Title Sequence Graphic Match Test

 Graphic Match Test

This was a a quick test film we did in order to get a better idea of how our graphic match shall look, a graphic match is an editing technique used to help pass time by continuing an action or constant image throughout the scenes for example in this scene I am passing in front of a computer in room A, there is no indication of time passing however maybe a clock on the wall will help to show that, but in this example in room B, my pacing up and down is the constant movement linking the two scenes and the computer scene is still in the scene near enough exactly where it was in room A.

In our actual project we intend to use a much larger mirror meaning it will be more obvious the top left hand corner of the object is helping to transfer us from one location to another. We will also have a clearer room difference and larger rooms to play with, meaning we can have a larger variety of shots as apposed to just a MS or closer as the rooms we used for this were quite space restricting.

Title Sequence Graphic Match Test

 Graphic Match Test

This was a a quick test film we did in order to get a better idea of how our graphic match shall look, a graphic match is an editing technique used to help pass time by continuing an action or constant image throughout the scenes for example in this scene I am passing in front of a computer in room A, there is no indication of time passing however maybe a clock on the wall will help to show that, but in this example in room B, my pacing up and down is the constant movement linking the two scenes and the computer scene is still in the scene near enough exactly where it was in room A.

In our actual project we intend to use a much larger mirror meaning it will be more obvious the top left hand corner of the object is helping to transfer us from one location to another. We will also have a clearer room difference and larger rooms to play with, meaning we can have a larger variety of shots as apposed to just a MS or closer as the rooms we used for this were quite space restricting.

Making the Fake Money

We had to make lots of fake money for our rich man scene and the cheapest way to do this is by making our own. Its is very easy and looks realistic for the scene. The link is the process I used to make the fake money. http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Fake-Money

The video shows me tea staining the paper so it has                

an old and battered effect.



Falling Money Test

In the scene of the vision for the rich man we have falling money. We hadn't tried anything like this when filming our preliminary task or film opening last year so we thought it would be a good idea to test out. We quickly cut up some paper to look like money and began.


First we tried out just throwing money from one side of the camera, this is the first try in the video. Then we found it didn't look very good as it only fell down one side of the person.


We then made some more money and tried having two people throwing money from both sides. When watching this back it looked much better and it gave the effect we were aiming to achieve, so this is the method we are going to use.

Split Screen

Split Screen

we did some research into making the split screen for the phone calls in our short film however last year for our creative project we did extensive research and planing into a triple split screen for our thriller opening, as this was one of the big post production processes we used. this year we intend to do dual split screens but three in quick succession with a single conversation running throughout the entire split screen process. we intend for one character to call each of his friends and have the same conversation with each of his friends however one friend will pick up the phone then hear the first bit of the conversation and the middle will go to the 2nd friend, the final friend will hear the last of the call and then hang up. have a running conversation effect and not bore the audience with 3 similar phone calls as that can be very monotonous.

Graphic Match

A graphic match a transitional device used in editing. its main intention is to skip backwards or forwards in time while A) maintaining a continuity of action or B) creating a metaphorical link between images that bookend the cut.  it can serve comedic dramatic or purely ideological purpose. a good example of a graphic match would be in 2001 space odyssey when they transition from the cave man era on a planets with a bone throw, the scene fades from the bone to a space station in outer space.  we intend to use this process inside of our film to transition the main protagonist from the vintage shop with the mirror to his room. However we will keep the mirror in the bottom of the screen so the top back of the mirror is seen as well as the protagonist pacing in front of the mirror both in the shop and in his room.

Costumes and Characters

Rich man-

He is a confident person, the leader of the group, he is very excitable as he was the one who found and brought the mirror. Throughout the film his costume will just be normal teenage clothes. When his scene with the vision happens h will be wearing a suit/smart clothes surrounded by falling money which we are going to make.

Celebrity-
The celebrity character is also fairly confident. He will also be wearing normal teenage clothes. In his vision scene he will be wearing a smart suit, Very slick looking.  Authentic red carpet clothing with backdrop done through green screen, with red carpet underneath.  The green screen behind is a maybe at the moment as we are unsure weather we are able to do it well. 

Love-
Normal daytime clothes for both male and female character. I both vision scene and throughout. They will be surrounded by falling rose petals and paper hearts pinned around them. We are also making these.

Hanging- 
Normal regular clothes For the hanging scene, preferably a skirt to show that it is the same person she is looking at. Her character is very shy and subdued throughout the whole short film. Her body language will show this, mainly by being reluctant to look in the mirror

Research into filming in front of a mirror.

                                                            FILMING RESEARCH
 We understood the difficulties we may face filming in front of a mirror, we could face certain continuity errors such as seeing the camera or breaking the 180 degree rule. we originally thought that using certain angles so that the character is seen but the camera isn't however this we cause restrictions, i believe we will use the process shown in the video along with use angles to hide the camera so we can get a combination of different camera angles in the mirror scenes as apposed to just one.

First Animatic.

 

First Animatic 

the real time run through of our plan to our creative coursework, to around 3 minutes and 45 seconds however we intend for our project to be longer than this as we were unsure of timings in this animatic as we intend to play with this in the editing process, we will be filming a lot of extra footage and longer shots in order to have a variation in the editing process and hopefully extending the time of our short film to roughly 5 minutes.

Storyboard

Prop List

• An old looking vintage mirror- Ideally Full length. - Ed is planning to get a mirror off of someone at his work place.

      Other Items in the shop

• Mobile Phone
• Fake money- we are planning to make the fake money ourselves. We are going to do this by lightly tea staining A4 paper and then printing off   money.http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Fake-Money
• Fake Gold Bar or Money Bags?
• Red Carpet- Buy one from Amazon - £5.34

• Rose Petals - Homemade out of Tissue Paper
• Nail Varnish
• Camera's - strobe lighting to make it look like there is paparazzi

Genre?

Typically it is very hard to fit any short film into a certain genre, this is the same with ours. This is because our plot has elements of a lot of different genres. The Genres our short film loosely fit into the genres Mystery, Thriller and Horror as our plot involves a supernatural mirror and the scene at the end showing a morbid future this has strong hints of horror. However the rest of  the movie is kind of mystery/thriller as they find a mysterious object and experiment with it, also we are going to use non-diegetic sound to build up suspense towards the end of the film and to convey different emotions. The fact our short story doesn't have a particular category it fits into , means we wont have any particular group of conventions we can put into our short film.