Evaluation - Interview

There are three main aspects to our evaluation process which are:

• A group interview with a teacher answering questions which was filmed and will be posted on our blogs
• A presentation to the class of our film
• A ' making of ' document

On Friday me and my partner Amir had our group interview with our teacher were we spoke about the reason that we created the film and questions consisting of : Why we chose this genre? What the representation was? Who our audience? I personally think that both me and Amir did a good job in the interview as we were able to answer the questions with detail and stayed on topic, as well helping each other on finishing the answers and adding in to them. This time next week me and Amir will be presenting our PowerPoint's to our class going of the features of our film, which consists of for the moment:

• A synopsis
• Representation/Stereotypes
• Success of the genre
• Similar films
• Why we chose the genre
• Advertisement

Hopefully our presentation will go down as well as we hope and then we will then be focusing on the ' making of ' documentary.

Final day of filming

So me and Amir had a very busy past three days, we started filming on Friday and Saturday and got at least 90% of the footage done, whilst on the Sunday we edited the footage that we had so that we only need to shoot the last 10% which was shot this morning. We got the majority of it done with only a little bit left to do which will be completed during our media lesson today. Both me and Amir are really happy with all the filming so far and the fact that everything has gone our way for a change like weather and actors/actresses. The rest of the 4 days will be spent on hard editing, hopefully the film will be good at the end.

Filming

So after a long week of planning and organising me and Amir began our filming process this Friday and Saturday. We managed to get at least 90% of the footage needed that day with the other 10% to be completed in sixth form on Monday. Me and Amir are already editing the clips and footage we have and have reviewed each piece to say whats good, whats bad and what needs adding. On Friday everything went our way from weather to actors and using Amir's really good idea of using his mums car with the tripod in so that we could get a smooth tracking shot which looks amazing (link below)

http://vimeo.com/37882502

On Saturday we were abit worried as in the early hours of the day and early hours of the afternoon it was raining, even though it had stopped i knew that we still couldn't film as the ground was still wet meaning continuity would be ruined if we had filmed. But to our luck the sun came and dried the ground and me and Amir with hesitation arranged to meet up and film the rest of the sequence.

All of the filming went great and we managed to get everything we needed that day for the sequence, i just hope everything goes to plan on Monday so we can finish the film and use the rest of the four days for solid editing; during this time i will be looking at creating film posters, magazine covers, logo's and franchise to help with presenting our film in the evaluation stage.

Script for Scene 1

Script:

*Low angle shot of satellite and sky*

*Close up of ground *

*High angle shot of garage doors*

*High angle shot of shadows walking*

*Depth of field shots from behind a bollard*

*Point of view shot from a bin*

*Drake places banana in bin*

*Tracking long shot of Sam and Drake walking along an alleyway*

*Tracking shot continues. Banana is thrown at either Sam or Drake*

*Sam and Drake turn around but then continue*

Drake: Damn, this area is normally full of people

(Blood on window)

Sam: Yeah I know. Where is everyone?

Drake: You’re asking me? I don’t even know what day it is.

Sam: Yeah I know

*Drake falls over a bin* *Sam laughs* *Drake brushes himself down*

(Arm falls out of the bin)

Drake: (Whispered) I did that on purpose.

*Silence for a couple of seconds*

(Bloody handprint on door)

Sam: I REALLY MISS MAM AND DAD!

Drake: (Shocked) Whoa! Where did this come from?

Sam: I just get a little lonely sometimes since their death.

Drake: But you have me!?

Sam: Oh yeah! You >_>

*Walking continues*

(Sam and Drake walk past a fence. On the other side is a zombie eating a person)

*Establishing shot of houses*

*Medium shot of Sam and Drake walking towards the camera until they turn a corner*

*Sam and Drake are walking past a wall. The title appears on the wall*

*Camera switches from one side of the wall (through tracking shot) to the other*

New Start

After accessing our previous film clip and reviewing the feedback from Mr Earl, both me and Amir have decided to create a completely new introduction. Both of us have been looking and watching different horror comedies and have now got an established plan for when we film. We met up on Sunday to decide how and where we are going to film and found a really good location behind a block of apartments and alleyways. Obviously due to the area we will not be filming there after dark for both our saftey and because it would be impossible to film there at night. After our first run through of the scene we accessed what we had and noted any ideas or mistakes to help on the re-film, we noticed things such as the camera being to shaky on the tracking shots and places where we could edit in the credits and objects.

Light at the end of the tunnel

So finally after talking me and Amir have fully sorted and organised everything out. We've said what we think and took notice of each others ideas and thoughts and are ready to take the last step of creating our film sequence. So me and Amir have decided to film tomorrow after school to shoot or last scene of our opening sequence which is when were in the park, we are both really relying on with tomorrow with our fingers crossed that it doesn't snow. If the situation of bad weather occurs we will film on the Friday morning in our frees and if that still doesn't work then we will obviously have to skip the scene completely.

Review of footage

From what I've seen of our footage so far, I'm really pleased. Obviously the editing needs to be done it to give the horror and zombie effect to it but I'm really happy with the clips so far. Whilst I've been planning whats going to happen and when, Amir has been working really hard on the editing which I'm really grateful for as he's doing a great job from what I've seen so far and he is also going to teach me how to use after effects as well so that i can do some editing too. The footage so far is good using a different variety of shots and movements such as Close ups/ Medium shots/ Establishing shots/ Tracking shots/ Tilts/ High and low angle which I'm really happy with. There is one part of the street scene which i really enjoy and find very comical which is me (Sam) and Amir (Drake) messing about pushing each other until he pushes me with huge force and i go flying to the floor, the noise that is made also adds to the humour factor. Another is when Amir (Drake) is stocking up on weapons and you see lots of fast action shots of pistols, shotguns and knifes and then you see him eating chocolate pudding. Hopefully by the end of this week all filming will be done and to a good standard but i also hope that our comedy and horror continues throughout.