So yeh fingers crossed this should work...

Hey media peeps this is Jake, hope everyones' films are like going totally awesome.

Right if I am as big a nerd as I think I am then below should be a video of like a promo of our film. This isn't the real thing because Zal decided to cut his hair so we're gonna have to shoot everything again. I apologize for like the frame rate and the quality and that you can't read much of the text but thats only because I had to shrink the film.

Enjoy...



Hope you all have a wicked weekend to anyone whos filming.

Laters x

Let's drive to Brighton on the weekend

If you could see me now I'd be chopping Jake's hands off so he couldn't do the Ali G thing...

So yeah, we did film last Saturday, it's not all lies and conspiracy.


I was happy with Zal, he did well - despite his self awareness, but we soon sorted that out by all stripping half naked as well.

I was happy with the clock shots - sexy.

I was happy with most of the mirror shots. Mainly the ones in which Zal could open and close a mirror properly. He kept on popping the mirror in only for it to open again mid shot and smack him in the head. Which was hilarious but yeh.

I was happy with Jack's camera - sexy.


I wasn't happy with some of the lighting, got a feeling it might look dull. But hopefully all shall be well.

I'm not too happy with the feeling that we may well have rushed it. We got good shots and all, but I've got a niggling feeling that we've missed some. But we've got 5 weeks left to fill in any gaps. If there are any when it comes to editing...

I'm not happy with some of the shots, which I feel could've been more stylised, like the newspaper date one and the milk bottle top opening one...but still, good editing can prove me wrong.


I wasn't happy with Tesco's new policy of hiding the Ginster's sausage rolls either. Corporate pigs


Jake won't be happy with my cynisism. But overall, Saturday's filming gets a "Nice" rating from the Fast Show Jazzman:

NICE!

Quality Morning (if you could see me now I would be doing that Ali G clicky fingers thing)

So yeah this Jake doing my first blog so expect spelling and grammar errors a plenty. And yes I am sorry to the intellectuals reading this post that don’t understand text talk.

We just had a rather quality morning. We filmed five pages of story board and we pretty much nailed everything we wanted to do indoors. Even if it did take us from 9 till about half 11 and numerous takes for filming mirrors and Zal's face.

We filmed about 30 or maybe less (5 pages with 6 boxes on each page) shots this morning which should pretty much cover the first 30 seconds of our film.

If you've read the basic plot summary we put on here then we've done everything up to the car journey part.

Zal looked amazing, as predicted, topless in pretty much all of the shots ... so ladies beware this towering ... erm ... tower of testosterone is captured in perfect quality, light and film!

Sorry Mr.M or Mrs.B whoever tried to call me and James about there being a camera free because I think you called us when we were out in bury stealing Lees green present box thingy. If your wondering how we filmed this morning ... well Jack Stanton ("do you know why your here?" L E G E N D) let us borrow his and fingers crossed the tapes used in his will work at the ones at school so we will be able to use the schools editing software. Also we borrowed a tri-pod of me dad so no need to worry about wobbly filming ... massive sigh of relief Mr.M I know!

Back to the serious stuff. James has drawn up all the storyboards so we might upload them on here sometime if we need to even though our posts aren't as frequent as ‘idea pikie’ group (Rob Henry Jon and Tom). As for our questionnaire we were thinking of doing a focus group type of thing at either mine or James house (probably mine because of my DVD collection) to get some research and hopefully by then we're have a rough edit of our film to show as well so we can get opinions on what to improve.

I say hopefully because we should (if everything goes to plan) be filming in Thetford forest on either Friday or Saturday (whenever is good for everyone concerned). Also we need to do a little more research into blood packs ... but internet research in class has been slightly useful. Don't think our female contact will enjoy a condom strapped to their neck which we explode by tugging some string. Plus we need to find a decent recipe for blood that looks good when it’s sprayed out of our make shift blood packs.

Also we I had the idea that should the tribal drumming idea with Zal running not fit and they we could use Assassin – Muse as it has quite a high tempo drum start part …

Also with the idea of continuing with the Greek mythology theme I had the idea that it would be really cool to start with a quote from ‘The Odyssey’ by Homer as the opening of our film which was inspired but such films as ‘Ronin’ and ‘Pulp Fiction’.

Me and James had different views of which quote we should use but we decided to settle on:

“A small rock holds back a great wave.”
Homer, The Odyssey

This would reflect the perilous start our protagonist has in our film. To put it in context it would be that our main protagonist, the as yet unnamed character played by Zal, has to fight off the many faceless attackers that ambush him. He is the small rock that holds back the great wave of attackers.

We also have started choosing a name for our film. We haven’t found anything yet that just you know FITS but we have started researching Greek words with related meaning to our film. Something that doesn’t sound too Greek but still sorta sound cool and has meaning to the film much like our previous film ‘Dagga’ which, according to some website, is a street name for marijuana.

So yeah everything is really well going well … with only six weeks left. Looking back on the green sheet in front off me I can confirm (in an extremely boastful manor) we have:

• Carried out research into what makes a thriller.


• Took into consent and analysed cinematic thriller openings and other students work.


• Brainstormed our film with physical proof in the forms of a few sheets of paper that I wrote.


• Completed a storyboard for everything we’ve filmed.


• We haven’t assigned roles because me and James pretty much do everything in a 50-50 manor e.g. filming, director etc.


• Got prop and shot lists.


• Discussed iconography lighting and special effects.


• We have discussed the mood we wished to create, possible plot trails for what the film will take after the end of the opening.

However we have still yet to:

• Choose a title/Discuss titles but this is due to the fact we haven’t sat down on the computers and look through different fonts and effects and entries etc.


• Decided exactly where the music is gonna be in relation to the film. I.e. we haven’t said we gonna have THIS SONG in this EXACT BIT.

If we haven't done something or left something out Mr.M and Mrs.B please could tell us in the form of a comment ... Thank You.

So yeah you can see why were pretty chuffed with our progress. Also gives us the thrills of hopefully being ready to edit when we get back after half term giving us 5 weeks to perfect the editing process.

We have slightly discussed doing an online poll for a possible title for the film but however we might instead do this part in our focus group night.

Sorry to be so boastful to anyone else who is doing coursework and reading this because there bored or actually generally interested in our film ... but seriously the end of this morning just left me so chuffed

BRING ON FRIDAY/SATURDAY

Signing off. Have a good holiday everyone…