Prelim Story board

Evaluation questions 7

Evaluation question 6

Evaluation question 4 and 5

Evalutaion question 3

Evaluation question 2

Evaluation Question 1

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Final Film feedback

We thought it would be useful to get feedback from our class about what worked well and what we could have done better because we thought that by getting feedback from people who took media would be helpful as they would be looking at specific aspects of the film rather than just the film as a whole. We thought this feedback could help with our own evaluations but also help with future projects that we may do.

Film description/Narrative

A 9 year old boy is belived to have gone missing one day after he ran off into the woods after his dog.

After many years of searching for the missing child the police close the case as and declare him dead, the family never gave up hope. However after getting into finanical difficulty the family are forced to move house much to their regret. A new family have now bought the property. Sam and her family move in and Sam soon discovers that not all of the last family left. At first Stephen terrorises her but as the film goes on Sam finds out more and more about Stephen and sets out to help him.

 

First idea of how the film will open is that the film will begin in a short dream with a quick sucession of shots building tension and confusion with a blury vision.

The dream will end on the image of the boy and cut to a girl waking up from the dream, where the girl will then get up look for her mother to realise she is out. As she starts to hear noises she will go up to the loft to investigate where our opening ends with a shot of the missing boy.

Choosing our location

We came up with several different ideas and places for our location by collecting together places that each person in our team already knew of. The fact that all of us live in different areas worked to our advantage as it gave us more to choose from.These are some of our selections.

Schedule

I made a schedule and also separated the different sequences from our film into different blocks to help ensure that our filming process was carried out quickly and smoothly. We wanted to make sure that we were completely happy with how all the shots came out and so we planned a 3 day shooting schedule. By planning a schedule, it meant we had a deadline to work towards, therefore making us more focused. I created the blocks so that we had set ourselves goals to aim towards at the end of each day. It also enabled us to work out what props we needed to be ready and to tell our actors when they were needed.

Shooting Blocks

      1. Dream sequence

        2.Boy in the house

        3.Newspaper delivery

                4.Waking up from the dream

Saturday- Shooting Blocks 1 and 2

10.00- arrive at location and set up props and equipment.

10.30-12.00- Filming

12.00-1.00- Lunch break

1.00-4.00- Filming

4.00-4.30- Pack up equipment

Sunday-Shooting Block 4

9.00- arrive at location and set up props and equipment.

9.30- Filming

11.30-12.30 Lunch break

12.30-2.30- Filming

2.30- Pack up equipment

Wednesday- Shooting Block 3

3.30-arrive at location and set up props and equipment

4.00- 6.30- Filming

6.30- Pack up equipment

Behind the scenes

My video

Video by Emma Bradshaw
The opening of the second behind the scenes video shows us blocking out some of the shots that we wanted so that when it came to filming, we were prepared and could save ourselves time on the day.

Final Film

Animatics

Main Film Storyboard

Designed by Our Whole Team

Drawn by Emma Bradshaw

Music

For our music we have a nursery rhyme over the top of our dream sequence. This is because it reflects the youth and innocence of the boy. When nursery rhymes are sung by children in a slow pace, it gives the audience a sense of unease when listening to it because the normal tones associated with children are upbeat and happy. This immediately makes the audience uncomfortable.
When looking for ideas for our nursery rhyme, we had a look at other examples such as:

The Woman in Black

Pirates of the Caribbean 

When it came to choosing the final music for our film, we wanted to use a nursery rhyme that linked in with our film. Originally I suggested we create our own but completely from scratch but we decided to choose one that people had heard before so they could relate to it. 'Row Row Row Your Boat' linked in with our stream aspect as it is a key theme in our film. However we decided to change the second part slightly to foreshadow our characters death.

Original lyrics:

Row row row your boat, gently down the stream,

Merrily merrily merrily, life is but a dream.

Row row row your boat

If you see a crocodile, don't forget to scream

OUR LYRICS

Row row row your boat, gently down the stream,
Merrily merrily merrily, life is but a dream.
Row row row your boat, gently down the stream,
Don't forget to watch your back, no one will hear you scream.

Our song is sung by Emma Bradshaw and was edited by myself and Emma Bradshaw

Preliminary shooting schedule

Shooting schedule from zakrodgers

Audience

Final preliminary task

Production company brainstorm

Final made by Zak Rodgers

Film Institution Logo research

Here is a research mood board of some major film institutes and their logos.
These are 9 major film institutions and their logos. This is to give us ideas for designing and building our logo for our own film institution 'Pandemic Pictures'. It also made us realise that the majority of Companies choose images that are linked with their name.
For example;

Universal, Dreamworks and Paramount are prime examples of this. Paramount includes mountains in their logo to link with their name, with Dreamworks and Universal doing the same thing. Universal having an image of the earth and stars in the background and Dreamworks including clouds, a moon and a night sky reminiscent of dreamlike scenery.

Something we also noticed with these logos is the scale of these objects. We noticed that they all use large and vast things. This has the connotation of endless possibilities.