Filming

This week we have started to film the opening scene. what we have filmed so far is one of the indoor scenes.

We hope to be finished by the end of this Month. we will be editing and filming at the same time. furthermore I will be doing small video diary's after each filming session.

Audeince research: brief

Media Studies - Audience Research.ppt

Pre production 2nd

Today, we got togather to do further pre production planning we managed to finish the "Camera placement plan" we are aslo still working on the storyboard, hoing to finish it by the end of this week.


Camera placement plan

Victor- i have so far got one cornfimed actor Daniel Cadoret. he is to be one of our two charactors, i am still working on finding the next female role. we are alomost done with the pre producuction hoping to start filming by next week.

Camera placement plan

The image is drawing of what we think our charector and camera placing will be. the arrows represent the movment of the chrector.. the cmaera are is also  drawn. and it shows the movment of which they will pan or be placed when filming. the numbers stand for the order of shots. were thwy will end and start. this is one of the final prepareations for preproduction.

 

 

The Vampire Diaries (TVD)

The Vampire Diaries is a supernatural drama television series developed by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec, based on the book series of the same name written by L. J. Smith.  

The series takes place in Mystic Falls,Virginia, a fictional small town haunted by supernatural beings. The series narrative follows the protagonist Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev) as she falls in love with vampireStefan  Salvatore (Paul Wesley) and is drawn into the supernatural world as a result. As the series progresses, Elena finds herself drawn to Stefan's brother Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder) resulting in a love triangle.

In addition to the editing being very fast-paced, it uses a lot of different angles in The Vampire Diaries. In a classic TV show, one scene might have three, four or maximum five different angles. In every scene of TVD, there are 10 to 20 different angles in every single scene. Let’s say one person is talking. It  goes from a side angle to a high angle to an extreme close-up, all within the same sentence, as opposed to just staying on one character, in one angle saying his line for the whole sentence. In one sentence, It can have 3 different cuts and 3 different angles. This making it very complex tv show. 

Pre production meeting

First Pre-Production Meeting. Today we had our first pre production meeting where we discussed what needed to be thought about and organised, and who was going to carry out each role. For future reference, the two people who are in my group are Abel Clarke and Tom Ewart. We have already decided on the basic concept of what our opening sequence is going to be about but we needed to build on it and think about all the aspects we needed for the production. The things we need to think about are: • The screenplay and storyboard • Location and setting • Actors • Costumes • Props and other equipment (e.g. lights) We all assigned what we specifically should focus on. I will be looking into the screen play and approving filimng location location . The other two will be focusing on their aspects and will surely blog about it.

Location. This was a tricky heading to cover. We have had a few ideas of what we think would suit the opening. Ideally we wanted an abandoned street but that is very hard to find, and people will probably be hanging around there making it difficult to film. We then thought a forest may be a suitable location but we figured it was too generic and we want it to be different. I then thought that they're is an old sewage works in Yarnton, behind the Turnpike which would be ideal as it has that abandoned atmosphere about it as well as being a quiet location for filming. The only limitation is getting access to it. above is a selection of pictures I took of the area, I think its ideal

Costume

This is the costume we have decided to use for our production