Friday 27 February 2015

Smile Productions logo

I have created a logo for the production company of the film. We have chosen the name of Smile Productions as it suits with the films feel good genre. We also believed it was a great name for a production company. I have chosen the background as black and the text as yellow as they are binary oppositions to each other. There is a curve below the words "Smile Productions" to resemble a smile.

Thursday 26 February 2015

Filming update


We tried to stick to the filming log schedule very well and we succeeded in this. We filmed in the office and managed to finish 30 minutes early, leaving us time to prepare for traveling and setting up in Welling High Street. Filming in the office, we realised of of our shots were more difficult then expected. The most difficult was placing a stack of work in front of the camera, covering the whole scene. This took multiple times as the stack kept falling over and some of the scene was shown. We eventually was able to do it. Whilst in Welling, unfortunately, the camera had run out of battery halfway through filming so we had to go back to school. We managed to keep to our time schedule when filming for the home scenes and got the shots we wanted, the only problem was the lighting as it was to dark which we hope to improve in final cut pro. 

Wednesday 25 February 2015

Update on Title Sequence

Currently we have started the editing process on the title sequence and have one small part to film for it. We have converted all the videos through MPEG Streamclip and now we are working on Final Cut Pro to bring together all the clips, edit them to what we want and then add the sound we collected. We are about half way through the editing process.

Tuesday 10 February 2015

Location of title sequence



As we have modified out tile sequence idea, we would now need a new location to film. For the office scene, we found two possible rooms to shoot in. The first scene was quite a large room with table and computers, out ideas for it was to move the table and keep a table and laptop in the centre to look like a work area. However on our way out we found an office space which looks  more realistic for our sequence. We have decided we are going to use this room instead.




This was the first office we looked at.



This is the office space we have chosen.

Film log

Filming: Wednesday 11th February 2015

Times:
Office scene 9am-11am
Home scene 4pm-6pm
Globe 3:45pm-4pm
London scene TBC

Equipment needed:
Camera
Tripod
Costumes
Globe

Books

Monday 9 February 2015

Cast & Crew Roles in Title Sequence

Now we have finished our storyboard and animatics, all we need to do is make the title sequence. Below is a list of roles that is required to make the sequence and who is fulfilling them.

Cinematography- Michael
Director-Michael
Actress- Amina
Location Managers- Amina & Michael
Costume- Amina
Producers- Amina & Michael
Editors- Amina
Sound- Amina & Michael

Final draft of Storyboards

This is the final draft of the storyboards for the title sequence. We have changed this since the last storyboard draft because we believed that the previous storyboards would not work and did not fit the film well. This storyboard does fit the film as it shows how Louise doesn't like her office job but it also shows how Louise got the idea of going to India and her preparing to go to India.

Props in title sequence

We have used many props in the title sequence including :

An orchid-

Watering can-


Sunglasses- 





Costume for Title Sequence

There is only one character in our title sequence and this is our main character, Louise Brown. We have Louise in two locations at different times in the title sequence. She is going to and at work and at home. The work scene's and going to work scene's see Louise being dressed in typical smart workwear. She will be wearing long black tights, black flat shoes, a black pencil skirt, a white top and a black blazer. In the scene's where Louise is at home she will be wearing pyjamas as they show that Louise is a simple person.



Friday 6 February 2015

ORDER OF CREDITS

This is our proposed order of credits in the title sequence of the film. The reason why we have not included all of the typical credits in the film is that we want to show focus to the title sequence and not to the typography in the title sequence.

  1. WORKING TITLE PRESENTS
  2. THE JOURNEY OF SELF DISCOVERY
  3. EVE MYLES, CILLIAN MURPHY, ALLEN LEECH AND CILLIAN MURPHY .
  4. PRODUCED BY RICHARD CURTIS
  5. DIRECTED BY RICHARD CURTIS

Wednesday 4 February 2015

Typography for the title sequence idea (PLANNING)

Now we have decided our film idea, we now need to start looking at the typography for the credits and title of our film. We selected out top six favourite fonts and asked fifteen people what one they thought best suited our genre and themes of our film. The most popular ones was the third font down which we may possibly use in the title sequence.

Soundtrack to the title sequence idea 1 (PLANNING)

These are the best soundtracks we have chosen that would fit the Bollywood part of the title sequence. We have chosen that the best one out of these is the Bombay Remix soundtrack because of its uplifting nature and interesting twist. Currently we cannot pick between the two but once we start filming we will pick which one suits best.These had to fit the genre and storyline which we believe they do.

WEST MEETS EAST -https://audionetwork.lgfl.org.uk/production-music/west-meets-east_5338.aspx
CHAI WALLAH-https://audionetwork.lgfl.org.uk/production-music/chai-wallah_41884.aspx
VIPASSANA-https://audionetwork.lgfl.org.uk/production-music/vipassana_22508.aspx
BOMBAY REMIX -https://audionetwork.lgfl.org.uk/production-music/bombay-remix_648.aspx
BOMBAY BEACH- https://audionetwork.lgfl.org.uk/production-music/bombay-beach_9760.aspx

First Draft of Title Sequence Idea

This was our first draft for our title sequence idea showing Louise's horrible work compared to her dream of traveling to India. Gradually as the sequence went on you would see how she begins to get happier because her dream of going to India was coming together. Although, this doesn't show the suffering she has at work so we are going to add shots at the start to show her breakdown and finally deciding to go to India and to live her dream.
 



Tuesday 3 February 2015

Speech for Final Pitch

Slide 1: The genre for our film is a feel good drama. We chose this genre because it is not a typical genre to be a major cinematic film and it shows variety. Although this genre is one which has won many awards for films such as The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button and Forrest Gump.

Slide 2: Equilibrium

a women (Louise Brown) is stuck in a dead end office job which she hates, which involves endless amount of work, unpaid overtime and sexist comments from the staff/boss in a patriarchal society. one guy who is the main perpetrator of these comments is Mike Healy She dreams that one day she could travel the world and experience new cultures and sharing her own experiences, as well as finding herself in the world she lives in, not just the office she works in.
Disequilibrium
After having a massive breakdown at work, Louise is fired from her job and kicked out of her flat shared with her friend, as she count afford to pay her rent, Louise had no where to go and decided to travel the world to get away from her depressing life in London.
Recognition
Realising she has nothing left in London, Louise uses her life saving to travel round the world to try and 'find herself' and a new purpose for her in life.
Attempt to repair equilibrium
She ends up in India where she managed to find a place to stay with a local Indian family. There, she bond a young Indian girl who dreams of becoming a teacher. The woman then has a epiphany and realises how lucky she was in London and decides to help the girl fulfil her dream buy helping girls get an education, even though the odds/government is against her. This is her new goal.
New Equilibrium
Louise managed to break though and now all Indian girls  in that village can get an education for free so all girls can fulfil their dreams of life. Louise now stays in India and lives a happy life as the founder of an organisation, which helps girls in India get an education. Louise meets a missionary there which she has a relationship with together.


Slide 3: These are the films which inspired us to create this film. READ ABOVE. After watching the title sequence and watching these films we really loved the idea of creating a feel good drama.



Slide 4: This is the main target audience for our film. This is because we believe that this target audience can relate to the main character of Louise. This age rating is more appropriate to these type of films because the experiences that the people in the film have are usually experienced by women of the aged 25-45. Women would most definitely be our main target audience because women watch this genre of film more than men because of the storyline’s associated with it. Men would be our secondary audience because they would watch them with their partners and this type of film is one which is usually a tearjerker so the man could comfort the women.


Slide 5: The film rating we have decided for our film is a 12 as it contains Swearing, Sexist remark and Scene viewers may find upsetting. The scene’s that viewers may find upsetting are usually those in which Louise visits the slums and finds the conditions they are in distressing.


Slide 6: The dates are so because the film will create hype in the UK in September which will spread around the world. This would be ready for the release date in November. This is also a good date to be released in the USA because this is around the Oscar Season. It would be released in December because this is just before the Christmas holidays.


Slide 7: The cost to produce our film is £4 million. The money will  be towards Traveling/ staying in India, Actors, Directors and the rest of the cast and crew.


Slide 8: We believe that we could achieve a gross of £9 million because we have researched into other British films and found that most of them had low profit margins. Once we researched this we then calculated how success we expect our film to be and we produced the amount of £15 million. We think this is a generous amount for the film we are creating as usually this genre is not very successful in cinemas.


Slide 9: We have chosen this studio to produce and distribute our film as it has producedmultiple films in our genre which most of these films has either won or was nominated for multiple awards including the academy awards and the golden globes. Also, working title mainly produced British films, which are film is so the company would probably bring more attention to the film as it has done British films before. Our film is vertically integrated.

Most successful- Bridget jones diary: production costs: $26 million grossed $149 million
Least successful- the boat that rocked: production cost $50 million grossed $3 million (terrible reviews, delay to theatres in America yet on DVD everywhere else).


Slide 10: Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis is an English screenwriter, producer and film director, who was born in New Zealand to Australian parents. One of Britain's most successful comedy screenwriters, he is known primarily for romantic comedy films such as Four Weddings and a FuneralBridget Jones's DiaryNotting Hill, and Love Actually, as well as the hit sitcoms BlackadderMr. Bean and The Vicar of Dibley. choose him as he has done multiple rom-coms, similar to our genre. E.g Brigit Jones Diary.

TJOSD Final Pitch