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