More research for PRP

I have began looking at the British Television awards website to see what techniques are applied to the most successful advertising campaigns.

http://www.btaa.co.uk/

I have found through both research and my PRP essay, that the key to a successful advertising campaign is the first 10 seconds. This 10 seconds must be enough to persuade viewers not to change the channel.

Background And Research for PRP

I have begun exploring my research topic by identifying types of cut that are usually associated with tv adverts:

Jump Cut - A cut in which an abrubt jump from scene to scene occurs.

Matched Cut - A cut used to make the transition between shots seem smooth. I.e Continuity of direction.

Motivated Cut - A cut which is used to make the viewer see something that is not currently visable.

Quick Cutting Rate - Quick Cuts ensure short shots which will keep the viewer drawn into the imagery

Slow cuts - slow cutting rate allowing longer viewing time and often feature transitions

more research mid essay, something i came accross.usefull

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/research/tv/reports/tvadvmarket.pdf

more research

http://www.questiaschool.com/read/85637958?title=Psychological%20Processes%20and%20Advertising%20Effects%3a%20Theory%2c%20Research%2c%20and%20Applications

Book by Linda F. Alwitt, Andrew A. Mitchell; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1985. 305 pgs.

More advertising links

I have found some more advertising links that will help me with my essay.

http://advertising.about.com/od/televisionandradio/a/commercialmusts.htm

http://advertising.about.com/od/televisionandradio/a/tvadvertising.htm

http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/29/3/349

History of advertising

http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/pdfs/TVads.pdf

More research and books

several books i am looking to purchase to help with my research project essay.

"How to produce effective TV Commercials" by Hooper White

http://www.suite101.com/reference/advertising_technique - offers a list of articles written about different advertising techniques

TV commercials - How to make them - page 115 offers information on post production techniques. By Ivan Cury.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2od23w3tbWwC&pg=PA116&lpg=PA116&dq=editing+television+adverts+techniques&source=bl&ots=nyFCBYy9JF&sig=l2Wk3v9g5cZxkjFxXLjYFpJ8lbY&hl=en&ei=_3XxSomwAoiNjAeI_ZCWAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CA0Q6AEwADgU#v=onepage&q=&f=false

How to create effective advertising

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eR1Wwi6Rn_cC&pg=PA135&lpg=PA135&dq=editing+television+adverts+techniques&source=bl&ots=BDR38wgWrQ&sig=FusuevkOHUMC0VO06hA3A--uqVQ&hl=en&ei=v3HxStqWB4G8jAezwaGWAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CBwQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=&f=false

By Edd Applegate.

Sim Project Frame Forge

Shot List

Shot List.


1. Over shoulder shot of man carrying files. – Shot will clearly show bands name on file.
0 – 2 seconds

2. (Cutaway) Creative shot / extreme close up, in front of man walking down road focusing mainly on the files in hand
2 – 4 seconds

3. (Cutaway) Creative shot / extreme close up of the files in the mans hands as he swiftly walks down the road, files remain focus of shot.
4 – 6 seconds

4. (Cutaway) Long shot, shows man handing files to another man at the entrance of his house as he continues his walk home
6 – 8 seconds

5. (Cutaway) Creative shot / extreme close up files in mans hands as he continues home. Different name of artist/computer programme/film on file
8 – 10 seconds

6. (Cutaway) Long shot, man continuing journey home, stops closer to his house to exchange files with a neighbour outside of his property.
10 – 12 seconds

7. (Cutaway) Creative shot, close up of files in mans hands as he walks toward the gate on the front of his property
12 – 14 seconds

8. (Cutaway) Medium shot follows man onto his property through his front gate and up the steps toward his front door
14 – 16 seconds

9. Medium shot, follows man carrying files up his steps and into the front door, when the door slams shut the camera stops and the focus is on the IP address on the front door is place of the house number
16 – 17.5 seconds

10. Dissolve – Fade to black, text comes up informing viewer of their IP address is what ties them to their computer and that is how ISP’s are able to locate people who illegally share files. The slogan “Is it worth it?” will appear with the logo of the anti piracy campaign.
17.5 – 20 seconds

Timechart

Really Interesting Paper

I found this really interesting paper written about editing in television, it can really help with my Research project.

The effects of edits on arousal, attention and television messages, When an edit is an edit, can an edit be too much?
by Annie Lang, Shuhua Zhou, Nancy Schwartz, Paul D. Bolls & Robert F Potter

http://www.theaudioprof.com/research/pubs/potter.edits.pdf

P2P File Sharing Proposal

After researching the history of file sharing and different advertising campaigns, I feel the ISP’ (Internet Service Providers), and the BPI ( British Phonographic Industry) who are working together to crack down on illegal file sharing have not yet made it clear to the public how they are going to track down people who illegaly share files.
I believe this is something they should look to address, as the current adverts are not doing enough to raise awareness of the damage it is currently doing to both the music industry and the film industry. A campaign in which both the ISP’s and the BPI’s are working together to introduce a new “three strikes” law, which has recently been introduced in France.
-http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/12/uk-proposes-three-strikes-and-your-out-illegal-downloading-law/
My proposal is to inform the public of how ISP’s are able to identify people who are file trafficing. I plan on informing the public that their IP address is what ties them to their computer. It is through the IP address that also allows the ISPs to see how many bytes any computer has been downloading. An average computer on the internet downloads around 25000 bytes, a computer on the internet downloading will consequently download alot more bytes, and this is how the ISP’s are able to see who has been downloading.
I want my advert to begin with quick shots of a man walking down a road carrying files with the names of bands, films and computer programmes on. It will be a series of shots of close ups of the files with the man carrying them appearing to be in a rush and distressed, which you will be able to tell from the heavy breathing.
As he continues home the camera will show him handing and collecting files from people standing by the entrance to their property. The actors will appear nervous and give the impression of drug dealing, I would like to do this so that the viewer will associate whats going on in the advert with an illegal activity.
The sound in the advert will still be atmospheric, with the mans footsteps and heavy breathing the only two sounds I will look to create and enhance in this part of the advert. This is to make the advert seem more dramatic.
The man will finally reach the entrance to his terraced house, carrying different files to the ones he had at the begining of the advert. This will be shown by having different coloured files, and different film and musician names written across the files.
As the man reaches his house the camera will follow him through the gate and up the steps, as the door slams shut the camera will stop looking at the closed door. In place of the number on the door, I will edit in an IP address. Within 2-3 seconds of the door closing, two silhouettes will move up to the door followed by three loud knocking sounds. In the background with every knock, I plan to have the sound of a judges hammer, to give the audience an impression of the law. I will then close the scene and fade to black with white text informing the viewer about ISP’s being able to identify people downloading by their IP address.

Joolz Tutorial - Developing my Ideas...

During our tutorial yesterday we talked over our ideas and gave each other feedback. One piece of feedback i recieved which I had already considered was Budget. And how I would have zombies/dinosaurs/bands walking towards the house that was file sharing.
After taking this into consideration, I feel as though I have found a solution to the small budget I have available.

- Rather than having Band members/zombies/people representing musicians/actors, I will have a line of people (or just the house owner?) carrying folders/files to the house, the camera will show a close up of the folders, which will have names of films/computer programmes/musicians/games written accross the front of them. The people will all be walking towards the house, which is identified by the IP address. This is to represent file sharring.

- Once the camera has revealed what is happening, ( by showing the people/person physiclly carrying the files/folders ) to and from his house,(with several people constantly coming and collecting files and folder from his living room around his computer) a neighbour will walk out infront of the struggling person/people with some CD's and quote "it's a lot safer buying these".

I have based this idea around the damage that can be done to your computer from p2p file sharring, aswell as the damage it does to the industry.
This is a different approach to my other idea, which was using scare tactics. This is more of an informative advert, that will inform people that downloading can harm their computer, (spyware)
I feel this could be an effective way to grab the attention of the audience. more coming soon.......

Research Project

Television advertising is a powerful tool. It effects us in many different ways and allows company's to sell their product in a 30 second gap. I want to explore advertising techniques and what company's do to make their product as appealing as possible, here are several questions I have come up with.


- What techniques do companys use in television advertising?

- Are there hidden messages in television advertising which persuade us to buy the product?

- What editing techniques are used to make advertising more effective?

Basic Advertising research

What makes a television advert interesting?

- Make it interesting to the audience. Use a technique that will grab the audiences attention. Bright Colours/Striking Images

- Human Interest - Stretch the truth. (statistics)

I plan to use these techniques in one of my person research artifacts when I edit a television commercial in two seperate ways.
I will re-edit a ready made commercial in different ways in order to find different results for my project.

Joolz' tutorial

After having joolz's tutorial last week, I have began to get an idea of how my commercial will look. I feel this project ties in nicely with my research project, which is also advertising related.
Through research this week, I plan to explore how much advert will be visually interesting, and how to draw the audience in.

Here is one commercial I found that was regularly shown on british television and film for a good part of a year.
One thing all these commercials have in common is scare tactics, and it compares people downloading music to people who steal cars/handbags etc. This is obviously the best way to address the issue, because it will make people aware that it is a crime and being caught will land you a court appearence/fines and possible internet disconnection.


This is a similar route that I would like to go down. My initial idea is to have the camera from inside a car driving down the street looking at houses, it will be night time and the street will appear dark.

I intend to have IP address' on several of the houses down the street in white, and as the car goes down the road one of the IP address' will appear red, indicating that they have been illegally downloading. The camera will then go up to the front door, burst through the door and zoom into the room where the computer is. The camera will then zoom into the computer screen and a loud jail door slamming shut. A narrator will then explain how an IP address ties to you to your computer and thats how ISPs will be able to locate people illegally downloading.

IP Address

Due to the increase in downloading, ISP's (Internet Service Providers) has been working with BPI's ( British Phonographic Industry ) to combat illegal file sharing. It is now possible for the BPI to obtain any Internet users IP Address, and identify users who download illegally due to the ammount of bytes that has been downloaded onto the computer. An IP address is an identification tool, and enables ISP's to locate any internet user at any time. Obviously due to the ammount of internet users, it is very difficult to pin point those who download illegaly. Although in recent times, an increasing number of illegal downloaders have been hit with fines for their participation in this illegal activity.

This is what I am going to base my advert around, I want to identify to the public that they can be caught downloading by their IP address. On the adverts that I have seen regarding downloading, none of them have informed the public that their IP address allows ISP's and BPI's to identify them as illegal downloaders, and if caught will face prosecution which will lead to a fine, banned from downloading and a possible jail sentence.

Laws

The penalties for copyright offences depend on seriousness, but at the higher end of the scale it can lead to an appearance before a magistrate where the sanction for distributing unauthorised files is a fine of up to £5,000 or six months' imprisonment. The worst cases may be sent to the Crown Court, which has the power to impose an unlimited fine and up to 10 years' imprisonment.

Those downloaders who can show that all their music and films copied from the internet are only for personal use will escape the full weight of the criminal law. But that does not mean personal use downloading is legal. Taking a song or film without paying for it is a breach of copyright. The real issue here is detection and the steps the industries are taking to enforce their members' rights. In a recent development, the British Phonographic Industry has started working with big internet service providers such as Virgin. Thanks to the ISPs' access to IP addresses, the BPI and the ISPs can contact individuals suspected of illegal downloading. Stern letters have been sent which issue threats of disconnection if the file sharing is not discontinued. The BPI has even threatened file-sharers with a court appearance.

- This is going to be the basis for my advert.

New UK Downloading Law Proposal

A “draft consultation Green Paper” to be released by the UK Government proposes a three strikes and you’re out law to combat illegal downloads.

Under the proposal, UK internet users will be monitored by their ISP’s for illegal downloads, and those caught will receive an e-mail warning in the first instance, internet suspension the second time, and then termination of their contract on the third strike. A similar law was proposed in France back in November 2007.

According to the BBC quoting The Times, broadband firms which failed to enforce the rules could be prosecuted, and the details of customers suspected of making illegal downloads would be made available to the courts.

The proposal faces several serious hurdles, such as attributing blame where internet access is shared, and then determining what is illegal content. Although BitTorrent traffic is primarily pirated material, there is also increasing amounts of legal material as well. Even this week a German record company offered its entire music catalog via Pirate Bay, so even using and accessing material from the most famed pirate site of them all may not actually constitute downloading illegal material.

The proposal unsurprisingly comes from the Music and Record industry, and although not yet law is being promoted by the UK Government as part of a “comprehensive plan to bolster the UK’s creative industries,” so looks like it will be implemented at some time in the future


- www.techcrunch.com

File Sharing - An Insight

Types of file sharing - There are many different ways to file share, different sites have come and go over the past ten years which have enabled the public to exchange files between themselves either using a programme to upload music too, or using a peer to peer network. The first I remember was Napster, which was set up by Shawn Fanning in 1999, and stayed active online untill 2001. Napster was the first real mainstream File Sharing site and despite it being short lived, it paved the way for other file sharing programmes, such as Kazaa, Morpheus, Limewire & Bearshare.
Along with Mp3 files, it soon became increasingly simple for users to share bigger files such as Computer programmes and Video Games. Torrent sites such as BitTorrent, Torrent spy and The pirate bay began appearing between 2002 and 2003 making it even easier for users to illegaly share files.
Despite record companies and musicians filing law suits against the owners of napster,kazzaa etc. The first real clamp down and jail sentenced issued was to the four men who were responsible for the administration and hosting of the well known file sharing site The Pirate Bay. The four men were found guilty of breach of copy right law, and were found guilty of 34 cases of copyright infringements. (21 were related to music files, 9 to movies and 4 to games), and claims against them for damages in excess of $13 million us dollars were filed. All four men were sentenced to serve one year in prison and have been ordered to pay the sum of $3.5 million dollars in damages. This is by far the harshest sentence anyone has recieved regarding illegal file sharing

Simulated Client Project

We have been assigned the task of a simulated client project in order to prepare us for our real client project which begins in december. For this we have to produce a 20 second television advert that addresses the issue of illegal filesharing. I.e Piratebay. There have been several adverts on television over the past year which immediately spring to mind, unfortunatly i cannot post the videos on here because I still don't have the internet at my house and am still forced to use restricted internet at work.

When I began planning for this piece of work, I immediately thought of previous adverts that had been made regarding illegal file sharing, and how I reacted when I saw them, which was pretty uninterested. Rather than addressing the issue as a whole, I.e. producing a short 20 second film which basiclly "Downloading is a crime", i feel it would be more beneficial to address the issue in a different way, by informing the viewer whats illegal about it, or bringing something new to light that the public might not be aware of.

Final Idea

All in all, I have decided on my final idea on my research project. Based on my initial idea of how television can control people, through the use of propaganda/subliminal messages/suggestion or just bending the truth I hope to get completely different results from several groups of people watching (what to them will appear) identical videos, which I will have previously edited. I will document all of my results.

Research Project Ideas - Devloping - Developing- Devel.....

Power of Suggestion
To understand the Power of Suggestion, you need to appreciate the nature of suggestion and how it works. For example, they should always be in the positive. If you read ‘don’t think of a black cat’, what do you think of? If only at a subconscious level, you probably thought of a black cat. That is because you have to think about each word before understanding the grammar. The unconscious works in the same way. So if you think to yourself ‘don’t worry, don’t worry‘ you are actually programming yourself to worry, because ‘worry’ is being repeated to your subconscious. Do you see how this works? This is a useful tip for everyday life. For example it is more influential to say ‘please be on time‘ rather than ‘please don’t be late‘. When someone asks you how you are, answering ‘not bad‘ will leave the word ‘bad’ lingering in their subconscious, which they may then associate with you. So first tip for the power of suggestion: the subconscious takes things literally, one word at a time, and processes all the associations for those words.



Here is a very rough example of how I intend this to work. Imagine this image was a television advert, as you focus on the dot in the middle, all of the other colours around it seem to disapear as you focus solely on the information in the middle of the page/screen. This is a basis for my edited films/reports, as I would like to create a similar effect through editing.

More research project ideas.....

While I have the ideas fresh in my head, I thought I should jot them down on here so I can develop them further as I go on, and have something to work with-

- On my return to the UK, to start Uni I noticed all the goings on about a new Identity Card that all UK Citizens should purchase, which included a chip and all general information, Birthday/Address? and whatever other information you should ever need to provide when questioned.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8175139.stm

- From speaking with people about this, I understand that the general opinion of these ID cards wasn't a particularly high one, as 1; people felt paying £30 was un-neccasery, and 2;(more importantly for my project) an ivasion of privacy.

What I felt was a good idea was to find a news report on this story and edit it in a way that gives the audience a different perspective on this, by using the power of suggestion and subliminal messages. I would show the original video, to an audience and record their reactions and thoughts about the ID card. then to a seperate group of similar age and personality, I will show an edited version in which I will include subtle messages that will make the audience have a completely different perspective on the ID cards.

Derren Brown

Recently, Derren Brown did an experiment over live television which was aimed to make anyone who watched it sit down and be unable to get up untill he did whatever he does to allow you to stand up again. Neither I, or anyone else I know who watched it were stuck to their seat. The reason I have mentioned this, is because I feel it ties in with my research project. Before Derren Brown played the clip, he was talking the viewer through the process and what to do. while he was doing this, a split second illustration of someone sat in the correct position flashed up on the screen. This has led me to believe that, the only reason people were stuck to their seat was because they allowed them selves to be, through the power of suggestion. I feel the trick didn't work on me, because despite being open to the idea of suggestion, I was always in denial about his ability to "glue me to my seat". For my research project, I would like to show how films/documentaries/adverts can influence different people through subliminal messages and the power of suggestion through editing.
I would love to be able to add some video clips to back me up in this post, but unfortunatly I can't access youtube or any video sites from this computer, so you'll have to just imagine for the moment.....

Research Project

Unfortunatly, I am back to no Internet at my house as Sky seem to be unable to help with pretty much anything. So I am having to use to Internet at work again, obviously for stricly work use only. kind of.
I have been looking around on the internet to give my research project a kick start, and just give me some more inspiration so that I can develop my idea further. In doing this I found an interesting website, which has details on subliminal messages in films & adverts. I found this quite interesting and feel it can tie in with the idea I already have, which was to initially give evidence as to how much power is within television and film and how it can be used to control an audience. I was initialy going to do this, through re-editing news reports and changing the story. I feel by using the subconscious mind both through Subliminal messages, and the power of suggestion, I can produce a more interesting and accurate project.

http://www.subconscious-mind.org/subliminal-messages/

after reading into this, I may chose to change my stance slightly on my project and try and focus it around the power of film, and how slight tweeks to film are enough to give out different messages to an audience. In doing this I will be able to edit films/documentaries/commercials to try and prove my point. Once I have compiled sufficient footage, I Will then a series of tests using the footage I Have created on several audiences, followed by questionaires to try and back up my theory.

Internet

I finally have the internet at my new house, so I can finally begin blogging again, and writting critiques on films I have seen. It's been a pretty average summer so far, and havnt spent 90% of it working at the waste management site in nottingham. anyway, I will start adding more interesting posts from now on.

Research Project

Over the easter break I was considering exactly what field of work i was looking to enter within the adui visual industry. Last term i wrote an essay stating my desired position, which was a director. Shortly after writting this essay i installed adobe premier on my computer and began editing. After researching into directing, i began to feel unsure whether this was something i wanted to persue. After i have begun editing i now feel as though this is an area of the industry i am more suited to as i am able to use my creative side. After researching into this, I have become increasingly interested in documentary editing, and mentioned this to Simon in my review last week. Since this meeting i have began developing my idea for my research project.
I want to look into truth and how it is used to send of different messages in documentaries, and how it can be bent to tell a completely different story. We looked over a film made by Leni Riefenstahl called triumph of the will. Which is a propaganda tape made for adolf hitler.
One idea i have is to gather new footage from September the 11th, and edit it so i can tell the story as I belive it to be.
I have strong beliefs that the American Government were partly behind the attacks and responsible for the deaths of thousands of people.

several documentaries have been made giving "proof" that the American government were behind the attacks. Such as loose change 1st and 2nd edition, which has been constantly amended due to new information that points the finger at the american government.
What i want to do, is to gather enough footage from news reports from september the 11th and days after, and compile a documentary that tells the story as how i percieve it to of happend. I want to do this to highlight how the media can tell a completely different story to what has happend, not just by not lying. but just simply by editing.

Research Project

For my research project, I want to explore the use of music and sound in a project and how it affects the audience’s perception of the film/documentary.
I would like to experiment the different types of sounds used in different films. For example if I were to create a horror film, I would over exaggerate the sounds used to scare the audience. Due to me having a low budget, I would not be able to create the graphic images used in modern day horror films which scare and make viewers feel nauseous. I would like to try and give viewers this feeling through the use of sound. By creating and editing noises I feel as though I would be able to do this.
An idea I have come up with is to create a horror film, which does not show any graphic scenes and allows the audience to draw up the graphic images in their head.
For example, a man will be stood in an abandoned room and as he is about to be killed, the screen will go blank and I will try and create sounds which represent this. By using synthetic sounds, I would like to trick the audience into assuming the worst has happened. Then reveal what has really happened at the end of the film.
I am currently experimenting this in my second year project, as the events in my film are based around a piece of music being created for my production. I want the music and sound to take the audience on an audio visual roller coaster which is led through the use of sound.
The use of sound in films such as “Gangster Number 1” in the torture scene, which is one of the most brutal scenes I personally have seen. However, due to the light music used it comes across as quite easy to watch.
Another scene in which this occurs, is “Saving Private Ryan”, when Tom Hanks steps off the landing craft onto the beach of Omaha. As he looks on in shock and amazement, the sound is completely cut off, except for a high pitch sound, which indicates he has been deafened. This almost calms the scene down, and allows the audience to concentrate on the visual aspects of the shots.
What i'd like to do, is to shoot the scene of a film and re-edit it with different sounds and audio effects and see what different effects it has on the audience

Todays Seminar

In todays seminar with Debs, the focus was on the title scene. which in all fairness, i hadn't given much thought too prior to the seminar. good job i attended.
By studying the title scene to the film "23" and annalyzing everything they've done for it, it has opened new ideas to my film and how i can use to the introduction to give the viewer more of an insight into the meaning of my film.
I am going to use stop frame of white powder on a background, moving as if it was a heartbeat on a life support machine. It will do this in time with the intro music, which at this stage will be just a heart beat. The heart beat will the progress constantly throughout the film untill the end, when it will start as it begun.
As it moves with the heart beat, it will gradually form the title of my film. triptease.

Best Movie Scene

This scene from Gangster number 1 is one of my favourite scenes ever. The naration really tells the story of the main character and the scene. It almost allows the viewer to feel and visualise what is going on inside his head as he makes his way to murder lenny. The use of music over the sound of Lenny Screaming gives the viewer a sense of psychoacoustics.

Location Shots

Triptease research - Human Traffic

Another film I researched was Human Traffic. There are several scenes I would like to use similar effects in my film. During the party scene, John Simm and Shaun Parkes are talking, with the camera looking up at them through a glass table. I really like this shot, and will look to re-create a similar shot in my production.

Triptease research

When i was researching for Triptease, I immediately thought of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro. When studying the film, i was paying special attention to the camera angels, and the different types of shots they used to try and create the feeling of being on drugs.

Short Film - RZA, GZA & Bill Murray

siiiick short film with the RZA & GZA from Wu Tang and Bill Murray called Delirium. Stumbled across it when looking at short films on youtube.

Frameforge

Ive been cracking on with frame forge over the last couple of days, and have actually quite enjoyed it. It feel it has given me a better understanding of my shots, and how i am going to get them to work. It has also helped me, get a better understanding of my sets. Here are a couple of screen shots. I'll get the finished version up asap

Carter Burwell

I have chosen music by Carter Burwell to be in my production. I really enjoyed the music he produced in the film In Brugges. In particular the song "principles"
Which can be found 4.55 through this you tube clip. I really enjoy the Piano loop throughout the piece, and think it's a really dramatic piece of music, which will fit well with my film.

2nd Script

Characters:

Simon

Tom



Scene 1

The two boys are in the living room of their house. Both boys are sat on opposite sofas. The camera switches between the two as they converse. Tom is on the sofa against the wall, while Simon is on the sofa closer to the door.

Simon - How are you feeling?

Tom - Yea alright, feeling a bit weird and I’ve got a horrible taste in the back of my throat.

Simon - Tell me about it, you might have to go get us both a drink soon.

Tom - I will do, it’s pretty quiet in here mate, you should stick some music on or something.

Tom pauses

Tom - Probably for the best Will didn’t come out ay?

Simon - Mmm, probably.....

Simon thinks for a moment

Simon - anyway I’ll put some music on, it is pretty quiet. I beg you go and get that drink though

Tom - Yea sort that out, I just wanna skin up first.










Scene 2

Simon is now knelt on the floor picking music from his ipod, Tom is on the sofa trying to look for the necessary items to roll a joint with. He is clearly finding this more and more difficult, as he is struggling to remember where he has put the objects.

Tom - Where are the skins mate?

Simon - Didn’t you already have them? look in my coat pocket next to you, I think I have some in there.

As Tom looks up towards Simons jacket, his eyes go up the wall toward the corner of the ceiling. And stares for a while with his mouth open.

Tom - What’s up with your walls, I swear they’re not completely straight.....what are you doing with that music anyway, I thought you were going to put something on?

Simon - Yea Yea just setting up a play list.

Simon gets up, with a slight stumble back
Simon - Woah, what the hells going on?

Simon puts his hand to his head, and looks at Tom as if he were looking straight through him.

Tom pauses what he’s doing, but continues to look at it for a few seconds. He then looks up at Simon who is still aimlessly staring at him and with a small smile on his face says,

Tom - “Wait, what are you on about?”

Simon - “Nah nothing, what was I doing again?”

Tom - “I have no idea what your going on about”

Tom picks up his tobacco pouch to continue what he was doing, then stops mid way and says:

Tom - Oh yeah a drink

Simon begins having a look around and the sofa catches his eye

Simon - Yeah about time you sorted that out, the taste of this stuff has nearly made me throw up in the back of my throat several times.

Tom, who is struggling to comprehend anything looks up toward the door in confussion.

Tom - Yeh I suppose I should get on that.

Both boys look at each other in a paused state, before Tom begins to get up and heads toward the door.

Scene 3.

Simon is sat on the sofa with his head resting on his hands, slightly swaying. As Tom is about leave the room.....

Simon - “I don’t really know what to do with myself”

Tom begins to aimlessly look around the room, and with a puzzled look on his face says

Tom - Yeah I’ve completely forgotten what I was going to do, what was I doing again?

Tom looks at the wall in the confusion for 3-4 seconds. The audience can almost see the cogs turning inside Toms head.

Tom - Oh yeah, I was going to get a drink

Tom walks toward the door, and as he leaves the room he stops and turns to face Simon with a confused face. Simon notices Tom has stopped by the door and looks up at him in just as much confusion. Tom begins to shake his head in disbelief at this state. He then leaves the room.

Scene 4.

The mood of the movie has now changed. As the camera follows Tom out of the room, the lighting is now not so bright, and the camera is slightly lower down to give the viewer the impression of how Toms feeling.

Tom enters the hall way and begins to look around the room. At some points he will half smile, others almost look afraid. As he begins walking slowly toward the unlit kitchen a shadow moves behind it, but he doesn’t notice. He continues into the kitchen and without entering the room puts his arm round the wall attempting to find the light switch. After grasping the wall for several seconds he finally finds the switch, and turns the light on.

As the light comes on, Tom half takes a step back from the sharpness of the light. He walks over to the kitchen sink as he looks around for a glass, he looks out of the window in front of the sink.
While squinting he says:

Tom - “What the fuck?”

A silhouette of a person flashes past the window, tom jumps back in shock. A shadow moves behind tom along the wall, this time Tom notices it and turns around in panic. The shots of tom will all be from afar to emphasize how distant from reality he is and how distant he feels from all the objects in the room, i.e doors and chairs.

As tom struggles to walk properly into the living room, he is swaying from side to side and has no sense of balance.

Scene 5
The camera is back in the living room with Simon sitting on the sofa. He is nervously looking around the room, showing obvious signs of discomfort. As he frantically looks around the room, he attempts to look for his phone, there is a loud bang against the window. Simon immediately stands up, and half falls back on the sofa. As he gets up, the camera will pan across Simons face as he turns his head.
As he stumbles up to the window and slides across the curtain, I will show a shot at the window from the outside, where another silhouette will flash by the camera. As Simon steps back in shock, the door of the room will slam shut, followed by running footsteps,
Simon looks both confused and scared, and shouts

Simon - “Tom?”

The camera shows Tom between the kitchen and the living room spinning round in circles on the spot. The camera is down by his feet spinning round with him, looking up at his face, this is to try and let the audience share the characters experience.

Scene 6

The camera switches back to Simon in the living room. He is stood close to the window, the lighting in the room has been lifted and the mood of the film has lightened. Still with a confused look on his face he stands for a moment with an obvious question on his mind. Both boys look at each other for a moment, when Tom breaks the silence,

Tom - “wwwhat the hell was that all about? That was rediculous?”

Simon - “I was in here on my own the whole time, I didn’t know what to do with myself”

Tom “mate, we were both by ourselves”

Simon - “yeh maybe next time we should all try and stay together ”

Tom pauses for a moment

Tom - “yeh definatly”

Camera switches to Simon, as a questioning look grows on his face

Simon - What are you doing?

Camera switches back to Tom who is grabbing a cd case. Long shot


And then from far out will zoom into tom who has just done another line of ketamine and goes into the back of his chair. The camera will zoom right up close to Tom’s eye for the final shot. This shot will be sped up to display the drugs entering Tom’s body.

The camera will then switch outside and reveal Wills face laughing in a bush.

Script

After speaking with some peers, i have decided to re-do my script. I am going to exclude the third character of my film, Will. I have chosen to do this so that i can focus more on the relationship between the other two characters. I will also be able to go more in depth with both of them individually. Will get the script up asap.

Frameforge

Been having a few issues trying to get frameforge working on my laptop. probably because its older than the queen, but never the less i'm still going to try and get another couple of versions and hopefully that will work. if not, off to waverley computer room it is.....

Belly Opening scene

when we were giving the task to identify a scene from a film where we feel the music plays an important role. I immediatly thought of this scene from the film "Belly". I like the way they have used an acapella, and dubbed out the other sounds from an obviously loud environment. I feel this is a really good effect and adds makes what would usually be quite an intense opening scene into something quite opposite. The use of sound like this makes the viewer wonder what the characters are doing in the scene, up untill the first gun shot is fired, which is when other sounds start being brought in. Once the acapella has finished at the beat comes in, is when the narative begins, and the story starts to unfold. This is once of my most memorable scenes from all films, and i definatly feel the use of sound and music is the reason why.

Seminar Work

This is the Mayan Temple is Guatamala, i liked the location of this temple as it is in the middle of the rain forest. The temple also has relevance to the nostradamus prophecies.

This is the biggest Cathedral in the world and is based in Sevilla

This is the Roman Catholic Cathedral In liverpool. I chose this because it is the most modern church in the UK, which would represent the futuristic idea of our film.

This is the Saint Remt de provence in france, i chose this location because this is where Nostradamus was born and it relates to the iodea of our story.

This is St.John Latral church in Rome. This is the worlds oldest Cathedral, and where the pope lives. Which is why i chose this location.

This is the Sagrada Familia Cathedral in barcelona. i chose this because it is the first religious spot that came to my mind. It is a very gothic church, and very charasmatic and I feel this would be a good location for our film we were discussing in our seminar.

Scene 3 Shot List

Scene 3
The camera is back in the living room with Simon sitting on the sofa. He is nervously looking around the room, showing obvious signs of discomfort. As he frantically looks around the room, he attempts to look for his phone, there is a loud bang against the window. Simon immediately stands up, and half falls back on the sofa. As he gets up, the camera will pan across Simons face as he turns his head.
As he stumbles up to the window and slides across the curtain, I will show a shot at the window from the outside, where another silhouette will flash by the camera. As Simon steps back in shock, the door of the room will slam shut, followed by running footsteps.
The camera shows Tom between the kitchen and the living room spinning round in circles on the spot. The camera is down by his feet spinning round with him, looking up at his face, this is to try and let the audience share the characters experience.

There is a loud bang, at which point the camera switches Will in his room.

The camera is close to his face, slightly to the right and just above head height. His face will look distressed as he peers directly past the camera toward the door.
The camera switches back to Simon in the living room. He is stood close to the window, the lighting in the room has been lifted and the mood of the film has lightened. Still with a confused look on his face he stands for a moment with an obvious question on his mind. Tom then enters room, still with a distressed look on his face, followed by Will who also has a bewildered look on his face.
The camera then switches between the three boys as they talk about their experience.
The screen then goes black, and then from far out will zoom into tom who has just done another line of ketamine and goes into the back of his chair. The camera will zoom right up close to Tom’s eye for the final shot. This shot will be sped up to display the drugs entering Tom’s body

Shot List

Scene 2.

The mood of the movie has now changed. As the camera follows Tom out of the room, the lighting is now not so bright, and the camera is slightly lower down to give the viewer the impression of how Toms feeling.

Tom enters the hall way and begins to look around the room. At some points he will half smile, others almost look afraid. As he begins walking slowly toward the unlit kitchen a shadow moves behind it, but he doesn’t notice. He continues into the kitchen and without entering the room puts his arm round the wall attempting to find the light switch. After grasping the wall for several seconds he finally finds the switch, and turns the light on.

As the light comes on, Tom half takes a step back from the sharpness of the light. He walks over to the kitchen sink as he looks around for a glass, he looks out of the window in front of the sink.
I will then show a shot from outside of the kitchen looking in at Tom looking through the window.
Then the camera will switch back inside and I will have an over the shoulder shot of Tom looking through the window.
A silhouette of a person flashes past the window, tom jumps back in shock. A shadow moves behind tom along the wall, this time Tom notices it and turns around in panic. The shots of tom will all be from afar to emphasize how distant from reality he is and how distant he feels from all the objects in the room, i.e doors and chairs.

As tom struggles to walk properly into the living room, he is swaying from side to side and has no sense of balance.
At this point I will try and re-create the effects in Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, when Tommy has just lost a game of poker and is walking away from the building. This will hopefully give the audience an effect of nausea, and so they can almost share Toms experience.

Lock Stock Scene

At the end of this scene when Tommy leaves the poker table, this is the effect I am going to use in my second scene when Tom is leaving the kitchen. This is to give the viewer an experience similar to Toms.

Shot List - Scene 1

Shot list.


Scene 1.

The three boys are in the living room of their student house. Simon and Tom are sat on the sofas while Will is standing close to the door, not appearing to share Tom and Simons excitement and enthusiasm. The camera only has Simon and Tom in the picture, and the camera will switch between Tom and Simon during their conversation. The camera will also zoom in on Will when he says his line in the opening scene.

The camera will then focus on Tom as he begins to roll a joint and get all of the necessary items together. The camera will then show Simon as he moves to the floor to put some music on through the stereo. The camera will switch between the two during the conversation and I will use an over the shoulder shot of Simon while he is on the floor changing tracks on his ipod..

The camera stays on Tom while he begins to roll a joint, Simon is still on the floor, flicking through music. He then looks to his side and pans up the wall toward the ceiling.

This is when the lights will dim in the room, and I will show a close up of Toms face as he scans across the room, so the user can get an idea of how Tom is feeling. I will also use visual effects to give the user a haunting feeling.

The camera will show Simon as he puts his hand to his head, and looks at Tom as if he were looking straight through him. I will show this shot from behind Tom, so that you can see Tom pause while he rolls the joint then looks up at Simon.

The camera will switch between the two during the conversation to show their facial expressions.

The camera will then focus on Tom as he searches for his tobacco to continue what he was doing.

As he does this, the camera pans out and shows that Will is no longer in the room.

Simon then asks Tom where Wills gone and the camera shows tom look up from what he is doing, and show the suprise on his face when he notices Will is no longer in the room.

Both boys look at each other in a paused state. Silently questioning who was going to see if he was alright.
The camera will switch between the two while they discuss how they are feeling, this will include a shot of the two talking through the window to give the user an indication of someone watching them

Triptease

“Triptease”
Script - 1st Draft.

Characters:

Simon

Tom

Will

Scene 1

The three boys are in the living room of their student house. Simon and Tom are sat on the sofas while Will is standing close to the door, not appearing to share Tom and Simons excitement and enthusiasm. The camera only has Simon and Tom in the picture.

Simon - How are you feeling?

Tom - Yea alright, feeling a bit weird and I’ve got a horrible taste in the back of my throat.

Both boys without looking behind them at the door ask Will,

Tom - How about you Will? What you sayin’?

Will - Yea just a bit clouded

Simon - Yea should probably put some music on, it’s a bit quiet in here

Tom - Yea sort that out, do either of you have any king skins, I’ll skin up.

Simon is now knelt on the floor picking music from his ipod.

Simon - Yea man, look in my coat pocket next to you, they’re in there.

Tom - Nice one.

The camera stays on Tom while he begins to roll a joint, Simon is still on the floor, flicking through music. He then looks to his side and pans up the wall toward the ceiling.

Tom - What’s up with your walls, I swear they’re not completely straight.....what are you doing with that music anyway, leave it alone

Simon - Yea Yea just setting up a play list.

Simon gets up, with a slight stumble back

Simon - “Woah, what the hells going on?”

Simon puts his hand to his head, and looks at Tom as if he were looking straight through him.

Tom pauses what he’s doing, but continues to look at it for a few seconds. He then looks up at Simon who is still aimlessly staring at him and with a small smile on his face says,

Tom - “Wait, what are you on about?”

Simon - “Nah nothing, what was I doing again?”

Tom - “I have no idea what your going on about”

Tom picks up his tobacco pouch to continue what he was doing.

Simon begins having a look around and the sofa catches his eye, as he goes to sit down he notices Will has left the room.

Simon - “Where the hells will gone?”

Tom, who is struggling with even beginning to roll a joint looks up toward the door in confussion.

Tom - “I have no idea, I didn’t even notice him leave the room. He’s probably pranging out in the kitchen”

Both boys look at each other in a paused state. Silently questioning who was going to see if he was alright.

Tom - “I’ll go and look for him in a sec, I need to get some more filter material anyway, I’m having a bit of a nightmare over here with my head in this state”

Simon is sat on the sofa with his head resting on his hands, slightly swaying.

Simon - “Yea tell me about it, I don’t really know what to do with myself”

Tom begins to aimlessly look around the room, and with a puzzled look on his face says

Tom - “Jesus, where the hell is that kid? I’m going to go have a look for him”

Tom stands up and also slightly stumbles, then looks at Simon in confussion and says

Tom - “Well this is going to be an interesting walk, I’m going to go and see what Wills playing at”

Simon - “Yea, bring me in a drink as well. I need to get rid of this taste”

Tom - “Yea I’ll try and remember, I’ve already forgotten what I was going in there for.........

Tom looks at the wall in the confussion for 3-4 seconds. The audience can almost see the cogs turning inside Toms head.

Tom - “Oh yeah, I was going to see where Will was”

Tom walks toward the door, and as he leaves the room he stops and turns to face Simon with a confused face. Simon notices Tom has stopped by the door and looks up at him in just as much confusion. Tom begins to shake his head in disbelief at this state. He then leaves the room.

Scene 2.

The mood of the movie has now changed. As the camera follows Tom out of the room, the lighting is now not so bright, and the camera is slightly lower down to give the viewer the impression of how Toms feeling.

Tom enters the living room and begins to look around the room. At some points he will half smile, others almost look afraid. As he begins walking slowly toward the unlit kitchen a shadow moves behind it, but he doesn’t notice. He continues into the kitchen and without entering the room puts his arm round the wall attempting to find the light switch. After grasping the wall for several seconds he finally finds the switch, and turns the light on.

As the light comes on, Tom half takes a step back from the sharpness of the light. He walks over to the kitchen sink as he looks around for a glass, he looks out of the window in front of the sink.
While squinting he says:

Tom - “What the fuck?”

A silhouette of a person flashes past the window, tom jumps back in shock. A shadow moves behind tom along the wall, this time Tom notices it and turns around in panic. The shots of tom will all be from afar to emphasize how distant from reality he is and how distant he feels from all the objects in the room, i.e doors and chairs.

As tom struggles to walk properly into the living room, he is swaying from side to side and has no sense of balance.

Scene 3
The camera is back in the living room with Simon sitting on the sofa. He is nervously looking around the room, showing obvious signs of discomfort. As he frantically looks around the room, he attempts to look for his phone, there is a loud bang against the window. Simon immediately stands up, and half falls back on the sofa. As he gets up, the camera will pan across Simons face as he turns his head.
As he stumbles up to the window and slides across the curtain, I will show a shot at the window from the outside, where another silhouette will flash by the camera. As Simon steps back in shock, the door of the room will slam shut, followed by running footsteps,
Simon looks both confused and scared, and shouts


Simon - “Tom? Will?”

Scene 3.

The camera shows Tom between the kitchen and the living room spinning round in circles on the spot. The camera is down by his feet spinning round with him, looking up at his face, this is to try and let the audience share the characters experience.

The camera then switches to Will who is in his bedroom. The camera is close to his face, slightly to the right and just above head height. His face will look distressed as he peers directly past the camera toward the door.

The camera switches back to Simon in the living room. He is stood close to the window, the lighting in the room has been lifted and the mood of the film has lightened. Still with a confused look on his face he stands for a moment with an obvious question on his mind. Will then enters room, still with a distressed look on his face, followed by tom who also has a bewildered look on his face.
All three boys look at each other for a moment, when Tom breaks the silence,

Tom - “wwwhat the hell was that all about? That was rediculous?”

Will - “yeh it made me prang out in my room for a while, I even had to go outside for some fresh air”

Simon - “I was in here on my own the whole time, I didn’t know what to do with myself”

Tom “mate, we were all by ourselves”

Simon - “yeh maybe next time we should all try and stay together next time”

Will - “yeh definatly, I’m not going anywhere near that stuff for a while though”

Simon - “speak for yourself, Tom you wanna do some more?”

Tom - “yea, I’ve got to go and get a drink this time though, all that tranquiliser made me have the dirtiest taste in my mouth”

The screen then goes black, and then from far out will zoom into tom who has just done another line of ketamine and goes into the back of his chair. The camera will zoom right up close to Tom’s eye for the final shot. This shot will be sped up to display the drugs entering Tom’s body.

Character Study

Character Study.

Tom - Tom is a 19 year old student from just outside Birmingham. He is a confident guy, who makes friends easily. He has never tried drugs before, but is always willing to try new things, although he is a regular marijuana user. He is a fairly laid back individual who listens to hip hop which is his main bond with the other two characters. He is from a fairly well off background ground and is the joker of the group. Tom considers himself to be better friends with Simon than Will, and this is emphasized in my film.

Will - Will is the odd one out of the group. He is from a small town south of London. Smoking marijuana is his main bond with the other two in the group. He is a bit more cautious about experimenting with drugs and new situations. Will is obviously more nervous about trying ketamine than the other two, and my film will reflect this. This is why Will is finds the experience not as enjoyable as the other two. Will represents the more sensible side of three, which is the reason for him being the odd one out of the group. Will is more mainstream than the other two and listens to indie music as well as hip hop, and this represents the way he dresses and his slight difference from the other two.

Simon - Simon is a similar character to Will. He is outgoing and confident and is willing to experiment with new things, although he is unsure of how this experience will turn out. He also feels a stronger bond with Tom than will. Simon is from London and also listens to hip hop, he has tried other drugs before, but became interested in ketamine when he came to University and heard about lots of other people trying it for the first time, and wanted to see what the hype was about.

Triptease

Triptease is going to be a film about a group of three friends who decide to stay in for a night and try taking a new drug which has been recommended to them by another friend.
The situation will take a turn for the worse when the group of boys start to be unsure of how much the drug is affecting them. I want to create a twist in the film, and not give any indication of any drugs being involved until the last scene.
The opening scene will be the three friends back at their house after just meeting their friend to collect the substance, and have just taken their first dose. The will be slight references to where they have just been, to give the viewer a slight hint to what is going on. After the friends sit down and have a cigarette they notice one of the group has left the room. The two boys that are left in the room start questioning one another how each other is feeling. Both are unsure of how much the drug is affecting them, but both are aware of a change of lighting and how the perspective of the room has changed.
One of them decides to go and see where their friend is which is when the drug really starts to take effect. The lighting in the house will change to quite dim, and I will use lower down camera shots to emphasise the confusion. I will also use shadow effects behind the characters to endure fear into both the character and the viewer.
I will switch between these two characters and show their experiences on the drug. The story of the third member of the group will begun to unfold. As he begins to sober up he realises he is outside, and re-enters the house to find one of his friends on the sofa with this head in his hands, and the other aimlessly walking round the living room.
The mood of the film will lighten at this point as the effects of the drug start to wear off. The two boys will then walk into the living room to find their other friend beginning to sober up.
After all in a state of shock and in confusion, the characters will all look at each other in disbelief, this is when I will show the user that it was all a drug trip, when one of the character will mention the name of the drug and ask if they want anymore.

Zombie Diaries

This was obviously a low budget UK production, producted written and edited by Michael Bartlett which is only film to date. I quite enjoyed the whole idea of this film, as it was a collection of videos diaries from people during the outbreak of the virus. The main thing that let this film down was the acting, which due to the low budget was obviously pretty amatuer. It was similar to the filming of blair witch project and cloverfield in the respect it was all done on a camcorder. It had quite a dark storyline which made up for the lack of acting quality and so it was still bareable to watch.

In Bruges

This is an awesome film. It had a really good dialect and thought the casting was really good as well. I really enjoyed the roles played by colin farrell and ralph fiennes. The film contained good wity humour and also some pretty violent scenes, which definatly made it a hit

Jumper

This was probably the worst film i have ever seen. It had no real storyline and never really explained what was going on, i was never sure of what age group this film was aimed at either. Going by the rough outline of a story, i'd say aimed at anyone under 10.

Back From New York

I have finally returned from New York and am ready to start my second semester. Unfortunatly I havn't really had a chance to use the internet properlly due to being in a hotel for a couple of weeks, then spending the last 10 days of my trip in my friends apartment in Brooklyn, which was an experience.
While i was in new york my family insisted we took a trip to broadway to watch the theatre production Wicked. I am not usually the biggest fan of musicals, however this one i actually quite enjoyed. The thing i found most impressive was the use of props and the actual design of the stage. It is a prequal to the wizard of oz, and explains the story of the witches.