Friday, 25 June 2010
Screenshots of Construction Process
Photoshoot images on Set
Skills Development
A young 13 year old teen gets kidnapped by Thomas Hewitt aka leatherface and gets tourtured a pice filmed in 2006.Staring Ryan Burt and Sean Usher. From this film I really developed my editing skills, when I was thirteen years old I was a huge fan of director Tobe Hooper and his work like ‘The Texas Chain Saw of Massacre’ and it was basically my first attempt at filming a short film. I comprehended that montage works to huge effect, so I edited a disturbing and fast paced opening monologue to grab the audience’s attention. Then when the film actually starts I learn the most curtail lesson when filming, framing and shot duration. My intention was to film it fast and leave the audience shocked, but when in editing I decided to create the impression of an old exploitation horror film. I wanted to make the audiences hang with the protagonist and watch him hang in a uncomforting pain, so they’re disgusted at the antagonist. This was a horror so i learned to have confidence to leave the audience with a sense of disbelief.
From this film i gained knowledge of how much effect using a non linear narrative has on an audience becuase it makes them use their minds and engage more in the story, as the anonymousness of the narrative creates engima. This was another film where i got to personal and polotically represent a issue or culture. This was about knife crime and how films when misrepresented can warp misunderstanding people and can phsycologically distort and disturb them. I learned the most basic and orginal imagery and ideas work to must sucessful effect. Additionally i found that communication skills come to a abundant advantage when filming, (especially with large groups) I found it hard try to keep the cast and crews moral and sprit up, occasionally humour is the most optimistic technique. When listening to the song ‘If You Were There Beware’ by ‘Arctic Monkeys’ I got the imagery of a circus, that is where the clown came from and I thought it could be a good idea to use to imagery of a clown when breaking the 4th dimension to get the audience more evolved with the horror, therefore they question this characters state of mind. I learnt that contrast is the greatest technique when dealing with an audience, making them feel a number of opposing emotions at once, to make them feel as if they’re being played with. As a director I used contrasting credits to lighten the mood, show characters alive and well and comical out takes.
THE UNFINISHED INTERTWINNING...
Call Sheets
CHARACTER: Don 'Lou' Carter
COSTUME: Pale blue top that allows blood to be seen and stands out on the frame, also in earier scenes should be seen wearing school uniforms to represent the youth of today.
ACTOR: Ryan Burt
CHARACTER: Brain Hurt
COSTUME: Blue hoody that dominates the screen and the 8mm camera will capture because i wanted blue to stand out on the screen to fit the color scheme of the poster and items through out. Also he wears a thin pale blue t-shirt during the end of the film to show that he's been rapped up most of the film but when stripped bear he's a different more psychological and dangerous character. Also should be seen wearing a school uniform for when they discover the body because it represents the youngman hood in contemporary society.
CHARACTER: Brad Thomas
COSTUME: Basic sports wear clothing, he also wears a pale blue t-shirt to represent he's on the same mind level of each of the characters.
ACTOR: Michael GatissCHARACTER: Dead Body in hall way
COSTUME: Wears black tracksuit, this iconography of the color black and whole body costume represents otherness that the audience distinguish from the protangonist, almost as if he's the antangonist who brings this evil money and hand gun into there lives.
Recce
Flatplans
'In The Centre' was my initial and orginal name for my film because i wanted to use the Faithless song 'Liontammer' and the monologue at the beginning. I've included the title strong and with a fine shadow to reinforce it significance. I Then listed to cast and crew across the page to demonstrate who's in the film and to make it look proffesional. Moreover I've used a made up critical quotation to show the audience feed back and the rating of a the film therefore audiences go and see my film. I used strong reds of the blood to make it eye catching because its such a blood colours and its almost provocative as the blood red is such a threatening colour to use. Another divice is the actract to the money, because almost everyone can distinguse money and is draw into it because of its value, then covering it in blood states its jepoardy and on a connotational level represent my films themes, narrative and ideology in an iconographical form.