Narrative Scripts

Call Sheets

ACTOR: Tom Pugh

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.

ACTOR: Chris Iceton

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 Gatiss

CHARACTER: 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

This room is of my bathroom, i will film this scene from the perspective of the bath but will hold the camera upside down and later rotate the image during post production to achieve the high angled look so the audience can view the toilet lid and understand clearly that the protagonist has hidden the gun like a scene from 'The Godfather'. The difficulties i could have during this scene is the gun could to tape the toilet lid and destroy my idea, to ensure this doesn't happen i will have to include strong stick-able tape like duck or gaffer tape and asses that i have mass amounts of it. The technical difficulties i could have maybe possibly be the contrast issues, i will need to position my actors in front of the window and shoot from the direction of the light or either make sure the lights hits them in a clear and effective way the shows the characters interactions.

This is the bedroom i am going to be shooting the final gun conflict sequence, my main issues are the light shines through the left hand side of the room, i will position the innocent Don on the bed and the crazed Brain holding the gun in front of him. I will have to place more posters and DVD's on the walls and shelves to create the sense of cultured people the characters are and the artistic motivations. The posters will be of gangsters holding guns and demonstrating the rise and fall of the american dream, on a connotation level i could stress the impact and influence the media and other art forms like films determine and glamorize the roles of my characters. Also i will have to change the color of the bed sheets to a more lighter blue so the blood will be reinforced through the mise-en-scene.

For this shot, my protagonist will be walking up the stairs during a progressive dutch angle. My main focus will be the color scheme trying to create a black and white imagery referencing to suspenseful film noir classics of the late 1940's and 1950's. I will distort the contrast to ensure that the light looks powerful at the top of the stairs and the character is in shadows, almost creating this edge of suspense with powerful lighting almost he is entering the unknown.

Video Animatic

Flatplans

This is a sketch of my film magazine that i've entitled 'Film Fananza', it's an independent film magazine aimed at a niche audience for those interested in alternative to the mainstream and independent cinema. I used both of the main characters from my film with the protagonist appearing upset and vexed whilst loading a gun, then in the foreground the other character looking suspectingly cycnical. The bold greens of the text and money fit the colour scheme matching with its opposing colour yellow and on a poylsemic level green represents the colour jealously and paranioa which matches the films themes. I also included other side stories that match around the issues of independent film making, in which i will have to go out a shoot photographs of the newcastle bridge and an anxious looking character covered in blood. I themed the magazine around social realism to show the importance of the new realise which is my film, this states the genres ellements and motifs.


'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.

Storyboards

Institutional Logos and Titles and Own Sketches

This is the first cut video of footage that i edit of my production logo. I placed both of the images together to impose the impression that they're part of the same image by faded the edges off which i was intending Adobe photoshop but its was possible of final cut pro. I wanted the image to be memorable like most of the production logos so i give the diegetic ambient sound effect of lighting striking from garageband. This captures the personality of the name macabre pictures, suits the distorted font and relates the red clouds. My major dilemma now is that the pictures look to evident, i want to create a torch like glow that runs across the image but the question is how?

This is an additional screenshot of me editing the soundtrack and the images together on the program final cut pro, in which using helpful transitions like fade in and fade out to create a easy flow and a sense of enigma.










This is picture to the left is taken from search engine google image, i have chosen this for my background of the logo because my plan now is to take the actual title and blend it in with the background to create the illusion that there of the same text and visuals. I discovered this image by exploring red cloud imagery, I'm satisfied with this purely because the clouds appear with a sense of realism and i can experiment about with lightness and darkness on the apple based program 'Final Cut Express'.

The rendered product; i enjoy how the redness fades to a darker shade as the text moves toward the right, this would have greater impact because it is the way we read and write in english. I chose the text mainly because it captures the personality of the company and the visual fragmentation of splattered blood. I have saved this image into my workspace and will begin practice on final cut express by creating lighting and sounds effects to give the image life and a mysterious background. With reading the 'Usage Terms' which says, 'You are welcome to use any of the generated graphics in any way, shape, or form without asking permission. If you'd like to thank us, please tell your friends about this service and consider linking to us.' I now feel confident with my product and look forward to giving a sense of reinvigoration and animation.

This is the process i went through to make the choices for the look and presentation of my final logo. I choose to call my production company macabre pictures but i then re-wrote in capital locks to illustrate it as if it were impacting the screen. I settled with the color red so it would fit with the color scheme and on a connotation level represent the visuals of the macabre. I was going to make the background black with different iconic shapes so people would remember the logo. But i went exploring through different backgrounds and found imagery of red clouds or an illusive red velvet material. As i previously said i wanted to create an illusionary vague logo that was down to interpretation, this would create a more subconscious effect on my audience and make the text more memorable. Whilst improving my technical skills i new to render the logo as a JPG folder opposed to s PDF or other formats, therefore it would fit into my blog and final cut express.

This is my choice of font for the 'Macabre Pictures' logo, i intended to create this originally in photoshop couldn't create something as accurate as this, it imposes a dirty, gritty but yet professional look i was going for.

This website was the one i used to design my own 'Macabre Pictures' logo, its companies policy says, 'Cool Text is a FREE graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. Simply choose what kind of image you would like. Then fill out a form and you'll have your own custom image created on the fly. Cool Text is the worlds most popular graphics generator. Online since 1998, our servers have rendered over 400 million FREE images.'

This picture here is the first initial sketch of Macabre Pictures logo that i created in Adobe Photoshop CS4 clouds are hand drawn within by using the brush tool then applying distortion with the blur tool, therefore audiences aren't entirely know what the imagery is and is left down to their interpretation so the logo can be recognized on repeated viewings through the techniques of enigma. I chose the name of "Macabre Pictures' purely because it has a provocative sound and look, also for the reason that me previous skills development projects deal with the themes of violence and macabre subject matter. This will be questioning and engaging when entitlement when this production company produces and social-realist feel because audiences will be interested to know what a horror based studio can do with post-kitchen sink realism.

The screen shot below (under the video) is of me exploring Adobe Photoshop CS4 for the first time, i experienced a range of useful different backgrounds, layers, tools and texts, I used photoshop tutorials from youtube to help me develop my skills, like in this video...

For the text, i wanted the title to stand out, therefore I stuck to the chosen color scheme so it would attract audiences attention. I used an efficient reminder of my color scheme by using the useful eyedropper tool which distinguishes one color from the next. My highest criticism of the logo, is how the clouds and text appear too basic and amateur looking, they lack professionalism. The clouds seem too hand drawn which effects the appeal and class of the logo, also the text and look isn't how i originally conceived it as. With not being happy with my logo, i've decided to uses a more professional website text based company and design my own more appealing logo in which the diegetic sound will play are more curtail role with in the viewing of clip.

This is the most influential logo i've seen mainly because it horror side and aspect of the production company therefore if i aspire to this I will hopefully be able to capture the personality of my 'Macabre Pictures' production logo.

Whislt studying previously existing production logos, i found they all have music in the background and have an iconic imagery that can easily be remebered. Like '20th Century Fox' has a memorable strong orchestral introduction with the gold impacting writing that allows viewers to associate these visuals with the programmes. I will try and recreate these techniques in my logo, including a strong memorable sound that fits the imagery.

I went through arrange of style to fit my production logo but i wanted it to fit the characteristics of the piece so i redesign the look of it but the decided what i always had was perfect because it immediately grabbed the audience’s attention with the diegetic sound and the red was so bold and threatening it made the audience remember its significance to the film.

These are the sketches for my film trailer production logo, i decided on a wide use of drawing and sketches but i want one that really suited the personality of the film. Having already used production logos, i decide to stick with the same name but i wanted to create a new background and sound, a fresh new visual that would give the production logo a more heightened sense of enigma and darker appeal.