The Pre-Production Proccess

Evaluation for Depict Production.

Production Schedule

Budgeting Sheet

Risk Assesment

Plot Synopsis

Shot List

Alien - Depict

                                                    Alien - DepicT! Entry
Our task where to create a film within the span of 90 seconds with the groups we where put in. we decided on a plot in which me and Georges ideas i put together to create a plot about the effects of conformity and how our lives are taken up by materialistic things blinding you from reality. The way we did it in our group is that we sort of had sectors me and George would further work on the plot and discus ideas which we add to the shot list while Kian & Kurt worked on secondary data. We later had to merge everything together since George left the group and left the other work he was supposed to do like the story board to us in a way it was better as it made work more together as a group and get things done as we where one person short we really had to concentrate on everything and just get it done. when it came to filming it was mostly me and a bit of Kurt and Kian would be the star of the film. Overall it had a good start and a rough middle and but in the end i think it turned out ok.

The Sun Short Film Review

This is a short film which i personally love as it captures what I believe about society. The sun is a tool used to sugar coat everything so you can be manipulated and not even know about it. So many bad things happen at day but you are tricked to look the other way because of the distractions that are available by day that distracts you from the important things in life being yourself which comes in form of the night as no one can see you at night so you be yourself without judgement from brainwashed people who think happiness comes from the amount of purchases you make. The night is an escape for people who are self aware of the real world they live in. The sun is an depiction of everything the people higher up really are and what they are doing as i like the contrapuntal music in this for this reason to show how much the world is sugar coated. I like the color scheme as well though its quite orange the source is yellow a cowardly color which is why i like that the person is black like the night trying to get away from the light into the misunderstood darkness.

The Blair Witch Project project

This film was a success despite the funds they were working with, goes to show that as long as you use what you have effectively and have a great scenario you can have a good film though the Blair Witch was a success due to the fact that is was something totally different seems real as this was just someone recording with a camera which sort of worked as an immersive technique which seemed to have worked, with this idea they where able to do this with just $60,000 which is incredibly low in regards of other films which have budgets somewhere in the millions but they managed to make millions. The three protagonists where not actors before the blair witch they where just people who wanted to be part of an independent horror film as they could not afford high tier actors for the film. They used the fact that they could not afford a good camera to their advantage and were successful doing so. You never get to see the witch in the film probably because they thought it was a pointless use of money for costumes etc and thought they could save money making people wonder. there was never any props really that would be very expensive just stuff like flash lights and a cheap handheld camera. There was no lighting which again used this to their advantage to make it look like a real vlog. It was never done in a film set it was made outside in the woods. There was no CGI which is to be expected from an independent horror project which would ruin the point of the film which makes it unique as you can usually tell what is CGI and what ins't especially since this was 1999.

Short Film Introductory Task: ''Calzino''

When creating this film, we were given the task to make a short film of a transaction of some kind. The idea that I came up with that everyone else agreed with was to go with a drug deal gone wrong scenario and had the idea in my head to go with a classic crime noir film with no police in. The overall plot of the film is that there are two homeless people who are in need of money as they were betrayed by the system and left on the streets not being able to get a job so they turn to the only way they can make money on the streets which is to rip of big time mafia members in return for free money with fake drugs. They managed to make a living for themselves in the same time putting big time gangsters to justice something which the police struggle to achieve basically emphasising people can be handle themselves if you let them.

Now I would like to talk about the making of the film the kind of angles we used and music. When making this I wanted to use some contrapuntal/parallel music more exact ave maria. We used this song as it is quite ironic as the song is about the virgin Mary and there is gang related violence and drug abuse making the viewer feel uncomfortable and the film overall is quite slow and flows well with the film as everything is done slowly to show that they are professionals in the film. Its also good because the song kind of flows like the wind in a way which works with some of the transitions in a wavy affect this could connate that god is watching over the world and this is what he sees. The choice of song could be of reference of sugar coating in the film they are never caught they got away with it and bribe the media to not show what happened therefore sugar coating the evidence with the song being so beautiful in a horrible scenario. I also like the song at the end as the camera turns to the window as if their soul is leaving out the window to represent that they just murdered two mobsters in the name of revenue making you think about the real world we live in as the screen fades to black as if its game over.

Now I would like to go over each of the angles to show what they connate from start to finish. To start of with we show a pan shot of the camera moving to the left to give the viewer an idea of where this is set as you can see it is the suburban area of Chicago as shown in the text and gave the year 1963 so the audience know that it is a Chicago mobster film as most people are familiar with what the time and location suggest. It then does a fade to black then straight onto some else dark in this case Georges head as in this film we liked the slow pace action and don't like being too quick when going to different scenes as in this scene it goes straight to Georges head then pans over to the side as if there was no cut to a blur of my face making it look like I blend in with the black and white. I don't like using black and white for negative connotations because I don't think they are but here I am making an exception. Here I am blended in with the black and white to show that I am bad but go into focus again to show though I come from a bad place I have my reasons as to why I am here. We then do a clever reverse shoulder shot by again going with dark colours on the back of Georges head to switch to mine without making it look like we had any cuts to make it flow better and look slower to match the song. It then fades to a high angle shot in ghostly way making it seem like we are being watched by God as the camera goes down to another interesting transition as it goes down to the circular table we were sitting on and back out of something else circular which in this case a bin to highlight the differences in both the situations of rich and successful and poor and lack of ambition all in order to show the correlation between the two. As it comes out of the bin they are in a high angle shot to represent weakness. It then switches over to two pan shoulder shot transitioned in a fade style. It then fades to black in a another fade for that godly affect as it continues in a slow motion door opening as it flows with the song and makes it seem important as they enter to what could be the end. Then there is a pan high angle shot as it gradually goes up making it seem like we are superior and are being followed by the camera as if we are famous. It does another similar thing but with our faces showing the seriousness in our face. There is an over shoulder shot of me while the other two enter the room which will switch for a reverse shot. They do not get the same kind of entrance as us to emphasise the point that we are superior but they do get the same face pan shot but this time to show fear which shows the difference between confidence and fear. It comes back to me with a blur affect which again connotes the same thing as before and could connate that I am now totally in the zone and am ready for what's about to happen which is the opposite for the next shot as Lawrence goes from no blur to burr showing the opposite going from a little bit of confident to no confidence at all. It then shows a over shoulder shot of Kian showing me and George furthermore showing our motionless faces in full. It then goes to a medium shot of me and the two going to deal drugs. I go alone to emphasise that I am not afraid of these two small timers. It then goes to a close up on our hands handing over the drugs which was good because it was a bit difficult to edit this scene as we had to cut the clip just right and put another clip in the middle make sure that was cut properly and put it in the middle which was the close up. It then cuts to a medium shot with George in the frame as I walk into it giving the drugs to George he notices something wrong so I try and realise its fake drugs then I walk up to the camera making it seem like we are walking up towards you creating tension. As it swaps to another shot of the other groups faces as they realise that they know its fake which would probably be your reaction if you see some tough guys walking towards you. It then swaps to a similar shot we did near the start with the camera following us this time it is moving away from us as if the camera is them in the situation moving away from them which would be what you would think to do while watching this. The other guys come to a realisation that they are not going to get anywhere in life being afraid of things since they have nothing else to lose they go for it and beat the mobsters to death in a medium shot as they escape leaving the bodies there escaping with the money becoming more successful than any other conformist as the camera stays on the door for a while for the audience to comprehend what just happened. As two bodies lay there the camera pans up taking their power away from them as the camera pans towards the window as their soul leaves as the camera stays there as it fades to black. To sum up success won’t always come to you if I doesn't don't let anything else stop you from achieving it I mean anything you could be doing the world a favour stay true to yourself as one day you got to find another way.

Connotations from Bradley Jermy