Title Options

We have asked around in the class for advice on what names to call our film production. We got a set of names and then we went around again asking which one people liked the best;
The names we got were - The Christmas Delivery
                                       - Delivery
                                       - The christmas surprise
                                       - The delivery guy
We feel that delivery was a large part of the title has delivery in it due to the flash back of how the fight started out.
We went around again with these titles and the one that got the most likes was Delivery so as a group and the help of the class we have decided that we are now calling our production DELIVERY

Mistakes

In this clip there is explanations of some of the clips that we filmed that we did not use. The explanations of why we did not use these clips are included in the video. During this clip we also have sections that focus are bloopers, due to us having the laughs for a bit of the filming process.

Ideas of music

This an idea of a song that we might use in the beginning of the production. We may change the music as this is only a idea of what we might use.

Adventure Of A Lifetime - Coldplay
We feel that the starting bit with no vocals is a good part to use. We feel that it builds up the excitement and adrenaline of the film.We also feel that there this would also be a song that people wouldn't know but might like the sound off. Especially as the person listening to the music at the beginning of the film is a teenager.

Jamie T - Turn On The Light 
This song isn't happy and joyful, although it is upbeat which we think would work quite well, as it's not too exciting either, which means that there would be a good chance that this would help with the transition of emotions.

The Maine - Misery 
We feel that this could be another good song for our beginning sequence of the film as it is very upbeat and it creates a positive atmosphere, we feel would be good for the first few seconds of the scene as we want a sense of excitement for when the fight scene comes in.  We also feel that it would be a good piece of music to have at the beginning as it will help the dramatic emotion change in the audience. We feel that the use of the  drums and guitar in the song would also help bring the positive emotion into the beginning before the emotion changes to negative.  

Separate ways  - Journey 

 I feel like this would give the scene more tension as it has a very drum based intro which is good for the build up of tension, and the drums is a very memorable beat so the audience will remeber the film when they hear the song.  I feel that this song also would bring a positive emotion before the fight scene starts.  

We only plan on using 19 seconds of the song we pick, as that is when the tension in the film begins. 

Theme of the film

We have decided that we will have the theme of christmas in our film, as we decided to film in Faiths house when they still had the christmas tree up. We have also decided that we will use the idea that the antagonist being a 'delivery guy' but is after one of the protagonist. We have decided that Faith and me are sisters in the film, as it is a good explanation on how Faith can walk into the house without knocking and why she cares so much about me when I lie on the floor. .

Music Ideas

Today we are looking at sound. we are looking up online for no-copyright music that we can use at the beginning of the opening titles.  We are still not sure on what the music that we want at the beginning of the 2 minute film clip. We have decided that we want music playing as we have started the scene with Faith walking down a road with earphones in, we thought that the music that would be playing in the background would be diegetic music, as Faith would be hearing it too.

Update on make-up

We had videos of some of the make-up material we did on the days we filmed. We put some together and made this video 

Location

For our piece, we decided to create the action film movie entrance in an unconventional place, of a family home. Normally in action films, you will see locations in stereotypical dark ally ways or empty buildings, as it helps to create a tense atmosphere before a fight. However, we decided to use a family home, as it will be more of a surprise to the viewers, when they see a fight occur. I like it when films use unconventional places, as the moment comes unexpected. This, for me, creates more impact when the viewers see violence happen. A family home is somewhere people wouldn't expect to see a fight break loose, which means they hopefully will find it more interesting seeing a unique situation in this setting.

The pictures above shows some of our set up. Equipment included a tripod, for steadiness and increased height of the camera, and the camera, for our filming of the production. 

Our set and props were something we felt was important in order to create a better mise-en-scene. The dining table and plates help to connote family and love to the audience, which is then twisted, at the sudden change of events. It brings the idea that the two girls would of had dinner and a relaxed evening, creating the idea of a loving family environment. This helps to create more of a contrast against the action filled evening the viewers find them having. It also shows that the fight was unplanned, as they had something else they were going to do. We lit the candles to also create the idea od a cosy setting, which was again ruined by the event of a fight. 

Faith Starie did this post 

Costumes

Now that we have filmed we have our costumes set. We still had Karlton in darker clothes than me and Faith. I wore a white vest-top and acid look washed jeans and a grey hooded jacket. Faith wore dark jeans and a dark ish top, but with her hair down and flowy and it being blonde made her look more of a protagonist than a antagonist. Karlton was still the antagonists. He wore a grey and black top with dark jeans. Although he and faith wore dark clothes Karlton came across as more of the baddy due to his green hair. His green hair made him look more rebellious than either me and Faith.
I wore relaxed clothing (a vest top, zip up hoodie and a pair of jeans). This is because the film is based at Faith's home, which in the film is also my house. We thought i would look more casual as I would have been at home and that it would have been a relaxing day for me until Karlton the Antagonist came in to the picture.
I was ill for this vlog, although me and Faith did make one she acidently deleted it so Karlton and Faith had re-done it.

What we are doing now

During this week we have uploaded all the film footage that we have onto a computer and used final cut pro to edit and cut the clips so they go together well and make the action genre come through onto the two minute opening.

Textual Analysis of a students work

I found a good video from past people from OCR media weebly, it is called The Edge, and it was a level 4 piece.

It being set in empty car park, gives the production a sense of mystery. Which is good for our genre, although it is not horror or thriller. We see the protagonist, in day to day teenage clothes. This shows a sense of innocence. The antagonists are wearing suits and sunglasses, this is usual convention of action genre. There are also 2 of the antagonists, which again  is typical of villains during this genre's films. This shows that the film would have been action. The chase scene involved also shows that this would most likely be a action film.
There was non-diegetic music played throughout, I thought this was a really good way to start the film, although I feel that there was too little script. But i also like how you don't hear the people breathing although there is running, and physical activity.

During this 2 minute clip, there were certain stuff that I thought they did very good. The placement of the credits were very good, and I feel that it will help us place ours. They put the credits on plane walls, and the colour of the credits where dark but very subtle. I thought that the placement of the edits is why the piece got a such a good grade, I feel that the producer of the film clip did a lot of research on to the placement of them in the action conversions. I also like how the conventions of the antagonist in the clip were wearing black suits and looked very smart, the smartness look of the antagonist gave away that they were on a task as the setting of the film looked like it wasn't common to see people dressed like that to be there. I also like how he used the unconventional idea of having the protagonist using skates to get away, usually in action films in public places the way people escape the antagonist is usually running or in a car or by a motor bike. I feel that thee roller skates was him putting his own twist on action genre and that he wanted to give the audience something new to keep them interested as if the film is too similar to another then the audience may be become bored or uninterested as they may feel as though they have seen the film before.

Production Company Name and Logo

We have decided on what to call ourselves and what our logo is definitely going to be. We have decided to call our selves FNK Productions. We have decided to call ourselves FNK as they are the initials of all of our first names. F is for Faith, N is for Nicole, and K is for Karlton.

 

I feel that this logo looks like a professional logo, I feel this as it is due to the not so large film tape look above the actual name of our production. I feel that the logo looks professional as some of the well known film productions have their names under the bottom of the logo picture. An example of this is touchstone television. 

The image used in our logo is rather simple which again is used in many of the well known productions. We felt that the simpler the image the more people would get interested and that we give off a successful look. I feel that the image and the writing has a connection due to the similar colouring. We felt that the colour used was good as a lot of people like this colour and don't hate the colour. 

Risk Assessment

We have a risk of knocking over plates. This could lead to having shards of seramic in the carpet, which could lead to people getting cut hands or feet. To prevent this you could put cling film near the table where the plates could fall off. This would help with not leaving shards in the carpet or on the floor for people to later stand on and hurt them selves. To also prevent this we could push the plates futher onto the table so they have less chance of them falling of.

Another risk we have a chance of getting is accidently hurting each other when we do the fight scene. Although we have practised we might hit each other for real. We could hit each other in the stomach, face, or wherever we aim to hit. To prevent this we need to take extra procession on where we aim and how far away we are from each other. We will take more care for this. We know how far away we have to be and how we have fake the fight we are doing.

We have a risk of knocking over food and drink that was on the table. This could lead to us slipping and injuring our selves.

ANY HAZARDS?   YES/NO?  LEVEL?       WHAT CAN WE DO TO REDUCE IT?
Anything that could cause a slip or a fall - yes - medium - We put all the things that could cause us to fall out of the way. And we keep the drinks or snacks we have out of the way too.
Manual Handling - yes - medium - We are using cameras and tripods and possible delicate other items, so we take care. And when holding the camera we use the wrist strap.
Electrical Equipment -  yes - medium - Make sure wires are well secured so no one trip over them. And move all none electrical equipment out of the way of it getting damaged.
Fire - yes - medium - We lit candles. So we could have burnt our selves or burnt the house. But we made sure that we were careful around them. We made sure we blew the candles out after we had finished filming.
Setting up,the use, taking down of equipment - yes - low - We have a low chance of dropping the camera but if use the wrist strap it will be less likely and be careful of where we put the tripod and be careful that we don't knock it over.
Weather - yes - medium - The weather in Britain can change dramatically so one minute it can be sunny then rainy. this could effect our filming as we do some filming outside. It could end up              getting rain on our lens and that could effect the picture. The rain could also make the floor slippy so the actors could fall over. Unfortunately there was a bit of rain when we were filming, or it had just filmed so we had to take extra percussion.
Food hygiene - yes - medium - Faith has a rather bad nut allergy so we need to make sure that all food is specially checked that there isn't a chance that Faith could have an allergic reaction.

Make Up

We spent the bests part of an hour doing the bruises as we are doing a fight scene and we wanted it look realistic. We decided that make-up would make the whole fight scene look more realistic. We watched many Youtube videos to help with the colours we had to use and what would be best to be used to do the bruises, We managed to watch one which helped produce the black eye. And another one on how to do the one on Karlton's face. We also thought that I should have light bruising on my neck as in one shot there is me and Karlton fighting and Karlton looks as though he strangling me, so we thought that the bruising would be appropriate. This bruise isn't as dominant as the bruising on the face as we know that the strangling didn't last long and there was less power in it than a punch although strangling is more deadly. 

To do the make up faith used a variety of colour to make the bruising look realistic. The colours that were used they were purple, brown, red, and yellow. Mixing the colours together gives the effect that i actually had a black eye. We also decided to put red, purple, brown light bruising around my neck as one of the scenes were Karlton strangling me.

Filming

Yesterday we went and filmed of the production.