Forsaken's Script

We created a script for our opening scene to be ready to know exactly what to do on the filming day, it is very important to stick to the script and to our storyboard, this will save us time and help us be more organised. 

Forsake Script from ewelina stefaniak

How we will represent Social Groups

For our opening scene we are making our actors act a little older than what they are, also because we are having young adults as our main characters we cannot properly give a stereotypical look of them to make our social classes very obvious apart from branding and some mise-en-scene props.The way that we will be representing social groups in our opening scene will be through our film in film shot. Throughout our opening scene you will not be able to tell too much that the main characters used to be fairly wealthy, some viewers may be able to tell due to some of the clothing and props may be giving hints, for example sun glasses could give it away if there are brand names on them and perhaps bags if they look quite modern, etc. Our film will be set in the modern day due to the brands on pieces being visible and it will be nice to give the audience an idea of when the tragedy happened in the film. The audience will also see the social groups being presented very well when they watch our film in film. The film in film will show what life was like before the apocalypse. We will be paying a lot of attention to our mise-en-scene throughout this to make sure that what we are filming is very obvious and shows how wealthy and young the main characters were and show the closeness of the family perhaps, as I have mentioned in the character profiles how they are described as wealthy and young people.

Character Profiles, Call Sheet and Risk Assessment

PA Sound

Recently we have been learning about how to make our sound in our post apocalyptic films seem more realistic. We are wanting to create very smooth filming and editing once we are ready to go out and start it. There is a way to create a clear sounded film which is something called creating Foley sound. The name came from Jack Foley, Foley sound is a way to make your film not seem amateur. Foley effects are sound effects added to films after the shooting is complete. This can be sounds such as footsteps, slamming, gun shots, etc. These sounds are better recorded on their own and to place on top of the film to make the sound clear. When shooting the sound the boom operator will only be focusing on dialogue so that they can add in the Foley sounds after. Whilst editing we can edit the sound by fading it and controlling the intensity. Foley is performed by specialised artists that sound on a stage around props. The artists will watch the film and perform trying to be in time of the sounds.

We will be recording our "Foley" sounds on the day of our filming, we will be recording sounds such as a twig snapping with our phones and the sound that our gun prop makes when it makes a loud "shot" kind of noise, if we do not like our sounds recorded on our phones when we edit our work we will be having to use some sounds from non copyright websites or we shall think of alternative ways to exaggerate the sounds.

Planning for PA opening scene including story board

Below I have created a slideshow with my mood board, a plan, mise-en-scene and sounds. I have also added in my storyboard and animatic to show how the whole opening scene will turn out.

Film Opening Title Sequences

We have been looking into film title sequences to help us with our opening scene film which we will be filming very soon. We had to create 4 time lines of our 4 chosen film title sequences, 2 of these had to be post apocalyptic films and the other 2 could be from any film genre. My chosen post apocalyptic films were Divergent and Armageddon, I chose these as I wanted to look into different films I haven't explored properly before in our lessons, the other 2 films were Monsters, Inc. and Sweeney Todd, I chose these to show how different film genres have different opening scenes. Monsters, Inc. is an animated family film and Sweeney Todd is a horror and drama film, so all 4 of my films were very different.

Preliminary Task: How did it get on?

FILMING SELFIE!

We finished filming for our preliminary task around 3 weeks ago, we ended up having to make some changes to our plan as our groups imagination at the time was going a bit overboard and on the day of filming we realised we could not actually do what we intended to do. We also had to have 2 days of filming as we did not like our idea at first due to it looking as if it was a magic trick instead of a serious thriller. After we finished all of the filming and we were finally happy with the clips we started to edit our work on Premiere Pro. We have now completed all of our editing and we are very happy, each person in our group have edited the work individually so that it shows that all of us have made an effort with the work and it allowed us to mess around with the app and get more comfortable with using it for the opening scene video which we will be starting soon. One thing I would like to experiment more with is the effects, I did include 2 effects into my task however I did not want to add too many to make the task look cheesy and childish therefore I stuck with the simplest effects such as wipe and dissolve. Overall this task was very fun to do, not only did me and my friends plan it but also the children we asked to help us with our film also gave us ideas on what to do to try to make it easy for us and for them so it was great getting advice from an audiences point of view, our parents also gave us feedback on our videos to help us improve the work (especially how to improve the magic trick kidnap). We even had to have a stunt double to pick up the child, shout out to Tom Grace, cheers! We also created a short behind the scenes video to show how much we enjoyed creating our first video as a group.