production diary

Production Diary

Task	What we did	Date of completion
Initial pitch and presentation	We produced several different ideas for an opening sequence including film titles, what the films about, and what will happen in the opening sequence.	24.10.12
Mood board of initial ideas including inspirational shots from real films	We created a mood board which contained shots from movies with the same – or similar – genre. We included shots from these opening to films which of which we will create to a similar effect.	7.11.12
Evidence of how planned openings fits with research into codes/conventions, genre, audience	We produced a prezi on how our opening will fits with the codes and conventions of a spy film	26.10.12
Titles	We have established our individual credit titles	25.10.12
Group Pitch	We produced a movie pitch which outlined our genre, included two openings to existing movies, and opened the narrative and characters. We also discussed setting and target audience.	25.10.12
Class feedback and peer assessment on pitch and amendments planned	We pitched our ideas to the class and received feedback sheets. We scanned these sheets and put these on our blogs	4.11.12
Script	We have produced the script for what is happening in our opening sequence. We made our script too long for the permitted time so we slightly altered it to fit the time.	7.11.12
Timeline of opening	We have constructed a timeline of narrative and dialogue.	10.11.12
Analysis of existing student openings	Looked at a variety of different types of openings but mainly thrillers that were similar to ours so that we would know what we could do to improve our own opening.	13.11.12
Story Board and music research font research	Using the template for the storyboard we created the storyboard and took photos of each part of the storyboard and added a voiceover to explain what was happening in each shot. And we also did our music research and found a piece of music that worked well with the different scenes in our opening. We also did our font research were we were able to narrow it down to a few titles that would work best for our opening and when we did this we also did our	15.11.12
Risk assessment sheet	We created our first risk assessment sheet for our original filming	24.11.12
Risk assessment sheet 2	We had to create a new risk assessment sheet because of some changes that had to be made because of problems with the filming.	27.11.12
filming	We filmed the majority of our opening and made some changes to the original	01.12.12
Filming day 2	We filmed some more exterior shots and did most of the editing and added the music.	08.12.12
Editing week one	After our first week of editing we had a rough draft of what our final opening was going to be like. But the music we had chosen didn’t support the opening as well as we would have hoped.	10.12.12
Editing week two	In our second week of editing we had an adjusted some of the scenes to make the cuts flow and make the video smoother. We also found a new piece of music that was better suited to our theme, genre and helped to create more suspense.	17.12.12
Gathering feedback	After we had the finished product and made many changes we decided to get feedback from students and teachers.	12.01.13
evaluation weeks 1-3	We finished our evaluation talking about how our film fits into the codes and conventions of our theme and genre and we talked about the different aspects to do with audience and how we created our movie idea and our opening.

audience feedback

Feedback

GOOD POINTS:

·         Creates a good atmosphere

·         Stays intense

·         Both characters were shady and are kept anonymous. Keeps audience on their seat and wants them to know

·         Black and white creates an interesting effect

IMPROVEMENTS:

·         Music too intense

·         Cuts are too jumpy in certain places

·         Sound effect when the match was thrown in the house was too dramatic for what happened

·         Conversation at the end needed to be more audible 

second draft of production

This is a better edited version than the previous one. At 00:16 the transition between shots of the car is better because before the car was more front on on the second shot.We added the shot of the handbrake to establish the car is stopping, before the car stopped abruptly but now the shots make more sense. At 1:03 the shot has been changed because previously the cut had Matt being to face on than he was in the previous one. we did the same at 1:37 because the between cuts he moved position. Also at this point we edited the music because it builds up to much at an inappropriate time, we did not want the music to be contrapuntal. We changed the order of shots when his throat is slit instead of staying with the tracking shot we quickly cut to the under table shot to up the pace of the scene and show off more blood. We used a shot of blood dripping off the table to take us out of the scene this leaves the audience in no doubt he is dead, also I think its a good shot. I used myself as a foley artist to make the noise of the hob, I think its works well, no one in the class knew it was me. We added the shot of the matches to show the audience the hitmans professionalism, we did in slow motion to show the importance and build suspense. The final conversation was added just to set the hitman up as the protagonist because the audience wants to know what he's going to do next and who was on the phone. We changed the title because the typewriter font didn't really work throughout as it drew the audiences attention away from what is going on in the shot.

still image analysis

still image analysis




the theme of our movie was rom com. in this screen shot you can see some elements that show that it is a rom com, this is shown through the setting of the film which is a high school. the warm colours of the shot shows tha tthe film will be happy and up beat which shows also that it will be a rom com.

another aspect of the shot which helps to show the theme is the actions that the two characters are doing. on the left there is a guitar playing boy and on the right there is a hard working girl. these to types of student are the usually characters used in most rom coms that are set in schools. this also can show us what age rating the film is going to be, our film is going to be a 12A because the setting the characters and the events that happen in the film would best relate to teenagers.



this image also shows that it is following the conventions of a rom com by showing eye contact between the two characters which shows that this film will be a romantic film. the lighting of this shot also shows that it wil be a comedic film because everything is very bright and colourful and the to characters are both smiling and seem to be laughing with brings in elements of comedy.

general order of credits

General Order Of Credits

• (NAME OF THE STUDIO)

Name of the studio that is distributing the film and may or may not have produced it (Walt Disney Pictures, Columbia, Lions Gate, Universal, Marvel Studios, Dimension, Miramax etc.).

• (NAME OF THE PRODUCTION COMPANY)

Name of the production company that actually made the film or name of the investment groups or companies that financed a substantial part of the film (usually credited as "in association with" or "A (studio name) production.").

• (PRODUCER NAME) PRODUCTION or/and (director only) A FILM BY (DIRECTOR NAME)

Director's first credit, often "a film by XY or "a XY film".

• STARRING

Principal actors, (Sometimes the stars' and director's credits will be reversed, depending on the star's deal with the studio; sometimes, as in the Rodgers and Hammerstein films, or as in all three film versions of Show Boat, or, as in many of Disney's films, the title of the film will be shown before the names of its actors; sometimes, as in many of Cannon's films, the name(s) of the principal actor(s) will be shown before the name(s) of the producer(s), i.e. "The Cannon Group presents X in a Golan-Globus production of a Y film").

• (FILM'S TITLE)

Name of the film.

• FEATURING

Featured actors.

• CASTING or CASTING BY

Casting director.

• MUSIC or MUSIC COMPOSED BY or ORIGINAL SCORE BY

Composer of music.

• PRODUCTION DESIGN or PRODUCTION DESIGNER

Production designer.

As a variation some of the below may be noted:

• SET DESIGN
• COSTUMES or COSTUMES BY or GOWNS (older movies)
• HAIRDRESSER
• MAKE-UP ARTIST
• SOUND RECORDING (older movies)
• VISUAL EFFECTS DIRECTOR or VISUAL EFFECTS BY

• EDITOR or EDITED BY

Editor.

• DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Director of photography.

• PRODUCER or PRODUCED BY, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Producers, co-producers, executive producers, 'also produced by' (credited for various reasons according to contracts and personal scrutiny of the principal producer). Often, though, the name of the producer will be the next-to-last opening credit, just before the director's name is shown.

• BASED ON THE BOOK (PLAY, GRAPHIC NOVEL etc.) BY or FROM A PLAY/BOOK BY (older movies)

If based on a book or other literary work.

• BASED ON THE CHARACTERS BY or BASED ON THE CHARACTERS CREATED BY

If based on characters from a book or other media.

• STORY or STORY BY

Person who wrote the story on which the script is based, gets "story by" credit, and the first screenplay credit, unless the script made substantial changes to the story.

• WRITER(S) or WRITTEN BY

Screenplay writers. The Writers Guild of America allows only three writing credits on a feature film, although teams of two are credited as one, separated on the credits by an ampersand ("X & Y"). If each works independently on the script (the most common system), they are separated by an "and". If more than two persons worked on the screenplay, the credits may read something like "screenplay by X & Y and Z and W" X and Y worked as a team, but Z and W worked separately.

• DIRECTOR or DIRECTED BY

Director. The Directors Guild of America permits a film to list only one director, even when it is known that two or more worked on it. Except in very rare cases (a death in mid-production) there is only one directing credit.

infuences

Influences

In preparation for our filming we watched various movies and took inspiration from these. The first movie we watched was Casino Royale. From this we took the black and white effect for the movie opening, the reasoning behind this was that we liked the gritty realism that the black and white created. It removes all flash and sparkles from the scene and makes you focus on the gritty nature of the shots.

The second film we took inspiration from was ‘Tinker Tailor Solider Spy’. From this we looked to extract realism. No Hollywood chase scenes just real life again the gritty nature was somethhing we wanted to replicate.

The final film was ‘Drive’ which is where we got our violence level from. We saw you could make a stylised movie with a high violence level at it be successful. 

structure of movie opening credits

(NAME OF THE STUDIO) Name of the studio that is distributing the film and may or may not have produced it (Walt Disney Pictures, Columbia, Lions Gate, Universal, Marvel Studios, Dimension, Miramax etc.). (NAME OF THE PRODUCTION COMPANY) Name of the production company that actually made the film or name of the investment groups or companies that financed a substantial part of the film (usually credited as "in association with" or "A (studio name) production."). (PRODUCER NAME) PRODUCTION or/and (director only) A FILM BY (DIRECTOR NAME) Director's first credit, often "a film by XY or "a XY film". STARRING Principal actors, (Sometimes the stars' and director's credits will be reversed, depending on the star's deal with the studio; sometimes, as in the Rodgers and Hammerstein films, or as in all three film versions of Show Boat, or, as in many of Disney's films, the title of the film will be shown before the names of its actors; sometimes, as in many of Cannon's films, the name(s) of the principal actor(s) will be shown before the name(s) of the producer(s), i.e. "The Cannon Group presents X in a Golan-Globus production of a Y film"). (FILM'S TITLE) Name of the film. FEATURING Featured actors. CASTING or CASTING BY Casting director. MUSIC or MUSIC COMPOSED BY or ORIGINAL SCORE BY Composer of music. PRODUCTION DESIGN or PRODUCTION DESIGNER Production designer. As a variation some of the below may be noted: SET DESIGN COSTUMES or COSTUMES BY or GOWNS (older movies) HAIRDRESSER MAKE-UP ARTIST SOUND RECORDING (older movies) VISUAL EFFECTS DIRECTOR or VISUAL EFFECTS BY EDITOR or EDITED BY Editor. DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Director of photography. PRODUCER or PRODUCED BY, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Producers, co-producers, executive producers, 'also produced by' (credited for various reasons according to contracts and personal scrutiny of the principal producer). Often, though, the name of the producer will be the next-to-last opening credit, just before the director's name is shown. BASED ON THE BOOK (PLAY, GRAPHIC NOVEL etc.) BY or FROM A PLAY/BOOK BY (older movies) If based on a book or other literary work. BASED ON THE CHARACTERS BY or BASED ON THE CHARACTERS CREATED BY If based on characters from a book or other media. STORY or STORY BY Person who wrote the story on which the script is based, gets "story by" credit, and the first screenplay credit, unless the script made substantial changes to the story. WRITER(S) or WRITTEN BY Screenplay writers. The Writers Guild of America allows only three writing credits on a feature film, although teams of two are credited as one, separated on the credits by an ampersand ("X & Y"). If each works independently on the script (the most common system), they are separated by an "and". If more than two persons worked on the screenplay, the credits may read something like "screenplay by X & Y and Z and W" X and Y worked as a team, but Z and W worked separately. DIRECTOR or DIRECTED BY Director. The Directors Guild of America permits a film to list only one director, even when it is known that two or more worked on it. Except in very rare cases (a death in mid-production) there is only one directing credit.

music research

MUSIC RESEARCH

Mozart’s greatest violin piece - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caVr-VdeDvw – sounds too cheerful, need to be of a lower key and to be the right tempo

 Mozart – Requiem - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPlhKP0nZII&feature=related – Possibility to be used in our work

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde – Prelude - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fktwPGCR7Yw – Sounds exactly right for our opening, possibly going to be used. Correct key and tempo.

Spy Movie Theme Music – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TckGajQB8U&feature=youtu.be  – Right tempo, a style which suits our genre and the purpose.

FINAL CHOICE:

Spy Movie Theme Music – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TckGajQB8U&feature=youtu.be  – Right tempo, a style which suits our genre and the purpose – This  is the best song we found to go with our movie opening.

risk assessment final

Risk assessment

Activity assessed: As media task filming	Assessment date: 28/11/12	Assessed by: Toby Trew
Activity location: house	Who’s at risk: actors and cameramen	Next assessed by:	Approved by:
HAZARD:	Risk level Before High, mediocre  or low	Risk level After High or low	Control measures Reducing the risk to a minimal risk
Car pulling into drive	High: could get hit by car or equipment being damaged by car.	Low risk because cameramen will keep a certain distance away from cars and roads to mineralise the chance of injuries.	Making sure that camera man stands away from where the car is driving.
Use of real knife	Could cut actor with blade	We made sure that we used the back of the knife so that it wouldn’t cut our actor	Used back of blade and made sure that we held it away from the actors neck.
Walking down the hallway(marble)	Could drop and crack equipment Slip over	Low because with all potential trip hazards removed and things that could injury someone if they fall are removed.	Make sure appropriate foot wear is worn so that there is a reduced risk of slipping and falling.
Action shot	when acting out scene potential to hurt actor	Low because with all potential trip hazards removed and things that could injury someone if they fall are removed.	Remove any shelves sharp corners on desks/cabinets.
Trip hazard wires, track and fake blood Younger siblings/family members	Trip over and injure yourself slip on the fake blood Could get in the way of shots damage equipment	No trip hazards left to be tripped over. Make sure all fake blood is removed from the floor before filming the next shot. Siblings are kept away from shooting area.

Personal protective equipment needed:	Provided by:	Level of first aid provision needed	First aiders
Nearest telephone:		Nearest 24hr hospital/doctor

movie opening pitch

Movie pitch on Prezi