Technology Discussion - Gareth Allen and Chloe McGlinchey

The camera that we started to film with for our short film was a camera of poor quality when it came out on the computer. This meant that we needed to use a camera with higher quality, a mini DV camera was used. Once we put this onto the computer, we found that there was a drastic change in the quality of the shots we had filmed.
We did try some different angles when it came to filming. We tried doing shots from on the ground to only show the characters feet. This didn't give away who the characters were and what they were doing except they were moving. We did this also for a match on action shot of Matt getting out of his car. We are also going to try and create a split screen with the sets of footage that we filmed at the same time.
From our work last year, we have found that we have developed other ways in which the camera can be moved to keep the focus on people in the film. For one of our shots, we went on a footbridge that overlooked a road near our filming location. We used a tilt for watching Matt driving his car under the bridge. This was an improvement from last year as we only used a pan movement for the camera.
We found that most of the shots that we came up with in the planning part of this project we were able to produce. This was good as it meant that we didn't need to think about how we were going to create some shots.

Gareth Allen and Chloe McGlinchey

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More Filming...

Wednesday 17th & Friday 19th February 2010

More filming was completed on the two days stated above. Although two members of the group were unable to attend due to work commitments, the other two members of the group found parts of the filming which could be done with just the two of them.
Most of the film is quite hard to do with just the two people, so these parts were left to do when another if not all of us were there.

Matt Bull, Gareth Allen, Hannah Sell & Chloe McGlinchey

Filming Continued...

Monday 15th February 2010

Today we produced more of our film and tried to complete as much of it as we could.
Whilst deciding on the parts of the film we were going to film, we found another location along with the others named, that adds another variety of action in the film along the road of Parish Lane, near the scrapyard itself.
Once completed that filming, we decided as a group, due to the fact that the scrapyard in which we are using is only accessable at an earlier time than we want, we have added a dream element to the story which will enable us to use the scrapyard in more daylight as though it has already happened and therefore not battling with light problems.

Matt Bull, Gareth Allen, Hannah Sell & Chloe McGlinchey

First Day of Filming - 9th February 2010

Today (9th February) we started on filming for our final project.
Due to the demands our film has of setting, we did have to wait a little bit for the right light for us to film in, as when we originally arrived, it was too light.
This isnt the only time we are planning to film. Due to many members of the group being unavailable for the rest of this week (wednesday, thursday, friday and the weekend), we have decided to continue filming as much as we can on Monday 16th February, and probably all of that week as well.

Matt Bull, Gareth Allen, Hannah Sell & Chloe McGlinchey

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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

Existing Thriller Film Posters (Ideas) - Matt Bull

These existing thriller film posters are similar to the idea I have for our film poster, with the inclusion of a figure of the main character as the stand out piece. Although all of these 8 films are American thrillers, they are all based on focusing on the main character. I am also trying to incorporate an image in the background of a significant event of the film (not decided at this time).

Matt Bull

Existing Film poster Idea's - Chloe McGlinchey

This montage of films is a mix of thriller and social realism. The majority of the thriller posters use a lot of red and black which to me suggests a fairly dark and twisted story. Though the posters I have chosen are not very colourful they still catch the audience's eye. They are very effective and give a subjective view towards the film. The film posters are quite simple yet they are very well thought out and are as well eye catching.

Exsisting Thriller Film Posters - Gareth Allen

These films all have the genre of thriller in the film. Each of these posters include the main characters, but some of them only show one character on the poster. This could be so that it doesn't give away anything about the film with the people involved. They all do different things with the text of their film title. Some have the title at the bottom of the poster, others have it at the top and one has it covering the whole poster. The posters on the whole use dark colours except for one of the posters.

Gareth Allen