Music

This is the music that we were thinking of using but after some thought we came to think that maybe it was too upbeat for what we were looking for, also as it is a soundtrack to a movie that most likely it is copyrighted, we are still going to use a Chinese song but one that is more fitting and that we know would not be copyrighted, so tomorrow we will look at Si Hin's ipod and see what he has to offer ;)

10/01/11

Journal 

Over the weekend me and Charlotte had to meet up to discuss the filming and finish off the storyboard, before we could finish off the storyboard we had to check that we were still OK to film in Si Hin's restaurant because of we were not then we would not have been able to put that in, in the storyboard. When we rang him up he told us that we couldn't so we were in a MASSIVE dilemma!!! We had no idea what to do, so we remembered that when Charlotte was doing her music video in year eleven that we went to a meat packing place which Si Hin organized so we rang him up again to check and see if we could do that again, luckily his mum was going there the next day so we asked him tog o along and ask...we got a brilliant deal, i found out this morning that they will let us film there, use their office and film them working which is just what we wanted. Phew!!! We were nearly worried there.

We also decided that to go along with the triad theme of the movie to choose a Chinese song that we had previously heard on Si Hin's Ipod. We are just waiting to see if it is copyrighted and some Chinese songs aren't apparently so after we hear back about that we will have our final decision.

Filming

We are going to be doing some filming tomorrow night (11/01/11) after school to start off, it will be of Sean who is acting as our mysterious detective and we will hopefully be able to get an office to film it in.

Our next filming will be on the weekend either on the Saturday or the Sunday (16/01/11 or 17/01/11) this will be at the meat suppliers the main part of our filming. The rest of our time in lessons will either be devoted to editing or blogging away what we have done and what we have found out.

Storyboard

Storyboard

This is our storyboard, we have done 33 shots, we have added the film crew and the title, however we may decide to change where to put the title of the actual film. We were thinking about using found images but we were not sure of we were allowed to use them so we decided to leave it the way it is. We  have also found the perfect song for these sequence and we are finding out if it is copyrighted, it is a Chinese song and we have been told that some of the music is not copyrighted to it may be possible, we chose to do a Chinese song because it adds to the triad affect of the movie. It all still in progress. We had the first idea to set some of it in a Chinese restaurant but due to some delays and some people's mums canceling and telling us that she doesn't want filming in her kitchen...weird?? We were not able to do that so we had to think of a new idea, so we are now going to film in a meat packing place full of Chinese people to be in the movie for us.

We have plenty of the film planned out but it is just a matter of filming and editing and getting everything in place. But i think that the finished product will be amazing or good.

07/01/11

Today we talked about changing the name of the title as we asked a lot of people what they thought of the name that we already had they weren't too keen on it, as it is very important for the audience to understand the movie that they are watching we decided to change it to 'Closure' as it was more catchy and easier to understand. Simple is better. 
These are some of the other names that we were deliberating,
Last Assignment, 
The last job,
A job too far,
End of the line,
Open case,
Private Investigation,
and
Hard Boiled - Which was our main choice but we found out that it was the name of a real film so we couldn't film.


We have an idea as to how we want the font, for example in 'Die Hard' the font is one of the main examples that we want to make as it is sophisticated and it has hard edges, so it gives it a more simple but yet edgier look.


We also started to do our story board which was a long and annoying process....i don't like storyboarding :/.........
we haven't yet finished but whilst we were doing it we were thinking of the places that we could shoot it and the shots that we could use. We managed to bend Si Hin's arm into letting us film in his shop (he has to bribe his mum with £500).




We then wanted to design our production company logo because we were not certain of we had to make up our one or use an existing one, so in the thought that we might have to make our own here is our made up production company logo, it is called 'Triad Pictures' 

We also decided who we wanted to play our detective, the first person that we thought of doing it we decided that he wasn't good enough and he tried to join another group so we decided to cut him from the film. We found some one else to do it who can act very well and is up for the job!!

05/01/11

Today we were finally allowed to go into the mac room and use them!! YAY!
Once we had gotten the basics down we decided to start and choose different types of typography for our film, we came up with a few and not only experimented with the type but also how it was to be lay outed with the spacing and the lining.


We then decided that we needed to not only think more about changing the title but looking at different typography again, a more wider range. 
This is what we came up for and we decided to use it for his business card only but this is what we came up with.

We first thought that we would like the type writer style of writing as it would be similar to 'The Wire' as it looks really good for a crime drama, however personally i felt that it was used too much and can look like a cliche so i went off of it a little bit, however i did look at it and i asked the rest of my team what they thought and we discussed using it and trying to figure out how to make it look more sophisticated then other types and more original, we may even design it ourselves but we'll see. This is an example of what we were talking about.

Type 2

This is the second idea that we came up with and we thought that it looked really sophisticated and like the real thing.
This would work well as a the title for the movie but whether we used the same text for the whole sequence i am not sure but i think if we try it, that it may work very well and give it a more affective and professional look. 
Also it will make it look more like a movie then a TV drama which is what we are aiming for as this is a sequence for a movie.

Type

Different Styles of Typography


We need to explore different styles of type to get the right one.

These are all of the same font which is called Orator Std but each one is laid out differently. However all three in our group decided that we much preferred the layout of the third one but to make the PI much bigger like CSI does in their text.