Alex Hart - Cinematographer

 

Cinematography is the art of motion picture photography. It is a cinematographer’s job to oversee camera and lighting and to best reproduce the director’s ideas to the best of their ability.

As the cinematographer for our group I will be overseeing the shooting of our opening sequence. I will need to make sure the lighting and framing for each shot is ideal and in the directors vision. Failure to do so will require either re-shooting a scene or adjusting the shot in post.

As I do not have access to high quality camera and lighting rigs I must fill my roll adequately with the equipment I have access to I will borrow equipment from the college I have access to a HD video camera, a tripod, a halogen torch and a lighting reflector. With this equipment I will to my best  ability show the directors vision.

 

Test shots at location

Test shots at location

Location: Wandlebury Country Park

http://cambridgeppf.org/wandlebury-country-park.shtml

Aaron N - Sound Engineer

A sound engineer deals with the creative and practical aspects of audio within the film, this can include doing foley sound, mastering audio, composing a soundtrack and just making sure that all the audio is good to go in general.
My role will also include editing the audio which will be setting the start and end points of the audio and also the duration. Also making sure that the audio does not 'peak' this means that the audio doesn't get so loud that it distorts or overlaps over vital sounds.
As a sound engineer I will also need to deal with audio effects which could be reverb to try simulate the feel of a wide open space, EQing to take out unwanted frequencies from the audio and also noise reduction to remove background noise from an audio clip and also many other effects.

This is a screenshot of Ableton Live which is a software I sometimes use to edit audio, I also use audacity and FL Studio which are the two programs I will probably use for this project as I have more knowledge in these two bits of software and also I can master audio with FL Studio.

Since I do not have access to studio quality equipment and what not I will probably either borrow a microphone form the college or use my phone to record some foley as that is vital to enhance sounds that the camera may not be able to pick up, once I have these audio clips I will import them into Audacity to do some noise removal and then export them as a WAV format which is an uncompressed format so no quality will be lost, I'll then import it into FL Studio if necessary to do some EQing to it and possibly master it depending on the audio clip.
I'll do this same process for recorded with the camera as I can just take the audio from certain clips and repeat the very same steps.

Production roles for members of group

A meerkat to brighten your day :)

Director --------------> Aidan Markey
Camera Operator ----> Alex Hart
Sound -----------------> Aaron Newbigging
Editing ----------------> Jake Corby
Mise en Scene --------> All Members
Performers ------------> All Members + 2 extras

Shot list for thriller opening sequence

Shot number, type, description and duration

1. POV of Hands with blood on for 5 Seconds
2. POV of Body on floor bleeding for 3 seconds
3. a/b/c/d/e/f/g title sequence 2 seconds per credit
4. Long Shot of people setting up camp for dialogue length
5. Medium Long Shot People going of by themselves for 5/6 seconds
6. Close up watching feet walk for dialogue length
7. longshot watching feet walk for  dialogue length
8. close up of face talking for dialogue length
9. close up of people in foreground for 5 seconds
10. close up of hand reaching for lantern for 3/4 seconds
11. cut wide and zoom to characters face then zoom to eye for 7/10 seconds
12. medium shot watching transformation of hunched character for 4/5 seconds
13. medium close up of first breaths and returns to normal for 4/5 seconds
14. POV of character getting neck snapped for 2/3 seconds
15. close up of characters head with bad person walking away for 3/4 seconds
16. POV of character walking back into camp for 6/7 seconds
17. POV of night sky for 3/4 seconds
18. Worms eye view of bad person twitching/shaking for 5 seconds 
19. Close up of characters faces camera spins round for 5 seconds 
20. Close up of knife being drawn for 3 seconds
21. everyone splitting up into groups with weapons for 5 sec   

General narrative idea.

1-Prep scene friends meeting getting at campground POV of the spirit then runs off into the woods
2- Opening titles from spirits view moving through the woods and names are in the trees and on the floor added in post.
3- Dusk and everyone setting up two people leave and the spirit possesses one of them
4- Transformation
5- kills the other person
6- return to the others as the spirit returns there is a loud scream
7- splitting up into teams of two and three

Storyboarding examples

Here's a video showing how to draw a storyboard for people who aren't artistic.

It can be found on youtube at this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux_Em1lVsjI

Here's a simple video showing the basic structure of storyboards.
It can be found at this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfBsmy2dP40

A video that shows movement in storyboards, it showcases the 180º rule in media and storyboarding
It can be found on youtube at this link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR2Gew1eN2M

This video shows other ways in which you can create storyboards without having to draw them.

You can find this video at this link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUIZVzElDzc

If you would like to see more of these peoples videos, there are links to their channels below:

Indy Mogul's Channel: www.youtube.com/user/indymogul
Lunawebs' Channel: www.youtube.com/user/lunawebs
Ramblindawg's Channel: www.youtube.com/user/ramblindawg
Film Riot's Channel: www.youtube.com/user/filmriot