Originating from the medieval morality plays, I was inspired by how Marlowe utilised the devil and angel dynamic in 'Dr Faustus' where Marlowe specifically the ideas of temptation vs purity. This duality is one I believe is more prominent than ever in today's teenage culture, with social media and the internet exposing teenagers to everything from smoking culture to unfiltered content that promotes violence and crime.

Photo taken from the quintessence theatre group

The Good Angel's goal is to convince Faustus to abandon his sins and return to God, while the Bad Angel tries to get the scholar to continue in his pursuit of magic and so remain loyal to the devil. Traditionally this would have been staged in such a way where the evil spirit is staged below the good spirit to show this metaphorical pulling into sin

EDIT: CREATION OF FX IN PHOTOSHOP

 In our filmmaking and editing, we explored ways of creating visual representations of what was developing inside our protagonist’s head. This is integral to the narrative – as he is under such pressure from the stressful thoughts about his past criminal record spoiling his chances of any real future – as well as being an artistic experimentation that attracted us as it promised to lift our filmmaking out of the run of the predictable into more filmic work.

To suggest his inner maelstrom, we took an image of the protagonist into Photoshop and cut the space inside the outline of his head, filling it with the sequence of him committing the crime which forced him into community service. 

 

REFLECTION: Production Company Logo Sequence

 Our Company name is Ten Pin Productions, therefore we took the name literally and decided on basing the sequence around a bowling scene, meaning that the company logo would appear behind the fallen skittles.

We did this by setting the scene upon a green screen so that we'd have flexibility when choosing the background

We planned originally to use IStopmotion so that we could control the direction of the ball and make the title slide cleanly animated, however it ended up requiring far more attention then we were willing to give and decided on simply just using the camera app on an IPad and exporting it to a MacBook for editing

REFLECTION: EDITING USING THE ADOBE EDITING SUITE

 

Adobe premiere pro has advanced software that has allowed me a lot of freedom to develop the scenes to be exactly to how I envision them, I have done this using CGI. I looked to take it scene by scene, the photo above depicts the most time consuming section of the editing process,  the editing required me to generate graffiti onto the wall that the community services workers are washing. To make this natural and to the point where it is unnoticeable the scene demanded me to take the shot frame by frame making sure that the graffiti was to scale with the wall, this meant that the image required lots of resizing/adjusting. My experience with premiere pro was limited going into this project and I learned a lot of skills I'd look to bring into further projects, however, because of the expansive library of effects and editing techniques that I have barely scratched the surface of I imagine that this process could have been done a lot faster had I the knowledge.

Before the video editing process, I went to photoshop to apply the graffiti to the wall I had to find a JPEG online and edit it to make it easily applicable to the brick wall background. In reflection, the image I chose made it difficult to superimpose behind the actors washing the wall because the image had drip marks that in the process I thought would make sense since this would be the effect that you'd see when you wash graffiti. 

 

REFLECTION: Filming Dec 10th

 

In this scene, we aimed to portray the court-mandated community service our protagonist is working in. Cleaning graffiti off a brick wall the effects would be edited in later on.

To film this we required 6 people to be on-site at the same time, this proved a challenge as with every actor having a different schedule to work around finding time to film was difficult. We had a bit of flexibility in terms of who we cast as Arran's dodgy friend's although Holly and Arran were essential to the scene and Holly only had limited time before she had her lesson. In this time we had to collect the High Vis, bring the actors to the location and prepare the camera, possibly with more organisation it would have been less hectic and we'd have more freedom to enjoy it and get 4 or 5 takes to choose from. If budget was no issue it would have been much better if we could get permission to spray paint the wall and then hire an artist who can spray paint I believe this scene would be perfect.

As a Filmmaker, I looked to use misc-en-scene to leave connotations of the story. With Arran centre frame it positions him as the centre of attention while Holly is off to the left and the mates are off on the right, this portrays that there's a decision for Arran to make.

CALL SHEET

PHOTO REFERENCE OF SHOOT LOCATIONS:

LOCATION:

Camera Equipment: 

iPhone x2 
Tripod Stand 
USB 

Props: 

Visa Jackets 
Sponges / Cleaning Supplies
Hoodies (Kevins Character) 

Wardrobe (Actors):

Arran -  White Hoodie, Visa Jacket, Black Joggers
Holly - Blue Hoodie, Visa Jacker, Blue Joggers 
Gabe - Hoodie, Visa Jacket, blue joggers 
Extras - Yellow Visa Jackets, informal clothing. 

Crew Contact: 
Preesha: Pr********@gmail.com 
Tom: Th*******@gmail.com 

Casting

 

Made with Visme

Distributing my Film

https://tomb-alevel.blogspot.com/2020/10/kung-fu-panda-3-distribution-collage.html

When researching how Hollywood blockbusters distributed a film I noticed the budget requirements for many of the advertisement methods they used.

I was however aware of their use of digital poster's, With my budget in utilising social media as to cut costs on the price of paper this could be a very viable option

Facebook pages can be used to reach an older audience, Instagram and Snapchat for younger.

Build a film website, filled with information about production and screening time

Film poster card; Image of the film, social media links. - BAIT, another independent film used this method

• Apply to BFI
• Try to get the film screened at London film festival

Tortoise in love

The BFI funded for advertising campaign for lesser known films

Mark Batey was the FDA head until march 2019

What, Who, When - in consideration of targeting audience

I intend to position my film as a ....

Talk about the selling points of the film 

Kezia Williams - Entertainment One Uk

RESEARCH: Semiotics

 This post covers what I learnt from Roland Barthes semiotic analysis video.

Roland Barthes analyses an advertising image, Panzani pasta, and uses it as a means of teasing out how different messages are conveyed by a system of signs, this essay is called The Rhetoric of the Image.

Signs

Signs covers all of semiotics, it can be broken down into denotation and connotation. Denotation covers the literal aspect, how something is intended, whereas connotation can be left to interpretation.

A 'myth' in terms of Roland Barth says that it is an obvious level of signification that is built upon arbitrary stereotypes and is defined as a denotative signs.

The video looks at the Apple logo, an apple, its connotations to me suggest high costs and sleek design, while to someone else it may suggest sweatshops and globalisation.

The presentation taught me how to analyse aspects of film language through his breakdown of Tales of Terror From Tokyo

• Misc-en-scene
• Misc-en-scene covers what we see on screen, this including the set. In the video, he shows us an extract, Tales of Terror from Tokyo going through and breaking down how it uses semiotics. He brought attention to the corridors of the set being small and cramped, this demonstrates and increases the high anxiety of the scene

• Sound
• The tone of characters can be used to establish their intentions/personality, this can be supported through ambient sounds, in the extract the man behind the door has a high, shrill voice creating him to seem like an antagonist while in the background chimes are playing to create a nervous feeling in the viewer.
• Camerawork 
• The camera can be used as to establish setting or a characters position within the scene. The extract used wide angles as to make the girl seem small in the room.
• Editing
• Editing can influence the audience by choosing where their attention is held, by using sharp cuts to a door handle accompanied by intense non-diegetic music, this alerts the audience as to know something dangerous is behind the door.

Signs being found everywhere in film and Tv mean that directors and filmmakers must be creative with their signs to keep audiences interested.

Ken Loach's Ae Fond Kiss is an example of a creative who effectively utilises symbolism to create meaning In his texts. 

The screenshot from Ae Fond Kiss portrays a bulldog, a symbol of Britain, urinating on the shop owners sign. Loach uses connotational signs here where this could be interpreted as the toxic relationship between Britain and other cultures, this is due to the disrespect that the locals are showing him and with the dog being a bulldog portrays this is Britain being discriminatory as a whole rather than individualistic behaviour