Thursday, 7 April 2011
The Teacher Final Draft
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We hope you enjoy the film.
-Elizabeth Rayner and Nafisat Ishola
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
Facebook Group (Nafisat Ishola)
We made a Facebook group for our two minute opening sequence project. This will enable us to draw in members and get better feedback on our product. Its also a good way of advertising as members will join and we will gets supporters and followers interacting with us. Facebook is used by over 5 million people daily and is the most famous social networking site in the world, its mostly used between the 13-30 age range, and this is ideal as this is the target audience we aim for with our Thriller genre opening sequence.
Saturday, 26 March 2011
Audience Feedback for 'The Teacher' Draft One (Elizabeth Rayner)
Both Nafisat and I uploaded our first draft of 'The Teacher' to our individual blogs for our friends to watch and comment. Through doing this we got a lot of advice and tips on what exactly we should do to make the final edit perfect.
Friday, 25 March 2011
Thursday, 24 March 2011
Saturday, 5 March 2011
Friday, 4 March 2011
Production Schedule (Elizabeth Rayner)
Time and location of production:
8th March: College, 11:00 - 13:00.
9th March: College, 17:00 – 20:00
10th March: Elizabeth’s home, 13:00 – 16:00
Intended production activity:
8th March: On this day we intended to film our shots set around the college, and in a classroom.
9th March: As this was an evening session, we decided to continue filming, as it was dark and we felt it would help make a dark, eery atmosphere.
10th March: On this day, we intended to take the camera to Elizabeth’s house and film some shots in her dining room involving weapons etc – obviously we cannot take knives or anything dangerous to college, so filming at a house was a must.
8th March: College, 11:00 - 13:00.
9th March: College, 17:00 – 20:00
10th March: Elizabeth’s home, 13:00 – 16:00
Intended production activity:
8th March: On this day we intended to film our shots set around the college, and in a classroom.
9th March: As this was an evening session, we decided to continue filming, as it was dark and we felt it would help make a dark, eery atmosphere.
10th March: On this day, we intended to take the camera to Elizabeth’s house and film some shots in her dining room involving weapons etc – obviously we cannot take knives or anything dangerous to college, so filming at a house was a must.
Props/Resources List (Elizabeth Rayner)
· Camera
· Tripod
· 2 actors
· Fake blood/anything similar (watered down ketchup etc)
· Weapons (knives etc)
· Dark hooded jacket
· Tripod
· 2 actors
· Fake blood/anything similar (watered down ketchup etc)
· Weapons (knives etc)
· Dark hooded jacket
Wednesday, 23 February 2011
Friday, 11 February 2011
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
Friday, 4 February 2011
Treatment For Two Minute Opening Of A Thriller Opening (Elizabeth Rayner)
Our thriller opening will have two locations; one a college campus in which our character works at, the other being their home. The thriller will have very only two characters, our main character will be a teacher and the other will be her victim, also one of her students. The premise of our opening is thus – a teacher going about their daily life then we will be cutting to their private life – a far more sinister and dark world. We will be using the editing technique of “crosscutting” to intermingle the two, and create a sense of wonderment and suspense for the audience.
The mood of the opening will be very similar to many, if not all thrillers – very tense and atmospheric, making the audience want to watch more. It will contain no dialogue, but suspenseful, ambient music. We are not going to choose a famous soundtrack however, as we do not want to mislead our audience.
We have decided to do something different for our thriller opening, to give it an unusual feel. Since we are cutting between the two mediums of our protagonists life, we are going to use two different colours. We’re going to have the characters daily life as a teacher in colour, to connote how 'bright' her life is in the daytime. When we cut to her private world, we’re going to change to black and white – almost as though a filter is being put over her daily life.
The mood of the opening will be very similar to many, if not all thrillers – very tense and atmospheric, making the audience want to watch more. It will contain no dialogue, but suspenseful, ambient music. We are not going to choose a famous soundtrack however, as we do not want to mislead our audience.
We have decided to do something different for our thriller opening, to give it an unusual feel. Since we are cutting between the two mediums of our protagonists life, we are going to use two different colours. We’re going to have the characters daily life as a teacher in colour, to connote how 'bright' her life is in the daytime. When we cut to her private world, we’re going to change to black and white – almost as though a filter is being put over her daily life.
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Saturday, 29 January 2011
Preliminary Task Evaluation (Nafisat Ishola)
During our lesson during the week and the 5-8 lesson, we filmed and edited our preliminary task. This helped us to practise making a short film so we can gain experience on making our 2 minute Thriller. Before shooting the preliminary task, we discussed what exactly we wanted to shoot and how to make it flow. We were required to film and edit a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. It also demonstrated match on action, Shot/reverse shot and The 180-degree rule.
One thing our group had agreed on was when filming a certain area for example, a character coming through the door; we would make sure we had some extra shots so we wouldn’t have to go and film again on another day, so the continuity wouldn't be lost.
When filming and editing we came across some problems like the dialogue, as when filming the characters when they were talking we shot extra shots like said above and we noticed that each time we shot them they would say different lines, for example on one shot a character would say ‘Hey’ and on another shot they would say ‘Hiya’, we noticed this when we got in the editing suite and cut out the unnecessary parts.
Other problems we had was with a chair we used also when filming the dialogue, whenever we shot the character coming and going through the door it didn’t match as the chair would be facing different directions, so when in the editing suite we had to do a lot of work to make sure there was continuity.
Overall I think that the preliminary task helped as it made us more aware on everything we have to do in the actual Thriller. It also helped us make all the little mistakes in this task so we won’t make them in the future.
One thing our group had agreed on was when filming a certain area for example, a character coming through the door; we would make sure we had some extra shots so we wouldn’t have to go and film again on another day, so the continuity wouldn't be lost.
When filming and editing we came across some problems like the dialogue, as when filming the characters when they were talking we shot extra shots like said above and we noticed that each time we shot them they would say different lines, for example on one shot a character would say ‘Hey’ and on another shot they would say ‘Hiya’, we noticed this when we got in the editing suite and cut out the unnecessary parts.
Other problems we had was with a chair we used also when filming the dialogue, whenever we shot the character coming and going through the door it didn’t match as the chair would be facing different directions, so when in the editing suite we had to do a lot of work to make sure there was continuity.
Overall I think that the preliminary task helped as it made us more aware on everything we have to do in the actual Thriller. It also helped us make all the little mistakes in this task so we won’t make them in the future.
Wednesday, 26 January 2011
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