January 2016 | Anne's Media Blog

Wednesday, 20 January 2016

Update of the props

On: 10:04

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By: Anne Braatz Media

While continuing to develop our idea we made small changes in the story. We developed out idea so that the hands are tied to the headrest behind the protagonists head and rather than using rusty handcuffs we are going to used cable binders, since we thought tat these...

Thursday, 7 January 2016

Current location Plan

On: 09:05

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By: Anne Braatz Media

We are currently planing to film on a filed at Ewhurst. We already got Ian's verbal permission, however we are still working on getting a written letter of consent. This is Ewhurst: We would like to achieve an isolated effect like this: ...

E-mailing Mike (backup actor)

On: 04:52

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By: Anne Braatz Media

Since both Ted and Jason haven't fully agreed to take the role, we all agreed to contact Mike. We asked Mike in person and also send him a written proposal. He luckily agreed to be our actor. So, incase Ted or Jason won't be available on the shooting...

Email screen shots are missing

Jason's and Ted's reply

On: 04:52

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By: Anne Braatz Media

These are Jason's and Ted's replies: Jason: Ted: - ...

Shot list + story board inspiration

On: 04:42

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By: Anne Braatz Media

I have now finished completing the shortlist: This is our inspiration for our story board's presentation: ...

Second try- emailing potential actors

On: 04:35

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By: Anne Braatz Media

Today I emailed Jason and Ted, to ask if they would be part our our project since nor Ezra or Simon can make it. We are now waiting for their replies. ...

e-mailing Ezra and Simon + their replies

On: 04:35

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By: Anne Braatz Media

I e-mailed both of our desired actors a request if they are willing to act in our sequence, with a synopsis of the story's Plot. Simon: - Ezra: These where there replies: Simon: Ezra: Since Ezra didn't reply to our E-mail I addressed him on Campus and he...

Location hunting

On: 03:55

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By: Anne Braatz Media

Today we went to have look at one of the locations on the school ground that we all agreed on might be suitable as a the location of our opening sequence. This is the parking lot: The isolated look is what got us interested in it. We also...

Cast List

On: 03:05

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By: Anne Braatz Media

This is the Cast list I created. I also created a short summary of the characters in the sequence. However this is only our desired Cast. This is not the final cast. ...

Sugar Glass

On: 02:57

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By: Anne Braatz Media

Since we would like to create an effect/ the idea of the protagonist breaking the car window, without actually damaging the car during the shoot we are planing to use editing to trick around the actual action by using suggestive sounds and shots. We asked the media department...

Props intspiration

On: 02:54

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By: Anne Braatz Media

This is our idealised visual, inspiration of the props we would like to use: Paper work Photographs in brown envelopes Coffee Newspapers (referencing recent crimes, which the detective investigates) Sweaters Rusty handcuffs wedding ring Matches Gasoline Tanks ...

Creating a checklist

On: 02:53

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By: Anne Braatz Media

To start of the second phase of the Pre-production we made a list of everything we needed for the shoot. And started splitting up the work. Roberto is going list and source the Props. Jon is going to get the permission for the location. Coco is going to...

'Green light'

On: 02:41

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By: Anne Braatz Media

Today, we got another chance to pitch our idea, with it's two versions, to Matt and Luke. We were all extremely happy once they responded in a positive way. They quickly created a tendency towards the 'Gasoline idea' rather then the 'Bomb idea'. Which then caused us to...

Luke's advice

On: 02:39

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By: Anne Braatz Media

During todays lesson we had a quick chat with Luke. We gave him a rough outline of our ideas and asked if we could continue to develop them for the upcoming Pitch or continuer brainstorming. He said that they are good basic ideas to work of. As advice...

Mood board is missing as Roberto about it

Idea development/Mood Board

On: 01:45

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Wednesday, 6 January 2016

Pictures of out work are missing ( take some)

Brainstorming for a new Idea

On: 12:26

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By: Anne Braatz Media

We made it our mission to all come up with three different new Ideas or elements for a thriller opening sequence until our next lesson. The three Ideas I came up with were: A two strand sequence of a school quire performance and another student preparing for a...

Matt and Luke's Feedback

On: 12:02

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Pitch to Matt and Luke

On: 12:01

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We created a Power point to support our Pitch. Power Pint on Google Drive ...

Changing the Idea

On: 11:59

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By: Anne Braatz Media

After our chat with Mike we decided to slightly change our Idea to make it more realistic. We did this by adding in another character. We created a young 25-30 year old, well build and healthy character, who is his fathers companion in crime. Adding in this character...

Pitching the Idea to Mike + Feedback

On: 11:39

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Test shoot evaluation

On: 11:36

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Test shoot and it's editing

On: 11:16

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By: Anne Braatz Media

Editing: We edited the test shoot using iMovie. We transferred the videos from Roberto's phone on to his laptop so we would have a wider range of editing tools. The end product ended up having highly fluctuating pace we used a clean cuts most of the time and one dissolve transition We also added...

The test shoot

On: 11:15

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By: Anne Braatz Media

On the shoot day we got started right away, we went to the canteen and asked to borrow two cups and two spoons. Next, we went to the common room. However we had to face the problem of the lights being broken, in our desired shooting area/location. We...