Showing posts with label problems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label problems. Show all posts
Monday, 14 January 2013
Problems and successes during production
Before we broke up from school we had intended to book out a camera and tri-pod so we could film during the christmas break, but we forgot. This was problematic as none of us knew whether or not we could find some from home. Luckily, we found a camera and tri-pod so we were then ready to go out and shoot.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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