Thursday, September 30, 2010
Storyboarding 30th Sep 10
Here is our story boarding our our webisode idea. Alison created this and then i took the photos of it and then printed out copies for our sketchbooks.
Monday, September 27, 2010
1st Draft Pitch
Synopsis
A girl catches her boyfriend cheating on her, running off upset, she runs out of the doors to the left of the stairs of reception at college. Then she stops outside and turns her head looking for a place to go to. Her attention is drawn to a halloween mask hanging on a tree, as she walks up to it, she sees another mask hanging on another tree and walks up to that one. Then she sees two more hanging side by side on two different trees. She walks to them and stands between the two trees, then she disappears. She then reappears a few minutes later in a red dress and smiles, which reveals two vampire teeth and she is back for revenge. She storks her ex boyfriend, waiting for the right time to make her move to start his life as a vampire. When he goes in a room by his self, she follows him in, then he shouts in fear.
Rationale
We have had many ideas, so we wanted to find out which ideas people liked best. With the ideas that people liked the most, we wanted to combined some of them to try to create a better story line. Our story line will go through a final stage, so that it will have a better outcome (storyline). Combining the most liked ideas with some changes, we hope that it will appeal more to our target audience which is youngsters (16 - 21 yrs.) We feel that we can create our webisode idea and the ideas maybe even change slightly while filming and complications could appear. Each of our synopsis for each of our webisode pitch document will have some different plot ideas as we are still deciding our final storyline. We will sit down and go over our synopsis ideas to create a final version.
Contingency Plans
The main issue that we would face is making the female character disappear when in the woods. It could be a tricky task to pull off but we are sure that we can do it. A way that could make it work is when she is by the trees, we keep the camera running while she walks out of the cameras view, then film a minute without her in the shot, then when it comes to editing we can just cut the part out where she walks out off the cameras view, and hope that it looks like she disappeared, we will also use some effects to make it look more real. If this does not work we will find another way that we can make it work. An alternative plan that we have considered is that if we have problems with our final plot line, we will stick with one of our indeas in our keynote presentation.
Final Pitch Idea
Synopsis
A young woman walks up to her college locker, and notices a photo stuck on the door. The photo shows her boyfriend being intimate with another woman. The boyfriend is about to take the photo away from her, but he was too late and she had already witnessed the photo. The young woman is emotionally upset and runs down the corridor and out the doors by reception. When she is outside she stops and looks for a place to escape to, she then notices a woman in a red dress walking amongst the college woods. The young woman enters the woods to see what she did as she had not seen anyone like her before. She follows the path through the woods and come across two huge, strange looking trees. One tree has a hanging crystal on and the others has a wind chime on. This attracts the girls to stand between the two trees and then she disappears. She returns back in time, 3 minutes before she disappeared. She reappears in a red long dress, she then smiles which reveals her white fangs. Her boyfriend witnesses her through the trees and hides in fear. He secretly creeps of in a panic and rather stunned. She stalks her boyfriend around college. The boyfriend turns his head walking down a corridor and sees her following him, he then tries to hind in a classroom but she follows him in, then he shouts in fear.
Week Plan 27th Sep - 1st Oct 2010
Monday 27th Sep
Short Term Goal - Create a final storyline. Completed, Located in sketchbook,blog and production bible
Start Of Day
Short Term Goal - Create a final storyline
Medium Term Goal - Find the filming locations
Long Term Goal - Take photo's of the locations and write where the locations are and place this in my sketchbook and production bible. - Not done - Shall do tuesday.
End Of Day
Short Term Goal - Create a final storyline. Completed, Located in sketchbook,blog and production bible
Medium Term Goal - Find the filming locations. Completed. Need uploading
Long Tern Goal - Take photo's of the locations and write where the locations are located, and place in sketchbook and blog and production bible. Not Completed.
Tuesday 28th Sep
Start Of Day
Short Term Goal - Discuss the final idea.
Medium Term Goal - Walk through a scene in the forest and see how the ideas can work.
Long Term Goal - Take photo's of the locations and write where the locations are and place this in my sketchbook and production bible.
End Of Day
Short Term Goal - Discuss the final idea. - Completed
Medium Term Goal - Walk through a scene in the forest and see how the ideas can work. - Completed.
Long Term Goal - Take photo's of the locations and write where the locations are and place this in my sketchbook and production bible. - Not Completed.
Wednesday 29th Sep
Start Of Day
Short Term Goal - Start characters Bio (One lesson)
End Of Day
Short Term Goal - Start characters bio - needs finishing.
Thursday 30th Sep
Start Of Day
Short Term Goal - Storyboarding
Medium Term Goal - Scripting
Long Term Goal - Checking the script.
End Of Day
Short Term Goal - Storyboarding - This is completed, it can be found in our production bible and in my sketchbook and on my blog.
Medium Term Goal - Scripting -
Long Term Goal - Checking the script.
Friday 1st Oct
Start Of Day
Short Term - Create the script for the webisode
End Of Day
Short Term - Create the script for the webisode - Completed.
Friday, September 24, 2010
Keynote Presentation 2 - Main
Here is the first presentation that was created. This is the most important one, I also contains the last keynote which is on the ideas.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Research Into Quotes From 2 Chosen Genres From Books
"Mystery novels, hard-boiled detective novels, sometimes even thrillers. What most of the fictions have in common is crime and its detection".
Book Reference
Title - Anatomy Of Murder: Mystery, Detective, and Crime Fiction.
Author - Carl Darryl Malmgren
Edition - Illustrated
Publisher - Popular Press, 2001
"Mystery fiction was born in 1841 when Graham's Magazine published Edgar Allan Poe's Short Story "The Murders In The Rue Morgue".
Book Reference
Title - The Elements Of Fiction (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)
Author - G. T apply, William
Publisher - ReadHowYouWant.Com
ISBN - 1458717909, 9781458717900
To find out more about the book, The Murders In The Rue Morgue, visit this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murders_in_the_Rue_Morgue
Both of these book quotes are relevant to a genre of my choosing. The genre was Mystery. The Mystery genre was then one of my 2 genres out of 4 as it does interests me.
Mystery Film Timeline
Post Modern Day
1946 - The Dark Corner
1947 - Out Of The Past
1970 - Darker Than Amber
1971 - Shaft
1974 - China Town
1975 - Night Moves
1980 - Dressed To Kill
1984 - Body Double
1989 - Sea Of Love
2000 - Memento
2001 - Gosford Park
2002 - Blood Work
2002 - Red Dragon
2005 - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
2005 - Brick
2006 - The Da Vinci Code
2007 - Vacancy
2009 - Sherlock Holmes
2010 - Inception
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Movie Timelines
Vampire: Post Modern
1910 - The Vampire's Trail
1914 - Saved From The Vampire
1916 - A Night Of Horror
1922 - The Blond Vampire
1928 - The Vampire
1931 - Dracula
1944 - The Return Of The Vampire
1957 - Not Of This Earth
1960 - Blood Sunday
1964 - The Kiss Of A Vampire
1966 - The Fearless Vampire Killers
1970 - The Vampire Lovers
1977 - Martin
1985 - Vampire Hunter D
1987 - The Lost boys
1991 - Blood Ties
Modern Day
2004 - Night Watch
2008 - Twilight
2009 - New Moon
2010 - Eclipse
2010 - Vampires Suck
2011 - Breaking Dawn Part 1
2012 - Breaking Dawn Part 2
Keynote Presentation - Ideas
This is our ideas keynote presentation.
Alison, Sophie and Alex Ideas Keynote
View more presentations from longroadcreative.
Friday, September 17, 2010
Web Tv Key Features
Audiences
$ Interaction and control over the plot development, decide what should happen next.
$ Most popular genres include: Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction, Romantic or 2 or 3 together for example, "The Bounty Hunter" movie is a romantic comedy.
$ Internet Users
$ Audience response is centred to the development of the plot.
Forms And Conventions
$ Direct address to the audience.
$ Cliffhaner at the end of an episode
$ Episodic structure
$ Characters develop over time
$ Short duration
Representations
$ Focus on every day life
$ Relationships
$ We see the target audience on the screen, (i.e. gammers, geeks, teenagers)
$ Focus on technology
Institutions
$ Non-professional or unknown actor/actress
$ Low production values. (They are fairly cheap to make)
$ Dedicated production companies
$ Often amateur produced
$ Increasingly TV spin off
$ Potential copy right issues over production
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Webisode's
A webisode is an simple episode on the web. It is normanlly short and around 3 mins long. Some can be longer it just depends who is creating it. It is called Internet Television. You can download or stream them it just depends on how the creator wishes to show it to people.
Here are some example webisode's:
Chad Vader Series 1 Ep 1 A Galaxy Not So Far Away
This webisode has 10,489,504 views on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wGR4-SeuJ0
Lonelygirl15 Ep 1 - First Blog/Dorkiness Prevail
This webisode has 3,179,866 views on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-goXKtd6cPo
We Need Girlfriends Ep 1
This webisode has 453,687 view on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omE_8VJN9Eo
A webisode series that has returned for a second series is EastEnders E20, but this time it is watchable on TV. It can be viewed on BBC3 and it can also still be viewed online on the website. It is a popular show and that is why it is on TV. People would prefer to watch it on the TV as it is a bigger screen and it is a better experience, than just watching it on a small video screen on your computer.
My opinion of webisode's:
Fan made webisodes are good to be online because they are created to a very good standard. I think that creating fan made webisodes and posting them online is a powerful way to get yourself seen. I don't watch any type of webisodes online because i don't have the internet myself. I also don't really interest me as i watch so many tv shows and films, so i have no need of watching them.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Book Genre - Mystery
Mystery Fiction is a defined term that is used as a synonym for detective fiction or crime fiction. It is a novel or a short story where a detective investigates a crime and then solves it. Some mystery books are sometimes nonfiction. Mystery can relate to a Crime book as often the detective is solving a mystery where a death is involved.
Video Games Genre Open World
An open world video game is a game where there is one lever which is an open world where the player can freely roam the virtual world. For example Grand Theft Auto IV is one level and when it loads it loads the City of New York, a virtual world replica of new york but with many change and in that virtual world missions are available and to gain access to other parts of the city you have to compleate the missions.
Another term for open world video games is "Sandbox" or "Free-roaming" To create the open world there are see-through walls that stop the player from going beyond the created landscapes.
What i would expect from video games in 10 to 15 years time is that, for example a Grand Theft Auto game to have a 10 times bigger virtual world than it does now. For other open-world games like Red Dead Redemption, i would want it to have a huge country western city which is fully detailed with the different seasons and i would also Want Grand Theft Auto to have different seasons for example, for christmas in the game it would want it to look like the cities as it would look like at christmas, snow, lights trees etc.
Tv Genre
Serials in television are series that are a continuing plot that unfolds in a single episode. Serials typically follow main story arcs that span entire seasons or even the full run of the series, for example in Brothers and Sisters Season 4 the main story is Kitty having cancer, but a story hidden within that is a secret place called Narrow Lake which the secret unfolds in the final episode at the end.
In Serials, the story keeps many elements hidden and revealing them by episode to episode so that it will keep the viewers tuning in to learn more about the characters and what happens around them. The shows often recap from past episodes and series at the beginning of each episode. It also shows cliffhangers at the beginning of the show then we see a flash back normally 24 hours before until the cliffhanger is back at the end.
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Monday, September 13, 2010
Homework Task - 3 Vampire films Research
All this research is taken from wikipedia as it was used towards research on 3 vampire films
The Lost Boys is a 1987 American horror film about two Arizonan brothers who move to California and end up fighting a gang of teenage vampires.Directed by Joel Schumacher, the film stars Jason Patric, Corey Haim, and Kiefer Sutherland, and co-stars Jami Gertz, Corey Feldman, Dianne Wiest, Edward Herrmann, Alex Winter, Jamison Newlander, and Barnard Hughes.The title is a reference to the Lost Boys in J. M. Barrie's stories about Peter Pan and Neverland.
Michael Emerson (Jason Patric) and his younger brother, Sam (Corey Haim), move with their just-divorced mother, Lucy (Dianne Wiest), to Santa Carla, a fictional coastal California town plagued by gang activity and unexplained disappearances. The family moves in with Lucy's father (Barnard Hughes), a cantankerous and eccentric old man who lives on the outskirts of town, and enjoys taxidermy as a hobby.
The center of town life is the boardwalk and amusement park, which is plastered with flyers of missing people. While Lucy gets a job at a local video store run by a conservative man named Max (Edward Hermann), Michael becomes fascinated by Star (Jami Gertz), a beautiful young woman who lives with the mysterious leader of the local gang, David (Kiefer Sutherland). When Michael meets Star the next night, David provokes him into a motorcycle race, in which he is baited into almost going over the edge of a sea cliff.
David invites Michael to their lair, a once-luxurious hotel sunken by an earthquake, where he is put through an unsettling initiation that includes drinking blood from a wine bottle. He joins the gang in hanging from the underside of elevated train tracks, watching in horror as each willingly drops into a foggy gorge below. Unable to hold his grip any longer, Michael falls... waking up in his bed, groggy and disoriented.
Meanwhile, in the local comic book store, Sam meets brothers Edgar and Alan Frog (Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander), self-proclaimed vampire hunters who give Sam horror comics to teach him about vampires. Sam scoffs at them until Michael's developing vampirism becomes clear; his dog, Nanook, is forced to fend off Michael's bloodlust-driven attack on Sam, who notices that Michael's reflection has become transparent. After discovering that he can fly, Michael visits Star to question her about the physical changes he is experiencing, and the two make love.
Sam turns to the Frog brothers for help, but refuses their advice to kill Michael. He turns their suspicions to Max, who has begun dating Lucy, suggesting that he is the head vampire whose death will free half-vampires such as Michael, who have not yet killed anyone. At a dinner party held by Lucy, they put Max through a series of tests (including the use of garlic and mirrors), which appear to indicate that he is normal, greatly embarrassing Lucy.
Michael resists joining David and the gang when they enter a feeding frenzy, attacking a group of Surf Nazis at a bonfire. Star reveals to Michael that she too is a half-vampire, and wants his help. It emerges that David had intended Michael to be Star's first kill, sealing her fate as a fully-fledged vampire. The next day, a weakening Michael leads Sam and the Frog brothers to the gang's lair, where they intend to kill the vampires in their sleep. But the staking of one vampire (Marko) awakens David and the two others, and they barely escape with their lives, managing to rescue Star and Laddie, a recently abducted child half-vampire.
That evening, while Lucy is on a date with Max and Grandpa is out of the house, the teens arm themselves with weapons based on traditional defenses against vampires. David and the gang attack, and are each killed in a spectacular fashion during the epic battle. Michael faces off with David, and ultimately impales him on a pair of mounted deer antlers. However Michael doesn't transform back to normal with David's death as they had expected.
Max and Lucy arrive, and Max is revealed as the head vampire, at which point he informs them that to invite a vampire into one's house (as Michael sarcastically invited Max for Lucy's dinner date) renders one powerless. Max's objective all along was to get Lucy to be a "mother" for his "lost boys", but his grand plan is thwarted by Grandpa — who has been aware of the vampires all along — crashing his jeep through the wall of the house, impaling Max on the wooden fence posts he is carrying. Michael, Star, and Laddie return to normal. The film ends with Grandpa calmly retrieving a drink from the fridge, seemingly oblivious to the carnage around him. He then declares, "One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach...all the damn vampires".
The project was in development for approximately three years at Paramount Pictures, during which time a screen adaptation that differed significantly from the novel was written. Summit Entertainment acquired the rights to the novel after three years of the project's stagnant development. Melissa Rosenberg wrote a new adaptation of the novel shortly before the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike and sought to be faithful to the novel's storyline. Principal photography took 44 days, and completed on May 2, 2008; the film was primarily shot in Oregon.]
Twilight was theatrically released on November 21, 2008, grossing over US$392 million worldwide. It was released on DVD March 21, 2009, and became the most purchased DVD of the year. The soundtrack was released on November 4, 2008. Following the film's success, New Moon and Eclipse, the next two novels in the series, were produced as films the following year.
Seventeen-year-old Isabella "Bella" Swan moves to Forks, a small town near the Washington coast, to live with her father, Charlie, after her mother remarries to a minor league baseball player. She is quickly befriended by many students at her new high school, but she is intrigued by the mysterious and aloof Cullen siblings. Bella sits next to Edward Cullen in biology class on her first day of school; he appears to be disgusted by her, much to Bella's confusion. A few days later, Bella is nearly struck by a van in the school parking lot. Edward inexplicably moves from several feet away and stops the vehicle with his hand without any harm to himself or Bella. He later refuses to explain this act to Bella and warns her against befriending him.
After much research, Bella eventually discovers that Edward is a vampire, though he only consumes animal blood. The pair fall in love and Edward introduces Bella to his vampire family, Carlisle, Esme, Alice, Jasper, Emmett, and Rosalie. Soon after, three nomadic vampires—James, Victoria, and Laurent—arrive. James, a tracker vampire, is intrigued by Edward's protectiveness over a human and wants to hunt Bella for sport. Edward and his family risk their lives to protect her, but James tracks Bella to Phoenix where she is hiding and lures her into a trap by claiming he is holding her mother hostage. James attacks Bella and bites her wrist, but Edward, along with the other Cullen family members, arrives before he can kill her. James is destroyed, and Edward sucks James's venom from Bella's wrist, preventing her from becoming a vampire. A severely injured Bella is taken to a hospital. Upon returning to Forks, Bella and Edward attend their school prom. While there, Bella expresses her desire to become a vampire, which Edward refuses. The film ends with Victoria secretly watching the pair dancing, plotting revenge for her lover James' murder.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_(2008_film)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a 1992 American action/comedy/horror film about a Valley girl cheerleader named Buffy (Kristy Swanson) who learns that it is her fate to hunt vampires. The movie is a parody which plays on the clichés of typical horror films. The original script for the film was written by Joss Whedon, who later created the darker and more acclaimed TV series of the same name starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy. It was a moderate success at the box office and received mixed reviews from critics.
Buffy (Kristy Swanson) is a stereotypical cheerleader at Hemery High School in Los Angeles. She is a carefree popular girl whose main concerns are shopping and spending time with her friends. While at school one day, she is approached by a man named Merrick Jamison-Smythe (Donald Sutherland). He informs her that she is The Slayer, or chosen one, and he is a Watcher whose duty it is to guide and train her. She initially refuses to believe his claims, but becomes convinced when he is able to describe a recurring dream of hers in great detail. Over the course of her training she becomes friends with Oliver Pike (Luke Perry), whose best friend has recently become a vampire. Oliver becomes the male equivalent of the traditional "damsel in distress", being rescued by Buffy or Merrick on several occasions. However, their relationship gradually becomes romantic.
After several successful outings, Buffy is drawn into conflict with a local vampire king named Lothos (Rutger Hauer), who has killed a number of past Slayers. Lothos eventually kills Merrick as well, giving her the motivation she needs to face him in battle. They eventually clash during the middle of the senior dance at Buffy's high school. Through the use of her own unconventional methods, she is able to defeat Lothos and his minions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_(film)
Book Cover Version 2
Here is the final version of the book cover that i created. On the first version it had no comedy so i had to change this in this version. What i did was move the blood hand print and doubled it then put it on the head outline as if they were the ears. Then i drew a happy face on it. It is meant to be the victims blood but it is a lighter red, this is because the blood is still wet and not dry like the hand prints. I now feel that the cover has a better effect on the viewer. The "CM" is in a blue box . This makes it stand out. I wanted it to be in the centre because i thought that it looked out of place if it was in a corner and i thought that it would interfere with the background image if it was any higher.
Science Fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with the impact of imagined innovations in science or technology, often in a futuristic setting.It differs from fantasy in that, within the context of the story, its imaginary elements are largely possible withinscientifically established or scientifically postulated laws of nature(though some elements in a story might still be pure imaginative speculation). Exploring the consequences of such differences is the traditional purpose of science fiction, making it a "literature of ideas". Science fiction is largely based on writing rationally about alternative possibilities. The settings for science fiction are often contrary to known reality, but the majority of science fiction relies on a considerable degree of suspension of disbelief provided by potential scientific explanations to various fictional elements.
These may include:
- A setting in the future, in alternative timelines, or in an historical past that contradicts known facts of history or the archaeological record
- A setting in outer space, on other worlds, or involving aliens
- Stories that involve technology or scientific principles that contradict known laws of nature
- Stories that involve discovery or application of new scientific principles, such as time travel or psionics, or new technology, such as nanotechnology, faster-than-light travel or robots, or of new and different political or social systems (e.g., a dystopia, or a situation where organized society has collapsed)
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Usage Rights
To filter images that are suitable for your use you can do it by going into google image and clicking on advance search then you are able to narrow down your search related pictures and if you want images that you can re-use and edit you can search the images with this search option.
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