BLOGPOST 46 Filming - Camden

FILMING IN CAMDEN MARKET TODAY

We were filming in Camden market today, we found some weird places which seemed perfect to set the tone and genre of our film opening. We used our double lesson to do this and everything went as planned. We took some wide shots as well as close ups of graffiti and the bridge.

BLOGPOST 45 PROMOTING OUR FILM USING WIX

WE CREATED A WIX WEBSITE TO PROMOTE OUR FILM, OUR VIEWERS AND FOLLOWERS WILL BE ABLE TO SEE OUR JOURNEY ALL THROUGHOUT FILMING AND EDITING UNTIL FINAL PRODUCT. WE ALSO CREATED A POSTER FOR OUR FILM TO LOOK MORE PROFESSIONAL.

http://monyykal.wix.com/asmediagroup30

FOR OUR POSTER DESIGN I TOOK A PHOTOGRAPH OF MY (MONIKA'S) CRACKED PHONE SCREEN WHILE HAVING A FACEBOOK APP ON. THIS LINKS WITH OUR 'BROWSED' TITLE AND CREATES A CREEPY ATMOSPHERE. I THEN USED ADOBE ILUSTRATOR TO ADD THE TITLE AND INFORMATION.

(POSTER BY MONIKA)

BLOGPOST 41 Pitch Feedback

The feedback we got after we presented our pitch.

We presented our pitch to the rest of our class and to our teacher which included our intentions and plans of our opening sequence. After completing the pitch, both our teacher and class gave us feedback; about what they liked and what they thought we could improve on.

The most common bit of constructive criticism that we received is that we needed more visuals in our presentation. We intend to fix this and add more pictures of the mise-en-scene.

Another concern was 'What if the main character cannot film all the time or drops out?'.  To us this isn't a problem due to the character of the stalkers' face not being seen, so if the actor was to drop out, anyone could fill in as long as they wore an all black costume.

We will reflect on all of the comments to make improvements when it comes to filming and editing.

BLOGPOST 41 PLANNING- feedback sheets from class.

BLOGPOST 40 PLANNING- THE PITCH

BLOGPOST 40 Draft 1 of Pitch Information

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Browsed

Our film is about a regular teenage girl who gets followed and stalked by an unknown figure. She finds odd things occurring everyday which starts to take over her life; causing her to be extremely paranoid. However primarily, she doesn’t think anything about it. The film follows the stalker, following her; getting an insight on their plans. Death is constantly suggested throughout, but who knows what will happen if they come face to face.

Another film opening that influenced us was from The Conjuring. Even though the opening consists of still images, suspense was still there due to the soundtrack and font of the credit titles. The credit titles really fit into the images shown on the screen, and this is what we intend to do; ensure that the font matches the genre of our opening and that the titles fit into the opening; not looking out of place.

The title sequence will show a masked character, whom the audience will never know the true identity of, stalking a regular teenage girl. This will be done online as well as in person. We will film scenes of the stalker in their lair, planning and looking at pictures of their victim, as well as showing the stalker watching her in her house, out in public and on her social media sites. As the title sequence is discrete, this will not be in any particular order and the opening will contain clips showing pictures of the victim, dolls heads in the woods and in a grave yard to show possible connotations of death to make the audience think and wonder about what will happen later on in the film.

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As previously mentioned, our opening sequence is discrete as we believe it is best for our chosen genre as it will keep the audience guessing.

The title sequence of SE7EN has largely influenced our ideas for our opening sequence, especially having closely analysed it when doing a remake of it. It keeps the audience engrossed and entertained, making them think and wonder what will happen during the whole film. Also, in the SE7EN title sequence, you don’t ever see the face of the character so you do not know who is planning the events. This influenced us a lot.

We intend to stick to the conventions seen as we believe that this will get the best effect and reaction from the audience.

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The genre of the film is a Thriller as we think they’re exciting and that we can potentially create a really good opening due to the many initial ideas we have had. There are many different directions to go with this genre – there aren’t too many things that we can’t do. Our film would also fit under the sub genre Thriller-Horror.

As mentioned before, SE7EN was a massive influence to our title sequence. It helped a lot that it is the same genre as the film opening that we intend to produce. The mystery is caused not only by the actions of the unseen character, but the music and black background credits also match the happenings as they’re placed in a particular order so the full effect can be achieved.

Another title sequence of the same genre that has influenced us is Unfriended. It was more that the film as a whole influenced our title sequence than the actual opening sequence. We loved the whole concept of the movie being an online thing, rather than something happening on the street. We intend to include a lot of shots of a computer, showing that the stalking also happens online but in the title sequence, these shots will be very fast so that not many details of the victim are shown.

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The two main characters of the film are shown in the title sequence in different ways. The stalker will only be seen from behind, or parts of their body will be shown such as their hands. The victim will be shown only through pictures.

The social group of teenagers (teenage girls) will be evident in our film opening. As she will only be seen through photographs of her, she will be portrayed through stereotypes. This will be done through costume and makeup.

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PLANNING - Individual ideas

My initial idea for our group opening title sequence is a thriller/genre. I imagine the title sequence to be discrete so that it will not give much away and will make the audience want to watch the full film and to keep them intrigued throughout. One of my aims would be to make the audience once or twice during the opening.

I reckon that the idea that I imagine is quite similar to SE7EN due to analysing the sequence in depth for our remake of it. In this title sequence, I would use a lot of dark backgrounds and light to create shadows which will cause suspense and tension.I would also show one of the characters, who is the devil, at the end of the opening in a sudden way to get a reaction out of the audience.

PLANNING - Costume and Prop Ideas

COSTUMES
 

Costumes are one of the most important elements in the film industries. Many costume designers aim to make a product that the audience will remember and recognise. Some of the most memorable costumes to me are:

MALEFICENT 

In the movie MALEFICENT actress Angelina Jolie which is the main character wears animal-skin-covered horns, wicked accessories made from animal skeleton rings and claw bracelets to feathered shoulder pieces using precious stones, crystals, leather and the odd bits of bone, teeth and even some human hair., also character wears a long black dress, cloak and a scarf. In some scenes her costume involves a massive black wings. Actress herself was involved into costume making as she  envisioned the savage elegance of her character.

PIRATES OF CARIBBEAN




Jack Sparrow is a memorable character from the movie Pirates of Caribbean mostly because of his looks and funny character. He wears  a dreadlock wig with lots of acessories on it: beads, feathers, coins and a dirty red headband. His beard also has been decorated with beads and eyes have been outlined with a black eyepencil to give it a stronger character. He wears a typical pirate costume; white shirt, a vest, trausers, boots and a belt with a sword. Moreover, the character wears lots of gold on him including gold rings and bracelets.

FRIDAY THE 13th (JASON CHARACTER)



Jason Voorhees character from horror movie 'Friday the 13th' can be recognised everywhere. The most memorable acssesorie is his mask, many people still use it on halloween nights. The mask covers his face and identity, there are many holes in the mask and some red scratches. It also had a leather strings to secure it on the head. Designers tried to make this mask look like it was home -made as the character lives alone in a little house in the woods. Moreover, Jason always carries either a knife or a sword with him  as a tool to kill people. He wears an ordinary men outfit: trousers, t-shirt, jacket and shoes, however the clothes are dirty and covered in blood.


PROPS

I was looking at similar films and the type of props that they use and  by doing so I came up with some ideas for props for our own movie:

Computer
Fake blood
Fake knife
A diary
Phone
Glasses
Rope
Chain

COSTUMES

For the costumes I was thinking that the stalker coud wear a tracksuit or either a long black coat to hide his identity.
The girl should wear dresses and shorts in the pictures of her as it shows the feminity of her and portrays the common conventions within media.

 The stalker outfit (tracksuit and a snapback)

 Victim in the pictures - wearing dresses.

Blogging Health Check One

PLANNING- Storyboard by Monika

STORYBOARD FOR 'BROWSED"

Blogging Health Check One

These are my targets in order to improve my Media Studies grade

BLOGPOST 37 Planning - New Production Schedule

NEW PRODUCTION SCHEDULE

We had to create a new production schedule which would help us to stay on tack with our coursework until the deadline at the end of this month. We decided to use the double sessions for editing, film (if needed) on weekends and spend some 1hour 30min sessions of looking through old posts and completing or improving them/ editing the title sequence.

 

The Order of the Title Sequences - Distribution

The first film opening that I looked at was The conjuring. I found that the titles were presented as if they were in the images shown on the screen, for example; it looked as if the credit was actually in the newspaper.

The order of the credits were

1. Director
2. Writers
3. Producers
4. Executive producers
5. Director of photography
6. Production designer
7. Editor
8. Actor
9. Actor
10. Actor
11. Actor
12. Actors
13. Actors
14. Casting
15. Costumes
16. Music
17. Production Ident
18. production Team
19. A James Wan Film
20. Movie Title 

Although it wasn't shown in the opening, Warner Brothers is the distribution company for the Movie.

I also looked at the order of the titles for SE7EN:

1. Distribution company
2. Production company
3. Director
4. Actor 
5. Actor
6. Title - small print
7. Title - Big print
8. Title - small print
9. Cast member
10. Cast member
11. Cast member
12. Cast member
13. Cast member
14. Cast member
15. Casting by:
16. Music by
17. Costume designer
18. Produced by
19. Production designer
20. Director of Photography
21.  Co - producers
22. Co - executive producers
23. Executive producers
24. Written by
25. Producers
26. Director

The distribution company is New Line Cinema, and the credits appear on both black backgrounds and on moving images. It it unusual for the directors name to be shown twice but this shows the significance that that role has. Also, if a film has well known actors in, then it is common for their names to come before the actual film name, as in this case.

PLANNING - Distribution company

'SE7EN'

A film about two homicide detectives' desperate hunt for a serial killer who justifies his crimes as absolution for the world's ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins. The movie takes us from the tortured remains of one victim to the next as the sociopathic "John Doe" sermonizes to Detectives Sommerset and Mills -- one sin at a time.

Distribution company: NEW LINE CINEMA, OWNED BY ROBERT SHAYE

Marketing tools: POSTERS, TRAILERS, RADIO, SOCIAL MEDIA.

Type of release: 'SE7EN' was released in 1995 in many areas, including Europe, USA , Asia and South America.

Format film is available in: DVD, BLU RAY, PRINT.

The box office and DVD sales: £11 434 343 in UK, January 1996. $41 062 440 in US, February 2010.

This distributor is very likely to distribute our film as we will try making our movie similar to 'SE7EN' - it's going to be a thriller and includes serial killers/stalker.

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 ' IN TIME'

 Welcome to a world where time has become the ultimate currency. You stop aging at 25, but there's a catch: you're genetically-engineered to live only one more year, unless you can buy your way out of it. The rich "earn" decades at a time (remaining at age 25), becoming essentially immortal, while the rest beg, borrow or steal enough hours to make it through the day. When a man from the wrong side of the tracks is falsely accused of murder, he is forced to go on the run with a beautiful hostage. Living minute to minute, the duo's love becomes a powerful tool in their war against the system.

Distribution Company: 20th CENTUARY FOX, OWNED BY JIM GINOPULOS

Marketing Tools: POSTERS, SOCIAL MEDIA, TRAILERS, ADVERTISEMENTS, TV

Social media included: OFFICIAL FACEBOOK, TWITTER

Type of release: RELEASED INTERNATIONALLY INCLUDING ASIA AND SOUTH AMERICA

Formats available: DVD, BLU RAY

Box Office and DVD sales: $12 050 368, $9 103 477

I believe that 20th CENTUARY would distribute our movie as they have been distributing many different genre movies so far, also, our plot is ineteresting and would be widely viewed.

 

RESEARCH- The timelines of the movies I analysed PART OF BLOGPOST 13

The timelines of the movies I analysed.

2 out of the three movies I analysed didn't contain many titles they either had a backstory shown or they showed the audience the setting.

 

PLANNING - Final Mise-En-Scene decisions by Abigayle Cotterell and Monika Lupeikaite

LOCATIONS

Our Final locations are: Camden Lock, an attic,Greenwich tunnel, bridge, park, dark room and Shed. We feel as if these locations will enable us to get the full effect that we are going for in a thriller opening title sequence.

Hainault forest will be used to create a sense of mystery and suspense as to what the stalker is planning and that they are prepared to do anything in order to achieve his tasks. The forest will be seen in long shots, where the stalker will be walking through, dragging along dolls heads amongst the trees.

Shed at Monika's garden where we will take couple of establishing shots. Inside there will be some hazardous tools and a hanging anonymous mask which will later apper on our stalkers face.

An empty road, the place where we will film a stalker with a mask on staring at the girls window and then slowly turning around to face the camera.

A graveyard by Monika's house will be a great way to film some of the establishing shots and build the suspense feeling as well as establishing the genre. We will film the stalker from behind with a camera folowing him trough the graveyard.

COSTUMES

Costume wise; our two characters will really contrast each other. Our stalker will be in all black clothing - a black hoodie/ black coat, black gloves, black shoes and black trousers. Also, in some shots he will be wearing an anonymous mask. The victim in our opening sequence will be wearing a number of different regular teenage girl outfits to show the events of the stalking over a period of time. The outfits will consist of skirts, jeans, crop tops, leather jackets, converse and boots in a variety of colours.

PROPS

The props that we will be using are;

• Polaroid pictures
• Fake blood
• Knife
• A mask
• Laptop
• Dolls heads
• Mobile phone
• Some hazardous tools
• Ash tray
• Cigarettes

PLANNING - Finding locations and settings (half-term task)

Locations:

• Graveyard 

          It is right in front of my house (near Leyton station).

 

 

 

This graveyard could be used in the establising shots, the stalker would we walking trough the graveyard, dropping doll heads on the floor. The camera would be following him or tilting up to create a suspence feeling, however he will have the hood on so that his identity would stay anonymus. This would help to build tension as it is a creepy place.

• An empty road

         My road (Langthorne road, Leyton)

 

 

We would see this mostly in the closing shots. The stalker would be standing on this road in the dark and looking at the girls window, then slowly turning around to face the camera but his face would be covered with an anonymus mask so audience won't see his face. This would useful when creating a suspence.



• Shed 

       In my back garden

 

 

The shed would be used as a room where the stalker keeps his equipmet and mask. It would be used in the establishing shots. This will set the tone and genre of the film.

• Old playground

          Dagenham

 

The playground is full with devilish graffities. It could be used for one of the shots in the establising scenes. This would create a scary image.

 

• Camden bridge and graffiti's

         Camden town

BLOGPOST 35 PLANNING - film credits by Lauryn Lindo Hutchinson - Task 2

Planning the title sequence:

The font:
These are some of my font ideas

 Film title credits:

OUR DISTRIBUTION COMPANY - New Line CInema                  

NIGHT VISION PRODUCTIONS

RICO SMITH

JAVED KHAN

BROWSED.

GUSTE PASAKINSKAITE

MARK APPLE

DANI JOHNSON

KATLYN GREEN

JACK O'BRIEN

CASTING BY ROBERTO MARTINEZ

COSTUMES BY MJ MATE

MUSIC SUPERVISOR  - JORDAN BANGS

MUSIC BY EMILY DOLL

PRODUCTION DESIGNER - DESTINY WHAT

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY - ASHTON JENNER

PRODUCER - MONIKA LUPEIKAITE

WRITTEN BY - LAURYN TAMICA LINDO-HUTCHINSON

EDITED BY - MARISA TJ 

DIRECTOR - ABIGAYLE COTTERELL