Shooting

We have decided that we are filming this weekend. It is the only chance we have to use both of the big cameras and the boom pole.
The outlook for the weather on Saturday the 5th is sunny with cloud and showers which is good for our filming conditions. As long as it doesn't rain too much then we will still be able to film the mountain bikers outside of the mine and then just entering the mine. If it does rain a lot we will have to make sure that the water level in the the beginning of the mine has not risen.
The things that we will be taking with us are:

• 2 Big Cameras, for filming both the actual trailer, and the actual production and behind the scenes of the trailer filming. 
• Handheld Camera for shots inside the mine if its not possible for the bigger cameras to do so.
• Still Camera of pictures of the filming.
•  Go Cam
• Boom pole or whatever its called?
• 2 tripods for the big cameras
• Handheld Torches/ Spotlights
• Head torches
• Technical Equipment: Laptop to edit and analyze footage. Also to upload images taken.
• Helmets for mine.
• My car in order to carry equipment.

Clothing: 

• Waterproof jacket
• Leggings
• Fleece
• Wellies
• Rucksack for technical equipment
• Spare clothes.

Cast Equipment/ Clothing:

• 3x Bikes
• Cycling Equipment
• Zippo Lighter 
• Cycling Clothing - Helmets, gloves, body suit, shoes etc.

film magazine analysis

Empire
Again this magazine cover follows all the main media conventions for a magazine. For example, the title is the biesst and boldest text on the page to make it it obvious and easy to identify. There is one main image on the page to represent the main article freature within.The font and colour used on this cover represents the different stories and to show the most important and least important stories. For example, 'EMPIRE' has a mocuh constructed font to portrat a building, if you look at the 'M' it could represent two building corners to imply the 'Empire' of the film magazine industry. This makes you think that it is the best magazine to find out about past, present and future films. the quotation 'BLOODY HELL! Harry comes out fighting' is placed right next to Harry Potters face which is indeed all bloody. This ties in with the main article of the magazine which gives you an insight as to what is going to be discussed. There are also features of other things such as other films being discuessed which are of less importance so are displayed at the bottom of the page in smaller writing. There is a '45 new movies you need to know about right know!' block on the top left which is going to take up quite a lot of the magazine so it is quite important to have the visibly on show.

Film Poster Analysis

SAW
Genre-
Horror/ Thriller/ Torture

The first thing that you see when you look at the poster is the image. Normally you will see the victim or the villain as the main image or you could see the two too show binary opposites of good and bad. Usually a severed hand would be shown quite bloody with bright blood. This isn't, it is quite dark with hardly any blood showing, it makes it look quite old and dirty but contrasting it is laid on a tiled floor which is quite clinical. The title is underneath the image which looks more gory then the actual image itself. The poster doesn't really follow the main conventions of a film poster as horror posters are usually dark and the blood that is shown (if any) is usually brighter and there is more of it. The colour of the title is the same dark colour as the blood from the hand and therefore ties in with a 'saw'. The institutional information follows the convention of being the smallest text on the page and being at the bottom out of the way from the main image and title.

Location Photoshoot

On the 3/10/1 our location photoshoot took place in Reeth Moor Estate at Spence Level. We have permission from the head keeper Paul Simpson to film in Spence Level, Old Gang and Hard Level. The outcome of the photoshoot was over 60 photos of various parts of the landscape which would be appropriate to film on. We also had a few videos and from these we figured that we would most deffinately need a boom pole to remover the wind from our sound videos as it is extremely open and windy. The Tom and Isaac prepared themselves to go into the opening of the mine with such epuipment as:

Epuipment-
*Lighting: Handheld torghes, head torches
*Video: Handheld Camera, 'Go Cam'
*Photo shoot: Still Camera
*Clothing: Waterproof jacket and leggings, fleece, wellies, rucksack for technical equipment, spare clothes. *Technical Equipment: Laptop to edit and analse footage. Also to upload the images taken.

The first lot of images that you will see below is where we are thinking of filming the cyclists riding around. We have chosen these places because surrounding them are good places for us to get some interesting camera angles and shots.

 

These shots are the main ones we want to use to before they enter the cage. The idea of this has come from the film 127 Hours when he is riding through the desert and there are a mixture of shots and angles throughout. All of these shot are from outside the mine. It is too dark to use a normal DSLR Canon camera but with the bigger technical video camera we can take more clearer shots whilst using a portable Arc Light. Also we will nheed to use a Boom Pole to prevent the wirey noise of the wind interferring with our sound.

All of the shots from the section above are where we are going to film some of the more interesting angles with some establishing shots to show the landscape and how deserted the mine is. The two larger images in this section are ones that are going to appear in the trailer which might flash on and off but as a combined cut. We have a chance to get some really amazing, effective shots as there are lots of smaller focus points to add depth to what we are shooting.

Magazine Research

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Developing stages for Trailer

Whilst analysing film trailers I found that they have lots of institutional information at the beginning. Most trailers have the gtreen screen with the film ratings information on it. I have recreated one with the typically information on it. I tried to find an original one that contained the relevent information as our trailer but
I couldnt so i made our own.

This will be shown at the begginning of our trailer along with some more information such as the name of our company etc.