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Week 1
Week one was a big step forward as we had to go from making a film opening which in my eyes was straight forward as the most difficult part was to keep the continuity however with our A2 with had to create a film trailers as this was new to use as we had to break the continuity within the film trailer. So we decided on our groups in which we will be creating the trailer, my group included Simran ,Khader and Aliya . We began brainstorming what are our interest and what genres in particular we would want to go into. Due to discussion and the teachers opinion we decided to stay away from Horror as it is extremely common and hard to make realistic. We all had an interest in action thriller and so decided to try and implement that into our trailer. After brainstorming we came up with many ideas.
WEEK2
When the second week came we started to get closer and closer to our idea as we started to talk to our media teachers and started pitching our ideas as we what their feed back was after a couple of ideas that would not have worked ,we finally hit the right idea as this was a remake of taken but we did not have a name for it yet. as we started doing research, on Fridays lesson we came together as a group and discussed the trailer we did individually, we started doing a research as khader did taken (2008), Simian did the call and finally Aliya did Dont say a word by this stage I was on holiday as this was the last week of school so we kept in contact through online social media as we discussed some key common tools that were used so we could make a note and remember them for when we record our trailer. We saw common establishing shots of different locations and thought we'd try and steal that idea. As I was on holiday i thought it would be a good idea to start our filming in Dubai as we might be able to use the establishing shoots that I used there as my group backed me on this and said to do it to.
Week 3
After coming back from the 7 weeks of holidays we got straight back to the work as I showed my group the establishing shots that I took after talking about how good they where we started on the script and also the stroybored as Simran complete the storyboard and Alia completed the script,and as a team we worked on a timeline, which would tell us what clips we needed. Then me and Khader started to look at different locations where we could film our scenes such as car parks high building where we could great shots. after finding all of our we was ready to start film how ever we had a big problem because we had no actual camera to film With so I had to ask a favour from my close friend to let use borrow a camera until the end of the project.
Week 4
After sorting out all the camera issues we where ready to start filming and our first location was going to be filmed in a hotel room as this was a location on our stroybored so Simian and Aliya when before hand to go check out a hotel that we picked out after getting the thumbs up from them we booked it and started our filming but an issue arouse as the hotel staff did not allow us all to go up to as me being the main character and Khader being the camera man we went up and started the filming knowing we only had one day to get this right so after taking loads shots, the next Lesson we handed over the clips over to our editor Simran and we bgain to look over the clips and started putting picecs together and also taking out clips that where badly taken or had no where to fit in.
Later on that week i suggested to get the car park scene out of the way of Khader the protagonist as in my As project we used the same car park and I though it would be a great location fro our film trailer as for this we had to get props such a flick up knife which I obtained from my house and a dog chain which was made to look like a chain to hold up his hands and duck tape and this take was quick and we got it perfect of my character beating up the protagonist.
Later on that week i suggested to get the car park scene out of the way of Khader the protagonist as in my As project we used the same car park and I though it would be a great location fro our film trailer as for this we had to get props such a flick up knife which I obtained from my house and a dog chain which was made to look like a chain to hold up his hands and duck tape and this take was quick and we got it perfect of my character beating up the protagonist.
WEEK5
The flowing week we reviewed our hotel clips and came to a conclusion that the lighting was of so Aliya suggested that we could use her uncles flat to re film the scene as the lighting was 100x better and we decided to start making our props and me and my wife in the film Clair (Simian) had to take photos together to make use look like we was in a relationship to put in to the photo frames that simians mum provided us which was really helpful. After we finished we hit the macs to started putting our film trailer together as we saw from what we had to redo. We decided we needed more shooting scenes to help the thriller aspect of a spy movie, therefore i talked to my friend and he agreed we could use his car to film some part bits of me shooting from different angles, so Khader had to position himself different to help get different camera shoots, also i had to move a few times to help us perform shots such as the over the shoulder shot and so i had to sit on the car door and had to be at an angle to help this happening. After multiple different shots and positioning of the car we got enough clips to place at different stages of the clip and so went to school after to upload to final cut pro and begging positioning them throughout the trailer.
WEEK 6
After looking at our film we showed our teacher what we had and the feed back that we received was that there was not enough action for it to fill out the criteria of a action genre as wee needed fighting scenes so we set of to find different locations and different people that my character could beat up so I asked my a close friend if he could act in our film where I would be seating him on file as a lot of planing had to be done as we was using live flames so we had to take everything into consideration also another school friend that we used to show a main fighting scene in a abandoned car park so we thought over we had covered the caption part of the film ,but then Aliya remember that she had a smoke bomb that she had from her as production we thought that would be a great asset to our film as when you set it of a spark came out so we recorded it and added it in to our fat montage of action. After adding everything in the last scene that we had to get was of me looking over Londonso Me Khader and simran mad our way in to London to find a high building but when we arrived at the sushi samba we was rejected there as we was not able to film from there sowe ended up filming extra flips that we could use such as running scenes as and also some fighting scenes on top ,Later that week Me and khader made our way to London brig to get a shot of me looking over London river themes getting both the London eye in the shot and also the house of parliaments which took usewhooping 6 hours to do but we was relived as this meant that we had finished our film trailer
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WEEK 8
After finishing our film and getting the all mighty t up from our media teacher we started to focuse on our evaluation question and how we would make it creative,After being Briefed told what we had to do by our teacher we looked at a good example of the evaluation on YouTube from a previous student. After this we went through each question and gave feedback of what we had to include as well as the question itself. After finished each question we were told to return to our groups and decide who would do each question, as for example Simrane did most of the editing so she picked the technology questions as she had the most to say about it