Refection on DepicT! short and pre-production process
During the pre-production stage I did enjoy drawing the story board and planning how we wanted each shot to look like. It was fun coming up with the costumes for each character in the real world and the superhero world, the costumes that were most fun to come up with was Mr Justice. I enjoyed filling the budgeting forms. I also enjoyed coming up with the dialog because it gives the film a scene of reality.
During the pre-production I disliked the amount of paper work there was because I was worried we would lose the important sheets. It didn't feel like it was organised therefore it didn't feel structured enough for me to feel comfortable as you have to follow the paperwork.
During the production of 'Parallel Justice' what I thought went well was the planning of the shots we would do each day but due to the rain it kind of threw off us off for film as we had to take time in our editing. I really enjoyed filming 'Parallel Justice', what I though went well was the green screen shots and when we filmed the parts with the villain in.
What I would do differently is be a bit more organised with the shot and when we would film them so we wouldn't miss any shot, would get all the costumes and props together before hand so we would forget them.
What I have learnt from doing the pre-production is now I am more organised with normal paper work and that I can work a bit better than before working in a team/group. It is important to finish paper work other wise you would be hide on that and as well as filming.
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Monday, 9 November 2015
Pre-production paper work
Talent forms.
These are talent forms for the actors/actresses
who will be in our short film. There is two different types of forms minor and adult form.
Scouting forms
Release location form
For filming within college grounds we had to get permission from the care taker to use W16. If we wasn't allowed to we would have to of changed all are plans.
Risk assessment
We had to write a risk assessment form because of that hazards we could come across well filming in the park and W16.
All these sheets link with each other. First we worked out the story line and then how many shots we wanted to have. Then once we finished we started to plan the story board and figure out how we wanted to position each shot while in still life. We worked out how long each shot would be so it would fit the 90 second time frame. Then we wrote up the production schedule and what shots we would film on each day but now due to the weather we may have to take some editing time to film parts we didn't get to shoot.
Images for green screen background
This information is for the moon picture that we are using.
“NASA still images, audio files, video, and computer files used in the rendition of 3-dimensional models, such as texture maps and polygon data in any format, generally are not copyrighted. You may use this material for educational or informational purposes, including photo collections, textbooks, public exhibits, computer graphical simulations and Internet Web pages. This general permission extends to personal Web pages.”
Wednesday, 4 November 2015
Requirements for Production
The Pre-Production Process
Type of moving image production (media forms)
In a group we had to produce a short movie for the DepicT! film competition. We created a 90 second long film which would be distributed over the internet via YouTube. DepicT! is a international competition where you make a 90 second film which it can be of any genre.
The other types of media are:
The types of funding:
Legal Issues
This is the image of the moon we used.
Clearance is the act of distriubing your film in the cinema or a public screen. You are only allowed to show the film we have created when we have got written permission from everyone in the production (actors/ actresses).
Public Liability Insurance will cover legal expenese and will cover a bussiness if someone or something gets damaged during filming.
Completion guarantee/insurance: This is the insurace that you would need and to make sure you finish your film on time other wise it will not cover you.
Regulation
OFCOM is the office of communication(OFCOM). It is a regulating body for compeitions, telecommunications and the postal industies in the UK. They are responsible for the fair use in the distribustion of media. They are the ones who will review a media product and give it the all clean to say that it is safe to view by the public.
The BBC is regulated by the BBC trust. It used to conisit of 12 board member who acted on public intrest.The abolition of the trust is currently under discussion. OFCOM protects the public from harmful or offensive material while the BBC trust looks and find out what it in the public intrest.
The BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) they give the age rating to games, moives, and tv programmes within the UK .
What I have learn it that our DepicT! short if it was rated by the BBFC it would probably be a U or PG as there is violents. I have learnt that OFCOM protect people from the questionable marial on the meida such as violents and sex and that BBFC rate games, movie and TV programmes from what content is in them.
Trade Unions and Trade Associations
A trade union is a group designed to protect and advance the rights and intrests of workers in a trade. For example working condistions, health care, wages and safety.
PACT has a strong record of helping and campain for produers rights and help grown domestically and internationly. 'BECTU is the UK's media and enterianment trade union;sectors covered include broadcasting, film, indepentant production, thertre and arts, lesurire and digital media'.
Bima help advertise and support work made in the England, Scotland and Wales and help encourage the next genartion.
Type of moving image production (media forms)
In a group we had to produce a short movie for the DepicT! film competition. We created a 90 second long film which would be distributed over the internet via YouTube. DepicT! is a international competition where you make a 90 second film which it can be of any genre.
The other types of media are:
- Feature length films they are distributed on TV as adverts, trailers, posters, previous DVD's that have just been released . For a film to be classed as feature length film they have to run for 40 minutes or more.
- Animations ( 2D: Cartoons, anime, 3D animation, etc) they are normally distributed on TV as adverts then later seasons are put DVD which then adverts new seasons.
- Music is normally distributed on music channels on TV and online via YouTube as adverts.
- DVD/Blu-Ray are distributed by shops selling them, adverts on TV and posters on buses or bus stop shelters.
- VHS(Video Home System) were really popular and they was distributed on TV with adverts, shops would be selling them and now you can find the odd charity shop or old film store that sell them.
Finance and sources of funding
The types of funding:
- Private investor is a company or person whose shares are privately held and are not traded on the stock market. An example of a private investor would be Megan Ellison who is best known for producing 'Zero Dark Thirty ' and 'American Hustle'. She fund films because she has the money to help produce films.
- A kick starter is crowd funded an example of the this is 'Ashens and the quest for the game-child' which got $73,630 and there main target was $180,000 it didn't get there. Crowd funding is where the public fund the film that is going to be made and they donate as much money as they want to to that film. There are few different kick starter site the main three are kick stater, Indiegogo and Patreon the difference between each site is Indiegogo lets you keep the money that you have raised even if you don't hit you goal, Kick starter you have to reach or pass you goal to keep the money and Patreon is to help support creators to create and upload videos each month.
- Studio backing is big major companies help funding a huge part of a film. Universal studios is big company which has help fund and produce films like Ted and Pitch Perfect 1&2.
Directors like Zach Braff sometimes go to the option of crowd funding when they want to make a more personal film so the pick and choose who they want as actor and actresses but if they went to a filming/producing company the company would get to choose some of the actors or actresses when auditioning and choose what some of the scenes are going to be like.
- Self funding is where you pay for the expenses of the film with your own money. For a self funded film you normally ask you mates to act in it or post about your film on social media sites to see if you can get anyone new, you try and and film within a few days so you don't have to pay the the crew, actors/actresses much as if you was going through a major company. An film example what was self funded was 'Brick'. The director funded with the help from his family.
Requirements
For big movies quite movie a lot of money can be spent on :
For big movies quite movie a lot of money can be spent on :
- Costumes
- Props
- Equipment
- Crew
- Cast/Talent
- Location
- Transport
- Catering
- Licences
For our DepicT! short film we had to work out what sort of things we would or wouldn't need like we cut out the licencing because for are sound effect and music we when to loyalty free website such as incompetech and free-sound; the reasone why we used imcompetech and free-sound is because we couldn't use offical music that is in the charts as it is coppyrighted and that means we have to get the permission of the record company and the artist to use it , costumes we bought in are own clothing and had to spend out for only one part of the costumes which was the cape for Mr Justice, with the location we chose areas that we knew we could have the permission to us the green screen room and the local park which is the public's to use, so with that we didn't have to spend out for transport. With the equipment we could rent it out through the colleges av room. Cast/ Talent all of my group stared in 'Parallel Justice' and that we was also the crew so when someone wasn't in the shot they would film but if we were all in shot we ask someone with in are group to help us film.
Personnel
Personnel
The make up of a low budget short would maybe be about ten people and a back up plan. With action short the actors/actresses they may have to do there own stunts. With most shorts you still have to do the same allocated jobs for people so crew, talents, editors, and producers. They would still need to go and get sheets signed for if they wanted to film in a pub and so on. With advertisement they may make a Facebook page, YouTube channel or Twitter account.
TV programme are normally made up of about 50 people. They would have a sets made up or they would go out and find and get permission to use that certain building or street. There is also story lines and plots which would continue on through episodes over the year as TV programmes can go on for years.
Holly wood feature films will be quiet different to the TV programmes and shorts as they have a higher budgets and they will have special departments for costumes, props, lighting, cameras plus camera equipment and so on. They would be able to have a longer time to film different parts of the film and would be able to pay more for stunt doubles so the actors/actresses who are in an action scene they would get the double to step in and take the major hit so the star doesn't get hurt.
With our DepicT! short paper work wise we all worked on the paper work to get it to the best we could. With the filming we chose the persons whose idea it was for 'Parallel Justice' to be Mr Justice as he was most suited for that role, the person who was Mr Justice he asked his friend to be the villain/bully who mostly looked like the stereotypical bully, with me and the other girl in are group we was the henchmen/the people Mr Justice wanted to be friends with we chose that role as it best suited us. I do think some of the group I worked with did have some experience with acting from previous short films.
Time
In the professional media industry if you do not meet your deadline the production is pushed back further than expedited and the company that is working with you the could stop funding you or pull out completely. To not go over your deadline you would have person with you to make sure the shot that you had planned for the day are all finished by the end of filming time.
My group did meet are deadline with having all the work finished. Due to the weather we had to plan slightly different to what we had planned for are filming week. If we was to do this short again we would check the weather forecast and make sure at if it rained we would move the shot missed on that day would fit in the next day or so they would get done.
Equipment/Facilities
A media facility house will let you hire out equipment such as cameras, lighting, mics and etc.The costing of equipment would start from £100 upwards. The closest media facility house is in London and there is also one is Bristol.
With our DepicT! short we rented our equiment out from the colleges av room. To obtaint the equipment we would use one of my group mebers student ID card or mine, what we would get out would get out is a camera, tripod and sd card for the main part and when we was recording the voice we hired out a portable mic and on that attached to the camera.
Locations
A location recce is where you got look at the potential areas you could film at or in and you also take photos so you can try match it up to your story line and a recce is used cover the avablibity of the places you want to film in. A location release form- you need to get permission of someone who owns/ take care of the private property land and if they don't give you permission you can't film in the place you initially planned to.
The places that my group decided to film was the recreational park and the college green screen room W16. The reasons we wanted to film in these places were that the park was close to the college ground and we didn't need to travel far and we got the permission from the college caretaker to film in the green screen room. If we couldn't have the permission to use the room we would have filmed it all outside it the park.
When doing the risk assessment form we looked at all the possible situations that could have occurred when filming. There were risks that when we filmed Mr Justice getting pushed over; he could have got bruises or he could have slipped and sprained any of his limbs. We overcame that by making sure he wasn't pushed hard and that he landed on something soft. Crossing the road, we over came that by using the allocated crossing areas to be safe. The uneven ground and glass on the path we avoided so noone would get hurt.
We had to be careful using the film equipment as it was the college's and if got broken we would have to pay. To make sure that didn't happen we carried a piece of equipment each so one person wasn't overloaded with bags.
Materials
Addition matrerial like props, costumes and audio. For audio my group looked at royalty free websites which were incomptech.com and freesounds.org. Incomptech for the music and and free sounds for the sound effects. For visual effects in our video we looked up royalty free in YouTube.
If we was to use to us an offical soundtrack we would have to go through alot paper signnings to have the permission to use one.
TV programme are normally made up of about 50 people. They would have a sets made up or they would go out and find and get permission to use that certain building or street. There is also story lines and plots which would continue on through episodes over the year as TV programmes can go on for years.
Holly wood feature films will be quiet different to the TV programmes and shorts as they have a higher budgets and they will have special departments for costumes, props, lighting, cameras plus camera equipment and so on. They would be able to have a longer time to film different parts of the film and would be able to pay more for stunt doubles so the actors/actresses who are in an action scene they would get the double to step in and take the major hit so the star doesn't get hurt.
With our DepicT! short paper work wise we all worked on the paper work to get it to the best we could. With the filming we chose the persons whose idea it was for 'Parallel Justice' to be Mr Justice as he was most suited for that role, the person who was Mr Justice he asked his friend to be the villain/bully who mostly looked like the stereotypical bully, with me and the other girl in are group we was the henchmen/the people Mr Justice wanted to be friends with we chose that role as it best suited us. I do think some of the group I worked with did have some experience with acting from previous short films.
Time
In the professional media industry if you do not meet your deadline the production is pushed back further than expedited and the company that is working with you the could stop funding you or pull out completely. To not go over your deadline you would have person with you to make sure the shot that you had planned for the day are all finished by the end of filming time.
My group did meet are deadline with having all the work finished. Due to the weather we had to plan slightly different to what we had planned for are filming week. If we was to do this short again we would check the weather forecast and make sure at if it rained we would move the shot missed on that day would fit in the next day or so they would get done.
Equipment/Facilities
A media facility house will let you hire out equipment such as cameras, lighting, mics and etc.The costing of equipment would start from £100 upwards. The closest media facility house is in London and there is also one is Bristol.
With our DepicT! short we rented our equiment out from the colleges av room. To obtaint the equipment we would use one of my group mebers student ID card or mine, what we would get out would get out is a camera, tripod and sd card for the main part and when we was recording the voice we hired out a portable mic and on that attached to the camera.
Locations
A location recce is where you got look at the potential areas you could film at or in and you also take photos so you can try match it up to your story line and a recce is used cover the avablibity of the places you want to film in. A location release form- you need to get permission of someone who owns/ take care of the private property land and if they don't give you permission you can't film in the place you initially planned to.
The places that my group decided to film was the recreational park and the college green screen room W16. The reasons we wanted to film in these places were that the park was close to the college ground and we didn't need to travel far and we got the permission from the college caretaker to film in the green screen room. If we couldn't have the permission to use the room we would have filmed it all outside it the park.
When doing the risk assessment form we looked at all the possible situations that could have occurred when filming. There were risks that when we filmed Mr Justice getting pushed over; he could have got bruises or he could have slipped and sprained any of his limbs. We overcame that by making sure he wasn't pushed hard and that he landed on something soft. Crossing the road, we over came that by using the allocated crossing areas to be safe. The uneven ground and glass on the path we avoided so noone would get hurt.
We had to be careful using the film equipment as it was the college's and if got broken we would have to pay. To make sure that didn't happen we carried a piece of equipment each so one person wasn't overloaded with bags.
Materials
Addition matrerial like props, costumes and audio. For audio my group looked at royalty free websites which were incomptech.com and freesounds.org. Incomptech for the music and and free sounds for the sound effects. For visual effects in our video we looked up royalty free in YouTube.
If we was to use to us an offical soundtrack we would have to go through alot paper signnings to have the permission to use one.
Legal Issues
If my group was to use music that was copyrighted our video would be taken down and or taken to court as we didn't have the permission to use that material.
www.gov.uk
Copyright protects your work and stops others from using it without your permission.
You automatically get copyright protection when you create:
https://www.gov.uk/copyright/overview
So now if someone tried to change our video or repubuilshes it as the own we could sue them, but if someone used the same music as us we wouldn't be allowed to sue as the music is royalty free. with the images we used in our video they were also royalty free. Information for the moon image
“NASA still images, audio files, video, and computer files used in the rendition of 3-dimensional models, such as texture maps and polygon data in any format, generally are not copyrighted. You may use this material for educational or informational purposes, including photo collections, textbooks, public exhibits, computer graphical simulations and Internet Web pages. This general permission extends to personal Web pages.”
www.gov.uk
Copyright protects your work and stops others from using it without your permission.
You automatically get copyright protection when you create:
- original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic work, including illustration and photography
- original non-literary written work, eg software, web content and databases
- sound and music recordings
- film and television recordings
- broadcasts
- the layout of published editions of written, dramatic and musical works
https://www.gov.uk/copyright/overview
So now if someone tried to change our video or repubuilshes it as the own we could sue them, but if someone used the same music as us we wouldn't be allowed to sue as the music is royalty free. with the images we used in our video they were also royalty free. Information for the moon image
“NASA still images, audio files, video, and computer files used in the rendition of 3-dimensional models, such as texture maps and polygon data in any format, generally are not copyrighted. You may use this material for educational or informational purposes, including photo collections, textbooks, public exhibits, computer graphical simulations and Internet Web pages. This general permission extends to personal Web pages.”
This is the image of the moon we used.
Clearance is the act of distriubing your film in the cinema or a public screen. You are only allowed to show the film we have created when we have got written permission from everyone in the production (actors/ actresses).
Public Liability Insurance will cover legal expenese and will cover a bussiness if someone or something gets damaged during filming.
Completion guarantee/insurance: This is the insurace that you would need and to make sure you finish your film on time other wise it will not cover you.
Regulation
OFCOM is the office of communication(OFCOM). It is a regulating body for compeitions, telecommunications and the postal industies in the UK. They are responsible for the fair use in the distribustion of media. They are the ones who will review a media product and give it the all clean to say that it is safe to view by the public.
The BBC is regulated by the BBC trust. It used to conisit of 12 board member who acted on public intrest.The abolition of the trust is currently under discussion. OFCOM protects the public from harmful or offensive material while the BBC trust looks and find out what it in the public intrest.
The BBFC (British Board of Film Classification) they give the age rating to games, moives, and tv programmes within the UK .
What I have learn it that our DepicT! short if it was rated by the BBFC it would probably be a U or PG as there is violents. I have learnt that OFCOM protect people from the questionable marial on the meida such as violents and sex and that BBFC rate games, movie and TV programmes from what content is in them.
Trade Unions and Trade Associations
A trade union is a group designed to protect and advance the rights and intrests of workers in a trade. For example working condistions, health care, wages and safety.
PACT has a strong record of helping and campain for produers rights and help grown domestically and internationly. 'BECTU is the UK's media and enterianment trade union;sectors covered include broadcasting, film, indepentant production, thertre and arts, lesurire and digital media'.
Bima help advertise and support work made in the England, Scotland and Wales and help encourage the next genartion.
Friday, 2 October 2015
DepicT! 90 second idea
Two friends Luna and Emi are hanging out and chatting at the local park. The bully Catherine comes along and starts picking on Emi calling her horrible names and starts pushing her around. Luna tries to stand up for Emi but backs down as she doesn't want Catherine to bully her as well.
Then Emi starts to have a go at Luna because she didn't stick up for her and starts taking her anger out on her which ends up really hurting her friend. Luna runs off because she knows she has been a bad friend and she trips over, falls down the concrete stairs and breaks her neck. Emi hears a bang and she runs to where it comes from and she sees her friend in a heap on the floor with blood around her. Then she quickly runs down the stairs and tries to get Luna to respond but she doesn't.
Emi starts crying out for help and feels guilty for shouting at Luna.
Catherine walks along and Emi knows what she has to do. She rummages through her bag to grab the knife she knows she has and starts walking like she is to going to cry and runs up the stairs towards Catherine and starts to attack her. She pushes her to the floor and continuously stabs her in every part of her body until she has no blood left in her and then she walks off laughing.
Then Emi starts to have a go at Luna because she didn't stick up for her and starts taking her anger out on her which ends up really hurting her friend. Luna runs off because she knows she has been a bad friend and she trips over, falls down the concrete stairs and breaks her neck. Emi hears a bang and she runs to where it comes from and she sees her friend in a heap on the floor with blood around her. Then she quickly runs down the stairs and tries to get Luna to respond but she doesn't.
Emi starts crying out for help and feels guilty for shouting at Luna.
Catherine walks along and Emi knows what she has to do. She rummages through her bag to grab the knife she knows she has and starts walking like she is to going to cry and runs up the stairs towards Catherine and starts to attack her. She pushes her to the floor and continuously stabs her in every part of her body until she has no blood left in her and then she walks off laughing.
Thursday, 24 September 2015
DepicT! research
My thoughts on 90 second shorts on DepicT!
No words (2014)
I think 'No Words' is good because tells a story of a woman in a abusive relationship and she has found out she is pregnant. What I think is most effective is how the light in the toilet room kept flashing on and off to show maybe show how she is scared also so when the light turned off it didn't look the the test was positive due to it being dark. With the music I think it is very good as it also build up tension and make you feel worried for her. I like the different shot when it just shows the toilet door and the sink with the lighting because when the light turns on you can see the light shining under the door.
I.D (2009)
I like 'I.D.' because it shows the girl who it is about growing up in picture taken from a photo booth . It's a documentary which the girl is explaining how her life has been like growing up and how at some points in her life was hard and how she change through that. I do like the sound effects of the camera go off as the pictures change as well.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (2009)
I like how they try and recreate Alice in wonderland, with the girl in hospital and all the all the doctors and nurses are meant to represent the playing card and how the girl who is in hospital is meant to be Alice is show what it is going through her head and how scary it must be to get treated maybe as a metal patient. The music that goes along with the video is every well picked and flows nicely and I like how the edited it with the effects of the girl going big and giving it the black and white effect on it.
No words (2014)
I think 'No Words' is good because tells a story of a woman in a abusive relationship and she has found out she is pregnant. What I think is most effective is how the light in the toilet room kept flashing on and off to show maybe show how she is scared also so when the light turned off it didn't look the the test was positive due to it being dark. With the music I think it is very good as it also build up tension and make you feel worried for her. I like the different shot when it just shows the toilet door and the sink with the lighting because when the light turns on you can see the light shining under the door.
I.D (2009)
I like 'I.D.' because it shows the girl who it is about growing up in picture taken from a photo booth . It's a documentary which the girl is explaining how her life has been like growing up and how at some points in her life was hard and how she change through that. I do like the sound effects of the camera go off as the pictures change as well.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (2009)
I like how they try and recreate Alice in wonderland, with the girl in hospital and all the all the doctors and nurses are meant to represent the playing card and how the girl who is in hospital is meant to be Alice is show what it is going through her head and how scary it must be to get treated maybe as a metal patient. The music that goes along with the video is every well picked and flows nicely and I like how the edited it with the effects of the girl going big and giving it the black and white effect on it.
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