Places i shot my scenes

Long Sutton Church Yard
London 'Waterloo'
London 'Greenwich University'
Kings Lynn 'Walks'
Kings Lynn 'Docks'
Gedney 'The Paddocks'
Gedney 'A17'

These are all the places i shot my scenes. These, i think are in sequence of how the trailer is shot/ edited. I had to go back to a few of the places for pre production trying to make the shots fit into place to give a smoother effect overall. Lately i have been thinking what can i do to get the trailer spot on. More voice overs? more soundtracks? or text edited into the clips them self?
Lately i have had lots of questions lately but to be honest i think I'm just going to add a few more little things to tie it all in and leave it there.

My aim has kind of been simplicity and i need to follow that through.

Editing

I was focusing my trailer on mise en scene, cinematography and sound. Ive basically got the trailer done with a few things left to add. I think it needs a little more voice over in it to split the backing track up. also a few more cuts maybe the way forward. Nearly done and ready to upload.

Brilliant

I have been talking to some of my Media teachers and apparently the college has cover on copy written work which means I'm ok to use the songs i wanted. I have also added in an instrumental song under my voice over at the beginning of my trailer. This has made it seem very full with sound that matches what has been recorded. I'm very near finishing the trailer. I have spent all today on the Mac's editing and trying to create ways to make things better. I have used different effects on some of the clips to get across meanings and emotions. I will explain and evaluate this as soon as i have finished editing.

Magazine Finished

I haven't put any stages of the creation of my poster up because i didn't want to slowly reveal it. so I'm basically going to put the magazine cover strait up and talk about it. Why i made it look as i did.

Lets get strait to it. As you may know, my film has connotations of a dreary nature. Its dark, mysterious and violent. Therefore i gave it a grey style look. The selling point of the magazine the character Hearts in the middle with him praying. This symbolises religion and belief. In my film there are hidden messages which plays with your mind. Its very deep. Ive used the headmast to frame the main picture this gives the magazine shape. The righting gives a stone/marble look which is used for something in the film. Ive used little things to give away what is in my film. I have put in little sub headings in red righting to show that their is blood shed in the film and a lot of it. Also anger, greed and disgust. That is all I'm going to give away as now but you will see how this comprehends with the final trailer that i will put up soon.

Long time no see

I'm aware that its been a little while since Ive last posted. This is because i had to go back to pre production to see whether i missed anything out. I kept having a funny feeling that things weren't going to fit. There was one vague thing i picked up on and that's with the basketball. Why is there basketball in my trailer ? Well there is basketball in my trailer because i was researching at the beginning about how 'gangsters' especially in America live, what they do, what they say acts etc.... The one thing that i picked up on asap is that they play a LOT of basketball. It worked out well it being my favourite sport as well. They don't just play it tho, they use it to hustle and to bargain even to settle things scenarios etc.. I have used it to stereotype what I'm trying to portray (Gangsters). So i hope that has cleared that up.

Ive been a busy bee lately filming a lot down London and a place called Bawsey pitt. I'm not on the approach of editing my trailer and its slowly coming together. I have used a application on the Macs called Final Cut Pro to edit my trailer. At 1st is it difficult to use but after a while it becomes more second nature.

I have also thought again about my titles eg. Slight Pictures. I am using an application called Motion which allows you to edit and animate your words and play around with different into types to draw the target audience in. Hopefully this will give my trailer a professional look.

Progress through poster

It has taken me a while to think how and what i will do with my film poster. i have a number of pictures that i went around town using different angles etc.. one of which is a wide shot with me on a bench on the right hand side. I have a problem though Peter is in the middle of his picture up against a wall so i need to fiddle with the photo, crop it down and mess around with the colours. I will be using Photoshop to produce this poster.

It is taking me a lot of time to learn how to use the functions on Photoshop sometimes it will do what i want to do and other it wont. I'm trying to play with the effect of a blur. I want to try to keep with a grey style effect with the colours of orange (representing prison outfit colours) and different tones with the awards etc..

This is the basic back layer

(was a wide shot but i zoomed into the picture and centralised myself and altered the contract, colour and brightness.)

I then took the picture of Peter and cropped it down and placed it to the right of me. I tried to blend the edge of the wall in with the picture. It wasn't actually a corner of a wall but i managed to make it look as if it was.

(Notice that Peters picture may be black and white, but his picture is lighter than mine. for a reason a hint to who is the protagonist and the antagonist.)

(with the title just a stage after)

After a while i ended up playing and altering text within the poster and a short synopsis. It took me ages to sort it out but i had finally finished and it turned out as below. I understand it may be seen as jam packed but that's how i wanted it to look, to represent the hustle and bustle of city life.

This is how the poster has ended up. I'm happy with how it looks i have got what i need on it with all the information needed for the audience to know what is what. I have purposely left the date of coming out out because i want the audience get anxious to find out when.

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.