Nick's Foundation Portfolio 2009-2010

My New Blog

2010-07-14T16:14:00.001+01:00

I have had problems with my blog recently i have now amended any errors, the address is as follows;
http://lca2mediacw1011nick.blogspot.com/ (individual blog) and
www.nickdamondarren.blogspot.com (group blog)

Definition of Key Terminology words

2010-05-12T12:45:00.000+01:00

Lord Puttnum - Is a Film Producer and Politician
Shane Meadows - A Film Producer for Warp Films, and he was ranked #40 in the 2008 Telegraph's list "the 100 most powerful people in British culture".
Tim Bevan - Born in Queenstown, New Zealand, he Co-Founded Working Title Films in London
Certifications - these are the labels of films e.g. age rating like 15, 18 or PG
Catergories -

Evaluation Task 7 - Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

2010-05-10T13:31:00.001+01:00

Evaluation Task 7

For this task I used Microsoft Word 2007 and then uploaded it to Scribd.com which is a website which allows me to upload documents such as Word documents or OpenOffice documents, then you can get the embed code, and paste it onto any blog/webpage and view the document as it was made/designed to.

Evaluation Task 6

2010-05-09T11:22:00.000+01:00

The slide containing photos above has all the photos to prove that me and Nick took part in the project, the Slide contains a verity of photos of me and Nick we have included photos of us both filming on set and also shots of us when we were using the other technologies used for the project E.G using the MACS for editing.

Media Evaluation Activity 6

Evaluation Task 5 - How did you attract/address your audience?

2010-05-08T20:09:00.001+01:00

This is our Final version of the film we made titled, "Time Won't Tell", I have added annotations using the YouTube onsite editing web application. I have commented the USP's, Genre Conventions, Music used and the Similarities between our film and others

Genre Conventions Comments
Unlike most films of the same genre as our film we have broke the conventions, these broken conventions include;

Budget
Dangerous Phyical Stunts
and destructive disasters

We have broken the budget convention by the conventions of an action film, by having a really small budget, involved in the film making compared to standard films of this genre such as Bourne Ultimatum, James Bond and Die Hard, which have budget rising into the many hundreds of millions of dollars to blow on awesome special effects, etc.

Secondly We don't have any dangerous physical stunts involved in the sequence because we don't have any professional stunts person to cover for the actors, unlike any of the general films which would employee specialists stunt people and co-ordinators to do the stunts, like jumping though a window two stories below from a balcony of another building or crashing and flipping a car at high speed.

There isn't any destructive disasters which include; Earthquakes, Hurricanes, Volcanoes, etc. The reason why these aren't include is because of Costs/Budget and Special Effects, the costs of making these would be enormous and we didn't have either the computing power or specialist software to create these special effects.

We have followed the conventions of this genre of film in the following ways;

High Tempo
High Energy
Allows for Audience Escapism

The Film is a of high tempo and energy, and due to this it'll have the audience members on the edge of their seats wanting to see more of the adrenaline pumping, fast pace action film, along with that we have used the music accordingly.

Our film allows the audience to discover escapism whilst watching it, the film is believable, enjoyable and watchable it makes the audience want to watch, due to the fact that for a hour or two the audience can watch a film which makes allows them to relax but at the same time enjoy it and have their heart beat faster than just sitting watching a tv show, because of the high octane fast pace fof the action film.

Evluation Task 4

2010-05-07T11:12:00.000+01:00

This is Tom king who is 19 and lives in a small vilalge of Croft, in the leicestershire, he is a full tiem studnet who is studiying gegraphy,science. He is intrested in long distances runnig and weightlifting. he is a very active person who enkys physcial activity.

The type of filsm that Tom likes shooter, the dark knight, tghe Bourne trilogy he is interested in action thriller films becuase most of his favourite films fall into not that genre.Tom is laos intresrted in going to the cinema and is abig movie fan.

I htinks that Tom would like our film becuase it is sismalir to a lot of his favourte action thriller filmns such as the Bourne Triology which is his favourite triolgy films, it would also appeal to Tom becuase it ocntians high paced action simialr to the bouren films

Age rating of our film

2010-05-07T11:05:00.000+01:00

We have decided to give our film opening a 15 rating becuase we feel that the genre of film will contian alot of violence, and from the oepning you can already see that it will cotiain violence the way that the assasisng is trying to blow up the other character.Alothe fact that we see him prepare his gun in the opening which indicates he is into violence.

Evaluation Task 3 - What Kind of Media Institutions might distribute your media product and why?

2010-05-06T21:33:00.001+01:00

This our film with a directors commentary style voice over, I talk about What kind of Media Institution might distribute our media product and why, also I talk about the titles and the logo.

The commentary on the YouTube video is a lot better as I have edited most of the clips so they don't sound as bad, although they aren't great quality which I'm apologetic for, the reason why it's so bad is because I ended up using the microphone on my headphones to record, other wise the sound files wasn't audible as I tested.
I have ended up shortening my speech on the video as when I read all of the text I couldn't fit it all into the length of the short 2 mins 35, so as a result I have ended up shorten what I say.l

This is the script for our Evaluation Task 3.Script for Evaluation Task 3
Playlist of Directors Commentary, separate from Film

Directors Commentary for Time Won't Tell by thetyro

Sorry I'm having problems converting .m4a format (from my iPhone recorded the sound clips to) to .mp3
I need to add to the film. the youtube video will be uploaded shortly

Evaluation Task 2

2010-05-05T10:19:00.000+01:00

The picture above is off Our main character Richard who we are comparing to an existing character in a film who is Matt Damon in the Bourne Trilogy.

Evaluation activity 2

View more presentations from damoncotes.

The spider diagram above shows the key similarities between our key character Richard and Jason Bourne who I have compared Richard against.

The spider diagram above lists the key differences that I think Richard and Jason Bourne have.

Evaluation Task 1

2010-05-04T11:21:00.000+01:00

Time Won't Tell (Final Film)

2010-05-03T14:51:00.000+01:00

This is our final film.

I have added two video's because sometimes the YouTube video doesn't work, and sometimes the blogger video doesn't seem to work, so it was basically a back up feature, to make sure that the video was on my blog, sorry for any inconvenience.

Time Won't Tell Drafts

2010-05-02T23:43:00.000+01:00

These are video's of draft versions of Time Won't Tell

This is our Preliminary Film

Analogue 35mm Prints to Digital format

2010-04-28T12:45:00.000+01:00

We have found this website which is a company who offer to convert films from the analogue 35mm prints to digital, although it doesn’t actually tell you how they do it.
http://www.digitalcopycat.com/

We also found out that a website called eHow, which is a company who infomr their readers, how to do basically anything.

How to (a basic step by step)

1. A Telecine Machine (pictured)
2. Choose your definiton (HD or SD)
3. Insert 35mm reel
(note: if you plan on editing in high defintion or a higher standard, be aware that you will need a computer with alot of processing power, unlike standard definiton where you'll be able to use standard family freindly desktops or laptops.)
4. Watch footage atleast twice to check the filming is correct.
5. Choose file format
6. Convert Files

http://www.ehow.com/how_5928701_convert-35mm-film-digital.html

if you want to convert it yourself at home you will need these pieces of equipment;
•35mm film

•35mm film projector

•Projection surface

•Digital video camera

•Computer

•DVD burner

•Blank DVD

this task isn't particulary hard, although people with little or no computer skills might struggle as certain points in the conversion.

Films produced by Warp which was converted from 35mm to Digital format are;

Films produced by Working Title which was converted from 35mm to Digital format

video for personal use

2010-04-15T15:55:00.001+01:00

A short list of shots used in film

2010-03-26T20:54:00.000+00:00

This is a short list of shots that we used during our film,

Bird's eye view
Long shot
Medium shot
Close up
Extreme close up
Snail eye view
Over the shoulder shot
Point of View
Panning

Final Location for filming (all pictures)

2010-03-26T20:27:00.000+00:00

Props and Clothing used on filming

2010-03-26T20:25:00.000+00:00

The props that we used on the final filming are;

Black Shoes
Black Trousers
Black Shirt
Leather Jacket
Leather Gloves
Helmet
Black Jacket
Bomb
Motorbike
Messenger Bag
2 Laptops
Gun
Folder
Watch
Car
Motorbike and Car Keys
Two iPhones
Paper with text and photo's on
Desk
Pliers
Trainers
Tie
Hooded Jumper
Scarf

Ident on our film, Time Won't Tell

2010-03-26T19:39:00.001+00:00

This is the Ident that we use on our film and the what we planned on using

Pictures of Me and Damon Editing and Filming

2010-03-26T19:05:00.001+00:00

These pictures are of me and Damon filming and editing, as you can see from the pictures we both took it in turns filming and filming on all occassions.

Final location for filming (Rugby where the business man is based, Part 2)

2010-03-26T18:35:00.001+00:00

Preliminary Video

2010-03-26T17:29:00.003+00:00

This is mine and Damon's Preliminary Video

Storyboards (Original and new versions)

2010-03-26T17:20:00.000+00:00

Post Production Sounds and Editing Styles

2010-03-25T22:34:00.002+00:00

Sounds
We have decided to use two different sound clips on our final version of the film. The two clips are going to be applied to each individual actor in our film, so this means when ever the person is shown we will use the song which is linked to the actor such as the business man. We have used a slightly upbeat song for Rhys who is the business man and a more calm and relaxed song for the assassin who is played by Richard

Edtiting Styles
Our film editing has the main effect of Cross Cutting, this is where you are watching two characters go about their life, and we keep changing between each character, e.g. you are watching the assassin one shot and then we will switch to the life of the business man and then back agian, we decided to use fade in and outs as the transitions on most shots this because we wanted to show that we constantly switch between each character to allow the viewer to get to know the character and by using fades between each change of actor. Another reason why we used fades was because it helped the change of scene smoother, and helped it be believeable. I believe that how we have used these effects and not added any cheese and rubbish effects has really helped us to improve on our draft where we used some effects that make our look poor and amateur

(Contrast between character roles and theme of song such as evil assassin and calm music)

Final Actors - Richard Anderson

2010-03-25T22:30:00.003+00:00

Richard Anderson is the second of our actors that we chose for our final filming, When we chose Richard to be the actor who plays the assassin, because he is more mature, when he had his leather coat and gloves on with his cap, he looked similar to how you would expect an assassin to dress he didn't look to casual but didn't look to obvious that if you walked around a town, that he wouldn't stick out from the crowd, and that is what we wanted, we also knew that we wanted it for the viewer to know which character was which and with Richard wearing this type of clothing, I believe it did make it obvious.

Final Actors - Rhys Withers

2010-03-23T22:06:00.002+00:00

Rhys Withers is one of the two of our actors we chose for our final filming. He is 17 years old, lives in Narborough and enjoys playing sports which includes Football. Rhys is also interested and enjoys Computing, and as well as playing on his Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. He is planning on going to university to get a Degree in computer games programming, to get a job as a computer games programmer.

I believe that Rhys was the perfect actor for us to choose because he fitted what we both wanted of the actor, who is a casual man who was on his way to work.

The person Rhys plays is a casual business man who is being targeted by an assassin, yet he isn't really aware of if (for sure) or when he's going to be killed.

We told Rhys to wear black shirt and trousers, along with his and black shoes which are shown below