Reflection

The process of making this website was very interesting, exciting and fun. It was exciting as I looked forward to what other things I can discover to make this website better. The tools on this website are very simple and easy to understand and by utilising these tools I hoped to make it seem as close to being like a website made for a real film as possible and make it seem as though it has motion when it doesnt. I would have really hoped we could make a website that we can add animation too. In addition, maybe use a program where there are more options to the music that you can include to your website. As there were some problems when I wanted to add background music to the website. The music would start right from the beginning again when entering another page, if someone was to visit the site, this would be very annoying and the use of the music would be defeated instead it would have a negative affect and be a nuisance. I think I have done everything I wanted and imagined for this website, though, I'd be even happier if I could have found more suitable music to go with the film and its themes.

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Planning Promotional materials Part A

Step 1   (* where they link)

Homepage

a mystery over the disappearance of a girl’s boyfriend. The disappearance, causes anger, irritation and resentment between all of her friends and drives her to someone she never thought she could become.

- Promotional Poster

* Technical Brief

  - Synopsis 

     Blaire is a teenage girl who one day wakes up to the news of her boyfriend, Dan missing. She then goes on a journey to try and discover the truth behind his disappearance but it may have been better if she never tried...

    

  - Credits

Editing Camille Chen

 

Actors 

 

Blaire       Abbey Bayliss

Serena      Stephanie Rutharford

Extra        Clara Hwang

Nate         Jarrod Harkin

Dan          Mitch Bayliss

**Characters 

Blaire: Blaire is the main character of the film and the story is set from her point of view. Normally she is a bright, well-mannered girl with a good sense of humour. Although after the disappearance of her boyfriend, Nate, she is driven to an unpleasant person, who turns her friends against her and stops at nothing to find the truth.

Nate:  Nate is Blaire’s boyfriend who disappears (actually dies). He had a loving relationship with Blaire and has always been there for her. He is a romantic and will do anything to make her happy.

Serena: Serena is the popular girl in this situation. She is good friends with Blaire and Nate. She can sometimes get out of hand at parties, and this leads Blaire to believe she has a fling with Nate eve though they didn’t. Serena is loyal, bubbly, outgoing and truly is a good friend.

Dan: Dan is Nate’s best friend, and is also pretty close to Blaire and Serena. He is a kind guy who is nice to everyone. He tries to be there for Blaire after Nate’s disappearance, but she only pushes him away and accuses him for her loss.

Blaire’s Parents: Blaire’s parents throughout the film are mysterious characters and you are always questioning if they were the ones who killed Nate. They are protective of their daughter, but some of their actions are quite questionable.

 

* Other

- Teasers

-Posters

-Music

*See the Film

Practice

Reflets

Genre: psychological
Actors:

Screenplay and realisation
Suki

Original music
Jerome Rossi
Sound design and mixing
Jean-Michel Collet

Voices

Stephanie Debureau
Peggy Martineau
Manuel Martin
Vanessa Mikowski
Jean-Michel Collet
Serge Chambon

translation
Richard Van Den Boom 

Storyline Brief
One year ago,
Thomas Bresson, a brilliant and ambitious lawyer, and Elise, his finacee,
hit a man on the street by accident and ran away.

from this time, every night, Thomas is haunted by the same nightmare.
Haunted by the guilt, Elise warns him
that she can't keep this terrible secret any longer. In a furious frenzy, Thomas begins
his way to Hell.

But his path is to take many turns...

1.    Separately discuss the overall feel developed for each film’s promotional materials (is it clean, crisp and bright or dark, moody and grungy etc.)? Be as descriptive as possible, you could discuss the colours, textures, tone and use of movement in the website to create interest in the film.

2.    For each film reflect on how the film’s website is laid out. Look at the links, font and how the information or promotional materials are presented. Create a ‘tree’ which diagrammatically shows how the pages are linked to each other.

3.    Identify the Target Audience for each site (who are they? what age, interests, etc.) and discuss whether you feel the website is effective in appealing to this intended audience.

4.    Talk about what you like/dislike about the promotional material for each film. Why?

5.    Find a poster or advertisement for each film, save the images in to your folder and insert here. In as much detail as possible discuss the following:

·      The colour scheme: cool, warm, analogous, complementary, sensitive, calming, exciting, vibrant, simple, etc. and how it makes you feel

·      The focal point:  where do your eyes focus and why?

·      Sense of Balance:  Is the advertisement balanced in terms of line, tone, layout?

·      Harmony:  Do all of the advertisements elements (line, tone, colour, texture etc.) work well together to create harmony or a sense of completion

·      Unity: which elements unite or make the advertisement effective eg.  Use of a dominant colour scheme and high contrast to create unity.

·      What is the overall message being communicated about the film through the visual language in the poster or advertisement?

Final Blog Reflection on Film

What did you learn?                                                  What worked well?
What would you change?                                          Overall evaluation/extra thoughts


I have learnt many things from this assignment. Such as the use of different camera angles, lighting and setting, how to use the editing program 'Final Cut Pro' and teamwork. Many of these things have worked well for us as a group to achieve the final product of our films. If we had the chance, I would add more shots into the film to emphasize further some important moments and set a base music in the background so that the sounds edited in would flow better. Unfortunately, I was unable to find anything suitable for this film or what I believe would be suitable.

Some things that I have done within the film to hopefully achieve certain things is that at the beginning in the first scene where our main character wakes up the sudden scenes where it you see stripes were meant to be a sign that something will show up soon or that something is missing that something definitely is wrong.
There are certain areas where there is no music at all and I was hoping to do this so that the audience would concentrate on what is being said and hopefully these sudden breaks are not too obvious to the person who watches for the first time, tho it maybe obvious in the second viewing xP There is also a slight build up right after the news is broken to the main character about her boyfriend then a sudden stop to emphasis the importance of this news to the main character.
The whole  film was made into black and white to avoid the different lighting within the film that makes a certain scene seem out of place and the scenes from the main characters memories have been changed to a different colour than just black and white in accordance to the change to the scenes that were coloured.
In the ending, after the scene where the main character was hit there are reverse scenes of all her memories that she has recovered and that she has pieced everything together and then we see her shocked faced before the whole thing ends. This was meant to kind of leave the audience hanging at a climax and think 'what's going to happen next?'.

 It was a very enjoyable experience in the production of this film despite all the problems and how time consuming it was. Even though I have not handed in a film that is exactly how I have imagined to be like, I am still very satisfied with its current state and wouldn't regret anything.

HARRDDDRRIVEEEE

HAHAHAHA my hard drive needs formatting and that means deleting all my files :O but nowww all the files are savedddd yayyy !!!! xDDDD now i just need to waittttt a little bit longer before I can work on my film !! The last time i worked on it was like 2 weeks ago and i think i was close to finishing? soooo yehhh soo happyyy :DDD need to thanx IT for their help ^^

Answering Questions

1.    Describe any problems or difficulties your group encountered during the planning. These may include; organizational problems, group related issues, etc.

We didn't encounter any problems except for the one time when we had difficulty finding a suitable time to all get together and get filming done but other than that, everything else was pretty smooth. We didn't really have any problems with getting each other, we got the work done though the teacher may think different but i think our group worked pretty well in just getting it done.

2.    Clarify any time-management issues your group encountered during the planning process and describe the steps you implemented to improve in this area;

After some discussion, we were finally able to decide on one of the weekends and get everything done in one day. This worked very well for us as it didn't take as long as we expected. I even got some exercise that day in walking home before it got dark.

3.    Discuss whether your group made effective use of the provided templates to assist the film-making process;

We didn't really use any of the templates we used for planning, this is because we had the image of what we wanted in our minds and to just remind us of what we wanted we only had a look at our shot list once in a while.

4.    Explain whether the planning process helped your group during filming. In particular, discuss whether the use of devices such as storyboards, shot-lists, and rough edits assisted throughout the filming process;

Planning process helped our group immensely as a build up to filming as we didn't really refer to it during filming but the process did help us gather our ideas and have a clear image of what we wanted to achieve.

5.    Describe any problems or difficulties your group encountered during the filming process. These may include; organization problems, unreliable cast members, group related issues, equipment problems, etc.

One of casts on the day could not stay long as he had to go to training but we were still able to get everything done as we did his scene first. Other than that, everything went pretty smoothly.

6.    After reviewing your footage and completing the rough cut of your film, describe any aspects of your film, which need to be addressed. i.e does your group need to reshoot any scenes; are any additional shots required; are there any scenes which worked better than expected.

Stephs idea of filming as she rolled the camera as though it was Nate rolling down turned out really well. In addition to our improv of throwing the rock into the water and just filming the splash as though it was Nate who fell in. I beleive we don't need to refilm anything as after some editing and putting some bits and pieces together, it looks really good. 

7.    List any skills, techniques or tricks you have discovered during the project.

I discovered that zooming in slowly while the camera was still running is really difficult as it's hard to keep it smooth and not zoom in too much that you'd have to zoom out again.

8.    Discuss whether you undertook adequate and detailed reflection to throughout your project. Have you provided enough evidence to support your work? (Look back at your blogs/journals and think about whether it looks like 6 weeks worth of work).

I think I have blogged regularly? at least i hope i have.

Discuss your feelings about the production task:

9.    Are you satisfied with your groups final result?

yes, as it didn't take long and still turned out great.

10.    Would like to change any aspects of your film?

Yes, but that's why we still have to edit the film right? otherwise whats the point of editing if i didn't want to change any part of it. xD

Ideas:
- screeennnnnn for the flashbacks
- cut the ending down a bit so that it cuts off just as the fry pan hits her hand. ( cut off retrieval part)
-  I think we need to add a bit of the flashback to after the talk with serena and start the the nxt flashback with the fight just before he falls.

11.    If you could start the project again what would you do differently?

 I wouldn't do anything different, I like it when things go smoothly and quickly.

Throughout the time of filming, we were very lucky that the weather on the day was really good and the lighting was just right, so we didnt really have much trouble in getting through filming. We made sure that if we were to do any retakes or shoot the same scene from a different angle that everything was consistant. This also meant that our main character had to change outfits back and forth during filming depnding on what we decided to film first. Our outfits were very casual and modern as it the storyline is set in the present. This also made it really simple for us to film and not have to worry about what can be shown and what can't for example if it was set in the olden times, you wouldnt be able to have a modern car in the background. There was a part where our actor/actress was unable to act including dialogue without having to cut halfway through so we decided to have no dialogue instead put music for that part and they  just needed to do the acting part. There was also a part where the main character slaps her boyfriend, for the sound of the 'slap', as we do not want to literally slap the actor, the boyfriend timed it that he clapped his the moment the main character pretends to slap him in the face. Overall the shooting was smooth and we did not have much trouble at all, it was a fun experience that I learnt many things from.

Reflection

YAYYYY!!! we finished filming yesterday :DDD
Hopefully we have everything we need but I'm pretty sure we do. It went really smoothly and quickly yesterday and we had a lot of fun.

Today Miss Preston gave us an intro to final cut pro.
To start we set up a new project
Then input footage
Final Cut Pro -> easy set up -> Format Apple Intermediate Codec Use Apple Intermediate Codec 720p30 29.97 -> set up
Final Cut Pro -> System settings -> Scratch disks set to hard drive
Drag footage onto timeline
Stretch grey bar to change how much of the timeline you can see
Unlink footage if you don't want the sound
If a red line appears something needs to be rendered
Sequence -> render
razor tool  to cut footage
then arrow to move and shuffle parts around
Drag transitions and put in between ur clips onto timeline
Video filters to make footage black and white etc.

Afterrr.... just played around with final cut pro xD

Class

Today the group began the script for our shoots on Sunday this weekend.

	Shot List
	Production Title:			Forgotten				Shoot Date:	22/06,12-14/07/2012
Shot No.	Shot Name	Scene No.	Location	Shot		Movement	Description of Action	Characters	Lighting Notes
				Type	Angle	Type
1		1	House (Bedroom)	Close Up	Birds Eye View	-	wakes up	Blaire	normal/natural
2			Random	Random	Random	none	Continuous shots	Blaire and Nate	Black and White
3			House (Bedroom)	Mid	none	pans to clock	sitting at side of bed	Blaire	natural/normal
4		2	School	long	none	sweep	storming towards serena	Blaire and Serena	natural/normal
5			School	Mid	none	zoom in	storming towards serena	Blaire and Serena	natural/normal
6				Mid	none	none	Talking	"                           "	natural/normal
7			School	Close Up	none	none	Talking	Serena and Nate	natural/normal
8			School	Mid	Side	none	Serena shaking Blaire	Serena and Blaire	natural/normal
9		3	School	long	none	sweep	opening locker	Dan	natural/normal
10				mid	side	none	Jogging, turn around, hug, shaking Blaire	Dan and Blaire	natural/normal
11		4	Big Hill	long	side	zoom in	picnicing	Blaire and Nate	Black and White
12				Close Up	none	none	talking on phone/storming off	Blaire and Nate	Black and White
13				mid	side	none	talk, push, stumble down hill	Blaire and Nate	Black and White
14			Cliff below	long	high	none	muffled scream and falling to death	Nate	Black and White
15			Big Hill	Extreme close up	none	none	Moving of feet and moving backwards	Blaire	Black and White
16		5	School	Close up		Moving upwards	Camera moves from feet to face	Blaire	Normal
17				Long		None	Blaire runs away	Blaire	Normal
18		6	House	Mid		None	Blaire bursts into the room crying	Blaire	Normal
19				Long		None	Parents run up to Blaire, worried and asking what's wrong	Parents	Normal
20				Mid		None	Blaire repeats the whole situation, not stopping to even breathe	Blaire	Normal
21				Close Up		None	Parents look guilty and they look at each other nervously	Parents	Normal
22				Mid		None	Blaire suddenly stops crying as she has a realisation moment	Blaire	Normal
23						None	She stammers as she asks her parents what made her forget the whole situation.	Blaire and Parents	Normal
24				Mid		None	The mother tries to change the subject.	Mother	Normal
25						None	The father cuts the mum mid sentence and says that she has the right to know	Father	Normal
26						None	Blaire looks at her mum and then her dad, clearly confused.	Blaire	Normal
27				Long		None	The screen cuts to show Blaire running into the house, crying hysterically	Blaire	Black and White
28						Quick Pan	Screen pans quickly to the left to show Blaire's parents with shocked expressions	Blaire and Parents	Black and White
29					High		Blaire bursts out, repeating everything that happened on the cliff that night and starts crying again.	Blaire	Black and White
30					High	Follows Blaire	Blaire runs away and shuts herself into her room, leaving her parents dumbstrucked.	Blaire and Parents	Black and White
31					Low		Blaire's parents quickly and very quietly discuss the effects of her confession in secret.	Parents	Black and White
32					None		Blaire's parents knock on the door of Blaire's room.	Parents	Black and White
33					None	Camera follows parents inside of the room	Blaire's parents walk in to Blaire's room and the camera shows Blair sitting with her back to the camera.	Parents and Blaire	Black and White
34				Mid	Over the shoulder		Blaire's parents strike Blaire with a frypan, knocking her out.	Parents and Blaire	Black and White
35				Extreme close up	Birds Eye View		Blaire's eyes slowly close into unconciousness.

Production Title: Forgotten Props Master: Everyone		Scene 2  to  2 . Director: Everyone
Scene # Name	Characters Required	Props/Costumes Required
7 Realisation	Blare	-
8	Blare Parents
9 Flashback	Blare Parents	-Fry pan

Production Title: Forgotten Props Master: Everyone		Scene 1 to 2  . Director:
Scene # Name	Characters Required	Props/Costumes Required
1	Blair Nate	-   Clock -   Bed -   Casual clothes
2	Extras Blair Serena	-   Casual clothes -   Provocative clothing style (Serena)
3 Flashback	Serena Nate	- Casual (Nate)
4	Blair Serena
5 Lockers	Blair Dan	- Lockers
6 Flashback	Blair Nate	-phone -picnic