PRODUCTION LOG - Planning the research into a director post

My chosen director is Neill Blomkamp as he started off shooting and directing short films and has since progressed into the feature film industry. One of Neill's most recent and most famous works is the film Elysium starring Matt Damon. It is a sci-fi thriller film that has received many good reviews recently. 

 

I started off by Google searching Neill's name to see what results would come up and to see what he looked like because I thought that would be an important thing to know, especially if I'm going to research him.

I then watched his most famous short film "Alive in Joburg" which is a short film that was picked up by world famous director Peter Jackson and then turned into the box office hit District 9. It is important to watch his work because it gives me an idea as to how he directs his films. 

PRODUCTION LOG - Working on Research tasks

In today's lesson I have worked on my research tasks; I mainly looked at the short film "Alive in Joburg" which is directed by the director who I researched into Neill Blomkamp. First, I watched the film all the way through once taking in as much as I could (and enjoying it).

 
            I found the film on YouTube.  It’s had over 35,000 views and has been re-uploaded several times, this makes it difficult for me to understand fully how many views it actually has.
            I then opened a word document and played the film. I paused it every time I found something that I deemed good enough to write about. I then opened the word document and wrote a paragraph about it. I coupled the paragraph with screen grabs from the video to make it more engaging.
            First I noticed the documentary-type style of the short film. I established that this added a sense of realism to the film as it could easily be passed off as a legitimate news broadcast.
            In the end I eventually wrote two whole pages of information, I then uploaded it to slide share and ticked it off of my checklist.

Analysis of an existing short film

PRODUCTION LOG - Making a survey

I spent today's lesson signing up to a website called survey monkey in order to create a survey that I will later post onto my social media accounts to gain responses. I this website because it came highly recommended as it has some very nice features that give you survey that little extra bit of flair.

The survey will be posted tonight and I will collect the final responses at the end of the month

PRODUCTION LOG - Creating my Storyboard

Nearly every film will have a storyboard, whether the film is a low budget short film like my own film or a feature length million dollar budget film like The Dark Knight, it's likely most films have a storyboard.
Storyboards allow anyone in the production to gain a visualisation of what the project will look like upon completion. The storyboard would most likely go to the cameramen as it would give them an idea of what the director wants the scene to look like.
The storyboard is set up so that as much information as possible is on it so that at a later date I can maintain my original idea and theme.

Storyboard

This is the storyboard for my short film. The storyboard will help me and my actor work out the scenes and how they should look whilst we are filming. This is important as it will let me get as close to the vision in my head as possible. It will allow a near exact copy of what I want from my film. I have written in what the audio will be doing whilst the clip is rolling, this will help me later on during the editing phase as it will remind me what is to happen

 

 

 

 

Audience research survey

I worked on a survey that I gave out to my class in order to get some feedback on what sort of stuff my target market enjoys watching.

This is the link to the survey:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HCQXG8J

I will gather the responses in and produce another post that demonstrates what my target market want from a short film.