BAZINGA! We have an idea..

Whilst watching through our first cut of our film (in one of the posts below) we thought something was missing to connect the ending to the rest of the film. We tried to watch it through the audience's eyes, as if we didn't know the theme of the film. We found that:

• The ending was quite slow compared to the rest of the film - the movement and speed really slowed down.
• The ending was kind of disconnected - how were those people relevant to the rest of the film?

So we thought for ages, and with help from Andy and Marion we thought of shooting a small scene with the roaming news reporter. This would be around 30 seconds long and would be her discussing whats going on, and then saying things like "who are they?" "where are they now?" etc. We would put this inbetween the "want a cup of tea?" shot and the rest of the ending. We feel this will really break up the film and make it all the same speed. This should also help the problems understand the humorous twist more!

We are filming this today (Wednesday 6th February) with the following equipment:
- Green screen
- HD camera
- 2 x LED lights
- Tripod

It is very important that the character looks exactly the same, so we are making sure she wears the same costume and has her hair and makeup in the same way. We are also going to make sure that the lighting and positioning is in the same way too.

We will then edit this in our free period first thing tomorrow. This shouldn't take too long as we only need to apply the filters we previously applied to that news reporters' scenes and put it in the right place.

Hopefully this will give our short film the final "umf" that it needs!

By Shannen

Final Poster Ideas

Now we have both created our first mock ups of the poster we are deciding on our final layout. We are taking elements from both the posters and combining them together.

Colette's Poster

Shannen's Poster

We have decided to use the first poster as a landscape photo gives us more space to add text. We will take the logos from the bottom of Shannen's poster, the tagline and the 'coming soon.' From my poster we will be deleting the top line of actors (as the actors are relatively unknown), move the website to the bottom right corner, add the tagline from Shannen's poster, delete the age certificate as this would not be on a short film poster, and change one of the reviews from the Daily Mail from another company.

The Daily Mail has a reputation of giving negative reviews to small, indepedant films. Also, they would oppose to the ideologies in our film. We also need to remake the title as it's  not crisp enough and looks blurry. We will also be removing the wording from the reviews and just keep the stars as it will stop it from looking messy.

We will be using the credit block from Shannen's poster as it is a sans-serif font and it is smaller. We will adjust the sizing and spacing according to the new page rotation. We will also be making all of the text bold and a good colour such as grey so it fits with the background, as white is not very clear.

Finally, we will be cutting the title from Shannen's poster and putting it onto the final one as it is brighter and crisper.

By Colette/Shannen

FINAL VIDEO!

We have finally managed to fix the sound & quality of our short film. So, here it is!

Poster draft - by Shannen

This is my first draft of a possible film poster for "Yobs"



Uploading Issues

We have encountered some issues whilst trying to upload our film. When we export it, the sizing changes from widescreen to very small. Also, the quality becomes very poor. We are currently trying to fix this issue, and we will then re-upload it.
Shannen

Poster Mock Up- By Colette

We thought about our poster quite early into the task and discussed some ideas on our blog HERE. The first time we filmed we decided to take some photographs of one of the 'yobs' as we decided that we wanted our  poster to contain one of the younger rioters as to not give away the reveal at the end of our story.

We took these photos using a Canon 1000D Camera. We decided to use a DSLR Camera because it gives a high quality, very large image which is easy to edit and wont look 'pixely' when it is blown up into a poster. We. have already decided on the font and colour of our title as shown HERE and the style of the editing shown HERE. 

Now we are focusing on composition and the other smaller details on the poster as well as which raw image we want to start with. Below is a mock up I made on Photoshop along with some of the techniques I used to manipulate the image. 

^ First I opened the image in Photoshop. Here is the original image with no editing

^I heightened the contrast of the image to make the image stronger and more powerful. I then selected the hoodie using the magic wand tool and desaturated the clothing as I felt the bright blue of the hoodie made the character seem too approachable when we wanted him to look threatening! 

^ I then used the "T" (text) tool to add text to the poster. I used this tool to create ratings about the film, the credit box, the production company logo, tagline, website and other information found in film posters. 

I then pasted in the title (which we made before) and the age certificate. 

Here is the mock-up!!!

What could be improved: 

• We still need to think of a tagline for the film; ideas of this will be up on the blog soon!
• Empty space- there is a space between the tagline and credits box that needs to be filled
• Title; we could outline this with black to make it stand out more
• Reviews- edit the reviews to target our audience, maybe add one more above the two we have?
• Age Certification; for now I decided on a 12 certificate because of violent themes and offensive language however this needs to be discussed further among our group after looking at the official criteria for age certification
• Company logo; this is a (very) quick mock up I made for the production company. This will most definitely change; Shannen has a lot of knowledge and skill in branding and has created logos before in Business Studies so she will be better at creating a suitable logo

By Colette :)

A look back at us in action! By Colette

As I was looking through my camera to find the photographs we took for our film poster I came across a few photos of us filming!

 Here is our set up for the cross cut scene where the hob is lit. We set up 2 standing LED lights and positioned the camera in front of the hob. We filmed the whole scene in one entire take and then edited it afterwards as our tripod was faulty and kept moving whenever we pressed the record button.

Here we are filming a short video explaining the hair, makeup and costume we decided on for our 'yob' characters.

Here Shannen is briefing Mark on his script whilst he practices it. Charles is in the corner holding up the Green Screen as we didn't have enough room for the poles!

Here is the set up for the news report. This was the 2nd time out of the 3 times we shot this scene.

Here I am cleaning up the mess that we made when filming the cutting scene. We cut strawberries up until they were so squished they looked like blood (eww) and then had the delightful job of scraping it off the side afterwards