Filming on location day 1

Location: 57 Ramillies Crescent (My house)
Filming time: 4:00pm - 7:30pm
Shots to be filmed: scene 2, shot 22-24

Crew and Cast present:
Deanna Hopps - Director, Make-up artist and Stunt co-ordinator
Cameron Hargreaves - Cinematographer and Set Layout
Daniel Springthorpe - Sound and Stunt co-ordinator
Charlotte Smith - Lighting and Cinematography

Rebecca Chapman - Alice
Ryan Witton - Richard
Millie Russel - Stacey

Equipment:
DSLR + Tripod
Tracking dolly
Location sound recording kit
Large and Small reflectors
LED light

Deanna doing make-up

Focus practice 

Summary of the day:
As the first day of recording we new that something would not go right straight from the start because no matter how well prepared you are something always goes wrong. We set up the set and prepared the actors make-up and got them ready to shoot and started to film.

We then began to see flaws in some of the shots lengths and angles so we new that we may have to re-shoot some shots. So we took pictures of the exact positions of the props and scene pieces for the next time we had to film.

We also tryed to save time by practising were the camera would be for the shot while others were preparing for the shot.

We started with the argument scene, scene 2, because it was set at night and we were filming near Christmas so the nights came in faster so we could nearly start filming straight after school. Also this was the part of the film that took up the most time, up to about three minutes of the finished product.

The first shots that we did were of Rebecca (Alice) sitting at the table tapping on the book, we did about ten shots in total so that we had a lot of footage to use and manipulate later in editing and also to hopefully prevent us from having to re-shoot anything.

Transportation:
We all met up after school and two of us went by car with the equipment and the rest of us walked. This was due to the fact that the equipment took up the rest of the room in the car but it was only a fifteen minute walk.

Crew Roles:
I took on the role that I had pursued last year. I was in charge of the sound recording and making sure that the actors were in their correct places for the next shot especially if it was a match-on-action shot.

Cameron took on the role of being in charge of the camera and finding the correct angle for the shot. Although we all had a rough idea he would use the orginial shot angle but if he could find another better one then we would use it.

Deanna took on the role of make-up and directing. She was the director last year so she had experience in being so but this year we also had make-up that needed to be done to make the actors look how they should look. i.e. soft pastel colours for Alice and red promiscuous colours for Stacey.

Charlotte wasn't in our group last year but she seemed to be quite good and helping out by being a second director and and helping by shooting some shots. She also aided with some of the foely noises if i couldn't quite get the right sound then she'd help.

We all tried to take on roles that we had done previously last year because we already had experience in the specific area's.

Updated documents after the problems had been resolved

Here are the updated Script, Animatic, Treatment and Storyboard that we came up with after we had sorted out the issues with the actors. We have redone these documents because whilst we were looking for actors we came up with some more ideas for the film.

Script

'Behind Closed Doors' Script

Animatic

Treatment

Storyboard 

'Behind Closed Doors' Storyboard

Obstacles and problems we encountered already

Casting issues

We started out by finding a boy and a girl actor although we require 3 actors in total, two girls and one boy. Then just before the animatic was completed they pulled out and left us with no actors at all. We then went out and found another boy and girl but then within just four days they pulled out as well and with our shooting days fast approaching this left us with little time and left us panicking.
But then we found all three actors and they all matched in age wise and fitted the bill perfectly. But we still are waiting if the boy can do it but he said that he should be able to he just needs to make sure.

Timing issues

This was mainly due to actors pulling out. This affected our R&P mostly but luckily we all managed to get the work done, some how... phew. But we were set back about two weeks and so we were behind the other production teams but we had a couple of weeks after Christmas, while the other groups were editing to finish of any filming..

Actor auditions

Right now... this took a while. When we finally found an actress and actor (well actually it was the actor that took the most time to find) to be in our film and that fitted the role physically and it looked believable that they could be in a relationship, we decided to audition them to see if they were good for our style of film. We also filmed it as well so that we could check back at it later to see if they were good.

Heres a short clip of them just reading the script (to see what emotions they put into their voices):

Actor Release Forms

Here are possibly the most important documents that we need in the filming process. By the actor signing these they are allowing us to put the film on Youtube. Before they sign the document they MUST read the terms and conditions so they know exactly what they will be asked to do and they all did and signed the sheets. Every actor must fill out one of these so that they have definitely agreed to do the filming and are whiling to do what ever the terms and conditions ask.

Alex, plays Richard

Daniel, plays Paper Boy

Millie, plays Stacey

Rebecca, plays Alice

Terms and conditions sheet

Preparing For The Shoot

Finally we have finished all of the rest of the planning and research now this post is just here to say that we are ready to begin filming and i will also be covering how to transport the equipment and actors to the filming location.

Booking equipment is also important to avoid issues with other filming groups so a member of our group booked out the necessary equipment for filming the sense 1, 2 and 3. If there are any problems because there are three groups but only two of everything then we may have to give up equipment sometimes to help them out.

Here is a screen shot of our booked out equipment:

Printing documents:

Script and shooting schedules have been printed off. The scripts have been handed out to the actors and the shooting schedules have been handed out to each of our crew members. We have also printed off spares just incase some are lost.

Transport:

Most of our crew and carters live fairly close to the filming location (my house) but there are one or two who live more than an hours walk so they will be picked up by either my parents or Cameron's parents. We will also be asking either mine or Cameron's parents again for lifts from school so that we don't have to carry the equipment to my house, although this isn't very far it is still a bit of a walk to carry equipment.

Practicing for different shots/effects:

We know that focusing is the main issue with our filming so we will have to borrow the camera's and practice some of the scenes before doing the main one so as to get the focusing sorted out. We will do this by getting our actors to practice the shots with the scripts but still act and this will allow us to practice with the focusing and the actors to get used to what they have to act like for the characters.

Crew roles:

For this we have each set ourselves roles for the filming process:

I will be handling the sound equipment like last year because i felt pretty confident on how it all works.

Cameron will be in charge of the camera making sure that the lighting is correct in the shot and which angle suits the shot best.

Deanna will be the director again, helping us stick to the schedule and making sure that everything is correct before we begin filming.

Charlotte helps with each of these aspects really but we may need her to tie control of lighting and reflectors and help Cameron out when he needs help lighting a scene (obviously he can't hold a reflector and film at the same time)

Shooting Schedule

In this post I am going to be talking about our shooting schedule and how important it is.

The shooting schedule is probably one of the most important documents that we need for filming because it tells us the shots we need for the day and the costumes and props and also the actors that we need for each scene. The shooting schedule may be one of the most important things but it is also the most time consuming to make and we have also planned a two week plan and we had to split it up into two separate documents. We did do a shooting schedule for my AS course aswel but this one is a lot bigger but so is the amount we have to film but we still used our last years as an example to help us.
Here is JARLINC's shooting schedule (my groups from last year):

Jarlinc's Shooting Schedule.

Shooting schedule part 1
In this part of the shooting schedule we have put scheme 2 first because it relies more on the night time which better suits the time of year at the moment. So if we get these shots out of the way now so that we can do the harder, lighter shots last because then all of the time zoned shots are the same.

Shooting Schedule Part 1

Shooting schedule part 2
Here is the second part of the shooting and this is focused on scenes 1 and 3 which are shorter and lighter scenes so we will be filming them early in the morning. so these scenes won't take very long to shoot so they will be done last.

Shooting Schedule Part 2

Animatic for "Behind Closed Doors"

Now here is the animatic which we had to create using the images from the story board. The images are the lengths of how long each shot should be so that all the dialogue fits and the tension is built correctly. It also contains all the music and background noises that will be used in the real product that will be made later when we begin filming. So basically this is the film except with static pictures instead of moving ones.

The idea of the animatic is so that everyone gets a strong feel of the film narrative so that everyone knows roughly what they are doing for each part of the film and this should help in making the filming process flow better.

Evaluation of the animatic

Above is the animatic that my group and me made. It took roughly 3 to 4 hours to edit the pictures in of the story board. Then it took a further 3 to 4 hours to edit the soundtrack in underneath. Then another couple more hours late the dialogue was imported as well and then the animatic was done. The dialogue real brings the whole thing to life because our film relies on the argument and ambient pausing of the dialogue to build the tension which leads to the climax of the film. Due to our problems with finding actors two members of our media group stepped in and literally saved us, they did the dialogue for the characters and made the animatic into what it should be, with dialogue.

The drawings took the longest time to do because after we had drew them in pencil we realised that the scanner wouldn't pick them up so we had to go over them and the anotations to make them clear enough for the scanner.

Overall I think that the animatic was a success but there was one sound that we didn't manage to get in and that was the sound for the letter box but we will just the location recording of the actual letter box when we begin filming.

The finished thing is 4 minutes and 28 seconds long which is a good length considering our limit was 5 mins.

Below is a real media products animatic:

Storyboard for "Behind Closed Doors"

The past week or so me and my production team have been working on the storyboard for our film. We are quite proud that we have managed to get seventy pictures for it and then we will then go on to using them in our animatic.

Storyboard research 
Storyboards were originally created for animated cartoons such as Walt Disney's Micky Mouse. The purpose of the storyboard is so that you can get a vague idea of what the film will look like when its done and this helps because then when you begin filming you can change things if they don't quite work but it is a good guideline. This guideline will help also in saving resources like film real on wasted shots that don't work because you will be able to check the storyboard first before you go ahead and film the shot.

Storyboard conventions:

• The scene number is important because it allows you to know what section of the film you are filming and it allows you to know that you are in the right place for filming. Our film has only three scenes but still this number helps.
• The shot number is important because it helps later on when filming so that you know what you should be filming and which shot comes next and before to make sure that the shot you are on flows properly from the last one.
• Shot type being used is displayed through the image portrayed in the scene sketch, but often labelled in the annotations.
• The drawings of the scene allows the producer to see the film in advance and get a feel of the what the film may turn out looking like. It also allows the producer to get rid of things he doesn't like and add in things that he think may work.
• The scene number again this number is here to help the cast and crew know where they are in the filming process.
• The details this helps with giving a rough idea as to what is too happen in this shot and how long that it may have to last. It helps the actors have a mental note as to what to do.
• The camera movements are shown through arrow and it pretty much just tells the camera which way to go.

Behind Closed Doors - Storyboard

Production Review

In this post i am going to discuss my groups progress towards the production of our A2 product. This is to inform you of what i think of my and my groups progress this year.

How well we have done up till this point
I personally have fallen behind slightly in the blog posts because I have been trying to do some of the more group work but I have been finding it differ cult but I have finished them now but I am also far behind in my personal blog progress. Together we have also finished the animatic and storyboard and we have now got them o our blogs. I am personally enjoying the course even though I am finding it differcult to keep up with the work load but I'm slowly catching up.

Our group discussion with Mr Hood
I think that this went rather well apart from my personal blog posts but as a group we are doing well; we have done the animatic and storyboard and now we are trying to find actors to begin filming. There was one point that Mr Hood made and that was that he said there are some clashing of personalities in the group like either too lazy or too bossy and these personalities may clash and may make problems but if we try then we should all get along fine.

Special Effects and Make-up Research

Last year me and my group didn't try this out but this year we decided to try it out and see if we can get anything from it. I think that it will go well and will hopefully make our film seem more realistic.

Alice's make-up

Like I said in the costume post Alice is a very natural and innocent girl so red and blacks are out of the question. so instead we are going use warmer colours like pinks and light blues.

rough idea as to how Alice's eyes would look

The soft pinks and warm natural colours will make her seem more innocent. The natural feel will help give off the effect that she is a Christian and natural.

a gentle shade of pink maybe

A nice soft pink is the perfect colour for our natural Christian character. It emphasises on the fact that maybe Alice is a quiet girl who doesn't like to stand out.

This soft pink eye shadow will add to the innocent and girl'y look and also will make her seem more natural.

Stacey's make-up

Here is what we would do to Stacey to make her seem more of the promiscuous office lady.

Deep red lips and nails

The deep red nails may suggest that she likes to stand out and maybe get all of the attention from males..... possibly.

Scars

So for the wounds I thought what would be best would be to use some scar wax and realistic fake blood which you can get from more face-painting or special effects shop. We thought this would make Alice's death look more realistic and any cuts and wounds on Richard's hand would just give our film that extra authenticity. Also, using the scar make-up and fake blood would look much better than buying a wound already made and sticking it on - sometimes they can be a real pain.One drawback with this is that we would  have to make sure the wounds are done in the same place and the same way each time - however we are aiming to get all of these shots done first as to not have to worry about that later.

The video above simply just goes through how we would use the wax and fake blood to make the wounds that we want to achieve.

Here is an image of a bottle of flake blood

Here is a tub of wax that we would use

For Richard's knuckles, if we don't do the cuts on the back of his hands, I was thinking about simply using a type of blusher to make them look rather red and sore looking. This would stop the hassle of recreating his cuts to look old when it comes to the end of the film when he is waiting for the funeral, because red marks fade over time.

Prop Research

By Cameron Hargreaves:

Necklace

The style of necklace we'll need

 We want to give Alice a silver cross necklace. The picture above is a good example of what we're looking for; a cross, not a crucifix. It has to be silver, as gold in the eyes of Christians may represent greed. Alice is Christian, so she always wears this necklace. We want to have shot of the necklace around Alice's neck when she's lying at the bottom of the stairs, and another when Richard drops it on the floor on his way to leave for the funeral. On this shot, which will probably be the last shot, we want to use a focus pull to move the depth of field from the background to the foreground to show the necklace as the last object in the film.

Engagement Ring

Our chosen style of ring

       The engagement ring we chose will look something like the one above. It is silver primarily to symbolise her religion of Christianity. Gold is often linked to Greed and the Devil, when silver is pure and good. The ring will have some kind of gem on it because it is an engagement ring and not a wedding ring. We are looking to spend no more than £10.00 on one, so it will have to be a realistic but fake 'replica' ring.

Keys

Example of keys.        The keys are going to be used in two shots of our film in two different scenes. The use of the keys in the first scene will be to signify that Richard has just come back from work and it just gives it a casual look. In the second scene the use of the keys is signifying the fact that Alice is leaving Richard and giving him back the keys as if to say this is actually final.

Book

The book we want to use: 'The Girl in the Face of the Clock'.

        We want to use a book as a prop in the story. When the female, Alice, is at home waiting for Richard to return, she sits at the table (which is laid) and has a book with her. This is that book. We chose this particular book because it foreshadows what's going to happen to Alice later in the film. When the argument goes upstairs, she takes the book with her. Richard follows her up the stairs, and Alice throws the book towards him. Richard ducks, and the book goes down the stairs. When Alice falls, the book is face-up lying beside her, and the camera focuses on this. We could have the camera look at the book, then pan over to show her lying on the floor at the bottom of the stairs with Richard standing at the top, just like the book's cover portrays. 

Newspaper

Example of a newspaper.

         The newspaper will be used in the first scene, where (this was a new idea we came up with) a newspaper boy will bring the paper early in the morning and post it through the letter box - which really links to our films title and meaning which is that he, the same as the two girls, doesn't know what is going on behind that door, he's just got a job to do. It really shows how we have no idea what could be happening in somebody's house at any time.

         Another idea was that we could do another foreshadow of Alice's death within the paper itself, somehow. Whether we mange this is yet to be seen but it is an idea. 

Football

Football like the one we'll be using.

        The football will be used in the very first shot of the first scene within the establishing shot of the house. It will be kicked around by two young girls as they walk past the house laughing - this is meant to demonstrate the idea that they don't have any clue of what is going on behind the door of the house we are filming in - they think everything if fine when really, in our film, it turns out it really isn't fine. The football adds to this carefree look on life that children have, because they are simply having fun.

Formal Prop Plot

Costume Research

This is a costume post about what costumes our actors will be wearing.

There are 3 characters in our film: Richard, Alice and Stacey but Stacey is only present in the last few minutes of the short, she is there to walk Richard to the funeral car.

Richard
He's the antagonist in our film short and he wears typical office cloths like a suit and tie. Also having the posh suit and tie will suggest that he may have a well paid and maybe important job. The character will be of around the age of 20, he will wear black trousers, white shirt and a red tie. We decided against a blazer to give him more of a relaxed style to the way he works and maybe suggesting that he has worked there long enough now for his boss not to care too much about him not dressing in completely formal cloths.The antagonist however will wear a black blazer later on to make it more formal, after all it is a funeral.

Alice

The protagonist out of the three characters is Alice. We have dressed her in soft bright colour to suggest her innocence because she is a religious woman also she is 20. She will wear a pastel pink top and blue trousers.

Our Actress who we are referencing here would be Zoey Deschanel, for her big eyed innocent look and natural beauty.

Stacey

Stacey is our second antagonist, she is Richards work colleague and they have had an affair before. This then gave us the idea of a very promiscuous female character as our second antagonist and she is the kind of character that has slept with everyone in the office. She will have blonde hair, black dress (this is normal for funeral wear but it is also very short which also suggests very promiscuous things. We have gone with these things because they are the stereotypes for a very promiscuous office woman.

Here's is a second idea that we had for Stacey because the little dress will be uncomfortable to wear but we still wanted to stay with the very revealing idea so we also came up with a white shirt, black skirt and a black blazer.

Costume Research Table

Filming on location risk assessment

Here is my groups location risk assessment for when we begin filming.

A2 Media Risk Assessment

Location Research

In this post I will be describing the locations that we are going to be filming at for our five minute film.

Interior

We decided to have a house setting, we were going to use the stairs, the main room and the kitchen. We chose these rooms because these are generally the main rooms of a house and the best rooms to stage an argument in. Also these rooms contain a lot of things like cups, plates, lamps and all of theses things could be broken to make the argument more realistic and dramatic. Although the stairs aren't really a room in the house they are still a good place to have the climactic ending of the woman falling down the stairs at the end.

We included the kitchen as one of the rooms for the fight to happen in because it is a generic place that is used so we felt we had to include it. We think that it is generic because there are many sharp things like knives so many films use the same generic scenario of having the man attacking the woman for whatever reason and then she grabs a knife from the kitchen to defend her self. although this wont happen in our film we just wanted a few various places to have the argument. 

We chose the main room because it is supposed to be a tranquil place of happiness and a place in the home were you can rest and socialize. So we decided to upset this balance by having an argument happen in this room and the place being destroyed.

Like I said before although this is not an actual room the main part of the film will happen here, the dramatic ending.

This part of the house will be used for the shot at the end where the woman either trips or is pushed down the stairs.

Exterior

We only have one exterior scene and that only consists of a crane shot starting from the top of the outer part of the house and leading down to the window in the kitchen. This will be a simple establishing shot so it will only last a few seconds. Here is a picture of the exterior of the house:

Set pieces

A photo frame will be needed for Richard to smash and tear the photo out of it and rip it in half.

These glasses will be set out for the romantic meal that Alice had prepared and the one Richard was late for.

The wine bottle will be there to add effect to the romantic meal the actors wont actually be drinking it and the brand in the picture wont necessarily be the brand that we buy its just an example. We chose red wine because it ties in well with Christianity.

We had the idea of having either the meal already set out or just having the plates in the places where they were going to be sat. We prefer the second option because then we wouldn't have to try and set out the food the same each time we came to filming were the dinner table is in shot.

We hade the thought of the clock because then Alice can be sat there monitoring the time and growing more impatient. We chose a digital clock because it is easier to show time passing.

We had the cutlery for the obvious reason of that we don't want to think that our characters eat with their hands and especially at a romantic meal.

We chose the candle because its a romantic meal and they are normally light by candles but we were also going to have them melted so as to show how long Alice has been sitting there waiting for Richard.

We also later on thought about using a Christian's Advent Wreath, this has four red candles and one white in the centre, We felt that if we had two red and one white candle then it would still link to Christianity but not too strongly to over come the romantic meal.

The flowers in the middle of the table....... come on it is a romantic meal so they are needed.

Film Script

Here is the film script:

Behind Closed Doors Screenplay

Film Treatment 'Behind Closed Doors'

This post will contain our film treatment. Now our film has been commissioned we can get on with things like props, locations, auditions for actors. So we have a lot of work to do now. But anyway heres the film treatment.

Behind Closed Doors Treatment

Target Audience Research and TAP

For this post I will be talking about the target audience that we will be aiming our film at. We had to do this last year and also supply and TAP (target audience profile) to go with it.

Target Audience:

Behind closed doors is our short film and we are aiming it at 17 to 30 year olds, both male and female, as this is the age we feel most violent domestic relationships happen. We have also chosen this age range because it is appealing with the tension, suspicion and thriller aspects. Also because it is the statistical age in which domestic's happen this short is also an eye opener to make people aware of this violence.

Age Certificate:

Because of the violence and implied violence of this short our age certificate is 15, with further research into films like ours we found "Enough" which is a feature length film with the age certificate of PG13, so putting our short at 15 gives us plenty of leeway to connote and show some violence. Also the fact that there may be swearing in the film as well also makes it into a 15 plus certificate.

BBFC Ratings

Films that fit into the '15' category can contain certain things:

- strong violence but not incredible amounts of gore.

- Frequent strong language

- Strong verbal reference to sex

- drug taking

- sexual nudity

- sex can be shown but not too graphic

- only brief sexual violence

- Discriminatory behaviour and language

TAP (target audience profile)

This is Katie West and Adam Smith. She is 20 years of age while Adam is 22. They have been together since college. Adam studied business and maths which then lead him into an office job while Katie is still looking for work. She studied Drama through college.
        
Katie and Adam both have hobbies: Katie enjoys going to the theatre, art and reading books like "Murdoch Mysteries" and "Mortal Instruments" while Adam enjoys watching tele and a bit of sport like football and gold while he sometimes enjoys some time to play musical instruments like the keyboard.

         They both enjoy watching thrillers and horrors that have good twists at the end that they never see coming or have good jump scares. One of Katie's favourite films stars Jennifer Lopez: "Enough",which is a suspense film, as its the woman who takes a stand while Adam rather likes "Taken" where the man goes out to save his daughter and is the hero at the end of it.

        Being still young and at the start of their relationship Katie and Adam have many arguments about many silly things that often cause huge heated shouting matches that can make either Adam or Katie storm out or throw something because they are under stress from work or money problems. They have just moved in together, Adam owns a BMW which is his pride and joy, while Katie owns a small mini which she likes as its simple and gets her from A to B: which is often shopping.

Real media products that back our choice of age certificate:

Fifty shades of grey

Although this film isn't the same as my film it still has a male who is seen as the more dominant character and a female who is submissive. The target audience for this film is females in the age brackets of around 15-24 + 35-45+ .

The gambler 

The gambler comes under the thriller, drama and crime category and is aimed at males at around the ages of 15-24. This could be used as evidence to suggest that males in this age bracket like these kinds of films.

Film Idea Pitch (Commissioning Interview)

After a week of planning with my group we now have to pitch our film idea and try and win over our examiner (Mr Hood) and have our film commissioned. 

Evaluation

I think that the pitch went incredibly well and ended with our film being commissioned. In the end we didn't agree on using just one of our film ideas instead we combined the four so that it contained elements of all of our films.

While we pitched our idea Mr Hood gave us pros and cons on our film idea so that we could then input new ideas to make our film even better. He suggested that we should have a more in-depth storyline, so instead of one twist maybe try and have several. He suggested that to go with him being with a women it should also imply that he was with her to help get an engagement ring. But to pull this off we would need very good actors to help add more emotion to the scenes because words wouldn't be enough to get the storyline that we want across.

Also Mr Hood suggested that we use our own sound effects this year instead of using the pre-recorded ones on the sound editor because we didn't use our own last year.

R&P Schedule

To make sure that we were up to date with our blogs and blog posts we came up with a schedule to help us keep up to date with everything.

Volcano productions' R&P schedule

R&P Schedule

Mine and My Production Team's Short Films Evaluations

On the first day back we were thrown straight into it head first. We had to present our film pitches to the class and they were evaluated by our other class mates and Mr Hood. It was assessed on how practical it was, so if we could fit it into five minutes. Also it was assessed on how creative and original it was.

Seven deadly sins

Deanna's film idea pitch was about the seven deadly sins, as the title suggests. It starts with a christian man who is being slowly corrupted by the devil via the seven deadly sins. It started with greed which then fell into envy, then lust descended into gluttony and then sloth turned into wrath. Then pride over took and that turned him finally into the devil.

Mr hood in the end said that the pitch was very clever and it looked like there was a lot of time and effort had gone into the plot. But it sounded to hard to make and produce, so he said that it wasn't practical and may be too hard to make.

She also present the pitch well and spoke mostly fluently but sometimes she stumbles but it was still presented amazing well it was just the fact that it sounded like too much of a long shot to make it.

Mystery

Cameron's film idea pitch was about a murder mystery. It was about a boy that has a left a girls house and on the way home he encounters a couple of males and one of them ends up dead. After some questioning and interrogation the killer is revealed.
Everyone like this film pitch because it was interesting and hooked the target audience but there was a drawback of the killer needing a motive to killed someone and there wasn't a clear motive as to why one of them had killed the other. Also they thought it would have been mic to have a motto to the film but there wasn't one. Again this short though everyone thought that it might not be plause able to fit it into a five minute gap.

The silver lining 

This is my film pitch and it is about a boy that falls off his motorbike and falls into a coma. He walks around and looks into his house through the window but nobly sees him and then he realises that he is in a coma and he is having an out of body experience. Also things that happen to his body happen to him as well like they shine a light in his eyes and everything goes white and he can't see etc.

The only drawback was getting someone to fall off a motorbike safely and without injuring themselves, so the main part of the short wasn't practical.

Break

Charlotte's pitch was about more of a comical film. The plot was about a man who is pushed around all his life by his wife and work mates until one day he 'breaks' and starts acting like a child and throwing tantrums. 

I liked this idea and the humour would be possible and we could fit it into a five minute gap. But the pitch didn't have a power point and i think that it let the idea down but apart from that it sounded possible and effective.

Volcanic Productions Team Name & Logo

In this post I will be going through how we decided on our team name and logo. Also the teams that we have been put in are the same as what we were in for our documentaries but I have already gone over that in a previous post.

The name

We chose volcanic because of a few reasons, one of these was that it contained letters from each of our names but this wasn't the main reason because we wanted the name this year to be tied to how we are more personally. 

We chose volcanic because volcanos take years to erupt/make an impact and they need the right amount of magma before they erupt. So we thought that this tied in well because although we are slow at coming up with ideas, we make sure that everything is right before we go ahead and make those ideas into reality to make sure that they make the right impact

Another major thing about the volcano idea is that when it erupts it makes a big difference. So we think that when we bring our ideas out as a final product, it makes a big impact.

Logo

So for the logo we came up with an exploding volcano with our team name fading from the fog so it is almost like it is revealing the reason for the exploding volcano. Then we have the word productions on the side of the crater formed from the magma. Heres is a drawing of the logo: