STORYBOARD

This is our full storyboard, colour photos by Sam, photocopies by me.
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plan to finish

Conventions

• SL - Tyrannosaur, Journeyman, Sweet Sixteen
• HBM - Withnail and I, My Beautiful Laundrette, '71 
• Summary
• SL - conventions 1-4
• HBM - conventions 5-8
• Influences
• divided by film openings analysed

Industry

• SL - Indie vs conglomerate (Warp v WT) - a lot of this can be taken from convention 1 but include some new examples 
• topics: budget (Warp v WT + tentpoles, stars, CGI/SFX, franchise, IP, grants + any role of TV co's, co-productions as norm for most movies), box office (# of territories for theatrical dist.; UK, US, China, World; Gant Rule); ownership: Indie v conglom./subsid.; genre b.o. success over time, specific successes (exceptions? - B.Elliot [but: WT2], Slumdog..., Secrets and Lies, Full Monty...) --- get into Warp egs from She a Chinese to Le Donk etc; genre: franchising, hybridity, commercial track record (back to b.o.); age ratings: BBFC (unfair/harsh on Indie soc. realist?), impact on marketability, importance of youth market for cinema, exceptions: hit 18-rated (Deadpool, 50 Shades), emergence of grey market (older); cinema v home tech/piracy: boutique cinemas (look up Prima tag on cinema blog), 3D/IMAX, event screenings, film fests, Curzon membership scheme (see Harry MacQueen on micro-budget links list), convergence - piracy (bittorrent etc)
• HBM - history of indie (French/British New wave, Italian neorealism)

Audience 

• SL - sample scene feedback and response (training, jogging/crash)
• HBM - sample scene feedback and response (packing, hospital)

Editing

• Sample scenes:
• SL - training, jogging/crash 29/01/19
• HBM - packing, hospital 29/01/19
• Rough cut 30/01/19
• final cut 07/01/19

Other

• SL - storyboard 27/01/19
• HBM - screenplay 27/01/19
• Plans for shoots and rushes (updated on production schedule)
• SL - Jogging, training 
• HBM - packing, hospital

Evaluation Questions

• 1 conventions 10/02/19
• 2 audience and dist. 29/01/19
• 3 skills 03/02/19
• 4 technologies 03/02/19

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PODCAST 6 review of jogging scene, 2 upcoming shoots, eval qs

In this week podcast we discuss:

• review of the jogging scene we filmed/edited over Christmas 
• plans for shoot of hospital scene today
• plans for tennis and packing scene reshoots on Sunday
• initial brainstorming for creative ways of answering the evaluation questions

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AUDIENCE RESEARCH: titles/fonts

SAM'S WORK:

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After getting some audience feedback, they all agreed that the first font fits best for our social realist film. The sharp edges (serif-font) connotes seriousness. The second one fits better for a horror/slasher movie and the third one it too childish.

BTS DIRECTING sample scene 3, jogging and car crash

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SAMPLE SCENE 3 better jogging and car crash

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For this sample scene I included:

• diegetic sound
• I would like to recreate a similar background music I have used in this sample scene (maybe using garage band + a tutorial video)
• natural lighting
• shaky/handheld shots which you find in social realist movies like Tyrannosaur
• tracking shot to signify Tanay is the central protagonist
• Extreme Long Shot
• Close Up
• Long Shot
• Tilting/Panning shot
• it was filmed handheld form a car
• the panting is Foley sound found on the website freesound (copyright free) because the noise from the car and wind made the audio form the clips unusable

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FEEDBACK

• include titles
• there is shading at the top of the frame in the first shot form where the top of the car window is
• include more takes of Tanay running (shot variety, static shots etc.)
• shots of his feet, POV shots, in front/behind etc.
• the image is blurry/pixelated
• the drumbeat sounds like muffled ambient sound, not a drum
• the patch on the arm of the jacket (the jacket in general) doesn't fit - make the character more clear through costume/set dressing
• can create a character that seems careless
• person in business clothes, holding briefcase, papers full, fumbling for key, coffee and on phone - busy, stressed and distracted, likely to be in an accident 
• body language, costume, do not necessarily have to see a face
• would add to verisimilitude 
• be more careful with where/when sad music plays
• there's no real buildup to the climactic car crash
• get frontal OTS shot of the car coming up 
• Tanay could be listening to music - explanation as to why he doesn't heat the car (and would add more verisimilitude)
• the sound - theres the sound of glass shattering but then theres no damage to the car
• we didn't inlaced a shot of Tanay lying on the ground and smoke coming out of thecae because it seemed unrealistic and looked silly
• remove glass shattering sound
• The bleak deep field of focus for the tilting down shot works to show the trees, but shallow field of focus would work better afterwards (don't want be cutting between shots with different fields of focus too much)

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GANT RULE

(SAM'S WORK)

This Gant Rule was made up  by someone called Charles Gant a box office analyst. He believed that the box office of a film will be successful when it makes ten times as much in the US as in the UK. One good example is Maze Runner (2014). It made  £4m in the UK and $40m in the US.

However, this is not always the case, some movies can do incredibly well in the UK but flop in the US. This was the case for Bridget Jones's Baby because that made $60m in the UK but only $24m in the US. Why might this be? Well Bridget Jones does not have a wide American appeal and has a lot of jokes or references that only people from the UK will understand. This was a crucial reason as to this was a flop in the US. 
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(MY WORK)

Our film would likely be an exception to the Gant rule, as an international, American audience would be unlikely to be able to pick up on the preferred reading, accessible mostly to a uk audience, similar to Bridget Jones Diary. Furthermore, achieving distribution internationally is difficult for indie films, as they have to make individual deals with distribution companies (e.g. tyrannosaur)