Final production

Risk Assesments,

A risk assessment is a necessity to make sure that all the dangers in the area we are acting are spotted and controlled so any harm would not come to anyone. Since we have a fight scene in our film, we have to be careful not to actually injure one another. We could hit each other in the face, and stomach if we messed about.

FIRE:
Fire will be used as we light candles. To make sure we don't burn anything or set anything alight, we have moved the candles away from anything flammable.
ELECTRICAL EQUIPTMENT:
Since we use cameras outside, we have to be careful with the weather. For example, if it starts raining heavily, this would cause our production to go on hold until it has stopped. We cannot control the weather, and this could cause a few problems.
FOOD HYGEINE:
In our  original production we had food that was in the shots. However, due to a change in ideas,

WEATHER:
Due to uncontrollable forces, the weather could have affected us badly. Fortunately for us, the weather stuck to as planned, and we were able to film. We did originally plan however to do a different day, of which it began heavily raining.

FNK SOUNDS

Today, i recorded a sound of a heartbeat and deep breathing effects for our production, with Faith. This video shows our thoughts and practise into the recording, and the actual breathing and heartbeat recording.

FNK Mistakes,

During our filming, we had many shots that didn't work, due to technical difficulties. We decided to include it in a little movie, highlighting our problems, and the troubles we faced on that day.

BBFC Age Ratings

Age ratings




 After viewing this document, we were mde aware that our film was a PG, since no bad language was used. There was little gore (only a little blood from the mouth), but we were aiming for a rating of 12A if we were to carry on. We would meet this standard, by using a lot of bruising, cuts and blood, along with many more weapons, and include little bad language. Our protagonists would endure a lot of pain, and injury.

Questions

Faith and Nicky used some questions i prepared to ask +dan neary +Megan West and Charlie about a production we are going to make. They helped us determine that we were on trak ,and havent chose a wrong film idea to follow.

Sounds

                                                              Media Assignment,

Today during our lesson, we edited our media film, and applied and amplified sounds, to give the audience a sense of sound porn, of which is when the viewers indulge in the sounds, getting attached to the film. This is what stops people changing channel. If there is a lot of loud sounds, they are less likely to switch to a different channel.

This would help us attract our target audience of teens, as teenagers love loud sounds, and most/all of them like to watch action films. With our editing, we decided to make sure that the fast paced shots help to give the sequence its quick pace. Along with the atmosphere, and build up of tension, we wanted the pace to dramatically improve when she turned to face the house.

We decided upon a soundtrack that seemed appropriate for the time. As we want to communicate the idea that we can hear Faith's music, through her earphones, when she takes an earphone out, the soundtrack becomes quieter and then ends as the wind effect is heard. This helps drop the mood dramatically, as the audience know that something is about to happen.

Footage Problem- Lighting...

After reviewing our scene, we spotted that some of our footage became ark really quick, and that it stopped our piece from flowing. This meant we either had to reshoot our scene, or do some editing. Editing was my strong popint, so i started attempting to edit the colours, giving it very strange effects.

After undoing all of my attempts, i then began to search online for videos that could help me.
I came across this video on youtube, that had the same type of Imovie we were using.


After viewing this, i decided to do some more editing, and found that this was useful, however it was now a little too dark, and didnt match up with our other scenes. I also found another good clip on how to do some advanced editing, for example, making our titles a lot more interesting, just by adding colour. These videos gave me a lot of information about Imovie that i did not know, and also helped our group sort out and manage all of our clips.

These tips helped our group as we were struggling with the effects altogether, and this gave us a upperhand on how to use Imovie.

IMovie

IMovie
Since final cut pro became inaccessible, due to the computers malfunctions, we had a quick discussion with the IT technician, we were told to use IMovie, and that it was also much simpler. I began to use a advanced IMovie tutorial.

Makeup and Filming

Make up

After arriving at Faith's house, we decided upon what makeup to use, and how to make it look realistic. Faith began with a purple colour, and added different shades to it to layer the colour. She followed the makeup tutorial that we used, and after half an hour, she had created a realistic bruise upon Nicky's face. I then applied the fake blood on her nose, so it looked like she had been in a fight. Using a brush, we made it look less precise, and more messy.

She then began on my face and after a few attempts gave up with the make up. I took control, and stood myself in front of her mirror, and began to use a mix of black, brown and purple, making the strength of the colour fade more, and become skin like. Gradually i created a large punch like bruise on the side of my face. I then put a   bit of brown beneath my fake blood, before applying the fake blood upon my face. 


We decided to give Nicky a big bruise across her neck, as if she had been strangled, since her character was spotted being strangled. 

After the hour of makeup, we began the indoor scene. We made sure we could get as many different shots as possible, keeping the audience interested. We made sure the lighting wasn't too dark, and we could clearly see what was going on. 

However, before any of the makeup was done, we did an outdoor shoot, since it became dark quickly, and we did not want it to be too dark for our scene. This was the problem the last time we did any recording, and it became unclear as to what was happening in the shot. 

Request

Faith asked 'FreakMoFx' in an email, asked for some tips on how to do good bruising and awaited her reply. She also questioned, asking if we have her permission to use her video in our blog. 

Makeup and effects

I gave Nicky a realistic looking nose bleed, to show that she had been in a fight even before our main protagonist had appeared. This is typical of an action movie since most protagonists either start a fight or join in halfway. Alike the action genre, we decided not to start the fight as it is harder to get the action suspension to create a fight. Instead, we got our protagonist to enter into the fight, as this instantly gave her the upper hand, as she is behind the antagonist.
Since we did not have much money, we used simple makeup techniques, found online to help us. We searched through a few online videos until we had found the perfect one.

We decided that the antagonist too would have a bruise on his face. Because he only has one bruise on his neck, it showed us that they clearly have the upper hand in the fight, with the other character having a cut and also a bruise.

Faith, however, for our protagonist, we did not add any makeup effects to her, since no punches actually hit her, in visible spots, (with only one strike on her leg.) she did not need any makeup on. Using no makeup shows that she hasn't been in any fights and that she was unprepared for what was about to go on.

Faith has uploaded a video here of our makeup, and unfortunately, it is not working on my blog. So please go and look at our edited video.

Make up on the day of filming.

During this video we discuss the makeup needed. We used fake blood and some make up that faith supplied us with. We used a bit of fake blood, to give the effect that she had been punched in the nose, and then some make up around her neck, to make it seem like she was being strangled, like seen in the film.

Music

Today, we looked at what soundtracks we thought would be appropriate, and which ones we did not think would suit the genre we were doing. We first spoke, and Faith and Nicky, both came up with the same song idea. We decided that to keep the audiences attention, that music could be added to our piece. after a five minute search, we came up with:

MISERY by The Maine,

They both quite liked the song, but I did not like how the music had words in the song. I felt that an opening without words would be better than a song with words. After expressing my feelings, as a group, we looked at other types of music.



We then looked at Jamie T, and we liked the upbeat music. However, we decided not to choose this soundtrack. We got people from our class to pick out of three choices, and the one that won was:


This had a good track and we liked the idea that it should be during the start of our film. However, we are open to any suggestions.

Talk before the fight,

Risk Assessment

Today me faith and nicky all did a risk assessment. We realised that Faith's house and use of camera, and electricity outside her house. We decided that we had to be careful with the camera outside, sine it was electrical equipment and could be damaged if used in heavy rain. We were also planning a dropkick, which could injure the person if they landed on the floor. After  little research, we will avoid any injuries by using faiths mattress amongst the floor, but so the camera cannot see it.
We would time to do the beginning of our film at around five o'clock since in the winter, it gets dark very quickly. To avoid any injury, we would never use any physical contact unless it is planned beforehand and made safe so that we will avoid injury.

Before fighting we would make sure Faith's house is clean and tidy, and by doing that, we would not trip up on anything. We would also make sure that there is rests in between fighting to give us a break, and time to get our breath back.

Since faith lives at the house we will be working on, she was able to help us recognise what problems might be where and we agreed on how we would be careful with it.

Final Cut Pro

After realising that i would have to use something more sophisticated in editing, i did not want to use imovie, as i found that if i cold understand Final cut pro x, it would give me more variety of what i could do and give it a more specialistic effect. After watching this i really believe it has improved.

Preliminary Task

During our preliminary task, we had to include these types of shots, we included:
♛ Shot reverse shot
♛ Match on action
♛ 180 
Faith was in control of the camera, since we thought it would be fair, because we had decided that she was our main protagonist in our film. We used a tripod, along with the schools camera, to make sure the camera is nice and steady

These are our storyboards, of which we tried to stick to, and so we knew what was next in the shots.

Costumes

Me and faith talk about costumes, and our ideas on it.


As explained in the video, Nicky wore a jacket, and a vest top, to show her comfortable style, and that she had been inside, as these are more typical of home clothing. This would also show that she wasn't ready for a fight.