Saturday 27 March 2010

Asha's Weekly Review - 22nd to 26th March

WWW
1. We took pictures for the newspaper article and filmed it and edited it in
2. We added sounds
3. We decided on a AB Pictures logo

EBI
1. The beginning of our voice over doesn't fit so we have to add something else to the trailer
2. Our voice over doesn't work

Next Steps
1. Find someone else to do our voice over
2. Record it and edit it in

Posted by ASHA KABADEH

Wednesday 24 March 2010

Police sirens

I converted this siren.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hXQMjjuNe0

I think this one is good because it sounds echoy, so more naturalistic...
Is it ok?

Posted by Bianca Green

Monday 22 March 2010

DON'T FORGET

We HAVE to mention somewhere in the trailer that the film has a 15 certificate DONE

The Final Stages

I'm not sure if this is all we have left to do or if I've missed something out. If it is all we have left, can we please stick to this plan so we can be efficient and finally get it done.

1. Take a picture of Roman and Slick DONE
2. Add to the voice over DONE
3. Film the newspaper article bit, capture it and edit it in DONE
4. Re-record Dianne's dialogue DONE
5. Convert the siren sounds DONE
6. Add the sound effects that have been converted DONE

I know we want Kalbir to help us with after effects but I don't want to be a burden on him so unless he definitely has the time, we should just leave it.

Posted by ASHA KABADEH

Voice over re-recordings

We need to re-record the voice-overs. The main ones are:

My name is Roman and my night had a thousand lies

A couple of years ago, something bad happened

It stared off with a simple phonecall

My Night Has A Thousand Lies

His wife's the only one for him

The Night Has A Thousand Lies

Posted by ASHA KABADEH, BIANCA GREEN & BILAAL MUGHAL

Response to Roman's Introduction

Erm I think it would be too long if we said the stuff about age and job, it's not necessary. We just need to make the audience aware that I'm the protagonist etc. Maybe at the end or something he could say:
My names Roman and My Night Had A Thousand Lies ?

Or we could stick to your idea Bianca and perhaps just shorten it a little.

Posted by BILAAL MUGHAL

Sunday 21 March 2010

Suggestions for introducing Roman as the protagonist

We all agree that we need to introduce Roman as the protagonist, right?

But you don't want to introduce him like we have done for the characters, right?

So what if he starts off the voice over something on the lines of this:

My name is Roman
I am 25 years old, and I'm a wealthy accountant (or business man)
A couple of years ago, something bad happened,
let me take you back
It started off with a phone call

My only concern is that it will be too long? But his voice over actually intoducing himself is the only other way of introducing the voicer over as the protagonist, but it dosent nessicarly introduce Bilaal's character as also the protagonist...

Unless while that is said, pictures of his life before "The event" was shown like stills- with dianne? (Apparently something similar happens at the begining of Up if ou've seen it) This would also show it's his wife. But if we did do this, we would have to cut down somewhere else in the trailer which is guess is do-able but more effort. and plus we would have to TAKE the pictures too. And we'd have to get Lagsan to record it too...

What do you think?

Posted by BIANCA GREEN

Saturday 20 March 2010

Bilaal's Weekly Review - 15th to 19th March

WWW

1. We edited the voice over and recorded it aswell
2. 'The Night Has A Thousand Lies' logo has been created
3. Music has been put in, especially the montage one
4. Added in Institutional info
5. Re-recorded DC & PC at the underpass and captured it

EBI

1. We re-recorded Dianne's dialogue
2. We decided on a decent AB pictures logo
3. Need to decide how to introduce Roman into the trailer without doing it similar to Slick, Lexi & Danny

What's Next

1. Record Dianne's dialogue
2. Work on the AB pictures logo
3. Take pictures of Roman & Slick
4. Convert sound effects (Cell gate, Footsteps, Sirens)

Posted by BILAAL MUGHAL

Asha's Weekly Review - 15th to 19th March

WWW
1. We did our voice over
2. We finally made a logo
3. We added all our music

EBI
1. We didn't get to take pictures of Roman and Slick for the newspaper article
2. We still have to make a good AB Pictures logo
3. We have to re-record Dianne's dialogue
4. The group is falling apart - what happened to the agreement that everyone should do an EQUAL amount of editing???

Next Steps
1. Re-record Dianne's dialogue MONDAY
2. Take pictures of Roman and Slick MONDAY
3. Edit the voice over in MONDAY
4. Convert and add in the sound effects that SHOULD have been converted on Thursday MONDAY
5. Make a really good AB Pictures logo - we can do it!! MONDAY
6. After effects (hopefully)

Posted by ASHA KABADEH

Possible plan B ABP logo


I was just thinking if we can think of a good AB Pictures logo, we could do

in capitals with the same font and colour as the "coming soon" shot, because then it would be more consistent?
Or the T could be normal... I really dont know!!

I really can't think of something that is as good as the scrabble PTP logo
Posted by BIANCA GREEN

Bianca's Weekly Review- 15th to 19th March

WWW

We have pracially finished the editing. This included this week:
REcording the voice over
Institutional information (coming soon page and film reviews)
Adding in sound effects (door slam and phone ring)
Film title logo completed with sound
Found and added in the music for the montage
Refilming (Dan's phonecall, DC and PC at the underpass)
Added any shots needed
Added effects to sound an video, to make it consistant and balanced

EBI

If we were able to refilm Dianne's dialogue
If we didn't have to refilm the voice over for the third time- this was because we used the wrong microphone setting and was not clear/loud enough with the trailer.

Plans for next week:

As a group:

Refilm Dianne's dialogue (MON lunch)?
Edit in voice over (MON after school)?
Make an AB Pictures logo (MON/TUE)?

Need to find: Footsteps, police sirens and cell gate shutting sound effects

Then we should be done! And I have reminded Kalbir about helping us with after effects this coming week...

If anything needs changing, just update it!

Individual:

Cosmopolitan draft (MON)
Final Total Film (MON)

Posted by BIANCA GREEN

Thursday 18 March 2010

Institutional Logo

I done similar types because I looked at a few Film Noir fonts and they were similar so I thought I would do a range of them.
Anyways, when do we plan on taking pictures or filming me and Amarit holding up a piece of paper saying our names? Badar's has already been done

Posted by BILAAL MUGHAL

Response to Institutional Logo

Firstly the comany name has changed to AB Pictures because there is already PRIME TIMES PRODUCTIONS company.

Secondly i dont think there is much variety. When me and Asha came up with that idea it was a suggestion, but I don't think its good. I would prefer if we moves our logo idea totally away from what we have deveopled already.

Compared to the title log and the prime Times Productions Logo, as an idea I don't think its good. I think we could do something so much better!

Posted by BIANCA GREEN

Institutional Logo

Made a few logos for AB Productions. Check them out, hope you like them.



Freestyle Script





Vladimir Script





Harlow Solid Italic





Informal Roman





Mistral






Palace Script MT






Rage Italic



Posted by BILAAL MUGHAL

What still needs to be done in the trailer?

Add the phone call sound DONE
Add a sound effect to go with the title DONE
Sort out the audio from Palladio to Frozen DONE
Sort out the sound at the end DONE
Make an AB Pictures logo
Put the Prime Times Productions logo and AB Pictures logo on the institutional "Coming Soon" shot
Re-record the voice over (Friday after school)
Edit the voice over into the sequence

Bilaal: Can you please read this...

Where were you today? You were meant to come in at 8 and you never did.

I find that you have been slacking lately in the last two weeks.

Firstly, last week you changed your day off from a Friday to a Tuesday, but still you didn't come on Friday. The thing that annoys me the most is that after we filmed in the drama studio Friday after school, you asked what we were going to do next and to that I replied: we are going to edit now. However, you went home.

Secondly, yesterday, we all set tasks for each of us to complete after school. Both Asha and I did our tasks, and extra. For example, I did the instututional information, and ALSO did YOUR TASK (finding music) and I helped Asha with the voice over. But while we were doing that, you disappeared to the shops, without telling us, and kept going off and chatting to other groups, when we have lots of work to do.

Even at this time of the project, I dont think you're putting in any effort, and even when you do something, you use the minimum effort to do so. You barely know what is ever going on (though it's always posted on the blog), and you never use your initiative to find out what needs to be done. We DON'T have to tell you what to do all the time, but it seems it's the only that you do any work.

You still haven't done much work on the blog either. You haven't done a trailer analysis, you haven't done your weekly progress for the past like month, and whenever I suggest something on the blog to both you and Asha, she is the only one whe replies with her opinion. And I never feel you contribute fully to anything.

I'm getting really fustrated with this now, it's being going on since December, but whenever I try and speak to you, you get upset or say I do do work!

Do you have anything to say that would sort this out because I really don't know what to do anymore.

Posted by BIANCA GREEN

Wednesday 17 March 2010

Montage Music

Ok so I've found a video with a range of fast paced instrumentals. Check them out, I've listed a few which I like:

Film Reviews- For the trailer

Here is the film reviews we are going to put in out trailer to promote it as it is recognised by famous institutions:

“Noir reinvention: Genius”

The Times

“a refreshing mix of Film Noir and modern society”

Total Film

“Sexy, stylish and sophisticated”

Cosmopolitan

Posted by BIANCA GREEN

Tuesday 16 March 2010

Wednesday 17th March - Updates

Wednesday 17th
1. Make a The Night Has a Thousand Lies logo (DONE)
2. Re-film Dan’s phone call (DONE)
3. Record the voice over and edit it in (Needs to be re-done)
4. Think of music for the montage and Dianne’s leaving bit

Thursday 18th
1. Improve AB Pictures logo
2. Think of an entertainment company
3. Re-record Dianne's dialogue (Lunch)
4. Re-record the voice over (Lunch)
5. Think of music for the montage and Dianne leaving (Before school)
6. Institutional information
7. Add the rest of the reviews (Before school)
8. Fill in the black gap where Dianne said "Don't worry, I trust you" (Before school)

Whenever we can
1. After effects
2. Teaser trailer

Anything else that needs to be done can be done whenever

Institutional information

We thought about the institutional information needed for our trailer and other things:

AB PICTURES AND BUSH ENTERTAINMENT PRESENT A PRIME TIMES PRODUCTION ‘THE NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND LIES’ BILAAL MUGHAL AMARIT CHAHIL BADAR NADEEM MEGAN RILEY WITH SEPEHR SHOUSHTARIZADEH AND KISHAN THAKARSHI ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS ASHA KABADEH BIANCA GREEN BILAAL MUGHAL MUSIC BY BIANCA GREEN EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ASHA KABADEH PRODUCED BY BIANCA GREEN BILAAL MUGHAL SCREENPLAY BY ASHA KABADEH BIANCA GREEN DIRECTED BY ASHA KABADEH BIANCA GREEN BILAAL MUGHAL

Is this ok?

Sunday 14 March 2010

New Plan of Action

There are reasons for me changing it from what Bianca had.

Monday 15th
1. Think of the rest of the non-diegetic music we have to add
2. Re-film DC Black and PC Digby in the underpass

Tuesday 16th
1. Carry on thinking of non-diegetic music if we haven’t got it all yet and add it in
2. Capture Slick’s “It was you”, Dan’s phone call and DC Black and PC Digby in the underpass and edit them in
3. Film Dan's phone call

Wednesday 17th
1. Record the voice over and edit it in
2. Make a The Night Has a Thousand Lies logo

Thursday 18th
1. Make a shorter teaser trailer

Whenever we can get help
1. After effects

Anything else that needs to be done can be done whenever

Posted by ASHA KABADEH

Saturday 13 March 2010

Sounds

Tap water running
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-4Sn3DLeII&feature=related

Rain with thunder- for the gang leader outside
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrOHbBHCc2A
I don't know if it sounds too heavy

And I can't find footsteps that sound like they are in the underpass...
We could record that on monday? But then we need one of the school's camera's and the microphone.

Posted by BIANCA GREEN

Timetable

Monday 15th
1. Capture Slick "It was you"
2. Re-film DC Black and PC Digby in the underpass AFTER SCHOOL
3. Refilm Dan's phonecall LUNCH?

Tuesday 16th
1. Capture DC Black and PC digby in the underpass, and Dan's phonecall
2. Edit Slick "It was you", Slick answering his phone, Lexi writing her name on DVD and DC Black and PC Digby in the underpass into the edited sequence
3.Focus on the film title logo

Wednesday 17th
1. Practice and re-record the voice over

Thursday 18th
1. Find diegetic sounds to add and how to get it

Friday 19th
1. Add non-diegetic music

Monday 22nd to Tuesday 30th
1. Create teaser trailer
2. After Effects
3. Finish anything else that needs to be done

Posted by BIANCA GREEN

Bianca's Weekly Review - 8th to 12th March

WWW
We wrote and recorded our voiceover.
We decided and added in trailer music.
We decided and created a logo for AB Pictures.
We decided and created a logo for Prime Times Productions.
We had a photo shoot for the images needed for our magazines/websites.
We refilmed Slick answering the phone.
We refilmed Dianne's dialogue.
We filmed Lexi writing on a piece of paper.

EBI
we were happy with the voice over- so we are going to re-record it next week
We filmed a diferent angle of Slick
Dianne's dialoue wasn't missing

Plans for next week

As a group:
Re-record voice over
Re-record Dianne's dialogue
Re-record Dan's phonecall
Re-record PC and DC's shot in the underpass
Improve The Night Has a Thousand Lies Logo
Get a copy of Amy Winehouse's You Know I'm No Good instrumental
Choose and find a piece for the montage sequence- music that builds up
Choose and find a piece for Diannes's shots where she drops the ring and leave- i was thinking a slow piano piece, but not too sad.

Individual:
Complete draft of second magazine film feature
Analyse trailers- focus on typography and voice over

Asha's Weekly Review - 8th to 12th March

WWW
1. We added music
2. We wrote the voice over
3. We made institutional logos
4. We filmed Slick's phone call and Lexi writing her name on the DVD

EBI
1. Our voice over voice doesn't work with the protagonist so we had to find someone else
2. We still need to make a The Night Has a Thousand Lies logo
3. We re-recorded some dialogue but the camera wasn't on so we have to do it again

Next Steps
1. Capture Slick's "It was you", Slick's phone call and Lexi writing her name on the DVD MONDAY
2. Re-film DC Black and PC Digby in the underpass MONDAY
3. Capture DC Black and PC digby in the underpass TUESDAY
4. Record the voice over TUESDAY
5. Think of the rest of the non-diegetic music we have to add TUESDAY
6. Make a The Night Has a Thousand Lies logo WEDNESDAY

Posted by ASHA KABADEH

Thursday 11 March 2010

Non digetic sound

Chrissi Boi- Frozen
Dr.Dre ft Snoop Dogg- Still Dre
Amy Winehouse- You Know I'm No Good
The racy music from our picth video
Watch this video in a new windowKingdom Hearts Piano Medley

Wednesday 10 March 2010

Plans for Thursday 11th March

Tomorrow we are getting scrabble pieces to film the insitution sequence.
Shall we just film it in a classroom...Mr Bush's classroom?

We are filming it at LUNCHTIME

Period 3 we are practicing the voice over with Ricki and maybe doing a practice recording of it?

Posted by BIANCA GREEN

AB Pictures

We also began to think about our AB Pictures logo. We were thinking something a little simpler than our prime times production logo so we quickly though of this:




What do you guys think?

Posted by BIANCA GREEN

Prime Times Productions Ideas

Today we began to think about logos.
We were thinking we wanted a logo involving moving image. These were our first ideas:

1.1940’s themed- old lamp which gets turned on and the logo-Prime Times Productions- appears on screen. The background fades to black and the title fades to white.

2.Tracking shot of scenery and the logo- Prime Times Production- appears. All fades to black.

3. Scrabble pieces spelling Prime Times Production on a scrabble board. The last letter "S" is put down by a hand. All fades to black.

We so far have chosen the third idea, because we like it and it ties in with our prop- monopoly (Alienation)

Posted by BIANCA GREEN

Plan of Action- Updated

Wednesday 10th
1. AB Pictures Logo DONE
2. Start writing voice over DONE

Thursday 11th
1. Sort out Roman thinking
2. Find someone who has Scrabble to film (By friday?)
3. Give voice over to Ricki

Friday 12th
1. Photo shoot with actors
2. Re-film Slick answering his phone
3. Film Lexi writing her name on DVD
4. Re-film Dianne's dialogue LUNCH

Monday 15th
1. Capture Slick "It was you"
2. Capture Slick answering his phone
3. Capture Lexi writing her name on DVD
4. Re-film DC Black and PC Digby in the underpass

Tuesday 16th
1. Capture DC Black and PC digby in the underpass
2. Edit Slick "It was you", Slick answering his phone, Lexi writing her name on DVD and DC Black and PC Digby in the underpass into the edited sequence

Wednesday 17th
1. Record the voice over

Thursday 18th
1. Think of non-diegetic music to add and how to get it
2. Work on a The Night Has a Thousand Lies logo

Friday 19th
1. Add non-diegetic music

Monday 22nd to Tuesday 30th
1. If we have time, we should do a shorter teaser trailer
2. Hopefully we can get Kalbir to help us with the After Effects thing for the scenes where our lighting isn't perfect - it will make it look a lot better but we'll only do it if he has the time to spare
3. Finish anything else that needs to be done

Updated by BIANCA GREEN

Tuesday 9 March 2010

Plan of Action

Now that we have our sequence done, it doesn't mean that we are almost finished and have time to waste (Bianca). Rather than taking the 3 weeks we have left for granted, I think that we should make a timetable and stick to it. We need to check with all our actors and Ricki if they can do these days. Change it if you want but for now:

Wednesday 10th
1. Sort out Roman thinking
2. Start writing voice over

Thursday 11th
1. Carry on writing voice over (hopefully finish)

Friday 12th
1. Photo shoot with actors
2. Re-film Slick answering his phone
3. Film Lexi writing her name on DVD

Monday 15th
1. Capture Slick "It was you"
2. Capture Slick answering his phone
3. Capture Lexi writing her name on DVD
4. Re-film DC Black and PC Digby in the underpass

Tuesday 16th
1. Capture DC Black and PC digby in the underpass
2. Edit Slick "It was you", Slick answering his phone, Lexi writing her name on DVD and DC Black and PC Digby in the underpass into the edited sequence

Wednesday 17th
1. Re-record any diegetic sound that isn't clear enough to use
2. Record the voice over

Thursday 18th
1. Carry on recording the voive over if it doesn't get finished
2. Think of non-diegetic music to add and how to get it

Friday 19th
1. Work on a AB Entertainment/Pictures logo
2. Work on a Prime Times Productions logo
3. Work on a The Night Has a Thousand Lies logo

Monday 22nd
1. Add non-diegetic music

Tuesday 23rd to Tuesday 30th
1. If we have time, we should do a shorter teaser trailer
2. Hopefully we can get Kalbir to help us with the After Effects thing for the scenes where our lighting isn't perfect - it will make it look a lot better but we'll only do it if he has the time to spare
3. Finish anything else that needs to be done

Wednesday 31st
Our deadline - we will be done in time

Posted by ASHA KABADEH

Saturday 6 March 2010

Asha's Weekly Review - 1st to 5th March

WWW
1. We've almost finished editing
2. We finally got the gang leader counting money

EBI
1. Slick's phone call wasn't filmed properly so we have to film it for a third time
2. We still haven't created a final logo

Next Steps
1. Make a logo
2. Film Lexi and Slick
3. Think of music to use
4. Write the voice over
5. Make all our institutional logos
6. Re-record some of the dialogue

Posted by ASHA KABADEH

Bianca's Weekly Review- 1st to 5th March

WWW

Refilmed slick's phone call (but it must have been recorded over so we have to film it again)
Filmed the money counting scenes with the gang leader
Completed the montage for our trailer
We have edited more than we expected for our tailer this week

EBI
We refined our logo for our trailer
Created a logo for prime times production
I researched and analysed film trailers

Plans for next week

Groups:
Complete editing
Refilm slick's phone call
film lexi writing
record any dialogue that's needed

Individual

TRAILER ANALYSIS!

Thing's to do

Although we've nearly finished filming, we still have to film:
1. Lexi writing her name on the DVD
2. Slick's phone call (I know we filmed it already but it wasn't filmed properly)

The post-production things we still have to do are:
1. The editing's practically finished, we just need to check it and some stuff has to be re-arranged
2. All of us need to think of music
3. We have to write a voice-over
4. Seeing as we have time, I think we should do a shorter version of our trailer as a sort-of teaser trailer
5. We have to re-do a lot of the dialogue because most of it sounds really bad

I'm sure we have other things to do as well but I can't remember

Posted by ASHA KABADEH

Tuesday 2 March 2010

It's a Rap

We have officially finished filming. We have no-more to film!!!

That is, of course, if the footage we have is the best we need...