Storyboard

Storyboard.

This is our Storyboard for our film opening, it includes each shot we will use with the camera movement and the timing, when it comes to filming we are planning that some shots, timing and camera movements may change.

Final Film Treatment

We looked all of our film treatments and decided Jimmy's film 'It Never Happened' would be the best one to do as we decided we could have a clear opening scene for this. This is the film treatment for that;

My film idea is a drama about two close friends both 16 years of age called Dan and rick who one day decide to have a joke by picking on a kid from their class who has a stutter, it starts off with the two friends leading the kid into the woods claiming they want to show him a dead fox, then when they get there you see them start mimicking the boys stutter as he starts to back away the boys start throwing stones at him then as he tries to run away Dan picks up a rock and smashes it against the boy head and he falls to the ground a while later they realise that the boy is dead the rest of the film is about the increasing mental strain and the different trails the two boys have to go through in order to cover up what they have done. The film is from a different perspective because you are seeing this from the villains point of view, however as we follow these two boys it give up an insight into their personal lives and their background and creates conflicting emotions and opinions about these two boys and about what they have done.

Film Treatment: Dean Gilbert

Film Treatment: Dean Gilbert (72 years, 5 murders)

Our group all decided to create different film treatments and then we would choose one, this is my idea.

My film is a Horror/Thriller film and is based all around one main character Dean Gilbert, the film shows his whole life. In the present day Gilbert is an old man on his deathbed at the age of 72. We then begin to look back on his life discovering that he is a serial killer, killing 5 people throughout his life spanning across 60 years. With use of a voice over he takes us through each of these moments in his life explaining them and showing how they link. We also see into his childhood and how this affected his future life growing up in a violent home.

This leads to his first victim, his father who was violent towards him and his mother. When Dean was 12 he came home from school to find his father viciously beating his mother he panicked and picked up a knife from the kitchen and stabbing his father in the back killing him. As he was only 12 and possibly saved his mothers life his mother helped him dispose of the body and hide it from the police. We then see the rest of these murders.

A bully at his school who he strangled at the age of 16.

His girlfriend who he drowned in the bath at the age of 21.

After that he was then sent to prison after handing himself in, whilst in there he kills his fellow inmate whilst in a fight Dean smashes his head against the wall.

And finally when he was released at the age of 65 he murders a prostitute also by stabbing her as he did to his father all those years ago. The film ends with Dean closing his eyes and him dying.   

Main Production Task

AS Media Studies Production: My Group

My Group

In our group we have from left to right ( Matt Elsom, Billy Saxon, Jimmy Beaton and Max Allum)

Film opening analysis

Film Opening analysis

Straight away you see the recognizable of Disney to let the viewers know that this is a Disney made film.

We are also then introduced to the film title, The Muppets. This is not the same Muppets logo that is used on the film poster but one made to look old fashioned as it goes back in time.

We are then introduced to the main character of the film (Walter) with him narrating over a montage of his past and how he grew up, giving a background to the story.

During that montage we are introduced to the other main character Walters’s brother Gary, we are also introduced to the first of the opening credits. The actor’s name, as his name is first we see that he is the main star of this movie.

Next we are introduced to where the scene is set in Walter’s and Gary’s hometown, this is not however were the majority of the film takes place. It is only the beginning; this is good, as it does not give too much away.

This is a funny moment from the montage showing what a fun family film this is and gives us an indication that it will be like this throughout.

This is an important show as it shows Walter discovering the Muppets for the first time; it stays on this shot for a while to show their importance. There are also more opening credits of the executive producers.

This introduces us to all the other main characters in the film, the Muppets as a collective with Kermit at the front showing his importance.

This being the final shot of the opening scene shows the directors name like all film do.

Overall I believe this is a brilliant film opening as it has all the main components a film opening should, introducing all the character, setting the scene, not giving too much away, and the credits blend in with the scene and it doesn’t become frustrating sitting watching them all.

Preliminary Exercise Final Cut

Preliminary Exercise Final Cut

Evaluation of the Preliminary Exercise

For this Task I was in a group with Amber Law, Matt Elsom, Cristi MacFarlane and Tom Hurst. Overall i believe that we did good job of our preliminary exercise we made a few mistakes which we will have learnt from for next time. We correctly used all the necessary techniques such as match on action following someone walk through a door and over the shoulder shots to show a conversation for an interview. The biggest mistake made by our group was when we had taken shots. A few of them the camera was angled too high showing too much of what was above the characters. There is also the shot of the clock that did not work as we wished it would, it just looked out of place and ridiculous. Apart from them all the other shots were steady, and used appropriate camera angles.

Editing worked well and the whole piece ran through smoothly. The scene ran for exactly 30 seconds which it was supposed to do, we cut it down by shortening each clip that was perhaps longer than needed to be. One shot that I believe we did well during editing was when one of the characters was walking through the door it when from POV of them pushing down the door handle to the door being pushed open from the inside of the room. This worked as it was cut at the right moment so it did not overlap. 

All of the sound went according to plan with no unwanted back ground noise, there was only one shot where the sound did not go according to plan. In the POV shot of the door handle being opened there is no sound at all. We did not know this had happened until we got to editing. If we had more time for this exercise we would have shot that again. In the end the absence of sound in the shot worked as it builds tension before he goes in for the interview. 
Overall for our first production I believe our scene went well.

Max Allum Preliminary exercise

Max Allum Preliminary Exercise