a rapid chase scene in a car when they are trying to defuse a bomb and during this scene, there were a lot of POV (Point of View), shot reverse shot and match on action shots so that the audience could see exactly what the heroes were looking at.
Though very briefly included in our film, we have added another typical convention; a love interest. in our clip, while Jonathan is running he begins have flashbacks of his last few days. This is when he begins thinking about the time he was first confronted from Nathaniel's (Split personality) girlfriend . While the girlfriend is shouting at him for being with another girl, Jonathan is wildly confused thinking that he has no idea who this person is. This segment of the film doesn't long but I believe that this should be involved in the evaluation since it is still a typical thriller convention.

Finished Studio Ident - Tesseract Studios

 

Me and my partner Connor have finally decided on how our studio idnet will look and how it will be animated. I have put a small video on top of this text which is what our ident will look like at the beginning of the film when we eventually finish all of the filming and produce the film. The text that we have used was used in the original game of Metal gear Solid because we think that this fits in well with the look of the Tesseract. Our original idea was to have the text appear side on underneath the picture of the Tesseract but we were unable to find the right animation in the application LiveType that we were using. So we had to settle for the next animation that caught our eye and it just happened to be this one.                                                                        

Movie Preview - Waking Up

Now we have done our day one and two of filming but since some of the day one shots aren't really that good, we have decided to only make a short preview of the kind of film that we are going to make. Now the preview is on my partner Connor's Youtube channel which I will put a link under as well in case you wish to preview any of the other movies we have made. Now we had to eliminate all of the shots that we considered to be bad and on the first day, I would say about half of them were good and some were bad. Although I don't think that we will be releasing the day one footage until the entire film is finished.(It just adds to the suspense) Now the video below shows our main actor, Tomas waking up from a slumber in Nathaniel's clothes (his split personality) and with blood on his hands. So confused and bewildered he immediately decides to rush to the bathroom and clean his hands but as he looks up in the mirror something strange happens.

Filming Day One and Two

Today was out first day of filming and we have actually achieved quite a lot. We have been able to film all of the outside scenes but along some of the shots that you will see then we show the video on Youtube, the sun goes behind the clouds sometimes and then the video goes really dark. So we will probably will have to edit the look of the video when we edit it in FinalCut. When the video is uploaded I will add the Youtube video in my next post so that you can have a quick preview of what we will be filming in the next couple weeks. The first film day was at Eastbrookend Country Park where we said that we would be filming first. Although the Sun was out, it made the day warm and comfortable for filming but we didn't realise that it was raining the day before which meant that the ground would be slippery and muddy and then we eventually had a little accident but I'll tell you about that in a little bit.

As the picture that you can see above this is the first day of out filming where we were out at the park filming. As well as it being muddy, it was also terribly windy which massively effected our filming because the voices of the actors doesn't travel with the sound which means it doesn't get to the camera. Now the day was going pretty good and we managed to get a lot done even though we were kind of playing about sometimes. Now we did know that it was slippery and muddy when we got there, but we kind of forgot about it so as you can see in the picture belo; our main actor Tomas slipped while in the mud. Since we needed his perfectly white clean shirt for the filming day (of course continuity) we had to stop filming and continue this another day. SO we are now planning on filming the next Wednesday coming and hopefully we will be able to finish all of the filming so that all we have to do is edit and create our bloopers clip of all the fun moments that we had while filming. Also we might have to add another bit to the Risk Assessment because we didn't expect it to rain and that the surface would be slippery.

Company Name and Ident - Tesseract

Me and my partner Connor have decided on the name for our company. We have decided to call it Tesseract Studios! Those of you who are familiar with movies will know that this is indeed the artifact that was included in the film Avengers Assemble. Although our company name really has nothing to do with the film and just happens to be a massive co-incidence, we believe that this is a very suitable name for our company. Now all that we have to do now is produce an ident for our company. We both have ideas about what the indent should be but we will have to figure it out either over the phone, Facebook or even in the next lesson that we are in.

Now I've been thinking about what our ident should be, and I mean really thinking! But basically my idea is to have just a shiny crystal box on a pedestal and then there is a bright white flash and after that the Tesseract begins to form then the studio name is shown to be etched into the pedestal. I think this would be a good ident because then it shows the importance of the shape and how powerful it is especially because it is 4th dimensional, I think it will add an extra effect. And I copyright this!!

Waking Up Animatic

This is a animatic of the frames that me and Connor have made for our film that we are going to make in the coming week. In this Youtube video that is shown above, we have taken pictures of all of the frames that Connor has drawn for our film. This is the first and basic ideas that we have come up with for our film.

Thriller Planning Documents

This is the Risk Assessment Sheet which outlines all of the major incidents that may occur whenever we are filming. Some of these include having numbers of the other film crew or the local authorities. As well as pointing out all of the issues that  may happen, we need to say what we will plan to do in case one of the incidents does happen such as make sure that a least one of our filming crew has a phone that is fully charged so that we can call someone to come and assist us. Also at the bottom of the sheet we have put a list of the local authorities that we can call in case of an emergency. Finally we have to put the location of which we are filming so that if we have any problems then the authorities know where we are.

The Risk Assessment and Contingency Plan are quite similar to each other because they both ask what we will do in case something goes wrong while we are filming. We have listed several different things such as that the camera might break or the battery may die so we should bring extra batteries or bring another. Another example is if a crew member has been injured we will need to have charged phones so that we can either call the injured film members family or the local authorities.

This is the shooting schedule that we are planning to follow and show where we will be and what frames we will be shooting at the location. We have also labelled all of the different locations that we are filming such as someone's bathroom for the scene where Jon is looking at the mirror. We also had to include the equipment, costumes, props, cast/crew.

Treatment is outlining all of the jobs that the people in the filming group are taking part in. As you can see from the print screen, there is only two people in this film group; me and Connor. We are both equally as important in the group and all of the roles in the film are shared although sometimes one person in the group may do more work in an area that they are especially good at. Next we added the title of the film and the tag line/motto that would be underneath the film. For example, on buses they have the film motto underneath to try and drag people in to try and watch the film. Also we have added a synopsis which is a summary of the film in a small paragraph that is easy to read but doesn't give away the entire plot of the film. Finally underneath all of that we have things that are going to be in our film like a graphic match and flashback.

Finally there is the Costume and Props that all of the people who are in the film will be wearing. This includes the main cast such as Nathaniel/Jonathan, the policeman etc.