Working Titles

Possible names for our film
Postal
Special delivery
Postage
Dispatch
Pickup
Stung
Channel 101



These names were brought up collectively by all of the members of the group. My personal favourite ones are postal, dispatch, stung and channel 101.

Examiners Feedback (Targets of the day 5/1/14)

Experiment with titles and fonts
Character and Narrative development
Experiment with microphones and audio

Key Character

When doing the draft filming Me (Paddy) and Elliott both played the role of the main character with the other filming. when we had uploaded the draft footage it was checked by the examiner who recommended that I play the part of the lead character. I was happy to do this, the only problem however was that we all felt that my voice would not really fit the character. we therefore came up with the idea of dubbing Toby's voice over mine but then change the pitch down. We decided to do this as we felt that his voice would work better with the character. As far as a characters name goes, this may not be that important as we are are unsure whether he will introduce himself or be named by other characters.

Examiners Feedback

Annotate each filming post with own comments and comments from others-target audience
Decide who will be the key character-Paddy/Elliott/Toby
Discus what shot will be used next
Discus the filming process
Start thinking about confirmed locations.
Order of storyboard
Test voice recordings

Inspiration for film

After we decided that our original idea of a gangster film would not really work we had to change ideas. As a group we decided to do a superhero movie opening. The idea for the opening came from a previous task that was not really linked to this. At first the idea was just a comedy make-fun of recent superhero films, specifically the dark knight trilogy. We decided that we should move away from the original concept by making it more serious but whilst still maintaining an element of humour. We therefore decided to, rather than make fun, base it on “The Dark Knight Trilogy” and other films such as “The Amazing Spiderman” and “The Avengers”. Our primary film focus would be “Kick Ass” as our film would very much follow the plot of it. We were also inspired by recently released film “Kingsman: The Secret Service” due to the way that humour is used.

Also sense me and another member of the group are into comics we decided to also base our film upon graphic novels such as “Batman”, “Kick-Ass”, “Kingsman: The Secret Service” and “Watchmen”.

With superheroes as the main concept of our film it mean that we have to use a very Hollywood style of narrative and theme meaning that we do not have to focus on realism and can pretty much do whatever we wanted to, using whatever we had. This is mostly due to the sudden increase in demand for simple and action packed epics that provide a sense of escapism and spectacle for the viewer.

Due to our budget being nothing and our filming time also being very small it mean that we will be unable to travel to other locations. This was the main reason that we had to drop the gangster film idea as we needed a lot of time and resources and since we do not have a Hollywood budget it means that we cannot have the effects and location that are usually used. To get around this issue we decided that our superhero would be just an average kid who protects his school. By doing this it means that we do not have to travel anywhere and we can just go and do it whenever we want to. Also because our superhero is supposed to just be a normal kid it means that we are able to use just everyday items for the costume such as a hoodie.

Draft Filming

Phantom Car Driving Down Road

In our early draft of the storyboard we did not include the car driving to the location. we included this as it would increase thew time of our opening. 

in the two above clips both Elliott and I test the scene where the main character walks towards the screen as the camera tracks back. Due to the 

Draft Filming. Day 1 (5/12/14)

Because of issue of not being able to film at our originally intended location of the majority of our film we decided to change the location to somewhere that would be a lot easier to shoot at. There we took some draft shots of possible camera angles, movements and positions as well as still photos for the desired locations for the shots. The chosen location was St Margaret's Bay, which was far easier to shoot in due to it being fairly small and easily accessible to the public. Within the bay are some cliffs and a car park which were also possible filming locations and backgrounds. As it is separate from houses and roads it is quite and therefore becomes an ideal place for the storylines meeting to take place.

Rather than using the schools standard camcorder we chose to use our own which was my partners flip up video camera, mainly because it was light and very easy to use. It was also a great weight of our mind as we did not have to worry about any damage. It also meant we could film whenever we want to.

When we arrived at the location luckily for us the area was empty making it very easy to film and take photos as we did not have to worry about people getting in the way. The first thing we wanted to check was how well the sound came out on the camera as we were by the sea and it was fairly windy. This did end up becoming a problem but we did find a way around this by filming the shot and having the character with a voice recorder in their shirt pocket. This was a good idea as it meant that we did not have to record in a studio and spend ages timing it right. Another problem we had was because of the unstable ground the camera was quite shakey. But after these problems we did manage to get some draft shots. These included-
Long shot
Medium shot
Close-up, tracking