FILM TEST 01 from Briony-Mai Reynolds on Vimeo.

Preliminary Task

This task was a test film of my friend tim walking through a door and having a conversation with someone else (Jason) on the table. Danny and I did all of the filming on this task and I feel the positions we put the film camera went well.

By doing this task this has ensured me that I am able to do filming and editing. I now know how to edit film and how to make it work well putting it together. When making my film I will now look back at this for ideas.

Institutional Research

In this task I has to Research the type of companies that I think would distribute my film. I chose two companies and I also looked at two different cinemas that would show my film.

Doing this task has enabled me to know the standard of my film and what I need to do to make it good enough to be distributed by these companies that I have spoke about. By researching different companies I now have a broarder understanding of the distributers and how they make their money.

INT. FOREST IN ELLA GOLDFINSH’S VILLAGE – DAY

This task I had to write a script for my characters in the beginning of the film. I used Mytavi.com to help me by looking at the layout of a script. I thought this was helpful when writing my script as I knew what to write about and what I needed to put to show who was speaking and what actions they are doing at the time.

Ella is alone in the forest. She is reading her favourite book she takes everywhere.  She is flipping through some pages.

Ella is sat under a tree with her back against it. She is deep in the forest with trees surrounding her and the sound of leaves rustling together.

ELLA GOLDFINCH (thoughts)

The forest is my place of peace. Time is moving to quick for me. Time is always out of reach. Since my mother died everything has shifted. I feel even though I’ve lost her I’m never alone I never really knew her. I was a child, I only remember her in my mind through pieces of images of us being together. I remember I loved her. She made me smile. [Slight giggle] She always told me to remember her. It’s funny how I never forgot that.

 Winter is drawing near and the last leaves are taking flight.

I always took notice of the small things. I never took notice of the bigger picture. Like how Cherry blossoms fall 5 centimetres per second. I don’t know how I know that. But I’m right.

Looking around.  Glimpse of bracelet.

Ella flicks through her book some more. She looks rather upset but really she just is deep in thought. She looks around some more and takes in a deep breath, tilts her head back against the tree and closes her eyes.

ELLA GOLDFINCH (thoughts)

I love it here. Being out in the open, with the autumn breeze. I sometimes wish I could run away leave the past behind in those walls called ..well it’s not a home anymore. Using that word for that place has faded and now its just a place of memories that If I could I would forget. 

[SNAP]

Eyes open.

Head lifts.

Legs pull up.

ELLA GOLDFINCH (thoughts)

I say I’m never alone for a reason. These woods are filled with many animals. Rabbits, Deer, Moose and birds that make nests in the top of the trees.  They say there is a much bigger creature that lurks in the forest. Myths of children disappearing from their beds when they were asleep. Children behaving badly were told that if they carried on being that way they would be given to the forest.  People from my village have said that they have come across many corpses of animals that have been shredded to pieces. From limb.To limb. I feel safe in these forest for some reason. But I always feel I’m being watched. I’ve seen things. Walking through here. Animals far bigger and faster than any deer. They move swiftly through the trees. They know there way around here. Like me.

But like me they like to be left alone. I don’t know what they are but they don’t want to be found.  they know when I’m here. They all know when I’m here.  But I’m not afraid.

Stands up and pulls her book tightly to her chest. Turns around with one hand on the tree. Looks behind her one last time.walks away.

This task has been helpful for me as I have shown this to my character for her to say in the film. I think this has made it clear on what I want my character to say and what she should be doing. I decided for my character not to speak during the film as I thought that it may ruin the atmosphere if she doesn't give her lines to well or it may waste time filming if she makes mistakes. I have spoke to my music teacher and we have decided on recording (Ruby - playing Ella Goldfinch) speaking her lines. I feel this may look interesting in the film and people will focus more on the setting and what she is doing rather than how she gives her lines during the film so people wont be distracted.  

Fonts

For my next task I am looking at different fonts that would be suitable for my film. I have looked at different fonts because I think this would help set the mood for the introduction of my film. I have chosen different fonts from the website www.dingbatty.com which creates hundereds of different fonts and I chose from a variety of catergories and picked out some of my favourites and I may use one for my film. I used the name of my film to get an Idea of how it would look for the title of my film for the introduction.

This font looks like writing. I like the way it looks like someone has wrote this and I feel this is fantasy based and it's simple.

This reminds me of something you would see from a clock. Every letter looks like time has been spent to create it and so it looks pristine. I feel the unigue look about the font can suit my genre.

This font looks like it from the old times. I would see this maybe in the vicotian times as it looks really fancy. I like how the letters looks like someone has wrote it like the first font I chose. I chose quite a few fonts that look like someone has wrote them out as I feel something such as a robotic/futuristic font wouldn't suit my genre as I am doing fantasy and those types of titles I would think would be put in a sci-fi.

This is my least favourite out of all ten fonts because in my opening I dont like the way it looks, I do like it but in my openin I like some of the others far more but I still think it works when comparing to fantasy films and I feel that the font would to well in my opening and I like how the letters are neat and it is easy to read so viewers wont be spening time working out what the title says when watching the opening.

I love this one as the L looks like it has blood or something running of the top of the L and as its rather gothic I feel this links into my Genre and it would suit the opening of my film well. I propbably wont use this for the opening of my film though as I dont want the film to come across scary/horror but more of a spooky feel to it. I think if I was to write a book this would be what I would use for the title.

I may use this are the opening of my film and it is simple and has the gothic look I like about it. I feel I could use this for the opening of my work and it is readable, effective (As in when you see it you think unique and you wouldn't really put it to a horror or sci-fi) and also it has the old times look about it which I wanted.

The next three fonts go back to what I have been saying about the 'hand-writing' look. This is one of the most obvious exampls for this asit does look like someone has wrote this out in pen. The only negative I have about this font is it is quite hard to read and I feel that some people may have difficulties reading it.

The lettering on this is pretty and has the fantasy look to it. I love how everything is joined up and old fashioned. I feel this links into my genre but the movie I would see font would be used in would be something like a fairy movie or a movie such as 'Jane eyre' I know that isn't fantasy but I do believe this font I would see in a movie such as that.  

I like this one most as all the letters aren't pushed together and the letters aren't overly curly and wavy. I feel this is easier to read out of the ones that I have said look like someone has wrote out. I like that it is neat and I could use it in the actuall film for someones hand writing or even for the book when she is flicking through the pages on the first page I could write Ella's name in this font.

This is alot different from the other fonts that I have spoke about. When I saw this I instantly thought the flicks off the letters look like wolf scraches and the writing doesn't look like it is from a scary movie. I could this working in my introduction for titles rather well as it has the eeiry look about it that looks interesting. I think that anyone who watched my film would be able to read the titles and It look good.

From doing this tast I can now look at this when editing my film together and putting the titles in to choose one of these and to look at what I wrote about them all so that I can pick the best one for my film. Also this helps me when I am filming as I said in one of the comments I can use for my actual film for the opening as I am going to use one of the fonts for Ella Goldfinchs' hand writing. I now know what fonts relate to my genre and know what works best for me.