Hope these are of some use!
Wednesday, 25 March 2009
"Davey Jones" Score by Hans Zimmer from Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy
This piece of music is called Davey Jones and it is a score from Hans Zimmer produced for Pirates of the Carribean.
Once again discussing the impact that the visual elements and audio elements have together i wanted to show this piece of music.
I want to pay close attention to the very beginning where the soft chimes come into the music up until 1 min 14 seconds where the loud organs come in. I believe that this once again can be a catalyst the the type of music we wish to have for our emotional scenes.
If we were to want to take this path, we could produce our own music using software such as Garageband, Logic Pro, Cubase etc etc
I have been playing around with the piano on Logic Pro and have come up with some intersting/emotional music that could potentially be used.
Mark (Visual Editor) (The Race Of Life / Crunch Bunch)
"The End" Score by Harry Gregson Williams
This piece of music was composed by Harry Gregson Williams. The Vocals from 4 Mins 40 seconds are performed by Lisa Gerrard.
I wanted to add this to our blog to suggest the music path we may look to take. As an editor the most exciting thing about my job is seeing the Visual and the Audio come together to create a story, but its the overall meaning and emotion that can be created by combining the two which really makes editing for me exciting.
Some of my favourite films use composers like Harry Gregson Williams (Man On Fire) and Hans Zimmer (Pirates of the Carribean / Gladiator) and they have become my favourite films due to the overall success and power that comes from combining the visual with audio. For a film to work for me, it has to create some sensation for me, and these films have done so enabling me to connect with them on an emotional level.
The music is a major key for me in film. Without it, the visual would not be so powerful. This is why i have included below "The End" which is a score from Harry Gregson Williams produced for Man On Fire. In our production, we have a scene where by the main character The Sperm sees another sperm with the egg that he has been pursuing that he has wanted for himself. The concept of an egg and sperm can been intertwined with that of love between a man and a women therefore the emotion can still be justified and i believe that using this type of emotional music can make this scene very powerful.
This type of music also is a major inspiration to myself as an editor because it represents to me everything special about the movies and really does justify the movie/hollywood aura.
As stated above i wanted to pay close attention to the score at 4 Mins 40 Seconds when the vocals come in. Therefore please feel free to skip to this part.
Thanks
Mark (Visual Editor) (The Race Of Life/Crunch Bunch)
Saturday, 21 March 2009
Group Folder.
Guys, the group folder has been started today. Any suggestions for pages to be included within this will be helpful. Kara has suggested that we include a mood board, which I feel is a valid idea, so if anyone has anything they would like to add to this please begin collecting clip outs, condom wrappers, egg boxes, anything you feel will be useful to this.
Thanks,
Jim
Thanks,
Jim
Friday, 20 March 2009
Script Writing - The Know How
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/filmnetwork/filmmakersguidewriting#writing
Please can you all check the link for tips on script writing. As we already have a treatment we DO NOT need to worry about this, but the tips on formatting (Check the links within the article) are going to be useful to us. The script should be provisionally done by this weekend.
Please can you all check the link for tips on script writing. As we already have a treatment we DO NOT need to worry about this, but the tips on formatting (Check the links within the article) are going to be useful to us. The script should be provisionally done by this weekend.
Tuesday, 10 March 2009
To-Do List
Basically guys, now we have decided on our project, we really need to get cracking with who is taking on what within our production. We already have our practical roles, (Camera, editing etc) but we need to begin work on making this production as professional as possible!
My initial itinerary for what we need to be doing stands as follows:
*Group analysis of idea, and writing of our script - I'd like input, shot ideas, sound ideas, location ideas, character ideas and casting ideas from all of us please, Then as a group we can decide on the best and most feasible ideas for our piece at a group meeting.
*Shot List - Once we have our script and location ideas sorted, I'd like one or two members of the group to sit down with all of us and compile a shot list. I thought that we could basically do a chill out sesh, throw our ideas out there and compile this shot list with regards to character, action and location, and again, as a group decide on the best shots for our piece.
*Storyboards - Again, once the shot list is compiled, I'd like one or two of us (Preferably the best artists) to work on the storyboards for the film. This will be done from the shot list, so there is no need for full group involvement in this project.
*Casting - There are several ways we can do this. I have already had a couple of people approach me personally and ask if they can help out in our film, so we could do it this way by recommending friends/family/associates OR ALTERNATIVELY we could arrange a:
CASTING CALL! which would involve putting posters around uni, ringing up local drama societies, possibly hiring actors (dependent on our budget!!) and also holding auditions for the part, which may be hard as the piece will be non-dialogue.
*Location Scouting - Hopefully some good locations will come up in our initial ideas for the group analysis, but I still feel that this may be of use to us in this and future projects. I propose that we take a day to "Explore Sheffield" as a group, take some food and drink, get a dayrider bus ticket and search the city for good locations to shoot in. I realise that we are all skint students, but a dayrider ticket is definitely under a fiver, and this would look really good in our group portfolio. Also, we could hire a digital camera to take photographs of what we find, our daily banter, and strange people we encounter along the way. Also, if anyone has a polaroid camera, that would be really smart to use, as they produce great pictures and look really arty and professional! :)
*Costumes & Props - OH MY DAYYYYYYYZZZZ this is gonna be a big 'un for us on this project! Again as a group, I feel we need a brainstorming sesh to gather ideas for props and costume ideas for the film, main focus being on the sperm and the egg costumes. Obviously it will be easier if we have arranged a shot list and storyboard before we do this, but we may think of things to include as afterthoughts which could benefit the film, so lets get our thinking caps on guys! :)
*Shooting Dates - Obviously cannot stress how important this is. Of course all you guys will already realise that this is very important. We need to decide on this soon, especially if we are booking other people's time to help us out, for borrowing equipment and also for our crew availability. Hopefully within the next few days we will be able to sort this out, and begin really working to this deadline, ensuring everything is running smoothly, so lets go team!
Ideas, Thoughts, Complaints and Equations please? Hoping that there isn't too many of them!
Jim
My initial itinerary for what we need to be doing stands as follows:
*Group analysis of idea, and writing of our script - I'd like input, shot ideas, sound ideas, location ideas, character ideas and casting ideas from all of us please, Then as a group we can decide on the best and most feasible ideas for our piece at a group meeting.
*Shot List - Once we have our script and location ideas sorted, I'd like one or two members of the group to sit down with all of us and compile a shot list. I thought that we could basically do a chill out sesh, throw our ideas out there and compile this shot list with regards to character, action and location, and again, as a group decide on the best shots for our piece.
*Storyboards - Again, once the shot list is compiled, I'd like one or two of us (Preferably the best artists) to work on the storyboards for the film. This will be done from the shot list, so there is no need for full group involvement in this project.
*Casting - There are several ways we can do this. I have already had a couple of people approach me personally and ask if they can help out in our film, so we could do it this way by recommending friends/family/associates OR ALTERNATIVELY we could arrange a:
CASTING CALL! which would involve putting posters around uni, ringing up local drama societies, possibly hiring actors (dependent on our budget!!) and also holding auditions for the part, which may be hard as the piece will be non-dialogue.
*Location Scouting - Hopefully some good locations will come up in our initial ideas for the group analysis, but I still feel that this may be of use to us in this and future projects. I propose that we take a day to "Explore Sheffield" as a group, take some food and drink, get a dayrider bus ticket and search the city for good locations to shoot in. I realise that we are all skint students, but a dayrider ticket is definitely under a fiver, and this would look really good in our group portfolio. Also, we could hire a digital camera to take photographs of what we find, our daily banter, and strange people we encounter along the way. Also, if anyone has a polaroid camera, that would be really smart to use, as they produce great pictures and look really arty and professional! :)
*Costumes & Props - OH MY DAYYYYYYYZZZZ this is gonna be a big 'un for us on this project! Again as a group, I feel we need a brainstorming sesh to gather ideas for props and costume ideas for the film, main focus being on the sperm and the egg costumes. Obviously it will be easier if we have arranged a shot list and storyboard before we do this, but we may think of things to include as afterthoughts which could benefit the film, so lets get our thinking caps on guys! :)
*Shooting Dates - Obviously cannot stress how important this is. Of course all you guys will already realise that this is very important. We need to decide on this soon, especially if we are booking other people's time to help us out, for borrowing equipment and also for our crew availability. Hopefully within the next few days we will be able to sort this out, and begin really working to this deadline, ensuring everything is running smoothly, so lets go team!
Ideas, Thoughts, Complaints and Equations please? Hoping that there isn't too many of them!
Jim
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
Topic Decided
Hi everyone,
Following our group meeting and presentation of our film treatments today, we have been assigned to make the "Sperm" Film. Below is a copy of the treatment we presented, and I have also added a "Durex" condom advert, as inspiration to our piece.
The Race of Life.
A struggle seldom seen, put into human perspective, as a sperm chases an egg, to find his happiness.
Darkness. Slowly we hear on the sound, muffled noises of love making, building slowly louder and clearer until the sound of orgasm bursts through, and the screen is thrust into bright white light.
A shot of a city slowly fades in. Into the picture walks a mime, dressed in all black, T-shirt and trousers wearing a white mask, or performers leotard, holding a large cardboard cut out of a sperm. The shot cuts to follow the man moving backwards as the sperm moves slowly throughout the city, up an escalator, in the window of a bar, at the park, at the train station, drinking coffee and looking at a map with glasses on. We see the man holding the sperm slowly moving down the street and then suddenly stop dead in their tracks. The shot then moves behind the sperm and man, to see at the top of the street, another mime, this time holding a large cardboard cut out of an egg. The egg looks left and right, and slowly crosses the road, and out of the cameras sight. The shot cuts back to the sperm, who is still for moments, then begins to sprint after the egg. The chase continues through the city, the egg always in the distance as the sperm weaves through people, tripping, stumbling through the bustling crowd. Falls to the ground, and loses sight of the egg for a second and it vanishes. The sperm moves to the end of the street. All of a sudden in a great rush, a bicycle zooms past from his left hand side as he is looking right, the egg is on it. The sperm grabs the nearest bike to him, and pursues! He rounds a corner, and see’s only the egg’s bike on the floor. The egg is nowhere to be seen.
Shot fades in of the sperm on a bus, looking sad, and depressed. Steams up the bus window and draws a picture of him and the egg on it, holding hands and smiling. He gets off the bus at the next stop and stands perfectly still. Directly ahead of him is the egg, with another sperm, holding hands and kissing. We see a close up of the sperms body, and a broken heart is slowly drawn on it.
We next see the sperm walking disheartened along a road. He takes a seat on a bench, and sits there alone at the left hand side. We hear a scream and a noise, and the sperm looks up. It’s the egg and the other sperm, which is dragging the egg along, occasionally lashing out at her.
Our sperm watches this, slowly creeping behind them, following them. He moves slowly, but keeps close. Finally, as the other sperm is about to lay another punishing blow to the egg, our sperm strikes! He attacks the other sperm and forces him away from the egg, which now has cracks all over its shell. He wins the scuffle, the other sperm fades away, and he looks at the egg. Shot cuts back to the steamy bus window and the drawing that the sperm had done previously. There is now a love heart around it, and it says underneath it “Sperm & Egg 4eva!”
Shot fades out.
I want to create a comedy feel within this project, by use of actions, shots, locations and situations that the characters are put into. I’d also like to use a variety of colour in this piece to reflect mood.
My target audience for this piece is mainly comedy fans, of all ages. I feel that this piece will be particularly good for fans of sketch show comedy programs such as Little Britain, Monty Python etc.
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Following our group meeting and presentation of our film treatments today, we have been assigned to make the "Sperm" Film. Below is a copy of the treatment we presented, and I have also added a "Durex" condom advert, as inspiration to our piece.
The Race of Life.
A struggle seldom seen, put into human perspective, as a sperm chases an egg, to find his happiness.
Darkness. Slowly we hear on the sound, muffled noises of love making, building slowly louder and clearer until the sound of orgasm bursts through, and the screen is thrust into bright white light.
A shot of a city slowly fades in. Into the picture walks a mime, dressed in all black, T-shirt and trousers wearing a white mask, or performers leotard, holding a large cardboard cut out of a sperm. The shot cuts to follow the man moving backwards as the sperm moves slowly throughout the city, up an escalator, in the window of a bar, at the park, at the train station, drinking coffee and looking at a map with glasses on. We see the man holding the sperm slowly moving down the street and then suddenly stop dead in their tracks. The shot then moves behind the sperm and man, to see at the top of the street, another mime, this time holding a large cardboard cut out of an egg. The egg looks left and right, and slowly crosses the road, and out of the cameras sight. The shot cuts back to the sperm, who is still for moments, then begins to sprint after the egg. The chase continues through the city, the egg always in the distance as the sperm weaves through people, tripping, stumbling through the bustling crowd. Falls to the ground, and loses sight of the egg for a second and it vanishes. The sperm moves to the end of the street. All of a sudden in a great rush, a bicycle zooms past from his left hand side as he is looking right, the egg is on it. The sperm grabs the nearest bike to him, and pursues! He rounds a corner, and see’s only the egg’s bike on the floor. The egg is nowhere to be seen.
Shot fades in of the sperm on a bus, looking sad, and depressed. Steams up the bus window and draws a picture of him and the egg on it, holding hands and smiling. He gets off the bus at the next stop and stands perfectly still. Directly ahead of him is the egg, with another sperm, holding hands and kissing. We see a close up of the sperms body, and a broken heart is slowly drawn on it.
We next see the sperm walking disheartened along a road. He takes a seat on a bench, and sits there alone at the left hand side. We hear a scream and a noise, and the sperm looks up. It’s the egg and the other sperm, which is dragging the egg along, occasionally lashing out at her.
Our sperm watches this, slowly creeping behind them, following them. He moves slowly, but keeps close. Finally, as the other sperm is about to lay another punishing blow to the egg, our sperm strikes! He attacks the other sperm and forces him away from the egg, which now has cracks all over its shell. He wins the scuffle, the other sperm fades away, and he looks at the egg. Shot cuts back to the steamy bus window and the drawing that the sperm had done previously. There is now a love heart around it, and it says underneath it “Sperm & Egg 4eva!”
Shot fades out.
I want to create a comedy feel within this project, by use of actions, shots, locations and situations that the characters are put into. I’d also like to use a variety of colour in this piece to reflect mood.
My target audience for this piece is mainly comedy fans, of all ages. I feel that this piece will be particularly good for fans of sketch show comedy programs such as Little Britain, Monty Python etc.
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The Durex Adverts.
Tuesday, 3 March 2009
Inspirations
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http://blog.turning-point.co.uk/index.php/2007/10/23/my-journey-so-far/
Just browsing google, found a few stories about journeys. I don't know what sort of route we are taking with this film, so I'm trying to gather sources of different styles, hopefully one will suit us all. This one is a drug addicts story.
(Jim)
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The Australian drug geezer was very moving! A journey worth noting! Good Source Batman!
(Marc)
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http://kimberlysnyder.net/journey-pictures/
Some pictures from a woman's travel. Lead me to an idea, say a girl or guy trying to impress someone, says that they have traveled the world, and they have to prove it when they haven't really done it. So they get a stills camera, and fake a load of photographs of them in different places to try and prove that they haven't lied...
(Jim)
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This idea is good mate. Only worry for me would be in regards to the locations. We would possibly have limited shots to really produce this. Unless we based it in one location, say a beach or seaside resort and that was where the women stated she had gone to.
Good Idea though.
(Marc)
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Browsing youtube, I found a short 6 minute student film about a Journey, thought this might be relevant to us :)
(Jim)
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Guys I wanted to comment on the last idea. The short film produced Murray Pictures.
Let me just say that when I was watching it i got the idea of Journey straight away, which was obvious through the use of Transport and moving from one place to another. I liked some of the camera work and the music in some parts was effective with the visual but i have to admit I just thought it was a guy going to the beach, i had no idea of the actual path this production was intending until he goes to jump.
Being honest, about 3 mins in to this i started to think about an idea, of someone going to commit suicide and then during the last 10 seconds i was thinking "Dont you dare kill yourself cause that's my idea" ha but he went to jump.
So, basically what im trying to say is this is obvious inspiration for my treatment, but I feel that the message of Sadness was not put across well, some of the camera shots were far too long and the actual fact that i did not (until last 10 seconds) realize he was sad and going to kill himself I think we could produce a very strong piece of work by using this idea. Improving the music, camera shots, camera timing etc I think this could be a very powerful piece.
I also like the idea of going to the beach, because for me the sea itself is very calming and it's a nice location to shoot. We would have to travel to the nearest beach which god knows where it is but i like it. Seriously though another weakness of that film was that the lad was never going to kill himself jumping into the water from that height jeeeez ha. So this would need to be more dramatic.
(Marc)
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http://blog.turning-point.
Just browsing google, found a few stories about journeys. I don't know what sort of route we are taking with this film, so I'm trying to gather sources of different styles, hopefully one will suit us all. This one is a drug addicts story.
(Jim)
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The Australian drug geezer was very moving! A journey worth noting! Good Source Batman!
(Marc)
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http://kimberlysnyder.net/
Some pictures from a woman's travel. Lead me to an idea, say a girl or guy trying to impress someone, says that they have traveled the world, and they have to prove it when they haven't really done it. So they get a stills camera, and fake a load of photographs of them in different places to try and prove that they haven't lied...
(Jim)
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This idea is good mate. Only worry for me would be in regards to the locations. We would possibly have limited shots to really produce this. Unless we based it in one location, say a beach or seaside resort and that was where the women stated she had gone to.
Good Idea though.
(Marc)
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Browsing youtube, I found a short 6 minute student film about a Journey, thought this might be relevant to us :)
(Jim)
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Guys I wanted to comment on the last idea. The short film produced Murray Pictures.
Let me just say that when I was watching it i got the idea of Journey straight away, which was obvious through the use of Transport and moving from one place to another. I liked some of the camera work and the music in some parts was effective with the visual but i have to admit I just thought it was a guy going to the beach, i had no idea of the actual path this production was intending until he goes to jump.
Being honest, about 3 mins in to this i started to think about an idea, of someone going to commit suicide and then during the last 10 seconds i was thinking "Dont you dare kill yourself cause that's my idea" ha but he went to jump.
So, basically what im trying to say is this is obvious inspiration for my treatment, but I feel that the message of Sadness was not put across well, some of the camera shots were far too long and the actual fact that i did not (until last 10 seconds) realize he was sad and going to kill himself I think we could produce a very strong piece of work by using this idea. Improving the music, camera shots, camera timing etc I think this could be a very powerful piece.
I also like the idea of going to the beach, because for me the sea itself is very calming and it's a nice location to shoot. We would have to travel to the nearest beach which god knows where it is but i like it. Seriously though another weakness of that film was that the lad was never going to kill himself jumping into the water from that height jeeeez ha. So this would need to be more dramatic.
(Marc)
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Who we are, and what we are doing! :)
Hello and welcome to our blog! We are first year Film & Media students at Sheffield Hallam University in England, UK, and this blog is for a short film we are writing, to document our progress, show you some of our influences, amuse you, entertain you, frustrate you, tease you and ultimately please you!
Our group consists of five members, Marc, Jim, Jon, Kara, and Elizabeth. Over the next few weeks we will be writing a script and storyboards for our film which we are choosing from 5 treatments put forward on Wednesday 4th of March. We will also each fit into one of 5 roles within the group which currently stand as follows:
Project Leader: Jim May
Camera: Jonathon Micallef
Visual Editor: Marc Stevens
Sound Recordist: Karajo Pincott
Sound Designer: Elizabeth Lamch
Our group consists of five members, Marc, Jim, Jon, Kara, and Elizabeth. Over the next few weeks we will be writing a script and storyboards for our film which we are choosing from 5 treatments put forward on Wednesday 4th of March. We will also each fit into one of 5 roles within the group which currently stand as follows:
Project Leader: Jim May
Camera: Jonathon Micallef
Visual Editor: Marc Stevens
Sound Recordist: Karajo Pincott
Sound Designer: Elizabeth Lamch
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