4th January 2016

Today i caught up on quite a lot of work and made any changes that were needed in my other posts. In tomorrow's lesson, i have decided to start getting my storyboard together and finishing that as soon as possible. My group will also be filming our preliminary task in order to get ready for our real filming.

Props- Fake Blood

It's typical of a fight scene to contain some blood, so because of this we decided that we would add some to ours, not too much just small amounts.
The Fake Blood:

This is the fake blood we will be using. I have used it before during previous productions. It provides a realistic look and isn't harmful to skin, it is also easy to remove.
The blood would be on the victims face and hands during the production to emphasise the injuries of the fight and just help the scene itself look more realistic. To apply the fake blood we would use brushes as i discovered that if you were to use things such as tissue or Cotton buds then the blood is absorbs by them before applying them and it doesn't give a good effect.


Blood Capsules: 

In our production there is a shot where the victim is hit by the Antagonist and turns to spit out some blood. The fake blood above is adviced that is shouldn't be consumed. However, blood capsules are powered fake blood that can be put in the person's mouth and reacts with the saliva in the person mouth to create fake blood that's not harmful if consumed but it's not adviced to swallow it. I have used these before so i know they work and look realistic and that they aren't harmful. This will help that shot look more realistic and it will be much easier to create and easier for Ronan, who is playing the victim.


Credit to Maddy

Props- Fake Gun

Fake Gun Prop
For our production we decided that we would use a fake gun as it is very typical for a gun to be in an action film and definitely in fight scenes. While in the process of our storyboards we decided that a gun would help portray the action genre by also helping to make the scenes more like a professional action scene.

A big thing that influenced us to use a gun within our production was analysing aome action films themselves. Going through them we noticed that most of them all had a weapon of some kind within the opening, so we took that idea and put it into our production.

Credit to Maddy

Final Audience Survey

Our Final Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/6GYWZ6D

The first question we asked was "Do you think it's better for the Antagonist's identity to be:
Completely Hidden
Shown Slightly
Completely On Show
Other
The option that was the most popular was 'shown slightly.' This hasn't surprised me as this is what we intend to do within our production and looking at some other action films you can see that they do the same.
These responses have definitely encouraged us the stick to what we have planned to do for our production .

In this next question we asked "Do you think it will be more effective to hear the gunshot rather then see the death?" We asked this question as we ourselves were unsure but we know that we wanted a death in our production to add tension. The most popular response was 'maybe' and some comments that went with that response are: "Deaths can be hard to fake, so it would be easier to just use a gunshot but it is also important that the audience can infer that the character has die." and "In a film everyone likes to see the aftermath of the fight scene... However if you are going for suspense and mystery, then hearing it will work just as well" The second most voted was "yes." Through the responses and the most voted options we decided that we would only the death scene so that you can only hear the gunshot and not that actual death as this would help the opening it self but more realistic because it can be hard to to portray on a low budget but also, by hearing the gunshot it causes a lot more mystery and suspense.  

We asked them what they thought of the costume we were thinking of using for our Antagonist. Some repsonses we got were: " Yes- stereotypical for a villain to be dressed in black so works well", " No, although the costume has a black dark element to it, it does not fit the normal codes and conventions of an antagonists costume! There costume should be easily identified and not relatable to the audience", " No. It looks like somthing an everyday teenager would wear... But then again i don't really know the plot so maybe thats what you're going for? Its a good colour choice" and " Yes because it is dark colours which connotes that they will be the antagonist, it also means they can be hidden in dark lighting which adds effect." There was a mixture of yes and no responses. Looking at the responses me and my group decided that we would keep the colour of black being the main colour in the costumes but instead having it as hoodie and jeans we have a more formal coat/jacket to make thr Antagonist seem more professional and in some ways intimidating.

By Maddy

Location Pictures

Location One:

Location Two

Maddy has been out to our filming locations to take some pictures. She tried to take some of the camera angles we already knew we would be using to see how they would look. Going down to the locations also let her see what time of the day we should film, these pictures were taken around 10am and there was natural lighting, not too many people walking around that would get in the way of filming and it was slightly foggy which would help add to our suspense and mystery side of our production.

Credit to Maddy

Quick Plan for Plot

• Lesser antagonist searching for a protagonist using a photo they have. 
• Antagonist spots protagonist and decided to start following.
• Ends up in a chase between them when protagonist realises what is happening.
• Protagonist falls and is then caught and a fight breaks out.
• Antagonist wins and kills protagonist.
• Antagonist grabs a device from the body and it's clear at this point that it's what they were searching and looking for.
• Antagonist contacts an unknown person and tell's them they've acquired it.
• Antagonist sends data from device to the unknown person.
• Camera slowly pans out.
• This pan out goes through until it transports and transitions into a computer screen.
• This screen is being watched by the unknown person who we now know to be the lesser antagonists boss.
• They take a device from the computers that the data was sent too.
• They then get up and walk out of the frame.
• Cuts to our title sequence.

Group Roles in Production.

We have finally decided the roles in the production within our group:

We have sorted out the roles of cameras and editing: