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Saturday 25 December 2010
Friday 24 December 2010
Final Film Poster
This is the final poster of our film. We chose a simple font as we want to be simple and straightforward with the audience. In terms of layout, we chose Tatiana to be in the middle as at some point in the film all characters revolve around her making her the centre of attention, also the fact that Tatiana is in the middle reflects to the fact that in the film there is something in the middle of the two brothers, which is Baker. Putting a girl in the middle of two men gives the audience a bit of insight into the film and the storyline.
In terms of proxemics we wanted each characters's personality to come across for example Ali's shirt and trousers being undone says a lot about his character and the look on his face reflects on his confidence.
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Thursday 23 December 2010
Final Individual Poster Analysis
These are our final individual posters. We got this intial idea from the Hangover, which was one of our main inspirations. They have individual posters of each characters with a tagline, which reflects each character's personalities. We thought this idea will work really well with our film as it would attract more attention from the audience and will inkeep with the theme and genre of the film.
However, we decided not to write the taglines on the posters as this would take the audience's attention from the characters and make them focus on all the wiritng.
For Rahil's poster we chose a white and pink background as it contrasts with the colours used in the magazine review, also pink reflects on his homosexual personality and the heart reflects on his platonic love for Baker.
For Ali's poster we decided to use a rather plain background to refllect on his personality and we chose purple as he wears purple in the film.
For Tatiana's poster we chose the colours wither and red, white to again reflcton the colours used in the magazine review and red as she wears red in the film and this colour represents love, passion, romance, lust and danger and these are all things that portray her character.
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Wednesday 22 December 2010
Monday 20 December 2010
Final Company Logo
This is the final outcome of the company logo. We decided to desing the logo with dark, mysterious colours as it contrasts with the name of the company. The writing is in big letters in the middle as it is important for the audience to see this. The font used was taken from DAFONT.COM and we chose this font because we thought it went well with the name of the company and the whole image of the logo.
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Thursday 16 December 2010
Audience feedback On Magazine Review
We got this feedback on the magazine in order to imporve it as we thought constructive feedback will help us make our magazine review better. We got feedback from our target audience which helped us a lot as the feedback enabled us to improve the magazine and we was able to find out what type of magazines interest our target audience. This is vitual inforamtion for us as we want to make our target audience happy, and that is us as a company meeting their needs and expectations.
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Wednesday 15 December 2010
Draft of Posters
We wanted our poster to reflect our company name "silverlight" and we wanted to use the same type of fonts and colours to our magazine article. One of our main inspirations was "The Hangover" and they had individual posters of each character with a post line. This was the type of look we wanted and this is why we decided to have individual posters of each character. We also decided to have the idea of a punch line for each character.
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Draft of Magazine Review
This is a drat of our magazine. We decided to use pink and white colours as they represent romance. We wanted to make it seem as if it wasn't a serious film, but was packed with humour. We did this by using light colours and having a picture that would make the audience laugh. We decided to take a picutre of the magazine that would make the audience laugh and want to come and watch the film. We wanted the layout of the magazine to be simple, however we wanted it to reflect our film.
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Monday 13 December 2010
Different stages of Photoshop
We started off by inseting the image that was going to be used in our poster and magazine review. We then took away all the sopts on our faces and added more colour on our faces and bodies. This made it seem as if we were tanned and made picture more professional. We also added more light to the pictures which again reflected our company name "Silverlight Productions". We was able to take away some of Tatiana's thin hair and make her hair more fizzy, so that it stands out more. We also enlarged her boobs so that she looks more attractive and sexy.
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Different stages of InDesign
We started off by opening a blank Indesign document. We then inserted text boxes to create the outline of the magazine, to make it easier for us to insert information, this also allowed the magazine to be more organised. After inserting the boxes we stared placing all the information in the correct place. InDesign allowed us to add different and colours and make it match with the font. We used a feature that InDesign allowed us to use called "Pen tool" this is a feature that rotates the words and adds a humours effect.
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Friday 10 December 2010
Still Grab For Change of Lighting
We added an effect using final cut pro. This was an effect that we used to allow the lighting to go from night vision to normal light by dissolving the lighting, we made it seem more realistic as this happens as soon as a light senses movement. This a common type of light which is also very modern in more sophisticated houses so this influenced us to use this effect as this contrasts to the area we filmed in, due to the fact that its regarded as a wealthy area.
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Still Grab of Lighting In The Club Scene
We added different lightings in the club scene using the studio lights to make the club scene more realistic when filming. The studio lights had many different colours to make it seem like a club scene, including red, green, blue, white, black and many more. We decided to place these lights as the club scene would not look real without them. The lights also made the viewer feel as they were inside a club and this was trying to convey. Furthermore the lights made our characters more clear and stand out.
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Still Grab of Transitions
We added a transition using final cut pro to allow the filming to move smoothly and give it a verisimilitude effect. The transition we used is called additive dissolve, this is an effect which makes the film seem like it goes through time and changes to a different scene. We decided to input the transition in that part as the song changed so we wanted to make it seem like it went through time. We saw a couple of films which used the same effect therefore we were influenced to use the same one as the transition was used for the same type of scene.
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Thursday 9 December 2010
Editing Diary
Day 1:
We broke down the start of the film (location of High Street Kensington). We put them in order into a file, so tommarow we could put them together.
Day 2:
We put all the scenes of high street Kensington together and started breaking down the 2nd scene so we could put them together and edit them tommarow.
Day 3:
Today, we put together the club scene.
Day 4:
Today we took some parts out, as the film was already 5 minutes long. We shortened the club scene and put together Rahil, Ali and baker walking towards Tatiana's house.
Day 5:
We broke down the scene of Rahil, Ali and Baker going into Tatiana's house, so we can put them together tommarow.
Day 6:
Today we put together the scene of Rahil, Ali and Baker going into the house and started breaking down the scene of Rahil leaving the boys as Ali sends him upstais.
Day 7:
We put the scene together of Rahil leaving the boys and started breaking down the conversation of Baker and Ali. As the converstation is quite long we had to work fast as we had a lot of breaking down to do.
Day 8:
We carried on breaking down the conversation and we was able to put together the whole scene of the conversation as well. A really good day
Day 9:
We started breaking down the scene of Baker following Ali as Tatiana is waiting for him at the door.
Day 10:
A slow day as we got a little done, we put together the scene of Baker following Ali as Tatiana is waiting at the door for him.
Day 11:
Started breaking down the conversation between Tatiana and Ali
Day 12:
We was able to not only break the whole scene down, but also put it together.
Day 13:
We started working on garage band as we had to make a soundtrack for the film while the credits play.
Day 14:
Finished making the soundtrack for the film, and started making our credits.
Day 15:
Finished all the credits and started putting the credits into the film with the soundtrack
Day 16:
Broke down the last scene of Ali and Baker having their converstation soon as Tatiana left.
Day 18:
Put together the conversation of Ali and baker, and went through the whole film to double check for any mistakes.
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We broke down the start of the film (location of High Street Kensington). We put them in order into a file, so tommarow we could put them together.
Day 2:
We put all the scenes of high street Kensington together and started breaking down the 2nd scene so we could put them together and edit them tommarow.
Day 3:
Today, we put together the club scene.
Day 4:
Today we took some parts out, as the film was already 5 minutes long. We shortened the club scene and put together Rahil, Ali and baker walking towards Tatiana's house.
Day 5:
We broke down the scene of Rahil, Ali and Baker going into Tatiana's house, so we can put them together tommarow.
Day 6:
Today we put together the scene of Rahil, Ali and Baker going into the house and started breaking down the scene of Rahil leaving the boys as Ali sends him upstais.
Day 7:
We put the scene together of Rahil leaving the boys and started breaking down the conversation of Baker and Ali. As the converstation is quite long we had to work fast as we had a lot of breaking down to do.
Day 8:
We carried on breaking down the conversation and we was able to put together the whole scene of the conversation as well. A really good day
Day 9:
We started breaking down the scene of Baker following Ali as Tatiana is waiting for him at the door.
Day 10:
A slow day as we got a little done, we put together the scene of Baker following Ali as Tatiana is waiting at the door for him.
Day 11:
Started breaking down the conversation between Tatiana and Ali
Day 12:
We was able to not only break the whole scene down, but also put it together.
Day 13:
We started working on garage band as we had to make a soundtrack for the film while the credits play.
Day 14:
Finished making the soundtrack for the film, and started making our credits.
Day 15:
Finished all the credits and started putting the credits into the film with the soundtrack
Day 16:
Broke down the last scene of Ali and Baker having their converstation soon as Tatiana left.
Day 18:
Put together the conversation of Ali and baker, and went through the whole film to double check for any mistakes.
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Saturday 20 November 2010
Filming Diary
Day 1: Monday 18th October 2010
Rahil and tatiana went to High Street Kensington to film the location for the begining of our film. We choose this to be the begining, as we wanted our audience to know where the film was based. We changed the setting of the camera to slow motion to add a effect.
Day 2: Wednesday 20th October 2010
All three of us went to tatianas house, as the film was going to take place there. We decided to take a shot of the road and street name to again show the location of the film.
Day 3: Friday 22nd October 2010
The four of us Rahil, Tatiana, Ali and Baker (Ali`s cousin) went to tatianas house to film the beginging of the film. we filmed Rahil, Ali, and baker walking to the house, coming back from the club. we intended to get more filming done, however we was not able to as tatianas family came back home and were making too much noise.
This was a problem we faced thoughout our filming as we had to constantly keep filming again as the camera was very sensitive and picked up any sound. This also affected us as baker was only available for a certain period of time.
Day 4: Tuesday 26th October 2010
Scene 2, Ali and Baker catching up as they havent seen each other in a long time. We decided to add some humour in this scene as we felt it was a good opprtunitie to make the audience laugh, which contrasts to what we want to achieve as a company.
Day 5: Thursday 28th October 2010
Scene 3, tatiana walking to the house to introduce herself to her new neighbours (Ali and Rahil). As she was walking to the house Ali spotted her from his window and immediatly falls in love with her.
The problems we faced with this scene was that it was too dark outside and Tatiana keept on slipping due to the weather conditions. In order to fix this problem we had to add more light so we got a torch and shinned it towards Tatiana which added some light. And for the slipping, well she had to watch her step.
Scene 4, Ali and Tatiana talking to each other. Tatiana welcoming Ali to the neighbourhood and Ali making a fool out of himself.
This was a great day for us as we were able to get more than one scene done which boosted our confidence, however, how little did we know.
Day 6: Thursday 4th November 2010
(It had been a week since we filmed due to baker not being available, this slowed us down and made us fall behind)
Scene 5, Ali and baker talking about what tatiana and alis conversation was about.
This was a poor start to november as we intended to get more done, but we was not able to as tatianas family were making too much noise and we had also run out of tape.
Day 7: Thursday 11th November 2010
(Due to the snow we was not able to film for a week and this again slowed us down and made us fall behind even more).
Scene 6, Rahil, walking into the room after alis and bakers converation about what tatiana and him was talking about. In this scene we saw some flirting between rahil and baker which contrasts to the genre of the film.
Day 8: Friday 12th November 2010
Scene 7, All 3 of the boys dancing to the soundtrack shaggy it wasnt me. Suddenly the lights turn of and Ali finds his brother (Rahil) on Bakers lap. This confuses alis thoughts of bakers sexuallity as he already knows that his brother is gay.
Day 9: Tuesday 16th November 2010
Scene 8, Ali goes downstairs to find out why the lights turned off while Baker and rahil stay upstairs and have a "friendly hug".
We was not able to carry on filming as Baker had to go home. This made us even more frustrated as we knew we was behind already.
Day 10: Thursday 18th November 2010
Scene 9, Ali comes upstairs holding a paper.
Scene 10, the three boys read the paper and ger scared.
Scene 11, the three boys decide to leave the house due to the unusual message which is on the paper "You hurt me, so be careful". As the 3 boys walk out of the room Ali throws the paper on the floor and they leave.
The ending shot of the film is a hand in night vision holding the paper after the boys leave the room.
Overall, there were many problems we faced which we could of handled better, however we got through it as a team and stuck together. Never the less we are still worried that all the problems we encountered could affect the overall outcome of our production.
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Rahil and tatiana went to High Street Kensington to film the location for the begining of our film. We choose this to be the begining, as we wanted our audience to know where the film was based. We changed the setting of the camera to slow motion to add a effect.
Day 2: Wednesday 20th October 2010
All three of us went to tatianas house, as the film was going to take place there. We decided to take a shot of the road and street name to again show the location of the film.
Day 3: Friday 22nd October 2010
The four of us Rahil, Tatiana, Ali and Baker (Ali`s cousin) went to tatianas house to film the beginging of the film. we filmed Rahil, Ali, and baker walking to the house, coming back from the club. we intended to get more filming done, however we was not able to as tatianas family came back home and were making too much noise.
This was a problem we faced thoughout our filming as we had to constantly keep filming again as the camera was very sensitive and picked up any sound. This also affected us as baker was only available for a certain period of time.
Day 4: Tuesday 26th October 2010
Scene 2, Ali and Baker catching up as they havent seen each other in a long time. We decided to add some humour in this scene as we felt it was a good opprtunitie to make the audience laugh, which contrasts to what we want to achieve as a company.
Day 5: Thursday 28th October 2010
Scene 3, tatiana walking to the house to introduce herself to her new neighbours (Ali and Rahil). As she was walking to the house Ali spotted her from his window and immediatly falls in love with her.
The problems we faced with this scene was that it was too dark outside and Tatiana keept on slipping due to the weather conditions. In order to fix this problem we had to add more light so we got a torch and shinned it towards Tatiana which added some light. And for the slipping, well she had to watch her step.
Scene 4, Ali and Tatiana talking to each other. Tatiana welcoming Ali to the neighbourhood and Ali making a fool out of himself.
This was a great day for us as we were able to get more than one scene done which boosted our confidence, however, how little did we know.
Day 6: Thursday 4th November 2010
(It had been a week since we filmed due to baker not being available, this slowed us down and made us fall behind)
Scene 5, Ali and baker talking about what tatiana and alis conversation was about.
This was a poor start to november as we intended to get more done, but we was not able to as tatianas family were making too much noise and we had also run out of tape.
Day 7: Thursday 11th November 2010
(Due to the snow we was not able to film for a week and this again slowed us down and made us fall behind even more).
Scene 6, Rahil, walking into the room after alis and bakers converation about what tatiana and him was talking about. In this scene we saw some flirting between rahil and baker which contrasts to the genre of the film.
Day 8: Friday 12th November 2010
Scene 7, All 3 of the boys dancing to the soundtrack shaggy it wasnt me. Suddenly the lights turn of and Ali finds his brother (Rahil) on Bakers lap. This confuses alis thoughts of bakers sexuallity as he already knows that his brother is gay.
Day 9: Tuesday 16th November 2010
Scene 8, Ali goes downstairs to find out why the lights turned off while Baker and rahil stay upstairs and have a "friendly hug".
We was not able to carry on filming as Baker had to go home. This made us even more frustrated as we knew we was behind already.
Day 10: Thursday 18th November 2010
Scene 9, Ali comes upstairs holding a paper.
Scene 10, the three boys read the paper and ger scared.
Scene 11, the three boys decide to leave the house due to the unusual message which is on the paper "You hurt me, so be careful". As the 3 boys walk out of the room Ali throws the paper on the floor and they leave.
The ending shot of the film is a hand in night vision holding the paper after the boys leave the room.
Overall, there were many problems we faced which we could of handled better, however we got through it as a team and stuck together. Never the less we are still worried that all the problems we encountered could affect the overall outcome of our production.
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Wednesday 17 November 2010
Audience Feedback To Short Sequence
In order to get audience feedback we showed our fellow peers a rough-cut of our short film. We showed them the club scene from our film and in order to get the right feedback we asked them various questions which will help us improve are film.
The following questions we asked were:
Did you enjoy the sequence?
Do you think we should add any special effects?
Did you find the sequence funny?
Was the setting realistic?
What would you change to improve the sequence?
What was the best part of the sequence?
By watching this scene, are you interested in watching the rest of the short film?
Our fellow peers gave us very constructive feedback as they suggested what we should change, what was good about the film, and most importantly they all were interested in watching the rest of the short film, which was a real boost. They thought we should add more light to the club scene and some students thought we shouldn’t have added girls as it was supposed to be a gay club. However, they thought we did the setting really well as they really felt as if they were in a gay club.
A lot of the students liked the bit when Ali drags Baker and starts talking to him. They liked the camera work and thought it worked really well with the scene. While the students were watching the film we wanted a reaction from them as we produce comedy films one of our aims are to make our viewers laugh. While watching the scene all the students laughed and wanted to carry on watching the film as they were entertained by the scene and thought it was really funny. This is what we hope to achieve as a company as that is what we do, produce films that entertain are viewers.
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The following questions we asked were:
Did you enjoy the sequence?
Do you think we should add any special effects?
Did you find the sequence funny?
Was the setting realistic?
What would you change to improve the sequence?
What was the best part of the sequence?
By watching this scene, are you interested in watching the rest of the short film?
Our fellow peers gave us very constructive feedback as they suggested what we should change, what was good about the film, and most importantly they all were interested in watching the rest of the short film, which was a real boost. They thought we should add more light to the club scene and some students thought we shouldn’t have added girls as it was supposed to be a gay club. However, they thought we did the setting really well as they really felt as if they were in a gay club.
A lot of the students liked the bit when Ali drags Baker and starts talking to him. They liked the camera work and thought it worked really well with the scene. While the students were watching the film we wanted a reaction from them as we produce comedy films one of our aims are to make our viewers laugh. While watching the scene all the students laughed and wanted to carry on watching the film as they were entertained by the scene and thought it was really funny. This is what we hope to achieve as a company as that is what we do, produce films that entertain are viewers.
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Monday 15 November 2010
Pictures During Filming
This is us filming in Tatiana’s house, were the story is set.
While filming we took pictures of us acting. The things we did well were take quality shots that would help make the film better. We also worked together well, as we all decided what type of shot it should be and why that shot would be relevant. We took a variety of different pictures to show the different types of shots we took.
Things we didn’t do well were that the lighting wasn’t bright enough; therefore it made it difficult to so what was going on and the characters facial expressions. In order to fix this issue we re-took the shot again with lighter shining on the actors.
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Thursday 21 October 2010
Questionnaire Results
We decided to do a questionnaire to look at our target audience's opinion of present comedy films and find out exactly what they look for in them.
1. How old are you?
16-18 (5) 19-21 (3) 21+ (2)
2. Are you a big fan of Comedy Films?
Yes (10) No (0)
3. What is your favourite film genre?
Action (3) Thriller (2) Comedy (4) Romance (1)
4. What do you most look for in a film?
Goodstory line (3) Good Actors (4) Good End (2) Good Quality (1)
5. Have you ever watched a short Film?
Yes (10) No (0)
6. Do you think a Comedy Thriller is a good genre for a film?
Yes (8) No (2)
7. What type of Comedy do you most enjoy?
Burlesque (3) Dark Comedy (2) Caricature (1) Irony (4)
8. When watching a Comedy Film how would you like the storyline to be?
Simple/Straightforwad (2) Complexed (4) With a Twist (4)
9. After watching a Comedy Film, what do you want the impact to be?
Entertained (5) Ammused (0) Suprised (1) Want to make you laugh (3) Happy (1)
10. What are the important aspects of a character when acting in a Comedy Film?
Funny (4) Weird (0) Silly (2) Annoying (1) Crazy (2) Clever (1)
11. What is your general opinion on present Comedy Films?
Amazing (3) Great (4) Good (2) O.K (1) Bad (0) Others (please Specify)
12. Describe your ideal Comedy film?
Most people said: "The Hangover" "Meet The Fockers" and "Rush Hour 1,2 and 3"
13. What is your favourite Comedy Film?
Again most people said: "The Hangover" "Meet The Fockers" and "Rush Hour 1, 2, and 3"
We decided to question 16-21 year olds as they are our target audience. When asked "are you a big fan of comedy" they all said yes, which is a good thing because our genre is comedy which means we will be guaranteed that the majority of the audience will watch the film with an open mind.
Through the results we are able to see what our viewers want and how we could imporve our film to how they want to see a comedy film. The questionnaire gave us a insight to how we should produce our film and to what type of comedy we should use.
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Wednesday 20 October 2010
Questionnaire
1. How old are you?
16-18 19-21 21+
2. Are you a big fan of films?
Yes No More or less
3. What is your favourtite film genre?
(you may select more than one answer)
Action Thriller Comedy Romance Horror
4. What do you most look for in a film?
(you may select more than one answer)
Good storyline Good actors Good end Good quality
5. Have you ever watched a short film?
Yes No
6. Do you think a Comedy Thriller is a good genre for a film?
Yes No
7. What type of Comedy do you most enjoy?
(you may select more than one answer)
Burlesque Dark Comedy Caricature Irony
8. When watching a Comedy film how would you like the storyline to be?
Simple/straight forward Complex With a twist Other
9. After watching a Comedy film, what do you want the impact to be?
Entertained Amused Surprised Make you laugh Happy
10. What are the important aspects of a character when acting in a Comedy film?
Funny Weird Silly Crazy Annoying Clever others (please specify)
11. What is your general opinion of present Comedy films?
Amazing Great Good O.k Bad Others (please specify)
12. Describe your ideal Comedy film in not more than five words
13. What is your favourite Comedy film? And why?
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