Final Decision

we have desided to use the soundtrack that i have created on garage band to be used in are Animatic, i used different tupes of soundtrack to create emotional, fast and energetic peices of sound to be used through ou the animatic.

the sound effects that we are going to use are the sounds of heavy breathin, the lockers being hit and maybe the sound of punches being trown.

Costumes- normal clothing and huddies also for props we re getting face pain tot paint on brusies from fight scenes filmed earlyer on.

Lighting- we are going to use natural lighting to mainly film our production also dim lighting when being filmed in 5the locker rooms and dark lighting in the car park.

First Project

Weekly Diary Update

This week we have finished our storyboard and post production plan, i will scan these and upload them to my blog. We have gained access to the new mac suit and experimented with the new software available, which has given us new ideas. I found using Adobe CS2 will make our magazine front cover look to the best of our ability. 

Mood Board

Weekly Diary Update

This week we have been working on gathering ideas and thinking how we can make our film different from other simular films. Our storyboard isnt complete yet as we need to sit down as a group and complete the last few scenes which we will do this week, we need to take a few more photographs to add to our storyboard.

Treatment

Core Themes -
Our groups core theme is to 'Stand up for yourself' , this is to stop taking all the punishment he / she is recieving and fight back. Our idea has developed from 'Never Back Down', 'Ong Bak' and 'Fighting' by anaysing these films we hope to make something different. Our log line is 'A lad fights back to the bullys that are punishing him and his friends'.


Core Characters -
The protagonist is a teenage lad who has moved to a new college in a new area. When people see's he is shy they pounce at the opputunity to bully him and his new circle of friends.


Additional Characters -
Protagonist – the teenage lad.
Villain –  the group of bullys.
Father – no father figure.
Helper – the helper is one friend who cant take anymore.
Mentor - the friend who encourages him to stand up for himself.


Setting -
We are still gathering ideas to where to have some of our scenes. The bullying will start in the school but we are thinking to end the final scene in a carpark. We choose to have a car park because its secluded and quiet.

Beneath the Bruises

We have decided the call our production 'Beneath the Bruises', this is because behind all the bruises there is a person who has emotions. We came up with this idea as a group and we think it is very symbolic and meaningful. As our production contains scenes of violence we think having a good story line will make the production more interesting and pleasurable to watch.

This is a quick title i have created on Adobe Photoshot CS2, i found it hard to choose the font of the title. I think this font makes it seem more mysterious and is appropiate for our media production

Symbolic Code Analysis

Setting & Props -
The setting of this picture is in a boxing ring, this is a symbolism of fight and action. There is a railing fence outside of the boxing ring which gives me the impression that the audience are violent and dangorous and they are seperating them from the fighters.

Costume, Hair and Make up -
The person in the middle is wearing a black and white stripy tshirt, this shows us that he is a referee and has authority over the fighters. The people on the outside are wearing shorts and no tshirt which shows us that they are the fighters.

Facial expressions and body language-
Both of the fighters are very tense and have a serious facial expression, the fighter on the left his knees are bent which mean that he is ready to react to the violence he is recieving.

Positioning of the characters -
The referee is in the middle which shows us that he can seperate the fighters if he needed to. The fighter on the right is in the air above the other fighter, this shows us he is of a higher value then the other fighter.

lighting and colour -
The environment that the fighters are in is very Low Key which contrasts with the fighters because they are High Key. The background is Low Key because it shows a very dim and tense atsmophere. The fighters are High Key because all the attention is on them and they need to stand out from the rest.

Medium Shot

Medium shot -

This shot is used for subjects action or interaction. The shot is a picture of a characters waist and above. This shot is effective because it not only shows the subject it also shows us a little bit of the environment around it.The background in this picture is very bright which almost gives of a sillouette of the two characters.
The angle is looking up at the two characters, this gives us the impression that the characters are inspirational. This camera angle makes the individuals look bigger then what they are so it makes them look more powerful.