Dolly Zoom

In todays lesson we had learnt about the art of Dolly zooming or the trombone shot as it's also known, this shot is used to show a characters emotions of either shock or fear for example, i feel this shot would work perfectly in our film. The Dolly zoom is commonly used by world famous thriller director Alfred Hitchcock in the majority of his films. below I have given you an example of this shot

Storyboard

This is the final storyboard our group has drawn up, we will used this to create our film opening and to 
guide us through our filming, storyboards make filming so much easier as they give a level of 
structure when performing as the storyboard includes camera movements shots and transitions so we 
know what to do. Upon creating the storyboard we had experimented with many different ideas to 
come up with the best possible story line we could

Animatic Shots

These are pictures that will feature in our animatic taken as screen shots from our storyboard. I will then edit them on Final Cut and then they will be added to the animatic our group made (see above)

Title Sequence Feedback

Here I have interviewed a young Gareth Cobham on what he thinks about our title sequence, on this video he talks about what he finds successful about the sequence and also on what improvements could be made. 

Dummy filming

We acknowledged many problems upon creating the dummy scenes and now have an idea of what problems we will face when filming the real thing, the first thing we had noticed upon using the cameras was the traffic and also pedestrians coming through the street which deterred us from using the high street as a location for the film as our theme is post apocalyptic therefore no other people should be around us.

We also noticed that we mainly used long shots when filming bar the one of the puddle, when doing the real thing it would better to include some other types of shots such as close ups as after a while it becomes to repetitive using the same angle over and over again, i feel as though we could of done maybe an over the shoulder shot when Max and I meet for the first time. This could be quite effective.

As well as noticing faults when filming we also found some new shots that we never though of using in the first place, the main one being of a puddle in the street where I walk over it looking for survivors and then we see Max's reflection in the water with just his feet in the shot, we found this to be really eery and effective making the audience feel uneasy.

These two factors showed us how vital dummy filming is upon making a film highlighting both the faults and also positives that come out of it

Font for logo

I have found a font for us to use on our  logo from dafont.

http://www.dafont.com/cartographer.font

Our logo will be half a german flag and half of a british flag with film around it. We think that this wrting will make our logo more thriller like.