I think our film was made fully Public enemies would be its closest match
The heists in the movie are quick and calculated in ours there would only be one at the very beginning but in the same speed as the public enemies heists. The main bulk of the film would be them living their lives after the robbery much like in the scenes of which john dillinger and his girlfriend talk about moving away and quitting. There are no clips available that would be useful in describing the similarities between these two films but i can post the trailer here.
It was hard to find a film much like ours because it has many elements from lots of other films.
We began filming for our opening film project on friday. At 10:30 we all arrived at Coleridge. For the next forty minutes we sorted out whether the sound and video on the camera's were capturing properly. Luckily they were so we headed off. Elliot and rob took the bus while i cycled home we all arrived at my place at around 11 oclock. We immediately started filming as we knew time was of the essence. We could only do the shots without dolly's as we had the long road dolly booked from 1 to ten past four. So we filmed all the shots that didn't need the dolly up to 1 oclock then from 2 till 3 30 we filmed the rest of the shots. We just have 1 more scene to do which is outside any bank.
The opening will be 3 crooks in a car stopping outside a house. Inside the house is two people waking up, one of them is preparing for work and the other is just lazing about. It turns out that the one getting ready for work is actually going to join the crooks in the car as he is part of the heist. The heist itself happens very early on, the whole movie is mostly about how they all cope with the heist and live their lives.
Egomania by Paul Alexander and Simon Braithwaite - Hotshot young lawyer Michael Stark becomes so successful, so arrogant and so full of himself that his ego decides to go solo - with disastrous consequences.
The Cleaner by Peter Michael Rosenberg - When a crime scene cleaner haunted by his past uncovers evidence that suggests LAPD cops are working as assassins, he becomes their next target.
Shoeless Joe by Andrew Clyde - A holiday of a lifetime across the desolate heart of the Australian outback turns into a living nightmare for five friends.
Storage by Chris Denne and Matt Winn - Terror stalks a storage facility. Survival for those trapped inside depends on the secrets in those endles
We did a green screen activity where jahmal walked on a treadmill in front of a green screen.
I took out the background (keying) and replaced it with the juno long road we created. I animated juno walking around using motion keyframes and copied the clip to make two of jahmal.
It is composed using only two pictures. A cartoon monkey looking at a banana and a cartoon piece of chicken. I chose the name Bumbaklot productions because i planned to do a jamaican style logo. I animated the monkey moving in and the chicken flying in using final cut and found a music loop from garageband as the background music. I recorded my own voice on garageband to animate the "Jerk Chiicken" phrase. I've always liked logo's that were quirky and different which is why i like my logo. Its not over complicated and it's fun to watch.
We were told to put 9 frames of any material we want together to show the opening of a film.
We used the idea of complete contrast. Death crossed with happiness. Spongebob squarepants then a nuclear explosion is the biggest contrast. This title sequence might be for a documentary seeing as it features brands and celebrities that people recognize.
We did an exercise on continuity in filming and editing. This is when the camera shots link together so the flow of the film is not interrupted.
The 180 degree rule
This rule states that if we have two characters talking to each other lets say mr a and mr b if i was the have one shot over mr b's left shoulder looking a mr a, in order for the shot to look right i would have the next shot over mr a's right shoulder. If i were to set the shot over mr a's left shoulder it would look as though mr a has moved or is looking in another direction
Match on action
This is when an action that a character is making in one shot has to continue smoothly onto the next shot. If we had someone opening a door we would have him walking to the door and opening it then having a close up of the hand opening the door. Match on action is simply when these the camera shots link together so the character doesn't look like they're opening the door twice
Shot/reverse shot
This is used when there is a conversation between two characters. If two characters are talking facing each other, when one talks the shot is over the shoulder of the character who isn't talking. This is another technique to keep the flow of the film smooth.
This is an example that me angelica and alex made demonstrating all three of these techniques being used in a scene.
In my opinion i think we succeeded in demonstrating all of these techniques the match on action is smooth, the dialogue seems to flow as in a conversation and we didn't break the 180 degree rule.
A Bumbaclot productions presents A Long Road Film (cast) David Skinner (cast) Sam Dilan (cast) Alison Ford Costume Design by James Hendon Art Direction by hannah Manson Production Design by Tom Bennit Casting by Anna Ross Film Editing by Dorn Samson Cinematography by Dody Zimmer Original Music by Sean Scott Produced by Elliott David Directed by Jamse Handson Main Title.
Action: Bruce willis in an explosives truck. Maverick widower cop has to stop foreign terroist plot. Kills all of them with his truck
Supernatural: Girl falls in love with werewolf. Werewolf kills girls dad, Love or revenge? Chooses love villagers learn to like werewolf. Werewolf accidently kills girl.
Indie: Young musical savante in abusive family turns to drugs and crime. meets girl, girl gives ultimatum, drugs or her? he chooses her, she dies. He writes amazing piece
Animated: Felon escapes to moon. Transport cut off. People trying to find way off while looking for the felon. Protagonists finds felon, felon kills everyone and is left alone
The task given was to plan shoot and edit our own version of the opening to the movie Juno. We were to do everything from storyboarding to camerawork. This was great because it really allowed us to make something that was purely ours. We started off being put in groups ours was me, Emma, Christina and Jahmal. We first started by watching the Juno sequence online and doing a storyboard to match the shots taken. This was pretty hard seeing as we hadn’t quite grasped the idea of less detail and more on the angle and position of the shot. The next lesson at Coleridge was when we started the filming. We were first given a quick tutorial on how to use the cameras and the health and safety aspects. After this one person from each of our groups was sent out to scout for a place to film. In my group it was me that was sent out. Finding the location was vital as there was no way we could make the film have the same looking background as in the actual film so only places where the angles would work were the kind of places I looked for. I came back to tell everyone the shots taken then we took a camera and went off. We filmed all the shots until the end of the day. We came to edit the film the next lesson at Coleridge when we were split into pairs within our groups. I was with Jahmal. I play Juno in the opening we made, this wasn’t personal preference but neither of the girls didn’t want to play Juno and I was happy to play the role if no one else wanted to. In the end I found the planning towards making the film the hardest and actual doing and editing it fairly simple. I am pleased with the result we got but I wish I didn’t apply the cartoon effect onto the film as it ruined the quality somewhat. We got the shots we wanted though i especially like the similarity between these two shots.
Finally here's our finished piece with the actual opening
Excellent work on the films- good to see all the clips there. You do need to say something more about what the moodboard exercise was based upon. Could you also delete Alex's message please.
This blog will be the evidence of your research and planning for the AS coursework, so there needs to be lots on it and lots of detail to it.
We were told to make our own postcards using photoshop HERE IS MINE!
To make this i used
3 different images
cropping
rasterizing
layer effects (inner glow, outer glow etc)
magic wand tool to remove areas i didn't need
I actually didn't have a plan as to how i wanted the final product to look like so i did it as i went along. I'm not very happy with the text i used but its a bit late now so meh. I wanted to feather the edges of the film strip but i couldn't find how to do this and nick couldn't either. Overall i am happy with my final result.
I was told to watch three film openings and pick my favourite of the three and explain what's good about it and why i like it.
I chose the opening to Magnolia
Pineapple Express
and Visioneers
I like the opening to Magnolia the most.
The entire sequence is not aimed to introduce the audience to the different characters but instead to set the mood and overall feel of the film. For those who chose not to watch the intro it is simply a description of three remarkably coincidental events.The narration for the sequence is great because the voice has a michael moore feel to it which makes you think that the events being described are actual fact or based upon (which they very well may be). The opening is great and i would recommend anyone to go and see the whole film.
At Coleridge we learnt to use the razor blade tool and learnt how to fade in and out video clips. Luckily i had used final cut before so found the whole process fairly easy but still fun to do. I like the film opening that we made because its dramatic and it suits well to the city shots. Oh and we learnt to title as well :D
The other day we made a moodboard for this film called shifty HERE IT IS!
We were shown a storyboard for a scene for the film Shifty. We were told to create the moodboard based upon what we thought the visual style of Shifty would be like if we made it. CYA!
