Tuesday, 21 April 2015

Casting


We started off with the idea of using a mixed gender cast and therefore did a bit of talent scouting with the girls we know who do drama. We then progressed to decide we wanted an all male cast as this was a unique selling point for our trailer - exploring the non-romantic relationship between two males as they grow up together and apart.





We therefore began talent scouting our male protagonists:






Filming Schedule

Editing schedule





Possible names

Turn Around

One - Eighty

Run

Re-connect

The art of Living

Life.

Oxymoron

Poorly Rich 
(Richly poor?)

Reverie 
(Fractured Reverie)  - Reverie means to remember good memories

Poor choice

Added storboard shots


Graphic match research

Graphic Match - We are wanting to use many match on actions through out our trailer in order to show off out editing skills and easily like from one location to another through zooms:

Initial Storyboard










Three initial ideas


We had three initial ideas for our SOCIAL REALISM narrative. 
We have picked one.


The initial three..




The final one..

No doubt it will be adapted however this is our first idea for out final SOCIAL REALISM narrative.

Expectations of social realism

WHAT WOULD YOU EXPECT FROM A SOCIAL REALISM FILM?

We asked this question to many volunteers and here are three who sum up the majority points of what they expect to find with in a social realism film, also therefore what we hope to include within ours.


Social Media

We have created social media pages in order to keep our audience updated with our progress.



Friday, 13 February 2015

Location






Wednesday, 4 February 2015

Camera - Nikon Coolpix P100

Picture of Nikon Coolpix P100


We decided to use the Nikon Coolpix P100 for its HD movie making and its small compact look, this made it easy for us to carry around the camera and set it up in small spaces. Recording in HD gave the shots a much more real look than they may have otherwise.

Some of the main features of this camera are:



  • Auto: Camera establishes most settings, but user can adjust focus mode, exposure compensation, image quality and size.
  • Scene: Camera selects settings for 16 scene modes chosen by user (including backlit scene HDR, which we'll discuss at length later on). User may have some input available depending on specific scene.
  • Scene auto: Camera chooses specific scene from auto, portrait, night portrait, landscape, night landscape, close-up or backlight options.
  • Smart portrait: A face detection shooting mode that can incorporate automatic shutter release by the camera if a smile is detected.
  • Subject tracking: Allows user to designate a subject and the camera focus area will move and follow the subject.
  • User setting: Frequently used settings in P, A, S, or M modes can be saved in mode dial U.
  • Program auto: Camera sets shutter and aperture, user has wide variety of setting options (image quality and size, color palette, white balance, ISO sensitivity, single or continuous shooting rates, autofocus area and mode, noise reduction, active D-lighting, distortion control, flash exposure compensation) and flexible program to select different combinations of aperture and shutter while retaining same exposure.
  • Aperture priority: User sets aperture, camera sets shutter; wide variety of setting options available.
  • Shutter priority: User sets shutter speed, camera sets aperture; wide variety of setting options available.
  • Manual: User sets aperture and shutter; wide variety of setting options available.
  • Movie: Captures video in HD 1080p resolution (1920 x 1080) at either 14 or 12 megabyte per second (Mbps) bitrates; HD 720p (1280 x 720) at 9 Mbps; 640 x 480 at 3 Mbps or 320 x 240 at 640 kilobytes per second. Also available are HS modes that capture in slow motion rates of 240 frames per second (fps) at 320 x 240 resolution; 120 fps at 640 x 480 and 60 fps at 1280 x 720. A fast motion movie (15 fps at 1920 x 1080) is also available.
  • History of Social Realism