Final Evaluation

In Refrence to Question 7. we got a selection of people to review our film. Below is a Vox Pop of what there views on the film was

Storyboard (please click on each of the two pictures or you will not be able to see the full storyboard

here is our storyboard, i forgot to upload it earlyer

Storyboard (please click on each of the two pictures or you will not be able to see the full storyboard

here is our storyboard, i forgot to upload it earlyer

By Thomas Oldroyd

Production Company

I have been researching some production companies and I believe believe the best production company to film our film if we were to create it would have been independent American movie studio, Artisan Entertainment. The reason I believe that this company would of the best institution to distribute our production is because it specialized in films with original concepts, like ‘the blear witch project’

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artisan_Entertainment

EDIT...

(I have also used this in my evaluation)

Character Profile
Name : Corey Jackson (Corey Jackson)
Nick Name:
Age : 18
Height : 5’9”
Gender : Male
Occupation : Student
Bio : Average 18 year old, student.
Interests : Music, Skateboarding.
Motivation: working hard to get my thrill, everybody wants a drill
Personality: Frendly hard working, slightly retarded
Relationship with characters


Name : Sam Davids (James Hewit)
Age : 22
Height : 5’8”
Gender : Male
Occupation : Unemployed
Bio : College Drop out, unemployed
Intrests: Drinking, sleeping, taking drugs
Motivation: Drug money
Personality: not a nice person
Relationship with characters: friends with Steve

Name : Steve Dibbley (Ash Ward)
Age : 21
Height : 6’2”
Gender : Male
Occupation : Unemployed
College Drop out, unemployed
Intrests: Drinking, sleeping, taking drugs
Motivation: Drug money
Personality: not a nice person
Relationship with characters: friends with Sam

Name : Shinigami (POV)
Age : N/A
Height : N/A
Gender : Male
Occupation : N/A
Bio : A God of Death in the shinigami realm.
Intrests: the human world
Motivation: to protect Corey
Personality: a solitary person who keeps to himself
Relationship with characters: Trys to protect corey

Editing film

Were just in the process of editing the film

Location on map

Here is a screen grab of our location for filming

Location photos

Out taking photos for location and starting story board
By Thomas Oldoyd
Corey Jackson

Film Update

We have prolonged the begining of starting our film due to lack of props ie. car.
We have recieved this prop now and it's simply a case of preparing ourselfs and waiting for insurance to cover us to film.
Prior to this we will meet to discuss exactly what we are doing on the day so that there will be no more delays.

Risk Assessment

Risk assessment

Script

INTERIOR. CAR – MORNING

Car Stationary, gunshot is heard, SAM DAVIDS runs to car and gets in. Shot changes, then goes back to the car mid conversation.

STEVE DIBBLEY
You checked if the money’s stained?

SAM DAVIDS
...The hell?!??!?

STEVE DIBBLEY
You know, they dye the money or something

SAM DAVIDS
I know that, I’m not thick

STEVE DIBBLEY
But did you check?

SAM DAVIDS
Course I have

STEVE DIBBLEY
calm down, I’m only asking

Scene changes as convosation is cut short

questionnaire results

These are the results for our questionnaire, we asked 100 people and got these results.

Gender

Male: 50

Female: 50

Ages

16 or under: 28

17-19: 58

20-40: 2

41-60: 10

61+ : 2

Favorite Genre

Action/Adventure: 48

Animation: 2

Comedy: 20

Drama: 20

SciFi: 10

Other: n/a

Cinema Attendance Frequency

Once a Week: 2

Once a Fortnight: 38

Once a Month: 20

Quarterly: 20

Rarely: 20

DVD/ Download Viewing Frequency

Everyday: 0

Weekly: 70

Monthly: 29

Rarely: 1

Preferred Viewing Place

Cinema: 50

Home: 50

Open to new beliefs

Yes: 95

No: 5

Would you watch a film called:

Shinigami: Yes 70 | No 30

Reaper: Yes 69 | No 31

God of Death: Yes 33 | No 67

Would you see a film based upon Japanese Culture?

Yes: 83

No: 17

Programme: Shinigami

Programme: Shinigami

Duration: 2 minutes (approx)

Audience: 15 and above , students , people with interests towards thrillers .

Resume: For 18 year old Corey Jackson, everyday was the same, college work home repeat. Until one day his life was inevitably changed as two worlds collide. That of the human realm, and that of the shinigami realm. When a near death experience grants Corey an unlikely sidekick who can show him the future, gives him the knowledge to stay alive as his world is thrown astray by a seven day game between two shinigami, one to keep him alive, the other, to make sure he doesn't survive the game. The film is set over 7 days, and shows us the story of how the shinigami attempt to save his life, or end it. . . **Check this over guys, this is just James' ideas**

suggested elements : Unsure of what content needs to be here

Film Days : Unsure of what content needs to be here

Budget : Hopefully $0

Props

Gun,

Car,

iPod & Headphones,

Loot Bag,

Costume

Corey: Hoodie, Jeans, Trainers, T-shirt

Hewitt: Bank Robber Clothes (Black Shirt and jeans and shoes)

James F: Driving Clothes (Jeans, T-shirt, Trainers)

Shinigami: n/a cannot see him (possibly glove)

Character Profile
Name : Corey Jackson (Corey Jackson)
Nick Name:
Age : 18
Height : 5’9”
Gender : Male
Occupation : Student
Bio : Average 18 year old, student.
Interests : Music, Skateboarding.
Motivation: working hard to get my thrill, everybody wants a drill
Personality: Frendly hard working, slightly retarded
Relationship with characters


Name : Sam Davids (James Hewit)
Age : 22
Height : 5’8”
Gender : Male
Occupation : Unemployed
Bio : College Drop out, unemployed
Intrests: Drinking, sleeping, taking drugs
Motivation: Drug money
Personality: not a nice person
Relationship with characters: friends with Steve

Name : Steve Dibbley (James Farrimond)
Age : 21
Height : 6’2”
Gender : Male
Occupation : Unemployed
College Drop out, unemployed
Intrests: Drinking, sleeping, taking drugs
Motivation: Drug money
Personality: not a nice person
Relationship with characters: friends with Sam

Name : Shinigami (POV)
Age : N/A
Height : N/A
Gender : Male
Occupation : N/A
Bio : A God of Death in the shinigami realm.
Intrests: the human world
Motivation: to protect Corey
Personality: a solitary person who keeps to himself
Relationship with characters: Trys to protect corey

A small idea i had, for say the main screen at the end of the intro. Let me know what you guys think, this is still a work in progress, and will indefinately change. Critisism please guys :p

Here are a list of all camera shots we will need to get for our film 'Shinigami'

COREY

'POV of ipod, pressing play'. still

'Tilt shot of coreys head and ipod (one shot combined)' still

'Close up' walking

'Medium Close up' walking

'Long Shot' walking

'Extreme Long Shot' walking

'Across Road Panning Shot' walking

'Over the Shoulder' walking

'Over the Shoulder as he decides not to cross road'

'Across from road, as her decides not to cross road'

SHINIGAMI (all POV shots)

'Two differnt shots at differnt stages along the walk along the road' walking in bushes

'As corey sets off, a side shot from in bushes' walking in bushes

IMPORTANT '3 of the same shot of shinigami entering coreys head, upto this he is trailing him slightly' walking in bushes

'As possesing corey *tom walks out 2 steps, turns to see car come towards him*' x3 (IMPORTANT)

CAR

'Match on Action of car door shutting' Car still

'Over shoulder of James H' Car still

'Over shoulder of James F' Car still

'Pan shot of car setting off' Car moving

'Back seat shot of both James' Car still - moving

car moving...

2 x 'James H's feet shot. looking up at them arguing'

2 x 'Dashboard shot of them both'

here are the written up ideas from the sheet, they are still in rough

Film Ideas.
1. Corey presses play on ipod, gun shot
2. James enters car and car sets off.
3. Corey walking and shinigami scene
4. Back to arguing (car) Diagetic noise
5. Corey stops to cross road,
shinigami enters his head.
4 written pieces
6. Hearbeat starts
7. Car with heartbeat, cant here anything but that
8. Car aproches pov shinigami
9. Screech brakes
10. Cuts back to before getting hit
11. Decides not to cross, car goes past

These are Ideas for the Film order, Editing styles, Sound effects - Digetic and Non- Digetic and Overall Finalised Ideas for our Films.

Ideas

We are currently in the process of mind mapping ideas to include in our film; the best ideas will be included in our film, thus included in our storyboard.

I have researched the opening titles of many differnt films with similar themes within the thriller/japanese genre. There are many differnt: editing techniques; music tracks & sound effects that i would like to put in our opening sequence.

First is the effect of speeding up the camera shot to show a huge increase in speed, which can probably be done when the 'Shinigami' enters the 'Human's' head and posses him. the approuch upto entering the back of the head could be sped up consiberably with the effect of fast pace.

Secondly, deep, almost un-heard noises on the underlay all the time, except from during the car scene due to diagetic music coming from the car, will create a dramatic and layered atmosphere; it would also create tension and show mysterity. I also suggest the idea of maybe (only quiet) car engines moving in the back ground to give a dirty effect.

Lastly i suggest the best time to shoot the film would be in overcast conditions wintertime to create miserable mysterious effect, complementary to the sound and editing effects.

Sony Pictures Classic

Sony Pictures Classics is an art-house division of Sony Pictures Entertainment founded in December 1991 that distributes, produces and acquires independent films from the United States and around the world. It has a history of making reasonable investments for small films, and getting a decent return.


20th Century Fox

Some of 20th Century Fox's most popular movie franchises include Star Wars, Ice Age, Garfield, X-Men, Die Hard, Alien, Revenge of the Nerds, Planet of the Apes, Home Alone, Night at the Museum, Predator, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and The Chronicles of Narnia.

Halestorm Entertainment

Halestorm Entertainment is a film production and distribution company based in Orem, Utah. It was founded in January 2001 by Kurt Hale and Dave Hunter.[1] Halestorm films are largely created by, for, and about Latter-day Saints, and usually contain a high amount of clichés and stereotypes about Mormon behavior and culture.

Dogwoof Pictures

Dogwoof Pictures , Dogwoof, is a film distributor company working in the United Kingdom. The company releases many films, documentaries, foreign language films, but is perhaps best known for the release of the films Fateless, Viva Zapatero! and EMR, the latter being the first simultaneous release in the UK on Theatrical, DVD and TV.

Personally i think that we should choose either Sony Pictures Classic or Dogwoof Pictures as they both distribute foreign films, and with the japanese twist to our film i think that would be appropriate

I have looked on the bbfc website http://www.bbfc.co.uk/recent/films , I think considering other films of the same genre . e.g. Death note 1 and 2 within the last ten years theses have been 15 certificate, therefore I think the best certificate would be either 12a his post or 15. this will be decided shortly and added as a comment on to this post. Corey x

possible locations

Extreamly rough poster idea

Ok, this is an incredibly rough poster idea, iv discused the ideas with corey jackson. These are basicaly preliminary sketches of mine and coreys ideas, the final piece will obviously have text on it. Photos will need to be taken and manipulated if this idea is picked.

My New Idea

well since my last blog I've had an idea and since we were all supposed to put our ideas here for the film i figured id do it before I forgot. This is a very simple idea and is only a slight expansion on what we have already, but ive been doing some research in films and anime of the same genre and ive notice that the good things ive seen in these are often simple. what my idea is, is when the gun shot is sounded after i turn the ipod on everything goes silent , the film proceds as usual but with no sound accept the main charactors voice saying something like 'My name is Corey Jackson and upon till now i was an ordinary kid , with ordinary troubles. but something happend on my way home today and from that second on, my life had changed in an instant ' we can modify this to our liking for time or how it sounds later. This idea is used frequantly within this genre and as such can help the viewer decide on wat sort of film it is , so in theory we atract the correct audience.

Aswell as watching films and anime I stumbled upon a book i owned, this book was about possesion of humans not to abstract form our idea and from this book have adopted the idea that if a human is possessed by the shinigami u can tell from the eyes of the human , now this is mealy to show that i have thought about this but this could be used in our film poster.

Just something for you to think about, Corey x

A little thought

So I've been doing some thinking in regards to this film , and what i think is the best way forward, to make sure everyone's ideas are included, is that we stick to the initial idea which has been boggled by tom, i think we all agree that this is what we had in mind for our film. but also i would like to include an idea previously boggled by James, this is the opening screen where the main character and the shinigami are in a hospital room with a mono log over the top of it. I can see this taking a short amount of time but adding a lot of effect to the film. This can easily be fitted into our film, as such I will be bringing the concept of bringing these two ideas together next time we are together. Until then comments would be accepted thankfully :) . Corey x

Film Company Logo Complete

The Logo for KMFilms has been made and can be found here, we created two logos and a poster for the film company during our lesson (22/01/10)

Links

Here are a few links that we have used in our blog so far:

- For the name of our production company we used BabbelFish Translator to translate "Black Cat Films" into Japanese, to give 'Kuroneko Maku'

- We used Youtube to research similar style films with tainted camera POV, like in the film 'Death Note'

tbc.

need to sort out http://www.bbfc.co.uk/

Story board on paper

First page of (best copy) storyboards finished .

drawn by: Corey Jackson

Here are afew design ideas for how want things to look, firstly part of our film is going to be filmed in POV, this is going to be POV of the Reaper, so we want it to be diffrent to a normal shot so the audience can tell when the reaper is looking. I think a red tint would be an effective means of getting this point across and i think it looks effective

(print screen from japaneese film 'Death Note')

This Second image is of what we want the font to look like when the text comes up on our film. we believe this is effective because it is easy to read but also has a slight Gothic look to it

Preliminary Casting

Main Charactor 'The Human' - Corey Jackson

Driver - James Farrimond

Passenger - James Hewitt

Director - Ashley Ward

Film - Thomas Oldroyd

(this is still open for change as are all ideas)

Storyboard (rough)

As evidence of rough sketches of our Storyboard, we upload a photo of them. Full, in detail, Storyboards will be uploaded when complete.

Our production company

The name of the production company we have chosen is Kuroneko Maku we thought of this idea as it is japanese for Black Cat Films.

our pitch

A God of Death, (Shinigami), is on the trail of a Human destined to die; to save him he must possess and show him his impending doom. Unfortunately the Shinigami are not visible to the Human Eye, relying on benevolent trust on a unseen force.

original idea

Film Name - Shinigami

Which literally means "Reaper" or "God of death" in Japanese.

Original Ideas -

Our film is based around the Japanese belief of Gods of Death; we decided to put a spin on the idea by the Shinigami "Death God" being good and saving the main characters, on several occasions, from certain Death. In the opening scene we see "The Human" walking along, as he is about to cross the road. The Reaper, who is hiding in the bushes, enters the Human through the back of his head and foresees what would happen if he crossed the road, he then goes on to stop the human from crossing the road therefor saving his life. The Scene then ends with a blank screen and heavy breathing.

Tag Line: Would you trust some thing you cant even see?

Would you have faith in the unknown?

Do you believe in . . . Shinigami.