Tuesday 4 May 2010
Sunday 17 January 2010
Evaluation
For our evaluation, we answered 7 questions to do with the production and post-production. We decided to use Microsoft PowerPoint to create the slides. Once all the questions were answered, we saved each slide as a picture, then added them to iMovie. In iMovie we then added various transitions, effects, music (Smooth Criminal + Jam by Michael Jackson) and snippets of our film, Lockstock and Two Smoking Barrels and the intro of Warner Bros. Aswell as this movie evaluation, we also have the original presentation uploaded to www.slideshare.com
To view it bigger or at a better quality, double click on the video or link and a new page for Youtube will open.
Dealer - Opening Title Sequence
This is the final version
We have changed the introduction, and created our own production clip, 'Full Deck Pictures.'
This is the first version of our film for the opening title
using the a cover version of the song "Beat It" by Michael Jackson.
Because of the layout I have chosen, a quarter of the film has been cut off. To view the full video, you will either need to double click on this video (to open a new window), or click on the link which has been provided below.
These photo's show our location , where we filmed (double-click to enlarge)
GrarageBand And I-movie Screenshots (double-click to enlarge)
The title of the film in which we have made opening titles for, is called 'Dealer'. The story is that one character (Ryan) is seen walking along different roads and paths, leading to another character. The other character (Max) is shown waiting. When the two characters meet each other, the waiting character gets a small black box out of his pocket. He hands the box over to the other character. You then see him open to box, to see that the contents of it is just a card, the Ace of Spades. We chose to end it like this to leave the audience asking the question "What is that card? Why an Ace of Spades?"
Our original was going to be a chase scene, but one of the members in our group was unable to attend due to unknown circumstances. We thought up the idea of our new plan on the day, traveling to our location.
Our storyboard is based on our first idea, the chase, and we were told not to create a new one. I edited the film in roughly a week, using various effects including changing the brightness and the sound effects. For example, we changed some footage to black and white so that it looked like it was from a CCTV camera, and we added a camera shutter sound to make it look like someone was watching us and taking pictures. Other sound effects which we used included a police car siren, a car passing at speed, various buttons, and a lift going up and down.
We chose our titles to be linked with the name of our film, ‘Dealer’. So we decided to use words such as Ace and Royal Flush.
The original song for our movie was a guitar cover of ‘Beat It’ by Michael Jackson. Although this music went well with our short film, it didn’t really suit an opening title sequence. Instead of using this song, we to create our own songs using Garageband.
As our group was the first to finish the opening sequence, we received a lot of feedback. The only criticism was that the first titles were not how they should be, like a conventional film. Taking this into consideration, we decided to make a third and final version, changing the titles at the start of the film. At the beginning, we now use the Universal Pictures logo. As well is this, we also made our own little clip for our own production company, 'Full Deck Pictures'. We added music to this as well.
Key Roles
Ryan Howard:
Director
Executive Producer
Music/Sound
Editing
Props
Max Levene:
Producer
Filming
Cinematography
Costumes
Location
Moorgate: Around Moorgate and on the roof of the Barbican Centre.
Cast List
Dealer - Max Levene
Receiver - Ryan Howard
Equipment List
Mino HD Video Camera
Tripod
Props
Sunglasses
Box
Set of playing cards
Cigarettes
Lucozade bottle
Costumes
Ryan - Black hat, sunglasses, grey jumper, blue jeans, white/blue trainers
Max - Black hooded top, blue jeans, black trainers
Sound Effects (In Order)
Noise of zipper
Police car siren
Fast car driving past
Camera shutter
Button for lift
Doors opening/closing on lift
Lift going up
Date Of Filming
4th January, 2010
Editing
iMovie
Garageband
Shot List For Opening Title Sequence
span style="font-style:italic;">This is our storyboard for our first production , however it was scrapped due to one of our members be unable to attend.
This is My Animatic
For our evaluation, we answered 7 questions to do with the production and post-production. We decided to use Microsoft PowerPoint to create the slides. Once all the questions were answered, we saved each slide as a picture, then added them to iMovie. In iMovie we then added various transitions, effects, music (Smooth Criminal + Jam by Michael Jackson) and snippets of our film, Lockstock and Two Smoking Barrels and the intro of Warner Bros. Aswell as this movie evaluation, we also have the original presentation uploaded to www.slideshare.com
To view it bigger or at a better quality, double click on the video or link and a new page for Youtube will open.
Dealer Evaluation
View more presentations from ryanhoward0.
Dealer - Opening Title Sequence
This is the final version
We have changed the introduction, and created our own production clip, 'Full Deck Pictures.'
This is the first version of our film for the opening title
using the a cover version of the song "Beat It" by Michael Jackson.
Because of the layout I have chosen, a quarter of the film has been cut off. To view the full video, you will either need to double click on this video (to open a new window), or click on the link which has been provided below.
These photo's show our location , where we filmed (double-click to enlarge)
GrarageBand And I-movie Screenshots (double-click to enlarge)
The title of the film in which we have made opening titles for, is called 'Dealer'. The story is that one character (Ryan) is seen walking along different roads and paths, leading to another character. The other character (Max) is shown waiting. When the two characters meet each other, the waiting character gets a small black box out of his pocket. He hands the box over to the other character. You then see him open to box, to see that the contents of it is just a card, the Ace of Spades. We chose to end it like this to leave the audience asking the question "What is that card? Why an Ace of Spades?"
Our original was going to be a chase scene, but one of the members in our group was unable to attend due to unknown circumstances. We thought up the idea of our new plan on the day, traveling to our location.
Our storyboard is based on our first idea, the chase, and we were told not to create a new one. I edited the film in roughly a week, using various effects including changing the brightness and the sound effects. For example, we changed some footage to black and white so that it looked like it was from a CCTV camera, and we added a camera shutter sound to make it look like someone was watching us and taking pictures. Other sound effects which we used included a police car siren, a car passing at speed, various buttons, and a lift going up and down.
We chose our titles to be linked with the name of our film, ‘Dealer’. So we decided to use words such as Ace and Royal Flush.
The original song for our movie was a guitar cover of ‘Beat It’ by Michael Jackson. Although this music went well with our short film, it didn’t really suit an opening title sequence. Instead of using this song, we to create our own songs using Garageband.
As our group was the first to finish the opening sequence, we received a lot of feedback. The only criticism was that the first titles were not how they should be, like a conventional film. Taking this into consideration, we decided to make a third and final version, changing the titles at the start of the film. At the beginning, we now use the Universal Pictures logo. As well is this, we also made our own little clip for our own production company, 'Full Deck Pictures'. We added music to this as well.
Key Roles
Ryan Howard:
Director
Executive Producer
Music/Sound
Editing
Props
Max Levene:
Producer
Filming
Cinematography
Costumes
Location
Moorgate: Around Moorgate and on the roof of the Barbican Centre.
Cast List
Dealer - Max Levene
Receiver - Ryan Howard
Equipment List
Mino HD Video Camera
Tripod
Props
Sunglasses
Box
Set of playing cards
Cigarettes
Lucozade bottle
Costumes
Ryan - Black hat, sunglasses, grey jumper, blue jeans, white/blue trainers
Max - Black hooded top, blue jeans, black trainers
Sound Effects (In Order)
Noise of zipper
Police car siren
Fast car driving past
Camera shutter
Button for lift
Doors opening/closing on lift
Lift going up
Date Of Filming
4th January, 2010
Editing
iMovie
Garageband
Shot List For Opening Title Sequence
span style="font-style:italic;">This is our storyboard for our first production , however it was scrapped due to one of our members be unable to attend.
This is My Animatic
Wednesday 25 November 2009
MORE opening scenes
This is the opening scene of falling down , dirty harry and bored to death , taken from art of the title .com , i decided to look further in to opening titles after getting a little stuck for ideas.
key roles in film ( production )
THE RULES
.director
.producer
.writer
.editor
.cinematographer
.sound recording
EQUIPMENT
.is the camera charged?
.do you have the charging cable?
.do you have the SD cards / tape ?
.to film with ?
.is the tripod working?
PROPS/COSTUMES/MAKE UP
.who is responsible for props ?
DIRECTOR
.storyboard / shot list
.directs actors
.ensures you get what you planned
PRODUCING
.overseas whole production
.ensures project is delived on time
.schedules and plans the shoot and post production
.director
.producer
.writer
.editor
.cinematographer
.sound recording
EQUIPMENT
.is the camera charged?
.do you have the charging cable?
.do you have the SD cards / tape ?
.to film with ?
.is the tripod working?
PROPS/COSTUMES/MAKE UP
.who is responsible for props ?
DIRECTOR
.storyboard / shot list
.directs actors
.ensures you get what you planned
PRODUCING
.overseas whole production
.ensures project is delived on time
.schedules and plans the shoot and post production
The 3 stages of media production (film)
The 3 stages of media production (film)
1.develoment and research ( end of this stage script ready to go )
2. pre - production - preparing for production
. storyboard / shot list
. locations ( finding )
. casting
. scheduling (1) - location list
- props list
- costumes
- equipment
- actors / extras
- make - up
- sound effects
. budgeting
. testing camera and sound
. sounds
3. production filming
4. post production ( editing picture and sound )
5. distribution and exhibition
1.develoment and research ( end of this stage script ready to go )
2. pre - production - preparing for production
. storyboard / shot list
. locations ( finding )
. casting
. scheduling (1) - location list
- props list
- costumes
- equipment
- actors / extras
- make - up
- sound effects
. budgeting
. testing camera and sound
. sounds
3. production filming
4. post production ( editing picture and sound )
5. distribution and exhibition
Friday 20 November 2009
Since thinking about my two min opening scene i have decided not to go with doing a war drama like saving private ryan , i came to this conclusion and it would be extremely time consuming and hard to film with no real props . so i have since decided to do a chase opening titles like that in lock stock , this is NOT a car chase scene but a seen where we see people on foot getting chased i researched a few ideas this is one that i rather like :
Train Spotting - Chase scene
i am also looking at trainspotting , i like the idea of the opening scene in this movie with the voice over. From the voice over we meet the main characters and we learn about them . the shots that are used are also original , the first scene we see is of two men running down a high street , with lost of goods falling out of there jackets whilst getting chased by the police , i would like to use this idea in my opening scene.
Another example i like is that of :
lock stock - chase scene (Double-Click to enlarge)
As you can see from these screen shots it is a very fast passed chase scene with the police , which i am going to attempt to recreate .
Train Spotting - Chase scene
i am also looking at trainspotting , i like the idea of the opening scene in this movie with the voice over. From the voice over we meet the main characters and we learn about them . the shots that are used are also original , the first scene we see is of two men running down a high street , with lost of goods falling out of there jackets whilst getting chased by the police , i would like to use this idea in my opening scene.
Another example i like is that of :
lock stock - chase scene (Double-Click to enlarge)
As you can see from these screen shots it is a very fast passed chase scene with the police , which i am going to attempt to recreate .
Tuesday 17 November 2009
Dude Wheres My Car ?(Double-click to enlarge)
Camera Shots From Movies
1. This is a master shot : this allows us to see most of the characters in the movie at one scene
2. This is a medium shot : this allows us to see a bit of the setting and more of the facial expressions and body language of the actor .
3. Establishing shot : this gives us an ideo of the setting , for example in this movie ( dude wheres my car ? )
4. This is a two shot : this gives us an ideo of the actors in the seen and makes us focus on them .
Camera Shots From Movies
1. This is a master shot : this allows us to see most of the characters in the movie at one scene
2. This is a medium shot : this allows us to see a bit of the setting and more of the facial expressions and body language of the actor .
3. Establishing shot : this gives us an ideo of the setting , for example in this movie ( dude wheres my car ? )
4. This is a two shot : this gives us an ideo of the actors in the seen and makes us focus on them .
DOUBLE - CLICK TO ENLARGE
Camera shots of movies :
Spider Man
1. Establishing shot : this allows us to see the setting of the movie , for example in this movie spiderman , we see that the movie is set in new york city as we can see the empire state building .
2. Two shot : this allows us to see the important people in the shot and focus entirly on these two ..
3. Close up shot : this allows us to see ( in this movie the hand of spider man ) , it isnt extreme close up so we cant see the extreme detail but we can see enough , extreme close ups allow you to see in great detail .
4. medium shot : this shot allows us to see a bit of the body but more of the face and setting .
Another one of the movies that inspired me in the genre that i am focusing on is Bravo two zero. This was made in 1999 one year after saving private ryan. This just like saving private ryan i a very graphic movie , which includes gory scenes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FegiWkooAvQ&feature=related
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120617/
I have decided that for my opening titles, I am going to create a title in the action/drama/war genre. The best example for this is the film 'Saving Private Ryan'.
This is the imdb link so you can see specific details of the film.
This is the youtube video for the opening titles, showing the music and other techniques used to fit in with the film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68t6PhbYiSo
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120815/
Tuesday 3 November 2009
Mr Bean - The Holiday (Double-Click to Enlarge)
I really like the opening of this movie especially the titles , as you can see from my screen shots the opening is very simple , its just " london , june" however from that point on you will see i tried to capture what the titles did as Mr beans mini arrived . the mini actually pushes the titels from left to write which i throught was a great feature , if you look in screen shots 5,6,7,8 you will see this technique very clearly.
I really like the opening of this movie especially the titles , as you can see from my screen shots the opening is very simple , its just " london , june" however from that point on you will see i tried to capture what the titles did as Mr beans mini arrived . the mini actually pushes the titels from left to write which i throught was a great feature , if you look in screen shots 5,6,7,8 you will see this technique very clearly.
Lock Stock Screen shot.
As you can see , these are 10 screen shots of the opening scene of Guy Richies film , Lock , Stock and Two Smoking Barrels . from these opening titles you can tell that the film is a fast , thrilling movie. the opening title are unconventional in the sense that instead of text moving over a screen , each title is cut and has its own scene as the screen shots show us . the font used is a typewriter font , this gives us the impression that the following film may have some crime or violence involed as we see this font used in army films setting a scene i.e " 0800 hours " and so on .....
My 2 min beginning of a film - coursework
i have many rough ideas for my cousework but at this stage nothing is set in stone. i was think off doing either and chase scene like the beginning of lock stock or horror scene in the woods much like the village . if i where to do a chase scene it would have many slow motion cuts , fast passed music and many pan and track shots. again on the topic of a chase scene i would most proberbly have an scene like in snatch , where each character is paused on and a title with there name comes on the the screen.
my rough ideas for a horror opening scene would be , shot in woods it would be dark but the overcasted and maybe raining , i would like to also do a steady cam type of scene like in goodfellas.
i have many rough ideas for my cousework but at this stage nothing is set in stone. i was think off doing either and chase scene like the beginning of lock stock or horror scene in the woods much like the village . if i where to do a chase scene it would have many slow motion cuts , fast passed music and many pan and track shots. again on the topic of a chase scene i would most proberbly have an scene like in snatch , where each character is paused on and a title with there name comes on the the screen.
my rough ideas for a horror opening scene would be , shot in woods it would be dark but the overcasted and maybe raining , i would like to also do a steady cam type of scene like in goodfellas.
Saturday 17 October 2009
Wednesday 14 October 2009
180 degree mistake
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This video shows us how very simple and easy it is to break the 180 degree rule . This footage was actually an accident we didn't realise in till we edited our footage that we had made a vital mistake in which we broke the 180 degree rule , so we decided to keep the footage and upload it on to our blogs so we could avoid the same mistakes .
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This video shows us how very simple and easy it is to break the 180 degree rule . This footage was actually an accident we didn't realise in till we edited our footage that we had made a vital mistake in which we broke the 180 degree rule , so we decided to keep the footage and upload it on to our blogs so we could avoid the same mistakes .
preliminary task
This is our finished and edited preliminary task movie. The two actors are Max Levene : actor 1 and Ryan Howard : actor 2 , also in our group was Sam miller : camera man and claudia humps : director . Together we all edited the our footage as a group , we all focused very hard to point out silly and easy mistakes to make just like breaking the 180 degree rule .
This is our finished and edited preliminary task movie. The two actors are Max Levene : actor 1 and Ryan Howard : actor 2 , also in our group was Sam miller : camera man and claudia humps : director . Together we all edited the our footage as a group , we all focused very hard to point out silly and easy mistakes to make just like breaking the 180 degree rule .
Tuesday 13 October 2009
MY TOP 3 MOVIE'S
(1) KEVIN AND PERRY GO LARGE
RELEASE DATE : 21 April 2000 (UK)
GENRE : comedy , music
YOUTUBE LINK : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nENwy9GRyF0
(2) RISE OF THE FOOT SOLIDER
RELEASE DATE : 1 December 2008 (USA)
GENRE : drama , crime , biography
YOUTUBE LINK : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=551-QfYJymI
(3) AWAY DAYS
RELEASE DATE : 22 May 2009 (UK)
GENRE : drama
YOUTUBE LINK : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbuO_CzfWBQ
(1) KEVIN AND PERRY GO LARGE
RELEASE DATE : 21 April 2000 (UK)
GENRE : comedy , music
YOUTUBE LINK : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nENwy9GRyF0
(2) RISE OF THE FOOT SOLIDER
RELEASE DATE : 1 December 2008 (USA)
GENRE : drama , crime , biography
YOUTUBE LINK : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=551-QfYJymI
(3) AWAY DAYS
RELEASE DATE : 22 May 2009 (UK)
GENRE : drama
YOUTUBE LINK : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbuO_CzfWBQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxOa_T1705Y
This is the link to my opening title that i created using IMOVIE , i did this task to show i could create a movie title and add music to my short movie . it took me a while to get used to using the software but after a while of trial and error i got used to it . i started out by searching on goggle for images of Media , i came across one i liked of well known news papers and i drag and dropped it in to my i life project . I then set about the task of adding music to my project . i achieved this by taking a sample of gargeband and again draging it in , then came the task of adding the text and finally i used a fade in effect at the beginning .
This is the link to my opening title that i created using IMOVIE , i did this task to show i could create a movie title and add music to my short movie . it took me a while to get used to using the software but after a while of trial and error i got used to it . i started out by searching on goggle for images of Media , i came across one i liked of well known news papers and i drag and dropped it in to my i life project . I then set about the task of adding music to my project . i achieved this by taking a sample of gargeband and again draging it in , then came the task of adding the text and finally i used a fade in effect at the beginning .
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