Monday 29 November 2010

Animatic



This is our animatic, it shows the basic feel and the shots we want in our actual opening.

Friday 19 November 2010

Blue Screen Practice


This is me and Matt testing how to use the blue screen on Final Cut.

Monday 15 November 2010

Preliminary Movie


This is our preliminary movie. We filmed this in preparation for our opening so that we would be able to use the basic shots needed e.g: shot/reverse shot, over the shoulder shot and match on action shot.

Wednesday 10 November 2010

Treatment

The core themes of our film will be a zero to hero. With the zero being Keith (Ryan Knight). Keith is a hero who believes he is amongst one of the greats but in fact he is a simple minded, mild mannered brummie, he can’t even save a cat from a tree. The story will see him realise that he is isn’t in fact a good hero when he tries to rescue a cat from a burning building but he fails to do this because his hero skills match that of a tea cup. The film will see Keith turn into a slightly better hero with help from a retired hero.

In our opening will be a long shot of Keith’s house (Ryan’s house) then it will zoom in to his bedroom where we will see Keith sleeping. We will then see him being rudely awakened by his alarm clock and fall out of bed in a slapstick manner. He will then go on to eat breakfast to show that he is a normal everyday guy. After he has ate his breakfast he will then get “suited” up into his hero costume which is just his mom’s dress, a pair of slippers and an afro or a sieve for a helmet. Finally, Keith will proceed into his living room where he is met by his brother who mocks him and beats him up. We will add this last scene because it shows how bad of a hero Keith actually is.

Monday 1 November 2010

Problems With The Preliminary

We have experienced some technical problems with the settings on the cameras. Our camera men failed to changed the settings and ended up turning our footage into HD (high definition).

This really slowed us down due to the fact we couldn't import our footage into Final Cut. To solve this problem we had to open up all the files with quicktime player then save them individually.

Next time we film we will make sure that the settings are what we have been told they should be.