Plasticine Storyboard

Finally this video is on youtube! We did upload it last week but it got blocked because we used some copyrighted music, oops/sigh... So Khadija and I got a bit keen a couple of weeks ago and decided that a paper storyboard would be a bit too boring so we were going to make it out of plasticine instead. I drew up the storyboards on paper anyway so that we would have a guide to look at while filming the plasticine storyboard. We also thought that this would be quite handy when it comes to filming our final footage because we are having quite a few extras in our film and we don't want to have to keep bringing them all out to film a few seconds of footage. Therefore, we made this mock film where we put our ideas into life and tried to show all of the different shot types and camera angles we are going to use.

Productive media morning

Khadija's brilliant brain came up with the idea that we should film our storyboard using plasticine figures so that we could see what sort of angles and shot types we will use when filming our final film to avoid any time wasting when on location. Here are some photos from our little experiment:

Planning session

Today Khadija and I made up some rough storyboards for our film opening, we also had a discussion with Miss Foster about the concept for our film opening and she seemed to like it *phew*. In the next week we plan to go out Location scouting so we can confirm the locations for each of our shots. We also need to visit some charity shops and vintage shops to try and find a fairly chaep second hand wedding dress. However, if worst comes to worst me and Khadija are textiles students so we could always make one! 

Concept ideas

After school today we had a very intense team meeting in Starbucks to discuss the concept for our film opening. Here we are looking all intellectual with our big brainstorming page and a large mug of energy boosting coffee! Our ideas page was a little messy to say the least, so I came home and wrote it up in neat, hopefully this idea for our film opening is better than the last!

We came up with lots of different ideas and finally settled on the idea of our character having some sort of mental illness. I went and did some research on mental illnesses and what they cause, we then used this to decide what mental illness our character would have. Here are some pictures of our planning:

Mac 3 Pitch

Last lesson we had a discussion with Miss Foster about the concept for our film opening. As you can see we haven't quite come up with the concept, we have lots of different ideas that all sort of tie in together but we have absolutely no idea how we could make a film of any length out of them! Hopefully we'll be taking a rather intense trip to Starbucks tomorrow so we can get it all sorted out. I think we need to redo our concept vlog once we've fully decided what we're doing, obviously there are a lot of changes to be made! 

Mind map

I did a little mind map of some ideas for our film opening, hopefully there's something there that Elena and Khadija like :]