Distributors: $lash Films
Production Company: 'OliRic'
After playing around with ideas for idents. We decided that we should try and make a play on words with a combination of out names. We came up with the production company name, which could be used as a play on words for Oilrig. The 'logo' for our name would be an oil barrel tipping over and spilling oil, which form the name 'OliRic'.
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Acts Of Repulsion Update 2
Date of Filming: Saturday 22nd January
Location: Un-inhabited house in local area.
Characters:
Friend 1 - Ben Braithwaite
Friend 2 - UNKNOWN (at the moment)
First victim - Josh Spence
Attacker - Patrick Godden
(If no final friend is found to take the final part, I have agreed to take part in the filming as one of the friends that finds the body).
Props: Casual, clothes
Axe (Or any suitable weapon)
Beer bottles or cans filled with suitable liquid - beer bottles filled with yellow coloured liquid.
Sleeping bags
Location: Un-inhabited house in local area.
Characters:
Friend 1 - Ben Braithwaite
Friend 2 - UNKNOWN (at the moment)
First victim - Josh Spence
Attacker - Patrick Godden
(If no final friend is found to take the final part, I have agreed to take part in the filming as one of the friends that finds the body).
Props: Casual, clothes
Axe (Or any suitable weapon)
Beer bottles or cans filled with suitable liquid - beer bottles filled with yellow coloured liquid.
Sleeping bags
Monday, 17 January 2011
Acts of Repulsion Update
In the original film idea our initial thought was that the film would be set at night in (local) bluebell woods. Due to weather conditions in January we decided it would be almost impossible to organise a trip to the woods as it would be too dark too early, and the snowy weather would make it a lot harder. The lighting meant that with just the equipment available to us, it would be impossible for us to shoot the desired shots.
The original idea started with a shot of inside the tent where one of the characters is trying to get to sleep, and as the character rolls in there sleep to face towards the camera, a silhouette of a figure dragging a body moves past the tent, casting the eery shadow. In an attempt to test this difficult shot, on the 5th January we experimented with the shot idea in daylight, but it wasn’t successful. Due to the failure in the testing of this shot, we scrapped the idea and due to the fact that 3 of our main shots also would probably be unlikely to be able to shoot in the dark, we scrapped the whole idea.
As the result of the failure of that original idea we came up with another idea that could be alternated, depending on the nature of the location available to us.
Instead of camping outside in the local woods, we could move production of the film into a house. Ideally an empty property e.g. a property for sale. If we can't find an un-inhabited house available for us to shoot in, we will use one of either Richard's or my own houses. This however would mean that the first victim would have to found outside on the street, because this would add more suspense as a pose to finding a body in a house that is blatantly inhabited by a family.
Un-inhabited house idea;
with this idea, the group of friends would be filmed entering the house together (they find a front door open). They sit around in a circle on the floor of one of the rooms, with their sleeping bags next to the walls of the room. They sit drinking, messing about having fun etc. It begins to get late, so they all get in there sleeping bags and one by one drop off to sleep. When they are asleep, a dark, hooded figure walks into the room and drags one of the group out. The figure drags the person out of the room, the rest hear the door slam shut with the wind from an open window. The figure is heard fleeing and they go outside and down the corridor to find the body of their friend laying on the floor. They ponder over what the best thing is to do, and while they are deciding what to do they hear a noise behind them, and see the figure walking towards them with a large axe (or other weapon) in his grasp, which is swinging towards them. The opening ends as the screen goes black.
The original idea started with a shot of inside the tent where one of the characters is trying to get to sleep, and as the character rolls in there sleep to face towards the camera, a silhouette of a figure dragging a body moves past the tent, casting the eery shadow. In an attempt to test this difficult shot, on the 5th January we experimented with the shot idea in daylight, but it wasn’t successful. Due to the failure in the testing of this shot, we scrapped the idea and due to the fact that 3 of our main shots also would probably be unlikely to be able to shoot in the dark, we scrapped the whole idea.
As the result of the failure of that original idea we came up with another idea that could be alternated, depending on the nature of the location available to us.
Instead of camping outside in the local woods, we could move production of the film into a house. Ideally an empty property e.g. a property for sale. If we can't find an un-inhabited house available for us to shoot in, we will use one of either Richard's or my own houses. This however would mean that the first victim would have to found outside on the street, because this would add more suspense as a pose to finding a body in a house that is blatantly inhabited by a family.
Un-inhabited house idea;
with this idea, the group of friends would be filmed entering the house together (they find a front door open). They sit around in a circle on the floor of one of the rooms, with their sleeping bags next to the walls of the room. They sit drinking, messing about having fun etc. It begins to get late, so they all get in there sleeping bags and one by one drop off to sleep. When they are asleep, a dark, hooded figure walks into the room and drags one of the group out. The figure drags the person out of the room, the rest hear the door slam shut with the wind from an open window. The figure is heard fleeing and they go outside and down the corridor to find the body of their friend laying on the floor. They ponder over what the best thing is to do, and while they are deciding what to do they hear a noise behind them, and see the figure walking towards them with a large axe (or other weapon) in his grasp, which is swinging towards them. The opening ends as the screen goes black.
Thursday, 6 January 2011
Filming preparation
During yesterdays lesson myself and Richard decided it would be a good idea to do some practice filming for some of the shots in our proposed film idea. These included an POV shot from inside a tent. This shot proved impossible to do because there wasn't enough light to see a shadow on the tent during the day, therefore it wouldn't be enough light to film in the night. We can work around the setback, but would probably mean some of the tension build up would be lost without this shot. The actual filming will be taking place over an upcoming weekend, but the specific date is not yet set.
Friday, 17 December 2010
Acts of Repulsion - Coursework Pitch
The idea for the name of my film opening came from researching different slasher film names and mixing them about slightly. My film idea came after watching Hostel and Friday the 13th; it's basically a film opening that combines these two films together. The opening shot is an establishing, medium-high angle long shot of 3 friends having fun drinking & smoking around a small bonfire. There is then a panning shot of them stood talking and still drinking around the fire. They then decide that its getting too late and they're all tired so they retire to their tents. There is then a medium shot of one person closing their eyes and trying to go to sleep, and a light is seen shining outside, a muffled scream is heard and then the shadow of a body being dragged past the tent is seen in torch light. This alarms both the people still in their tents and they call to one another and decide to go out to investigate; they go outside and seen a shadow on the floor by the remaining glowing embers of the fire. They walk slowly towards the object and as they get closer they realise that it's in fact a body; they turn it over to see the face and they realise it's their other friend. There is then a low angle shot looking up at the two friends reaction to finding the body. They decide quickly that they must go get help because there may be a killer around; they stand back up and turn around to see a large hooded figure standing menacingly with a large axe in his hands, which is dripping with blood. They screen goes black as he swings it towards them.
Sunday, 12 December 2010
Monday, 6 December 2010
Pre-Lim Task
Preliminary exercise - Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.
Match on action - A match on action, a technique used in film editing, is a cut that connects two different views of the same action at the same moment in the movement. By carefully matching the movement across the two shots, filmmakers make it seem that the motion continues uninterrupted.
Shot/reverse shot - Shot reverse shot is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other.
180-degree rule - The 180° rule is a basic guideline in film making that states that two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line.
180-degree rule - The 180° rule is a basic guideline in film making that states that two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line.
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