MOONSHINE

We have been thinking about what to name our production team. We brainstormed a few ideas and on Monday's lesson we came up with the idea of naming it 'MoonShine'. We thought this was broad, original and works well to present our film.

Planning and Preparation

We have now completed our storyboard and shot list so we have thought about what we will actually need when we are filming. As part of our storyline there are pictures of girls pinned on to a dartboard as if they are being stalked!
Me and my group went around the school with a digital camera to take these photos. We took the photos of ourselves and friends and edited them on the apple mac computers using the editing tools. We changed the photos into black and white and added black around the edges to make it look like a lense of a camera to suggest that they are being followed. I think the pictures are very realistic and we are all pleased with the result.

Story Board

Here is our storyboard. I previously forgot to upload the pictures of this so here is it :)

Research and Planning

PhoneBooth

A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.

Stu Shepard is a fast talking and wise cracking New York City publicist who gets out of trouble and lies with his clever charm, connections, and charisma. Stu's greatest lie is to his wife Kelly, who he is cheating on with his girlfriend, Pam. Upon answering a call in a phone booth in belief it is Pam, Stu is on the line with a dangerous yet intelligent psychopath with a sniper rifle. When realizing it is not a joke, Stu is placed in a powerful mind game of wits and corruption. The New York City Police eventually arrive thereafter and demand Stu comes out of the phone booth- but how can he when if he hangs up or leaves the booth he will die?

We used this film to inspire us as it includes simular techniques. It involves suspicion and games to create a tense atmosphere.

Editing

After uploading our shots on to the apple macs we were ready to put everything together.
We watched all of the shots and picked the best of each to go together. We also added stills of photographs we took into the sequence so that they looked like flashbacks. These flashbacks are in the red lighting to fit in with our colour scheme. One thing that we are playing around with are the transition effects. These are how we are getting from one part of the sequence to another. We particularly like the cross dissolve transition as it enables us to merge to images together withuout there being an obvious jump. We have also started adding the titles.

Planning - Editing - Voiceover Ideas

With research we found that in the film Phone booth there is a voiceover which worked very successfully, the voice was of a middle-aged man with a deep voice. It worked well and created an eerie atmosphere. As a group we think we are going to challenge this and have the voiceover of a woman. We hope we can get a creepy effect from this difference.

We are trying to decide where to put the voiceover and what to say. Here are some of our ideas that we wrote down:

Life is one big game
you have to lie, cheat and steal to win
how would you play the game
its how you play the game that counts
one life, one game, one winner
there are no rules

We think at the start we might have a voiceover saying "life is just a game", and then at the end of the title sequence, "it's how you play the game that counts!" We think that this helps to suggest what the film is about and also leave It on a cliff hanger.