What we are going to do in half term

In half term me and Emma have decided to go and look at locations that we could use to film our film in and how to get there. We are looking for a woods, a creepy locations such as a burnt building ( the pier) and other things simular to that. Also we are not exactly sure what the story line is of our film yet so while we are filming footage and taking photos we would like to come up with a possible idea.

Changed idea

We have changed our idea again back to horror genre as with our story that we created even though it makes a good story line for a film we wouldnt be able to have the locations and the budget to do what we wanted to do with it. With the horror genre even though we dont have an exact story line we are in half term going to look at different locations and film bits with our actors to see what effects we can get. We want to film in abandoned buildings such as hellingly mental hospital becuase it would give our feel a really eery effect and look pretty creepy too.

Colin

Colin is a low budget film which only cost £45 to make. The film is an un converntional zombie film as the film is told through the eyes of the zombie.

Even though this film isnt relevant to our theme now i feel that i can link this to our film that we are going to make. I can do this by looking at the sort of shots that they have used in their trailer, along with the sound and how i can use sound in a simular way but with a romance influenced film. Finally i can look at the locations that are used in Colins trailer and the costume and make up.

story board

Here is a quick story board that i have done for my trailer all the images that i have used are from the internet i've used these images so that i can just show what i am hoping to do. I want to do different sequences throughout the trailer but without giving too much away. I like the start of my trailer i think this is effective becuase you dont actually see any character until the third cell and you see what your not expecting so there is a shock for the audience. the end sequences show the boy trying to quickly change into this man that he has been trying to be, which will try to be comical and unusual.

Audience feedback

In the last lessson i had spoke to the class about my new idea and basically told them about the opening scene rather than the complete trailer.

- They liked it becuase it had familiarities to other films and it's a story line that our age group could relate with.

- They like the humourous side to a romance film rather than it being serious all of the time.

- They liked the style that i might be filming it as ( as a diary entry over a week).

- How my characters were going to be about our age.

- How the storyline was original

- How the story could appeal to different ages and genders.

New idea

In our group we have came up for a new idea for our trailer i brain stormed a few possibilities but we kept comming back to the romance genre, we wanted to do something simular to the notebook as we both really like the film.

I came up with an idea which was very spur of the moment and wrote it down. Our film follows a boy on a social networking website talking to a girl and what we can see from the picture, who is very pretty and she asks the boy 'so what do you look like'? and the boy types back a stereotypical muscly, exotic, foreign man , the type that a woman would jump at the chance of getting then it pans out to a man who is completely the opposite. The story follows the boy over a week and there is a constant timer counting down the days, he is in this week trying to become this man that he said he was to the woman.

Mood board for a romance film.

Here is my mood board based on my new idea for my film, i have pictures of the films the notebook and 500 days of summer as i thought that i could use ideas from the filmm, and subtle techniques that they use for instance in 500 days of summer there is a shot that is just of the two main characters hands and they have created a heart, i thought that for our film we could use this simular technique. I have used words such as 'love' 'romance' and 'humour' to describe the mood of the film to show actually its not just a typical romance film but it can be quite light hearted and funny. The photo at the top of the stereotypical 'geek' shows what could be our main character but we havent fully decided as of yet if he should look like that or not. The computer background i used to show the communication between the two charcters, and this could also show its a modern love story rather than a stereotypical one.

500 Days of Summer

With this trailer i like how it starts of just a conversation which shows that they have simularities with each other; them both liking the smiths and it sets you up for a typical love story. i like the use of old footage as them as children i think i would like to use something simular my film to this, rather than using a total flash back have a grainy, family home movie. This trailer makes you think more and more that they are a couple and the use of imagery is significant too with their hands in the shape of a heart we could use this sort of subtle imagery in our trailer, maybe using the same scene or a variation of the scene. I like the use of a cut scene and a timer counting down the days i could use this in my trailer by counting either the days hes loved this girl or how long it will be until he sees her again.

Changed idea

In our group we have split into two as we werent working well as a 4 and there werent any individual roles and that we could do also there wasnt a lot of commuinication between the group. Me and emma have decided to do a romance styled trailer but an unconventional one.

What our group had done so far.

Our group contains four people me, matt , emma and rathe. Me and emma have done our mood board and decided on ideas, camera angles and lighting for our trailer. We also discussed possible characters that we could use in the trailer and costume.

Matt and Rathe have written out a story board and have written down possible ideas for the story line and a detailed version of the story board.