Film Pitch

Before we started filming we were asked to pitch the idea for our films and this was the pitch we produced:

Final Magazine Article Changes

We realized that there were problems with the layout of our poster and that we did not think that it looked professional enough. There fore we decided to change the layout and house style of the magazine, still using the same text content. This is the article as it currently looks:

Final Poster

We have also completed work on our final posters. We loosely worked together to create the posters so that the posters would have a similar house style but worked separately so we would each have our own mark on the posters we are submitting.

This is the poster that i will be submitting into the examiners. I choose this picture because i felt that it shows the technology element of the film but is also not a direct shot from the film which allows people who have seen the film to be able to look at the poster and realize this is what the character of Peterson would have seen in his final moments. Here is the poster very near to it's completion:

Jake's poster can be seen here:  http://jakesa2media.blogspot.com/2011/03/finished-poster.html

Final Corrections/Changes to Film

In the final few days of working on the film we made a few corrections and changes to the film. The main one of these changes was to change the title of the film from Pull Over, which we realized did not fit in with the story changes we had made due to restrictions during filming which meant that we could not use a car. The other part of the film we changed was the end credits sequence in which we added some hand held camera footage of one of the victims of the murders running through the woods and shows how they did end up at the house which we felt needed to be explained.

Production Photo's

Shooting Review

Over past few weeks we have completed filming on our short film and are currently putting it through the final stages of editing the film. Several changes have been made from the original script, mainly the character of Sarah has been changed to a male character called Jonathan due to the fact that the actress we had asked to play the role of Sarah had to pull out due to college commitments. Thus we started a search for someone who would be available for filming whenever we needed to film and ended up just changing the gender of the character.

Also we realised that we may not have enough story content to fill the 5 minute time slot we were aiming for so we wrote some extra scenes into the script so that we would be able to give the story and characters more depth. Here are extracts for some of the scenes that we added or extended.

The 1st of these scenes was a scene between detective Peterson and Jonathan:

Peterson: So do you want to tell us what happened?
Jonathan: Well we went down to the woods, and ....

The 2nd scene we extended was the phone call between Peterson and Scott:

Scott: Sir We've got a big problem here
Paterson: Scott, What have you found?

The final and major alteration was to the final scene which we changed quite drastically to include direct interaction between Scott and Jonathan which allows Jonathan himself to explain his motives:

Jonathan: Why? Because i spent my entire life been bullied by pricks like them and i snapped

As expected the film does not completely stick to the script as we allowed a bit of room for improvisation by the actors but in whole we kept to the script as close as possible.

Film Magazine Spread

For our coursework we were asked to create a double paged spread that would include our film in some way. So while we were waiting to get a time when we had our cast in place we decided we would design our double page spread and fill it in as well as we could without our actual film been made:

The idea we came up with was to present the film in a list of films that we had enjoyed over the last 12 months that most people would probably have missed. We choose these films by looking at the list of highest grossing films of 2010 (http://boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=2010&p=.htm) and looked for films we had watched that we felt should have performed better at the box office. We decided to do 2 film reviews each, to make it fair and even. I choose to review 2 films adapted from comic books and graphic novels, Kick-Ass and Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, Whereas Jake choose to review remakes of classic horror films, The Crazies and A Nightmare On Elm Street.