Production Log Week 11

This week we have finished all the treatment ideas and audience analysis and we have got our plan all ready and setup for our recording sand filming when we go out in January we also have started working on our location reccie so and we have written in specific detail about the location and its significance in our opening sequence in our BSR film. We have also written our shooting script for our opening sequence and have written directly what happens in each scene and explained what sounds that can be heard during the scene, the shots were also specified and even what angle and what the actor’s names are. We have also done our production schedule and this became an issue as we had to find a right time for the actors for our opening sequence to be available for filming and make sure what role they have to be playing and we have to explain what story is and how they affect it.

 

Another issue that was also addressed during our planning was the time when was going to film and where such as 12pm or later and what exact location  we wanted to film at because we didn’t really want to have a very dark atmosphere but at the same time we didn’t want to have the scene to be bright as it would take away the dark horrible feel of the opening sequence and also which day we are going to film as Friday is the best day for us as we have the weekend so we have more time to spend on the production, and we have the most available people during that time zone so it’s the most efficient way for us to film which is an essential part for us as it would be the most productive and useful  period.

Production Log Week 10

This week we finished off our treatment for our BSR film idea and story such as the narrative and we went into detail of how the opening sequence would play out and what will happen within i.e. suggested what things we would like to do if we had the budget and support of a film that film four would have and things we wanted was more advanced equipment such as DSLR cameras and audio aswell. What we also did this week was get primary research for our idea by asking people questions about our idea and story of our film in the style of Vox pop questions. We had to ask people 5 questions that would give us feedback about our film such as 'what is your opinion on this' and other questions that directly influence our film.

After the results and data we collected from all the questions we asked people, we took the main ideas and this helped influence the develop the ideas for our film such as the actors, when we asked people about the idea of slavery within our film they all thought about slavery in the past and not modern so one idea that we are avoiding is having any Black protagonist to avoid any relation to historic slavery as its a serious topic and we want to combat it and help improve depictions on it. We're not going to change the main story as well as most people think it was an interesting story that the film is based on and think its good as it helps people understand what happens in the world and it increases its publicity while its never touched at all and it needs to be addressed to help resolve the people in real life that are going through these tough experiences in life.Another thing is the style of the film such as the colour of the film, and we have taken this into account and what we have decided is that we are going to have a grey and dull colour platte to give typical life look but also to denote depression and sadness to the film.We also will have slow paced shots but also fast ones during the chase segment to give tension to the audience and give that affect of the smash mouth opening.

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Cast List

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Call Sheets

Location Reccie

Shooting Script

Qualitative Data Analysis

Production Log Week 9

This week we have started developing the narrative for our film and creating the basic ideas for our film to be based upon, we have learn types of narrative structures that past films have and the techniques they use to accomplish them. A lot of films in the industry especially Hollywood films use and omniscient narrative structure which is when a character within a film doesn’t know what’s going to happen such as ( a man walking by the corner and they don’t know he’s there)but the audience knows. This is the narrative style were going to be using in our BSR film, for instance in our opening sequence of our film there will be a moment where our protagonist is hiding from the slave owners but he doesn’t know where they are but the audience will know and this creates a sense of tension and dramatic conflict between the characters and it helps makes the audience feel for the protagonist as he’s being hunted by slave owners and the audience doesn’t know the result but they can see it coming closer.

 

Within my treatment we used this for our opening sequence and some things were changed it best suit it and the content within the whole treatment was decided between me and my partner and we discussed which options were best to help the most interesting and deep story of a BSR film based upon modern slavery. Some choices such as the ethnicity were changed to flip the portrayed stereotype of black people being the slaves and instead we will have an Asian actor play as the abused protagonist to show how slavery isn’t just one specific group of people but many aswell. We also changed the title of the film to denote a less obvious meaning to our film and instead we decided to give a more in-depth detailed meaning.

 

Production Log Week 8

For our film we have developed a lot of things to help produce a concept for our BSR filmsuch as the media and past students work. There was influences that helped develop our idea of our film such as the media portraying Brexit and how it can influence the Uk so what we decided to do was take this topic and emphasis it further to a point where it literally causes tension and problems all around the Uk and all of these issues would just escalate to a point where people are targeted for their traits views and features. The reason why I’m working with partner I’m in a group with is because he has very good views and description of the story that we want to portray and he can describe it in a lot of detail and this is essential for our story narrative and overall story production. He is also works well and we help put forward ideas that we want forward and this is a good sense of team work and dedication to help make our final version of our BSR film as the best as it can be

 

When the groups were picked to create the BSR films that we were set I saw no issues that can cause a serious issue and problems that we had to overcome but as the work increased we did have issues that we encounter such as story plot clashes and we would both disagree on certain things as we both visually portrayed them in a different way. For instance the antagonist in our opening sequence was going to do a lot more violent things but at the end we decided to remove a lot of them as it would become too violent based for realism for our story ,but we kept some to an extent to denote how horrible people’s lives can get.

Production Log Week 7

This week were researched many things that would help develop our idea of our film but we have encountered many issues that have hindered our progression of our film in many ways that we eventually got around improvising or finding a solution. We had to link the current media to our idea of slavery and one of the only ways we could somehow make them relate is through Brexit, for instance we did this by looking at modern slavery in the Uk and linked it to Brexit by our story mentioning how slaver has increased of Brexit because of the extreme uproar of racism from the vote and this has gone to a horrific rate. This is one reason why our slave owners abuse Jummani because of his rate and how easy he is to take advantage of and abuse his traits. The real issue was how to put it together which took time and thought to develop our idea into a more solid definition and this took trail and error of attempts of making a story more relatable to audience because of the current trend in the media

 

The decisions we took were for the better as we originally wanted to involve trump to the media to help kick start this racism trend in our film but since it’s the US election it didn’t really work and we really couldn’t find a way to incorporate this into our opening sequence which is why Brexit was the better option to choose as it was more relatable to our story and characters and would have a major impact to the country while the US election would have a direct impact to the people in the UK. Another idea that we explored and decided to follow through with is mental illness and how it becomes an actual problem and you’ll see how it is a problem in our opening sequence as the slave owners appear to be deranged and emotionless towards Jummani an have no respect to him what’s so ever.

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Data Presentation

Production Log Week 6

What I have learnt about opening sequences is that there are many various things that are needed to make one work and feel and work to a standard which gives an effect to the audience. An opening sequence must contain many variables such as and intuitional logo and maybe even the parent company if there is one such as Marvel studios. Another thing that must be included in the opening sequence is in the logos there are also themes and genres that can be established for instance when Disney makes a film, their brand and logo have theme of the film such as star wars. The opening sequence must consist of credits that shown the people that were involved in the making of the film such as the director and production teams and screenplay. The title of the film also comes early in the credits to show the audience what the film is called and from the style of the graphics and film also denote the theme.

 

This will impact my production as our film ‘Backwards’ will have a dark and dull opening sequence which will have our title open up and with all the people involved and we will include sound bridges to link our institution logo to our film so it all relates and links together well. Our film will also have a smash mouth opening to engage the audience right away and give an interesting start to our film instead of a slow boring opening that would make the audience lose interest. We will use mise-ene-scene to help create the best realism as possible. The music would also be non-diegetic as it wouldn’t play during a chase scene of our opening sequence. The methods we will use is super imposed graphics that appear on the screen when the chase is taking place we will use sounds bridges especially at the beginning where the logos appear. We will use different angles and camera language to show different ways of filming.