Going to interview Jonathan in Chagford Street - Arman

Today Rye, Seyi and Samit went to Central London specifically Baker Street in order to get footage of an interview from Jonathan.  We already set the interview questions beforehand and will be asking appropriate questions.  I've decided to stay in school and develop the website.  Though I've encountered several embedding problems I am going to try reshaping the site.  Here is what the site looks like so far.  We have a hyperlinked button which will navigate the user towards the news section of the website.  There's a slideshow on the front page displaying several different independent artists, you'll find some pictures of our unfinished site below.

After effects progress report - Rye

I've prepared the image so that we have a pure green background allowing me to remove it easily and add effects to my logo, hopefully i will have completed the effects in my next blog post.

Nearly finished - Rye

Today I further worked to completing the opening sequence and currently I just need to work on the animation for our company's logo so that it isn't static as well as replacing some of the footage. 

Location profiles - Arman

We have visited Buckingham palace for one of our filming locations, we have created timelapse footage from people walking around for a memorial service on the 13th of November.  We spent 40 minutes all together looking for a location and filming.





On the same day as we went to Buckingham palace we decided to visit trafalgar square for some breathtaking footage of the city for out intro.  It took us 45 minutes to film our timelapse.  We filmed on the side of the huge monument in the center of the picture, we climbed the bottom half and let the camera get a good overview of the whole of Leicester square.

At Hyde park we had some technical issues due to us running out of battery during the filming of a timelapse.  We only got 10mins footage before the camera shut off.  We are looking to going back into central to reattempt/gain additional footage which we should have gotten on that day, however since we are in winter, the day is shorter and so we didn't get as much daylight as we had hoped for.  However we did get a breathtaking view of the pond in the evening with civilians walking past.

On Sunday the 27th of November we took another trip into central to get some more time-lapse footage for our news cutaways.  We went to the infamous Abbey Road and set up our camera at the memorial and filmed passers by walking on the zebra crossing trying to recreate The Beatles.  It took us 15 minutes to get the time-lapse footage.

When going into Regents park, we encountered quite a few problems.  Firstly we couldn't skate in there, meaning we couldn't cover enough ground in a short amount of time to find a good shooting spot.  Secondly there weren't many people there at the time, which wouldn't give us good time-lapse footage of passers by leading us to going back to Hyde park for more footage of passers by and winter wonderland!

Shooting Schedule update - Seyi

I had updated the shooting schedule last week, however, the header was not showing on the document when I uploaded it to SlideShare and I could not copy and paste the table onto the blog when I wanted to. So, I just decided to screenshot the document and upload it onto SlideShare when it is finished.

Please excuse the tiny picture, as this is only provisional until it is complete.

How my thriller from last year used Media Language Creatively - Rye

1. My thriller is about a killer librarian who writes out her murders before she acts them out upon students however one student had found the diary and realises that he is the next victim.

2.Charles Derry believes that tension is why people are drawn to watch horror movies. He believes that they come to get their blood pumping as they enjoy the buzz they get from the build up of tension.

3. An example of this in my coursework last year was the cross cut between the feet to build up tension to an upcoming conflict.

4. The editing of having the shots alternate between librarian and student builds up suspense as it implies that there will clearly be an interaction between the two characters.

 5. Another example of a psycho-traumatic thriller would be the overlay of our Librarian stamping away at the books frantically with her crazy hair.

6. The tension is built up through the use of sound and mise en scene, we have the stamping overlap from two separate clips that make the stamping more rapid as if a heartbeat is increasing.



7.Strauss's theory that to drive any narrative forward there must be some kind of opposition or conflict within the story, an example being the contrasting views that the Sith and the Jedi have in Star Wars is always the driving force of the film or Good vs Evil.

8.An example of this is when we have a crosscut between our scrappy teenager and the cool, calculated librarian.

 9.We created contrast through the use of mise en scene as it is used to show the class and gender differences of the two conflicting characters centred to the plot.

10.A different cut was used between when the librarian puts the book away in her desk and when the student takes the book out from the drawer.

11.Using cinematography and editing, we cut quickly between the two characters whilst maintain the exact same static shot the show the two characters are linked, the jump shows off the mise en scene as well as you literally have a side by side comparison of the clothes worn by both characters.

 12.We attempted to challenge Laura Mulvey's idea of the 'male gaze' by having our lead female character be older and much more scruffier than the media usually portrays women and so I believe that our librarian challenges this stereotype similarly to Sigourney Weaver did in Alien 3.

Shooting schedule updated - Rye

On the 13th of November we already captured some footage of cutaways for our project in Central London We plan to go to Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park on Sunday the 27th as this will allow us to gain additional footage that ca be used for time lapses. As well as this, there may be performers playing christmas carols hat we can also record. Finally we have Wednesday 30th of November where we will conduct our interview with our Independent music artist as we also get a tour of the studios.