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.