Finished product

The finished production has been uploaded to YouTube and will be shared on mine and Chris's social media in order to circulate it to gather audience feedback from our friends 

Filming.

We were on set for about 3 hours to be able to film the scene from many different angles and also the shot where the survivor draws his gun to shoot the infected needed to be shot at different speeds and from different angles to give us freedom over how we show this moment during the final production

Actors do make the movie ( the cast)

The cast of our production includes my uncle, Martin, who will play the protagonist. He fits as a survivor as he has a rugged look to him with his facial hair and tattoos

His partner, Lisa, who was not originally cast but after other actors dropped out she was available to replace them and was a good infected person as she has a generally vacant look to her face and her paleness.

One of they're daughters, summer, plays a child that has been caught up in the midst of the apocalypse. We chose her as she is related to other cast members and it would be easier for them to display a bond between them

Editing

Now that filming has been completed we can begin editing our production. As you can see Chris here is editing our edit whilst Jack and Charlotte have opted to create there own edits.

Finalized script

RH: Radio Host

S: Survivor

[Interior: Radio station. Background music is upbeat]

RH: And welcome back to 237 days since the Incident. That’s right, folks. Christmas is just around the corner, so stock up on that delicious canned turkey for the festive season. Or better, we could get together some time. I know you’re all giving me the silent treatment, but—fun. Well you know where I am: Same bat time, same bat channel.  And now for the weather.

[As the radio host is talking, there’ll be crosscutting to the survivor: the polar opposite of the host. Broody. Dangerous. The setting is the woods.]

RH: The gamma levels out in sector 2 are a low and pleasant 24, and chances of the sun making an appearance is pretty bleak.

[The transmission can be heard coming from a rucksack. The survivor approaches where the noise is coming from. Opens bag. Find walkie talkie. This is the first voice he’s heard in almost a year.]

RH: For you younger listeners, it was the big ball of fire in the sky before we replaced with one of those energy saving do-hickeys. God bless the late, great government. And that’s about all we—

S: [Speaking into the walkie talkie] Hello?

RH: [Freezes] …And we have our first caller. [Typing, clicking, and trying to find the right security footage to find the survivor] What’s your name, friend? What’s your story?

S: [Amusement] You’re crazy. This is crazy.

RH: You’re crazy, I’m crazy…How about another one? Can you tell me where the nearest infected is in your local area?

S: It’s just me. It’s just me now.

RH: Wrong answer. Take a look around and see what you could’ve won.

S: What?

RH: There’s someone behind you.

S: [Tense, already reaching for the gun. The infected behind him has blotchy green skin. Vacant stare. Survivor shoots him]

RH: That was violent. Wanna talk about it to our listeners?

S: Shut up. [Rummaging through the infected’s pockets; finds photograph of the Infected before the Incident. He’s with his daughter. Looks up and sees the daughter, now infected.]

Setting up shop (the location for the radio host)

To be able to get the effect that our radio host lives a sheltered life we needed somewhere that was quite cramped but also had  the necessary equipment to pass as a radio station. Luckily I remembered about a room i was taught in previously and how the corner or the room plays host to some radio equipment.

This has the close proximity that we required to give off the intended effect of isolation between the radio host and the rest of the world but also has a number of possible locations to set a camera up and film with ease without revealing the other parts of the room.

setting the scene part 2 (videos)

Setting the scene (finding the correct location to film)

we knew that we needed some space away from everyday life to create a sense of isolation between the characters so we decided to check out an area of woodland not too far away from where we lived. Below is the result of a couple of hours spent looking for locations to film in said woods

Pictures

 Our plot dictates that the survivor find a bag of supplies so I hung my bag on a branch to get a concept of where we would need to position the camera in relation to the trees in order to get the correct framing

 Our plot also has our protagonist finding a little girl hiding after he shoots her dad and must make a moral choice on whether to help her survive or to leave her to fend for herself. We found a number of alcoves for the actor to hide during filming and documented there positions by taking reference photos

 There are also some semi-uprooted trees in the area that could suggest something is wrong in the world to prevent these trees from growing properly, this would be a challenging place to film as during the day shadows are cast towards the set and the camera would have to be placed so as to not cast a shadow whilst filming

Animatic

We did a rough run through our storyboard using stick-men with our own attempts to voice them to get an idea of how long our production was going to last
       
            

How will the world end? (conventions of post appocalyptic genre)

The post apocalyptic genre is a sub-genre of science fiction and focuses around the annihilation of human life. There are many different causes to an Apocalypse in films but popular causes include zombies, nuclear war, a meteor striking the earth or a biblical apocalypse examples of these apocalyptic causes are:
 The war of the worlds


 The war of the worlds is an example of an alien caused apocalypse with invaders coming to earth in an attempt to exterminate the human race.




I am legend 
I am legend is the story of Robert Neville and his continual survival after a failed cure for cancer leaves the world at a standstill when humans start to mutate into creatures that are burnt with uv light and are driven by primal instinct

You are a Wall-E aren't you...

What is Wall-E?

Wall-E is an animated film about a trash compacting robot that is left behind on earth to clean up after humanity makes in uninhabitable from it's pollution. Wall-E's job is to gather up all of the trash left around the earth and crush it into cubes that are arranged into large piles until the earth becomes re inhabitable and safe for human life.


In the intro we see the earth from space or whats left of it after humanity has left it in it's wake, we can see from a side-by-side comparison that the water that was on the surface of the earth has darkened and there is a thick layer of satellites in the earth's orbit

One opening to rule them all

The Fellowship Of The Ring

Because The Lord Of The Rings is a fantasy series of films the opening scene tells a prologue to the events of the series, it tells of the 'Rings Of Power' and the events that lead up to the 'One Ring' ending up in the possession of the main character

Sound
The music played at this point is quiet and eerie and this sets the tone for the events prior to the film.

There is a narrator to explain the events that we see on screen in further detail


mise en scene

The main titles fade in slowly to reveal the name of the film, the slow fade in creates a slow pace

 

 

We see that something is in the process of being created, the narrator tells us that what we are seeing is the creation of "the rings" this conotes the beggining

 

We then see the hands of three high elfs recieving there rings, the camera then moves and we see them studying there gifts. We then see the human and dwarf lords recieving rings also. This conotes equality  between the races of middle earth

 

 

A map of Middle Earth is shown to us next to tell us as an audience where we are, the map slowly drifts towards Mordor and then fades away suggesting that this is a dark place.

 

 

The camera then sets the scene of Mordor by showing the land from a wide angle with a volcano erupting deeply into the shot. 

 

The camera then uses the cut in method to show Sauron inside of his volcano lair wielding his ring

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preliminary task

The filming is finished now and I edited this in Adobe Premier cs6, the editing was quite simple and i was able to string together a preliminary production with ease. From our storyboard we where able to film appropriate shots which where easy to edit.

 

 

 

 

After the editing was done I exported the finished product from premier to my computer to prepare to upload the finished product to youtube.

 

 

The opening gotham deserves, but not the one it needs

The Dark Knight Rises

The opening scene of The Dark Knight Rises outlines who the main antagonist is in this film as well as introducing us to him. Bane is shown to be a master of tactics and a superior intellect compared to the other characters shown in this scene. Because The Dark Knight Rises  is an action film the plane that is being used to transport Bane comes under attack thanks to Bane's mercenaries who free him and set the plot for the rest of the film.

Welcome... stay a while

Hello. I've been expecting you, my name is Bradley Landers and I am a student at Ashfield school's post 16.

I have chosen to study media to continue it from years 10&11 as I enjoyed it then and i think that it may help me in my chosen line of work.

Aside from studying media I also study Business, I.T and Cisco and i have aspirations to work in the videogames industry.



Peter Jackson

I enjoy watching tv, in particullar I like QI and mock the week but I will watch pretty much anything but Bargain Hunt annother of my interests are films, my favorite films that I have ever watched
are The lord of the rings trillogy as I like the director's work and how he tried to deviate as little from the books as possible. Peter Jackson is a great director.

I am an avid pc gamer and as such i read the magazine pc gamer on a monthly basis. I like playing moba games such as league of legends but the chances are that if you tell me to play it i will.




I like older music like paula abdul's opposites attract but i also like newer music also