Wednesday 19 December 2012

More Opening Sequence Progress



 We have finally finished building and painting our dolls house and are in the process of creating a pre-production video to show our progress, which we will upload to our blogs. During the Christmas break we plan to film all of our title sequence, ready to edit and complete when we get back in time for the deadline of January 28th.
We've listened to some music and narrowed it down to four tracks which we are considering to use for our title sequence.














Tuesday 18 December 2012

Title sequence pre-production: Making the dolls house

We were so wrong.

The dolls house arrived in a smaller package than originally expected and we began to worry about how long it would take us to build it. We unpacked it and we then realised how hard it was going to be and how stressed it was going to make us. However, even with some help from teachers and after having many of our friends complimenting the house, we were making progress and it was starting to look like a house rather than just pieces of thin model wood. Once it was all together we got together and decided that we needed to glue it all together with wood glue and a hot glue gun also. For double the sturdiness as it wasn't very stable. We then all decided on the colour scheme we wanted and which would look best. We settled on a dull colour scheme of grey, black and blues. But, we did want to foreshadow death and horror so we put some red/burgundy on it too.

Monday 17 December 2012

Hammer Film Studio


Film Studio from cerenkangal

We split the questions out equally within our group and we haven't received the other questions back, that's why it's not finished. 

Thursday 6 December 2012

Title sequence pre-production: The dolls house

We had the idea of having a burning dolls house in our title sequence as we thought it would be good to foreshadow our plot and to overall make the title sequence a little bit more realistic and unsettling. After discussing this idea amongst the group, we were all very keen on doing it. As we shared this idea, both teachers and students were talking to us realistically and we then realised the risk we would be taking and the pressure to make sure we got in all on camera.

However, we were all still very keen on the idea and we all decided that we would shoot the footage on multiple cameras to ensure that we got it all. We then searched the internet for a decent dolls house as none of us had one to burn. We would see amazing ones but they were all way too expensive for us to just burn and never use. After a while, we found a suitable one during the lesson and we decided to buy it. Just before we did so, we saw that we had to build it ourselves - but we thought ''how hard could it be to build a dolls house between four of us?'' and bought it anyway.


Monday 3 December 2012

Opening Sequence Progress

At the moment, I feel as though our work is going well. After the panic of thinking we wouldn't be able to complete the pitch idea under pressure and in time to present it, we successfully pitched our film. After we were given feedback about our pitch, we made improvements and were happier about it. We are now on our way to creating our title sequence.
We made an audience profile, however we struggled because we were unsure about how to do it correctly and what to actually include. Then to help us think of different ideas for our sequence we created a brainstorm and then decided on the best ideas. 
We've already begun discussing ideas for the sequence and also creating some storyboards for it.

Blog Feedback





Overall I agree with the feedback that I received concerning the work on my blog. I plan to improve the posts in need of improving and I will add the posts I haven't yet started. The comments about our ideas for our title sequence are fair as some of the ideas could be difficult to do, especially the part about burning the house. We will think and film an easier alternative for the actual sequence to create the same effect we hope for. Regarding the fight sequence, our group thought that removing the sound was part of the initial instructions, however we can easily go back and put the sound back in. I will add more of my class notes onto my blog, especially those which relate to the posts. Mostly, what I need to do is improve and add to my current posts which I plan to do. 

Audience Profile