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See trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT75k8sUXaQ
"Shifty" chose Metrodome as its distributor due to the fact Metrodome takes on small British movie mainly because they themselves are based in London.
Wednesday 29 February 2012
RESEARCH INTO A DISTRIBUTOR
Today we looked a low budget London film called "Shifty" as a case study of an distributor:
Shifty: "a young crack cocaine dealer in London, sees his life quickly spiral out of control when his best friend returns home. Stalked by a customer desperate to score at all costs, and with his family about to turn their back on him for good, Shifty must out-run and out-smart a rival drug dealer, intent on setting him up for a big fall. As his long time friend Chris, confronts the dark past he left behind him, Shifty is forced to face up to the violent future he's hurtling towards".
See trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT75k8sUXaQ
"Shifty" chose Metrodome as its distributor due to the fact Metrodome takes on small British movie mainly because they themselves are based in London.
See trailer here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT75k8sUXaQ
"Shifty" chose Metrodome as its distributor due to the fact Metrodome takes on small British movie mainly because they themselves are based in London.
Monday 27 February 2012
TIME LAPSE OF LILIES
I have decided to introduce the Lilies as a symbolic device in our thriller opening. We first see them when our main character Natalie comes across a young, beautiful child. By impulse she hands the child a Lily.
When choosing the flower to give to the child we researched the language of flowers and we found that Lillies symbolise purity which would work well with the purity of a child. We looked at painting from the medieval and Victorian era and found one of the Annunciation, where a lily is found inbetween the Angel Gabriel and the Virgin Mary - picture seen below. We used the Lillies to anchor the meaning of the narrative.
The viewer will probably think nothing of it but later on you see her back at home with the Lillies.When back at home she accidentally gets some pollen on her hand then wipes it on her face to try and clean it off. The viewer then sees the pollen smeared across Natalie's face showing a new side to her, a more unclean contaminated Natalie. The child's name is also Lily as it symbolizes Natalie's connection with children which is similar to her connection with flowers
Here you see the lilly in between the Virgin Mary
and Angle Gabriel to symbolise Purity
and Angle Gabriel to symbolise Purity
7 SET EVALUATION QUESTIONS
Today i have decided to begin answering the 7 Evaluation questions. From this I will be using new technologies to answer these questions fully, but for now will be using plain text to structure and perfect these answers before making them final. For instance, one example of a new technology i will be using is speaking into the webcam in the Macs.
The following questions are:
1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?
3) What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
4) Who would the audience be for your media product?
5) How did you attract/address your audience?
6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
7) Look back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
The following questions are:
1) In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2) How does your media product represent particular social groups?
3) What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
4) Who would the audience be for your media product?
5) How did you attract/address your audience?
6) What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
7) Look back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Wednesday 1 February 2012
1st DAY OF SHOOTING- 1ST OF FEB
Today we began to film our first shots for the film opening of the "Black Rose".
Our first session of filming in my opinion was hugely sucessful due to the fact all our preparations in the previous lesson was helpful in giving our group a kick start into the project.
We picked the camera we were going to use (canon EOS550D), equimpment, clothes and props and then began filimng our opening shots up in the belvidere, from this we got 3 different camera angles:
- an establishing shot.
- Low angle shot
- and a hand held camera shot.
Our second section of filming was in the Kilm, whereby I had to dress up into a prisoners costume. We followed our story board and did a Point of view shot of the character natalie looking down at herself in the cell, this was then followed by the gaurd/ pycologist to come into the cell, pick her up and drag her on her feet and out of her cell. we then a POV/handheld shot to add a "dazed" effect.
After our filming for the day came to an end we began to transfer all the footage we captured and upload it up onto the Macs, from this we got all our folders organized and began the first stage of our editing.
Our first session of filming in my opinion was hugely sucessful due to the fact all our preparations in the previous lesson was helpful in giving our group a kick start into the project.
We picked the camera we were going to use (canon EOS550D), equimpment, clothes and props and then began filimng our opening shots up in the belvidere, from this we got 3 different camera angles:
- an establishing shot.
- Low angle shot
- and a hand held camera shot.
Our second section of filming was in the Kilm, whereby I had to dress up into a prisoners costume. We followed our story board and did a Point of view shot of the character natalie looking down at herself in the cell, this was then followed by the gaurd/ pycologist to come into the cell, pick her up and drag her on her feet and out of her cell. we then a POV/handheld shot to add a "dazed" effect.
After our filming for the day came to an end we began to transfer all the footage we captured and upload it up onto the Macs, from this we got all our folders organized and began the first stage of our editing.
PREPARATIONS FOR FIRST SHOOT
Today we set aside some time to discuss wednesdays shoot with the principle actress.
We have decided to begin our shooting on Wednesday the 1st of February.
Therefore we had to tie off all loose ends by deciding on where we are going to be shooting and our establishing shot.
We wanted to begin filming up in the Belvidere where we would do a mix of 3 different shots:
- An establishing shot.
- hand held cam, following the main actress.
- and a low angled shot to add enigma.
Before all of this happend we first had to play around and experiemnt with all the cameras fuctions, so that we could use it to its full when fliming.
From this we were then ready to begin fliming.
We have decided to begin our shooting on Wednesday the 1st of February.
Therefore we had to tie off all loose ends by deciding on where we are going to be shooting and our establishing shot.
We wanted to begin filming up in the Belvidere where we would do a mix of 3 different shots:
- An establishing shot.
- hand held cam, following the main actress.
- and a low angled shot to add enigma.
Before all of this happend we first had to play around and experiemnt with all the cameras fuctions, so that we could use it to its full when fliming.
From this we were then ready to begin fliming.
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