Part A: Font Choices

Part A: Colour Scheme

Part A: Poster Design

Part A: Design of my Website, Trial 2

Part A: Design of my Website, Trial 1

Part A, Part 1: Planning for my Web page

Genre: Drama/Thriller/Mystery
Colour Scheme: Dark & light Blue, White, Black, Brown, Orange and Yellow

Website:
1. Home
2. About the film
3. Characters
4. Gallery
5. Video
6. Downloads

Poster:
1. Title
2. Image: main image
3. Cast/Crew: director, main cast
4. Production company
5. Quote: One day you’ll see, we can live together. When the world is free
6. Colour scheme: Matching with the genre or matching with the film

2. Exploring and Evaluating Promotional Material for Existing films: Alice in Wonderland

1. The colour design that is basically used for all of the web pages for the Alice in Wonderland website are all dark colours with shades of dark light colours shown on few of the characters. The basic colour scheme that is used is black or dark blue. The backdrops of the pages are seen as dark and sinister in most of the pages. The spacing of each page is spaced with information about the topic of the page in a small section and the image of the background clearly distinct. The main focus point for most of the pages are, layout to capture the different characters on the pages.

2. The design for the pages have repetition of the title, the information that may be needed and everything else seems to be the same, except for the information placed on the page. For most the pages, the layout is similar in the way they have a small section of the page and the rest is covered with the image in the backdrop.

3. The overall feeling that is developed in the website is clean, crisp, dark, moody and maybe grungy. From the colours to the images you can clearly distinct the genre by looking that the images and the colour scheme. Most of the pages have a darker colour scheme, which maybe translated as having a horror genre but this can just be a sub-genre where they have more than one genre. Another genre that can be distinct from the feeling of the website is a fantasy genre. The genre is clear and dark due to the colours and images.

4. The format of the website is set out as being the same on each page, having the title on the left hand corner, big and noticeable. With having different the same information on the left, the layout of this information is very clear to understand and it’s very easy to follow as well. All of the pages are the same in the layout concept, which show great deal of detail to what the sub-topic is about.

5. The target audience that is directed towards is more for children where the story of Alice in Wonderland is concerned. But when you look at the colour scheme you consider that this film is directed towards a target audience a much older age than 10 or younger. I believe when you view the website you look upon an audience older than 15 because from the way the colour scheme is drawn, you notice a darker look upon this fairytale story. But if you think about, you notice that most of Tim Burton’s films are dark in the way he presents different versions of musicals or retold movies. From the colour scheme you notice that this version of Alice in Wonderland is darker than usual and you may guess that the target audience would be around the ages or 15 and older.

6. Well there isn’t anything bad of a good movie website. If the movie were a huge success in the theatres than you may have guessed that the website would be as good as the film. So far all the ‘hit’ films have a great website, with no bad problems about it. This may be caused because the movie was a hit and so they would have thought about doing a website that everyone would get more information about the movie. Overall there aren’t any bad concerns to this version of Alice in Wonderland.

1. Exploring and Evaluating Promotional Material for Existing films: The Lovely Bones

1. The colour design that is used for The Lovely Bones is a little bit different through out the website. Having a mixture of different colours on the Home Page, on the left darker colours e.g. dark blue, black, shades of orange and yellow, which are blended in with the colours on the right. These colours are shown as being yellow, orange colours and white. In the middle of the image, a blend between the light colours and dark colours are mixed together by the colour of purple. On the whole the home page is different from the character page, gallery page and the synopsis page. All these pages are different because they have used different background images. These colours and background images are different because it shows the viewers the genre of this film, which so far is shown as being fantasy, drama and from what the movie is about mystery.

2. The principal of design that is designed on this website is similar in the way the set out the pages. From the home page to the character page the layout is the same having a boarder around the important parts that are inside of the boarder and with the irrelevant information outside of the boarder. Of course the repetition of the title of the film is shown on every page in big print. The repetitions of different lists are placed on top of the page with the title of the film (I don’t know what it’s called but it’s information that you click on to find out what the film is about, character list and other information). Also, on the bottom of the page is the further information on different website e.g. Facebook, Twitter and other website that allow the viewers to follow the film.

3. The overall feel of the website is shown as being clean, bright and dark with having both dark and bright colours to show what the genre is about. The colours present the feeling of the film, with bright colours and ships in bottles (synopsis page) show one of the sub-genres of the film, fantasy. With dark colours on the Gallery Page, you have the feeling of the film has another sub-genre, which is shown as mysterious and dramatic. This is very affect in how you feel: scared, uncertain and distressed. With the different colours that are represented, you can pick out the genre of the film by the colour system and background image.

4. You can’t really tell what genre this is directed towards because they have different sub-genres that can say that it’s a fantasy with mysterious elements of the film or a dramatic film with elements of a little bit of violence. But if you haven’t seen the film you would like that this film was directed to 15 and over. But if you have seen this movie you would have shown this film to a younger audience younger because the film has a good message in it for the younger audience. 15 years and older is the age that this film is directed towards, this is just a guess. I believe that it’s direct towards this target audience because (as I said before) it shows a dark side of what this film is about e.g. the gallery backdrop page. Again the colours tell us whom this film is directed towards.

5. What I like about this website is that it shows you a clear statement about what this film is about and what genre is about. It’s a good movie that have a good website showing the element of a sub-genre of fantasy. It is very clear about where objects are and it has a good element of sound. This is very affect where it tells you what kind of film this is, but annoying also.
I don’t believe there is anything about this website that I don’t life because everything about it is good and it blends well with what the movie is about.

My movie Poster: Virus

This was an activity that we had to do on picking a random page from Wikipedia and whatever comes up will becoming our title of the film. Than we had to go on a website to find a random quote and find a picture from Flicker to make it our background of our poster. All of this has to be linked together, so that you can identify the genre by just looking at the poster by just picking out random images and quotes.

As you can see my random page from Wikipedia was about 'Virus'. But in fact it is the title of an album by the metal rock band Heavenly. But you don't know that do you?! So my quote that I had to choose from a website that displayed random quotes was this, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that don't matter". This quote was said by Martin Luther King Jr. so it was very inspirational, but I don't believe it's inspirational based on a horror kind of film though! The next thing that I randomly choose was my image of this grey, dark empty street with a little red car driving in a storm. This suited well with my random quote and title of my film because 'Virus' sounds like something from the genre of a horror or a thriller, and I thought that this image really blended well with what my title and quotation.

Now that I have all my random things together I have the privilege to put all of these images and quotations together to form a poster that I have no idea what it's about, but I guess that's the beauty of this activity. You don't know anything about it and your making a poster that comes from random things.

We have to go on photoshop and design our poster from just the random image for the background. Now that I had done that I had to choose what colour styles that I want. I just keep to the different colours of red because I represent my poster as a horror genre and mostly on horror genre film posters there are dark colour and reddish colours that represent the theme of horror and or blood, as red is suppose to symbolise it. Once I had my colour style, I had to think about what other things does a movie poster have on. So I thought and I look at the poster of The Lovely Bones and I noticed that it had the actors, the directors, the screenplay writers, the author of the book; which is actually based on a book, the month that it is coming out and the production company's that The Lovely Bones is produced by. When I designed all of these things I had to make sure that it was capable to read, so I had to change different colours so that it would blended in with the background because overall the background is pretty dark with the clouds and such.
Finally the final touch. I had to crop it because when I just saved most things were blurry and it wasn't clear. So I had to crop it and cut around the poster so that I wouldn't have the background shot in. Saved the actual poster and posted it up on my blog so that I can get a mark.

I believe doing this activity was very fun and exciting to do, because as I said the activity was basically 'random' and everyone was doing something different, which was very much interesting in the view of my fellow class members. It also got us think more about posters and how it shows us what genre it is by the colours, the images and the settings. It gives me a lot of thought about how my poster is going to be like for my film.

Movies that have Similar Genres: Thriller & Crime

Movies that have a Similar Genre: Drama

Reflection: 11/10/10

Today was interesting because I hadn't done my Post-Production Evaluation and he didn't even release it! But anyways, we have another assignment to do on our film. A couple of lessons back Mr Andrews had talk to us about making a web page for our film, like promoting our film by creating a web page. This was going to be designed to show what our film is about. We had to do a research task, where we had to go on Google and search Web Pages of movies that would suite our genre. We (as a group) had a few problems deciding on what genre our film was, so we had to google what the movie The Lovely Bones was and again we got different answers. I had recieved the genre as a Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mysterious and I think there was one more but I forgot. In the end the rest of the group had search the same genre so our genre of our film was Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery.
After we found what our genre was going to be, we had to go and find similar movies are have the genre and look if they have a Web Page. At school most of the Web Pages that I've been on are blocked or wouldn't open because there's something wrong with the school internet. This problems here has been a big problem because I can't find any Web Pages that are good and do the rest of the task, even though I found some other things to do. The other thing that I did was find actual movies who have the same genre before I start searching for Web Pages. This took a while last lesson because Olivia, Shelby and I didn't really do much work last lesson because we were just talking about Horror movies, which wasn't the best idea I don't believe... :S
So we didn't do much last lesson. This lesson why caught up with what we had to do because we heard that this whole research about finding the Web Pages is due by the end of next week so we had to be getting cracking.

Shelby was a great help today because she had found a website that had movies that were in fact similar to the genre of The Lovely Bones. When I went on the website I found great movies that I have never heard of because most of them are coming out this year or the next. So it was a really good website to search the genre films.

Near the end of the lesson Mr Andrews showed us 2 trailers of the very old Indian Jones: Raider of the Lost Ark film. This was to show us how the genre can affect the way we view the film by watch the trailers. It was old, but it had the same genre; action and it had the same style of what the retold version of Indian Jones had become.

The second trailer that Mr Andrews showed us was off a very scary version of Mary Poppins. When he said that I was like yeah I can actually see this happening because when I was younger I thought that it was a little bit scary. The trailer that he showed was actually really clever and funny in the same time because everyone knows the story of Mary Poppins and how it's a great musical and how fantasy is combined with a wonderful Nanny. But when Mr Andrews showed us this, WOW! This was a funny shock! It was actually really scary, because of the sound that it had produced, the lighting was darker and the took out the darker shots from the film and placed it into this scary version of Mary Poppins. I have to say, the person who came up with this idea is a genius and I don't believe that anyone could come up with something like this. I bet they were really bored and they had enough time on their hands!!

So you might be saying, what's the point of Mr Andrews showing us about this two different trailers? Well with the first one, Indian Jones, Mr Andrews wanted us to see that with a very old film the genre and the style how we know the Indian Jones version today, are still the same from showing the audience that they kind the genre much a same and that they kept the character much the same (as I look upon it). For the Mary Poppins one, we know the story of the musical, happy lively version one, but what if we twisted the story around and only showed the scary parts of the film in; what happens now? Ta, Da! You come up with a horror version of Mary Poppins!

So the point of this is to show is that trailers have the power of telling us what genre it is, what it is about and how the actual film could react to the audience by just watching the trailers.

Post-Production Evaluation

The problems that I encountered towards the technical parts were deciding on what shots to use in my final cut, because we had two completely different views of what different shots were going to be. The first day of shooting was different from the second day because of the weather, the way we filmed and the we acted because we had a better understanding on what we were suppose to be doing. No the shooting was a problem but deciding on what shots to put in the final cut. There were some shots that I used from the first day or shooting and the second day, so I had to incorporate both shots in together so that they may look natural. We also did shots over and over again because some of the group members didn’t feel comfortable in that shot so we had to do it over again, which gave us lots of options to choose from which was good in away. Another problem that I had was putting the shots together. Well it isn’t mainly a problem but an announce as such. For the editing part I didn’t really had any difficulties because I understood what I needed to be done, but the only thing about editing is that it takes lots of time and it’s pretty annoying putting these shots together. I had a little struggle with making my soundtrack in fact. I didn’t know what to do and I got so confused in picking out the loops. The first week we had received our second part of our assignment, I didn’t know what to do because there was so many loops and I didn’t know which loop sounded right in my film so I just played around with putting different loops together. Once I was confidant with all the loops I had to start on my soundtrack and in the end it sounded pretty good, to me that is. Through the middle of doing my soundtrack I really enjoyed doing it and it was pretty fun making a soundtrack for a film, even though I preferred composing an original score of scratch but to be honest if I had enough time I would do it and if I could be bothered doing it.

No I don’t believe that I had any missing files, but all my files were so mixed up that I was totally lost or confused about all of them. I did want Mr Andrews had told me to do, and that is label the files, which I did but I still got confused. During time went on, I got to know how I labelled things and where I placed documents in different files, so eventually I understood what I was going in the way I was placing my documents or files

For my group work, there weren’t any problems that we had which was good. Just before we had to do our soundtrack we resolved our situation, which was good for the group and for myself. I didn’t like having group arguments and it didn’t suit well with the rest of the group. As Mr Andrews had said, you don’t work with everyone, you just needed to endure it and get on with it. So I didn’t that, but than I thought that I was sick and tired of fighting and things were resolved. This whole argument was during the editing stage, so we resolved things before we started the soundtrack.

I thought that my pre-production did help a lot because it helped with designing our film and planning out what we wanted to do for the film. With having storyboards, the scripted, shot-lists and list of what we need to do and lists that we needed to make our film successful. These lists and planning skills really helped us with our creation of our film. The post-production didn’t really help us a lot because we knew what we wanted to do and we knew what scenes that we were going to be placed together, in our overall film. But for our final cut we had an image of what our film was going to be to us. So we didn’t really do much planning for the post-production schedule. The rough edits didn’t assisted in the editing process, because as I said before we had an idea of what our film is going to be and we imagine our version how we are going to interpret this film. So no the planning for the post-production was that useful but the pre-production planning was helpful. Strange I know but that’s just me!

The time-management issues that I encountered were based choosing what program to create my edit on. Firstly I had originally to do it on iMovie, but when Mr Andrews showed us there was a better and much easier version I didn’t know what to do because I was comfortable with iMovie and I didn’t really know Final Cut so I was comfortable with it. I had a trouble decided what program to do it on so that process took longer than I expected, but not that much longer because I knew that I had to start on my editing. But another annoying thing was that I had all ready finished my editing on iMovie and when Mr Andrews said that Final Cut was better I had to start again, which was most annoying. So that time-management situation was a problem because I had to start again with my editing on a different program. Plus I had to learn how to use this new program because I didn’t and that process took quiet a while too, so my chose in choosing a program to create my edit was a long but necessary one.

As I said before I didn’t really need the EDL of the Sound Design because I knew want to show in my film and I knew what fixed well together so I didn’t really need the EDL. I did it anyways so I wouldn’t get in trouble but I didn’t really refer to it mainly. I know that I should’ve referred to it but when you know your film from back to front you know how the film goes and matches well together. For the Sound Design, I don’t believe that I have ever done it because I thought that I didn’t really need it because I have all ready done my soundtrack and I thought that I wouldn’t need the time code, the dialogue/sound FX or the music required such as the style, volume and the tempo. I didn’t believe that I needed to write these things down, but I just came up with my soundtrack without using the Sound Design template, but I think that if I had used it I don’t believe that it would’ve helped me in anyway possible because I don’t see the point.

I believe that I took adequate and detailed reflections throughout my pre and post-production schedule. I did most of my reflections for every lesson that we had, but this term I just released that we are only suppose to be doing 1 or 2 reflections each week not one everyday. So I had extra hard work for myself, but sometimes I didn’t mind doing the reflections because most of the time they keep me on track with what I’ve done and what I need to be doing. No I don’t think I have provided enough evidence to support my work. The only evidence that I have shown is my word in the reflections I have done. These are the only evidence, but I could post some images of what I’ve been doing and what I have been research. But I don’t believe that there is anything else that I can do because most of the work that I have done, or about to about to do are set in a program and it takes a while to download and post images on my blog. But I’m guessing the sentence that I have just written is more of ‘I can’t be bothered’ sentences and I have to agree, so maybe for my next assessment I will try and post some picture on my blog about the websites and stuff. For not showing the evidence that I have done in class, but I have shown evidence in planning out my film in designing lists and templates. That’s the only evidence that I have displayed on my blog. I believe that my blog looks like a whole terms work by the evidence in templates and lists and reflections. Not to sound selfish (but I do), I’m really happy with the progress of my blog and the way I organise my time in doing these activities.

SKILLS:
1. Editing a film by putting different shots together
2. Using different programs that I haven’t used e.g. Final Cut and iMovie
3. Learning how to use GaragBand properly, by using the loops and making a soundtrack from loops

TECHNIQUES:
1. Remember where you put your files
2. Label your files and put them in their right place
3. When re-recording the voices, speak louder or change the volume to the program so you can hear what the voices are saying

TRICKS:
1. No tricks that are used

I am sort of satisfied with my final result. As I said in one of my previous reflections or evaluations, about what I would change if I had the chance. In case if you don’t feel like going back to my blog and looking for the paragraph stating that I would change this and that I well tell it again. If I had the choice I would change the storyline and change the story. If I had the chance to change the story than everything would be different, but as the story goes, I can’t do that. So if I had the chance to pick someone else’s story in my group than I would have. I didn’t really except that my story would end up like this. It sounds mean, but I didn’t really except that it would turn out like this. I know you can’t accept everything to be 100%, but it wasn’t what I imagined. Overall the outcome of the film was good in the way my crewmembers held their ground by involving themselves in the film as actors and part of the crew. I believe that it did come out okay, but there could have been quiet a few parts that needed to be checked and changed, but for our first trail we did pretty well!

As I said before I would change the story but as it says ‘aspects’ I would change some scenes like the park scene, where Susie gets beat up, the kitchen scene, the part where she wakes up and she goes downstairs and talks to Letty. But I’m guessing we could’ve done these chances, but none of my group could be bothered redoing it again and everyone thought that it was good as it was. Overall I would change the aspects to the original script because I believed that the original script didn’t linger on to the movie The Lovely Bones, but when they choose to do my film they changed the script around and it made it sound and look more of the movie of The Lovely Bones. This was a problem for me because I got my IDEA from the movie I didn’t want the actually storyline come from the movie but as I didn’t know this at that time I accepted the chance and went along with it. But to be honest if they kept to the original script it would be similar to The Lovely Bones.

I think I’m repeating myself, but I think that I’m not reading the questions ahead of myself as well. I believe that this questioned is answered in the last two previous questions. :D I’m getting ahead of myself!!

HOMEWORK: Discuss about 1 or 2 films from the other Class

THE ONE... about the Business Man

Was it GOOD:

In my own words, it's an all right film. In away it didn't capture my attention and I didn't want to watch more of the film. By the end of the film I got completely lost, but it was funny seeing how the actors tried to act and how they were trying to beat them up. It was entertain in a funny kind of way, but the storyline wasn't so crash hot.

IMPROVEMENT:

1. Add dialogue or improve on the dialogue because you hardly can hear what they are saying
2. Outline the characters more clearly
3. Outline the story
4. Delete some shots because it made it too slow. For example, who he's getting into the car and when he turns the ignition on. 'We get that he's in the car and he is driving away...'

COMPARE:

Honestly I can't compare. I don't mean to sound harsh and a b**ch or a spoiled brat, but I believe that my film was a better make than this one. Reasons. In mine...:
1. Better understanding of the storyline (I don't know, I'm guessing)
2. Can hear dialogue clearly
3. We have the option of two days of film the same things, but using different angles, lighting and things like that. So we had lots of options and all of us could choose from these options and it was good, that's why ours are so different because we could build the 'Park Scene' differently, for example.

THE ONE... with the Spells

Was it GOOD:

Bloody Hell it was AMAZING!! Gosh, there isn't any words to describe how good that film was!! I know that is mean, but it's the truth! They put so much effort and time in making this film and it's totally amazing! The storyline was amazing because you followed it and it caught your attention, which is the main thing!

IMPROVEMENTS:

I don't believe that there are many improvements that need to be made because everything was down well. Except
o There was a part were one of the characters was walking upstairs. They should've cut that part down
Nothing else!! :D

COMPARE:

Okay this film is way better than my edited version. This is because (for my version) I had a view sharp editing spots in the kitchen scene. Viewing my version of the film again, I notice that it's really sharp and harsh when they are flipping from Susie to the mother. It isn't smooth or anything like in this film, which is really good. They did have any special effects that changes the scenes or anything, it's just natural. For mine I had few special effects that change from one scene to the next. On the whole there's was better in the way they connecting to the audience and they really showed how they describe the genre of their film. From the moment the film start with the first scene, I was entranced by the film and the only way that I was entranced was that they engaged and they drew the audience into the film and it made them feel scared about the spells, the red and black background and the clocks. From this you can pick out the clear detail in what the genre is about and that's why it went so well with many other students.
The reason why mine isn't as great as this is because we didn't really know what our genre was and we didn't have that in our minds because we just filmed and for them, it seemed that the genre was stuck to their minds and they followed onto their genre. We just filmed and we didn't add in anything in to enhance our genre or anything like that. The story was amazing and it was just WOW!!

Reflections: First Day back from Holidays!!

Today was the first day back from the holidays and so far it has been all right. Creative Media was a relaxing subject, because we hardly did any work, except watch other peoples films from different classes, which was very interesting! I really enjoyed watching what other students had done in the terms of the story and of course the technical part of the film.

Mr Andrews talked to us today about last term reflections and how we were going to watch other peoples films. He told us that we should be looking at the editing and how they placed the shots together. There were some films that need to be improved on and there was one that was totally amazing! I don't know how to describe some of them because in away I didn't understand was happening. This happened with a few of the films, but eventually I figured out what they were about. Mr Andrews had a file of films, and he had said that he was going to show us these films. To be honest I was praying that my groups film wasn't on the file because it's so embarrassing!! It's all right for Caitlyn, Katie and Olivia because they're not in the film so much, but for Shelby and I... well that's a different story! In away I'm really.... not happy about it but come on who was going to do it anyways! If I had one wish to start again I would talk everyone out to not choose my film. It's really c**p!!
But as everything happens, Olivia's and Katie's version of the film was up and my heart was beating so fast because the acting and the storyline is so bad! But I was looking forward to be watching what versions they both did (even though I have all ready seen what they did).

All most near the end of the lesson, Olivia and Katie's film was the last on the file. Thank the Lord Mr Andrews didn't show the film today in that lesson! But the down side, he's going to show it tomorrow first period!! At least that is all right because I'm prepared about what we're doing tomorrow though. Oh btw there is a whole reason why he had down that...
The reason why was my whole groups (Caitlyn, Katie, Olivia, Shelby and Me) have completely different versions of how we presented the storyline. Well... it isn't completely different I don't think because I did take some ideas from Olivia and Shelby!! :P But for Caitlyn... none of my other group members have seen how Caitlyn has interpreted her version of the film, so I hope I can see hers tomorrow because I'm really looking forward to see what she has down. For the rest, I have seen them thousand times!! So there is not surprise there!! LoL!!

Mr Andrews has given us homework.
1. Write a reflection about 1 or 2 films we have seen today in class (films from the other class) and discuss the technical elements.

Reflections: 27/08/10- NEARLY Finished Soundtrack for Film!!

This weekend is a long weekend due to the Gold Coast Show, which I'm not interested in going because I have 5 assignments due these weeks coming up.
All day I have been doing my soundtrack for my film, which I have to say is all most finished, except for some few bits and pieces that need to be finished. I had a small problem with the soundtrack, which involves a 'song' from my iTunes and I'm not quiet sure if I am aloud to use it or not because with the genre of my film the song fits really well with the film.

First thing I did today was correct some of my loops, which sounded really off because it wasn't blinding in with the footage or other loops that I had chosen. I had a fun day looking through, all most every single loop that is used in GarageBand because I need to find the perfect loop to blind with Susie running to the Park because mostly every loop is happy and joyful, but I need something that was dark and deep and there were some that had the sound that I wanted but I had to mix other loops to blind in with that loop. Then I had to find if it was a the right key, tempo and beats. I had to do this because if you mix loops in together than the soundtrack will sound really off and strange and not in beat with each other. So that took mostly half the day to do it, but eventually I found the loops that I was looking for. The next scene was the beating up scene where I had to find something that was deep, dark, almost scary in away and a fast tempo beat sound. This was quiet easy (in away) because there was a lot of fast tempo sounds, but there wasn't too many deep and dark sounds that matched. For these two scenes I used various amount of instruments such as electronic instruments, drums and piano. I used the piano sound a lot and sometimes (I thought) used it too much with some footage. With using the piano loop a lot it made the film sound like it was a 'period' film or some kind of classical genre... which considering that it's like a mystery or a drama, it wouldn't have too many classical instruments in it... but in some genres with action, mystery and adventure, the classical instruments (e.g. string instruments and an orchestra) are used in their soundtracks. So as you might have noticed I've been doing this all day and I did it with other scenes as well.

I had a sticky spot and I didn't know what to do because I couldn't really bothered finding loops to match the footage so I went to the end, where I knew what I was doing. This is the song idea (which I don't know whither I'm a loud to do it or not) that I had thought of. I used the song by Coldplay: The Scientist. I love this song, because it has a very slow tempo and it's a very sad song of love, and loss and all sorts of things (I listen to this song when I'm in a down stage of my life D:) I choose this song because (as I said) it is a sad song about love and loss (I think)... but it blinded so well with the ending of the film. I can't parts of the song out because as this song goes for 5:11 and that's like how long my film is. So I can't the beginning and the end and blind them both together. I had to cut some parts in the beginning of the end so it would blind while with the beginning of the ending. So my ending sounds great, but all I need to do is wait for Mr Andrews to email me back saying whither or not I can use songs in my soundtrack... but I'm betting the answer would be NO because it's copyrighting the song if you don't ask the artist or the writers who played, sang or anyone who was involved with the song... so I'm guessing Mr Andrews emailing my back saying NO than.... That's all right (well there's nothing I can do or Mr A can do so it had to be all right), but I have to have a 2nd option in finding how to end my film... so I have to think about that.

All I need to do with my group is fix the recording of some dialogue. Because there are some dialogue that you can't hear or understand because of interruptions of the wind, boats, planes, random swearing at the beginning of the footage or random things happening. All these things I muted in my film because we really don't want these interruptions in our film... There are a lot of dialogue we need to record because on the 2nd day we filmed it was very windy and you couldn't hear anyone from outside.

I guess that doing CM soundtrack is done and I can cross it off my list, with doing reflections and putting extra tasks on my blog as well. For crossing off fewer tasks to do, the day when this film is due is coming to a close. :( This is the time when I start to cry because next year (out of my friends) I'm the only one doing CM and I don't know who's class I'll be in and I won't be with my friends in any of the classes next year so CM class will be so different without them and I'm going to miss that.... Someone just punched a hole through my heart just then. Every breathe and every memory that I hold from this year will be taken away and be put into a box labelled "Thousand Memories for Thousand Years Ago". This time next year, this moment will be just a blur and I won't even care about any of these because this is what the future is and in the future we don't give a crap about anything in the past because we live for the future....

TO DO LIST:

1. RECORD THE VOICE FOR THE FILM!!!
2. Check emails for using song in the film

Characters, Clothing, Settings and Props

Production Title: Life’s Hold

Props Master: Emily Bennett, Shelby Batty, Katie Manchester

Scenes 1 to 13

Director: Olivia Park


1. Arriving Home

CHARACTERS: Susie

CLOTHING: School Uniform,

SETTINGS: Susie’s house, Empty Neighbourhood

PROPS: School bag, hat


2. Kitchen Scene

CHARACTERS: Susie & Susie’s Mother

CLOTHING: School Uniform, Causal clothes for the mother

SETTINGS: Kitchen


PROPS: Kitchen equipment e.g. knives, chopping board, food, kitchen table, Laptop, Chair

3. Running Throw the Park

CHARACTERS: Susie, Two Men

CLOTHING: School Uniform, Gangster clothes for the two men characters

SETTINGS: Empty Park

PROPS: None


4. Killing Scene

CHARACTERS: Susie, Two Men

CLOTHING: School Uniform, Gangster clothes for the two men characters

SETTINGS: Empty Play Ground

PROPS: Swing, Toy Gun, a Fence, Sand


5. Waking Up

CHARACTERS: Susie

CLOTHING: School Uniform

SETTING: Bedroom

PROPS: Bed, pillow, stuffed toys, bedroom equipment e.g. table, photo frames,


6. “Aren’t you Suppose to be Dead?”

CHARACTERS: Susie, Letty

CLOTHING: School Uniform, Casual Clothes for Letty

SETTING: Couch

PROPS: Pillows, Stairs


7. Funeral

CHARACTERS: Priest, Mother

CLOTHING: Priest clothes (track suit jacket inside out, hair band around the neck), black clothes

SETTING: Cemetery

PROPS: Bible


8. Questions

CHARACTERS: Susie, Letty

CLOTHING: School Uniform, Casual Clothes for Letty

SETTINGS: Porch of the house

PROPS: Stairs, Dog, Chairs in the background


10. Appearing, making the Dog come

CHARACTERS: Susie, Letty, Milly

CLOTHING: School Uniform, Casual Clothes

SETTING: Back of the house

PROPS: Toy for the Dog, Door


11. Fight Scene

CHARACTERS: Susie’s Mother, Susie’s Sister

CLOTHING: Casual Clothes

SETTING: Susie's bedroom

PROPS:Bedroom e.g. toys, bed, pillows, photo frames, lamps


12. Few Months Later

CHARACTERS: Susie’s Mother, Susie’s Sister

CLOTHING: Casual Clothes

SETTINGS: Kitchen

PROPS:Kitchen Equipment e.g. pot, kitchen knives, stove, work bench, food (carrots), knives and forks


13. Dinner

CHARACTERS: Susie’s Mother, Susie’s Sister

CLOTHING: Casual Clothes

SETTING: Dinning room

PROPS: Plates, Knives and Forks, Empty Cups, A pot, Place mates, Chairs, Dinning room


14. Walking away

CHARACTERS: Susie, Letty

CLOTHING: School Uniform & Casual clothes

SETTING: Porch of the house

PROPS: None

Production Schedule

Date: Monday 14th June 2010
Time to shoot between: 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location: 1 Florence Court, Isle of Capri, Surfers Paradise

Scene 1- Walking inside the house
Actors: Emily Bennett & Camera Crew
Time: Afternoon
Location: Outside the house, road

Scene 2- Inside the house: Kitchen/fight scene
Actors: Emily, Shelby & Camera Crew
Time: Afternoon
Location: Upstairs kitchen

Scene 3- Park & Beating up scene
Actors: Emily, Shelby, Olivia, Katie & Camera Crew
Time: Afternoon
Location: Park

Scene 4- Walking up & running downstairs
Actors: Emily, Katie & Camera Crew
Time: Afternoon
Location: Upstairs bedroom, staircase and a couch

Scene 5- Funeral
Actors: Emily Birch, Shelby & Camera Crew
Time: Afternoon
Location: Ibis School Pond

Scene 6- Where are we & facing her sister
Actors: Emily Bennett, Katie, Milly & Camera Crew
Time: Afternoon
Location: On the porch of the house

Scene 7- Believing or Not
Actors: Shelby, Milly & Camera Crew
Time: Afternoon
Location: Bedroom upstairs

Scene 8- Few Months Later
Actors: Shelby, Milly & Camera Crew
Time: Afternoon
Location: Kitchen

Scene 9- Walking away
Actors: Emily, Katie & Camera Crew
Time: Afternoon
Location: Out on the house porch

Reflection: 26/08/10

You know what the funniest thing about doing our reflections each day is that that I only started a couple of weeks ago and I only do it out of boredom one day, but than yesterday came I was pleased that I had done it because then I would be with the rest of the class who haven't done much on their blogs. So now I'm just doing it because Mr Andrews said so and that it'll go to our marks at the end of the semester (I hope)!!

Today was a quiet and fun lesson. As we did our own thing and talking about random things, I carried on from where I left off by continuing from the kitchen scene to Susie running to the park. Now I'm in a puddle and I'm deeply stuck in the puddle!! This is because I can't find the perfect loop to describe Susie running away to her sanctuary of the park... Through all the loops and all the music I have listen to GarageBand is all ready driving me insane through finding this LOOP!! To talk about Shelby and Olivia (who were the people that I was seating, and because Katie was off doing scientific stuff they are the ones that were beside me), I haven't really heard what their soundtrack is because we have been mainly focusing on ours. But by Shelby's, I have listen to her ending which is quiet good with having a very depressing song to be played at the end of the film which makes it really good (I think). I haven't heard Olivia's yet so I can't judge or say anything... yet. Everyone is doing there own thing and me... well I'm having trouble (as you know). I told Mr Andrews about my dilemma, and he said that it would take a long time to find the right loop but it take time. So I guess all I need to do is listen and wait for the magical loop appears. :D

Right now I just looked at the task sheet and I have written down what I need to do. I have looked at Shelby's and Katie's blog and I have noticed that they have something that I didn't have on my blog and I'm going to put it onto my blog so that it shows that we did it as a group and that we have done the task. There were some tasks that I wasn't really sure about because I remember doing it but when I looked at my blog, it seems that I didn't put it up but gave it to Katie or someone and forgot to add it on. So all I need do to is do the things I need to do and all is well, except my worries about doing GarageBand and finding the right loops... So when I'm next on to GarageBand, which maybe tomorrow, I'll tell you how things are going and hopefully I will achieve lots more during the long weekend.... I hope :S

TO DO LIST:

1. Put up the Production Schedule
2. Put up the Props and Costume List
3. To do voice over's of the characters... e.g. Having Katie's voice and my voice.... :P

Reflections: 25/08/10

Now I don't know what to say... This is going to be so awkward... :S At least I did something right for a change, well like I do anything wrong though... maybe not printing out the task sheet like Mr Andrews told us do to for homework. Like it's that hard to just print a couple of sheets off, seriously!! How can I forget to do that!! I was was panicking this morning because I asked Shelby to do it but the computers were so SLOW (as usual) and the bell rang so we just left it. When I came to class I didn't know whither Mr A would be mad at me for forgetting to print them off or not... so I was considering on telling a white lie but then I thought that lies don't make problems better they just make a situation worse so I told him that I don't have it but I do have it on my USB. Surprisingly enough he didn't do much... or maybe he did, I was not watching him do anything...

So the start of the lesson was pretty agonising... well not that agonising I was just panicking. Mr Andrews started off telling us that we need to take out our homework. So for me having no homework I had to take one of Shelby's task sheets and pretend it was mine so I wouldn't get in trouble. But he didn't notice that I didn't have mine, until he called one of us up to show him our blogs. This was the whole class and in alphabetical order so I was third of the mark... You know I didn't know what to expect because I was more worried about getting in trouble for not printing off the sheets but Mr Andrews was pretty cool. I went up to... My gosh this is so embarrassing!! Well anyways I went up to him and I showed him my blogs and he told me that I must be doing something wrong. (This is only in a sarcastic way... but at first I believed him that I was really doing something wrong... :S). Then he mentioned that I was the only (or so) one do be doing reflections for a whole week or so. I didn't know what to say because what do you say when someone says that and then says that they knew all ready that you've been doing the reflections plus that they are reading them as well... so there is not comment or reply to that remark.

While Mr Andrews was asking students to talk to him about their blogs, I carried on with doing my work on GarageBand. I didn't get much down because I was looking through the loops to find the perfect fit for the footage. The scenes that I was doing was where Susie is in the kitchen with her mum talking about going to this party or not. I was looking through these different loops and I couldn't find a rhythm or anything to fit in but then I found something that was similar to what I was looking for or it just blinded well with the footage. I believe for me is finding the right loop to match with the footage because you can't have a random loop and place it there because that'll sound really strange. You have to blind everything in together and not let the ending of the loop end really strange. After you found the base of the texture you have to add layers, which I had fun deleting and adding to the base because I thought that it would blind well but as the conclusion was I had just left it as it was with just the base of the texture. By the end of the lesson I had only put 1 loop in the footage and looked through lots of loops. The bad thing about having these loops is that none of them are the right loop for what I have in mind. Maybe I'm really thinking as a composer by just creating a rhythm in my head and finding a similar rhythm through the loops. This possibility isn't that possible because these loops are created for us and we can't add our own rhythm to this program.
So far I am sort of happy with my progress because the progress of creating a soundtrack is taking a very long time but as we have the long weekend I'll focus on it during the weekend.

TO DO LIST:

1. See what my other group have on their blogs
2. Do an hour or so on GarageBand
3. See what I need to add onto my blog

Reflection: 24/08/10

Great way to start the lesson, but I'm quiet sure that wasn't me involved... in away... I'm sure...
Okay today when coming into the lesson Mr Andrews gave us a talk about people who haven't handed in their edited film, people who are far behind in their reflections and people who aren't putting in 100% into their work, which reminds me that I have to print something off which Mr Andrews had told us that it needs to be printed before next lesson so I better do that...

Today we were just doing our soundtracks for our movie. Today really I had just started doing mine because in previous lessons I was just seeing what the sounds where and blinding in different styles of music with each other and not really focusing on how to blind the soundtrack with the film. So as you can say that I was just doing a test trail which I have to say sounds quiet good except for the ending... :S
I have only started the beginning to my film because I didn't know how to start off. I decided on having the beginning as really happy and really joyful at the beginning because in the beginning it's happy but as the story moves on it starts to become sad and the music well I haven't thought about that too much. Mr Andrews has shown us how to change to tone of sound of each loop and the sound of the dialogue which is good because I was actually wondering how you change the volume. So he showed us that and now we need to play around to see what needs to have a decrescendo and what needs to have crescendos in the soundtrack. Okay okay I might be wrong in away, saying that JamTrax was more enjoyable easier... but GarageBand is quiet fun and it's enjoyable like JamTrax... :D

Reflection: 17/08/10

Today was an easier day of work because today Mr Andrews showed us how to create our soundtrack on GarageBand, which I have to say was really cool. It was like doing JamTrax in year 7 (which was a little bit better because there were so many better loops than the ones that are GarageBand). But anyways GarageBand is still pretty awesome!!
He showed us how to created loops together and how they would blend well in together with having the same tempo and key signature. I tried a piece just as a trail run through and it sounds really COOL but we (as a crew) have to choose what style of music we have to create and do a 'Sound Design Template' which is like our EDL that we recently did.
Today I have my edited film ready to go and all I need to do is hand it over to Mr Andrews for him to mark because today my hard-drive was on my 'Big Hard-drive' which is really annoying because I have to seat in the corner with the fire hydrogen, but luckily my friends have accepted to seat with me in my little corner so I wouldn't be alone!! Which I'm happy about!! :D LoL!!
So I'm in a corner with my 'Big Hard-drive' and Mr Andrews has to bring in his laptop just for my purpose... which I feel a little guilty because I could put it on my 'Smaller Hard-drive' but it takes FOREVER to download everything and now we are doing the soundtrack on GarageBand so I think I have to bring my 'Big Hard-drive' in ever lesson which I rather not because my whole life is on this 'Big Hard-drive' like my movies, songs, photos and other stuff....
So we are on schedule and now we have to wait for tomorrow and who knows what tomorrow will bring... :D

Reflection: 16/08/10- Converting film and Having Issues...

Today was a very... cramped lesson. All righty then it wasn't that cramped but I was seating in a corner and it felt cramped!!! LoL!
Today we had to convert our edited film to QuickTime and hand it to Mr Andrews, which for me I didn't get to do because the downloading part took forever!! But I did get it downloaded this afternoon which I'm happy about because now I don't have to do it in class and waste time. I made a few changes through the end of the film (which is why the film was slow in downloading) which looks really good now. I took (by her permission) an idea that looked all right, because the way I had it originally I didn't like it because the dialogue and the view was really strange so I changed it and now it looks better than before.
The scene that I added in was the very originally scene that we had first shot and we took it out because some of the crew didn't like it, which is including me... but as I started watching all our other footage and I believed there was other footage worse than the last scene.
I converted the film this afternoon and I watched it just a few hours ago and I realised something. I realised that some of the transitions are a little bit strange like when Susie's mother and Susie are in the kitchen talking about wither Susie should go to the party scene is edited, I noticed that the transitions are very strange and they cut off and you see this black screen which I don't know if it's me who did the editing wrong or wither it's the program or something, but I don't know. I'm going to show this 'issue' to Mr Andrews tomorrow and see what I can do to fix it...

My film is edited and it's also converted which I'm happy about. But there are still few issues that still need fixing, but anyways I'm sill happy with my outcome, except the hand in of the film was suppose to be due in last Monday but I guess most of the class (which is including me as well) didn't get to finish their edited and finished it during last week or during the weekend (which was my again) so now I'm hoping that I can hand it in by tomorrow and praying that everything will be ALL RIGHT!!!

Reflection: 14/08/10- FINISHED MY EDITING!!

I HAVE FINISHED MY EDIT!!! I'm so happy!! Last night I have just finished my edit and it looks brilliant in any ways possible! Now all I need to do is hand it in and when that is done Mr Andrews will talk to us about using GarageBand!

So we're nearly half way down or maybe less!! So this is really good news!! Just to let everyone know that I'm done with my edit and all we need to do is the MUSIC, which is my favourite part!!

Music in Film- "The Shadow" (1994)

Describe type of movie

• Adventure
• Action
• Fantasy
• Sci-Fiction


Describe the volume (tempo)

• Slow, graceful
• Crescendos and Decrescendos to a softer
• Texture changes
• Temp stays the same
• Contour shape is rough and wavy

Particular instruments

• Flute
• Piccolo
• Obo
• Brass: tuba, trombone, brass trombone, French horn,
• Percussion: triangles, timpani
• Strings: Violins, violas, cellos, harp
• Double bass effect is deep and dramatic
• Violins/ brass instruments take the melody
• Sound of effect like wind
•

Makes you feel

• Feels like your free
• Feels like your flying
• Mysterious

Reflection: 13/08/10

Today is Friday the 13 and all is well here at the year 10 Creative Media classroom!!
I have learnt new different techniques of the program Final Cut Pro and how these different techniques are used with helping enhance my edit. I have also found out new discoveries about why my edit has been SO SLOW! But I guess Mr Andrews had mentioned it but now I'm double checking if the problem he had suggested. An exciting experience happened today, well... I'm being dramatic, it wasn't that exciting experience it was just a joy to do it. I guess you want to know what this exciting experience was? Well today one of my team mates showed us her version of the film and it was VERY GOOD!! I was like WOW and man I did mean it! It was better than mine.... and now I have a small idea that I might ask to take but it isn't that big so in away it makes ideas grow and it also makes friendship stronger!!

The different techniques that I have learnt today is adding effects into my edit such as Blurs, Cross Dissolve and Contrast the Brightness. This was really exciting for me to learnt because I have been asking Mr Andrews for his help for a long time, but as you know the class has been very busy and there are a lot of people who need his help so I ask my fellow friends and crew about how to add these techniques in my edit and as graciously they obliged. Katie Manchester helped me with finding out how to do the blurs and adding more effects and Olivia Park showed me how to change the contrast of the background colour. So overall using these different techniques makes my edit much clearer and brighter!!

So the reason why my editing has been so slow is because of my small little hard-drive. Mr Andrews had said that it was it and I did believe him but when I came home today and I put my program on my other big hard-drive and I started using the Final Cut Pro program to start editing I found that the program runs so much faster and clearer than it did with my small little hard-drive. So now I'm running with a fast program and I'm sorting everything out and I'm under control with everything!

The footage that we watched was Olivia Park's version of our film. Her film was very good (I have to say)!! I was very surprised but I was surprised that she made it so good... if that makes sense!! :P
I took some of her ideas (but she doesn't know-I'm going to ask her) but this idea is only small! The editing was very good but I have to say there are some errors that are placed in her edit, like she doesn't have text (which I'm guessing that she's going to add them in later) and I sort of good lost with some of the sequences but eventually I caught up. But if I didn't understand the movie myself than I would defiantly get lost... but yeah. That's her edit and maybe I'll tell her my feedback but I guess the storyline is just like the rest of my crews work...

The best thing about having a great CM class is that I have gotten my friend back and that we are cool with everything! I'm so happy each CM class because soon we will be doing something that I love doing, and that's... Sound in Film! Or Music in Film! I love doing this because in my music class (last term) we did an assignment on composing with film. Which is composing a piece of music to a clip and for our test we had to watch different clips and figure out the different instruments playing, texture and everything relating to the elements of music to how it is represented in each film. So you can say I have a head start but I believe that it's a little different from what I did in music because we actually had to compose our music and for this we will just have to combine different beats and rhythm together and bomb you got your music.
Overall I am happy with the progress that I'm at now and I am nearly finish editing my footage and soon it will be ready to hand in!!

Reflection: 12/08/10

In this lesson today we are finishing off our edit. For me I am having trouble with editing my transitions into my film. I have my transition slides in but I'm not quiet sure if it's done correct or not, so I'm trying to ask Mr Andrews for his help but as their are other people who need his help more than I do than I will just have to wait again until the next time. This is the only thing I need to do because I have edited my clips together but I also I need to add titles into the film...
My edit is the same as the on that we showed in class because that was my own edit so actually I showed my edited to the class. The film that I edit in iMovie is much better version to the one from Final Cut because to be honest I can not handle using Final Cut and it's so frustrating in figuring out how to us Final Cut.
Also I have another problem an annoying warning box is always appearing on my screen saying that my hard-drive has small space and thus can not play some scenes that I want it to play... so overall FRUSTRATING!!!

My Half of the Edited Discussion List....

Director: Olivia Park

Editor: Emily Bennett

Sequence/Scene Name: 5. Phone the Police

FILE/CLIP NAME SHOT DESCRIPTION
Mother is calling the police Susie’s mother is calling the police of the disappearance of Susie.


Director: Olivia Park

Editor: Emily Bennett

Sequence/Scene Name: 6. Waking Up

FILE/CLIP NAME SHOT DESCRIPTION
Waking up and no one’s around Susie’s is waking up in her bedroom and she is calling for her family and no one is answering


Director: Olivia Park

Editor: Emily Bennett

Sequence/Scene Name: 7. Aren’t you Suppose to be dead

FILE/CLIP NAME SHOT DESCRIPTION
Letty and Susie meet for the first time Susie and Letty are meeting for the first time, where Letty tells Susie that she’s dead


Director: Olivia Park

Editor: Emily Bennett

Sequence/Scene Name: 12. One Year Later

FILE/CLIP NAME SHOT DESCRIPTION
Dinner A year later when Susie’s mother and sister are in the dinning room living a normal life

Reflection: 6/08/10- Editing my Footage

2 days ago I had taken home a school laptop to finish my edit of my film. I had a few difficulties working out how to use Final cut because I'm quiet use to using iMovie, so I had to figured out different things with the program and to my great success I worked out and managed how to use this program after a nights work.

The difficulties that I had with the program lay within playing the clips. A message kept popping up saying something like, "It is slow because of hard-drive doesn't have enough memory and it's slow because..." of something. They also said something about RT which I have no idea what that means...
I also had difficulties figuring out how to crop the footage but in the end I managed how to do it but I took quiet a while to do it. Also I tried putting in the transitions in because you have to do this strange thing by adding in the next footage and then you had to click in the middle of both clips and than do to the transition button and choose your transition. I know that doesn't sound too hard but it is when you never used it for a long period of time. But overall using the program wasn't so hard, but there were some pot holes that I had trouble with but everything is almost done and all I need to do is add titles and more transitions...

I emailed Mr Andrews about the problems I had with the message popping up and I thought that I would be there for the next lesson but unfortunately I had to leave early because I was running a temp. So I haven't finished my editing (just yet) and I missed our last CM lesson which I really need help with my editing. So now I'm screwed!
1. I don't have a computer to finish off my editing
2. Don't have Mr Andrews help
3. It's due on Monday!!!

Reflections: 3/08/10

Today was the day when we had to make a To Do List of what we needed to do and what we've done. So far my group has done a far amount of work done, but we still need to finish off the EDL.
Today I was sorting out and covert my footage that I wanted in MY edit film. This didn't take a long time because I knew all ready what I wanted to do because it was similar with the actually rough edit we did as a group, but there are scenes that are added in that we filmed after we showed our rough edit to the class.
I had a few problems today. Firstly I had problems with working out how to use Final Cut Pro, because I'm really use to using iMovie but as the rest of my group and Mr Andrews had mentioned it would actually better if I choose to edit my film in Final Cut Pro (to my dismay). But he always mentioned that it would be better quality so I had to change once he said 'BETTER'.
So today I was just converting and picking throw the footage I wanted and having few bumps in the way as well...

To Do List:

PLANNING:

1. Working as a group on a Rough Edit
2. Shooting additional footage
3. Undertaking weekly reflections

DONE WORK:

1. Production Schedule
2. Finishing off the EDL

PART A:

1. Transfer ALL required footage to an external hard-drive
2. Finishing EDL
3. Use filters, titles and effects to finalize visual elements

DONE WORK:

1. Ensure a backup footage
2. Convert footage
3. Import, organize footage using Final Cut
4. Assemble your sequence

Term 3: Reflection/ Evaluation

Reflection/ Evaluation:

1. Describe any problems or difficulties you encountered during the filming of your project

2. Describe any skills, techniques or tricks you have discovered during the project

3. Are you satisfied with your film process so far? How could you improve this?

4. Have you managed your time effectively?

5. If you could start again what would you do differently?

ALL OF THIS WORK MUST BE COMPLETED BY MONDAY

1. We have encountered few problems and hiccups during the post-production and during film. We have caused a disturbance with our CM group making this difficult for us to work as a team. This has made some members of the group uneasy about this awkward situation, but we are trying to sort this matter out.
This disturbance hasn’t disturbed the process of filming, but has disturbed the interruption of making decisions together as a group and figuring out the problems with our film.
This has only been happening for a few weeks and everyone in the group has been doing their own editing and no one has really made any communication about what scenes or wither we want to redo some sequences. But again the communication isn’t that brilliant through out the group.

2. The skills and the techniques that I’ve learnt are different from the way the camera is being used in film and how to film a movie, with the different techniques of angles, shots and planning. The pre-production stage was very interesting in knowing how he ‘real’ world plans each movie in depth to how they sort everything out before they start film. I suppose I’ve learnt a lot from not really sticking to how the result in your head is going to be when you start shooting because there can be a few alterations through a crew/team, even though it’s your story that’s being made.

3. I am proud of what we’ve done in the filming process so far. We have done most things as we discussed through pre-production, but there was a few pot holes through shooting as these were problems that couldn’t be solved through the shooting such as the weather, people in the of shooting and the lighting. But overall the filming process that we have achieved conducted through out the day.
We can’t improve on the problems we had because they are natural incidences that couldn’t be solved and we can’t control the weather or the problems with the people in the way, but we had some slight issues with the lighting. The way we’ve could’ve solved it was to try out few shots with using different lighting, but as we had a limited amount of time through out the day we didn’t take the time to do that. As we know now, if we could fix this problem then we would re-shoot the takes and find the solution to the problem.

4. I believe we have managed our time very effectively, considering one of teammates couldn’t make it to both shooting days due to other commitments. Our time management was very productive due to early shooting before our fellow classmates because we were excited to start the filming and we couldn’t decide what day we should start shooting. This decision for us to start early made us ahead of our classmates, having more time to re-shoot takes and having more time and letting our teacher see what needed improving through out our film.

5. As I mentioned this last term, if I had the choose in starting this over again I would differently change the story to someone else’s story so we wouldn’t be able to do mine. Other than that in the way we were filming I believe that we should’ve slowed our shooting process done because we were all over the place and we didn’t everything so fast. For the scenes I would have changed the family scenes e.g. kitchen and end. Also the scenes with Letty and Susie in it and finally the plot were Susie gets beat in up; I would have changed the beating up scene from the park to a different location. This would have made the idea to the film different from the concept of using the inspiration of the film.

Shots List

• KITCHEN:
o Eye level- running into the house
o Low to High- to Shelby (medium) to Me
o Low to Eye level- running away

• PARK:
o Bird’s eye view- running to park
o Low level- swinging
o Low level- Shelby behind me
o High- beating
o High- bloody face
o Eye level- beating up guys running away

• HOUSE:
o Eye level- mum phoning the police
o High level- dad comforting mother

• GARDEN:
o High level- Susie lying on the trampoline
o Eye level- girl walking into the house

• INSIDE THE HOUSE:
o Medium angle- wondering the house.
o The girl is wondering the house. No one is the house because they’re at her funeral.
o High angle- sees Letty on the sofa
o Eye level- Susie walking over to Letty
o Eye level/ medium- conversation between Letty and Susie
o Eye level- family comes inside the house from the front
o High angle- family walks to the dinning table
o Eye level- Susie walks over to them
o Medium- family talking

• OUTSIDE:
o High angle- Letty and Susie seating on the steps talking
o Eye level- Sister walking outside
• Sister is patting the dog, looks up to see Susie with Letty runs inside the house

• SUSIE'S ROOM:
o Stay's the Same

• FEW YEARS LATER
o Eye level- mother preparing dinner
o High angle- sister is setting the table up
o Eye level- family seating around the table
o Mother looks around the table and says, “Everything will be alright”
o Outside
o Eye level- Susie and Letty talking about how everything will be all right and walks off.

Reflection

In the past few lessons that we had, we haven't been doing much because Mr. Andrews had told us to redo some scenes. This is putting us back because we cannot edit or do anything to change it because of those scenes that we need to redo. We have done all of the lists that we need to do for planning our film. We have created a script, created a shot list for the film and we have talked about what we need to change once we arrive to our film day. Right now we aren't doing anything towards our film. This is a great disadvantage towards our time during the lesson.

To be honest, right now everyone is over CM because we are sick of waiting to film! I am so over this... in a way it's getting boring!

Term 2: Reflection/Evaluation

1. I had a little bit of trouble doing my film treatment because I had to shorten words down but still explain it, not in a detailed description though. I had to do the treatment quite a few times to see if it was right or not, checking for errors and using present tense speech (bit hard to write because I’m not use to it)

2. Didn’t really plan or research that much before doing my treatment because I already had my story in my head and I wrote it down, but I mainly got the idea from watching ‘The Lovely Bones’ but I changed things differently to make it into a short story

3. Doing the activities on learning about different angles and shots help me imagine what kind of angles/shots I wanted to
introduce in my storyboards so I could get a better understanding of how I wanted my scenes to look like. The template was good in the knowing what detail I wanted to put into the storyboards. On the side of the storyboard there was sections saying: shot type, camera positing, action/dialog/ detail and notes. This actually made me on task with what I was suppose to be doing with my storyboards. It was really easy for me to start off with drawing the images then writing what I wanted the scenes to be scene like.

4. I thought I would have trouble with drawing the storyboards but in matter a fact I was surprised with the final results. I had trouble with how many storyboards to draw, like the main parts or the small parts. I learnt that doing all of the shots are important because then you get lost and no one knows what going on when you start filming.

5. Write the story first because it helps you create you film treatment then use the treatment to incorporated that into the storyboards. Better in pencil to draw the storyboard, rather than taking photos because then you have to put the arrows in and that takes a while. Draw the arrows while you finish drawing it because then you’ll forget to put in the arrows in storyboard.

1. Yes I am happy with the final results because when we were in the group, we talked about the story and what to add and what to take out, and everyone participated in the ideas of the film. There were some edgy bits that we rushed like the pre-production. I believed that we rushed the pre-production stage because we were so excited to be getting started that we didn’t have a scripted or plan any angle/shot list. But overall we worked well as a team and our ideas together are somewhat good.

2. We didn’t mange our time well because while we were in pre-production we talked for a while about where we wanted to set the scenes, how we were going to do it and mainly we changed the storyline. We didn’t really talk about the angle/shot sequences, the scripted, plan B and mainly we rushed everything. The time of shooting was very rushed because when we started filming we took a longer time on the first scene and then we rushed the scenes that we did during the end of the day.

3. I would change the idea of the story, the location, scripted, the time of day and some scenes that was taking. The story because it’s a bet complicated and it’s quite hard to follow throw some parts of the story. Scripted because we didn’t really write a whole scripted down and learn from that we just made it on the spot which was a bit edgy because ever take we shot we changed the lines every time. The time of day wasn’t that right compared to what was planned on the storyboard. Most of the scenes were set during the day and were quite bright. The beating up clip wasn’t how the storyboard was like, being set in the day inside of a night scene. The location links over towards the time of day that was set, such as the beating up scene (explained previously).

Film Treatment

Bright Light

A girl finds herself thrust into a world where there is no escape; with the help of her dead best friend, can she ever escape this world.

Story By

Emily Bennett

Key Characters

Susie: Teenage abuse victim who is in between two worlds. She meets best friend, Letty, who had past away due to a collision of another car. She recalls what happens to her.

Letty: Was Susie’s best friend who had been in a car accident due to a car collision of another car. She encounters Susie in this mystery world.

Four Men: Men surround Susie in a dark alleyway, happening to beat her up to uncertain death.

Susie’s Family: Four family members’ of Susie, including: mother, father and two siblings. They are oblivious to Susie’s appearance, they can’t hear or see her.

Susie’s Friends: A group of Susie’s friends who have the same appearance as her family.

Key Locations

Front/ Back Yard: Front yard of a house, her house is at the end of the cul-de-sac with a deserted street. A dark cloud surrounds the sky with sunlight shining brightly upon the yard. Back yard with a pool, tall trees surrounding the yard and a concrete bench.

Big house: Large lounge in front of the front door, a dinning room table with a candle stand in the middle. A bar with an extension room connected to the bar.

Street: A deserted street with streetlights looming above the street.

Alleyway: Dark alleyway with rubbish bins along the wall, light is dim, water on the floor and graffiti on the walls.

SYNOPSIS

A vista of a deserted neighbourhood street slowly comes into view, with a girl lying on the front lawn of her house from a bird’s eye view. There is no music. The girl’s face is shown before moving slowly towards the door. The door slowly opens showing a full perspective of the room with intense thrilling music. Thrilling music crescendos as a dinning room table comes into view, showing four people. The camera moves slowly towards a man, zooming in on his face, before moving to the girl shaking the man. Shifting towards a candle burning in the middle of the table after changing scenes to another room. A medium shot of the girl’s face exposes the screen with a gathering over her shoulder. She walks to the group as soft violins play. The camera views each solemn face from a low angle then moves upwards to an eye level position. Backing out into a mysterious garden, camera zooms onto a bench where girl runs towards it. Low shot of the girl seating down with another girl from a distance. Both girls circle each other as the music crescendos after a flash back of a deserted street. Dark night, streetlights shine on the street from a bird’s eye view, following the girl running away from four men by a dolly shot as the music increases with the intensity of the chase. The girl starts walking faster when the men jump in front of her from a dark alleyway, the music decrescendos but a deep tension is playing. A bird’s eye view of the alleyway after a dolly shot of the men circling the girl. A medium/low shot of a man pushing the girl onto the ground with dramatic music. Side of her face is beaten up with blood gushing out of her mouth and nose. A bird’s eye view of the antagonists starts to fade revealing the scene in the garden. Looking up towards her friend, the girl discovers there is no way back. Shifting towards the house, life returns with the girl watching her family like a silent ghost with music increasing with brightness and happiness, the scene fades to reveal the end.