Film Poster Shot Ideas

We now have to start thinking about our film poster. So to create some ideas we went out into our school grounds and took some photos of possible backgrounds that we could use.
I uploaded them onto the photo site Picasa and have created a folder to showcase our photos.
http://picasaweb.google.com/fusefilms0/FilmPosterShotIdeas#

Animatic

After our storyboards michael decided to make a animatic to show our storyboards in a slow motion. This allows us to see what our film would look like when it has been finished.
After we had watched the animatic we had an idea of what we would like our film to be like.
Although we are 5 minutes short, so we will have to add a few more shots to the film to lengthen it. So when we come to editing again we will change the length of the shots.

Storyboards

We have now completed the storyboards,there are 44 overall. They have been uploaded to a program called Scribd, it allows you to view documents online.
Every storyboard shows the shot type and description of the shot.
We still have to decide a backing track for this film, which will run from shot 15 onwards. This will be decided very soon, once we have requested copyright.

The Running Man- Storyboards 1-44

Fuse Films On Twitter and Flickr

Our film production company Fuse Films are now on Twitter and Flickr. Flickr is a website to showcase photos, so we have imported some photos that we have taken onto this website to show our audience what we are doing. Twitter, a website that is based on status updates, again this lets us inform our audience of what we are doing by 'tweeting'.



http://www.flickr.com/fusefilms

http://www.twitter.com/fusefilms

Test Shots


As we are getting nearer to filming our final idea, we decided to film some test shots that can be put into our film.
We filmed a short sequence of Lizi running through school, we included: extreme long shots, low angled shots, mid shots and point of view shots. The most successful of the shots we thought were the low angled shot and the point of view shot.
With the footage we had we put it into imovie and created a short preliminary film. We wanted to make the split screen effect but had problems finding this effect so we may have to use the Adobe Premier Pro editing program. We are still in the process of finding a song for our footage.

Location Planning

After coming up with our Final Idea we decided to look for some locations to film our short film. We have decided to film at Lizi Woods house as she has the most ideal locations for our film. We still however need to look at other locations for the house and bedroom shots.

Roles and Responsibilities

To maximize the use of our time as we come up to filming and production we have decided to allocate roles to each of our group members. This ensures that we all have an active part in production of the film and ancillary tasks so that we will have enough time to finish by our deadline.

Roles

Filming

Director - Mike Fews
Camera Work - Josh Jotcham & Mike Fews
Editing - Josh Jotcham
Lighting - Dani Phillpott
Costume & Props - Lizi Wood
Blog Diary - Lizi Wood
Music Finder - Lizi Wood

Ancillary Task

Film Poster - Dani Phillpott & Mike Fews
Radio Trailer - Josh Jotcham & Lizi Wood

Influences For Running Man Idea



After coming up with a final idea i used the short film "Le Cheval" that i had watched as a big influence for this final idea.
I found out that if the running character keeps the same pace throughout the film when shooting it and use shots like long shots to show where the character is running from and to.
Also another influence was the film "Forest Gump", when he runs for a long period. The shot mainly stays the same and doesnt change throughout.


Running Man Final Idea

This is our final idea that we have came up with, we realised that if our running man character was running past famous Bristol landmarks it would look too much like an advert. So we came up with this idea instead. Final Idea

The film starts with a digital clock, the time turns to 6:30 and at the sound of an alarm, a student aged around 18 wakes up suddenly and rushes around the house gathering books and keys etc. He runs out the door and carries on running through the streets of a city and carries on running through more extreme situations such as the woods, a river. He carries on running with an air of purpose as if he is running somewhere important, the audience is left hoping he arrives there on time as he is running with urgency. He suddenly turns a corner and the screen splits and on one half the student see's the bus just about to leave, just as he starts to run to catch the bus, someone not looking accidently spills a drink down him, this delay makes him miss the bus he then turns to leave. The other half shows the man turning the corner and dodging the man with the drink, he then manages to catch the bus. The split screen stops and we focus to the man who missed the bus, he has just arrived home, he goes upstairs to change his shirt as he does he turns on the radio. All sound stops except for the radio, it tells us that a bus, the one which he was meant to catch, has been in an accident. While this is playing the scene has changed to the man on the bus, as the news bulletin finishes the man looks up in fear and the screen goes black. There is then white noise playing the credits up. The film then ends.

We will now need to storyboard this idea.

Film Ideas

We decided our target audience will be aged between 16 and 20 and that the subject of our film should relate to that age range.


We really liked the idea of a "Running Man" where he is running past famous Bristol landmarks like the SS Great Britain etc.
We now want to develop this idea further.

Technology in the Media

Because of Convergence media can now be accessed alot easier then just by watching it on Tv. Audiences can now access films through websites and blogs, very much like this one. Web 2.0 especially allows this as this allows audiences become more interactive through the internet.
Web 2.0 has become of great importance to upcoming film producers as it allows them to get to audiences that wouldn't of been possible before. They can upload their short films to websites like Independent Lens or a well known video channel- Youtube. This can make the company become very popular and the producer receiving more funding to create more films that are mainstream, blockbusters.
Another way of film companies and producers getting their film out to a wider audience is by using popular social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace.

Our group thought it would be a good way to involve our film company Fuse Films in other ways, by setting up a Fuse Films facebook page and Youtube channel to broadcast our films.
Youtube- http://youtube.com/fusefilms
Facebook-LINK