Ancillary Task: Review

Ancillary Task: Poster

Creating the Credits

I decided to use final cut to create our credits as i knew they had a scrolling text feature which would be able to fulfill the conventional film reel that we wanted. We decided to use the same typography as the title card so the film could have a sense of continuity. I decided to slow down the speed of the scrolling text to synchronize with the soundtrack before i added it to the end of the footage.

Group Evaluation

1. What did you think was particularly successful about our film?


2. What would you change?

3. Who do you think the target audience is? Do you think we are reaching out target audience? Please comment.

4. Where do you think you would find a film like ours? (websites, cinema, TV, etc)

Filming Sunday 23rd January 2011

We filmed our final scene on Sunday at Adeel's house for the bathroom scene, which is where it is revealed that his friends are in fact just imaginary and that he is just crazy. We chose Adeel's house because he had the perfect space that we needed in order to shoot the scene.

In order to convey the characters as being more crazy than he is, we changed their appearance slightly so that it looked like they were messing about in the bathroom, such as Maurice having shampoo on his head and Parham's collar being messy.

We used a variety of shots here, such a 360 panning shot where it's first revealed that his friends do not exist. We also used another trick with the mirror, which had Alex staring into it with his friends but when the camera tillts back at the mirror they were gone. While the overall filming did go well, some small problems did still occur.

• The bathroom was quite small so filming in there was sometimes hard. This was because the actors had to be in a variety of positions like standing next to each other in the mirror scene. It was also hard at times to find a place to stand when filming as it was very cramped.
• Another problem was that there were quite a few mirrors in the bathroom so filming some shots was a challenge as we had to make sure the camera or crew could not be seen. This was particularly hard in the 360 shot. 
• Initially the lighting was changing on the camera so that it appeared to be flickering, however after changing the lighting in the bathroom that problem stopped occuring.

Filming Wednesday 19th January 2011

We finally began to film the cafe scene of our film. We initially were going to film in Rosca, which was a coffee shop that had lots of space and good seating arrangements. However we were kicked out, which was the third planned place we were not allowed to film in. We decided that the only place we could finally film in was a tennis court bar as we knew some of the people there and there were no concerns.

Ellie, Alice and Aidah were also there as part of our film, as they played the girls that Alex approaches. We filmed the scenes with the girls first and then filmed the boys which is faster. Eventhough we planned to film in a cafe in the daytime, due to not being able to find a location we changed it to a bar setting during the night which worked just as well. Incase the lighting wasn't too visible, we used a soft box in order to give more of a shine on the characters. This looked natural 

Ellie, Alice and Aidah were also there as part of our film, as they played the girls that Alex approaches. We filmed the scenes with the girls first and then filmed the boys which is faster. Eventhough we planned to film in a cafe in the daytime, due to not being able to find a location we changed it to a bar setting during the night which worked just as well. Incase the the lighting wasn't so good, we used a softbox for artificial light.

Issues

• We had to film quite quickly as the owners of the tennis court soon had to open up their bar again. However we managed to get all of the filming done in time.

• We were concerned that our video camera battery wasn't going to last, however we managed to find somewhere to plug it in so that we could resume the filming.

• There were some people in the room with us who were talking loudly, and we were initially concerned that it would affect the dialogue in the film. However watching it back, we could still hear the main characters clearly.

Rehearsing the bar scene