Preliminary - Filming

Our filming was successful, we arranged the room to create an area suitable for our type of film, although it took a while adjusting to the camera, as this was our first opportunity to use them, but once we felt we were happy the rest of the production went smoothly.

Storyboard

Before we began the actualy filming for our preliminary task, we had to create a story board explaining the type of shot, character movement, etc. We experimented with two types of story board, one being hand drawn, the other using photographs, both with annotations. Below are images of our storyboards after being scanned in. This was the adversity in completing our task as we did not have acces to a scanner at the time and it is only until now that we have discovered an available scanner in school.
However now below are both of our completed storyboards.

Preliminary

We have been set a media task to complete a short video to prepare us for our final peice. In this short film we had to include someone walking through a door, into a room and exchanging dialouge with someone. Aswell as myself, my group included Rachel Conway and Lewis Bennet. During our peliminary project, many difficulties occured preventing us from completeing our project to the best standard. However, now it is fully completed and although it has been submitted to my blog a long while after, we pursued our project to our best standards and to a certain extent it was not us as a team's fault.

The Editing

We used the camera to upload our film onto the Macs. Although i was new to the editing programmme iMovie, (as i used a different one for my preliminary) after i had figured out how it worked i found the process much easier. We found that there were alot of clips to be deleted as we did retakes to make sure we got the best quality of shot, however once we had cut out the main chunks we began with the proper editing. Also, as we used match-on-action to link scenes so we had to ensure the end result was seemless and made sense. Overall, we all feel pleased with the outcome of the process, and its quality met our expectations.

The Filming

Me and my group began filming on the 14th of December. We chose to use my house as the set and added to it using props relating to Mise en Scene in order to create the right feel for student housing. We felt that with full commitment we could complete the filming in one day, especially as we had to begin early in the morning in order to make most of the sunlight. We had trouble with the camera as we were missing a part of the tripod, however we still managed to complete shooting after about 3 hours. Overall we feel the production went well despite the faulty camera and misjudgements with the type of shot, for example, overestimating the space available leading us to restrain from a long-shot to a mid-shot in some scenes.

Pitch

Imogen is your typical sex, drugs and rock and roll girl, partying late and being rebellious. But her lifestyle soon catches up with her when her best friend becomes infected mutated STI which turns her into a psychotic cannibal. But when Imogen realises the infection has spread further than her flat mates bedroom, she sets off in pursuit to amend previous feuds, and save her family from the disease spreqading throughout Britain... Ladies and Gentlemen, this is what the edge of your seat were made for.

Synopsis

Imogen lives with her flatmate Sara and life is going well, the girls are enjoying their wild party like lifestyle and are enjoying the freedom. One morning after a serious house party, Imogen carries out her usual routine, a cup of tea and a fag whilst the radio buzzes in the background, but being hungover, Imogen takes no notice of the crucial report of an outbreak of infectious psychotic cannibals. She continues upstairs with Sara's tea but after opening the door, finds herself face to face with a blood thirsty psychopath. She manages to escape, and trying to make sense of events, panicking, she turns on the T.V. This explains the infection is a newly discovered STI that is carried by males, but affects women and is spreading rapidly through the U.K. Then she discovers the disease originated in the area where her parents live in Reading. So, driven by adrenalin she decides to find and save them despite her rebellious history and previous detachment from them. The report also tells of a safe camp which inhabits no infected people, where she plans to take asylum after being reunited with her family.

She sets off to find her family but before she makes it past the end of her road, she is ambushed by two survivors being chased by the infected. She manages to pick them up, putting aside their history of feuds. On the way to Reading, they stop off at a service station to pick up supplies and weapons where again she is confronted with the infectious cannibals. Together they save another two people from death, as the cannibals are stricken in the head and killed. While in the car they all come to a realisation that they are more similar then they thought, and become almost friends putting their differences aside. When Imogen arrives to the family home, she can hear screaming from outside. When she gets in she finds her father and brother infected trying to attack her mother and younger sister, when saving them she receives a bite which leaves her in a fatal condition. The survivors are now left in a near death situation. They take Imogen with them in hope to find a vaccine and cure her before the infection consumes her. They finally arrive at the camp and a vaccine is given to Imogen. They're safe for now, but the outside world is still destroyed.