Animatic- Feedback

We recieved both compliments, and constructive criticism for our animatic. The criticism we recieved will benefit our film opening as we can change any slight mistakes. We were told we had a good number of shots, although we need to vairy them more, rather than just sticking to simple shots.

Taking the criticism on board, as a group we have decided to discard some of the shots, such as some of the ones in the bedroom, along with the montage and add some new ones. We have decided, instead, to use some shots which show who the character is, what role they have in the firm and how long they have been part of it.

week 1: film plot and summary

My group for this task, consists of myself, Conor O'sullivan, Will Turner and Andrew Lloyd-Jones. We have all been allocated different roles for our two minute film opening. We have been inspired from films suc as, 'Green Street', 'Football Factory' and 'Rise of The Footsoldier.'

The name of our film is 'Holloway Road.' It is a british crime drama, exploring football hooliganism at it's worst and the anti-social behaviour of the people involved. I will play the lead role in the two minute opening, and also narrate over the footage. Conor O'Sullivan will be in charge of filming, whilst Will Turner and Andrew Lloyd-Jones will be extras.

We have decided on 'Holloway Road' as the title of our film, as it is set in north London. The film is about my character, who has just joined the Arsenal firm. He becomes very close with everyone involved, when he has a dark secret that none of the others are aware of. He is part of Arsenal's most fierce rivals, the Tottenham Hotspur firm. The only reason he has joined the Arsenal firm is too set them up. We have not yet decided on names for the characters, although we have decided on common London names. The opening two minutes of our film shows an inkling into the pure intensity, hatred and violence of the footballing underworld.

Animatic for film opening

Our Preliminary exercise video

Preliminary Exercise

For our preliminary exercise we had to create a short scene, which consisted of someone entering a room, and have a conversation which consisted of at least four lines of dialogue. I played the part of the girl's father, whilst Andrew Lloyd-Jones played the boyfriend, with Alice Haydock as cameraman. We were able to keep our shots in focus,by using the rule of thirds we could ensure we kept the viewers attention. After filming once, we were aware that I was backlit against the light from the window. We corrected this by lowering the blinds for the second time of filming. The main changes we would have made is to have shot an over the shoulder shot from my point of view when Andrew enters the room to show the intensity of the moment. We would also have used high and low angle shots more effectively to give a sense of power or weakness.

There was no real problems with editing. Our shots were as good as they could be with the background we had too use at the time. we did have one jump cut, but we managed to sort it out by using a different version of the same shot. By shooting all the shots a number of times we could be sure we had a variety to choose from once we came to editing.

Once we lowered the blinds the lighting was fine for shooting, the background wasn't the most appropriate place to use, but it was all that was available at the time. We had a view different ideas on shots and dialogue etc, but as a whole our group worked well, with a good use of constructive criticism which helped to improve our scene.