Friday 27 February 2009

ROUGHCUT

Thursday 12 February 2009

Storyboard









Shooting Schedule


Daylight shots;


  • Tracking shot Hills Road
  • Tracking shot Coronation Street
  • Pan of Parkers Piece
  • Panorama from top of Grand Arcade
  • Long shot of Mill Pond and while there a shot of the Cam and punts
  • Spinning shot of sky while stood in small street near Sainsbury's
  • Tracking shot of Kings Parade
  • Town centre and bikes
  • Market
  • Coleridge park
Night shots;


  • Panorama from top of Grand Arcade
  • Long/mid shot of Jesus Green Bridge
  • Mill Road and cycle bridge
  • Christs Piece
  • Regent street
  • Market
  • Junction
  • A variety of Big Issue seller

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Shot List

  • Shot One
Tracking - Hills Road. Trees, schools, colleges, bus stops etc. Day time.

  • Shot Two
Tracking - Coronation Street. Council houses/flats. Day and night.

  • Shot Three
Pan - Parkers Piece. From police station. Park, people, bikes etc. Day

  • Shot Four
Panorama - Top of Grand Arcade. City buildings etc. Day

  • Shot Five
Panorama - Top of Grand Arcade. City buildings etc. Night

  • Shot Six
Long - Mill Pond. People, river Cam. Day

  • Shot Seven
Long/Mid - River Cam. Punting. Day

  • Shot Eight
Long/Mid - Jesus Green Bridge. River Cam, bridge etc.

  • Shot Nine
Long - Sky. From Green Street in town. near Catfish. Day

  • Shot Ten
Tracking - Kings Parade. Colleges, people, bikes etc. Day

  • Shot Eleven
Long - Mill Road. People, pubs, shops etc. Night

  • Shot Twelve
Long - Station, cycle bridge etc. Day/night

  • Shot Thirteen
Christ Piece - People etc. Day

  • Shot Fourteen
Tracking/long - Regent Street. People, road etc. Night

  • Shot Fifteen
Mid/Close up - Bikes. Town Center . Day

  • Shot Sixteen
Long/pan/tracking - Market. Day

  • Shot Seventeen
Long/pan/tracking - Market. Night

  • Shot Eighteen
Long/Mid. Junction. Lights on board. Night

  • Shot Nineteen
Panorama - Colerigde Park. Day/Night

  • Shot Twenty
Close up - Big Issue Men. Day.

  • Shot Twentyone plus
Whatever else pops up that will go in well with our genre.

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Animatic



This is the animatic to our opening sequence showing the type of shots and places we may like to shoot. This gives us a rough idea of what we hope to finish with at the end of the project although it may not be identical depending on what shots we can get while shooting; we may have some that are not in our animatic and not have some that are.

We have decided to use a variety of shots including panorama's, tracking shots, long shots, mid shots and although it has not been shown in our animatic we hope to also include close up shots. We want to use a wide range of shots to add interest to the sequence for our audience and also allow us to create different feelings in whats been shot. We want to use panorama's of Cambridge shot from a height above most rooftops to show the expanse of the city and give a sense of almost being lost while also being on top of the world shown using the height level. Mid and long shots allow us to include the environment with more detail than may be achieved with a panorama and tracking shot. The main use of the tracking shot is to show the expanse of the colleges in Cambridge along King's Parade including to a certain extent detail of the buildings and almost the kind of people that would be found there. The shots showing the evening or 'night life' will most probably be shot with less detail or stability than those during the day appearing more mixed up to the audience giving a sense of what is being seen through the main characters eyes although she is not shown in the opening sequence.

The places we aim to shoot should show contrast to each other and some should be shot both during the day and at night showing how areas change as the sun goes down. This will hopefully give an idea to the audience the contrast that can be found in and around Cambridge.

We have used upbeat music to give a happier feel to our animatic and give an idea of what we would like to use in our final sequence. The choice of this kind of music gives a light-hearted feel to what could possibly be seen as a not so happy sequence. This is because although the film shows two contrasting sides of Cambridge one appearing to be happier than the other both are equally appealing to different people.


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Wednesday 11 February 2009

Film Titles


Panic Room -
We really like the way the titles appear to be floating around the city, and have a really cool 3-D feel. The colour of the font was very neutral and this made a good affect as you would concentrate on the whole scene and not just the names.



Max Payne -
We really like the way the names are split by the two contrasting colours, grey and red. This is similar our ShutDoor production logo. The main background colour is black and this gives the audience a hint that the rest of the film is going to be a dark themed movie.


Catch Me If You Can-
We really like the cartoon feel to this opening. The font is really cool the way it comes up and down from of the main screen, the lines give a really good travelling effect, which is one of the main themes of the film.



Donnie Brasco -
We really like the way that there are more than one name at a time on the screen, this gives us idea that it is okay to have numerous names during one shot of our opening sequence.

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Wednesday 4 February 2009

Film Title


We have decided to call our film SaladDays. We choose this title as we wanted our film to be related to teenagers and so we typed 'youth' in to a thesaurus. This came up with several different words that can be used to describe youth and we liked the look of salad days. The definition of this is 'the best time of life'. Therefore it was perfect for our film.


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Voice Over Script

As we are having a voice over through our opening sequence i have written an idea for a script to be used in it. It is designed to be like a girl talking indirectly about her past and her life in Cambridge. It doesn't necessarily make it clear where is being talked about but talks about several areas of Cambridge. This is the initial idea;

Walk with me walk down the city walls and winding streets as the fairy lights twinkle on the black velvet sky and the pixies skip across the Cam top. Hide in the outskirts where the grass grows thick with dew drops of childhood memories and cigarette butts and old wraps. Watch me fall and climb and learn inside thick stone walls and iron gates with honeydew thoughts and rainbow smiles we sit in the grass on the far away side lost in a haze of the days, the months gone by. A constant daze brought from sleepless nights spent walking and dancing on industrial estates. Punting in the rays of the fireball sun looking at architecture and seeing the beauty. Of the butterfly bouncing on the breeze and the crystals sat waiting in the palm of your hand.

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