Today's Progress

Today Lewis, Luke and me went out to rerecord a clip we weren't very happy with. This is the scene were we see one character get shot in the alley way. We didn't want to keep this as we thought it looked too unreal as the character was kneeling after he got shot, which is an unlikely position after getting shot! We decided this time to have the character sitting down in an abnormal position. This then made the scene far more believable! We then edited the scene to match it to the other scenes (changing contract and making scene black & white). Although we have finished recording our audio/voiceover, and uploading them, we still need to add them to our OTS, then it'll be finished.

Editing our OTS

Today Lewis, Luke and me started to edit our OTS using iMovie. We are all now familiar with the software having using it more, making it easier and faster to work with! We haven't finished editing the whole thing, this is because we still need to cut out scenes which we don't need. And also we are going to re-record some scenes as we thought we could do far better (alley way scene). Also today we started to work on the voice-overs for our characters.

Luke has talked about what/how/why we edited our OTS on his blog................

Photos for Original OTS

Lewis took some photos of the scenery/mise-en-scene from our original OTS.

Here is the link for the photos!

http://lewissurridge.blogspot.com/2010/02/phots-of-scenary-of-our-ots.html

Story for Final OTS

After having feedback from our classmates, we decided to film again. The main reason for this is because the audience wanted to know why the man was running away from something, and what that something was. We when decided as a group to add a clip to the start of our OTS to show why the man was being chased. After filming and uploading to the computer, we realised that the small clip was roughly 2 minutes, so we may need to trim it slightly!

Semiotics

Semiotics is the use of a sign or signifier in a media presentation, its the way a symbol is used by a director etc to signify something in the production, such as an alley way is used alot in scary films and has now become a signifier as we are used to an alley way leading to danger. when semiotics is applied it is used to raise awareness of the subconsious effects of the image, such as a gun doesn't just signify a gun to americans it signifies manlyness and pride and patriotism, this is because different signs mean different things to different cultures. to have the effect of semiotics in our OTS we are using an alley way in our OTS as it instantly signifies something bad is going to happen and therefore creates tension for our OTS which fits well for our film noir theme.

Original OTS

This is our original storyboard for our original OTS.

Our first scenes are basically shots of the villan walking, hiding from someone. We used closeups, extreme closeups, over the shoulder shots, pans etc.







These shots are basically the same, using over the shoulder, closups, panning showing his legs etc. The end scene is shown so that two people are in the shot, with dramatic shadows.

Today's Progress

Today we recorded the starting of our OTS. After watching our original OTS, we felt as if there was a big chunk missing from it. We had some feedback from the class and they asked why the character got shot, and who by. We finally thought of adding a clip before, showing why the man shoots the other character, giving the audience more of a story to relate to. We will record the rest of our film thursday morning. This will work well as the brightness will have changed. This will work because the next clips are set a few days later.

We filmed in an alley way in Sprowston. This is where the first shooting takes place. We have included many different camera angles/shots. These include, closeups, extreme closeups, pans, tracking, over the shoulder, point of view, and some canted angles.

Thursday we are planning on just improving our original OTS. Firstly we will have a tripod to steady our shots. We have now also got better props such as the gun! We will use a wider range of camera techniques, and more closeups.