Slain by evil

Pixalation

I have taken a load of pictures and edited them and they look pretty good. But I obviously didn't plan it too well as I'm about 120 photos off the target which is a shame. So I'm either going to have to re shoot it all again or make a sequel.

Love Gun

This is a poster I have in my room and it where the piece of inspiration came from to make something just with red, white and black

"Whoever saves one life saves the world entire."

This is a quote from Schindlers list one of the films I took inspiration from whilst creating my interactive narrative panic. Although the plot of Schindlers list has nothing at all to do with the situation of my narrative the quote is very fitting as the only objective in my narrative is to keep your friend alive.

Sin city

Films like Sin City and Schindlers list have used black and white images but have used accents of colour to highlight important characters or objects. The use of red is very effective against black and white as it is striking and represents danger.

Panic!

Panic! My interactive narrative will be a story about a dying girl and the outcome will be decided by the user as they will be given choices on how they are going to or not going to save her life.

Every frame will be in a similar style like the image above which will be used as one the story over frames. This style will work very well with the story as they are expressive, dark and serious and this is the mood I want to create with the narrative.

Interactive Narrative

Well this had me racking my brain but I think I have thought of an idea which will work so well. I have it all written up and I know what style I'm going for.

I wan't to create a situation that the user will have to think morally and one bad decision will result in a very bad thing happening but the aim for the user will be to prevent this bad thing from happening. I will attempt to play on the users emotions this way I think it will be a great way to get the user more involved.

For my piece I am going to use photographs but edit them in Photoshop in a way they look like a dark comic such as the film Sin City.

Awkward Turtle

Awkward Turtle follows the story of what most people would consider a loser, he is prepared to spend great lengths of time in a lift waiting for the girl of his dreams. But being a loser he decides it is a good idea to pretend he is on the phone and so when his phone actually rings she realises he his a strange man and leaves the lift but forgets her bag but when she returns to get it she finds him sulking on the floor.

This is the final edited version of the film we have been making for the last couple of weeks. The final outcome is how we first planned and everything has worked out. The group worked well together for most part and we managed to get everything done well within the time allowed.

There are things which can be done to improve the film if we had managed to section off the lift this would have given us much more time as we suffered frequent interruptions to perfect absolutely everything including lighting and the script. Although the actors did very well in the circumstances more time would have been useful.

Photos

My creative background.

I love photography and I took it up as a hobby about 3 years ago. Just over a year ago I decided to teach myself how to use Photoshop. These are some photo's I have taken recently.

Making of awkward turtle

Firstly we sat down and thought about how we were going to go about filming. Our group met a couple of times over a coffee and eventually after a lot of discussion we came to the conclusion we were going to make a film about a creepy guy, who spends his life in a lift waiting for the girl of his dreams.

Once we had a rough idea we went about finding a suitable place to do the filming luckily this didn't take very long at all and everyone agreed that the lift outside Uri's flat would be perfect.

The script was then written up and an actress was found to play the part of the unfortunate lady this creep happens to admire. We were set to go and make our film.

The day of filming we all eventually met up at the lift we were going to film. Our first task was to find the best camera position we found that by having the camera up high and slightly offset it gave the impression that it was a security camera, giving the scene a sense of reality.

After we had the camera set up and the lights in place we hit a big problem which we already could see coming. We were filming in a lift and people tend to be lazy and like to use lifts rather than stairs and so we had a lot of interruptions and annoyed people. We persevered we had to we had to make a film by 5 o clock we were against the clock. So after perfecting the scene outside the lift we were ready. We got lucky no one had to use the lift and we had just what we wanted in just the second take.

The Tuesday after filming we had a lesson teaching us how to edit the films. We then set about about adding music and subtitles. We also are going for the cringe humour style to film to add some interest and to do this we are going to edit in some voice overs which will act as the characters thoughts this will be done soon and I shall let you know more when we have a finished film.

One shot short films

For the last 2 weeks now I have been working in a group which I have been calling the film crew to make a film about anything we wished. We weren't allowed full creative licence however and we have had to abide by some rules these were:

• The camera had to stay on a tripod
• The film must be under 5 mins
• The film must be made in just one shot

The first week!

In the first week we all made white board animations and pinhole cameras both of which were very good fun and a great way to meet people in my group. Both tasks went really well and although I didn't learn anything new it was a great way to refresh my memory and work in a team.