Monday, 16 December 2013
OTS Animatic
Ace animatic-Large from Cal Ives-Keeler on Vimeo.
We can improve by including a wider variety of camera angles, as most angles we use are mid shots. We could include more camera angles by using close ups of particular details for example, a close up of Elliott's cigarette as it is a typical convention of film noir.
As we took the pictures in school the location isn't a typical convention of film noir, to improve we could of filmed in the city at night.
4 areas to cover
1. Health and safety definition
Our film will include strong violence, frequent strong language and portrayals of sexual activity although not all o these will be in the OTS, so our film will be rated a 15.
Consider actors health and safety, location, use of props and dress code.
Vision during filming, falling over, walking into things etc.
Risk assessment
2. Ethics definition
Responsibility vs. Rights and Wrongs
Managing people
3. Film Classifications definition
Links to audience
Our film will include strong violence, frequent strong language and portrayals of sexual activity although not all o these will be in the OTS, so our film will be rated a 15.
4. Copyright definition
You can't use other peoples work, you can only use copyright free or original music. I must use evidence to prove it is original or copyright free.
OTS planning
My group, 'Pulse Productions' includes; me, Elliott and Cal
Producer: 'Pulse Productions'
Director: Cal
Camera operator: Elliott
Editor: Elliott
Costume/make up: Ruby
Lighting operator: Cal
Sound production: Ruby and Elliott
Special effects: Elliott
Prop manager: Cal
Casting: Group (Cal, Ruby, Elliott)
Cinematographer: Elliott
Foley artist: Ruby and Elliott
Script writer: Ruby and Elliott
As it's a small production we only need one camera so it is possible for the director to film whilst directing, however, we could always enlist help off people from different groups to help with filming if needed.
Locations: Cal's house
Actors: Elliott, Ruby, Cal (hopefully)
This list is somewhat accurate, however we will each partake in assisting each other with the creation of our opening title sequence project.
Storyboard
Our first task was to create a story board which shows the plot of our OTS and also includes the camera angles that we have chosen for each shot. This story board was drawn by hand and also shows annotated notes of what is happening in each individual shot such as the lighting.
Animatic
Our next step was to create a photo animatic of our OTS. For this we took photographs of us acting out the OTS, just like how we decided we wanted it to look in our storyboard. Each photograph is basically a simple recreation of our drawings. We couldn't get each shot perfectly how we wanted it to be but we instead just changed some of the camera angles and lighting to make it work. From doing this we know we need to add more creative camera angles as we realised after making the animatic most angles are mid shots. Our animatic will either be uploaded to slide share or vimeo.
Our next step of planning before filming the OTS will be to write the script. This will be a group effort so we can discuss as a group to involve everyones ideas and keep everyone happy.
Script writer: Ruby and Elliott
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
What is Film Noir? extended
The ten basic rules of film noir from Gonzalo Cordero de Ciria on Vimeo.
Film Noir is a cinemtic term which was popular in the 1940's to late 1950's. The translation of film noir, is black film. Film noir began in Hollywood and the genre they included was mainly crime.
Definition links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir
http://www.essortment.com/search.htm?r=%2Ffilm-noir-definition-information-65487.html&q=film%20noir%20definition
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Film_noir
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