Location orignal shot - School

The other location we decided to use for our title sequence and for the part of it where the man shoots another and takes the briefcase is in a church, we chose a church because there were many local churches and all we would have to do is ring them and we would have a location, but this turned our more difficult than we though we rang and spoke to at least 4 churches who rejected our proposal.

Luckily we contacted the nearest church to our school, spoke with the vicar and he accepted and set times and dates when it was possible to film, the location is prefect big open space, long corridors.

Below are shots of the school in which we have taken, to show our location of our title sequence. These pictures ore one of the locations where we initially shot and decided that we needed another location. We decided to change location because of the fact that we originally shot in a school corridor which gave us bad lighting, school display boards which would turn out to be tricky to film around when shooting. Also we had a main issue with the doors at the end of the corridor where we found it difficult to to make the shoot not like it was conducted in an actual school. We later decided that our final filming would be done in the school but we chose to use the administration block, which suited our purpose for our title sequence.

Locations - Church

The other location we decided to use for our title sequence and for the part of it where the man shoots another and takes the briefcase is in a church, we chose a church because there were many local churches and all we would have to do is ring them and we would have a location, but this turned our more difficult than we though we rang and spoke to at least 4 churches who rejected our proposal.Luckily we contacted the nearest church to our school, spoke with the vicar and he accepted and set times and dates when it was possible to film, the location is prefect big open space, long corridors.

Locations - School

Location

During the filming of our title sequence we have had and are using two main locations, one being in a church and the other in our school, in the administration block

School

We decided to use the school because we knew that we would be able to get the footage we wanted only by shooting in the administration block. Be test shot other parts of the school but it did not look right for our film. Initially this was our last resort location to film because we would rather hade preferred to use an office to shoot in, but after being unable to locate a suitable office location we looked at the administration block and were pleasantly surprised to what we had found, a perfect location for the shooting of our scene where the man hands the briefcase to the boss.

January Week 4

During this week our group produced a lot of work and we are now on target of finishing our title sequence by the set-approaching deadline. On The Monday’s lesson we could not shoot because of the lack of cameras available. Throughout this lesson we planned for our scheduled Tuesday shoot in the upper floor of our school (administration block). We drew out and wrote sown each and every shot we would need.

On Tuesday even though this was out of lesson we arranged to shoot our footage in the upper block of the school, we recruited our teacher to play our actor (who receives the briefcase). This shoot went really well and we got all the shots we needed and are happy with the outcome of this shoot. During Wednesdays lesson unfortunately I was not in due to a university interview, the group carried on as usual and uploaded all 0of our new footage and in cooperated in into our editing sequence. All we need now is the shoot in our located church to happen.

We had a scheduled meeting at 9:00am on Thursday at our church but unfortunately by the time we located a camera it was 9:15am and due to us only having a half an hour slot to film in, we decided that we would not have enough time to shoot that day so we had a meeting with the vicar of the church and rescheduled our shoot for initially the flowing Thursday, we skilfully negotiated an earlier date of the Monday morning. We need to prepare for this shoot. On the Friday’s lesson we continued to edit our title sequence and me and Tolga went to take location shots.

What production company?

As we now know we will use nocturnal pictures as our production title. But why is this the case?

This is a production title which in cooperates all the names of the group and is in a very clean style but in terms of for our mystery/thriller film this would not be suitable and would better suit a teen movie

Our other production title and winner of the poll vote is nocturnal pictures, the look it has is exactly what we want for our title sequence because it has the edge that we need for our title sequence. The white text in front of the black background and type of font really does suit our title sequence.

Below are two examples of the feedback forms we handed out to help us decide on what our production company will be for our title sequence. Nocturnal pictures won convincingly.

Testing location filming

This I a clip of the shooting we conducted In Mondays lesson, after reviewing the footage we can see that the was in which we shot the footage it does not really look like a school and this is what we feared when filming but because we used the administration block of the school there are no school posters or stereotypical school items which show it has been filmed in a school. This is a clip of the shot where the unknown man walks towards the camera. Ideally we want to reshoot in our preferred location at a church but after speaking to my fellow group members we would be able to film it in our school.

Audience Feedback - What production company?

During Fridays lesson I conducted audience feedback research as to what production title we should use for our title sequence. I constructed a form, which had both Star productions and nocturnal pictures on it. In a resounding victory nocturnal pictures won by 20/6 votes. But many commented they preferred the STAR productions title but for the genre of our movie, nocturnal pictures would suit better. Many voters commented that maybe we could incorporate both designs together. Some suggestions as “STAR productions in association with Nocturnal picture. Below is a pie chart depicting the final results and scanned copy’s of five of the feedback forms we used (need to be completed)

Audience title credits feedback

We as a group felt it would be essential for us to gain some audience feedback forms, so we divided some hand-outs, which were, filmed un which chose what title credits we should use for our project. The results were that the audience feedback agreed with our own personal preference and of what type of credits should be used for out tile sequence. Below are scanned copy’s of filmed out feedback forms.

January Week 3

This week our media project appears to be finally coming together, all group member are now focused on what needs to be done to complete this project.

During Mondays lesson we decided that in order to be able to participate in a planned iMovie tutorial on Wednesdays lesson we needed some filming to edit during this lesson. Although it was not ideal and out real intention was to find a church to film in, we done a shoot trying many different camera angles of our title sequence using the up stairs administration block of out school. The resulting work turned out better than we though and gave us a real back up option as if the unfortunate case of us not being able to find a church to shoot in, we could use the church and make it work.

In Wednesdays lesson we had a tutorial on the basic of how to use iMovie, the program that would allow us to upload and edit our footage and title sequence. After completing the tutorial Sam proceeded to edit our initial footage as well as in cooperate the universal studios credit and our “star” production title. Also the Kennedy footage has been in cooperated into it and it’s looking very good. I was n charge of finding sound effects we needed for our title sequence, I used garage band and found explosion sounds for when the “iron curtain” credit appears. Also the sound of a heartbeat when the credits appear. These I feel will give a more professional and convincing effect to our film.

On Fridays lesson. Ryan was in charge of finding background sounds for our title sequence, Tolga’s job was to find the church and he proceeded to contact several churched. Sam proceeded to further edit out title sequence and I made some audience feedback forms involving what production company we should use. Either “star productions” or “nocturnal pictures.” This followed earlier audience feedback forms made by Tolga on what typography is right for our film, which is posted above.

This was a very productive week for our project and I feel as a team and a group we are now focused and will finish this project in good time and it will be of real quality.

Music for our title sequence

Our chosen music for our title sequence is ‘princes in the tower’, we have chosen this music for our title sequence because it matches the tone we want for our film because it is gritty and edgy and has a final conclusion we want when we reveal the final title credit which is the title of the film ‘The Iron Curtain’. Even though we are happy with this music, it was very hard to find because we are not allowed to use copyright protected music in our title sequence and therefore we had to find music which not only matched our 60’s theme but also was not copyrighted. We are very pleased with this music because it produced the right tone and edge we want our tile sequence to have.

Below is a link to the music we have chosen

https://audionetwork.lgfl.org.uk

https://audionetwork.lgfl.org.uk/show-production-results.aspx?stype=4&keywords=Princes+In+The+Tower

Animatics

Above is the animatic f the storyboards we have created, we have made this because it shows our film in real time and gives us an idea of what the finished product of our film would look like. We made this originally using a photographers camera which was of much better quality but because this stopped working we changed to using a normal digital camera which produced a lack of quality picture but because of the time we had to complete this task we stuck with it because we still feel even though it may appear as a little blurry you can make out the plot of our film and each shot we will use in our finished product in this animation. If we were to compete this task again we would use a better quality of camera.

Storyboards

Below are scanned images of our storyboards to allow us to see what our finished film would look like and what directing and camera angles we are going to use as well as how long each shot of our film will be and how long in time duration our title sequence should be. Because of the lack of time we had to keep up to speed with the making process we split the shot list up and over the weekend we drew up 6 or 7 storyboarded shots each.

Who drew what storyboards?

1. Universal studios credit

2. Star Productions credit

3. JFK Archive Footage – 10 seconds max Alex (Me)

4. Leonardo Dicaprio credit (black screen behind)

5. Shot from behind man – Tracking Shot – Down Corridor

6. Shoes c/u shot

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7. Suit c/u

8. Gloves c/u

9. Back of head c/u (Ryan)

10. Mouth c/u

11. Black screen credit (Co starring Colin Hanks and Rosie Huntington)

12. Boss looking out of window drinking – shot from behind

13. Shot approaching the door

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14. Midshot of door

15. c/u of door handle opening

16. P.O.V shot – entering room, shooting man – split storyboard shot in half to show both actions (same shot)

17. Shot of dead man with briefcase in shot (significant) (mid shot) also showing man leaving with briefcase

18. Edited by credit/ cinematography/music all in one shot (Tolga)

19. Leaves through the door shot

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20. Close up of window man – door out of focus

21. Man enters through door – producer credit

22. Cut to window man – mid shot – other man enters shot (Sam)

23. c/u of briefcase being handed over

24. midshot window man with briefcase ( directed by credit)

it25. Fades into the iron curtain

26. Iron Curtain Credit

Scanned Images of our storyboards in order

Alex (Me)

Alex (Me)

Ryan

Ryan

Tolga

Tolga

Sam

January Week 2

To begin with we had a group meeting and discussed what needed to be done, we handed in our individually/group storyboards (6 drawn each). We then split into two groups Sam and Ryan proceeded to go into the computer room and search for locations we could shoot at because our original idea of filming at my dads office work fell through because we were not allowed to. They came back with the c0oncept of us filming in a church which would give a real, gritty effect to our film, they then proceeded to contact churches and got a refusal from a Greek church, they asked Mr Grimsley to contact Is local church in Lewisham and this is where we are going to be shooting for our film.

Meanwhile Tolga and me proceeded to compare the storyboard and fill in the details some group member missed such as camera angle shots/duration of shot. We then coloured the storyboards in to establish a good effect and make them look more professional. We then grabbed a camera and took still shots of each storyboarded shot and created an animatic video of our title sequence, which along with scanned images of our storyboards is posted above this post

During Wednesdays lesson me and Tolga had an exams, so the only other thing which we needed to find was the music for our sequence so Sam and Ryan went onto a copyright free website and found a perfect piece of music for our title sequence called “princes at the tower” which I will discuss in more detail in a later post. Finally on the Fridays lesson we decided who would gain access to each prop we needed, I would locate a (toy gun) ad Ryan would gain access to a briefcase.

JFK Footage

As a group we decided that in order to give our title sequence a unique appeal, we will incorporate archive footage into our title sequence to establish the time period we want our title sequence to be set it. The footage we will use is an extract from a speech from former President John F Kennedy. We have chosen this because the time of this speech is when we want to set our title sequence.

Below is the link to the archive footage we will incorporate into our title sequence.

Title Sequence shot by shot

Below is the list of every shot we will use to create the title sequence for our media project. We each had 6 storyboards to draw over the weekend of 7th January. This will be scanned when completed and made into an animatic

1. Universal studios credit

2. Star Productions credit

3. JFK Archive Footage – 10 seconds max

4. Leonardo Dicaprio credit (black screen behind)

5. Shot from behind man – Tracking Shot – Down Corridor

6. Shoes c/u shot

7. Suit c/u

8. Gloves c/u

9. Back of head c/u

10. Mouth c/u

11. Black screen credit (Co starring Colin Hanks and Rosie Huntington)

12. Boss looking out of window drinking – shot from behind

13. Shot approaching the door

14. Midshot of door

15. c/u of door handle opening

16. P.O.V shot – entering room, shooting man – split storyboard shot in half to show both actions (same shot

17. Shot of dead man with briefcase in shot (significant) (mid shot) also showing man leaving with briefcase

18. Edited by credit/ cinematography/music all in one shot

19. Leaves through the door shot

20. Close up of window man – door out of focus

21. Man enters through door – producer credit

22. Cut to window man – mid shot – other man enters shot

23. c/u of briefcase being handed over

24. Midshot of window man with briefcase (directed by credit)

25. Fades into the iron curtain

26. Iron Curtain Credit

January week 1

This week we had a group meeting and settled any disputes and concerns, which had arisen from, group members. We were given an ultimatum from our teach either sort out the group and work as a 4 or split the group into 2. We chose to stick as a 4 and put all of our differences aside and focussed on a common purpose our project.

After this was dealt with we got focused and finalised each shot we are going to need, this was a lengthy process and took the full two hours to complete. We decided to split the shots between the four of us and finish them over the weekend; we had the role of completing 6-7 storyboards shots each.

December Journal

In December as a recap the main decisions regarding our titles sequence were made. We had to create a concept for a full-length feature film with no limitations in terms of budget and stars. As a group of strong opinions we had several different ideas we had the following concepts

· Horror Film

· Kids Style film

· War film

· Action Film

The decision as what we were going to do caused some conflict as some members had strong causes for their film concept to be made. Eventually as a group we decided to create a film based around the cold war and Russia and America. We then in the following lessons proceeded to create a film idea involving this topic. We pitched our film in lesson and received some positive feedback and lots of ideas, which helped us finalise the idea for our film.

We decided as a group and because of the lack of time we had we would finalise the plot for our title sequence so we could start filming straight after half term and storyboarding. After finalising the story we decided that the typography of the sequence of having two languages incorporated into our sequence would be good to show both sides of America and Russia which are shown in out film

When the video of our film pitch is available, it will be posted on this blog

Designing of our production title

We decided as a group that in order to meet and complete all of our set objectives it would be wise to split the group in order to complete two separate tasks. Sam and Ryan would finalise the plot and deeper meaning behind our title sequence from which we as a group had already decided of having a cold war theme to it. Tolga and me would design and come up with our own production company for our film.

We had a vast in depth brainstorm as to what our production company could be and liked the idea of in cooperating out names into it. Our teacher names our group “RAST” when we were pitching our film and this gave me an idea if we rearrange the letters of our first names being, Sam, Tolga, Alex and Ryan. This would produce “STA

R”. As a group we decided tat this should be the name of our production studio.

We came up with this (below) as our original production title design, but did not feel the typography was what we needed for our film. We also asked others what film this production company would make and the response was comedy/spoof, when it should be a spy/thriller response.

This is another design (above) we created which does not show the letter "A" in the title because we felt this would show its a mystery, but we realize that the audience would not recognize our company as STAR but STR, so instead of the use of an A we have used an actual star in our final and chosen design (below)

This title design (below) is our chosen production title design and we feel this would be the type of styled company who would produce our film. We felt this typography portrays the genre of our film as a mystery, thriller well with the use of the top secret lettering as font.