Production Day 3 - Paper work, Editing Script

The majority of the paper work was written by Jackson and the script was written by Tom. Tom wrote the script out a few times and re-arranged some parts so that they made sense. At one point Tom changed the script completely because we all agreed that it didn't make sense and it wouldn't of fitted in with the ideas we had come up with.

Production Day 2 - Green Screen Test Footage.

Today we did some test footage in the green room, but shortly after doing this we decided we wasnt going to use the green room anymore because we thought it would be too complicated to do as we don't have complete knowledge on how to use the green screen effect so we thought it would be best to do something and make it easier so that in the long run our short will look someway professional.

Production Day 1 - Planning

Today we did our plan for the trapped video. we came up with some ideas for where we could film and what props to use. We decided to use the black room in the media studio for this we'll need permission from the site team. We also are planning to use behind the stage which we'll also need to ask permission for.

Costume Sheet

In this session Jake did the costume sheet but we found that a red hoodie would not work so we changed it to black. and tom will be wearing a fairly formal shirt and slim black jeans. jackson and me will be wearing a black hoodie and black shoes.

Prop Sheet

In this session me and the group decided that we had to figure out what props we need to use. we decided we needed a Machete, toy gun, office chair, cigarettes and a black sack to cover up the victim's face with. This had to be done so that like in the costume sheet we would know what we needed and be prepared for filming so it would make sense and not miss anything. Anything new will be added to the sheet.

Trapped title concept sheet

We had a few ideas for our title. We spent a fair while on artofthetitle.com and we like the 'Zombieland' titles so in a sense we based it slightly around that with the scattered titles and the falling apart main title. The majority of the title was designed and drawn by Tom and a little bit was drawn by me. We aim to create this title in Photoshop.

Locations

Last lesson Tom, Jackson and I went out and took some photos of the locations we will hopefully be filming in. Today I uploaded the photos to my mac and in photoshop I made a collage for ever individual location. In order to film in certain locations we will need to send an email to the sit manager and ask permission to use the locations we want to use for our trapped short film.

Story Board Ideas

In wednesdays lesson Tom, Jackson and I came up with a storyboard of some of our ideas for our short film. Unfortunately Jake wasn't in but we managed to do it with out him. Some of our ideas came from the Saw films (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7). I personally have a lot of knowledge of these films due to watching them about 5 times each.

Trapped Mood Board

In one of last weeks lessons I finished my Trapped Mood Board, i got all my pictures from google and then went into photoshop. In photoshop i edited the pictures together and made a title using the text tool. I made sure all the images were on different layers and then uploaded my image to flickr.

Trapped Target Audience Member

In this session we were asked to use photoshop to make a target audience image of the sort of things that people that would watch our short would be associated with. And then after completing the image in photoshop we had to upload the image to flickr. 

The target audience member likes to listen to metal bands such as Bring Me The Horizon, Asking Alexandria, The Devil Wears Prada and Of Mice And Men also they like to watch films such as Saw, The Exorcist and Scary Movie. The brands the member would wear/use are Drop Dead, Iron Fist, Apple, Etnies, River Island and Dickies and finally they would use the internet to do online shopping, facebook and youtube.

Find Your Tribe Session

In Fridays lesson we did a questionnaire type thing on a website called 'findyoutribe.com' i found this fairly fun to do and i was looking forward to the end result. When i found out my result i was not happy with it but on the whole the process of the questions was quite good and i enjoyed it :) 

Trapped Planning Blog Post

This is our planning for our 'Trapped' short film. We came up with 3 ideas. One idea was a zombie type thing, where a man is physically trapped in a dead end of an alley and he gets eaten by zombies, the other two ideas where to do with a man being held somewhere and being tortured. We all decided that it would be good to do a man being taken and tortured. We all came together to get this idea and there was no arguments about it it was a straight yes from all of us.

Tom, Jackson and I during planning.