Info on 1st shoot

Time --- 9:50 am
Shot at --- Long Sutton Church Yard
Time Taken ---- 90 mins

In this first scene i obviously had a lot of ambient lighting to shoot the tilt of the church and for one of my slight pans. This worked out in my favor due to the day wasn't particularly nice which was fine because i wanted the church to be light and then when i shot Danny sitting at his mothers grave stone i had low key lighting, i wanted it dull, wet basically miserable to it got the convention of anger, sadness across to my target audience (teenagers).

I was at first wanting to do some kind of areal shot but then thought no because you wouldn't get that feel of closeness. With the way i have shot this part of the scene when he is sitting in front of his mothers grave it feels like you are rite there with him, feeling with him. I have left it enough to get the audience thinking about whats going on. I have done this by making sure parts of the narrative come through in my trailer. In this scene Danny has a piece of paper in his hands that seems to be from his mum, so in anybodies mind it would have sentimental value, but well watch for yourself.

Take 1

Yes ! I have managed to finally film my first scene. It took about 30 mins to get to the Scene and maybe about a hour and a half to film. There were obviously problems that kept occurring, things such as strong winds and there was very damp ground and at some point it did actually start to rain.

I have used FINAL CUT PRO to section my different takes. I have cropped each cut to the amount that i can fit a nice transition which merges the different clips together. It took some time to do this because i wanted every clip i had to be smooth. Ive seen many A2 Production pieces that are put together quite nasty, this obviously affects the overall exhibition.

It has been a little while since i last posted anything about my film trailer. This is because of exams and actually trying to sort out the pre - production of my film. I want this piece to be excellent, i don't want it to at all look tacky. I wont be happy until i know that this trailer is the best trailer, that is my drive. I am going into the conventions of my trailer very deep. I'm putting meaning behind my shots and hopefully people will understand the meaning, for example one of my shots is of Hearts going into a phone booth after taking drugs which is shown with a extreme close up of the numbers. This is shot with a dutch angle, it keeps blurring which slowly zooms out to see Hearts try to put the phone back on its holder but fails. This could signify that Hearts is in trouble or that he is angry who knows its a teaser trailer !

Problems

I'm having problems getting in touch with the producers of the Devlin song. The problem is i cannot find an e-mail or anything anywhere, I'm not even sure if it is the rite label. 5this label is Universal Music UK, which is an offspring of the Universal Music Group. They have off springs all over the world, i have an address and a contact number but i don't want to write a letter or phone them up about something so informal.

Universal Music Direct
364-366 Kensington High Street
Kensington
London
W14 8NS

Above is their address and below is their contact number. I've put these on just in case there are no other options.

0845 070 2036

This is their website, i cant find anything that will give me a clear e-mail address but i have managed to put the question to the support team some how so hopefully i will have a reply soon.

http://store.universal-music.co.uk/restofworld/page/home/

Ooops

I was talking a while ago about what music i want in my trailer. It was really hard and i managed to file it down to a few different songs. Well the thing is i was bored the other day so i was listening to random music and i heard a song which just clicked. The name of this song it

Devlin - Brainwashed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRob2t2PPek

gives a real urban feel towards it, i think it would suit it down to the ground. Now all i have to do is write to the producers of the song and ask if i am allowed to use it for my trailer. I will update this message when i have a reply. Just to remind myself i will leave i bold sentence.
UPDATE WHEN HAVE A REPLY

Collective identity within the media

I need to represent identity for each of my characters, identity within media can be a muddle, everyone wishes to have an identity, something unique about our self, representing this in my trailer will give the audience a feel of knowing with whats going on eg. ' I've been there before'. Interpellation - the social.ideological practice of misrecognising our self can be seen in today's media. the fact that people are seen as we want to be seen is a matter that is beyond peoples capability. What i mean by this is that, girls for instance look at a magazine cover, there is a beautiful model on the cover and they want to look like that. Matters like this is what is currently providing people their identity in my opinion. an example is shown below.

As you can see the picture above is gut wrenching. If these are the lengths people go to to have their ideal identity then it obviously plays a huge part in peoples lives. This will have a big impact on my trailer. I aim to stereotype each person ed Hearts and Danny will be in hoodies, urban associated and their physical performance will look different to Elizas which will be smartly dressed and posh. Hopefully taking the stereotypes to the extreme will convey to the audience in the way i want it to.

The types of identity in my trailer are shown below.

As you can see a Gangster a Posh Woman and a Thug. These are the stereotypes i wish to put into my trailer.

Damn

Turns out the day i wanted to do my shooting i couldn't, it was really wet and the fog was ridiculous, that bad you couldn't actually see anything, i tried to do it the next day but turns out i couldn't get my hands on a camera, hmm.

I'm going to try and get hold of one later today so i can shoot early tomorrow morning. At least then i can get my 1st scene shot. I now know that the majority of my shooting will be done on the Wed the 15th of December down London. I will be shooting places such as Waterloo, Camden and Hyde Park. I will be setting off early in the morning maybe about 8am due to it is going to take me 3 hours to get down there. I will be coming back at around 4 or 5pm so i will be back in Kings Lynn for 8pm.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl

In this link it will show an area of London at the moment the computers aren't working so i couldn't upload the print screened picture, i had highlighted the areas I'm going to and the potential areas these areas are Greenwich, London Bridge, Regents Park and a few more.

Film Logo

At the moment I'm making Logos for my film, i was thinking of something catchy, i had a few random words down and what i liked the most was Slight Tilt Films. It has a buzz about it that i like so i am going to use this for my logo on my trailer. Also this name gives a ring to the sport of basketball, which you could think is ironic with what happens in the film itself. below are a few ideas of logos i will put what i like and dislike about each.

I like this idea because it gives a symmetrical look. I think the key is to not make it very complex that way it will look good.

I think maybe the logo itself can be different but that isn't such an issue. Maybe the font could be different.

I like the look of this one because it gives a very arty looks towards it. I like the font. I don't like the fact that is is all on one line i don't think i want it like this, i want it to dominate the screen so everyone can

see it.

I really like this one due to it looks great, as if a sword is going through the wighting. I like that the righting is black and the image is grey it gives a good backing look.

I cant see any bad points in this logo.

If I'm dead honest i like how the layout of the words are in the box as if its getting delivered. But i don't really like this logo compared to the rest of them.

The one that is highlighted in green is the logo that i am going to use. I will put this in my trailer at the beginning to introduce the film.