Media test video

Plot Summary

While an unknown object falls from the sky, a wanderer attempts to go and seek out this mystery. She travels many miles through the harsh desert to only find a strange object with a mystical vibe to it. As she goes to investigate the object more, a weird aura appears around her body and arms and with this she feels unstoppable. A mysterious man has followed her to this location and demands that she gives the object to him. Only if she knew how to control her powers, and she lets out a powerful blast and with that there is a cliff hanger.

Group Chat Preparation

Casting Choices And Crew

For our casting choices we had to consider who would be the best choices for our characters. 

For the role of our alien man called Tatarian who has just crashed his space ship, we have chosen our group member Adam, as Adam is the tallest in the group and is very confident with his acting so he was a perfect choice of character.

 For our female character who is a girl called Mia wandering through the desert who finds a piece of the spaceship which gives her superpowers, we have chosen myself as I am the only female in our group and am equally as confident to fit the role. I am also our costume and makeup designer, as study Art Alevel.

This was an easy pick for cast as our other group members will be working the camera and audio. 

Here we have our other members of the film production. Underneath we have Nasri is our Director/videographer.

and Here we have our editor/videographer Jacob

Here we also have a shot of our break time during our filming session.

Shot List

BBFC Rating

What are bbfc ratings? BBFC stands for British board of film classifications, this was an organization that censured films for things that could be offensive for certain age groups, such as adult content , violence or inappropriate language. Every film is given a BBFC we know it nowadays as age rating. On films it will say BBFC ratings such as U, PG, 12+,15+ and 18+ these are the usual ratings there is also another not so common rating which is PG13 which is where someone younger can either see the movie with a parent or with a child of 13 and above. So what I will do now is to go over different superhero and sci-fi films and what their BBFC ratings are so that we can determine what rating our film should be.

This is the DVD for Batman Vs Superman, this is rated a 12. This is because it is not an indecent film, however it does contain violence which may only be appropriate for children of 12 and above.

This is the same for the X-men films they are usually a 12 rated film as they are films aimed at people from the age of 12 and above.

This is the BBFC for suicide squad this film was rated as a 15 in some countries  however in stricter  countries it was rated an 18, as there were some concerns whether the violence was to violent for people of the age of 15 to even view. 

For our film we will consider what our BBFC rating will be. We will need to consider the amount of violence we use, inappropriate language and adult content. However as we are only doing a film opening we will not be using a lot of these criterias, but we do need to consider if we were to make it into a full film we will need to consider what would be in our film. So as a group we discussed that our BBFC rating will be a 12 as it will not contain adult content however it will contain some violence in fighting scenes.

Making props

Process of Making metal Prop 

                         1. we first started by borrowing a metal forge from my brother. this was then filled with Coal and lit to create a flame. this is so that the furnace gets hot enough to melt metal.

                    2. we then had to cut open a fire extinguisher to create the bowl that we placed the metal in. The metal of the fire extinguisher was used as the flame will not melt the type of metal used on it.

                       3. the next step is to place in metal fizzy drink cans which we collected over a few weeks. The metal cans eventually as the furnace gets hotter melts the cans faster. This is a long process and can take a couple of hours to melt enough metal to create something as small as the palm        of ur hand.  We roughly used about 300 cans to make the underneath photos.

to create the shape we used a cupcake tin and poured the hot metal into the mould this created this strange shape of the Supernatural metal that we will use in the film 

Prop List

Our Prop list is very limited as we plan on only using one prop which is the piece of metal that is used to create the superpowers in my character. This piece of metal was created by my brother in his melting furnace. It is a very perculiar piece of melter which gives it an alien feel

Production schedule

Ceating special effects scar

This was a test of making scars using just Glue, Tissue and cover up makeup.

First we put a strip of glue on the skin and laid tissue roles up to create the texture of the scar.

after this we added thicker layers of glue to form a skin over the top of the tissue. 

after this we used a foundation type of makeup to add the skin tones to the scar.

This would have been very effective had the foundation been the right skin tone for Adam, however it  turned out to be very orange on his skin, so this was obvious ad made the scar seem unrealistic. 

This scar will look more effective on camera from a distance and effects will be added later in editing process.

Testing special effects makeup

Special Effects for Adam

For his character we took inspiration from the mad max character, as we wanted a slightly less humanistic look and more supernatural.

Here is a picture of the same type of effect that i recreated on myself using vaseline and corn starch to make a putty texture to create the effect of skin, this was then covered over with foundation makeup. the slits were created and fake blood was added.

This worked quiet well and looked fairly effective in black and white however when discussing with the group we agreed that this wasn't relevant to the story line and so agreed to try mineralising the amount of special effects makeup and making it subtle.

Costume Preparation

Mia's Costume 

Tatarian's Costume 

Costume Mind Map

Location Planning

For our location planning we had to look into what would work well for our film theme. We also had to consider where would contain the least people, so that they wouldn't get in the way of our filming. We thought about using the souks, as they are full of character but then we we established that that it would not work as the souks are always full of people so we had to rule out that idea

 We then thought about filming in the city, however that was not going to work as Doha city is very modern, which would give the film a futuristic look and our film is more rough. So after hours of going around Doha trying to find the perfect set up location, we discovered that the desert was probably the best place as its very quiet, it's got a rougher vibe then the city and its very open which give us more room to film. 

Production Logo

Film Title Logo

This our film opening logo. We have chosen to do this is a sandy gold colour to reflect the desert theme in our film. As you can also see the font is very bold and futuristic this demonstrates the superhero side of the film. The transition of the words is done in this is just for a cool effect to give a cinematic feel to our amateur production.  

Mood Board

Story Board

This is our story board that has been animated into a rough short film. The story board demonstrates what each shot will contain and what type of shot they are.

Generic Film Character Mood Board

Questionnaire

These results were pretty predictable as people usually don't want to see many different superhero powers because it makes it difficult to keep up with what powers each character has and what the importance is of the character. for this result we have decided to just keep it to a minimum of one super power not to confuse matters.







This result was probably because most superhero movies are based in a big cities such as London and New York, where the bad guys can create more problems for civilisation, people are easier to kill and it is harder for the superhero to keep their disguise as they are seen by so many people all over the city. this therefore creates more drama and creates a very interesting film. we intend to use a less metropolitan setting as it will be easier to film as we won't have distractions.






Most people enjoy the more technology based films as it creates a more futuristic look. However the results were very close together and so we have decided not to use technology in our film but instead we will use a alien type of metal which will have glow after effects.

For these results we found that most people wanted a misunderstood character as they could feel empathy for them. in my opinion i also felt that most people in their own ways feel misunderstood or mistreated. therefore we will have our main character as a almost homeless stray wondering the desert in search for life.









This was a surprising result as most action superhero films have a type of weapon, the questionnaire however showed that people preferred having a super power then a weapon, so for this result we will be using super powers as weapons more so then a physical weapon.










For this result people wanted a sidekick as most superhero films tend to have a funny sidekick. This was however debated between our group as we felt that we should keep the character as a lone ranger type of person, this created the misunderstood and mistreated theme better.

Audience profile

 Four our preliminary task film we are going to be aiming our target age at teenagers and adults from the age range of about 16-24. I think the best way to show what our audience is,is by using one of our audience members.

 

We have selected our character Chad. Chad has been created to demonstrate what our target
audience is. Chad is 16 and lives in the Middle East, Chad is very fond of watching any kind of superhero movie. Chad says that he likes watching a contrast between male and female heroes and villains, he said he didn't have a preference of what gender the hero was because men look cool being heroes and so do girls. Chad is a high school student, who in his free time likes to hang out with friends and play american football. Chad and his friends( mix of girls and boys) go to the cinema at least once a month, when they do go to the cinema they tend to go and watch superhero films, as they relate to men and woman and everyone is happy. Chad favourite things about a superhero movies is for there to be a good opening scene to set the mood for the rest of the film, Chad also said that he preferred films that were lively and action packed, that created a vivid picture as this makes the audience connect better to the film. Chads friends all agreed with what he said. So our audience is teenagers who not only enjoy other activities such as sports but who love to watch all kinds of films. So that we can appeal to this audience, we will take into consideration things discussed by the teenagers. To ensure this we can add things to our film such as both strong male and female characters, a bold and exciting opening that enthrals the audience, vivid scenes that are eye catching and hold the viewers attention so that they can become apart of the film and relate to the film on a more personal level, this can also be done by, using cast that are similar age to those of the audience, by adding creative and action packed scenes and by using an unusual location to add to the drama and entertainment. 

Questionnaire