Well we have made it, we have had a great time filming our film and it feels like the end of a special partnership between myself,Oli Clubb, Joe Sullivan and Sam thorpe.
It took use 4 weeks, £ edits, 83 apples but we made it!
Tuesday 15 December 2009
Sounds good?
I take NO! Credit for the sound track it was all the work of Oli who is a genius ( I listened to it and was there while he made it). I dont know alot about the construction of music so here;s what Oli said about the piece:
It starts of very light and dreamy with a chorus of 'Ahhs' to lighten the mood. Some bright happy motif's played on. A guitar rhythm in the background helps add to the happiness of the sound. This melody is the signature apple motif and returns a few times in the piece. The next part of the section is a piece on stacatto strings to make it seems a little more emotional but casual.
The next section is very different. A pedal in the background mixed in with an eerie glockespiel solo makes this passage a little haunting and unsettling. This breaks into a melodic minor section which is meant to connote the confusion felt by the cyclist and the uncertainty the apple faces after it is thrown onto a bench.
This soon errupts into the happy opening sequence. We get an added Flute melody that represents the little girl drawing the face on the apple.
The drunken section is made up of unnerving pizzicato strings, purely to get across the drunken confusion of the 3 men out on the town. The pizzicato strings also give the scene a dainty edge as though there is no real danger for the apple.
The next section is something different and is made up of lots of descending sequences. There is a happy sound. It has a sense of inquisition about it which is meant to represent the dog.
The next section after this is a haunting glockenspiel melody that is an intertextual reference to Witness using the same motifs and melodies. This ties in well with the scene as the tramp is an intertextual refrence to Witness.
This then defers back to the main melody giving the scene the happiness and sense of voyage of discovery we see on the first section.
We then get an atonal descending sequence with loads straight into the climatic ending which is quite dissonant in parts.
This is finally ended with a sad and lonely piano riff detailing the demise of the apple and its grave sacrifice being overlooked by the man.
The sound track is great , it helps to express the emotion of the apple to the audience.
enjoy
It starts of very light and dreamy with a chorus of 'Ahhs' to lighten the mood. Some bright happy motif's played on. A guitar rhythm in the background helps add to the happiness of the sound. This melody is the signature apple motif and returns a few times in the piece. The next part of the section is a piece on stacatto strings to make it seems a little more emotional but casual.
The next section is very different. A pedal in the background mixed in with an eerie glockespiel solo makes this passage a little haunting and unsettling. This breaks into a melodic minor section which is meant to connote the confusion felt by the cyclist and the uncertainty the apple faces after it is thrown onto a bench.
This soon errupts into the happy opening sequence. We get an added Flute melody that represents the little girl drawing the face on the apple.
The drunken section is made up of unnerving pizzicato strings, purely to get across the drunken confusion of the 3 men out on the town. The pizzicato strings also give the scene a dainty edge as though there is no real danger for the apple.
The next section is something different and is made up of lots of descending sequences. There is a happy sound. It has a sense of inquisition about it which is meant to represent the dog.
The next section after this is a haunting glockenspiel melody that is an intertextual reference to Witness using the same motifs and melodies. This ties in well with the scene as the tramp is an intertextual refrence to Witness.
This then defers back to the main melody giving the scene the happiness and sense of voyage of discovery we see on the first section.
We then get an atonal descending sequence with loads straight into the climatic ending which is quite dissonant in parts.
This is finally ended with a sad and lonely piano riff detailing the demise of the apple and its grave sacrifice being overlooked by the man.
The sound track is great , it helps to express the emotion of the apple to the audience.
enjoy
Ancillary Task: Magazine Review
As mentioned our second piece is a magazine article we wanted to stick to the theme of keeping it simple, so the article looks clean and is made up of 3 colours, white, green and black. Joe provided the words.
Ancillary Task: Promotional Poster
We decided that we would make a poster and a magazine article as our ancillary Tasks. The film poster we have kept simple this is keeping with the style of the film as it is a simple idea, we would of been stupid and would not of conformed to the idea of a shot film if we had created a image and action heavy poster. As we wanted to make a simple poster we wanted a simple picture, so we went to photography lad in school and used their lighting and white backdrop to get the perfect image.
First draft results are back...
We handed our film in today on the whole we got a good response but there are a few things we need to change:
We had to re-shoot the last couple of scenes as there was a problem with lighting( we already knew this).
Editing and continuity issues throughout the film had to be sorted.
Add more varied shots.
focus more on the apple.
These are going ot be easy to address and should be sorted in no time.
We had to re-shoot the last couple of scenes as there was a problem with lighting( we already knew this).
Editing and continuity issues throughout the film had to be sorted.
Add more varied shots.
focus more on the apple.
These are going ot be easy to address and should be sorted in no time.
Friday 11 December 2009
The final day of filming! oh... and the last pod cast.
So today we filmed our last scene, it was a re-shoot as we had some continuity problems where the fruit guy comes out of the shop.We had to film the original scene on to different days as the light went the first time, the only problem was it had been raining the day before meaning we had to go back today and re-shoot. We got all the shots we wanted, and have spent some time putting the footage together and going our last podcast.
Risky business
As always we had to do a risk assessment for filming. At every location there wasn't any thing that struck us as dangerous, but in the shot where we have the tramp crossing the road we obviously had to be aware of traffic but it was very light so didn't effect us.
A list cast!...... and props
We have 11 members of cast including our selfs, we decided that we would each have a cameo in the film. Oli and Joe play the school boys, Sam plays the fruit sales man and i play the tramp. The rest of our cast is made up of family and friends, Oli's mum plays the lady in the supermarket, Sam's Dad plays the van driver and has the only speaking part and my Dad plays the business man. The rest of the cast were friends, Oli's girlfriend plays the girl on the bike, our friends kyle, carl and hayden play the drunk lads and Mike playes the dog walker the dogs called alfie.
We used quite alot of props mainly apples, we have used about 70 apples! Other props used were:
Disposable camera
Jack Daniel's bottle
bottles of beer
A dog
tennis ball
A bike
waitrose shopping
Van
fruit boxes
Its not the most exciting list of props but its all we needed.
Costume
The costume for every was wear your normal clothes and thats what every one did, the costumes weren't constructed a part from two, mine (the tramp) and my Dad (business man). for the people who saw witness our as film then they would have noticed that i was the photographer in it, and I am wearing the same clothes we did as an intertextual reference to our pervious film.
Oli put together this great slide show that expresses my points:
We used quite alot of props mainly apples, we have used about 70 apples! Other props used were:
Disposable camera
Jack Daniel's bottle
bottles of beer
A dog
tennis ball
A bike
waitrose shopping
Van
fruit boxes
Its not the most exciting list of props but its all we needed.
Costume
The costume for every was wear your normal clothes and thats what every one did, the costumes weren't constructed a part from two, mine (the tramp) and my Dad (business man). for the people who saw witness our as film then they would have noticed that i was the photographer in it, and I am wearing the same clothes we did as an intertextual reference to our pervious film.
Oli put together this great slide show that expresses my points:
ManFlick 4 Cast
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About time!
We have now filmed about half of the film, we have encountered a few problems as we had to change the location of some of the shots due to accidently filming on private property in windsor, we over came this very easily as all we did was move down the street and got better shots than we planned.
Storyboards
This is a simple slideshow with all of our story boards.
Storyboards
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C-c-c-changes!
We made a last minute change to the story, we have added about 5 shots in-between the girl putting the apple on the bench and the runner picking the apple up. We have also started filming and everything is looking good!
peace
Night Time Storyboards
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peace
Thursday 10 December 2009
what's the story?
We have a come up with a more detailed story line of 'apple'
An Apple in a supermarket is bought by a lady who proceeds through town after her shopping trip. After traveling through town she is makes her way across a bridge. Two school children from the opposite side of the bridge are playing around and run across the Bridge, one of them knocks into the woman and this causes the apple to fall out of her bag and off the bridge.
At this moment a woman on a bike rides underneath the bridge and the Apple handily lands inside her basket.
The cyclist rides up the main street and after a while realises the Apple is in her basket, confused, she takes it out and throws it onto a nearby bench.
A child and parent also walking along the street happen to go past the apple.
The child picks up the apple and decided to draw a smiley face on the apple. The parent sees this and tells the child to throw the apple away.
The child then leaves the apple on another bench.
That night the apple stays on the bench and in the early hours of the morning three men who have just been out on the town come across the apple. Drunk and rowdy one of them sees the apple and finds it hilarious due to the smiley face. He then asks his companions if he can have his photo taken with the apple. After this event takes place the trio move on.
The next morning a jogger running near the bench stops and sits down so that
they can tie their shoes. They notice the apple and decide to take it with them on the run, eventually throwing it down a staircase.
The apple bounces down the stairs and eventually rolls towards a dog walker and their dog. The dog mistakes it for a tennis ball and runs at the apple, picking it up and running off. The dog walker catches up with their dog and rips the apple out of the dogs mouth and throws it.
A drunken tramp then sees this and decides to go after it. The tramp then walks in along the road before taking another swig of whiskey and in the act of passing out throws it further down the street.
A fruit vendor coming out of an establishment sees the apple and assumes it is part of his shipment and must have fallen out. The fruit vendor place it with the rest of his apples and goes off to deliver his next shipment at a train station. On his way to the entrance he falls over accidently throwing out the box. It lands on the road.
During this occurrence, a business man is coming off a train. In a rush and not looking where he is going he head’s out into the road towards oncoming traffic. It is as this moment the apple saves his life as just before he steps into the road he steps in the apple, and stops walking. Because he stepped on the apple and did not carry on walking he did not walk into the path of the car and therefore was not hit by it; in short all the people in the film contributed the to the prevention of this mans death, and the apple was the tool used to carry out this act of luck. Or random anomalies, which ever way you seem to see it.
An Apple in a supermarket is bought by a lady who proceeds through town after her shopping trip. After traveling through town she is makes her way across a bridge. Two school children from the opposite side of the bridge are playing around and run across the Bridge, one of them knocks into the woman and this causes the apple to fall out of her bag and off the bridge.
At this moment a woman on a bike rides underneath the bridge and the Apple handily lands inside her basket.
The cyclist rides up the main street and after a while realises the Apple is in her basket, confused, she takes it out and throws it onto a nearby bench.
A child and parent also walking along the street happen to go past the apple.
The child picks up the apple and decided to draw a smiley face on the apple. The parent sees this and tells the child to throw the apple away.
The child then leaves the apple on another bench.
That night the apple stays on the bench and in the early hours of the morning three men who have just been out on the town come across the apple. Drunk and rowdy one of them sees the apple and finds it hilarious due to the smiley face. He then asks his companions if he can have his photo taken with the apple. After this event takes place the trio move on.
The next morning a jogger running near the bench stops and sits down so that
they can tie their shoes. They notice the apple and decide to take it with them on the run, eventually throwing it down a staircase.
The apple bounces down the stairs and eventually rolls towards a dog walker and their dog. The dog mistakes it for a tennis ball and runs at the apple, picking it up and running off. The dog walker catches up with their dog and rips the apple out of the dogs mouth and throws it.
A drunken tramp then sees this and decides to go after it. The tramp then walks in along the road before taking another swig of whiskey and in the act of passing out throws it further down the street.
A fruit vendor coming out of an establishment sees the apple and assumes it is part of his shipment and must have fallen out. The fruit vendor place it with the rest of his apples and goes off to deliver his next shipment at a train station. On his way to the entrance he falls over accidently throwing out the box. It lands on the road.
During this occurrence, a business man is coming off a train. In a rush and not looking where he is going he head’s out into the road towards oncoming traffic. It is as this moment the apple saves his life as just before he steps into the road he steps in the apple, and stops walking. Because he stepped on the apple and did not carry on walking he did not walk into the path of the car and therefore was not hit by it; in short all the people in the film contributed the to the prevention of this mans death, and the apple was the tool used to carry out this act of luck. Or random anomalies, which ever way you seem to see it.
if you don't succeed pick your self up and try again!
We started filming and got quite a way into the filming of our short film, we did a quick edit and weren't happy with it. We went back to the drawing bored a came up with a cracking new idea for a short film, the basic premiss of the film is how peoples actions effect others, in the films case these peoples actions save a mans life. The film follows the journey of the apple from being bought in a shop and ending up saving the mans life.
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