What i've done today

Today I did some more of my rough cut edit. I added a few shots that I previously filmed. I added a few colourisation effects to some shots to allow continuity between one shot and another, before I added the effect the orangeness of one shot was contrasting with a greyness of another but after the effect was added both shots combined nicely. I also reversed one shot in which the girl looks to the left and then straight on so instead she looks straight on and then to the left which works well with continuity as in previous shots she is looking straight on. I deleted a few of my shots in which the lighting was too light as it was meant to be light, I may reshoot these scenes at a later date but for now I've removed them to see how the continuity goes without them.

I have now changed the positioning of my titles back a couple of seconds so instead of the music coinciding with just the titles coming into screen it also coincides with what's happening in the scene, for example now the title and the sound come in at the same time as the detective enters the screen.

Explore the representation of gender in this extract

Explore the representation of gender in this extract

The tv show scott and bailey revolves around two detectives, scott and bailey. In this extract a woman is talking to a man at a dinner table, the woman is wearing plain clothes like she has come straight from work and the man is wearing a suit with no tie, showing he dressed up quite smart but not overly so. She is slouched over and leaning on her hand. Her body language is relaxed and casual. His body language is tight and he seems nervous. He keeps up straight and talks very carefully. He breaks up with her and his voice stays calm although it stutters where as she is confused, she seems taken aback and upset. The background is all out of focus so we can see that the focus of this part is on the two people in the middle of the frame. The lighting is quite low key and keeps natural, it is at the side of the man, splitting his face into light and dark, perhaps showing that he has a dual personality and is possibly hiding something from her. Whereas the light on the woman is the same throughout her face. The next scene is the workplace, the overall lighting is quite light, natural. Most of the people in the scene are wearing normal black/grey work clothes except a couple of the girls are wearing quite vibrant colours like blue, to make them stand out. The men in the workplace are preoccupied, they're all listening to the boss but they're not giving their full attention. For instance one of the workers is throwing and catching a coin and you can see via editing that one of them is checking out another girls legs. The editing shows this by cutting from the man bending his head to the right to the girls legs and the camera is panning up the leg. There is also another man looking at the pictures she mentioned in this scene. The idea of this scene with gender isn't to segregate them, the stereotype being that the men are the powerful ones or the woman are all sexualised. The piece shows the variety quite well because even though the men aren't paying much attention and one of them is checking out a coworker the big boss is a woman and the only input comes from a woman. In the next scene the woman is wearing a leather jacket and jeans again all in black and the man is wearing a casual dressing gown. The woman is banging on the door then enters his apartment. The lighting is again across half of the mans face and the womans face is lighted evenly. She is big with motions and seems violent towards him. He takes it as he knows he deserves it.

Filming planning

My plan for filming this weekend is to film around half of my shots, or at least the biggest scene in the film on the saturday night. I will work from 4pm until possibly 7 or 8pm. It needs to be dark as the scene is at night. I have borrowed all of the equipment that i will need. This includes a high definition camera, a battery powered light, a power pack and a battery charger, a tripod, a clapper board, an audio recorder and a directional mic. I will also be using a ladder to get the high angle shot. On the saturday i will charge the battery light and make sure that all the cameras and directional mics are working. I will take the equipment over to location before 4. We will be setting up 4 until about 4:15 or 4:30 if we can't get something working. We will then be filming the shots around that area from 4:30 until around 5:30, i don't think that getting the shots on that location will take more than an hour, hour and a half tops. From around 5:45 until 7 i will be getting shots of them walking down the streets. This shouldn't take too long but i think an hour and 45 minutes would be enough time for this. I will then get some of the shots of just the detective running through the streets at night, and also possibly the shot of the detective looking up and going towards the big building. This will cover a lot of my shots and scenes and all i will have left to do is the scene in the building and the scene of the girl and detective walking during the  day time which will have to be filmed a different day.

Graphics planning

This is a short gif I created using the animation package Flash CS5. This is just a short test of the program. At the moment i've called is multi colour productions but I might change the name later on. This program was quite difficult to use but good preparation for my actual graphics. For my actual graphics i'm going to use stop motion with drawing as this is too difficult to use.

Planning for filming

For the few weeks ahead of me I have a lot to do. The main thing is to get all of my filming done. My aim is to get all the main filming done by the first of february and if there is anything I can see is missing or needs to be re-filmed I will have time to do that before half term. My next aim is to get a good solid edit done by the 15th of february but obviously if more work is needed I can finish up the editing the week after. I also will have to get the graphics, the title sequence, the ident, by the 22nd of march, at which point I will also have done all of my evaluation for the final piece. I aim to have everything done completely by 22nd of march.


This week i've looked at planning for my graphics and over the next week I aim to have finished my graphics and possibly also the title sequence as well as the ident. I also would like to get a few scenes of filming done.

Film Industry 6

Q1. People went to go and see pirates of the carribean 2 because it was a good film and because it was so well marketed. If it wasn't marketed no one would know about this film and therefore no one would go and see it. If the film was poor and got bad reviews and such no one would go and see it. I therefore think that it is a bit of both that means lots of people went to see it.

Q2.

Film industry part 5

Q1. Anne Hathaway would bring a lot to the role. Not only her acting abilities. As well as this because she is so popular that people who have heard of her or are fans of her will come and see the film. Even people who just know that she is well known will go and see it because they will think that if the film can afford her or that she thinks it's worth doing it must be a good film.

Q2. I was recommended the film seven psychopaths by word of mouth but i haven't gotten round to seeing it yet. I went to see the film Jack Reacher because i liked the trailer and it looked a bit like other films i have enjoyed like mission impossible and in the film had an actor i like.

Q3. Avatar made the most amount of money but it's budget was a lot more than the other films. Their budget was very low and the made quite a lot of money but not as much as avatar.

Q5. The soundtrack of a film is very important in my opinion. The lord of the rings and the hobbit are good examples of this. The soundtrack to these films add so much to the films and they are well known partly because of them. Also with musicals such as les miserables which is coming out soon the soundtrack will be very important for that.

Q6. Lionsgate has survived the film industry by mainly investing in and buying award winning TV shows, well known DVD series and award winning films.