creation of our ident

every great film company has that one distinctive ident, the little sequence you see in the first minute of any film. I decided that I would like to create one as well, to make my overall opening look professional. so, me and Jack decided that in order to get the best looking ident we must use after effects. I have never used after effects before other than the practice task, (which is shown in my earlier blogs) however I wanted to make sure I have got the skill I need to help create this ident.

The first thing I had to do was to create a name for our production company. after many pointless and stupid names later I came across "Novus" which means "new" in Latin. I decided that that was a suitable name for our production and began to create the ident
Because I did not have the skills to create an ident straight away I watched numerous video's on how use after effects, these videos really did help me through the process.
in the end of hours of editing and tutorials me and jack created this ident.
enjoy.

 

filming location


I had an idea of what I wanted my location to look like before I found it. I set out to find an abandoned house in an remote area however this was not possible because we had to seek permission to enter the abandoned house. I decided that  a substitute for the house would be bridge that the homeless character could keep shelter under. I wanted to use a remote area because it highlights the vulnerability of the two homeless characters. here are the photographs I took on the day of looking for the locations.

 

storyboarding!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

screen play

screen play is a very import aspect of film productions, it is effectively the starting point of pre production and acts as a navigator throughout the film making process. screen play is a script of the film which includes details of camera shot, mise en scene as well as actor instructions.

For our thriller opening,  we are going use a script to make so that there is a clear direct to be achieved when we are out filming.  this will make filming easier and hopefully highlight any issues that may occur. The actors that we have hired will have a copy of the script so they have a good understanding of the plot and they know there roles. we hope to replicate a similar format to the jaws script as this was an effective script in the pre-production phase when masking jaws.  

Defining your audience

 Audience themes

 

 

For our opening scene I think that the most suitable theme for "omitted" is the personal relationship because I believe there will be emotional factors that will connect with the audience, this is because our opening scene intends to have a homeless girl kidnapped, whilst her brother is away scavenging for food.

I think that our opening scene links with the audience theme of surveillance, because in our opening scene we want to show the harsh living conditions that homeless people have to withstand day in and day out, such as venerability and the cold winter weather.

 

After effects practice

I have never used after effects before so I decided to build my technical skills in this area because I think it could be useful in post-production. I followed tutorials from youtube, which helped me understand the basics of after effects. This is the short video I created. Enjoy.




This is one of the tutorials that helped me create my video.

Focus group - media audiences

As a last check to see if our target audience is suitable for our plot, we held a focus group which was aimed to see if there will be any implications that may occur with our target audience. we have taken the feedback from the group and have made adjustments to our plot/target audience.