Whilst looking into inspirations for our project I thought about using the usual horror technique of a character blocking the bad guy from view until the character walks off of the screen so the bad guy is clearly seen. In our project the bad guy isnt neccesarily 'bad' but we want to show the character being 'stalked'. We dont want to portray the film as being a horror so we will only use this technique once.
We also want to use the P.O.V shot from the stalkers eyes looking through bushes (or trees) where the audience can clearly see the other character but the character cant see the stalker. These techiques are generic to horror films but we hope to show it in a differnet light.
Such films that follow these techniques are Halloween (1978), Blair Witch(1999) and Dog Soldiers (2002) amongst a million others...
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Walking Dead
The first time I started watching Walking Dead I thought it would be an
original, generic, boring zombie series, but I am so hooked!
Walking dead starts off with a lone police officer who wakes up after an accident in an abandoned hospital. He soon realises that all is not right when the dead begin to rise. We then follow the police officer as he tries to find his wife and child meeting survivors (who have their own stories) on the way.
Just like Lost, walking dead introduces us to various characters and we get a glimpse into their situations and how they survived the zombie apocalypse. It also features a lot of stars who are well known to other films.
Made from the comics, walking dead has suspense, twists and plenty of gore. It is also generating a lot of fans and I’m one of them.
We are currently on series two.
Walking dead starts off with a lone police officer who wakes up after an accident in an abandoned hospital. He soon realises that all is not right when the dead begin to rise. We then follow the police officer as he tries to find his wife and child meeting survivors (who have their own stories) on the way.
Just like Lost, walking dead introduces us to various characters and we get a glimpse into their situations and how they survived the zombie apocalypse. It also features a lot of stars who are well known to other films.
Made from the comics, walking dead has suspense, twists and plenty of gore. It is also generating a lot of fans and I’m one of them.
We are currently on series two.
Group meeting 5
After one of our workshops we got together and decided to
scout locations. We all agreed that the house scene would be shot in Jens
apartment (we knew it wasn’t student accommodation so it wouldn’t look tacky).
We needed to find a graveyard scene and an appropriate alleyway for the final
scene.
Whilst we were pitching our idea our tutor and one member of
our course knew a suitable graveyard within walking distance. We agreed to go
and have a look and hopefully plan out in detail where we would place the
actors and shoot the scenes.
Monday, 23 April 2012
Schedule
Week commencing 23rd April
- Monday: Meet at 5pm outside University to go look around several graveyards to find the graveyard location.
- Tuesday: Meet at 2pm to go to Jen's house to set up ready for a shoot at 5pm with one of the characters.
- Wednesday: Meet at 10am at Jen's house to finish the house scene from the night before and then film in the surrounding streets of the shots of the girl going to work and then shots of the man in the car.
- Thursday: Meet at 10am to film the graveyard scene and afterwards film the confrontation scene.
Week commencing 30th April
- Monday: Jen's house or edit suite to either film any extra footage we missed or to start the editing (depending on if we need any extra footage)
- Tuesday: Meet at edit suite to do the assembly and the rough cut
- Wednesday: Meet at the edit suite to carry on with the editing and possibly start on the sound
- Thursday: Meet at University for a tutorial and then carry on with editing
Group meeting 4
Once we pitched the project idea and consulted our tutor and group, we took their comments on board and started to make our project stronger.
As we delegated the jobs out before we all decided to work on these. I started to create a script for the ending of the project but also produce a sound list for the days when we start filming. As a group we decided to create a schedule for the days the next two weeks so we knew when we were filming, where and what. We also organised days for post production and who was attending on which days (we did this due to the editing suites being too small to cater six people).
As we delegated the jobs out before we all decided to work on these. I started to create a script for the ending of the project but also produce a sound list for the days when we start filming. As a group we decided to create a schedule for the days the next two weeks so we knew when we were filming, where and what. We also organised days for post production and who was attending on which days (we did this due to the editing suites being too small to cater six people).
Third meeting
As a group we decided to meet and deliver our ideas in person. We all had various ideas but we managed to whittle it down to a storyline we all had a say in and felt comfortable creating. For this idea we didnt have any solid inspirations, it came about from the top of our heads and in some cases it is what we wanted to experiment with ( using various camera angles). For our second idea, Mark came up with an idea that we all liked, however this piece would be comedic and didnt have a strong enough background.
Pitching and idea.
Pitching and idea.
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