I had no idea that this was week 14! I had completed the first draft of the introduction to the film, the footage is just over three minutes and with each scene of the zombie eating the corpse I added background noise of birds chirping. I uploaded the footage on to YouTube: http://youtube.com/watch?v=oNcC6SysjBw
And have asked for feedback, I uploaded a link to the Quarantine:Breached Group directing them to the YouTube page.
I had begun to create the website to Quarantine:Breached late last week and will continue to work on it this week. I took more pictures of South Norwood with my camera phone, using the panoramic shot so that the user is able to move left and right through the site.
And example of this is from 30 Days of Night website:
http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/30daysofnight/
Here is an example of what I want my website to look like when it is finished.
Overall, I feel that the project has gone well and given more time to complete the project I could have had the movie half finished with trailers.
What is left is to finish off the website and the documentation of the project as a whole.
Monday, 26 May 2008
Tuesday, 20 May 2008
The Introduction
There was a small progression towards the filming.
We went to Cobden Foot Path which is around the corner from my house and is in South Norwood, this is a sort of alley way which connects two roads. Here would be the beginning, the introduction which will feature a zombie eating a corpse. This was more or less on the spot filming, very spontaneous. There was no planning of this introduction but I had an idea on the day and I mentioned it to my friends and they were more than willing to help.
I had my friends come over to my house and waited until 4am in the morning to get a good amount of natural lighting as well as an empty area so we had no interruptions from people walking past or going to work.
Two of my friends Daniel Davies and Michael Mclean would be filmed in the scene and Michael Skinner would be helping me do their make up as well as suggesting camera angles.
The idea was to have a corpse in the middle of the alley way being eaten by a zombie in various different parts of the body. The angles would change each time a credit would appear. So for example, there would be a medium shot of the scene then it would cut to a credit, cut to an extreme close up of the scene and back to credits. I felt the filming went well aside from the fact that my friends kept on laughing at the fact that they were tickling each other.
I will later on in the week start editing the footage and hopefully the introduction will draw some attention to the film further, this was just a test to see what my idea as an introduction would be like. Hopefully if I have enough time I can re-make the same idea of the introduction but better as I did not have a tripod so the clip was quite wobbly.
We went to Cobden Foot Path which is around the corner from my house and is in South Norwood, this is a sort of alley way which connects two roads. Here would be the beginning, the introduction which will feature a zombie eating a corpse. This was more or less on the spot filming, very spontaneous. There was no planning of this introduction but I had an idea on the day and I mentioned it to my friends and they were more than willing to help.
I had my friends come over to my house and waited until 4am in the morning to get a good amount of natural lighting as well as an empty area so we had no interruptions from people walking past or going to work.
Two of my friends Daniel Davies and Michael Mclean would be filmed in the scene and Michael Skinner would be helping me do their make up as well as suggesting camera angles.
The idea was to have a corpse in the middle of the alley way being eaten by a zombie in various different parts of the body. The angles would change each time a credit would appear. So for example, there would be a medium shot of the scene then it would cut to a credit, cut to an extreme close up of the scene and back to credits. I felt the filming went well aside from the fact that my friends kept on laughing at the fact that they were tickling each other.
I will later on in the week start editing the footage and hopefully the introduction will draw some attention to the film further, this was just a test to see what my idea as an introduction would be like. Hopefully if I have enough time I can re-make the same idea of the introduction but better as I did not have a tripod so the clip was quite wobbly.
Sunday, 18 May 2008
Success
Finally I have completed my script! Ideas have changed slightly, I realise that making a full 50 minute length video is impossible in 400 hours let alone 30 minutes so instead I shall be making everything from the website, posters, DVD covers, story and script (things like that) and also the introduction to the movie. The movie will be in episodes like a television series however, unlike television programmes the storyline will be constant, television series have a different story every episode. My episodic movie will end in cliffhangers in order to keep the viewers interested in the next episode.
I am very happy with the script I have created, it is the first time I have made a script and having friends to read it out I feel comfortable to send this forth to actors. Of course I am more than happy to receive constructive criticism from the actors in order to achieve a better flowing movie.
I have constantly updated the Quarantine:Breached FaceBook group news to keep the fans up to date with what is going on with the project.
I have carried on editing photos of South Norwood and once finished I upload them onto the group. People from the group like the way the zombie pictures look and I even uploaded the pictures onto my own album on my personal FaceBook page and the comments I had were very welcoming.
I suppose the next thing to do is to create a website for Quarantine:Breached which will involve Characters, Clips, Story and a Gallery. Things which you would expect to find in a movie based website.
I am very happy with the script I have created, it is the first time I have made a script and having friends to read it out I feel comfortable to send this forth to actors. Of course I am more than happy to receive constructive criticism from the actors in order to achieve a better flowing movie.
I have constantly updated the Quarantine:Breached FaceBook group news to keep the fans up to date with what is going on with the project.
I have carried on editing photos of South Norwood and once finished I upload them onto the group. People from the group like the way the zombie pictures look and I even uploaded the pictures onto my own album on my personal FaceBook page and the comments I had were very welcoming.
I suppose the next thing to do is to create a website for Quarantine:Breached which will involve Characters, Clips, Story and a Gallery. Things which you would expect to find in a movie based website.
Friday, 9 May 2008
Script
As I said before I have been looking at George A. Romero's script of Resident Evil's third film Extinction from the site: http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/resident_evil_romero.html
This as well as my small collection of Quentin Tarantino films such as True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Natural Born Killers for ideas of conversations and structures of script making.
These have helped a lot as I am currently finishing the first draft and hopefully going to be reviewing it early next week.
These books and Internet source of scripts have taken Quarantine:Breached to a new level I feel. Without them I feel that I could never have progressed quite successfully.
On another note, the pictures I took while exploring the land of South Norwood have been edited...some of them. I chose the best looking ones that best suited a horror film poster and altered it around to my liking. There is a favourite picture which is of a tunnel that goes underneath South Norwood train station; Norwood Junction. I stood in the middle and waited until there was no one in view and took the picture, this was one of many images I took.
I uploaded the image onto Adobe Photoshop CS3 and played around on it. I made the light at the end of the tunnel disappear, I replaced the light with black so it seems like it continues on until the eye can not see any more. I used Brightness & Contrast (one of my favourite effects) to highlight the image and make it look more dirty. I then used the burn tool to make the tiles on both sides of the tunnel look as if no one has cleaned it for a long time let alone walk through the tunnel. I highlighted certain colours in the image to be darker.
Overall, the image was a total success, people from university seem very impressed with my ability to alter images to my liking and it seems that I do this to the audiences approval as well.
This as well as my small collection of Quentin Tarantino films such as True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Natural Born Killers for ideas of conversations and structures of script making.
These have helped a lot as I am currently finishing the first draft and hopefully going to be reviewing it early next week.
These books and Internet source of scripts have taken Quarantine:Breached to a new level I feel. Without them I feel that I could never have progressed quite successfully.
On another note, the pictures I took while exploring the land of South Norwood have been edited...some of them. I chose the best looking ones that best suited a horror film poster and altered it around to my liking. There is a favourite picture which is of a tunnel that goes underneath South Norwood train station; Norwood Junction. I stood in the middle and waited until there was no one in view and took the picture, this was one of many images I took.
I uploaded the image onto Adobe Photoshop CS3 and played around on it. I made the light at the end of the tunnel disappear, I replaced the light with black so it seems like it continues on until the eye can not see any more. I used Brightness & Contrast (one of my favourite effects) to highlight the image and make it look more dirty. I then used the burn tool to make the tiles on both sides of the tunnel look as if no one has cleaned it for a long time let alone walk through the tunnel. I highlighted certain colours in the image to be darker.
Overall, the image was a total success, people from university seem very impressed with my ability to alter images to my liking and it seems that I do this to the audiences approval as well.
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