02/10/13 RESEARCH/PLANNING: TREATMENT

production log

02/10/2013 double lesson

I started the lesson by checking my blog and editing previous posts with print screens and hyperlinks.  After I had done that we got into our groups and started to work on our treatment.  We started by doing our own research into what a treatment was and then collating all the data back to the rest of our group.  We then started to discuss some of the finer details about the treatment before we typed it up.  We discussed things like camera angles, background music, props and filming locations the more of which we will do in the next lesson.  We then went onto one of the macs and started to type out the treatment.  We had to keep going back and changing things because we either thought of something better or we decided that something didn't need to be there.

01/10/13 PLANNING: TIME, PROPS AND STORYBOARD

production log 01/10/2013

Single lesson

In the lesson today we discussed what time period the film opening would be based.  We discussed it for a while and had to decide between it being based in the 1920's or the 1940's in the end we decided that the movie opening would be in the 1940's.  We then started to discuss what props we would need to get for the opening.  All that is needed to be done now is the storyboard, to actually get the props work out were we are going to need to go to film and then I believe we can start filming.

29/09/13 RESEARCH: SCOOP IT

Scoop it: film noir

I did research into film noir and all the information i found I put onto a scoop it page.  I found websites completely dedicated to film noir and then others that had parts to film noir but I put them all on to scoop it

http://www.scoop.it/t/film-noir-by-thomas-stevens/curate

Scoop it: thriller codes and conventions

I also created a scoop it page for the codes and conventions of the thriller genre.  It contained info about the genre and what people believe are the codes and conventions of the genre

http://www.scoop.it/t/thriller-codes-and-conventions/

25/09/13 RESEARCH/PLANNING: FILM NOIR AND PROPS

Production log 25/09/2013

Double lesson

Today I started by going through some film openings which I had watched from a week ago and improved on what I had written for them.

Then once we had finished doing that we got into our groups and started to do some more research into our possible film opening.  So we discussed more about what we needed to do before we could start the more advanced work for the opening such as getting props, making a story board and working out what else we would need for it outside of props.

After we had done this we did research into film noir which is what the film opening is going to be. We all did our own seperate research and then showed it to the rest of the group everything that I researched is on a scoop it page.

24/09/2013 PLANNING: IDEAS, MUSIC AND OPENING

Production log 24/09/2013

Single lesson

We started the lesson by getting into our groups and getting the documents we had made in the double lesson before hand.  After we got these documents out we started to discuss more possible ideas and refine our ideas from the last lesson.  Once we had started doing this we started to think about the type of music we could have in the background off the opening and we came up with the possibility of using the Johnathon Creek theme tune because it sounds suspicious and mysterious.  We haven't made the final choice about whether to use that particular song yet but we should do that in the next lesson.  We also started to discuss whether or not to have the film opening in colour or in black and white.  That again is undecided and hopefully we will finalise that decision in the next lesson.

18/09/13 PLANNING: INITAL IDEAS

Production log 18/09/2013

Double lesson

When we started the lesson we got in to our groups and started to discuss some of the ideas we had.  We put down the ideas we had on a piece of paper in a spider diagram and then discussed them.  After we had down that we started to say which ideas we liked, which ideas we didn't like and which ideas we thought were good and would work as a film opening. 

After we had been discussing that we started to research ideas and then we decided on doing a film opening which was based around film noir/ thriller.  We then started to discuss ideas and thins that we could do for a thriller spy kind of film and we put them all down in a list on paper.  After we had finished with those ideas we started to draw out a basic storyboard idea on paper.

17/09/2013 RESEARCH: FILM OPENINGS

Production log 17/09/2013
 single lesson

I watched the first three minutes to the English patient (Anthony Minghella 1996)

• the film starts with a black screen with names appearing on it with the intro music starting to play
• a hand then appears with a paint brush painting a picture which looks like human figures
• it looks like the hand is painting on a cave
• it then changes shot to an ariel view of a desert and sand dunes which look oddly similar to the background that the painting was on
• a shadow of a plane then appears giving the audience a feeling of flying over the desert
• the top of the plane then comes into shot and the main character I am guessing appears
• the shot then changes again to blew the plane and you see three people who then start firing at the plane with a flak cannon showing that the film is set at the end of WW2

I then watched the opening to the film Made In Dagenham (Nigel Cole 2010)

• we watched this to see about camera angles and what establishing shots where used
• this was to help us decide how we would do the camera angles in our movie opening

We then got into our groups for the film opening and started to discuss ideas.  We started to discuss some of the ideas that we had for possible film openings