New Movie Idea

Today we have been thinking about our previous ideas and have received feedback. The feedback we recieved was to think about our ideas and watch other films in the same genre to gain better ideas. As we want to do a comedy, we believe that except Kool Kids which we don't think will appeal to a broad enough audience, the other two films are to serious to be comedies.

After looking at other films which are in the same genre we found out that the British comedy films generally have very little dialogue or monologue, appropriate music for the theme of the film, and they are generally not funny and have a catch at the end to make the audience want to watch the rest of the film.

Our new idea which we are yet to name, is set in a city at sunset. A teenage boy is running away from a very angry man indicating he has done something wrong. Whilst running away, the teenager encounters unfortunate comedic events like stepping in dog mess, tripping over bins and other various incidents. We will use many different types of camera angles and shots throughout this scene. The penultimate shot shows the teenager, after finding a passing garden to hide in, not knowing where the angry character is. The final shot shows the teenager relax, after he has found a place to hide, sitting against the garden wall breathing deeply. Then his phone rings which blows his cover as the angry man hears it and knows where he is. That is where the scene will end. The titles will be showing during the running footage.

We believe that when the phone rings this will bring great comedic affect to entice the viewers to want to watch more.

Initial Ideas

Today we presented our initial ideas to the rest of the group. We gave a basic idea of the storyline and what we would do for the opening scene.

Kool Kids - The five characters skive a day of school to go to Hunstanton, without realising one of the characters goes missing. The film shows the rest of the characters search for a missing person and what happens during the search.

Feedback:

The End - Haunted Woods at night, people camping, each character has a scene on their own in the forest. They end up disappearing, until the end of the film when the character finds all of them possessed.

Feedback:

Stanton - 4 main characters, go on a day out to Hunstanton. Its planned to be a normal day out but something goes wrong...

Camera Movement

Tracking

A tracking shot is when the camera is mounted on a wheeled platform that is pushed on rails while the picture is being taken

Crane
A crane shot is a shot taken by a camera on a crane. The most obvious uses are to view the actors from above or to move up and away from them.


Tilt
A shot in which the camera remains in place but rotates vertically on its axis so that the character is continually reframed.


Pan
A shot made while the camera swings on a tripod in a horizontal arc

Camera Shots

• Extreme Long Shot (ELS) - Establishing Shot (ES) - This shot is to show the panaramic view of an exterior location. This shot is generally used at the start of a film to establish the location of the scene/film. If there are people in this shot they will be very small figures in relation to other objects in the scene i.e. a large building/
• Long Shot (LS) - This is similar to an (ELS) but just zoomed in. You can still see a persons whole figure but they are closer to the camera and they are shown larger in relation to the surroundings. This can also be used as ELS.
• Medium Long Shot (MLS) - In this shot you can still see the whole character but in a lot more detail to the previous 2 shots. Although you cant see as much as the background in this shot it still retains the setting quite clearly in the mise-en-scene-
• Medium Shot (MS) - Again this is similar to the previous shots as you can still see a good deal of the background but this time you can only see roughly from the knees or waist to the top of the head
• Medium Close Up (MCU) -  This shot is quite a lot closer to the person in this shot. You can only their mid-chest up to the top of the head. You can see a quite a lot of detail of the character in this shot. MCU is usually used on people in a conversaion.
• Close Up (CU) - A close up shot shows the head and shoulders of a person to the top of their head. This shot is very detailed of the persons face on screen. This shot is generally used to show someones emotions, feelings and reactions.
• Extreme Close Up (ECU) - This shot just shows someones face so you can really tell the emotions, feeling and reactions of a character. This shot can build up tension for great dramatic effect

Preliminary Exercise Storyboard

Preliminary Exercise

16/09/10 - First shooting for Preliminary Exercise - After editing the footage we realised we had no audio due to a problem with the microphone. We then had to re-shoot the task to gain a better quality product.

17/09/10 - Second Shooting for Preliminary Exercise

21/09/10 - Editing Preliminary Exercise, we had a few problems when rendering the final video, after resolving the issue we were able to complete the Preliminary Video.