Extra Bits

Just to wrap things up and give you a little idea of what is going on...

I have filmed some shorter clips at home to go into our opening. Hopefully this will break up the long run and add some time to the opening.
I have used the night vision effect on a close up of Max, he now looks very freaky!

I do believe Asher is looking for music, i havent heard from her as of yet.

Good Luck Everyone, oh and Happy Easter!
xx

The Polaroid disaster!

Ok, Asher and I thought that it would be a good idea and a cool effect to have our movie title come up and develope as a polaroid photograph.
Unfortunately we were late filming that due to a lack in camera accessories.

Once we got around to filming it, we has a series of troubles with both cameras. The disks we had been using decided that they didnt want anything stored on them and messed around with the data (that happened on 2 different disks) and the second being the polaroid's flash was too bright to see our font title.

Another problem being that we only had 2 attemps to get it right.

Looks like we've had our first problem during filiming. :(

Filming conclusion

we feel that as group our filming went really well and all as planed, we feel that the wind on the micro phone is a bit of a problem when we look over and look through it as it really ruffles the sound but we know we can edit the sound and this wont be a massive problem to our work.

Filming Script

Frame 1
Description- Pictures being thrown down, with credits appearing next to them
Dialog - N/A
Camera angles - High angle
Props- Polaroid photos, black out sheet and table
Location- art block
Actors- N/a

Frame 2
Description- Pictures being thrown down with credits appearing next to them
Dialog-N/a
Camera angles- High Angle
Props - Polaroid photos, black out sheet and table
Location- Art block
Actors- N/a

Frame 3
Description - Pictures being thrown down with credits appearing next to them
Dialog-N/a
Camera angles - High angle
Props- Polaroids, black out sheets and table
Location- art block
Actors- N/a

Frame 4
Description- pictures being thrown down with credits appearing next to them
Dialog- n/a
Camera angles- high angle
Props - polaroid black out sheet and table
Location- art block
Actors- n/a

Frame 5
Description- close up of the girl running (just of her feet)
Dialog- N/a
Camera angles- extreme close up
Props - costume (shoes)
Location- Field
Actors- amy

Frame 6
Description- close up of the boy following the girl just his feet
Dialog- n/a
Camera angles- extreme close up
Props- shoe costume
Location- field
Actors- max

Frame 7
Description- the girl trying to take of her shoes as she runs away
Dialog- n/a
Camera angles- long shot
Props- n/a
Location- field
Actors- amy and max

Frame 8
Description- black screen and cast list appears
Dialog- writing on screen
Camera angles-N.a
Props-N/a
Location -N/a
Actors-N/a

Frame 9
Description- see the girl falling as being pushed
Dialog- breathing
Camera angles- high angle
Props - n/a
Location- field
Actors- amy and max

Frame 10
Description- diffrent view of fall
Dialog- n/a
Camry angles- mid shot
Props- n/a
Location- Filed
Actors- amy

Frame 11
Description- view of the corridor
Dialog- n/a
Camera angles- establishing shot
Props- n/a
Location- English block
Actors- n/a

Frame 12
Description- see hand on the door as it opens
Dialog-n/a
Camera angles- close up
Props- n/a
Location- English block
Actors- max

Frame 13-
Description- see the girl tied ot the pole
Dialog- n/a
Camera angles- establishing
Props- rope, photos
Location - English block
Actors- amy

Frame 14
Description- circling the girl tide up
Dialog-n/a
Camera angles - panning
Props- photos, rope
Location- English block
Actors- amy

Frame 15
Description- convection between the girl and boy
Dialog- " why are you doing this?" " shut up and you just might find out"
Camera angles- over the shoulder
Props- photos, rope
Location - English block
Actors- amy max


Frame 16
Description- Polaroid photo being developed of the graphics ( title)
Dialog- n/a
Camera angles- high angle
Location - art block
Actors-n/a

Props

:D

We used photographs of myself and a few from Google, we stuck them to card and made them look like polaroids.
Here is a photograph:




We also used a mains cable to tie the victim to the pole.

Font Questionnaire

Asher and I ran a questionnaire on the fonts i came up with. I have also uploaded a photograph of the questionnaire sheet.
Although the most popular fonts were good, we feel that the bottom font would fit better into our production.
You could say that this makes the questionnaire a pointless task, but we think that it has helped us to decide which one we prefer, by not agreeing with the most popular.

More Font Ideas

The last 4 font ideas.

Font Ideas

These are my first 4 font ideas for the film's Title.

Gantt Chart

:)

Costume Photos

We are using my brother; Max, as our villain. He will be wearing Trainers, Trackies, a Hoody, a Scarf and a Hat.

We have put him minly in the hoody as that is seen as the stereostypical clothing for a young vandal. It is big, and dark, changing the size of his body, creating unnearving shadows and covering his face - the perfect image for a villan.



The Trackies are there to look tacky, cheap and masculine. Again the trackies are stereotyped with thugs and 'chavs' giving the villan the perfect costume.

I am our victim, i am trying the 'cheap / slapper' look.

The small pink top shows how the character wouldnt really care about what people though of her, as long as she looked good. It is very short, just about decent. Once it is put with the short skirt and the high heels we get a feel of the character.

She looks like she has been to a party, and a 'low class' rave sort of one. The 'low life' slapper idea came to me, and i think these outfits do just that.

New and Final storyboard

This is our final story board.
shots 1-17

One Hour Photo Trailer

One Hour Photo

Plot

Williams stars as Seymour "Sy" Parrish, a mini-lab photo tech at "SavMart's" one-hour photo developing clinic in suburban Los Angeles, where he leads a depressing, solitary life. Every day he labors to ensure his customers get the best quality photos possible; his life is truly his work, for he has no one and nothing to go home to at the end of each day. Among his customers are the Yorkin family, made up of husband William (Vartan), wife Nina (Nielsen), and their only child Jake (Dylan Smith). Sy has done their photos for years and, over time, has developed an obsession with the family; he idolizes their happiness and affluence, memorizes every personal detail about them that he can learn, and finally begins to stalk them. During his lunch break, he secretly makes his own copies of the Yorkins' photos from the film negatives and then puts them on a wall in his apartment. Most of all, he fantasizes about being a member of their family, and sharing in the love he assumes they must feel. However, he is painfully shy, and his attempts to become closer to the family are gently rebuffed.
Sy discovers that William is having an affair, and his idyllic conception of the Yorkins as the 'perfect' family is shattered. He comes to hate and envy William, who has everything Sy longs for, yet doesn't seem to care. Sy soon finds himself in trouble with his boss, SavMart manager Bill Owens (Cole), first for an outburst in the store with the mini-lab's service technician, and then for the manager's discovery that Sy has been making unaccounted photo copies and giving away a disposable camera to Jake for his birthday. After being fired for this, Sy stalks Owens' young daughter, leading to a police report against him. While detectives Van Der Zee and Outerbridge (played by La Salle and Clark Gregg) are discovering Sy's obsession, he confronts William and his mistress, Maya (Erin Daniels) while they are making love in their hotel room, with a knife and a camera, and forces the lovers to pose naked while he takes pictures. Throughout the ordeal, William's mistress panics and Sy reacts aggressively, but does not harm either of them. After this, Sy discovers that the police arrived in the hotel and tries to escape. The alarm sounds and Van Der Zee pursues him while Outerbridge discovers a tormented William Yorkin and his mistress. As Sy tries to leave the hotel, he is finally arrested.
In the movie's final scene, set in a police interrogation room, Van Der Zee asks Sy why he terrorized the Yorkins. Sy indirectly reveals that his father had made him do "sick, disgusting things that no kid should ever have to do". The implication, confirmed by Romanek, is that Sy's father exploited him for child pornography, and this accounts for his loneliness and his obsession with photography. Sy cannot understand why William, as the perfect father, was determined to destroy his family. As the detective prepares to take his confession, Sy asks for the pictures he made at the hotel, which the detective has described as 'evidence'. They appear to be only shots of household objects and interior furnishings he took on a separate roll after the incident in the hotel (possibly an allusion to his statement, earlier in the film, 'the little things are that which make up our lives').

Mise- en- scene

i have looked at the trailer for the film one hour photo, after getting ready to start filming we have come to see that out film opening is going to involve a lot to do with photos and a stalker, this film is perfect to look at as it involves both of these subjects.

In the trailer we can see that the stalker is stalking a family and can get involved in their life's through developing there photos, i like the way that the photos on the wall is giving a creepy effect and making us feel that the character is not all there. The effect of the film is good as well as he is looking at the film this makes me as a view feel like he cant wait for them to be developed and that he needs to look at the straight away. At 1.15 in the video above the way that the camera lenses opens up and we go through it and go on to the next shot has gave us ideas of how to involve the functions of the camera in to our work and the way we can film the camera to give good effects. The quote that is used in the trailer "according to the oxford English dictionary the word snap shot was originally a hunting term" this is a perfect quotation for this thriller as it is putting what is happening in the film in to prospective, as he is more or less hunting this family down finding all there personal details and problems. This is a cleaver way of telling us as a viewer whats going on.

Costume

The costume of the stalker (the guy from the photo store) he is wearing a uniform which tells us staitght away that he works in the store and we can see that he work in the photo devlelopmentt if we look at detail of it, this is key to the film as we need to see to understand. As for the family we see what they are causally dressed we can tell that they are a middle class family, this is also key as we can now see that's there normal and that there no different from any other family, from this we can tell that he isn't doing it for any reason like for away to get to there money.

Prelim task (Amy & Asher)

The preliminary task reqiured a character walking through a door (open a door), an 180 degree shot (over the shoulder shot) of a conversation & then a character leaving the room.

Within our clip we used two school boy characters (jack and Lewis) jack getting wound up over a teacher (who gave him a low grade) which he then shares with Lewis. This then gave us the opportunity for him opening and slamming the door, it also gave us chance for the over the shoulder shot whilst the conversation was taking place.

The video above shows the work that we filmed.