It was greatly influenced by Mathieu Kassavitzs master piece La Haine, his ability to capture the gritty reality of the lives of urban adolescence profound and greatly inspiring, its also very closely tied in with the way this film runs and its mains themes and central ideas.
Also Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver is a great source of inspiration, the themes such as loneliness and desire to leave his surroundings are more than prevelant within our film, and the life of our main character just like Travis Bickle in the film.
Sunday, 6 June 2010
Sound and the voice overs....music
The final stages of the film were making all the sound work properly, that involved using the sounds recording externally on the Marantz as well as the sound recorded with all the footage we shot. This was our sound man Rico job and he was more than well equipped for it as he had plenty of sound equipment as well as a sound proof booth for us to record the voice overs in.
The next step after the sound was perfect was to re write the voice over to fit perfectly with the new edited film, we did this together and then went to Rico to record it in the booth, it wasn't as easy as expected and had to be redone a few times before we got the desired sound we wanted. even after we had the perfect cut the sound had to reverberated and edited to sound as it should. unfortunately we had to to the voice overs ourselves which wasn't ideal but we weren't able to get the people we needed.
The use of music within the film was a late decision and was to help carry the emotional feeling of the character through the final stages of the film. I think it was vital as the voice over ends at the midway point of the film and we need the music to continue the narrative of the characters mind state.
We hear the song for the first time in the barbers shop but its a different version to the more powerful and emotional version By Dobie Gray which we then later use as a non diegetic sound to amplify the characters emotions.
The next step after the sound was perfect was to re write the voice over to fit perfectly with the new edited film, we did this together and then went to Rico to record it in the booth, it wasn't as easy as expected and had to be redone a few times before we got the desired sound we wanted. even after we had the perfect cut the sound had to reverberated and edited to sound as it should. unfortunately we had to to the voice overs ourselves which wasn't ideal but we weren't able to get the people we needed.
The use of music within the film was a late decision and was to help carry the emotional feeling of the character through the final stages of the film. I think it was vital as the voice over ends at the midway point of the film and we need the music to continue the narrative of the characters mind state.
We hear the song for the first time in the barbers shop but its a different version to the more powerful and emotional version By Dobie Gray which we then later use as a non diegetic sound to amplify the characters emotions.
The edit...
My job of the edit didnt start in the best way possible, i had three horrific days of dealing with files i couldnt capture and deal with on the computer due to the format we had filmed in on the Z1, in the end i had to run the footage through Imovie, to get it on the computer and used visual hub to convert them into to files reconised by final cut pro.
Once this was done i began the edit, i had a long process of dealing with all the unusable and poorly shot footage which i had to cut, to get to the good footage. There was a large amount of terrible and poor footage but also a decent amount of well shot and useful bits that i began to make the story with.
The story had to be slightly edited and manipulated to fit the available footage we had to use, so this was an interesting yet challenging task that i feel i took on and completed well, i had to use quite alot of jump cuts to accomadate for lack of story telling footage but i think it works well with the style of film we are making.
Once this was done i began the edit, i had a long process of dealing with all the unusable and poorly shot footage which i had to cut, to get to the good footage. There was a large amount of terrible and poor footage but also a decent amount of well shot and useful bits that i began to make the story with.
The story had to be slightly edited and manipulated to fit the available footage we had to use, so this was an interesting yet challenging task that i feel i took on and completed well, i had to use quite alot of jump cuts to accomadate for lack of story telling footage but i think it works well with the style of film we are making.
The shoot....
The shoot i feel was not as organised and well run as it should of been and there fore i think we lost out on alot of good footage, however the weather was beatiful, and we had managed to get hold of a great camera (sony z1) to shoot on.
all in all i think we handled ourselves quite well through a difficult shoot working with friends and animals which is never easy.
we managed to get all the footage required over the four day shoot and were punctual and professional with our filming and actors.
all in all i think we handled ourselves quite well through a difficult shoot working with friends and animals which is never easy.
we managed to get all the footage required over the four day shoot and were punctual and professional with our filming and actors.
Locations..
We scouted for locations for a week or so and came across a few possible venues for each of the locations for the film.
Here are some for the opening scene were the character goes to be by himself and the dog, we wanted it to be a personal place, here are the two we are torn between.
In the end we decided to use the second as it has a more ruff edgy feel to it that i think is prevelant within the films mood.
The second location that we need to get is the house of the boss character Willis, we want it to have an edgy and dark feel to it here are two possibles.
I believe that the first of these two is the better of the two but have have had difficulties managing to get permission and due to lack of time we are going to use the second location at the one for the film as it is the house of a friend so will be easier.
The third and final location is the Barbers and we have sorted out where we will shoot this and have already received permission to do so, here are some shots of it.
Here are some for the opening scene were the character goes to be by himself and the dog, we wanted it to be a personal place, here are the two we are torn between.
In the end we decided to use the second as it has a more ruff edgy feel to it that i think is prevelant within the films mood.
The second location that we need to get is the house of the boss character Willis, we want it to have an edgy and dark feel to it here are two possibles.
I believe that the first of these two is the better of the two but have have had difficulties managing to get permission and due to lack of time we are going to use the second location at the one for the film as it is the house of a friend so will be easier.
The third and final location is the Barbers and we have sorted out where we will shoot this and have already received permission to do so, here are some shots of it.
Nathan....
After searching for our leading actor online we had not had the greatest deal of luck in finding a suitable actor, so we decided to try and find one through friends.
We held an audition for a friend named Nathan Whitefield, he had been acting for just over half a year but had also just got into one of the countries top acting colleges, central school of speech and drama.
I seem to of misplaced the shots we had of him from his auditions but he was by far the strongest actor and also had a feel of the character we were trying to create, his acting was very theatrical due to his acting background, he had just finished a play at the tricycle theatre. `however the theatrical acting worked with the film we wanted to do because of the lack of dialouge from the character, so his overacting would work in the film
We held an audition for a friend named Nathan Whitefield, he had been acting for just over half a year but had also just got into one of the countries top acting colleges, central school of speech and drama.
I seem to of misplaced the shots we had of him from his auditions but he was by far the strongest actor and also had a feel of the character we were trying to create, his acting was very theatrical due to his acting background, he had just finished a play at the tricycle theatre. `however the theatrical acting worked with the film we wanted to do because of the lack of dialouge from the character, so his overacting would work in the film
The casting progress....
The only character that we will not be casting for is the role of Willis, we believe that we have already found a perfect person for this role, he is not an actor but visually is so suited for the role that i believe he will be perfect, especially as his role is not that main an will not require much acting.
The casting progress began with me posting adds on Starnow.com, Talentcircle.com and casting call pro, i used all three of these casting website to search for actors for the two roles of Harry and Nick. I had a lot of replies so decided to hold two days of auditions at a studio in east London were we meet a range of actors for both roles.
Here are the actors we got for the role of Nick, he is meant to be a young good looking mixed race man who has a clean cut look to him.
the last actor on here (Shelley) was the best suited visually and physically also he had the best acting skills as well as being the most like how i had imagined the character to look and feel. He was also ready an available to start acting when we needed him.
The next job for casting was a big one and was the casting of Harry the lead role, it is vital we get this one right, he is the lead protagonist and the entire film rest upon his role and acting, we saw alot more people for him.
After two days of casting we were not having much luck with the charecter of Harry all the actors were either not suited visually or simply lacked the skills to portray the character we had in mind, so we had to keep looking.
The casting progress began with me posting adds on Starnow.com, Talentcircle.com and casting call pro, i used all three of these casting website to search for actors for the two roles of Harry and Nick. I had a lot of replies so decided to hold two days of auditions at a studio in east London were we meet a range of actors for both roles.
Here are the actors we got for the role of Nick, he is meant to be a young good looking mixed race man who has a clean cut look to him.
the last actor on here (Shelley) was the best suited visually and physically also he had the best acting skills as well as being the most like how i had imagined the character to look and feel. He was also ready an available to start acting when we needed him.
The next job for casting was a big one and was the casting of Harry the lead role, it is vital we get this one right, he is the lead protagonist and the entire film rest upon his role and acting, we saw alot more people for him.
After two days of casting we were not having much luck with the charecter of Harry all the actors were either not suited visually or simply lacked the skills to portray the character we had in mind, so we had to keep looking.
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