Week seven -Location Scouting

As you will have already seen this is the location we want to shoot in . Although it is easy access and reliable I have some concerns about it , in terms of how we will properly use the space and still keep our modern take of gritty film noir mise en scene.



One of my concerns was the use of space. In order to make sure we have enough space to use the techniques we have learned e.g the 180 degree rule we must properly plan where things will be placed. The picture above illustrates one way in which we may place the table ; if we did it this way each person would be either to the let and right of this picture meaning that our camera shots would not show the door nor anything else that might obscure attention away from the actors although the room is bleak any way. This placement may change when we get to the space as we may decide that is not the best way to do things however for now this stands as we can use up our time more efficiently instead of wasting it moving things around.


Another massive concern was the use of lighting, the lighting in the room is quite bright as you can see and this is not held by that fact that the room is a bright reflecting colour (which mean light is brighter as it ray bounce of the paint more and are not absorbed). also circled on the picture is quite a large amount of natural lighting coming through that cannot be blocked , as a large amount of light coming from the long office lighting at the top of the room.The reason this is a problem is because the more lighting we have the less the scene fits the film noir feel we are going for with the interrogation. However there is a way we can combat this and use the natural lighting to our advantage




If we place the camera to shoot from behind 9 (as planned) but at a lower angle we will make is face darker just like in the movie review I did a few weeks ago. I cannot be sure this will work without trying first so I will try and take some photos of the use of lighting before shooting properly.
Also to make sure the light is not over powering we will have to film when it get darker which shouldn't be a problem as it is the winter and it gets darker sooner.







   This has been taken from Fehinti's blog. When Adam and Fehinti were at this location, i was given the task of researching fonts as to maximise the amount of work we got done in the short amount of time that we had.

Week Seven -Font

   I have been looking into different fonts and thought of the credits to Zombieland. I think the way the credits and the action interact with each other is very cleaver and interesting. I don't think we have the means to do something like this, but we could use it for inspiration e.g. stratigically placing cridits in places right next to where someone will be walking.

Week Seven

   We have found someone to play Detective Lewis called Mr Ellen. Mr Ellen is a teacher as Astley Cooper School where our location is. We intended to film on Wednesday but there are strikes going on so he will not be in school and we will not be able to get in to film. On Monday we will have a lesson and we will talk about where we go from here.

  

Week Seven -Font research

   I have been looking into fonts and evaluating which would work best with our film and genre choice. Here are a few i traced from the computer:

   I really liked this font but i think it's a bit too harsh. The fonts that i have looked at are more rounded and softer. The group also liked this option the most and we looked into other fonts that were similar but less harsh. We will most likely use this font or one very similar for our film.

   I wanted a font option that was completely diffrent from what i had seen in other detective/crime fiction films. I didn't like this font very much and the group thought the same. It isn't what we are looking for as i wanted an example of what we knew we wanted to avoid.

   This font i thought was more suited to a si-fi film and not the type of film we are making. It has the rounded, soft edges that the first font needed but isn't what we are looking for.

   I thought this font would suit our film because it is ver similar to the examples i've seen (e.g. the poirot example). This could be a back up font or a font we use if we decided to use two different fonts for example, one font for the titles/credits and one for the name of our film.

Week Seven -Discussing our opening scene

   Here is a voice recording that i put onto voki of Adam and Fehinti talking about what we had all just discussed about how we should open our film. I am not talking in this voice recording but Fehinti mentions my idea.

   

   My idea came from Adam's idea of having the beginning part showing flashes of the real scene of Laura after being kidnapped mixed with footage of her from the camera. This would disorientate the audience. I thought that his idea was very good and that after the flashes it could go black and we could then start the scene from where we were going to originally from Dective Lewis' mouth. In other words, the blackness from the footage would then turn into the blackness from inside the Detective's mouth. The scene would then continue like we planned on the storyboard zooming out from the Detective's mouth.

Week Seven

   Fehinti has created another possible logo for our company 'Gravitational Studios'.


   I like Fehinti's logo creation and think that the blue goes with the earthy connotations 'Gravitational' has. I also liek the font. I think it's a strong type face which is what we wanted but think the silver is a bit too metalic which is the opposite to the natualy, earthy connotations i think of when i hear our studio name.

   Fehinti also created an animated logo to put at the beginning of our film. The effect he used of the spinning letters was a good idea i think, it adds strength to the logo. The music in the background i think -if we used this- should be equally as strong but keeping in tone with the detective/crime fiction genre. (Fehinti has commented on his blog that he will not be using the backing sound track used in his example on the real one).  http://fehintiastleyasmedia.blogspot.com/2011/11/gravitational-studios-possible-new-logo.html  This is a link to his blog on the logo.

Week seven -Action plan

 My action plan for week seven.


   I will show the group my personal research into fonts and sound/music and get their opinion on them. We will then have the font and music choices chosen. Next week Wednesday we will have had our filming completed as we will be filming the interrogation scenes at Astley Cooper School.