Ignotus Opening 2nd Draft

This is the second draft of our opening, some issues we adressed was the credits of the opening, making them easire to read, we also changed the music, re-arraged the clips and and tried to voice over the sound.

Film Location Ideas

For our film opening we need three different locations:

An interrogation room

A random street for the main character to be waking up on

And a room for the artefact

The random street was the first and easiest location to acquire, as we simply used east Corydon and it was filmed on a clear Saturday morning.

The reason for it being in the morning was due to the difficulty of having to use the pavement as a set and so we needed to film early in order to secure there was little people around.  

The second location we used was the assembly hall in school to film the scene where the “artefact” was found.

We figured that if we were able to acquire some flashlights and have access to the assembly hall we could turn off the lights and film the scene in there.

The only problem with using this location is that we had to make sure it was not being used by other people due to the fact that we needed the entire space and we needed to have the lights turned off.

Fortunately due to the fact that we were filming during our media lesson the hall was unoccupied so there was no problem.

The final location which would be the interrogation room was difficult to think of where to use, at first we had the idea of using one of the school rooms that had a glass wall in order to look inside, however this proved to be a problem due to the school hours that we had and our ability to make it seem realistic, so in the end we decided to use sachins bedroom one Sunday afternoon and the result turned out to be a success.

Production scheduling

Production scheduling:

We met every Monday, Thursday and Friday for an hour and a half during our media lessons.

That will total to at least four and a half hours of planning, filming and editing.

We also organised to have skype meeting for one hour every Friday evening adding the time to five and a half hours a week, and also we would have production meetings every Thursday during our study period for fifty minutes.

In total that meant that we was working on our coursework for six hours and twenty minutes every week.

Film Treatment

Treatment

Film Opening Treatment

The film will show how a group of archeologists find an artifact that they have been researching for decades and have gone to look for it after tracking down the location and attempting to take it and study it further. The protagonist is part of the group of archeologists and he is with them as they discover the exact whereabouts of the artifact. The protagonist reaches out to take it but then wakes up tied to a chair with blood stains on his clothes and a bright light on his face. He is being interrogated by another man but he can’t see his face, only his shoes. He is also being forced to look at pictures of the artifact and being made to remember the events leading up to the discovery of the artifact. The majority of the film will be shown through the flashbacks the protagonist has in order to retrace his steps and find out the mysterious power the artifact holds.

Film Preliminary Task

Notes:

 Italic writing is voices

• * indicates sound
• inside brackets indicates text on screen (smoke effect) (clearer text)

Script:

Scene 1:

(Outside from persons view, unfocused)

*Heavy Breathing

Protagonist looks down at hand: noticing symbols on it before falling unconscious.

• Fades to black

*Theme music starts

1^st set of credits:

(Director : sachin Ishmael)

• Voice emitting throughout darkness: “Wake up, tell me now!”

• Protagonist opens eyes and those closes again – falling in and out of reality.

2^nd set of credits:

*Heavy breathing starts up again

(Produced by)

“Im sorry, I don’t know what you want”

(Nathan Larkin)

“Just try and remember!”

  Scene 2:

• Dark room comes into focus.
• Protagonist registers images of artefact

Antagonist: “Where did you find the artefact?”

• Protagonist once again looks at symbol covered hand
• Antagonist slams hand down on table

Antagonist: “Tell me! Now!”

Protagonist: I cant remember everything, everything is a blur”

Antagonist: “TELL ME WHAT YOU KNOW!”

3^rd set of credits:

(sound editor)

(Robert Kerr)

Protagonist: “the last thing I remember was”

• Screen changes to artefact and protagonist reaching out for it.

4^th set of credits:

(Starring)

*heavy breathing starts again

(Robert Kerr)

Antagonist: “Damn it! Just tell me!”

(Annas Elfarsi)

Scene 3:

• Looking from antagonists eyes onto sub-unconscious protagonist

 Protagonist: “Look please, I really don’t know what you want”

• Antagonist slaps protagonist

Antagonist: “Just try and remember!”

*heavy breathing as theme music starts to fade

5^th set of credits:

(Ignotus)

(Ignotus)

Movie Survey

Monday, 28 March 2011

Survey results

1) What is your favorite genre of film:
Horror : 2
Comedy: 3
Thriller: 3
Action: 2

2) Would you like the theme tune to play during the opening credits?
100% : Yes
0%: No

3) Would you like the opening credits to play first and then the movie start or have the movie playing whilst the opening credits are popping up?

Credits First		40.0%	4
Movie and credits together		60.0%	6

Credits first : 4
Movie and credits together : 6

4) Would you prefer the credits to follow the shape and colour scheme of the movie?
Yes: 8
No: 2

5)  Do you like when the opening shot is an Aerial shot of the city/town/setting?
Yes: 6
No:4

6) Would you prefer the introduction to the movie to keep you guessing?
Yes: 8
No: 2


7) Would you prefer diegetic or non-diegetic sounds for the opening scene?
Diegetic: 1
Non-diegetic: 4
Both: 5


8) Do you like long opening scenes or when events progress quickly?
LonG opening scenes: 4
Progressing quickly: 6


9) Do you like it when text pops up to show the name of the place and time of day?
Yes: 9
No: 1

10) do you prefer the credits to simply pop up ir perform some sort of animation as it appears on the screen?
Simply appear: 1
Animated credits: 9

Survery

.        What is your favourite genre?

..................................................

2.        Would you like the theme tune to play in the opening credits?

Yes          No

3.        Would you like the opening credits to play first and then the movie start or have the movie playing whilst the opening credits are popping up?

Credits first          

Movie and credits together

4.        Do you prefer the credits follow the colour scheme and shape of the movie?

Yes          No

5.        Do you like when the opening shot is an Aerial shot of the city/town/setting?

Yes          No

6.        Would you prefer the introduction to the movie keeps you guessing?

Yes          No

7.        Do you preferdiegetic or non-diegetic sounds for the opening scene?

Non-diegetic

Diegetic

Both

8.        Do you like long opening scenes or when events progress quickly?

Long opening scenes

Progressing quickly

9.        Do you like it when text pops up to show the name of the place and time of day?

Yes          No

10.     Do you prefer the credits to simply pop up or perform some sort on animation as it appears on the screen?

Simply appear

RANSProduction Opening Sequence

Media AS RANSProduction Opening Scene

This is the unedited version of our opening scene. At the moment it seems more like a trailer than an actual opening scene and we working on that as a group.

The name of our film is called Ignotus which is Latin for mystery. We as group chose latin because we felt that it had a mysterious feeling to it and it fitted to the purpose of our film.

 

Ignotus Mood Board Version 2

This is the second and complete version of our mood board:

Film Mood Board

These are some of the various ideas we had for our artifact:







We talked about how we thought the artifact might look, whether or not it would any strange symbols etc.

Idea's for Costume

                                



Idea's for Location





     

• We were also considering whether or not to use a white room for one of our scenes

1st Production Meetings

These videos are of our very first production meetings that we had for our opening

and contains the ideas of our original film opening.

After watching the videos you will notice that a lot of things that are mentioned are not in our first draft.