Change of Plan

 The logistics of our car crash flashback was not working, due to shooting in the cars and idea of the girl having a flashback in the car and how the scene would end. We then changed the idea to the girl being in the room the whole time, and having the flashback changed to hearing an arugment as a child and her real mother opens the door to say "run, you need to run". Then the flashback ends and her fake mum saying" we got to run to school". This save us alot of time by only shooting in two rooms and not cars as well as it cuts the cast size down to 4, and the little girl doesn't have to look super young just small as we only see the back of her. 

moodboards for characters

Made by Vita 

Real mother

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Real father

Fake father 

 

Fake mother

flashback research

I look at other media's portrayal of flashbacks, the screenwriting needs to have a clear timeline. I have found the 'flow of logic' of the timeline needs to be accurate, so the plot makes sense. There needs to be enough clarity through the whole script. I think it would be used full to write the storyline to the most film. 

For most film flashback should only be used if there is need for the context of the story, or used instead of the character speaking about past experiences which explains the way there are to an audience, its shown. For example Ratatouille. 

Flashbacks can easily confused an audience if not done right. Most films may have a couple used to give a background of an idea. But some films whole concept is the flashbacks telling the whole story through flashbacks and different people such as "The Hours" which has flashes back from the perspective of three different women. 

Flashbacks that has been well executed, 

Ratatouille - 

How it's shown: The sound goes very quiet, as only can hear the bites, then the sound zooms (like a car zooming past or comupter restarted). The editing makes the camera zoom out around the man. Which the zooms to the man as a child, then when the flashback ends it zoom back out into the start. 

There is no dialogue but the flashback displays what is happening clearly 

The flashback helps give context to the character and adds to the story

Eternal sunshine of the Spotless Mind -

The flashback in the film are taken to a literal sense in the film. The flashback are of the lead interacting with past memories.  The flashbacks change by a shot, there is a whole scene of him talking to his ex girlfriend, she goes to kiss him from an OTS shot and then it cut to a wide shot of him alone, no transition, she just disappears. 

The social network - 

The scenes are key in the story of what actually happened. The film jumps back and forth to what happening in actual time and what had happen before. The scenes just cut through conversation, if the side text of what actually happened is needed. The story has more fluidity with flashbacks, they do not make you focus on the fact there is a flashback but more on whats happening.  As the film is about other people view on to what happened, the flashback help the audience to clarify to what is happening and who side with like. 

 

Our first storyboard

 We made a very pulled back simple story board of what roughly happens 

2nd Camera workshop

What to do when shoot

Alway start with a wide shot when filming, because if in editing the shot doesn't match up a wide shot can always be place in.  Also incase if you run out of time on a location, in editing it can be replaced for whatever close up/mid shot was meant to happen. Then after shooting wide, shot mid because if run out of time for close ups, mid and wide shots aren's as big a jump from wide to close up and makes the piece more appealing to watch. 

Marks are used so people and objects are position in the same place for focusing for every different shot type, plus for continuity purposes. They are used by either place tap or a small object (like a camera lens) for where the person is meant to be standing. 

Continuity is very important, it provides the editors with a daily update of what is shot on each day.

Make sure that each scene is covered by every camera angle and they cut together in the edit

It can save a production lots of money and having to re-shoot scenes

Stand by is called my director to make sure everything is in place and ready to go, Standing by is just before the camera starts to record is said by the cameraman/operators. Then cameras rolling is said by the director when the the camera should start recording and then actions when the filming of the scene starts. And then at the end of the scene the camera hold for a few seconds then the director yells cut. 

You film before saying action, one in case camera doesn't record or something falls out of place, two in case the action starts before the camera is filming. 

You shouldn't watch footage back on set in case the actor sees and doesn't like the way they look, this could alter their performance and change everything that has have already been shot and waste time. 

The 180 shot rule is going from side to side and never letting an actor be on the other side of the camera. If they are shot sitting on the right from every angle they need to be sat on the right. 

Teacher Feedback on Ideas

 Our group described our main ideas to our teacher, he said our strongest point was Iside's and Vita's idea combine. Though that maybe due because that idea was developed the most. We talked about the gym idea and how it may not read to an audience as much because it's not the stereotypical women in danger, such as a women walking alone at night. We have decided to that Iside's and Vita's Idea is the one we will do. But will need to edit and develop the idea more. 

1st Camera Workshop

Learning how to set up and use the Cameras

Camera type - Blackmagic URSA mini 

RULES:

• When passing a piece of equipment, the person who wanting the equipment once they have the weight of the equipment says"mine" and the person passing says "yours" when they give up the weight
• pack up nicely so equipment is easy to use.

1) we took the tripod out of the bag, pulled the legs out and placed on the ground 

 

2) The yellow air bubble need to be facing you and then attach the pan hand

The yellow air bubble is the spirt level. 

Twist under near the main part of the tripod 90 degrees, and use the pan hand to adjust. The idea is the have the dote in the circle and that how to know that the tripod is level. And then twist 90 degrees back to tighten.

3) Before adjusting the spirt level, first you want to set the height of the tripod. To adjust height, the bottom of the legs there is the extension locks. Turn all to the side then pull up all the side equally. Then turn the extension locks back to keep at height. If wanting to go higher there are another set on the middle of the legs. 

 

4) On the tripod there is a side lock which is for the head to tilt and can be locked in a tilt position and there is another on the front of the head by the yellow spirt level for the pan lock. 

5) To place the camera on the tripod. Hold camera from the top handle and the rest of the camera with the other hand. The yellow spirt should be facing you, gentle slot the camera into the head of tripod and press the button on the left. Once the camera has slide through and all the camera is on the head, let go of button on the left all on the head there is a lever on the left to twist. The camera is now safely on the tripod. 

 

6) Placing the battery in the back. The Battery has a V in the back this is the slide down onto the back of the camera, it clicks when in place. 

7) Take camera cap lid off, open the side of the camera and turn on. One the lens of the camera are the nozzle. The big one is to zoom in and out and the smaller one is to focus. To the best focus first you must zoom in and then focus from there and then zoom back out. Need to do this in every shot otherwise loses the level of quality. It's also used to emphasis certain things in a scene, like you want a person in deep focus and everything in the background not. It defines the images seen. 

 

8) Blue part on the lens controls the exposure, you have to pinch it and then rotate to control the exposure. Exposure is important because it controls how light and dark a picture as well as different tones in the photos. It also decides the artist decisions of the shot.

9) White balances is easy to use by tapping on the corner of the screen where the 'WB' is then it give you options for where you are. For example if the camera was set for indoor lighting then filming natural day light it makes the film very blue cause the sky makes a blue overcast but when changing the white balances to outdoors the film looks normal.