Diary - Initial Time Lapse

Following soundbites taken from filming our Initial time lapse:


Aims:
Test and film the time lapse plus any additional shots
Test camera's, location and and actress


- Arrived, looked at possible walls to use, front room wall agreed as best location, we kept the camera in the same position in the full 0.56 seconds of the teaser 
- Practising our time lapse whilst putting up the wall, camera adjusted to eliminate sockets and the bookcase from the shot
- Hannah (actress) is briefed, has a baggy white t-shirt for the time lapse
- Extra light is added, the wall should be clearer
- Time lapse started
- As well as the time lapse we've taken a few videos
- Time lapse finished, taken a few close ups
- Taken the wall down, reviewing time lapse
- Couple of shadows appear during the time lapse, suggested we can edit alternate shots in
- Job well done, will be uploaded soon


Improvements for future filming:
Mise En Scene not right, should be more dirty, grimy
Actress should wear grey or darker colours then white- because white is symbolising death 
Make sure no shadows get into the frame during the time lapse

Initial Time Lapse.

Here is our initial time lapse, again we will shoot with a Canon 5D. However, we will not be using this in our trailer because we feel that there are a lot of changes that need to be made. For example, costuming - after watching this time lapse we don't feel that the right image is being bought across from the plain white t-shirt. We originally decided on this because it gives portrays the idea that this young girl is lacking in identity, however we now feel that a colour such as grey would be more fitting or if she was in a hospital gown. Not only this we feel as though the wall is too clean, that it should have more character - maybe tiling or very dirty, well used white wall, creating more of an atmosphere. As well as this, when watching the images back we became aware that there is unfortunately movement of shadows across some of the images from movement behind the camera. Nevertheless, this time lapse is a very good idea of what the girl (Eva) would be writing on the wall and the concept that we are going for.

Setting up Time Lapse

Here is a time lapse of us preparing for shooting the initial time lapse for the trailer. We are putting up the white wallpaper on the wall, this was also to check that the time lapse worked and the camera was set to shoot at the correct intervals. The photos are taken with a Canon 5D.

The Board!

We are going to use two of these mdf boards - this will 

re-create the wall we used before.  And we think these

boards will be big enough to cover the camera shot.  

The vinyl lining is going to go on top. 

New Idea

Our original idea for the film was to have a plain white wall creating a time lapse with the girl writing various things.  However we have a new idea, we've decided to use 2 large mdf boards (sourced from the art department) with vinyl tiles to recreate the picture shown above.  We will make the mise en scene bleak and grimy with a battered and bloody look.  This will make the background more suitable to the image we want to convey and make it more fitting for the genre and situation we want to display.

We could not however put this into practice as we could not afford to do this. If we had a bigger budget, working on the mise-en-scene for the teaser trailer would be what we would concentrate on, creating this tile effect and this would reminiscent of a hospital or mental institute.

Institution

                                       

We decided to include an ident in our teaser trailer to make 

it look more realistic.  Having the company shown can be important because it can 

symbolise what the film may be about,  If the company shown was Twisted Pictures, the audience

would automatically think it was a horror with lots of blood.  So we did some 

research, our first thoughts was doing 

Cross Creek Pictures

This company is an independent film production and

finance company.  They recently made BLACK SWAN co financed and produced

with FOX.  They have various genres but all have powerful story-lines.       

20th Century Fox  is a mass film company working with many 

various genres; comedy, horror, romance, action. 

 Overall we have decided upon using these two companies 

because we feel it will give our film uniqueness from the global reach Fox give

us, to the hard, gritty stories that Cross- Creek Pictures put out. 

Typography

Different typography's in video form - Click here