Film Ident

This is the ident for our film which we made. It is flames which pulse through the "Ace" cards which make it Ace Productions. We chose to make it like this because we feel that the colours fit in with our theme and the flames signify danger.

Font for title

These were some of the fonts we were considering using for our title which we found on DaFont website.

Music for film

These are some of the music clips we looked at for the music in our film production.

29/01/14

Today, Blaine continued to edit the footage of the opening sequence, adding the new footage in and giving the shots some effects such as a colour filter on top of the clips and some transitions in between the clips.
Also, Molly, Nader and I all worked on the Blog posts at the same time so that we could make the work efficient and ensure that we have covered all the posts that we should have had. We all finished some posts and added more detail to some of the older posts and added new posts in.
Posts that I made were a couple of diary posts and mopped up and improved some older posts.
Posts that Nader made were some new posts, one was the creation of the new villain character who is significantly different to our old antagonist.
Molly made some new posts about title fonts we used, risk assessments that we had to use during filming and a filming log of what we did during filming.

Production Logo

We used Adobe After effects to animate the flames for our company production logo. We took the logo we made with Photoshop and created the effect using a tutorial. We did this because we feel that it fits in with the look of the original logo and the film idea itself. We decided to make this effect rather than other effects because the flames look interesting and they go well with the burnt looking part of the cards.
We used many different tools to be able to produce the ring of flames which expands and reveals the logo and we had to change quite a few of the default settings such as how fast the flame expanded.

Change of Idea

Our initial idea which was to have a 70's theme and feel with some other elements that would make it seem quite old such as the colour. In order to do this we had to organise and plan everything such as the clothing and looks as well as edit the footage to make it look old. This proved to be a difficult task however as it was hard to get the theme right with all the different elements so we have decided to change our idea so it is slightly easier to organise and more realistic to produce. We have decided that we want to have a stalker who looks at some young girls on a social networking site and he ends up finding them, drawing them in to a location and then torturing them before he kills them.
We did this because we feel that it is more accomplishable and would end up more successful than an amateur film that has a good idea but not executed well.

Creating a Protagonist

Since it was quite difficult to get the costume and characteristics right for the first character we created, we decided to go with something a bit simpler that can give off a very similar effect.

We decided to use a stalker character who uses social networking to target his victims. We thought this was a very good idea as in today's society, young people enjoy sharing their everyday lives on social networking sites so using a stalker antagonist is very effective.

We also decided to keep this character's identity hidden as well as his features throughout the opening sequence, we think this would be very effective when looking at a thriller opening sequence. The point is to tease the audience with a restricted narrative, this is done by only showing the audience extreme close-ups of the character such as their eyes/hands/etc...

27/01/14

Today Molly and Blaine went out filming the scene of the second death with Becky in an alleyway. There were some Point of View shots, close ups and some other shots of her which we will use in our opening sequence by editing them into little brief clips that will make a montage effect.
Nader edited the company production logo by making changes to it and adding sound to it.
I  did some editing on the opening sequence adding some scenes in and making them short.

22/01/14

Today we filmed Richard Harrison who is our mysterious antagonist and we got some shots of him looking at the social network page as well as some close ups of his eye and his mouth. These shots made him look like a stalker as you can see him browsing the profile pages of some girls and clicking their pictures. After this we added the new scenes onto the film footage and edited it in Final Cut. We used a spotlight to add light to the scene because ceiling light in the room was too bright and this allowed us to make it look just right, not too dark or light and showing that the rest of room isn't particularly bright since you can tell looking at the wall.

After school, Blaine went out to film Jessica who is one of the victims in our film and filmed some torture scenes.

Call Sheet

Film Title: Requested Date 1 of filming: 22/01/14(Jess)
Time of shoot: 4:00 - 5:00
Weather Conditions: N/A
Meeting point: Jess's house Date 2 of filming: 22/01/14 (Mr Harrison)
Time of shoot: 10:00 - 11:00
Weather Conditions: N/A
Meeting point: Media room Date 3 of filming: 27/01/14 (Becky)
Time of shoot: 12:05 - 12:55
Weather Conditions: light rain
Meeting point: Media room Date 4 of filming: (Natalie)
Time of shoot: 2:05 - 3:05
Weather Conditions: N/A
Meeting point: Media room Date 5 of filming: (Duo cast) Time of shoot: 2:05- 3:05 Weather conditions: light rain Meeting point: Media room Contact Details:

Blaine Anderson = 07585445242
Molly-Ann Macken = 07411054187
Becky Jeffrey = 07544351818
Tony Wu = 07828927805
Nader Antar = 07883432822

Technical requirements

Item	Source	Department
1 Canon Camera	school	Filming equipment
1 Tripod	school	Filming equipment
1 Role of tape	Blaine	Props
1 Mascara	Actors own	Props

Risk Assessment

Site Risk Assessment

Location	Royston Park
Description of activities to be undertaken	Filming all scenes, including make-up preparation beforehand and mise-en-scene focus on prop assemblance for each shot.
Number of people present	Fluctuating from 4 to 6
Person in charge of activities	Tony Wu, Nader Antar, Molly-Ann & Blaine Anderson.
Hazard and Risk Level	Trees and Brambles may cause blistering. Minimal Risk
Hazard and Risk Level	Ditches and mud may cause falls. By filming in dry areas these risks are greatly reduced to minimal risk.
Hazard and Risk Level	Make-up may cause rashes or irritation. Small amounts will be applied beforehand to check for any discomforting reaction.

These are some of the photos we took of the location before we started filming to show what was at the location and good places we could film. We believe that the location was good because some parts looked quite deserted so it fit in with our theme and idea. We had some footage of filming but it looked too amateur and wasn't particularly good so we did not use it.

Creating a company logo - Ace Productions

Using some resources we found, we created this logo using Adobe Photoshop.
The first thing we did was find a few photos to support our idea of a creative production logo and move them around to be able to put them in the right place, this was to create an interesting logo which links in with our production name and ideas.
We used the 'Charlemagne Std' font to try and keep with the font theme of the Ace and we feel that it closely resembles the one used for the cards.
We modified the colour of the ribbon to something that is quite similar to the colour of the cards as well as the background though we may change the background colour later.

08/01/2014

On Wednesday the 8th January, We went out on our second day with a whole new cast, better props for mise-en-scene and the weather was also better. We kept the same location but changed where we filmed on that location. The actors costumes fit them. We managed to get 5 shots done and we also managed to film a risk assessment.