Fallout Final

This is our completed film opening called Fallout. It has been made nearly 10 seconds longer from the first draft because scenes last longer and a couple more scenes where added to give a better feel of a more apocalyptic film. Also text had been edited since the first draft for example the changes in our music give the film a more powerful and creepy feeling because we chose music with an empty and disastrous sound meaning the footage feels more real and powerful. This was one of the main areas which we received feedback on from our peers and teachers when they watched our first draft.

BFI Trip

 

On this trip we learned all about mainstream films and the difference between different production companies and high budget and low budget films. Mainstream film institutions would involve 'The Big 6' which would be the following companies:

- 20th Century Fox

- Warner Bros

- Universal

- Paramount

- MGM

- Disney

- Universal

Evidence of how Planned Opening Matches Real Openings

Our planned opening matches the film conventions/codes, genre and audiences because we have studied similar films and they all use the same themes of danger, fear and emptiness. These conventions and codes we have included into our film opening is the enigma code meaning the audience is constantly questioning what is going on and what is going to happen 

Synopsis Planning

Fallout is our film we have based it loosely around a nuclear disaster from which no one has survived because of this our film will contain lots of shots about nature and how human life has been destroyed with no hope of survival. The film has a enigma code which constantly wants you to question what is happening and what will happen because it is all filmed from the point of view from the lone survivor meaning we see everything in the way he does to make you feel scared of what will happen. The way in which it has been filmed enables us to use a small amount of actors but still create a powerful meaning.

The Fallout will be filmed in a number of locations like the school, The city centre and Lee's house we are going to use these locations because we feel that we are going to be able to create the right felling of destruction and emptiness, these themes will be expressed through the way in which we film the shot hopefully in such a way that life seems like a thing of the past and all people will be worrying is about there own life and how they are going to survive. To help create this feeling we will be using some 'before; and 'after' shots using the normal city with people walking around doing there daily tasks and after the explosion we will have a desolate location with no apparent life because of the mass of fallout which has been spread worldwide.

We will not need many props however in our location we are hoping to use the old style metal bins covered in rust which we may be able to kick over to show the destruction which the whole world will feel after the nuclear explosion, by using a few amount of props we are able to show how normal life is destroyed and nothing is left if we were to use props then we wouldn't be able to show this feeling of desolation because the shots would feel too 'normal' which would take away the feeling of danger and emptiness.

Pictures Evidence

These are our photos which we have taken during the course of the production process i have uploaded them to photobucket in order to show our pictures in a slideshow format to make it easier to view. These pictures are from our shooting location and during the editing process as well as our titles research. I chose these pictures in order to show everything we have done in our group.

Titles Research

In this lesson we started to learn about the importance of film titles because in our final production we will need to get the titles spot on.

First of all we went on the website www.artofthetitle.com to help find a opening series of titles which we could then learn about. From this website i chose the titles from James Bond Skyfall. I chose these titles because they are extremely well known and because it was such a high end blockbuster they wouldn't have made any mistakes.

I screen shotted every title that was shown and then timed how long they appeared for, i did this to learn about the way in which certain actors want there name up for a certain period of time. The most common time was 3 seconds which then lowered to 2 seconds with the production team and makeup artists.

From this simple action I learnt about the importance of titles and how important it is that they are all correct with no mistakes, from the Skyfall titles I found a lot of inspiration for our own titles hopefully being able to re create this professional look in our own production

Titles presentation from harrisonsd

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