Film Production Logo - Gareth Allen, Matt Bull, Chloe McGlinchey and Hannah Sell

These are a selection of different film production logos that certain film production companies have. We think that these designs are ones that we are thinking we might use with our own Ninjabread Film Production company. The 'Tough Monkey Productions' seems to be a good logo for us as it uses a picture as the main part of the logo. This is what we have thought in our initial ideas for our logo. We have also thought that we will put the title of our film production company underneath the picture. This is the same layout as the one of 'Tough Monkey Productions' and also of 'Gutz Film'.

Gareth Allen, Matt Bull, Chloe McGlinchey and Hannah Sell

Film walk through and planning - Hannah Sell and Chloe McGlinchey

On the 02/02/2010, we have planned to go down to our location and do a walk through of shots that we wanted to include, and take out or add new shots we think may work. We will also work out our angles and camera shots, with this we will take photos so this can give us a brief reminder of what we wanted to do.

Thoughts for Film title - Hannah Sell & Chloe McGlinchey

As a group we thought we would go for a one word film title as we thought it may be more effective. We came up with a few ideas; going from the help of everyday words then using a thesaurus to find a more in depth meaning to the word and using that.
Here is a list of our ideas:

• Oneirology
• Dillusion
• Disambiguation
• Hypnopomic
• Paresthesia
  
• Somnipathy
• Narcolepsy
• Parasomnia
• Insomnia

After a heated group discussion 3/4 of our group agreed on to call the film "Narcolepsy" however one member (Gareth Allen) disagreed as he wanted to call it "Disambiguation". After talking to him and asking for pros and cons for this name, he did in fact come to the agreement to call this short film "Narcolepsy".

We have decided to rethink our title and keep it to something simple. After a group rethink we have decided to change out title to thr3e. We have decided to call it this as three significant event happen to our main character in our film he also sees three figures in the scrap yard.

Planning Deadline Feedback

Storyboard

This is our storyboard that we created. This has also been uploaded onto Youtube but we also thought that it would be more helpful if we could look at each shot clearly without looking through the animatic that we created.

Storyboard Animatic

Sorry its of a bad quality...

Lighting & Sound Decisions

Lighting:
We will be using mainly natural lighting in our film due to it being set at dusk/night to add to our genre chosen (thriller/horror). We are using some additional lighting in areas, and we will hire/rent lighting equipment to help emphasise some areas of the filming where light can help define the characters.
Sound/Dialogue:
We have chosen to keep dialogue in our film to a minimum to add to the sense of tension to the thriller/horror genre we chose. We have included a script for our radio programme to play whilst our main character is driving due to licences for radio play in the film would be quite difficult to achieve.
We will also use Foley sounds to add some detail to aspects of the filming that may be lost due to background noise.
We have also chosen to include a soundtrack to the end of the film. We have no initial ideas at this moment in time about what it will sound like, but when we get to it, we'll make a decision.

Radio Transcript - Gareth Allen

This is the radio transcript that we will have playing whilst the character is driving their car home from university. This will be played from the beggining of the film.

Gareth - Hello and welcome to this special edition of the Spencer Sector Show on Ninja 103.9 FM with me Phil Spencer. I’m with you till 10 for 3 hours of your questions and queries for our expert analyser on this week’s topic. Tonight’s show is all about driving and the risks that people face every day with driving. You can call us at any time through this show on 01293 354109 or you can text us on 84321. Our expert for tonight’s show is Dr Kirstie Allsopp who is a member of West Sussex County Council in the transport department. Hello Kirstie.

Chloe - Hello Phil

Gareth - So Kirstie can you tell us some of the more dangerous and common risks that people face everyday with driving.

Chloe - Well Phil, the main risk that people face these days is the tiredness at the wheel of the car. People find that they don’t feel tired when they really are. This increases the risk of crashing and falling asleep at the wheel. Over the past 10 years on the A23, there have been no less than 27 incidents where people have fallen asleep at the wheel. We are hoping that this number will decrease in the next few years and end up having no incidents.

Gareth - Well thank you Kirstie and I’m sure that’s not the last thing we will hear from you tonight. Well don’t be afraid to get in contact with us tonight like I said the number is 01293 354109. We will be taking your calls after this record.

Synopsis - Chloe McGlinchey

A thriller where a teenage boy is driving on his way home from a long journey; begins to fall asleep at the wheel. As he begins to hallucinate, his dreams become an extension to his vivid imagination. As our character (Matt) thinks he see's someone sitting in his back passenger seat, he then turns around to see if there is in fact anyone there, as he does so there turns out to be no one there. He then turns to carry on driving, however he then sights a figure standing right in front of his car. He stops and gets out of the car, as he does so the mysterious person running towards the scrapyard and immediately chases after him. Almost automatically an eerie atmosphere approaches, as he thinks he can see several figures, he starts to back away and then walks fairly briskly back to his car, thinking he feels someone tap him on the back, he stops in his steps only to turn round and see no one is there. He stays deadly still. After this a car horn is heard as the character begins to awaken there are flashing lights coming towards him.
THE END

Chloe McGlinchey

Location, Location, Location - Hannah Sell

Billy Bridges (Scrapyard) - http://www.gwbridges.co.uk/spares.html

Brainstorming...

Brainstorming of ideas for our Short Film:

We have assigned roles for the production of the film to the following:

Matt Bull - Blog Administrator, Actor, Editor

Gareth Allen - Equipment Technician/Provider, Actor, Editor

Hannah Sell - Lighting, Camera Operator, Producer, Photographer, Editor

Chloe McGlinchey - Camera Operator, Photographer, Director, Editor, Location Manager

Discussion:

Matt Bull 07 January 21:28

Hey guys! Just wondering if anyone had any thoughts of ideas for our media coursework?

Hannah Sell 07 January 21:34

Me and Chloe have got the best idea!

Gareth Allen 07 January 21:56

I'm not sure? I thought that it would probably be best doing a thriller or horror?

Hannah Sell 08 January 10:37

Yeah, that is what we were thinking, maybe like a mixture of both thriller and horror.

Chloe McGlinchey 08 January 10:42

Oh and I have somewhere we may be able to film! :D

Matt Bull 08 January 17:33

What is your idea then? I'm personally finding it hard to think of anything...

Hannah Sell 09 January 18:28

Basically Chloe knows the owner of the scrapyard in Crawley so we could set it there? We have an idea to base it around...