New Storyline

Due to some mistakes we made, we decided to change the storyline and came up with a very good story and we already started filming/editing the footage that we took.

The new storyline will be starring Henri Yueksel (Narrator/Main Character) and Sultan MacKinnon that will be playing a dead man that has been killed by the Main Character.

New Story:

Henri is a young adult aged 19, his life was pretty normal until the day his sister got murdered in a forest by a drunk man. Henri's parents died a few years ago, the only thing that he had left was his sister but she got killed recently after a big rave she attended near a little forest. The court did let the man free because he was heavily drunk and he couldn't control himself, so they sentenced him to 5 years in a medical institution to get rid of his alcohol problems.
Henri couldn' take the pressure because of that unfair judgement and had to be sent to an aslylum after trying to kill the judge in the court day.
After he got released from the asylum, he went to the forest where his sister got killed and started to live there and stop every person from passing this place. The ones that entered the forest wouldn't get out again...
After this the police arrested Henri for murder, even though they had no proof they interrogated him and he told the police his story and what happened in the forest...

Written by Henri Yueksel
Candidate Number 4450

Re-Planning

Changes
Due to a few changes in the storyline we will be re filming some of the footage as we thought the filming was boring. There will be change in location shots maybe actors/actresses. The trailer may be more mature and intelligent as the story has changed. As a result this may not only attract young teenagers, but also older generations of people. This is a positive change as we are trying to maximise our capacity utilisation.

Mistakes
We realised that the filming was quite boring. We were unsure how to illustrate our story in the trailer, therefore we decided that we will re film our footage for a few reasons such as the changes in the story line (that will be posted by Henri Yueksel). Also our group did not use the tripod very effectively therefore making the footage groggy and unprofessional. When we were filming we did not use the key conventions of filming such as close up shots, pan, low/high angle shots and tracking shots. We decided that the film would be much more appealing to people if it was more realistic as it is a teenage horror/thriller based genre.

We will try and learn form our mistakes and include all of the above shots and conventions.

Posted by Sultan Mackinnon
Candidate Number 3641

Second Day of Filming

Today we went up to a little forest close to the field where the young man (me) was running away from something. We couldn't take a loot of footage due the weather condition. It was a bit too sunny and the grass was frozen, so that we could see quite a big difference between the first filming and the one we did today. Even though we didn't get a lot of footage, we realised that the sun actually made a better picture while filming in a right angle so that we could use the sun as a natural light, even though we hadn't had the foil they use in professional movies to light specific areas, for example a person.
Our conclusion was that we're going to try and reshoot some of the scenes of the first filming we did in this kind of weather we had today, sunny and a bit cloudy and frozen ground. I think this might be better weather condition for filming. We'll have to try different types of filming including filming methods and we'll need as well a lot of good footage.

Written by Henri Yueksel
Candidate Number 4450

Beginning of Filming

On Friday we started to being the filming of our trailer. the weather was good as it was both over cast and windy. This is the sirt of weather we are looking to film in as it sets the mood of our film. The place where we dicided to start our filming was on our school campus in one of the more "darker" areas. We used dead dogs wood to film the walking of the girl (myself). I was carrying books to give the impression that I was walking back from school along a woodland path. We got various different shots and angles and took lots of footage so that we had many clips to edit. We also filmed the chase of Henri (male actor) through one of the stubble fields which also involved a lot of different shots from different angles. As we didnt have a huge amount of time, we didnt manage to get a huge amount of footage, however have got enough to begin editing the beginning of our trailer. We need to make sure that the next time e film the weather is similar to how it was on Friday so that the clips match and work together.

Obviously we have had to look at the weather forcast as you can see on the below posts to see when will be appropriate to film.
  Some of the next pieces of footage will need to be filmed later in the afternoon as we will begin to need a little darker light for some of the shots. This means that our filming will now need to take place outside of class time after lessons.

By Sonia Routledge

Importance of Weather Condition

Sultan already posted the Weather conditions for the next few days, we are going to have the perfect weather tomorrow, so we'll be able to start filming. The weather is very important because of the lighting and other characteristics of weather that affect a piece of film. We'll need gray, possibly rainy weather to create the atmosphere that we want, the problem would be if there's not enough light, the picture will come over quite boring and will not have the specific effect on the audience, the feeling of the picture.

Today we started filming in the weather we thought was ideal, but we realized a bit of sun would have perfected the picture. Unfortunately we cannot change the weather so we'll have to try and shoot in different weather conditions and see which is the best.


Written by Henri Yueksel
Candidate Number 4450

Weather Conditions for Filming

Our group have decided that we are going to start filming tomorrow. We have checked the weather for the rest of the week.




As you can see the weather for Friday and Saturday is rainy, therefore this is perfect for our trailer as the genre is teenage horror/thriller. The advantage of this is that it really brings out an the atmosphere in the trailer.

Posted by Sultan Mackinnon
Candidate Number 3641

The Beginning of Our Film

We spent the lesson today looking at the voice recording and the voice over we are going to use in our trailer. We used the storyboard to decide what was appropriate conversation for each shot and wrote out what we wanted to say. Henri was doing the voice over whereas myself and Sultan were speaking as the actors and continuing with random conversation. We had to make sure that we were recording in a quiet area and that there were no background noices going on whilst we were recording. We decided to use the Cumming house mixed come where it was quiet and undisruptive.

We didnt manage to finish all of the recording today and need to make sure that we know exactly what we're going to be doing next lesson. We managed to get upto image 3 on the storyboard but need to look into what other conversation is going to be intwined through the trailer. We will make sure we know what is going to be said for next lesson so that we can finish it relatively quickly. 

By Sonia Routlege 

The Actor(s) and Actresses We are Using for our Trailer

For our Trailer as a group we decided to choose people within our classroom. It would be less risky and it would allow our filming to be more flexible, as we could use them anytime throughout the lesson. At the end we decided to actually choose the actors/actresses from our shs-media group as it would be  much easier and as a result we all know what we are aiming for and what are potential targets could be. However we lack of one actor who is the the male couple that plays the part with Sonia Routlage. We hope to find this actor soon. We decided that the stalker will be represented through the camera (point of view of the stalker character).


Henri Yueksel (Injured Man/Narrator)

Sonia Routlage (Female character of the couple)

Posted by Sultan Mackinnon
Candidate Number 3641

Audience and Film Analysis

We already did one audience analysis, but personally I really do not agree with the UK Tribes page, it a too vague, stereotypical classification of the youth now a days. I even did the UK Tribes test and apparently I am a scene kid, what is not true at all. My character is very specific like everyone elses character. Even though there might be youth groups in today's society you cannot count on adress these groups, you have to adress the interests of the people. It is way more difficult to attract an audience for a certain movie, for the highest success you need money, that's all about it now a days. But that does not mean that the movie is going to be good, it is just going to attract a very big audience. A good example for that is the movie "Avatar", one of the most expensive movie ever made and as well one of the most seen. Personally I thought the movie was average and I haven't even seen the whole movie because I always fell asleep close to the ending. No one really talks about this movie anymore and I don't think a lot of people are going to watch it on dvd more than once.
My theory is, if you want to attract a great number of audience withiout having a big budget, you have to adress the audience in a very specific way, with good adverts and other advertisment methods.
I still believe in good movies, that means movies that contain a good story, good locations, good music etc. all of this must not be very well know, for example famous actors and/or famous songs... Most of the movies that are good in my opinion and that I like are quite unknown, with unknown actors and stories that do not follow Hollywoods "checklist". Most of the movies that I like, are very international and from america to turkey and even china and japan have got a great variety of masterpieces, that most of the people don't know about or haven't ever heard of it. That is probably because it is not, what I call, "mainstream".
I describe mainstream as money making, qualities are not matching masterpieces from long ago as well as masterpieces that are created today. I still think filming is art and do not like now a days "mainstream" movies. (All of this is my opinion and I understand that others aren't obliged to agree with it, everyone has their own taste and character)

List of (imo) good movies:

Animal Kingdom (2010
Country: Australia

Ip Man (2008)

Country: China

The Loved Ones (2009)

Country: Australia

Winter's Bone (2010)

Country: USA

Nefes: Vatan Sagolsun aka. The Breath (2009)

Country: Turkey

Un Prophète aka. A Prophet (2009)

Country: France

Written by Henri Yueksel

Candidate Number 4450

Here is the storyboard that I have drawn. It shows the synopsis of our story that was posted by Henri Yueksel a month ago.

Picture 1: this is a scene were the couple are walking in the woods looking at the beautiful scenery in Scotland.

Picture 2: this picture shows the couple have seen a shadow of a person next to the mysterious woods.

Picture 3: I drew this picture to try and show the characters facial expressions, therefore I would like to show this in the filming of the trailer.

Picture 4: this picture shows the couple ruining up to the man that seems to be injured as he has fallen on the ground.

Picture 5: this scene will show the man that has been injured. If you look closely the man is pointing towards a dark and mysterious woods, which will soon be explored by the young couple.

Picture 6: this picture is to illustrate that the man that has been injured is being taken to hospital. However we do not know if we will involve this scene.

Picture 7: this picture shows the couple trying to communicate with the injured man. In this scene we will try to kind of explain parts of the story, but not all of it as we would like to leave it in a cliff hanger.

Picture 8: this picture illustrates the couple coming back to the dark woods to try and find out what had happened to the injured man.

Picture 9: this picture will try and show the dark woods and will leave the audiences with a cliff hanger.

Posted by Sultan Mackinnon

Candidate Number 3641