Research and Ideas

here is a link of various camera angles and ways to shoot films. for some reason it want let me upload the video so here is the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwbsYgZ7d-8

After watching this i have decided on what camera angles i would like to be in this film they are;

• Medium & close up shots.
• Tracking shot. This may be quite hard due to not having the right equipment so we would have to do it as a walking shot trying to keep the camera as still as possible.

At around 8 seconds through this trailer is how i would like the chase scene in our film to look like with changing camera angles, And how  it goes into slow motion were he jumps over a fence because it looks dramatic.

this is the sort of feeling i want to bring to our film.

Also another idea for when it gets to shooting the bus station scenes when Chriss goes to place the holdall into the locker we could have a shot from inside the locker showing from a different angle.

Lighting 

Todays meeting

Today me Charlie and Hayley met up after Jools lecture and discussed our idea's. we have came to a dissection to stick with my plot but add a twist at the end instead off Chriss dying he fakes his own death in order to escape the government.

After we left Hayley fount a building called biocity what is a science lab. So hopefully they will let us film a few scenes in their if we are aloud this will make the film look a lot more realistic.

Moving images update

We have decided to call our film group Move on. In today lesson we couldn't decide who wanted to be the director so I volunteered.  I wasn't to sure what a director fully did  but after doing a bit of research I have found that the directors role is to:

• decide how the film should look.
• Genre and Audience its targeted at.
• Camera Angles and  Lens effects.
• Set design.
• Turning the script into a sequence of shots.

So in today's lesson I broke down the script using Celtx so we can start planning more in-depth.

• There are 5 characters that we need to find.
• 7 locations needed ( We have already started discussing various locations and have came up with a few places.)
• We will also need various props and costumes.

Our script hasn't got an in-depth plot so far just that the character has something that the government does not want anyone to know about. So I mentioned the idea of him stumbling across some secret documents that the governments selling weapons and chemical bombs to the Taliban.

So as a group we have set up TO DO List over the weekend we each have to think of an interesting plot for the film, and also find various locations we could use. After Jools lecture on Monday we are going to meet up and discuss our ideas then hopefully structure the how and were we will be shooting this film.

First day of Moving Images

Today was the first day of our dp2 seminar, As im in group three were starting off doing moving images we was split into groups of five and in our groups we was handed a script wrote by Jools what we have to plan and shoot the script is called SHIFT. We each discussed and came to a conclusion what roles we will be taking.

I choose to be the editor, As the editor it is my job to take all the film footage shot and piece it together to create the final film. Its not the most important role in this tasks but its one of the key ones because if the footage is excellent, if the editing was made poorly it could affect the films final outcome.

What i've been upto

Since we broke up for christmas i havent posted anything so think i should put something up show that i havent just been out partying.

why did i create this?

For one i like the car and i needed to add to my portfolio so i thought i would create a bit of advertisement. I wanted to make the effect that the car being advertised is eco friendly, I wanted to add a little character doing something around the exhaust and put afew wildlife around the car. but i found it hard finding a character what worked with the picture so i just kept it simple.

Heres the images used to make this;

Background image
Vauxhall Astra
Butterfly

I have also been working on my new website what it nearly finished so i'll be posting an article of my design process on making it.

my one shot film edit

One shot film edited from leigh hattersley on Vimeo.



We decided to name it "A Suspicious Birthday" as it represents the subject well.


during my edit I decided to add a spy sound affect from james bond 007 it plays from the start till after the envelope has been passed whilst adding footsteps were needed. I kept with the original sound towards the end were you hear the party poppers and Hollie and Amanda saying happy birthday.


then i also added a title and a subtitle saying who took part in creating this film.

Our final filming of the one shot film

here is our unedited  one shot film that we recorder last week. due to the weather we didn't get the result we was hoping for because the snow was really heavy making the visibility on the camera really poor, plus we couldn't use lights.


we made various attempts at the film and we picked the best one out for our final piece and to be used for editing.


Elliot  played the birthday boy in which he came on during the "spy" scene of the drop off were he met me were i  gave him a brown envolope. Elliot suspiciously opens this to which it is a birthday card then Hollie and Amanda come on to the scene with party hats, presents, etc. The film lasted for 1minute 10 seconds.


One shot film from leigh hattersley on Vimeo.