The Preliminary Task

This was the preliminary task that we had to do before we did our final cut of Misunderstood. We were given the genre of film which we had to portary which was a spy. We brainstormed ideas on the day and we had a draft of what we were going to do. Now that we have finished it of course looking back i can safely say that we would have needed more planning to go into our work. This shows of course in the project we then did 'Misunderstood' that we did more planning. Because of this it is understandable now why we had to do this before the full version of the course otherwise not enough planning would have been done.
   The whole process that we took on the perliminary task was short, we planned it on one day, what we would need and where we were going to film, the next day there was a lack of communication which resulted in the props needed not being used, so instead improvised and filmed only a part of it, the third day we finished the filming and made a start on the editing, which was then finished on the fourth, this shows how rushed our work was.

By Hani Matter

Diary Entry 09/02/11

The re-shoot didn't go as planned. There were loads of problems once again although the continuity wasn't the least of problems, mainly because you couldn't see any of it. We went to the NCP to re-shoot everything again but the stairwell lights didn't turn back on ending in VERY dark shots.
Also the sound quality isn't brilliant this time, especially as there was a whole group of people chatting below us.  Finally as we approached the roof of the NCP we were stopped by the security guards there who said we would need filming permission which is something we had no idea we needed and weren't told about before we went out filming. This was a major blow to our plans and instead of filming in the NCP we thought it might be a good idea to re-shoot in a different location, the sovereign centre stairwell which is always lit brightly and was our second location choice anyway Most importantly we don't need permission to film there. Another re-shoot is definitely in order.

Title Ideas

Ideas for our opening scene film title!

Kidnap

Father and daughter relations

Resentment

Rebellious

Misunderstood

Depression

Frustration

Desperation

Emotion

Revolt

Exclusion

Anger

Running

Escape

Worry

Argumentative

Detective

Work and home life

Separation

Taken

The staircase

Ascent

Redemption

Adversary

Reflection

Over protection

Defence

Defy

Alone

Possible Titles

The Descent to Desperation

The Worrier

The Misunderstood

Misunderstood

Daughters’ Defiance

A Fathers’ Desperation

Separating Work and Life

Exclusion

A Worthy Adversary

The Revolutionary

Against the Tide

Dare To Escape

Feeling Far Away

The Unforgiving Daughter

The Forgotten daughter

Losing Her

Unguarded One

Hatred

You’re Past Protection

Problem child

Listen To Me 

Diary Entry 30/01/11

Today was the day we had arranged for filming. Unfortunately we were too busy in updating the blog and finishing the storyboard work that we forgot to pick up the camcorder on the friday.
Forunately this forced me to improvise and i realised that if we had just the two scenes we had storyboarded then our opening scene would have probably only lasted for about 2 minites at the most.
Then while i was watching a James Bond film with a really good animiation for the title, it provoked me to invent some sort of interesting introduction to our title.
I wanted the idea to be as original as possible and i realised that actual computer animation would have been impossible as noone in our group had an animating program.
Then i thought we could extend the knowledge about the daughter to the audience further by linking a series of pictures of the daughter being rebellious and going against her dads (detectives) wishes. The effect of the pictures of the daughter being rebellious are stills will portray to the audience that they were taken in the past. Also to make our pictures have some original qualities to them i have only taken them looking at only the trousers. This will make the audience relate to pictures that are taken of antisocial behaviour which rarely show the faces of the purpertrator. The daughter will now be seen as a social drop-out.
Along with these pictures we can fade in and out our opening credits and then finally we can end the picture with the title.

Diary Entry 05/01/11

Today on our first day back from our christmas holidays we started working on our storyboard, script, props, casting and animatics.
We started with the storyboard as it seems like a logical starting point. We pitched ideas on what type of shots and mise en scene. After a few adjustments to our storyline we came to our first draft which we were all pleased with, and from this storyboard we were able to create a first draft f our animatic, seeing how it would look as a motion picture and what we can improve on for the second take.
We developed our characters more giving them names and a background, and adapting them to actors and actresses we can use.
We will now try and adapt a script to our storyboard and make it relevant to each character and their background.

Zombieland art of the title

throughout this opening sequence we see the chaos being shown and what the film is about.....ZOMBIES all the names that are placed in this title sequence happen as a new image comes up or for example when the window is smashed the name appears where the initial break point was.

Scream 'do you like scary movies`

Scream 1996

Who could forget the iconic opening scene of scream where ghost face is on the phone to a female character asking her if she wants to play a game , a game which if answered wrong could mean death. The scene starts with non diogetic screaming which is represnative of what film is most likely to be about and as this happens we see the title of the film Scream as the screaming starts to come to an end we hear the transition from screaming to the sound of a phone ringing.                  

 in the opening scene there is not much sound which may add to the tension as to what we as the viewer is expecting to happen, the only real sounds that we hear are the diogetic phone being rung and the popcorn popping. Popcorn is usually associated with films which also may suggest what this film is about, the viewer discovers this more as the female character played by Drew Barrymore and the man on the fun start to discuss classic horror films which shows what Scream is about, by playing on the rules of a horror film, films that are quoted are Halloween and A Nightmare on Elm Street.
    In itself this film opening could be seen as its own simple horror film as it has all the traits of one it also shows a hidden meaning, which is that what will the youths of today do when they are exposed to the amount of horror films that are out there, scream is a perfect example of this as the killer is a human being not some unforeseen force such as Paranormal activities which would also mean that this could happen and example of a film which follows the concept of the killers only being human would be the British film Eden Lake.

another aspect of the film would be the fact that you don't really know the people around you and what they could be capable of, for example in this opening sequence the person on the phone is watching Drew Barrymore.

  an interesting thing about the opening to Scream is that the picture is not required to understand what is going on in the film as its mainly just dialogue, also when there is a shot of outside you can hear birds noises and the fact that there is nothing outside that we can really see, anything living anyway this then would represent that the female character is isolated, also this is stated by the man on the phone when he says 'the police would be to late as we are in the middle of nowhere ` so as i said before you can understand what is happening without the picture, we know the female character is scared as we can hear her crying and screaming 'leave me alone`