Preliminary Exercise evaluation (unfinished)

The exercise that we did was a challenge but because we all contributed to the work which was needed to make it successful it turned out to be a good piece of work. There were a number of things we had to think of before we started filming, especially the safety and storyboard.


Safety
There were many precautions which we found we had to be aware of. Firstly we knew we had to be  careful with the pod including how we handled it and how we positioned it throughout our time in the project.

This is a footage that I had taken ages ago before my film idea had arisen but I found that it would fit into my film. Although this is just the idea, it is good a beginning to help my fellow colleagues to get the idea for the start of my film.

Preliminary Exercise

My film Presentation

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Response to the film- Questionnaire

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Background

This film idea that I came up with was actually a thought that I had and had it written down ages ago and turned into a story. To make it even possible was the reading that I had done to come up with this thought. As I liked it, I began to think more and write done various other views and ideas which eventually I made into this specific story.

The main character Sam is a teenage boy whose parents had died in a car crash, this lead to him being adopted at a young age to a widower  who made him join the pact thinking that it will help him through life only to find that a mission is left for him to do concerning a very important deed when he turns 16, which leaves it haunting him for the rest of his life. He has know Mellissa all his life so when he is shown what to do by his half brother, Matt, he is distraught. He can’t defeat the Order so he has to go along with it. She doesn't realise this and thinks he might be angry because of family problems, even though her friends tell her to ditch him because he's not interested in her.




Characters




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Sam is a boy who would get into fights just to protect someone. His love for Mellissa is strong and real but as we know he cannot defeat the Order. His relationship with his foster parent is not close and sides more with the pact.

First two minutes of my film

     At the beginning of the film we see the opening credits with slow, serious music, the background consisting of slow snippets of images of woods at night. After a few minutes the screen, the title appears fading in with the background and then fading out until screen turns black and the music fades.In the forest

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     At the start of the film we see cigar smoke slithering in the air as it is held between a young man’s thumb and index finger. The camera stays at a medium close position where it is situated at a point ,looking straight at the smoke. It then pans out to look at the young man who is sitting on an antique red velvet chair smoking heavily on the cigar. From behind the camera, we hear a door creaking open as this happens the camera slowly turns to face the subject, a blond young man.

    “Oh, I didn’t say I was dropping by, did I? I’ve got something for you, Sam. The Archangel’s assistants gave this to me for you.”  This is what the man says at the door presenting a ring to the boy in the chair, but then places it onto a wooden desk. This is shown by an extreme close  up looking at the ring being placed, a non- diegetic sound of the ring’s heavy sound crashing onto the table. The camera zooms into the red ring where the focus blurs and in its place there is a distant photograph of a young lady in her teens standing near a forlorn tree where she is wearing a blue worn put top with faded jeans. She is staring into the distance, looking out the other way, where her hair is captured swaying in the wind and a beautiful smile is planted on her face. In the background there is a lake covered with mist and by the side of that a forest. The picture is taken in the daytime so there is sunlight streaming in. This stays like that for a few seconds and the picture is distorted and ripples like its a disturbed puddle. In its place the young mans fingers pick up the ring and look at it like it is something out of a nightmare. At this point the camera is taking a close up of the mans fingers until it reaches his face and then zooms out to display the characters emotion. I think this a good technique as the audience needs to know how he is feeling and why the object has made him feel that way. At that instance he flings the ring away like it is some disease he dosn't want to catch, this is only because he finds out the person he has to kill is Mellissa, his best friend who he cares about the most. We get a medium long shot of him sauntering backwards, he hits a wall and slides down. The next shot is a side angle of him mumbling to himself and his head shaking hastliy. ' It can't be her, It can't be.' This image of him fades and after we see him in his bedroom tossing and turning mumbling various words. The camera is coming from the front of the room and zooming into him in bed. The audince at this point should be quesitive by what's going on so at a random second he jumps up from bed and moans 'Mellissa' into the air, this is followed by the camera delving into his mouth and coming back with a womens mouth shouting for pupils to get to class, and this is the first scene commencing.