To find out more about who our audience is, how they consume media products, what they want/expect from our product and what they think of our idea for our short film. This task was extremely useful and enabled us to get a wider insight on the subject and how to tailor our product to our target audience and wider audiences.
Thursday, 26 January 2017
Monday, 23 January 2017
Poster Designs
Poster Design Outcome 1
The top image is the photographic outcome, I then went on to edit it in adobe illustrator using the image trace setting to create this effortless illustrative poster outcome. I can't decide which outcome is more successful as the first you can see the people and the street with much more clarity but I prefer the over all aesthetic of the illustrated version. I think this outcome reflects the style of the documentary with the hazy colour scheme and the overlay reflects the jumble/confusion within his mind, showing him in deep thought and him sitting in his spot with many people passing him by. I have chosen to keep the text very simple and modest, I decided there was no need to put in ratings or advertisement as our film is more a piece of art than a film for the mass and will attract its own audience regardless.
Outcome 2
Wednesday, 11 January 2017
Stills from filming
Today we filmed the rest of our footage; interview with Tom, seeing what a day in his life is like from his perspective, he shows us his home and takes us to the spot where he waits. These are some stills from the footage...
Strengths
Filming went well. It took us a few hours to do, due to the change of locations but I think we managed our time efficiently. We had to do shots several times, either because of our actors laughing or we felt we could get a better shot if we did it again or did it differently. We had one day of filming and then 2 shorter clips were filmed on another day. In terms of getting our actors comfortable while filming, the technique of letting them run with a general idea of what we wanted to be said worked really well. This meant there was no pressure on them to remember lines and it stopped them sounding wooden, this was important as documentaries are supposed to be real life.
Problems We Faced
We did not have too many problems. The main issue we had is that after we had finished all our filming, we realised we did not have a clip for our first voiceover. We managed to sort this out pretty quickly however and decided that a quick time lapse of a sun setting (to relate to night and dreams) would be a suitable filler clip for an introduction. The only other problem we had was our actors settling into their character. Henry struggled at first to get to know his character and execute it, but he got into it pretty quickly..
The weather and lighting kind of let us down towards the end of the shoot but to be fair the grey skies kind of reflect the tone of the documentry so it works. Overall filming went really smoothly and we can't wait to put it all together and watch it back
Thursday, 5 January 2017
Trying out text styles
Experimenting with different styles of text over the footage from yesterdays shoot, I think text style 2 has the best look and is clearer /easier to read.
Rough final script
So far, we have planned out some direction for the interviews e.g. some questions and topics to discuss.
Above are the basic questions for Toby. These will be the basic topics for the interview. Toby will play our main character's younger brother.
We have also drafted a rough script for the rest of the film. We want to keep it simple and rough, and let our actors run with it. This worked really well when we filmed Mrs Edmunds' interview. Below is the rough script.
Above details some of the questions we have come up with for the interview with Mrs Edmunds. The interviews need not be long and as Mrs Edmunds already has knowledge in the field of psychology, we left it up to her to think about what she might say. We discussed with her a few pointers (as detailed above), but left the topics vague. We want our documentary to be as real as possible. We feel keeping Mrs Edmunds' script flexible will help towards that goal.
Above are the basic questions for Toby. These will be the basic topics for the interview. Toby will play our main character's younger brother.
We have also drafted a rough script for the rest of the film. We want to keep it simple and rough, and let our actors run with it. This worked really well when we filmed Mrs Edmunds' interview. Below is the rough script.
Wednesday, 4 January 2017
Science Behind Psychosis - Interview Teaser
Our first day of filming... An interview with Julie; a professional psychologist, we discussed the pschological background to why Tom may be the way he is. She had some really interesting points to make and it really helped us to gain a deeper understanding, she was really confident and natural in front of the camera so filming went really smoothly.
