Behind The Scene - Kazumi

We filmed at Southgate Park & a shop in Crawley today.

I forgot to record us filming in the shop as it was quite busy in there.

Behind The Scene - Kazumi

Jarrad & Charlie filming and discussing about framing.

Shot from boot.

Checking for the shots.

Jarrad filming Sainsbury's & McDonald's as establishing shot

Kazumi filming from Charlie's car as tracking shot.

Waiting for the train to come.

Waiting for the level crossing to come.

Photo Diary - Kazumi

We filmed at Sainsbury's & McDonald's Crawley today. 

We used trolley for tracking shot.

How we did a shot from trunk

How we did tracking shot of Dad's shopping in Sainsbury's

Animatic with sound

CREATING A WEBSITE FOR LIBRARY SCENE - KAZUMI

Because we need a website that shows birth certificate for library scene, I'm trying to copy the official government site.

This is the official UK government's site.

https://www.gov.uk/

There are different services (e.g. passport and tax), but we only need a site for finding birth certificate, so I'm going to copy the template of the site but change all the information on the page.

Here's the fake UK government site that I'm creating.

http://birthcertificatefake.blogspot.co.uk/?zx=b9fc26620f6b5a82

I 'm using blogger to copy the official site.

This is still processing as I'm still finding out what to include on the page.

RISK ASSESSMENT - LIBRARY

http://prezi.com/l340rz1uzm10/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

TWITTER FOLLOWERS

We currently have two independent film companies following us on twitter - @powerpuffmedia

Our independent film followers - @FivewayFilms 

@Passbyfilms

Hopefully we can use our twitter account, to not only reach our target audience, but to connect with other independent film companies, to get inspiration and feedback from people with experience. 

Photo Diary

Because we hardly get permissions from any of the locations (e.g. McDonalds/TopShop/Costa) for our film, we're rethinking about our locations. We discussed that we may go for independent shops as they're easier to get permissions.

While we were rethinking about the locations, we've edited our animatics with sounds.

Jarrad editing our animatics and Charlie creating our twitter.

Twitter Feed - Charlie

I set up a group twitter account - @powerpuffmedia

This account will allow us to get in contact with our target audience and liaise with other independent film companies. I've set up a twitter feed that is linked directly to our blog that you can see on the right hand side.

Facebook Group

Charlotte has create a Facebook group with all three of us in it. This makes it easier to communicate and we can discuss what things we have left to do etc.

Photo Diary

Recording our animatics.

Charlie trying to get permission from our film locations

Jarrad making birth certificate for our props (using Photoshop)

And we made check list for location planning

we're going to tick box when we;

took photo of the location,

got permission,

done risk assesment,

&

made props for the scene.

Animatic without commentary

Animatic without commentary

Note: Our animatic is over five minutes long however some of the video clips are a little longer than they are supposed to be so it actually won't be over five minutes.

Location Permission - Charlie

I have emailed various locations with regards to filming at certain places.

So far I have emailed, Debenhams, Costa, Topshop, Next, McDonalds & wrote a letter to a small non-chain music store.

Here is the email that I sent McDonalds -

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am currently filming a short film for my A2 Media course. I was wondering if it was possible to film a short section in your Crawley Sainsburys store. 

Please email me at fac14469@centralsussex.ac.uk if you have any questions or need any more information.

Thank you,
Yours Faithfully,
Charlotte Faber.

Any replies/permission I receive, I shall post on the blog.

MAIN CONCEPTS - Charlie

REPRESENTATION -

Representation Prezi - Charlie

10 short film research - Charlie

STICK OUT

Director - Anthony Farquhar-Smith
Released - 2012


- This short film uses a linear structure to show the journey of the stick. The reason it is linear is to show the audience the message of the film - Sometimes life is not about the destination. It is about the journey. 

You could apply Todorov's 5 Stage theory  to this short film - 

Equilibrium - Lollies all in line following each other

Disruption - when the stick breaks free

Confrontation - The stick confronting the outside world and exploring freedom

Resolution - The stick finding it's way back to another lolly

New Equilibrium - All the lollies are following each other again

- This film is also filmed using Stop Motion. This technique allows stationary objects to come alive. 

- The non-diagetic music playing through the film also highlights this message. The music starts as dull and mundane, however when the stick becomes free the music changes to uplifting and happy. At the end of the short film the stick returns to a different lolly and the music changes back to dull and mundane. 

One could think that the message behind the music is that when following suit and doing what your told you will never be happy - however when you are free your journey begins and you can truly come alive. 

- What I love about this film is that there is no talking or speech. The music and pace of the film tells the audience all they need and allows them to interpret this film for themselves. This is definitely something I will think about when it comes to planning.

Demo Football TV - Kazumi

As we talked with Andrew and Olie, filming a TV directly with camera might not be able to capture the imagery in the screen clearly (eg. reflection), we decided to create a TV screen in editing suite instead.

Here's how I demonstrated the idea.

1. Find a game on Youtube (make sure it's HD)

This time, I used:

2. convert clip to MOV file using Youtube video converter

(just Google search)

http://www.clipconverter.cc

while converting the video,

3. get the image of living room 

This time, I used:

4. put it into Final Cut 

5. download the MOV file (football clip)

6. place the video into Final Cut

7. resize the football image to fit the TV screen

(simply drag the corner of the image)

8. crop the image to fit the TV screen using crop tool

Crop tool - 

Here's the video of how that looks like

We are going to add actions in between (eg. add cut of the character changing volume, having a drink.etc) to make it smoother.

Shooting Locations

• McDonald's

• Pub
• Cloth shop (x2)
• Music shop
• Library
• Cafe
• Field