Wednesday, 9 May 2012
Friday, 27 April 2012
Research on past student opening
The past student example I have chosen to research is a short opening to film called 'Wheel chair bound'.
Firstly I looked at the titles and how they had chosen to put them into the film. The titles appear in a bold,white font and are shaking. The connotations of this are tension and fear, what the person in the wheelchair feels throughout the film.
Mise-en-scene
This shot here is very interesting as it shows the barrier that disabled people have with the rest of society in the form of the person in the wheelchair looking down onto the street at the happy couple through the window. Our group felt that this shot was very clever and we wanted to replicate it in our own work.
One of the key things this film done well was that they were very consistent with their framing. This is something that our group wanted to do as well. The framing in this shot was very good and allowed the scene to flow.
This shot when the character is washing their hands is fast-forward to create a deliberate effect. It instills fear into the audience and creates a great amount of tension.
choosing titles
One problem we had, was when it came to choosing a name for our feature film. We had many suggestion on what we could name for example 'HAM' & 'FREE SPIRIT' with these suggestions we had positive feedback from our classmates. one thought that the name 'HAM' would not be a good idea for our feature film as it wouldn't have no relevant to what we are trying to make & another classmate thought the name 'FREE SPIRIT' did not sound attractive for a teenager to watch it in the cinemas if it was a real film. So after the feedback from our classmate we finally decided on the name 'ELLIPSIS' which sounds catchy and attractive & would certainly draw the audience we are trying to target at.
Choosing Titles
When it came to choosing titles we wanted one that would be able to connote the plot of our feature film, so we had to choose one carefully. Above shows the different styles i tried out, to produce these different set of text styles i used a website called the www.dafont.com where it provides you with a set of different styles, font and text.
The one i decided to use is :
this is because the way the text is written is pretty effective when you first have a look at it. It is as if there is many layers of the word 'ellipsis' which also links to the plot of our feature film as its got to do with triplets.
Class Feedback
The responses were somewhat mixed after we screened what we had so far to our classmates. There were a lot of positives and we were praised on our framing, dynamic camera angles and our choice of costume. Having said that there were a few obvious things, that myself and the production team were already aware of, that our classmates thought we could improve. This included things such as completing editing and adding titles. There were also some less obvious things that were pointed out to us. Most notably
Numbered Shot List, Storyboard & Shooting List
Shot List
Scene 1 – Triplet 1
Actor: Charlie
Long Shot: Charlie at park, sitting on the bench.
Vertical Pan: showing the location of where Charlie is.
Mid Shot: Charlie sitting down on the bench
Close Up: Charlie with phone out
Mid Shot: Charlie with phone coming out
Mid Shot: Stands up
Mid Shot: Walking off
Long Shot: Walking off towards bridge
Low Angle: Charlie’s feet whilst walking towards bridge
Mid Shot: Walking towards bridge
Mid Shot: Walking on the bridge
Low angle: walking/bridge
Long/Mid Shot: towards small park/entering Small Park
Over The Shoulder: Charlie nods at other triplet.
Scene 2 – Triplet 2
Actor: Charlie
Vertical Pan: Charlie walking towards destination
Mid Shot: Stands up
Close Up: Facial expression headphones in ear
Mid Shot: Reading newspaper
Mid Shot: looking at watch
Mid Shot: Walking off
Long Shot: Walking off
Low Angle: Charlie feet walking to destination
Low angle: Charlie’s feet whilst walking
Long/Mid Shot: towards small park/entering Small Park
Over The Shoulder: Charlie nods at other triplet.
Scene 3 – Triplet 3 Point of View
Actor: Victim Amber
Horizontal Pan: Karolina walking past the school
Low Angle: Karolina feet walking past
Long Shot: Karolina walking down alley way
Tilt: Looking at Karolina whilst turning at the corner from the alley way
Horizontal Pan: Karolina walking past church curious and looking back each time
Long Shot: Crossing road enters the park.
Mid Shot: following Karolina into the small park.
Close Up: Following Karolina before she gets killed
Close Up: Karolina’s face as she screams
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Numbered Shot List
- Long Shot: Charlie at park, sitting on the bench.
- Long Shot: Walking off towards bridge
- Long/Mid Shot: towards small park/entering
- Long Shot: Walking off
- Long Shot: Crossing road enters the park.
- Long/Mid Shot: towards small park/entering
- Low Angle: K feet walking past
- Long Shot: K walking down alley way
- Vertical Pan: showing the location of where Charlie is.
- Vertical Pan: Charlie walking towards destination
- Tilt: Looking at K whilst turning at the corner from the alley way
- Horizontal Pan: K walking past church curious and looking back each time
- Mid Shot: Charlie sitting down on the bench
- Close Up: Charlie with phone out
- Mid Shot: Charlie with phone coming out
- Mid Shot: Stands up
- Mid Shot: Walking off
- Low Angle: Charlie’s feet whilst walking towards bridge
- Mid Shot: Walking towards bridge
- Mid Shot: Walking on the bridge
- Low angle: walking/bridge
- Over The Shoulder: Charlie nods at other triplet.
- Mid Shot: Stands up
- Close Up: Facial expression headphones in ear
- Mid Shot: Reading newspaper
- Mid Shot: looking at watch
- Mid Shot: Walking off
- Low Angle: Charlie feet walking to destination
- Low angle: Charlie’s feet whilst walking
- Over The Shoulder: Charlie nods at other triplet.
- Horizontal Pan: K walking past the school
- Mid Shot: following K into the small park.
- Close Up: Following K before she gets killed
- Close Up: K’s face as she screams
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