About Me

As you know from my blog my name is Tyler Platt. I am creative as well as imaginative and I initially came up with the idea for our movie. I like being imaginative since i'm free to be doing what I want and I can do what i want to do, since i'm not a fan of being told what to do; having the freedom to do what I want for my movie just gets me excited.

Characters

Availability

At first we couldn't decide on a day to film because our schedules were clashing so we had to wait til the Christmas holidays where we filmed our flashback's scenes with Ali's little brother at his house on the 3rd January. The day didn't go so well so we decided to do it at Louis' house where we filmed the entire thing on the 4th January. We couldn't do it at my house because my house was never really free to be filming for hours.

Risk Assessment

Shooting Script

Scene 1:

• Canted shot
• Equipment- Tripod, Camera, Microphone
• Props: Suit, Paper(for brainstorm)
• Time:N/A
• Location: Office in a Building 
• Cast: Louis Liburd

Scene 2:

• Over the shoulder shot
• Equipment- Tripod, Camera, Microphone
• Props: Suit, Phone, Computer
• Time:N/A
• Location: Office in a Building 
• Cast: Louis Liburd and Ali Mane

Scene 3:

• Medium-long shot(zooms in)
• Equipment- Tripod, Camera, Microphone
• Props: Suit, Lamp, Pen, Book, Chair, Table
• Time:N/A
• Location: Office room within a building
• Cast: Tyler Platt

Scene 4:

• Medium shot
• Equipment- Tripod, Camera, Microphone
• Props: Suit, Lamp, Pen, Book, Chair, Table, Phone
• Time:N/A
• Location: Office room within a building
• Cast: Tyler Platt and Ali Mane

Roles

Tyler Platt:

• Camera man (1 scene)
• Audio Editing 
• Actor (Hitman- Main Character)

Ali Mane:

• Cameraman (1 scene)
• Visual Editing
• Actor (Policeman on phone)

Louis Liburd:

• Cameraman(Last minute)
• Lighting
• Actor (Detective)

Lighting

My opinion is that lighting is the one of the most significant factors when filming because you have to make sure that you highlight objects/people which will provoke an emoting response from the audience. Because our film is an action/thriller the mise-en-scene should laid out in a certain way and shouldn't always be bright, it should kind of dark to get the scared response you want from the audience. The low-key lighting coupled with the diegetic sound builds the suspense and makes the audience feel anxious and edgy.

Release Form

Meeting Notes

First day- Flashback scene

We shot all the scenes we needed, however we decided to scrap them because the actor we used was not to the standard that we would have liked.  The actor we used was not able to act shocked or scared, when realising his parents had been murdered.  We also came across many more problems such as the tripod that was recommended and given to us what’s not tall enough to perform a stationary over the shoulder shot.  This meant that I had to worry about keeping the camera and tripod in the right place while using strength to keep it up.  This caused the shot to be very shaky which ruined the mood of our whole scene.  Thirdly the house we used to shoot this house didn't have the minimal requirements for all our equipment to fit in.  The corridor was not wide enough for us to install our lights into the right places, to get that right lighting.

Second day- detective scene 

One thing we struggled was the lighting for the scene, it was very hard for the viewer to see certain things going on during.  However I feel that the darkness creates an ominous/moody scene that really sets the tone of the film right.  I felt the problems we faced for the first scene we cut were now non existent.  The lighting was really outstanding as we had the right tools and equipment to do the job.  You can see this in the hit man scene which I shot feel the lights really compliment the conversation that is going on in the play.