24th novembe

In todays lesson me and loui research other people performances to look at there camera angles, also i continue the drawins of the story boards.

monday 17th november

Today i didnt do much my partner who i am doing th eproject with unfortunatly had to go to the doctors, and i maid to the mistake of letting him hang on to it, due to this i had none of the work and could not progress on wards.

film breakdown sheet

Filming Timetable

This is a copy of our filming time table which we will follow, this shows us all the lesson that we are free, blue mean we have lesson, green represents our frees and the red is showing us when we will be filming.

Equipment List

Video Camera
Tripod
Dolly Trolly ( this is our alternative to using a tripod with wheel since, we haven’t got one, this is our continence plan)
Gaffer tap
Editing equipment.
Tv
Lighting

6th November

Today me a louis focused on, oragnising a time table, to show what plan of what we need to do and when we are going to do it. The time table we are organising is 5 days monday to friday and it is broken up into 6 periods per day to replicate the school time table, this helps us because it show us all our free periods which is were we aim to complete this project.

Synopsis of project idea

The film is based in a school, it show a student walking in late for lesson, and approaches another student they exchange some dialogue between, about why he was lates. As the lesson goes on it is showing how the students are getting more and more bored, when one of them goes into his own state of mind, where there is music and dance, the music kicks and the stundent start beating along witht he music and then get up and start to sing and dance, perading himself around the classroom and as the class joins in, they all take a step out side into the hall way and the clothing colours become aluminouse and wild, they all start dancein around the hall, but then as the music dies it slow become back more to reality and the student wakes up in lesson just in time as the bell rings.

example of a storyboard

This was reasearch we carried out when investigating how to creat a good story board, and this show clearly how each shot is inderpendantly displayed and clear and all of the shots flow for an end products

Why Director use story boards

Almost every director, at some point, draws a film frame to illustrate an idea. The storyboard happens with the last frame, the one finishing their idea, is drawn. The in between is the telling. This is all you need to get started. But to develop shooting boards, ones that you can take to the floor and film, you need to have lined up certain basic elements.
1. Location. Either with digital photos, sketches or overhead plan-view, have your location and sets at the ready
2. Develop an overhead view (like an architects diagram) of your blocking and staging. Use symbols for camera, character and elements
3. By understanding the geographic and architectural constraints you’ll be establishing your boards within a dramatic context and you wouldn’t have to resort to a series of talking heads
4. By combining both storyboards and over-head plans of camera movement etc—on the same page—you will be able to fill out in broad terms a clear series of images that will help to explain your intentions. Each can explain the other, should clarity wane
5. Before you draw a single frame, let your mind wander over the pictures you have, the diagrams and drawings. This is rehearsal.
6. Draw this as though watching an ant colony.
7. Draw your camera angles
8. Then you can begin by drawing rough sketches (later to finish) or draw the frames of what you have seen your cameras capture
9. Add footnotes to help explain either of these two elements. You now have three elements with which to explain your ideas: Frames, Plan view, Notes
10. Find inspiration from all around you. Art, Photography, magazines, comics, whatever it takes to create a series of frames that expresses your story but also your dramatic intent.

What we hope to achieve with using a storyboard

1. Cost effective, accurate planning
2. Perceive possible continuity problems before they happen
3. Communication between departments
4. By having a plan, you can take advantage of “happy accidents” during filming and stay within the necessities of the scene.
5. Show by doing: convince yourself and others of the soundness of your concepts and ideas. If that doesn’t work, get new ones.
6. Storyboards can be a way for Directors to “rehearse” themselves. Or “doing the homework.”
7. Artistic and aesthetic vision remains consistent. Or inconsistent, but by design
8. Screen direction (a very little talked about or acknowledge subject)
9. Stunts and special equipment planning
10. Special effects, CGI, etc
11. Develop a style by “in camera” edits as opposed to adhering to standard coverage
12. Sales tool for funding
13. Simple inspiration. The ‘what if’ factor for all creative heads.
14. The freedom to experiment without causing the producer to stroke-out

Tuesday 4 November 2008

Today we gathered information on the film we was going to do and we started to construct our fim break down and started to create storyboards this has progressed well and we are on the way to our finally task. we aslo took pictures of different locations and and differnet shots to help us find the perfect location