Final edited video + evaluation + Storyboard

This is my finished film. It's a Comedy/ Action Thriller, it is about a marshmallows Apocalypse at Cabot tower and because the marshmallows are not exactly sweet (pun intended) they are evil and that's when i thought of possibly the best name for the film 'harshmallowz'.I also decided to end mallows with a 'z' because it looks cooler. The marshmallows feed of human flesh, and three college students are willing to stop this from happening, mainly to avenge there friend which was eaten alive but the marshmallows. They try but fail... quite badly ( this is mainly the humour involved)

Originally i had two ideas for a 60 video, a how to video on the best ways to destroy a mobile phone and a trailer for a horror movie about marshmallow that are just like zombies. But i thought the idea for a video with marshmallows was a pretty good idea so i stuck with that and thought more about it. After alot of thought i didn't really want to do a video trailer of a how to video, i wanted to just do a very quick movie, at first i thought we were only aloud to choose from either one of the two but when i found out that we didn't have to to either i new i definitely wanted to do a Short film. After more thought i decided to scrap the idea of it being a horror, i wanted to make it like an action thriller, using guns and making it look like serious warfare. But i wanted it not to be 100% serious, i wanted it to have alot of humour, the movie would be serious for the actors but the audience would find it funny, so it would be a comedy/action thriller.

The location i wanted to use for my movie was Cabot tower from the start, no matter what movie i was going to do i wanted to film it at Cabot tower. It's a really nice location and it has got a lot of history so people who knew about the tower would relate to it. I also wanted that location because it is high up so in the background all you would be able to see is an outstanding view.

At first i thought that filming all of this would be quite easy, but it wasn't, because the start was filmed we had to wait till there was hardly no one about in the area we were filming, it took about half an hour just to film the bit inside the college. It was even worse when we made it to the Cabot tower, when we got there i didn't realise how narrow everything was, so there wasn't much room to move. And constantly tourists and other people wanted to take a look at the tower. Plus cause we were so high up, the cold weather was really bad, it was windy and freezing, our hands were freezing, so we decided to stop and do it again when the weather was better. It was very stressful and i was worried because of all this i wasn't going to have a good film or have a good film at all. Also that was disappointing, i thought it would be a good idea that the marshmallows would have faces and trying to drawing them was impossible, it wouldn't at all show on the marshmallows, even with permanent markers, so i went to buy some sticky labels, i drew a face on each sticky label and i tried to stick them on them marshmallows and wouldn't at all stick. I went to try and find some sticky tape but i couldn't find anything, so i had to film with just plain marshmallows.

Even though the marshmallows were dull i still think that the filming was really good, everything went well and when i edited the video i was surprised that it turned out so well. What i really liked about the film was that we used Nerf guns, and lucky me, Ashley and Luke all owned one, i thought they would be effective because it would show that we were suppose to be serious but because we were using toy guns it would be humorous. I decided that when it came to the editing i would do slow motion shot of us shooting the marshmallows, the sound i used made it very effective. The sounds i used were a pistol sound effect for when the gun fires, and a sound effect which i made, it is standing on a can for when the marshmallows get hit by the Nerf gun bullets.

Other sound effects i chose was the zombie like growling which i made myself, i wanted them to have a very scary sound because basically they are zombies, i really do believe that they made the movie much better, with out those growling sound effects the movie wouldn't of been half as good. Also i used the 'wilhelm' sound effect for Luke's death, the sound effect is used in so many movies and i thought would be good to use cause people could relate to it and it adds humour to the video. I used the same sound effect i used for the marshmallows getting hit by the Nerf gun bullets for me hitting the floor when i jump off the Cabot tower. I used the horror like violin screech for my ring tone, i used it because it would add humour and it will make the audience think something bad is going to happen. Other sounds were the night rider theme to start off the video and one of the Halo 4 theme songs, the halo 4 theme was used for like half of the video, mainly because i wanted it to play in the background when the battle was happening.

The things that went well for the video was pretty much most of the whole film, the sound used was really effective, the slow motion when shooting the marshmallows went well and was also very effective, also the fact that even though it was very narrow at the Cabot tower all the moving around was good. What also went well was the point of view shots for the marshmallows, i changed the contrast and gave it a purple like colour, it shows that the marsh mallows are alien like and don't have the same sight as a human, and i use that effect for the credits as well because it relates to the marshmallows more and also because using effects like that for credits is used quite alot. What also went well was the action man being used as me jumping off of the Cabot tower, it also adds humour because the is so obvious what it is it would make people laugh anyway.

Things that could of been improved was the colour of camera when we were filming in the college, after we filmed we noticed that the night vision was on and it made everything look dull. The hole film would have been better if i was able to put faces on the marshmallows. Ashley's death could of been improved as well, when we were filming we had to slowly fall to the floor in order to keep the marshmallow balancing on his shoulder and i sped that part up but it looks so obvious that it has been sped up and it didn't look as well as i hoped it to be. Also there was quite alot of camera movement which could of been abit better, we were originally going to take a tripod to Cabot tower but because of how narrow everything was we all new that the try pod wouldn't even be able to get carried up the stairs and be able to stand. Another error was a the start in the college and when we get to Cabot tower you can see that i was wearing a purple shirt with a collar, but when we went to film again i thought i wore a black shirt last time so i wore a black shirt, luckily this error isn't so noticeable unless if you look really hard, i didn't even notice this error till i uploaded it, and i don't think anyone else who watched it noticed so i think i could get away with it.

Overall despite the slight errors think the film was amazing, everyone i showed it to such as friends family thought it was out standing.

Here are a few comments of what people thought...

I am really happy with the comments and what people really think of my film, i was excepting this kind of feedback. I am really proud of this film, it went well, and i can learn from the slight errors in the future when i make another film.

This is my storyboard. This is also my research, i had to use pictures for my storyboard because the my first storyboard was hard to understand.

Video idea brief

The best way to destroy a mobile phone.
My first idea was a how to video about destroying a mobile phone. I have a old Nokia phone which doesn't work anymore and i thought it would be interesting to make video on destroying it. Since the video has to be 60 seconds long i thought i would damage the phone bit by bit through out by: droping it,throwing it at a wall, getting run over by a car, setting fire to it, stabing it with a knife, drilling a hole through it with a drill, Droping it in a bowl of boiling hot water. The phone would get more and more damaged and then right at the end of the video i would finish off the film by completly destroying the phone into pieces by throughing it off of the Cabot Tower then when it is in pieces i would make the phone come back together good as new. I would do this by filming the end first and then editing it and puting it at the end.

My target audience would for teenage boys or men who like to break things and like random things, teenagers who like looking at videos on youtube such as breaking things and random videos. Women who are like tomboys, that havethe personality of a teenage boy. The type of teenager who would work at blockbuster or game or hmv, the sort of person who in there spare time on a computer or play video games such as minecraft, call of duty or halo or any first person shooter. The type of teenager who would eat chocolate and drink energy drink in the morning. The type of person who would use the words such as LOL, EPIC, LMAO and YOLO in a simple sentance. And the type of person who listen to dubstep and other forms of dance music.

Funny Horror Trailer

My other idea is doing an ironic/miss leading trailer for a horror movie. It's supposed to be serious by it's funny to the audience. It would be about like an alien invasion, at the start would be all serious and the audience would think it is a horror then it would change. The ailens would happen to be marshmallows attacking, i would get a packet of marshmallows and put sticky labels on each one and draw faces on them. Just like zombies, they bite there victims and then turn into zombies, it would be the same for the marshmallows. They marshmallows would jump up on a human start chewing on him/her and then they would turn into a marshmallow. The title of it would be called "Harshmallows" which would come up right at the end of the video aswell as the actors names and there character names.

The target audience would be boys and girls, porbably teenagers mainly who have a good sence of humour and who like horror and comedy films. For those who find randomness the funniest things in films and in normal life. It would be liked by the type of person who would work in a film shop such as HMV or a sweet shop, who would say LOL instead of actually giggling at something quite funny and it would also be liked by the type of person who watchs youtube videos everyday and watch shows such as Robot Chicken, Family guy, American dad and the IT Crowd and watch films such as Scary Movie and all the films made by the same company. It would also be liked by someone who would eat sweets imbetween meals, they would call there children Harry or Josh, they would drive a small car with a loud exaust and covered in a bodykit.

Digital Collage Research

 

Evaluation

Thoughts:

What i am inpressed with?

What i could improve?

Research: 

Did you use google to find artists art work?

What artist inspired you?

Photoshop Techniques:

What layers did you use?

Did you change the copacity?

If i was doing it again what aspects would i change:

Would you try to learn more about photoshop?

Would you of used more pictures?

Compare with others work:

What artist would you compare it to?

Whos work in the class you you compare yours to?

Time: 

How long did it take you to finish?

Changes i made during the planning?

Did you add more or delete any pictures?

what effects did you change?

 I researched digital collage art work on google images and i found a piece of artwork form Peter Ciccariello and it showed loads of images of animals and objects and they were all transparent so it looked like an illusion.

 I reseached more of his work and they are all simular with the images chosen and techniques. I was really impressed by his work and thats when i decided i wanted my collage to be in the style of his and amazingly i made my collage look like his. The techniques i used were quite basic but they were still effective. 

The layers i used were mostly normal but i changed the hue on them but i did you Vivid Light and Linear Burn effects. The main techniques i used were change the Opacity of the images and copy and pasting some of images and rotating them horizontally. 

Now that i had a better idea of what i wanted to do in my collage, if i had to do it again the aspects i would change would be getting more images, learn to use Photoshop more effectivley it would look even better when finished but i wouldn't change any of the effects and layers i used. In comparison to Tristan's collage, he used much more images than me and he spent more time researching and more times making his collage so his was more impressive. Even thought his artwork was more effective i am still very impressed with my collage. 

Tristan spent longer than me on this task but i still spent quite a long time on my collage; i spent about 1hour and 30mintues on just the research and spent about 2hours on creating the collage. But the planning took about 3hours bacause at first i diddn't have a idea on what pictures i would use and what artist i would make in the style of. I had 3 ideas at first but they wern't good and i diddn't have the Photoshop skills to do it. Then after finally finding a piece of work from an artist i had another idea of mirroring images. Because i diddn't have many pictures so copy and pasting the images would look like more images but still look very effective.

Overall i think my collage turned out really well even though i used what i knew from Photoshop. I really liked the idea of mirroring my images so i used most of the images twice. I came up with mirroring my images myself.Also, i really liked making the images transparent so the collage is like an illusion. The one thing i would of done to improve my collage is possibly adding more images to it.