Pinewood opening sequence

contributions to production process

so far i have contributed in planning and practical:

• coming up with story lines
• filming different camera angles.
• being an actor in the film sequence.
• editing the videos and making sure they look good and have continuity.

progress report

the process and production planning has been quite easy so far. straight away we though of a good place film which was the small forest in long. the only thing we struggled with was making a storyline that would fit well with the set and our genre. this did not take us too long and we were soon coming up with lots of storylines. we have not encountered any problems yet everything is going as we planned. after half term we are going to be concentrating on making titles and editing our work to the best we can. our main priorities is getting the words to fit on the trees. we are going to editing our video first then titles then music. this is because we need to see how long our music needs to be and where the words need to be placed.

BBFC session

in one session  last week we were looking at BBFC which stands for british board of film certication, in this session we were looking at the certification for U and PG, the reason we were doing this was to know what the limits are for childrens films and what they are and are not allowed to contain. this will help me for future childrens film project because i will now know what i can put in my film which will be apprioate and what i can not put into my film. also in the session we made a spider diagram of the different subjects in certifications.

Back to the future story boarding

in media last week we took a look at the opening sequence to 'back to the future'. the reason we did this was because we were looking at how to do storyboards. we started off with just discussing what is in a storyboard like shot types, shot numbers and information of the shot. after this we watched the clip of back t the future and we had to study what was in the clip like sounds and shot types. the reason we did this was because we were going to draft out what we saw on screen and draw it onto a storyboard. we did this to test out our storyboard skills. this will help me in my coursework because i will know how to prepare and draw out a storyboard properly. and also be able to make storyboards correctly.

storyboards

We are going to film it in the order of the storyboard because that is the most efficient way. This is because none of the shots are similar in area so there isn't much point in filming them in an order other then in the order of the storyboard.

spider diagram

Planning/spider diagram

Narrative:
start with different shots of a forest and each shots fade in and out, then we have a pan shot of the forest ground but then quickly picks up somebody running. there are various shots of somebody running through a forest in panic, as if they are running a way from something or someone.

Characters:
in the film there would be many characters, but for our opening sequence there will only be one character and that is a teenager who will be running through the forest.

Genre
The genre we have decided that fits best with our sequence is adventure, we chose this because our sequence is held in a forest and it is a bout a teenager travelling through a forest to find a way out but has an adventure on the way.

Themes
our theme is childhood imagination, it is mostly about a teenager who has forgotten his child hood and ends up being lost in a forest with strange creatures that he is scared of but then becomes his friends, the theme will be in a forest so there will be mainly green colours. it is an adventure so some parts of it will be fast paced shots.

Mise-on-scene
we will not need any props for our sequence, the costume for our teenager is a simple clothes such as jeans a hooded jumper and trainers. the lighting we will be using is just natural light as we want that natural effect. there is only one actor in our opening sequence and that person is ben who is also a group member, acting isn't really involved in our opening sequence, ben only has to run.

Camerawork
our camera shots are going to be quite fast paced to show an urgency or panic like feeling. we are really going to be experimenting with our camera angles an shot types. some of our shots may not work but we are going to try our best to make the best out of our situation.

Editing
our main editing subject will be putting the titles in the right place on our scenes, also with editing we need to make sure the shots are cut and put together to make a fast paced sequence but to also be clean and smooth.

Sound
we will be using natural sound through out the sequence but at some point we will have a track in the background it will probably be a fast track but we need to see what will fit with the sequence.

Special Effects
in our sequence we have special effect and that is the text on the trees. and then at the end of our sequence the shot ripples out with music

Ben Norris-Homework

This is our poster on the bbfc's certification of U films.

Storyboard back to the future.

Evaluation of Gwuaning

We were asked to make a short film using many different filming techniques. We used techniques like shot reverse shot, the 180 degree rule and match on action. Problems encountered included things like laughing during filming, positioning of the camera (not getting the right height) and distractions. This task will help with future filming projects such as our childrens film project by giving us the experience of using the camera and it gave us a wider range of techniques to use.

introduction!

Hello our names are Rufus Henderson, Ben Norris and Adam Stronge. we have a keen interest in media. This is our video called Gwuaning, we enjoyed making this small edit as we had to follow guidelines on what shots we should use e.g. 180 degree rule and match on action shot . we also enjoyed this task because it was our first time of preoperly filming a sequence.