Week 14: Homework: TASK 1,2 & 3

MOOD BOARD

My series is going to use alternative techniques such as flash forward and flash backwards to predict the future and draw relevance to two different events that has happened and the one that is happening presently.

With the research I have conducted i have come to the conclusion that there are slightly higher females that are more interested in horror and thrillers than males and this is because women like to see suspense and like to release or feel adrenaline more than men. And also due to my research I have also found out that people that watch horror movies are usually between the age of 12 to 35, below are two profiles of a 12 year old girl who is very much interested in horror and thrillers more than any other thing and a 30 year old man who is also very crazy about horror and thrillers.

I have looked at their profiles and the videos they watch and noticed that they are more into thrillers than horror and because of these I am planing on making a thriller instead of horror as it also creates suspense and gives out a lot of jump scares as well.

Also throughout the videos and horrors on youtube i found that thrillers have a lot more views than horror showing that people are more interested in thrillers than horrors so based on this findings I am going to be making my video a thriller sequence.
 Also due to my research i have also found out details people will like to see in thrillers and intend to add them as well in other to make my thriller sequence more interesting and intriguing to viewers. Effects such as flashbacks and flash forwards will be used more frequently and few of other alternative techniques such as montage especially intellective montage will be used in other to let the viewers think and connect the dots to work out and find out what is actually going on.

 MY  PITCH; BLACK MAIL
Two tennegares about the age of 17, one named Sam and the other named Emma both at a restaurant where they order a drink before the drink is brought to them a mysterious hand puts a substance in their drink and the drink is been served to them. As they drink they immediately have flashbacks of different people's memory of killing someone, they also have dreams and visions of a mysterious man chasing them. Then a man walks up to them on a random day and tells them that he can help them but they have to travel through time to kill someone, which they do but everytime they try to kill the person they die and wake up on the same day as they met the man and each time they try they lose a bit of their memory making the other memories in their heads more dominant and finally the memories of the people inside them finally came out and took over their body and it was revealed that the guy that put the substance in their drink was the guy who made them time travel and make them live die and repeat finally they both wake up in a white room with no memory but only flash backs of them killing someone.

SCRIPT:
INT: Inside a restaurant,  Sam and Emma are seated at a table a waitress walks up to them and starts talking to them.

                                                 Waitress
                              Can I take your order pleases

                          Sam and Emma both look up at the waitress.

                                                  Sam
                           We will have two milkshakes and two doughnuts, thank you

                          The waitress goes away to prepare their order.

INT: Inside the kitchen of the same restaurant the waitress that has just taken Sam and Emma's order places two cups filled with Milkshake on a work top, she then goes away to fetch two doughnuts, a man's hand wearing a black suit pours a white substance into the milkshake, the waitress comes back but doesn't see the man as he is invisible, he watches as she carries the cups and the doughnuts to them.
INT: Sam and Emma take a sip out of their milkshakes and immediately they both get a flashback of the same event.
EXT(FLASH BACK): A car park, a man is on the floor begging for mercy as a male and a female stand over him pointing guns at him.
                                               
                                                        Man on the floor.
                              please don't do this there is surely another way out please don't



                                        The two don't care and shoot him anyway.

BACK TO NORMAL TIME: They both stare at each other in a weird way without saying anything for a long time.


SPLITSCREEN:INT: Sam and Emma's room as they tuck themselves to bed they both get up to switch off their room lights, as they do they both see a human figure standing and staring at them from the darkness they turn the light back on both no one is there, switch the light back on again and all of a sudden a man with no face standing right in front of them.

INT: Sam's room, the man with no face is standing right infront of him.

                                                                SAM
                                                     What do you want?


                                                       FACELESS MAN.
                                       I want you it's either you give it to me or  i take it by force

INT: Emma's room. the faceless man is also standing in front of her
                                                       
                                                             EMMA
                                                  Who are you? (she speaks with fear)

                                                           FACELESS MAN
                                                               I am you

SPLITSCREEN: INT: Sam and Emma's room, the man with no face is standing right in front of the two of them, he then drives his hand through their chest killing them.
INT: Sams room. Sam wakes up and gets up from his bed and looks around he can barely remember anything he gets a flashback to the faceless man killing him, then he remembers that he needs to call someone called Emma as he picks up his phone it rings and the name displayed on it was Emma, as he accepted the call Emma runs into the room.

                                                          EMMA (panting)
                                             Get up Sam we need to go now if we want to life

                                                      Sam looked at her puzzled
                                             
                                                                   SAM
                                             But this is my house why would I want to leave

As Emma was about to speak, the faceless man walks in and stands right in front of the two of them , he points his gun at them and shoots the wall behind them which opens a time portal which sucks Sam and Emma in but as they travel through time their bodies are merged as one and they both appear as a man on the floor begging two other people for mercy, immediately they both get flashbacks to the time they were in the cafe.
Gunshots are heard they both come out of the man's body bleeding the two people watch them die and after which they took off their mask and they looked exactly like Sam and Emma.

                                                              END.


                                                 PRODUCTION REQUIREMENTS:

Type Of Production
The type of production I will be looking to produce will be a web-serial and its genre is Thriller.

Finance

• Source Of Finance: Most film producers get their finances from either investors investing a particular amount of money in their production to be paid back after the production of the film, while others might get their finances form their own personal savings which in return when the movie makes profit is going to benefit them in a long run there are still other get theirs through lottery and other ways. For my production I'm not going to be needing a lot of money because the essential materials are going to be provided to me by my school for my production. The only thing my school is not funding is feeding for me and my actors which I will be funding myself from own personal savings, my transport and actors transport is already covered as we all have free oyster bus passes.
• Budget Requirements: Ideally as I will be shooting a web-serial below will be a layout of how much is needed and what for they are needed for:

1. Cameras-  Ranges form £93.99 up to £32,549.46, I will have to purchase one as I'm using a single camera to shoot my web-serial. I will be using the colleges camera which is free on booking.
2. Lights and Microphone: £54.99 + £183.64 for both lights and microphone. I wont be needing this as I will be shooting my web-serial during day time and my actors voices will be recorded for a voice over on the videos, it also cost around £500 per day to hire a camera man and sometimes they come with all their equipment's and sometimes they don't.
3. Editing suites: can be hired for £500 per day/hour but I'm going to be booking the colleges editing suite for editing of the web series.
4. Talent: to hire a talent/ talents will cost like around £500-£700, but I will be using my colleagues who take acting or drama as a course as they will be more professional than others, and because they are my colleagues they will not ask for any pay.
5. Crew: To hire a crew for a web series in the real world will probably cost more than £5,100. For my web series we will be in groups of 6 and we will make up the crew as jobs will be split between us. 
6. Facility Hire: in a real life experience to rent an edit suite for the videos to be edited will probably cost around £550 per day. I will be using the schools editing suite which is free to use.

• TIME

Time and scheduling in the media industry is very important because of a deadline is not met the producers start to lose money as they will spend extra money to buy more time to spend on their project. I will be mostly filming on weekends as the week is occupied for me and most of the actors because of school we should be able to do a lot of different shots in three days so ideally two - three weeks should be enough for filming and editing of my web series. Some work can also be done during week as well.

The equipment I'm going to be using are going to be free as the colleges equipment are free on booking but I will still need to buy some few equipment like props which would normally cost around £500 but can get it for a more cheaper prize.

• CREW& PERSONNEL

For the availability of personals I'm going to be doing this project with 3 or 2 other people so the roles of production will be split between us, for actors we will be gathering talents form our colleagues who study acting and drama as they will fit in and look more professional on set but in a real world auditions will be held to get actors and this will cost the production crew money as they will have to rent a location for the auditions and it will probably cost more money getting a professional crew together such as cameramen, directors e.t.c.
I will be hiring the following personal:

A cameraman who will be in charge of the camera and responsible for the filming.
An editor who will edit and align the shots from the camera man into a sensible and storytelling other.
Sound Engineer who will be in charge of the sound right from the ambient sound to the non-ambient sound
Director who will direct the whole plot.
I will be handling the producers part.

• MATERIALS

Clearance is paying for copyrighted materials to used e.g music tracks/ sounds. For every time a copyrighted material is shown on another show the owner of the material gets paid some certain amount of money which usually ranges form £50 upwards depending on how much is agreed, because this is a school project we won't have to pay for the use of other sound tracks but for my web serial I am planing on creating original sounds my self as I and most people in my group know how to use Logic Pro X. Also we can get non copyrighted form you tube and its also free download   here is an example: https://www.youtube.com/user/uncopyrighted4u
In other to secure the materials I will make sure that the equipments such as the camera and props are ready early enough.

• LOCATION

Most of our shots will be filmed local that is within and around Kent and we will need a permit form the Kent council to be able to film in specific places, when the weather is not favorable for us while filming we can either film it that way and edit it to look better or use the weather to send out a mood in the series. 

The distance for filming spots won't be far away form where crew members live as I said earlier it will be local and all the crew members do live local.
Most materials will be provided by the college as it is free on booking and for the ones that aren't they will be either bought or booked off a booking company for a period of time
Recces is us going out to take pictures and scouting out the locations we are going to use for our web series in real life situation an  agency will be paid to do so and usually  cost quite a lot of money.

The BBFC won't regulate my web series as thy only regulate movies and cinematic shows and theater shows.

• FACILITIES

Production Equipment: equipment such as cameras, lights and other things can be booked for free form the college.  But in a real life situation it will cost around 1000 pounds as to get a camera man alone cost around 500 pounds that half of the money gone already.

Post- production equipment: edit suite can be booked for 550 pounds a day and this suites will contain macs which will run the software Final cut x which is the software that will be used to edit their shots. I will be using the editing suites in school as they are free to use.

                                                             

                                             

video guide

she movie final edit

Rough Editing.

She. Unit 16.2 (re submission)

Home bins 

Street bin

Train station bin:

In this blog post I have created bins in which i have categorized and rename different shots into their various bins, there is a bin for shots that have been shot outside on the streets at the train station and also at home also in these bins i have also named the shots into their various shot types such as close ups and long shots also i have decided and named the good and bad tales which means the that I will be using the good ones and getting rid of the bad ones.

TIME LINE COMPLETE. (RE SUBMISSION)

• Starting from way back in February 1895 when the Lumière brothers who were Augustine and Louis who were sons to a famous French man called Antoine. The brothers invented their own version of the  kientoscope which the called the cinematographer which will go on to be the first camera to be ever created. The biggest or big aim of this was to combine video recording alongside projection all at the same time. Their device did this and could hold up to 16 frames of filming per second their by making their devices a lot slower and easier to use than the Kientoscope. They decided to test their invention out and went out to record their first film on March 28 1895 called ''la sortie des usines lumière'' which was premièred later that year. This video was a long take or a long shot been taken from one angle or set. The main purpose of the video was to actually engage viewers because this was actually the first time people will see something like this and to them it will seem much more magical than it does to us viewers in the present day. Also in their video they decided to add a sweet sound track in the video which is a non-diagetic sound because only the viewers can hear this sound and its main purpose was to engage and capture the attention of the viewers. At this point in time there was no single sign of editing in their videos as it has just been a long take of people constantly walking out of a factory.

The Lumière brothers went on later to produce a lot of different films and the purposes still stayed the same as they were just engaging the viewers and there was no form of storytelling. below are some of their films and their links:
Le Jardinier (l'Arroseur Arrosé):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlHBfnKnREo

Le Débarquement du Congrès de Photographie à Lyon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmZzbbhZ1v0

La Voltige: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI0ubuBlzp0

La Pêche aux poissons rouges: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYR0Gf8JfI8

Les Forgerons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0voUlJJU1n4

Repas de bébé: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqy-EU2D8M0

Le Saut à la couverture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai7eLvk1T-Q

La Places des Cordeliers à Lyon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbVxHZqumc8

La Mer (Baignade en mer): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAP2_Wq7CZk

• In the same year the Lumière brothers created the cinematographer a stage magical and engineer  called George Mlies  who was present at the first première of the brothers work in their basement offered them a price for their new invention but they refused. He went back home and invented his own camera and started filming. In 1896 he was filming a bus coming out of a tunnel when his camera jammed he eventually fixed it and continued filming when he watched the clip again he noticed that the bus scene cuts directly to the scene of a horse coming out of the tunnel, George Mlies had discovered jump cuts which are still been used up to this very present age in the making and editing of different films.  George Melies used these jump cuts in his magical shows to show disappearance and he also went further to discovering different effects such as; fade in and outs. overlapping dissolves, stop motion photography. He came up with the idea of setting the camera up in different locations and different time to give you full control. On September 1st 1901 he realised a film called a trip to the moon, this film was shot with the purpose of actually telling a story and the first development of drama. At this point we could see developments in the multiple point of view as George Melies has set up his camera twice to get shots from two different point of view and also we start seeing the development and the first sign of a director or film maker actually trying to tell a story their by giving his film a purpose of actually keeping the viewers engaged  and developing drama. He also made his films to have a theatre look in other to create a vertical reality.

His other films were:
The Voyage of the Bourrichon Family (Short)

1912Cinderella or The Glass Slipper (Short)

1910Apparitions fantômatiques (Short)

1910Curing Obesity in 5 Minutes (Short)

1910Galatée (Short)

1910L'homme aux mille inventions (Short)

1910Le conte du vieux talute (Short)

1910Les sept barres d'or (Short)

1910Le vitrail diabolique (Short)

1910Si j'étais le roi (Short)

1910The Doctor's Secret (Short)

• Many film makers began to rise after Melies and an important one amongst them was Edwin Porter, he was the creator of different narratives. he would normally take stock footage  that actually has meaning or story and turn them into a linear narrative piece of video. He also came up with the idea of following the action whereby he shoots the action from the inside and goes out side to shot the same action to get a different view and a different shot and he was also the first to start the use of split screen to show actions happening in two different locations at the exact same time but he still used long shots very long shots and hasn't yet discovered the other types of shots yet. Edwin Porter in his films we can see the development of following the action where he tries to get the action as it happens, he gets multiple point of view that's getting shots from different angles also he manipulates time and space he makes the viewers think that two events are happening at the exact same time by just using a split screen and his films were really still based on analogue as its still in black and white format, the really main purpose of his videos were actually for storytelling he made sure he engaged the viewer and also gradually developed drama as time went on. A very famous piece of work of his was the life of an american fireman and the great train robbery.

He added a very smooth touch to his films which was leaving the endings either closed or open, here editing plays a very big role because these are different shots which have been edited or aligned to form a story and also added other transitions which were discovered by Melies.

• D.W. Griffiths who is best know as the father of continuity has always had a passion for film making but he didn't start off as a movie producer rather he started as an actor under Edwin Porter. But he later went on to direct birth of a nation which was a great hit. After that he sat down and worked out and found out new concepts for continuity such as a 180 degree rule and the allingment of shots in other tell story through the process of trial and error he also invented the different type of shots and effects and editing techniques for continuity after doing all this he then went further to create and produce the lonely villa in which he created and invented tension by increasing the pace and tempo of cuts up to its climax.

He also invented cross-cutting which is simultaneously show two different events happening at the same exact time to either create suspense or tension. This time we have seen development in the in- camera edit as well as following the action, manipulating time and space, the films are still analogue as its still in black and white and the purpose of the techniques created and used were to create story that is story telling, defiantly engaging the viewers as well as developing drama as continuity's main point is to entertain viewers, there are also a combination of shots into sequences as well to tell story and also creates pace to create tension.

• Eisenstein and Kuleshov were the masters of montage and the opposer of continuity without even knowing, Montage was made to made the viewers think about what they are watch there by adding hidden meaning left for the viewers to interpret themselves. Montage had so many visible editing which meant the viewers could notice the change in shots. It was developed in the USSR for the purpose of propaganda and politics to try and bring the country together as they had just come out of a civil war. Kuleshov went on to create a technique which was called the Kuleshov technique where by a shot is placed after another shot with no relationship what so ever making the viewers actually work out what's going on.

There are  five types of Montage which are as follows:
Tonal
Over Tonal
Intellectual montage
Rhythmic Montage
Metric

Tonal and Over tonal Montage: This is a contrast within the shots such as lighting to show the current conduction of a particular character.

Intellectual Montage: this is the concerning ideas for ideological concepts which makes the viewer think and attract meaning to different scenes.

Rhythmic Montage: this is when the scene cuts according to a particular beat or tempo .

Metric Montage: this is the use of long shots while the scene cuts to the action or the action cuts to a particular beat.

• Continuity vs Montage: Continuity was invented by D.W Griffts through trial and error, this is the use of series of shots to tell a story so its more entertaining. Continuity also absorbed montage as later on it uses montage to show the passage through time or to add an artistic  touch to their works, continuity only took the editing styles but left the politics part of montage .It was developed by an American and therefore belongs to America. While Montage on the other hand is a series of shots that is been used to tell a story but it makes the viewers think which means that the directors deliberately make their editing seamless so the viewers actually notice the editing or put two shots of different contrast to tell a story. The 5 types of Montage are: Metric  Montage: This was cutting to the beat of the music been played. Rhythmic: Cutting according to a particular rhythm. Over Tonal: using large sequence of shots to state the theme. Tonal:Using contrast to comparison to the style or type of shots. Intellectual montage: using ideological concepts in other to make the view think. Montage been the complete opposite of continuity creates discontinuity to actually let the viewers know that something is defiantly not right.

• Hitctcock gained reputation as the master of suspense which meant that he was very creative and good at creating suspense. He mixed montage alot with continuity he tells a story that's meant to entertain the viewers and also make them think at certain point for example in Psycho he uses rhythmic and intellectual montage when the woman is getting killed intellectual in the sense that the action performed by the killer can be seen as rape and at the end of the killing we can see that he used a transition called cross fade in where by the sink hole cross fades with the victims eyes showing or telling us that the victims life is been washed away. The main purpose of Hitcocks video was to really engage viewers or else he wont really want them to think about what they have just seen and it also uses a combination of shots in a sequences and also follows the action in detail.

• Goddard and the start of the new French wave: The French where the original owners of cinema until the Us and the USSR became more dominant and this was around the 1960 where everyone wanted change and so did the media industry and so did the French so they stood to literally oppose continuity and break all its rule, them make film for an artistic purpose and the man who led this new reign was Goddard. He directed and produced breathless which during editing purposely used jump cuts and broke the 180 degree rule which actually make the viewers think as they are seeing something different,  Goddard is one of the leaders of the French new wave. He realised his first film in 1955 then went on to release Breathless which he was widely recognised for in 1960, breathless carried a lot of different things and techniques he had added something special to his film which was his artistic style which was literally set to oppose continuity as it broke almost all the rules of continuity if not all. He was the inventor of trailers.

• Kubrick saw what the French were doing and he liked it so he decide that he was going to make films to add his own artistic touches to it so he merged continuity montage and the French new style of editing we can see this in his movie space Odyssey: 2001 where he used jump cuts to show the passage of time. 

He also used Kuleshovs technique when there were conversations between the space crew and hal 900 also during the disablement of Hal where they keep going back the red light or eye which we are made to believe or what we think that is hal.
He also uses a technique called the clockwise orange where the camera switches to what the character is watch and then back to the character to show the emotions of the character, for example during the brainwashing scene.

• Tarantino is a contemporary movie producer who uses montage to add artistic touches to his videos, he uses a lot of close ups to show a characters emotions editing has advanced for switching between two shots to show emotions to now using a sing shot to show emotions there by reducing the amount of shots that will have to be taken or edited he also slows down the tempo of his shots and and the rhythm to show tension and to make the viewers know that the character is tensed or nervous about what's actually going on.

The main purpose he did this was to make the storyline firm by developing the dram and also he uses alot of shots in a sequences and he does creates pace whenever he wants it to go high it does if he wants it to go low it does as well.

• Nolan uses a mixture of both continuity as he decided to keep some of the rules of continuity such as cross cutting but he other cases he has actually broke them there by adding artistic touches to his editing and also at the same time using montage and partly continuity he also uses a lot of non-linear editing which gives him mire reason to break continuity because non-linear either starts form the middle or the end and the viewers at the beginning have no clue of what is actually going on until they start to see flash backs which also breaks continuity to an extent.

Final Short Film Analysis. (RESUBMITTING)

In the three short films that i have looked at they are all thrillers as they all follow or use non linear narrative style of editing for example in Message in a bottle they started with a shot of a character on like an island then it cuts nearly immediately to a shot of another character in the city. This style of editing is montage style of editing has it takes two shots of no relationship and makes the viewers work out whats going on which is an alternative style of editing. At this point no one knows what is going on and the sudden change of geographical locations sends out a bit of mystery going on as we don't know who the two characters in the two shots are and what relationships they have with each other. Also its a non linear narrative because the story definitely doesn't start from  the beginning it starts from a section in time in which we do not know if its the future the present or the past in most cases durine the clip or towards the end of the clip we get to see flashbacks also non linear narrative is an alternative system or type of editing as it breaks continuity. This clip in my opinion doesn't have a targeted audience except for those studying media because the way the clip is shot its very difficult to actually understand and even i myself found it difficult to work out whats going on until i watched it the fifth time, most viewers don't have that patience to watch over it five times. But compared to Decay which has a target audience of horror and vampire lovers, that clip also uses non linear narrative because we start with the character in the present and we go ahead to know about his past through flashbacks and a lot of mainstream techniques were used such as the 180 degree rule and match on action shot and also the camera followed most parts of the action.  Also we also have linear narrative which is a mainstream style of editing as it allows or doesn't break continuity. Example is in up has a linear narrative.

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 Also there are Message in a bottle had a very open ending because the clip ended with the character inhaling a chemical from the bottle which is mainstream or continuity style of editing as it leaves opportunities for the story to continue mostly used in serials and most times if not all in single dramas. Message in a bottle is actually single stranded as it has just one story following exactly one character throughout the whole clip rather than a series like friends for example that uses a multi stranded narrative where there are different story plots of different characters which means that there are more than one character while a serial follows one character and in the way message in a bottle is shot it can well enter for an episode in a serial as it has open endings and uses single stranded narrative.
Also there are a lot of camera techniques used in message in a bottle we can see that in the clip the camera has been placed at different angles to add different
meanings we can see in the screenshot above that the camera has been placed at a very low angle to make the character look superior or big to whatever character or the world around her there are other two occasions where the camera has been placed at high angles along the clip as well.

Also in the clip we see areas where the camera has been used to apply a pull focus on certain objects such as the example to the left where the barbed wire has been blurred out to add some sort of importance to the building, also we can see another shot of an low angle shot also while this shot was playing if close attention was paid you would see that the camera slowly moves towards the right also we can say that seamless editing was used which is a mainstream technique where by the viewers hardly notices the editing that has been used on done. This clip hardly used continuity style of editing such as cross cutting and 180 degree rule therefore it was more montage based and we saw in the first few seconds where the kuleshov technique was used where two shots with no relationship are literally show after each other which makes the viewer think thereby using intellectual montage we can see the screenshot in the first two above and also the shot of the  girl on the road and then it cuts to the building leaving viewers clueless of whats going on. Also we can also see that they have definitely used one camera because each time they show a shot is from a different angle and also the camera didn't follow the girl when she was in the building climbing the stairs the camera was actually set up in one spot and she literally just walked across the camera and climbed the stairs.

• Tarantino is a contemporary movie producer who uses montage to add artistic touches to his videos, he uses a lot of close ups to show a characters emotions editing has advanced for switching between two shots to show emotions to now using a sing shot to show emotions there by reducing the amount of shots that will have to be taken or edited he also slows down the tempo of his shots and and the rhythm to show tension and to make the viewers know that the character is tensed or nervous about what's actually going on.

The main purpose he did this was to make the storyline firm by developing the dram and also he uses alot of shots in a sequences and he does creates pace whenever he wants it to go high it does if he wants it to go low it does as well.

• Nolan uses a mixture of both continuity as he decided to keep some of the rules of continuity such as cross cutting but he other cases he has actually broke them there by adding artistic touches to his editing and also at the same time using montage and partly continuity he also uses a lot of non-linear editing which gives him mire reason to break continuity because non-linear either starts form the middle or the end and the viewers at the beginning have no clue of what is actually going on until they start to see flash backs which also breaks continuity to an extent.

As we have seen above in the examples of Tarantino and Nolan's work we can see that they both use a mixture of continuity and montage techniques the main reason they have done this is in other to add style and make their work look artistic.