Just briefly wanted to explain the titles
We used a white backdrop in order to blend it in with the film. We had tried a black background but it didn't blend in well with the rest of the shots so used a white still as our background. Black writing we felt worked best against the backdrop, and using just black and white fittied in well with our film. We added a glow to the font as this made it look mysterious. The Font was used, simply because we felt it wasn't too smart, it was inkeeping with the attitudes of our main protaganist. The use of the writing starting on the screen and then being erased we felt acted as metaphor towards the main protaganists feelings, as he too feels as though he wants to erase himself into sheer nothingness.
George
Wednesday 31 March 2010
Tuesday 30 March 2010
Friday 26 March 2010
The hills are alive with the sound of Disposable!
I (George) will be taking you thorugh the thorught process and development of our awesome soundtrack. Despite Jakes lust for Marilyn Manson (actually worried for him!) i thought to use something more edgy that would compliment the soundtrack. I Listened to Massive Attack, Smashing Pumpkins, The Strokes and Radiohead in order to get a feel of what i wanted, as i felt these were on the same wave length of what i wanted.
After grasping Garage Band, eventually, and playing around with many different sound effects for a very long time i crafted our final sound track.
I decided to layer it, as i felt that this would build tension amongst the audience. if i used the same soundtrack for the whole sepquencer it would become boring, tiresome and annoying to listen to, so this way the audience doesn't get frustrated by the soundtrack.
A base track, 'Under Servaillence' was downloaded from http://www.freeplaymusic.com/
This is the Primary sound we used, as it lasted long enough to cover the sequence and as a pre recorded track it already had variation in it. It had quite a mysterious sound to it, which reflected the mental state of the main protaganist and went well when i layered any sounds over the top.
The music for the opening titles was a mixture of an Ambient Noise Effect and a Percussion Sound. This sounded quite creepy to me and thought it set up the movie genre well. It gave the audience a feeling of what the film would be about.
I used a distorted heartbeat to highlight the unstable conditon of the main protaganist. I thought it made the film more personal as you felt like as it signified his heartbeat, you knew the character more personally and you're able to connect with him. this is used at the beginning and end with no backing as i felt it focused more on the sound, making it bolder and more memorable.
After this i layered the track with Modern Rock Bass Line and a Mono Syth track used after. i wanted variation in order to not bore the audience or annoy them with repetetiveness so these played one after the other. These were picked as they complimented the base track well and in the case of the Bass, added to the heartbeat effect.
I also added a faint howling noise over the bass, which i found had a disturbing effect to it and again signifies the mental state of the main protanganist.
We took sound off at the end of the track to emphisise the pill bottle dropping which we found peircing and embeded the scene into the audience. Clips at the end on the sequence and during the sequence with no backing sound were done to make the script clearer and to highlight specific parts we felt the audinece neede to hear in order to clarify the story or to give the audience a reaosn to carry on watching the film "This is more than just a fall from grace".
Anyway hopefully i didn't go on too much and i hope you enjoy our opening sequence
George
After grasping Garage Band, eventually, and playing around with many different sound effects for a very long time i crafted our final sound track.
I decided to layer it, as i felt that this would build tension amongst the audience. if i used the same soundtrack for the whole sepquencer it would become boring, tiresome and annoying to listen to, so this way the audience doesn't get frustrated by the soundtrack.
A base track, 'Under Servaillence' was downloaded from http://www.freeplaymusic.com/
This is the Primary sound we used, as it lasted long enough to cover the sequence and as a pre recorded track it already had variation in it. It had quite a mysterious sound to it, which reflected the mental state of the main protaganist and went well when i layered any sounds over the top.
The music for the opening titles was a mixture of an Ambient Noise Effect and a Percussion Sound. This sounded quite creepy to me and thought it set up the movie genre well. It gave the audience a feeling of what the film would be about.
I used a distorted heartbeat to highlight the unstable conditon of the main protaganist. I thought it made the film more personal as you felt like as it signified his heartbeat, you knew the character more personally and you're able to connect with him. this is used at the beginning and end with no backing as i felt it focused more on the sound, making it bolder and more memorable.
After this i layered the track with Modern Rock Bass Line and a Mono Syth track used after. i wanted variation in order to not bore the audience or annoy them with repetetiveness so these played one after the other. These were picked as they complimented the base track well and in the case of the Bass, added to the heartbeat effect.
I also added a faint howling noise over the bass, which i found had a disturbing effect to it and again signifies the mental state of the main protanganist.
We took sound off at the end of the track to emphisise the pill bottle dropping which we found peircing and embeded the scene into the audience. Clips at the end on the sequence and during the sequence with no backing sound were done to make the script clearer and to highlight specific parts we felt the audinece neede to hear in order to clarify the story or to give the audience a reaosn to carry on watching the film "This is more than just a fall from grace".
Anyway hopefully i didn't go on too much and i hope you enjoy our opening sequence
George
Storyboards
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This is our final development of our storyboards. The first frames entice the audience into the film. The shot of the alleyway shows that the chracter feels lonely and isolated. The cut to effect breaks the sense of reality and the use of suicides shows is unstable state of mind due to his emotions. The use of shading in the frames represents the mono colours of black and white, which is the effect we added to the final production. This adds to the connotations of depression as it represents the characters of emotions of being bleak and unhopeful. We took inspiration from the genre of psychological/thriller in order to express the emotions of our film. The films Requiem for a Dream and Wristcutters: A Love Story provided the intertextuality of our production. The imagery of death and suicide fitted in with the plot to our film and how it can frighten the audience as well as attract them to it and make them want to watch on.
Tom
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This is our final development of our storyboards. The first frames entice the audience into the film. The shot of the alleyway shows that the chracter feels lonely and isolated. The cut to effect breaks the sense of reality and the use of suicides shows is unstable state of mind due to his emotions. The use of shading in the frames represents the mono colours of black and white, which is the effect we added to the final production. This adds to the connotations of depression as it represents the characters of emotions of being bleak and unhopeful. We took inspiration from the genre of psychological/thriller in order to express the emotions of our film. The films Requiem for a Dream and Wristcutters: A Love Story provided the intertextuality of our production. The imagery of death and suicide fitted in with the plot to our film and how it can frighten the audience as well as attract them to it and make them want to watch on.
Tom
Thursday 11 March 2010
A new design
As i will be spending many an hour on this website tonight, i thought i would do my best to make it as appealing to the eye as humanly possible while still linking to our film and so i have changed the default setting to a new colour scheme of black(nice and menacing and always in fashion), white(a great contrast to black and by far my favorite shade) and red (great annotations and fits with our genre)
Jake and all his artistic talents
I feel it is time to tell a tale...
Now in my head this seems like a amazing idea however, i suppose you will be the true judge, i am going to try and explain how i came up with our narrative by placing you in the mindset of twisted, bored individual with a love of melancholy and pointy boots.
About a week or so before our halfterm it became apparent that our original idea of a gangster mafioso Tarantino like conversation was going no were. So i sat George and Tom down and managed to convince them to allow me to come up with a new simple narrative (little to no violence was required i swear) taking inspiration from 'Wristcutters A Love Story', i wanted to create a simple but shocking introduction on the theme of suicide (cheerful i know), the scene from which i based our film around can be found here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXt_dlmUnNE after showing tom and George this intro they became as interested in the new narrative as i was (or they just wanted to shut me up, still not completely sure on which). We sat down as a group and many arguments, sushi and Marilyn Manson videos later we came up with our introduction.
We choose our actor and only character Luke who we picked due to his(and don't tell him this) rather average appearance in which he looks like he could be an anybody, therefore making his suicidal nature even more unexpected, alongside this it makes it far easier for the audience to relate to him, rather than some strange demented wild haired, skinny, winkle-picker wielding monstrosity(you can guess which of the two i preferred, alas the others were right and so i backed down)
Luke will be walking down a dark path, cutting to the suicidal scenes taking place in his mind, going back and fourth, Luke would eventually emerge from the path swathed in light (oh yes i forgot to mention everything will be in black and white fading to white at the end) the reasoning behind this is that his violent thoughts allow him the escapism required to get through the mundane of everyday life, and what ever dark events have caused his mindset (however to find out what events you will just have to watch our finished film)
We are yet to decide on the soundtrack, i would like to use something similar to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39kuAiz6ENA# which was used as the main song for the film 'Max Payne' here is a link to the film on IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0467197/
However i beilive that George is currently working on our soundtrack using garageband, but just to be safe i will spend a few hours sifting through 'Freeplay Music' a website which provides free uncopyrighted music, heres a link to the songs i am searching through now, i am searching for a cinematic industrial metal song at the moment but with little success http://www.freeplaymusic.com/search/category_search.php?t=s&i=86.
congratulations to anyone who managed to read all of that without going off to commit your very own suicide out of boredom(however if you feel it is necessary please film it as it could be very helpful for our film)
As you can most likely guess from reading this blog it was I, the mighty Jake who wrote this.
A dark cloud lingers over my brilliance
Well im back from quite a large void of blogs and with my epic return i come with BAD news my script has gone missing after days of labour, i have managed to lose one of the most important vital of things! my laptop after being repaired has been WIPED OF ALL MEMORY including the script, so there is only one solution a pot of coffee and insomnia being my ally, as i am going to attempt and rewrite the entire thing tonight, now lets just hope i can remember it all
jake
Friday 5 March 2010
We have a Title!
We spent the past couple of days coming up with a title for our opening sequence
The contenders we had were:
Erased
Dispoasable
Cutting
Alive
Fear
Obscure
Obsolete
Obscurity
Cursed
We have decided through a long list of names that we had to finally go for 'Disposable'.
We wanted to use a simple one word title as using a phrased title started to over complicate things. A simple one word title sums up the film and the main Protaganist's feelings simply and makes it easy for the audience to understand his emotions
George
The contenders we had were:
Erased
Dispoasable
Cutting
Alive
Fear
Obscure
Obsolete
Obscurity
Cursed
We have decided through a long list of names that we had to finally go for 'Disposable'.
We wanted to use a simple one word title as using a phrased title started to over complicate things. A simple one word title sums up the film and the main Protaganist's feelings simply and makes it easy for the audience to understand his emotions
George
Tuesday 2 March 2010
Importing, editing and yet more storyboarding!!!!
We spent yesterday uploading our footage which took a conciderable part of the lesson to do. Tom began to redraft the storyboard again! We have started brainstorming some ideas for names for our film.
Today Tom continues to redraft our storyboard and Jake has editing our footage to make our final production. I (George) have to retreive some extra footage from another computer but the core of our footage has been finalised.
George
Today Tom continues to redraft our storyboard and Jake has editing our footage to make our final production. I (George) have to retreive some extra footage from another computer but the core of our footage has been finalised.
George
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