Quick update, 50% of the storyboards have been completed. Just waiting on the other half to be finished. Our two other members are being a tad slow at the moment.
Finished ones shown bellow.

Finally! the first of the storyboards have been completed! shot list has nearly been completed and work on our eye dent animation has began!
We have also had a reply from the church and they have allowed us to film there meaning we can now confirm our location.
 We have chosen this location for a number of reasons, one of which being it fits well with the era we are basing our opening in. It looks like it came straight out of the second world war, in a good way of course! The graveyard is also attached to the church meaning the viewer will assume the protagonist son is buried there.


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Hey guys double upload today! Finalized our ideas and now have a refined idea of what is going to take place.

The opening will be taking place in the 1950's. Calm down I know what you're thinking don't worry we have taken mise-en-scene into consideration and have thought of some creative ways in which we can immerse you. One of which will include a young boy opening a gift wrapped in brown paper and tied with string similar to how it would have been in the 1950's to make the movie opening seem as realistic as possible.

We have also decided on a sound track. We'll be using a song named Fantasy by XIV which fits perfectly for what we need. The whole idea of the film is going to be a man who lost his son presumably in the war and is now visiting the church to reminisce about his son. The film will function similar to the 2013 hit movie "the railway man" where we'll be telling a story though flashbacks.

We're looking forward to filming and as always stay active for more updates!

 

Hey guys just a quickie! we've found a potential filming location. Spoilers?
Stay tuned for more updates soon guys as we begin to finish our story board and finalize the plot ideas!

-Luke
 

Just a quick update to let you know the planning of our movie has just began! Lots of time and effort will spent in order to make this perfect. I'd like to thank you all for the crazy support you've been giving us and stay tuned for some teaser trailers and pictures!

As for actual planning we have finalised a soundtrack and oh boy its a good one! we've also started our story board so stay tuned for a sneak peak at that too!


see you in the next one gang!

The hobbit film opening

The start of this trailer is completely black and we hear what we assume is the protagonist begin talking. This creates a sense of tension as the viewer is eager to find out who it is speaking. This is followed by a hand with a match lighting a candle to make the darkness fade. This is an effective shot because it makes the viewer thing we’re about to see the protagonist. This has importance as The Hobbit is in the same universe as Lord Of the Rings which has a lot of hard-core fans who will be excited to see if the original hobbit will be playing the protagonist in this too as they’re based on the same person.  This tension makes the opening scene very good as for a lot of people this could be the make or break on whether they’re going to watch the film or not. The next shot is a very quick one of the protagonist walking down the hallway, this mid shot shows us the height of the protagonist letting us know he is indeed a hobbit but we’re yet to see the actors face. The following scene is black followed by the opening of a box (the camera was inside the box) to see an older looking hobbit showing us this movie is going to be based around a flashback. The hobbit gets a very big book out of the chest giving the impression this is a kind of diary and the flash back is going to be told through this book. There is non-diegetic music in the background to make a more effective atmosphere, from the music we understand this is a very calm scene with no action involved in it showing us that the hobbit has changed from what he used to be which further backs up the idea of this movie being a flashback. The next shot is a close up of a feather going into ink and then writing “ a long time ago” whilst writing this the protagonist is reading aloud showing us this movie is going to be based purely around a flashback. During the flashback there is a shot of a town which is being described as nice, there is a long shot of a group of people all wearing white clothes. The colour white connotes freedom, peace and purity giving the impression the town also follows those morals. They’re also cuddling which shows they’re friendly. The mise-en-scene in the opening is very good, looking around the room the props are very well made and it allows the viewer to be immersed in the film as everything looks as it should. As for the actor his facial expressions are normally quite bland and not very telling setting the idea of the film being quite serious rather than a parody or a comedy etc. His clothing is very old and fits well with the rest of the mise-en-scene.

Space balls movie opening

 

The opening to the movie “space balls” not a lot happens which is interesting from a viewer’s standpoint, the expectation being the empty time would have been filled with titles but instead they just do a very long establishing shot of the spaceship in which the antagonists live on. I feel the opening has been made boring on purpose to give the viewer a sense of the type of comedy that will be in this movie as well as giving them time to settle down almost and get ready and what not. It ends with a slow image showing the back of the spaceship reading “we stop for no one” the ship is shown moving extremely slow meaning this could be placed there for satirical reasons. The effect of this shot being so long is it builds up tension and for someone that doesn’t know a lot about the movie wouldn’t be sure if it was a comedy or a straight rip off of star wars which means the viewer wants to stay and watch the remainder of the film in order to answer this question. I have chosen this intro as it can be seen as particular bad and I feel it’s good to take notes and not to take notes from it showing not every opening is a good opening. There is no character development nor is the scene and genre of the movie set in the first two minutes which is the main focus of our task.

The clip uses minimal sound, only the sound of the non-diegetic music can be heard for the first thirty seconds or so, this builds up tension making the viewer want to see more but by they are unable to as the scene purposely takes ages to develop. From this we can understand this film will be mostly sarcastic and not serious as opposed to actual star wars where the majority of the film is serious this one will clearly be satirical. There is nothing in the background other than open space, I think this is done on purpose so the focus of the shot is to capture the ships size, there is a joke shortly after this scene asking if Darth Vadar is compensating for something showing they perfectly set up jokes and further shows this film is purely satirical and not to be taken seriously. There isn’t much editing in this opening other than at the very end where it begins to tell us actors names. This is to let the viewer know this is a parody movie and not much money has gone into the creation of it. We don’t see actors in the opening scene therefore we don’t get a great view of the mise-en-scene but from what we have seen we can tell it’s not going to be Oscar winning as it is indeed a parody movie