Sunday, 4 December 2011

Filming (30/11/11)

We have successfully filmed all shots for the journey in the first day, this has been uploaded and we are happy with everything we have done in this scene of the opening. We also filmed most of the arrival. I decided to complete a really detailed set of events, including pictures of what we have remaining to film, we brought these along with us on the day and it really helped us establish what we were to film and allowed us to visualise the end product more clearly wasting less time on the day. However once we started filming as we found new locations and planned locations were found unusable (the end scene had to be completely rethought as the bridge where we planned to film it on was pitch black with literally no artificial lighting) the film was changed slightly I still feel that creating this storyboard really helped us on the day.




Above is the storyboard images including shot distance, Mise en scene and other aspects. Below is a detailed explanation of each section of the storyboard.

1. Sean arrives as station, ago zooms out to extreme wide shot of whole train station. Sean then walks towards camera (possibly sped up) and turns corner.

2. Sean is sat down waiting for a phone call from James. Shown as a time lapse with medium over the shoulder shot. Possibly switching or having an overlay on top of the scene of Sean texting James, things such as "Where are you?", "Ring me" and "No credit".

3. Sean gets phone call, James asks him to "meet him up the canal" and asks "do you know where that is?" Sean agrees to meet him and begins walking to the canal

4.Sean  hangs up his phone and starts walking towards the canal, as he is walking he plugs in his headphones, the music which begins playing as he presses play goes from almost unnoticeable to being the dominating sound within the scene.

5. Sean reaches the canal when his friend phones him, it is possible we could include another phonecall or perhaps even the friend is visible at this point. Either way Sean ends up becoming very nervous and eventually flee's (however not during this shot) due to him being told to by James, or sight of his friends dead body or sight of the beast.

6.The camera now switches to a point of view from the beast he stands up from the body and begins to look around it is blurry so not much can be seen however. The scene switches to Sean nervously looking around, this is shot not as a point of view scene but from a similar shot as the scene where Sean reaches the canal, it is shot in the same place.

7. The scene switches to the beast now and it is looking through leaves (or perhaps a gate). Sean comes into view and the beasts breathing becomes heavier. Sean looks into the camera or the eyes of the beast and at this stage runs away.

8. A chase scene starts and the next few shots are Sean running from the beast

9. The beast is scene out of focus and disappears with effect similar to that scene in harry potter. We found a tutorial of how to do this effect:



10. The beast reappears in front of Sean as he is running away, he is checking behind him but turns round to be shocked to see the beast in front of him.

11a) The shot then switches to a point of view shot of the beast and Sean puts his hands up protecting his face when the beast attacks. (similar effect seen in another AS media studies film opening)

11b) A wide shot shows the whole scene as the beast attacks the camera then falls up or down (similar effect seen in opening of Scott Pilgrim vs the world

12. Rest of titles proceed on showing our names e.t.c

Below is the original storyboard that we took with us while filming, it has slightly more detail, however above the main aspects are included




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