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50164986 Connor Sadler Level 3 Film and Television

Stage 1 - Preproduction

                                      - Scripting

                                      - Budgeting

                                      - Shooting Schedule

                                      - Getting the Props together

                                      - Scouting out locations

                                      - Getting location permission

Stage 2 - Production

                                      - Directing

                                      - Acting

                                      - Special Effects

                                      - Cinematography

                                      - Makeup/Costumes

                                      - Getting the Props on set

                                      - Continuity

                                      - Lighting

Stage 3 - Post Production

                                      - Editing

                                      - Colour Correction

                                      - Composing

                                      - Foley Sounds

                                      - Visual Effects

                                      - Additional Dialogue Recorders (ADR)

                                      - Distributing

Stage 1 - Scripting

When writing a story it a useful tool to use the 3 Stages when structuring it, these are the Beginning, Middle and End, In more detail they can establish a location and the characters in it.

Beginning
               - Equilibrium, Introduce the main location and the main characters
               - Goal, Should explain what their goals are
Middle
               - Conflict, What is going to stop them achieving their goal
               - Dilema, Something happens what disturbs the peace
End

               - Resolution, How the film is going to be resolved

Stage 2 - Cinematography

As a group we looked at the types of shots used when planning and shooting a film and the roles a Cinematographer has to do, some common shots that a Cinematographer could use are...

- Long Shot

- Wide Shot

- Establishing Shot

- Full Shot

- Medium Shot

- Medium Close up Shot

- Close up Shot

- Extreme Close up Shot

They can all be used in different ways to show different emotional responses, most often a scene would start with a Long, Wide or Establishing shot which shows the location and lets the viewer know where they are and what is happening, then Full or Medium Shots can be used to show off a character from different angles to give different responses e.g A shot at a high angle looking down on the subject will make them look feeble but from low down and looking up makes them look imposing. Medium, Medium Close up, Close up and Extreme Close ups can be used as the story and scenes build up to give more emotional responses, as the tension builds up the shots often get closer and sometimes faster or slower depending on the situation.

Stage 3 - Composing

We watched the short film "Sign Language" which is a documentary about people who hold up promotional signs by the side of roads and listed the all that needed doing during Preproduction.

Things Needed

- Location Permission

- Costumes

- Shooting Schedule for the right time of day and weather

- Music, Sounds

- Actors

- Theme and Script

- Camera and Cameraman

- Health and Safety

- Budget

- Props

- Lights, if needed

Validation (Film)

After that we watched another short film called "Validation" which was about a man who gave compliments to people and gave them validation on their life instead of parking validation, we looked at how they could of budgeted the film and how they saved money in places.

  

Budgeting

- Costumes, Charity shops / Ask around to see what people have

- Cars, Borrow or Hire a car

- Equipment, Bring your own / Borrow / Make do with what you have

- Actors, Art Schemes

- Props, Make your own / Art Schemes / Junk Sales

- Road Signs, Make your own or rent a special printer

- Backstage Crew, Art Schemes / Friends

- Extras, Friends / Family / Art Schemes / Random people

- Cameras and Microphones, Borrow or buy your own

- Land Permission, Ask very nicely

The Fallen Soldier

By David Neale, Ellis Bishop, Franky Brown & Connor Sadler

The Fallen Soldier is a romantic drama about 2 people who fall in who fall in love during their campaign in syria, the conflict between these is from their respective armies at war with one another so they are unable to see each other often, they meet as the woman from England is hurt/knocked out and the syrian soldier takes care of him, the woman from England wants to repay the syrian man for what he has done and they meet up a number of times and over time they fall in love.

This film shows how a romantic film is about the conflict within a relationship and how it is overcome or dealt with and how being a "Fish out of Water" creates tension or a dilemma.

After the break we looked back on the films we created and then found other movies that contrasts them in their story so we could see their movie posters and see how they differ. My film The Fallen Soldier is a lot like, Pearl Harbour by Michael Bay and For Whom the Bells Toll by Sam Wood because both are in war zones and puts the main characters life in perspective to what is accually happening around them.
The poster which I created is using the same techniques as Pearl Harbour and For Whom the Bells Toll becuase it has both of the main actors centered and next to eachother, while the background shows a helmet stuck on a rifle which is how they show when a Solider dies or is missing or so I am told. If this was to be made at the bottom I would put the Crew Credits and if I could of gotten better pictures of the 2 characters next to eachother that would of made it look better and really show what the film was about. The red in the titles is ment to give the impression that somebody will eventually die in this by making it blood red.