MY EVALUATION

Finished Evaluation

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Overall summary of how i found it

Overall i think the filming and planning process went fairly well. Of course as we filmed there were a few things we initially had decided and found that they didnt work. It was useful to plan to make sure that we did everything we wanted in the time we had. The shooting scheldule is a rough outline of when we shot but is fairly accurate. There were some things we filmed and then decided to film them again once uploaded. Shots such as the beginning shot of the footprints in the snow were some that we just decided on the moment. We made sure we got plenty of footage so we could have lots of options of what to use. We had some problems with the tripod we didnt plan access to the tripod very well and had to use alternate methods some of the time , so some of the shots were not as still as we would have liked but we did manage to get many that we did.

STORYBOARD

Video commentary and titles drawn december 09 after working with camera in preliminary ,video commentary in feb 2010 after more research of edits and music.

Planning and research towards soundtrack

We wanted the music to emphasise the acting we had, using beats in music to make actions sharper and softer or louder and faster music for bigger climaxes. We wanted a piece of music that sounded a bit off edge with a heavy bass beat and helped to represent the main character's personality as the music is most heavily used in actions of this character.

We started by finding parts of songs we liked and narrowed it down to :
Blood sugar-Pendulum
The rapture-Echoes
Closer-Kings of leon
Crawl-kings of leon
love lockdown-kanye west
This is an emergency-Pidgeon Detectives
Can you give it - the maccabees

But these songs only had certain parts we liked and found when we tried to mix them together it didnt work so well.
Then we found Staring at the sun by TV on the Radio


This had just the right feel we were goin for as it starts with a heavy beat and then speeds up when the vocals join and slow down.We were originaly going to try and get rid of the vocals but this proved difficult as the frequency of the vocals was the same as the lower parts' meaning that we couldnt get rid of it without getting rif of some of the instruments aswell. However some of the vocals were relevant to our song and have cut and pasted the vocals of the track into parts which we thought enhanced the video and acted almost like a narrator. We cut the beginning with the voices as although this was effective it was too long and flat so we looped the beginning bass intro and then cut to the vocals and faded out at the end. We did this using the software programme Audacity. Here is some of the steps in pictures.
The Track before we started




Track after we'd cut the intro

Finished track

Script

For the dialogue in our opening sequence we didn't want much speaking to create effect and wanted most of the sound to be diagetic from the actors movements rather than speech.
We have two main scenes with dialogue these are the scene between tommy and Emma and the seen between tommy and the mysterious dealer.
Dialogue for Scene between tommy and emma (brother and sister present scene)

Tommy: Hey sis i got you a present

Emma: Oh my gosh thankyou how ever did you afford it ?

Tommy : Oh just somehow.

Scene with dealer and tommy

Dealer: have you got it ?

Tommy: yes

Chosen characters and actors

In are opening sequence we have only featured three characters. There is the main character Tommy walsh we wanted him to be fairly polite looking with a roughness to him around the age of early-mid 20s. There is tommy walsh's sister who we wanted to be younger with a likeness around the age of 16. And there is the mystery character who we wanted someone fairly casual but quite strongly represented ,confident and young making . We can use this effectively in our open sequence to make the smile look cheeky to over exxagerate the presence and importance of this character and to give many possibilities of the relationship between tommy and the dealer .

rough filming scheldule

preliminary task

When we shot and edited our preliminary we jsut made all the shots flow together. We picked takes we thought were most effective and edited some of the sound so more prominent parts could be heard. This gave us a good practice for our real task. Most of the filming was exact to the storyboard except we changed the establishing shot at the beginning for an action shot walking up to the door.

preliminary 2nd part of storyboard

in case you cant see this the 5th shot is and establishing shot of a dark room the 6th shot is a medium shot of the back of the chair the 7th shot is a mid close up of the 2nd actor and the last shot is a extreme close up of a gradual smile.

i realise that the quality of the storyboard uploaded on the blog are poor and am currently finding another way of uploading them this is a hard copy and a rough outline of our preliminary.

Preliminary task 1st part of storyboard

if you cannot see clearly on the copy the priliminary as planned in the storyboard above starts with an establishing shot and then a low angle shot of one of the actors feet while walking then a panning shot from their feet to the bottom of their face adn tehn a close up of the hand opening the door.

Location Planning

For our film we would like to set it around a scene that the dealer would be seen to walk in every day as part of two worlds,a teenagers everyday life and a dealers life. We wanted to set it at a place maybe just outside the city in the suburbs. We have chosen an area near the town we live in for these houses as this looks like the houses we are using in our film . We want shots of the dealer walking thoruhg his everyday life and then going through more dangereus areas to where he works . We need two inside shots one of the actors in their house and one of the dealer actor and other actor in the enclosed room .

pictures for film location

left:street shot of houses
Beneath: path shot of walk

left : tree shot scenery of walk

below:shadow shot

left: footprint in the snow for sound and walk shot

below: night shot of houses and suburb area where he lives

Both : scene shots or gates he may pass

Barbed wire and camera showing the intensity of the area

left : possible room shot for the second dialogue scene

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right: dealer and possible location for walk

Film titles

We had already preliminarily decided the title of dealer but realise now that this could be a bit basic and not as catching to the audiences view.

The film is based on the tale of a failed athlete who seeks dealing drugs when his mum and dad repel him. Closely bonded to his sister and a few close friends Tommy Walsh is faced with a deal that might take him off the rails for good. Set in small suburbs outside the large dealing city of london we explore whos really the cunningnest of dealers and the emotions and actions they have to go through from the short risk of everything to nothing.

Feedback on titles for the film would be very helpful dont be afraid to critisise here are the options.

Dealer


Tommy Walsh


Depravity - a corrupt act or practise


Hallucination

Institutions for thrillers

There are many institutions in which films are produced some of the more well known ones are insitutions such as warner bros,working title and universal pictures. For our film we would like a sustainable budget for important effects and well known actors to bring star quality to the film. An institute i feel does this well and has lots of experience in creating thrillers is universal pictures.




UNIVERSAL PICTURES

The company is international therefore being able to distribute the film in several countries. It has created many thrillers and is involved with alot of companies owning part ownership to other such as some of the hitchcock films including physco. It has universal studios where alot of film work is displayed . It has produced many thrillers such as angels and demons, beautiful mind, war of the worlds and the italian job. It was one of the first major conglamorates to use CGI and 3D and will be effective for creating a good quality picture for our thriller.

With further research into the institutions of our film we have decided that we do not need as bigger budget as universal studios presents. We looked into the budget of a similar film,layer cake which had a budget of £4 million. This would effectively be about the same as what we would need as we dont need many stars, one would be enough to bring in star quality we dont need many special effects and do not to film abroad or have the same setup as some of universals films. A larger budget will not nesscarily make our film better we need a realistic amount to be able to gain profit with the material we have. Compared to the £76 million pound budget of Angels and Demons. Layer cake was made by a small institution called columbia pictures which sony pictures owns. A british institution we found that can effectively produce and advertise our film in the uk and possibly internationally with a reasonable budget of around £5 million is Miramax pictures.

Brassed off was co produced with film four and miramax pictures we are planning to do the same with our film. Film four had its own channel and does many production features with film four so alot of publicity and promotion can come from this institution. Miramax has the ablilty to produce the film without too many restrictions and a viable budget,income and profit.