In a feat of artistic genius i decided to find and upload a picture of the gang, many more will come shortly!
In order of appearance Luke(our main actor), George(Sound Coordinator, works bloomin hard doing so and is always good at shaping my my plans into something tangible and something we are ultimately able to work with), the mighty david bowie (but if you look slightly up you will see I Jake!!!!!! editer, scriptwriter, basically the ideas guy ), and last but not least Tom (our fine cameraman, storyboard expert and provider of fake facial hair)
Oh and I'm not sure why we are wearing fake mustaches but with most things in life it seemed like a good idea at the time
Jake
Friday, 30 April 2010
Theres No I in Team!
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
Disposable...the titles!!
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
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
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
file://cgsstore1/cgsusers/Students/cs2009/cs09gellis2/newstoryboard2.jpg
file://cgsstore1/cgsusers/Students/cs2009/cs09gellis2/newstoryboard3.jpg
file://cgsstore1/cgsusers/Students/cs2009/cs09gellis2/newstoryboard4.jpg
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
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