Now we're focusing more on editing, but there are still scenes which have now decided we want to re-shoot or there are scenes we want to add into our teaser trailer. One of the scenes we needed to re-shoot was a close up with Tom. The first attempt wasn't brilliant, we were trying to set up the shot to make our villain look intimidating, but the angle of the camera, plus Tom's face didn't look convincing enough!
This time, we had the camera at and angle, and Tom changed his facial expression in the brief scene to avoid having a rather static shot. Below are two takes of this shot for comparison.
Editing has now reached the stage where we've got roughly what we want, and now we're focusing on fiddly changes to the film, such as shortening scenes in order to keep a pace to it. Sound is now playing a greater importance in editing, we've been carefully editing the mood music and been adding our first voiceovers, although these were deleted as they need to be improved due to sounding dangerously cheesy.
R.K., D.N. and T.F.
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Thursday, 11 February 2010
Filming 11th February 2010
Today we filmed two further scenes for our teaser trailer. Today we intended to get some dialogue into our trailer. Both scenes feature our main character, Agent Valentine.
In the first scene, we filmed Valentine running, stopping to fix his shoe, then shouting at a villain he is chasing. First we had to find a shot where the bright sun wasn't going to blur the shot, and where there was enough shade to dull the surroundings. This was done in three takes, and our second take can be seen below. We rejected this one because there was a sound fault and the top of our character's head was cut off.
In the second scene we shot, we wanted the scene to feature our title character doing something other than running. In the end, we shot a scene where Valentine sits on a bench singing along to 'Remedy' by Little Boots, making an fool of himself. The effect of this scene is intended to disappoint the audience, as if to say "here is the man who's going to save your life", to then disappoint the audience. We did this in two takes. Because of the sun we had to be careful with our shadows, so we filmed the scene from some distance away from the subject and then zoomed in order to avoid any complications. This scene was done in two takes.
R.K, D.N. and T.F.
In the first scene, we filmed Valentine running, stopping to fix his shoe, then shouting at a villain he is chasing. First we had to find a shot where the bright sun wasn't going to blur the shot, and where there was enough shade to dull the surroundings. This was done in three takes, and our second take can be seen below. We rejected this one because there was a sound fault and the top of our character's head was cut off.
In the second scene we shot, we wanted the scene to feature our title character doing something other than running. In the end, we shot a scene where Valentine sits on a bench singing along to 'Remedy' by Little Boots, making an fool of himself. The effect of this scene is intended to disappoint the audience, as if to say "here is the man who's going to save your life", to then disappoint the audience. We did this in two takes. Because of the sun we had to be careful with our shadows, so we filmed the scene from some distance away from the subject and then zoomed in order to avoid any complications. This scene was done in two takes.
R.K, D.N. and T.F.
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
Overview of the trailer so far
The trailer now has some music and sound effects on it and there is text. The first half of the trailer is more complete than the second half, we need some more scenes to play around with in order to build up the pace a bit. There are also a couple of scenes which we will consider reshooting a couple of scenes because the quality of them is a bit dodgy.
R.K.
R.K.
Not as planned...
Our trailer is currently lacking a lot of dialogue so we decided to go and improvise some scenes with dialogue in. It didn't go to plan though, and we only shot an running scene where Valentine chases a villain across the screen, and then the villain chases Valentine back in true comic fashion. We didn't get any dialogue though so we need to go out another time and film something! It would've helped if I (Rob) didn't waste any time trying to double park someone!
D.N, T.F. and R.K.
D.N, T.F. and R.K.
Thursday, 4 February 2010
Editing 4th February 2010
Today we did some editing of what we have so far, and we made a lot of important changes to our trailer. We spent a lot of time playing with the music in our trailer, and based on this we moved a lot of scenes around in order to build up the trailer to a climax which is what we wanted to do right from the start. What this does mean though is that our trailer looks nothing like how we planned it in the storyboard, but we've learnt a lot of new skills since then so we've put that to a good use to produce what we have at the moment.
R.K. and T.F.
R.K. and T.F.
Wednesday, 3 February 2010
Colour and characters in a film poster
For my poster, i've been using a lot of bright colours to reflect Valentine's Day being a comedy. The posters for 'Twilight' used lots of dark colours such as black and grey which gives the impression to someone looking at it that it's a serious film, in comparison to the poster for 'Bruno', which used a lot of brighter colours such as blue and yellow, this gives off a much more light hearted impression. In my poster i've decided to use plenty of bright colours, particularly the colours of the Union Flag, which makes up the logo for the film. By running these colours throughout all three pieces of the coursework, the continuity will give the film a proper brand identity and ensure that it is as similar as possible to a real film marketing campaign.
The pose of the character on the poster is also important in identifying the genre of the film, so in the Twilight poster, the two main characters are in each others arms, with rather blank and perhaps sad facial expressions. In comparison, the main character on the Bruno poster is smiling and has a cheeky pose to reflect the comical nature of the film. However, in a spoof action film such as Hot Fuzz, the two main charcters on the poster strike a serious pose in order to trick the audience into thinking that the film in from the action genre. What i've done is have the characters on my poster follow this principle, but hinting that the film is infact a comedy. On my poster, Valentine is striking a serious pose which defines the stereotype of an action or spy film, whilst Smith has his head in his hands in shame to add some comic relief to the poster and to hint towards the spoof genre.
R.K.
The pose of the character on the poster is also important in identifying the genre of the film, so in the Twilight poster, the two main characters are in each others arms, with rather blank and perhaps sad facial expressions. In comparison, the main character on the Bruno poster is smiling and has a cheeky pose to reflect the comical nature of the film. However, in a spoof action film such as Hot Fuzz, the two main charcters on the poster strike a serious pose in order to trick the audience into thinking that the film in from the action genre. What i've done is have the characters on my poster follow this principle, but hinting that the film is infact a comedy. On my poster, Valentine is striking a serious pose which defines the stereotype of an action or spy film, whilst Smith has his head in his hands in shame to add some comic relief to the poster and to hint towards the spoof genre.
R.K.
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