17 December 2012

Today we got equipment for making our Thriller movie, we got a tripod and a camera and will film during 21st December 2012 - 7th January 2013.

David Owusu

Storyboard

Picture one

There is a shot reverse shot between the boss and his right hand man talking to Frank. In this scene, Frank is ordered by the boss to go and kill three, later known to be his friends. Here several of our props are going to be used as we have envelopes with photos inside of the people that Frank is going to have to kill.

Storyboard

Our animated storyboard consists of our main idea, but as we reviewed it and gave some constructive criticism we decided to make it more interesting, to add a clip towards the beginning which will capture the audience further into the movie.

Instead of starting it off by establishing characters slowly and chronologically, it starts in the middle throwing action onto the scene straight away.

A mob boss, crime lord or Don is a person in charge of a criminal orginization. A boss typically has absolute or near-absolute control over his subordinates, is greatly feared by his subordinates for his ruthlessness and willingness to take lives in order to exert his influence, and profits come from the crime his organization engages in.

Today's Lesson (Akshay, David, Antonio, Ricardo)

In today's lesson everyone in our group had a specific job/ task to carry out.

Akshay- My job was to blog about today's lesson then  once i had finished blogging i had to find necessary and relevant sound effects or music to go with out anamatic storyboard.

David/Ricardo- David and Ricardo's jobs for the lesson were to complete the storyboard and further enhance our opening sequence.

Antonio- Antonio job was to create music that he thought would go well with our production intro.

Camera Shots (Ricardo)

2 weeks ago with Mr Fretz we learnt different camera shots and they way in which they are used in TV Drama's and Films. The different camera shots that we learnt were:

Pan-
Tilt-
Zoom Out-
Tracking- Arc-
High and Low angle-
Focus in and Out-
Rack Focus-
Crash Zoom-
Frame in a frame-
Dutch Tilt-

Today's Lesson (Akshay & Ricardo)

Today we carried on completing out new storyboard, we drew the pictures which represented the main 6 scenes in our storyboard with a description of what they showed.

Opening Sequence Presentation (Akshay)

This link will direct you to my Spiderman Opening Sequence Presentation. The presentation shows all four micro elements sections analysed.

http://www.slideshare.net/mhchsmedia/the-amazing-spiderman-presentation

Todays Lesson (Akshay, Antonio, David, Ricardo)

Today we discussed what what changes we were going to make to our opening sequence.     We analysed our current opening sequence, and we realised that our scene was for an act whole movie so we wouldn't be able to include and present everyones characters within the 2 minute time limit.

Types Of Shots (Akshay)

Very Wide Shot 

The very wide shot is much closer to the subject than an extreme wide shot, but still much further away than awide shot. The subject is visible here but only just (in this case it's a boy leaning against the fence). The emphasis is very much on placing him in his environment.

Wide Shot 

In the wide shot, the subject takes up the full frame. In this case, the boy's feet are almost at the bottom of frame and his head is almost at the top. Obviously the subject doesn't take up the whole width and height of the frame, since this is as close as we can get without losing any part of him. The small amount of room above and below the subject can be thought of as safety room — you don't want to be cutting the top of the head off. It would also look uncomfortable if his feet and head were exactly at the top and bottom of frame.

Mid Shot

 

The mid shot shows some part of the subject in more detail, whilst still showing enough for the audience to feel as if they were looking at the whole subject. In fact, this is an approximation of how you would see a person "in the flesh" if you were having a casual conversation. You wouldn't be paying any attention to their lower body, so that part of the picture is unnecessary.

Medium Close Up Shot 

The medium closeup is half way between a mid shot and a close up. This shot shows the face more clearly, without getting uncomfortably close.

Close Up

In the closeup shot, a certain feature or part of the subject takes up most of the frame. A close up of a person usually means a close up of their face (unless specified otherwise).

Extreme Close Up

The ECU (also known as XCU) gets right in and shows extreme detail.

Over The Shoulder Shot

This shot is framed from behind a person who is looking at the subject. The person facing the subject should usually occupy about 1/3 of the frame.

AKSHAY

Presentation (Akshay)

Today we pitched our idea to our class, we gave everybody a jist of what it consists of, and sold our idea to our teacher.

We discussed further ideas to add to our opening scene and got rid of ones that weren't relevant.