EVALUATION - Use Of Technology

RESEARCH

PLANNING

We found that technology played a massive part in the planning of our opening. The software technology used we used during the planning was Blogger.com, Google, CELTX, and YouTube. The hardware technology we used were the Apple Mac’s.

The most used aspect of software during planning was CELTX, the online ‘all-in-one system for movie and film planning’, was a very useful during our planning, specifically when we were creating our script. First we made a story board by hand using paper and pencils, we had a basic idea of what the actors were going to say and when they were going to say it but we didn’t have it written down. So we chose to use CELTX to produce our script. Although our opening didn’t have much dialog, similar to many horror films. We found that CELTX made our planning prosses more effective, efficient and fun. A great feature found on CELTX is the session timer, this tells you how long you’ve been writing compared to how long you’ve been thinking. It also has a section where you can set writing goals and deadlines, this helps you stay on track and tells you how many words you need to write at each time limit. They also give you statistics of how you are working alongside your goals. We found by using CELTX we were motivated and knew what work was due in and when, so over all it had a positive impact on out project.

As well as that we found Blogger.com, Blogger gave us a platform to show, hold and share our planning. We could upload our ideas onto Blogger and it would keep our planning there clearly and made the planning very accessible for me and the rest of our group. A good feature of Blogger is that you can publicly upload parts of your work and it was ever accessible for the rest of your group. For example, if someone in my group was to create a draft script I would be able to view it from their Blog on Blogger.com. By using Blogger, I learnt new skills, one being how to run and take care of an online Blog, a key aspect of keeping the Blog up to speed was time management. If you didn’t have good time management your Blog would not be able to keep up with work or stay set on track, and with the use of Blogger it helped me do so.  By using Blogger, we could upload the planning clearly and it would be somewhere the whole group have easy access to. And it helped us stay on time and keep our planning in one area. This meant our project could progress smoothly and if we wanted to look of refer to our planning we knew it would be in one place.

As well as that, we used YouTube to help us in our planning. Firstly as a group, we came up with a set amount of questions and we asked them to a focus group of four, they fell into the age of our target audience. The questions we asked where so we could get an idea of what our audience would expect from a horror film. We filmed this on one of our mobile phones and uploaded it to YouTube. The good thing about YouTube is that it is very very to upload and extremely easy to view, as I said we filled uploaded and can view the focus group on out mobile phone. After this we copied the link into our blog’s and posted the focus group up. However, YouTube was also very important when it came to teaching us to use some of the new technology that we hadn’t used before, for example some of the features of CELTX were explained in depth over a YouTube video.

EVALUATION - Our Opening Compered To Actual Openings

EVALUATION - Representation Of Age, Ethnicity, Class, Sexuality & Gender

PowerPoint and Prezi

Evaluation of captive

FILM OPENING - CAPTIVE

FOCUS GROUP

PRELIM

Script

Survey

This was the survey we sent out to people by email. We then used the information/stats to understand our audience and what our audience you expect from a film in our genre. 

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Main location of our opening

                  

Finally we decided Sutton Park would we the best loc
ation for us to film our opening. Sutton Park has large open spaces that we could film our 'parking car/goodbye' scene. It also had different density in woodland so we could capture all the different shots we needed in our opening. In the pictures below you can see the different areas we were looking for. Dense woodland, thinner woodland and a large open space for parking.

             

Possible Locations

When we looked into our story we new we needed a setting that had an open space, to pull up in the car, a lightly wooded area, to film scenes of the friends together, and finally an area that was densely populated with tree's, the tree's would act as shelter for the 'monster' in the woods. We would also need to film in someones house and driveway, this would be needed for the montage of 'Robin' packing his bag, putting his bag into the car and leaving.

Ordinarily we thought of three different locations that we could film our opening, they were The Licky Hills, Manner Park and Sutton Park. All three locations have the setting we needed for our opening. However after me and my college went on a scout to Manner Park we found a problem with the location, area's of the woodland, that we planned to film our scenes in the wood in , where boarded off so we couldn't access the area of the park we needed. So although Manner Park was the most local of the three locations we could not film there. Then we went on a scout of The Licky Hills, on arrival it seemed better than Manner Park. There was more variation of woodland, so we could get all the shots we were looking to get, and there was also a large open space that we could film the car pulling up into. However Licky Hills was a lot more popular than we thought, there were many people, dog walkers and families at the park. This would prevent us from getting that isolated feeling we were trying to reach in our opening, and therefor we had to film at our final location Sutton Park. And we decided to use James' house as he has quite a stereotypical bedroom of a boy at he age of 16 and also has a driveway that we could film on very easily.    

Character Profile (Robin)

This is the brain storm I produced for the main male character, and protagonist, Robin Lacey.

Shot List

Shot list for Captive

Harry James and Jake

1- An establishing long shot of the setting, which the teens are going to be seen at. This will be filmed with a slow pan, and we are going to film three different long shots so we have different point of views and so the audience can have a clear view as to where the location is.

2- A close up mid shot of the protagonist Robin putting props into his bag (clothes/food/equipment).  Face identity not revealed.

3- A low shot showing half of the protagonist’s lower body, putting his shoes on. Face identity not revealed.

4- A mid shot of the door being opened by the protagonist. Identity not yet been revealed.

5- A handheld shot following the protagonist walking to the car.

6- A shot from within the boot of the car, of bags getting thrown in, and then the boot closes on to the camera transmitting into the next shot. Face identity is now revealed.

7- POV shot from the protagonist male looking out the window. The setting is rain connoting negative vibes.

8- A mid/long shot of the car as it pulled up from a distance gradually coming into a parking position.

9- Transmitting from the previous shot, there is a close up shot of the tire coming to a stop, to achieve a gravel sound to add effect.

10- A pan shot across to the male character through a mid/long shot, and then a jump cut to his foot stepping out the car.

11- A long shot of the boy getting out the car and walking to the boot to get the bag out of the boot, as film title CAPTIVE appears on the screen.

12- An Over The Shoulder shot from behind the mother character looking at the protagonist Robin as they exchange dialogue, consisting of the mother telling him to stay safe and have fun. Through the same shot we see the protagonist walk into the distance through the window.

13- Low angled shot of Robin’s feet walking into muddy puddle, showing he is walking somewhere.

14- Mid Long shot of Robin entering the forest and going off the gravel.

15- Handheld shot following Robin as he is walking into the forest.

16- Mid shot of friendship group exchanging dialogue with robin in the distance walking towards them with a prop, (the map).

17- Fade into mid shot of friends sitting around chatting in the forest as the lead female protagonist .

18- A mid shot shows them walking into the forest, as it pans across a few trees into the direction that they are going to as the lighting gets darker.

19- Low angled shot facing up towards characters walking away.

20- Handheld shot of the characters walking together chatting, being followed by the camera. As it stops and lets the characters walk into the distance.

21- POV shot of the mysterious person watching the protagonist walk into the shot and out of the shot, handheld camera work with heavy breathing to create tension.

END OF FILM

Storyboard