Production Company Logo

We are currently in the process of designing and creating a production company logo for our piece, and it will be uploaded in this post when it is completed.

Progress Update

In tomorrows lesson, my group and I will be discussing what planning we have left to do, and we will also be arranging a date to begin shooting our piece, as I will be booking and collecting the camera and tripod on Friday, and therefore we would like to begin shooting shortly after then in order to provide us with enough time to take multiple shots, as this will ensure we have exactly what we are hoping for. It will also give us more time to edit. We were hoping to upload the storyboard from a previous task, and also the storyboard from this final project, however to do that we will need to find a way to scan them onto the blog. So, tomorrow we'll be getting together as a group and deciding what preliminary tasks need to be completed in order to prepare for physically shooting our opening sequence.

Setting for Our Piece

This is a location in Durham which is what we called in the description of our piece as 'the dark alley'. Obviously it's not dark on the picture, as I took it during the day, however we would preferably like to film when it is dark, in order to match the description of the 'dark alley', and also to provoke fear among the audience, and create a sense of fear and horror.

My Set Tasks

I have been set the task of creating a production schedule over the holidays, and also producing call sheets. I have already done both of these, and posted them on my blog. I will also be taking photos of potential locations over the holidays.

Call Sheet

This is an exemple of a call sheet we may find useful when in the process of filming:

Name
Photo
Contact Number
Meeting Times

Production Schedule

Production Schedule

By:

30^th November – Plan genre and ideas, decide group.

14^th December – Research into existing opening sequences, analysed in detail, notes on how it may be useful to you.

11^th December – Pre-production planning completed. Must include: storyboards, production schedules (this), call sheets, script etc.

1^st February – all material shot and uploaded onto media server.

17^th February – Rough edit completed and uploaded to blog.

15^th March – Final edit completed and uploaded to blog and media server.

22^nd March – Group presentations of video and evaluation.

15^th April – Blog entries answering evaluation questions, plus a video commentary.

Wednesday 5^th (first day back of term) – Book Camera.

Week beginning January 10^th  and week beginning January 17th – Shooting Footage.

Week beginning January 24^th – Edits.

Planning Our Piece

We've produced an idea of what we want to do for our opening of our horror film, which Hannah will post on her blog: http://hannahharveyasmedia.blogspot.com/ . We've decided to avoid writing a script, as we've found that previous pieces we have filmed have seemed to planned, and the lines haven't been natural. It is essential that the impression of false speech is avoided, especially concerning horror, as horrors are designed to provoke your worst fears, and this can't be done if there is a low verisimilitude. We have allocated tasks to ourselves to do over the Christmas holidays in order to complete our planning, ready for production when we return. I am producing a production schedule, and also taking photos of potential settings. Hannah is writing up the plot in detail, and Chloe is going to produce a storyboard to go with the plot.