Showing posts with label Megan Rising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Megan Rising. Show all posts
09/03/2015
08/03/2015
Interview with Actor
Interview with Actor: (in written form)
Me: Hello Kelsen. As I believe you are lucky enough to have been chosen to portray Charlie Bing, the main character of aspiring High School Drama '2-Faced'.
Kelsen: Yes I am and I am extremely overwhelmed by it.
Me: How does the character of Charlie Bing compare to any other character you have played, especially within the High School Drama genre?
Kelsen: I think the character of Charlie Bing is not only a rare character within High School Dramas but in film in general. Being able to convey the troubles of the unacknowledged teens all over the world I feel privileged to do so and to do it in the best way that I can to honour them.
Me: Did you find it hard to portray different personalities within 3 minutes of footage?
Kelsen: Its not the easiest thing to do sometimes but with the help of props and costume I was able to get into the mindset of them different personalities as i separated the characteristics.
Me: Thank you for your time and I wish you all the success you deserve from your role in '2-Faced'!
Interview with Sound Designer
Interview with Sound Designer: (in written form)
Me: When creating music for the first few minutes of a film what would you say is important?
Sound Designer: In the first few minutes of a film there should always be an obvious mood and whether it changes or not should be noticeable for the audience. So when creating the music for the title sequence of '2-Faced', considering the fact that there is a transition in character personality I had to show that through the beat and the tone of the sound.
Me: When creating two different tones and attitudes through sound what would you say is most important to include?
Sound Designer: When portraying a sad sound it is important to edge towards a light piano based background whereas when portraying a happier sound you are free to include drums and guitars, instruments which allow you play about with the outcome alot more.
Me: How important would you said the inclusion of foley sounds are?
Sound Designer: Foley sounds are important when trying to portray a realistic feel especially when there is no dialogue in the scenes.
Me: Thank you for your time and I look forward to reporting back to the world of your work in '2-Faced'!
Interview with Director
Interview with director: (written form)
Me: In filming specially for a title sequence of a film what do you want to capture for the audience?
Director: When you are filming footage for a "film" but its really just the first 2 minutes you have to allow the audience to understand what that "film" would be about but all within in boundaries. You don't want to give away too much because as a viewer you want to be surprised.
Me: While filming the title sequence for '2-Faced' what do you want the audience to understand of the characters story?
Director: I feel like it is important for the audience to realise that there is a change in personality at some stage in the first few minutes of footage because that is one of key elements of the film, if not the most important thing to understand.
Me: If you had the opportunity to film the rest of '2-Faced' would you?
Director: Most definitely! I believe this is a strong storyline unlike any other that would really stand out against all other High School Drama movies and I even believe this would be a hugely successful film within Hollywood.
Me: Thank you for your time and I look forward to reporting back to the world about the highly anticipated '2-Faces'!
Blogging Health Check #3
Mary did not get round to doing the third blogging health check so I therefore cannot comment.
Production Reflection
As we began filming we started with the scenes that required us being in college. After reviewing the days footage we saw that the settings on the camera were not correct, causing the footage to appear off focused. When we re-filmed this footage we not only changed our main actor but his clothing and opted to loose a prop, being the sunglasses as the actors hair would now symbolise the shift in personality that we tried to portray through the use of sunglasses previously.
Filming at location #2 (the main characters home) we carefully reviewed footage on set to ensure that what we had was usable. Throughout the day we had to re-film certain shots due to bad lighting.
Other than the stated issues we had during filming we were able to learn from them mistakes and improve shots as we went along during the times we scheduled filming.
Post Production Editing
Post Production Editing
This gif shows the process of adding sound/music onto our final product. We used both copy right free music from soundcloud and foley music from garage band, to heighten realism in our film. These foley sounds included doors closing and the sound of putting clothes on.
05/03/2015
Setting up and filming the locker/hallway scene
For this locker scene, we used artificial lighting to create the hallway more bright. We also used props such as the folder, ring, scholarship letter.
Filming cafeteria scene
Filming in the cafeteria for when our main character walks into college and meets all of his friends
Filming barber scene
Our main character going to the barbers as a part of his transformation in becoming the popular boy at school. We used a local barbers for this scene, which allowed us to use their barber shop.
Location: Angel, near Angel station/market
Filming
Here we have pictures from filming our main character entering school
Location: City and Islington Sixth Form College
02/03/2015
Creating and Editing the Soundtrack
We have made our soundtrack using Garageband. We have sourced usable tracks from soundcloud to convey both emotions in our soundtrack, beginning quite sad and emotional and then the other being a more up beat, happier tone. Through the use of Garageband we were also able to add folley sounds such as doors closing and the removing of clothing to make the scene seem more realistic. These folley sounds play over the soundtrack and are incorporated to not dominate the music.
Re-creating the soundtrack
26/02/2015
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